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A long exposure, landscape image of Öxarárfoss falls in Þingvellir, Iceland.
The Scottish weather just isn't playing ball at the moment so this one from a year ago in Iceland will have to do for today. Hardly a bad thing though. :-)
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Þingvellir National Park with Öxará river and Althing, the national parliament of Iceland. It's one of that famous places "must to visit" in Golden Circle, Iceland.
Þingvellir is a site of historical, cultural, and geological importance and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Iceland. It lies in a rift valley that marks the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates.
The Althing, the national parliament of Iceland, was established at Þingvellir in 930, and held its sessions there until 1798. Þingvellir National Park was founded in 1930 and became a World Heritage Site in 2004.
Just after we arrived at our hotel room in front of Kouki beach, Okinawa, the sunlight came out from the rift of the clouds.
Thank you all for the SL group invites, very much appreciated.
This picture was taken in the game Rift :))
A north looking view of the Þingvellir rift valley in Iceland from near the Lögberg flagpole inside the National Park. On the left side of the foreground is the slope Hallurinn. Almannagjá gorge is further left outside of the photo. These features mark the west side of the rift valley. In the center of the photo is the Óxará which exits the Almannagjá by cutting threw the Hallurinn slope. It then flows down a low between faults. Fissures filled with water can be found along the banks of the river. Further to the right cliffs along other faults/fissures across the river can be seen. The bounding fault on the east side of the rift valley, Hrafnagjá, lies near the Mountains and cannot be made out in this photo. The Volcanoes and Volcanic Mountains on the horizon left to right are Ármannsfell, Lágafell, Skjaldbreiður ( a large shield volcano), Tindaskagi, Hrafnabjörg.
This Milky Way photo was taken close to a popular beach with hundreds of visitors and cars by day and yet having an excellent night sky after the onset of astronomical twilight. The foreground was illuminated by the rotating lighthouse beam a few hundred meters away, thus providing a means of light painting of the scene.
Some of the most beautiful stories of ancient times refer to the silvery band of the Milky Way - a celestial river comprised by the light of billions of stars, that has traveled for thousands of years to reach our eyes. This majestic arc of light is more clearly visible on summer nights, when our gaze is towards the center of the Milky Way, which lies at about 25 thousand light years away - the brightest part of the band just above the tree and to left of the “Dark Horse” silhouette.
This band is bisected by obscuring clouds of interstellar dust, thus forming the “Great Galactic Rift”. The interstellar gas and dust gave birth to everything else in the Universe, including us - we are all made of stardust after all.
My deepest thanks and warmest wishes to everyone for 2025 - stay healthy and keep looking up!
Well it was when I took the shot , back in January 2024 ! The ice formation on my car , a Rifter , created such a fascinating pattern of the ice formation it needed a shot , although , it has taken me nearly a year to get round to posting it !!
Very clearly a rift in the space time continuum. Evidenced by an example of rotating the picture (go ahead, tilt your head, see the rotation). You'll note that, indeed, the picture seems to be fine at nearly any rotation. An obvious sign of a fissure in the space-time continuum.
And if you peer real close, you can see spaceships and stagecoaches dueling it out deep in the bright white heart of the door.
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Sandwich Harbour, Namibia.
Incredible textures come alive in the morning sun on the dunes in Sandwich Harbour.
While walking this morning I was witness to a rather large tear in the space-time continuum. No one was injured.
view of Lake Manyara and Lake Manyara N.P., Tanzania Africa
One note from me before the coming turn of the year:
Before you spend lots of money for stupid New Year's fireworks, just think about it if it wouldn't be much nicer to celebrate the beginning of the New Year with a great pop of a cork of a delicious sparkling wine, prosecco or champagne.
This would save you money, it wouldn't senselessly pollute the environment and it wouldn't scare pets and wild animals !
Less can be so much more ... thanks !!!
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Eine Anmerkung von mir zum kommenden Jahreswechsel:
Bevor Ihr viel Geld für ein unsinniges Silvester-Feuerwerk ausgebt, denkt doch einmal darüber nach, ob es nicht viel schöner wäre, den Beginn des neuen Jahres mit einem Korken-Knall eines köstlichen Sekts, Proseccos oder Champagners zu feiern.
Das würde Geld sparen, die Umwelt nicht sinnlos verschmutzen und Haustiere und wilde Tiere nicht verängstigen !
Weniger kann so viel mehr sein ... Danke !!!