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From Rangitoto Island with the lava rocks in foreground. Rangitoto is a volcanic island to the east of Auckland City and the North Shore. Its a forest reserve with a Pohutukawa forest growing direclty from the scrumbly lava. Whilst sleeping, it is not extinct. Visitors take a Fullers Ferry and can either walk to the summit or take a Volcanic Explorer Tour which is good value.
View from my hotel room in Yunding Ski Resort, Chongli. Due north of Beijing, approximately three hours drive Yunding is by far the best ski field in China to date.
The View From Cypress Mountain, you can even see the Alex Fraser Bride.It looks so close, but its not.
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that i've been working on... wrote the code for the world view long ago; needs some edge matching etc.
Stratosphere Hotel - Las Vegas - Outtakes from a series I shot for Casino Journal Magazine during construction of the tower in September of 1995. Scanned from Kodachrome 64 slides.
Keeping watch over the east rim of the Grand Canyon - The watchtower at Desert View.
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Erik Törner is a Tibet analyst from IM.
In Himalaya Magazine, Erik writes: "Chongye Valley, at last. I am overwhelmed by a sense of importance. It feels like the end of some kind of personal pilgrimage.
Chongye is a valley adjecent to and sometimes treated as part of the Yarlung Valley. It is a quiet, windy and barren corridor in Southern Tibet.
Impressive, sure, but so is almost all of these Tibetan valleys. Is this one special? Nothing to suggest that. At this time, in January, the place is emtpy so even if this particular valley had some kind of extra pull it is not noticeable as the tourist season is at its lowest.
There are a couple of brown mounds, some with the usual prayer flags and stone chortens atop, and on one a small Nyingmapa temple.
Not much to see really.
Nothing, if it weren’t for the fact that those mounds are not natural. They are tombs. Very old tombs.
It is who’s buried here that makes this a special place. And it is what this place means for anyone wanting to understand Tibet that made me struggle through all the hazzle of Chinese paperwork, of guides and permits, to finally realizing my dream and come here."
/ Erik Törner, 2012.
Wikipedia: The Valley of the Kings or Chongye Valley branches off the Yarlung Valley to the southwest and contains a series of graveyard tumuli, burial mounds. South of Tsetang, Tibet, near the town of Chongye (Qonggyai) on Mure Mountain in Qonggyai County of the Shannan Prefecture.
The site possesses eight large mounds of earth resembling natural hills that are believed to contain eight to ten buried Tibetan kings.
"According to Tibetan tradition all the kings from Dri-gum onwards are buried at ‘Phyong-rgyas, but as the site now presents itself, there are just ten tumuli identifiable as the tombs of all the kings from Srong-brtsan-sgam-po to Khri-lde-srong-brtsan, including two princes . . . ."
Other sources, however, have indicated that there are actually nine mounds rather than eight or ten.
The kings believed to be buried at the site include Songtsän Gampo (the founder of the Tibetan Empire), Nansong Mangsten, Tridu Songtsen, Gyangtsa Laban, Tride Tsugtsen, Trisong Detsen, Muni Tsangpo and Tritsu Detsen.
Photo and copyright: Erik Törner, IM Individuell Människohjälp www.manniskohjalp.se
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You think this photo is underexposed? Yes, it is, but that is exactly the beautiful view you got from our balcony on those shitty holidays in Oberstaufen. Various weatherconditions: fog, rain, clouds, snow, rain, snowrain, clouds and fog again...
This was taken during my quick weekend trip to Tuolumne in September. The forecast was for plenty of clouds during the weekend, but they didn't start coming out until we were leaving sunday afternoon.
We hiked for most the day the day before and the thin high altitude air was really dominating me.
The view is from the parking lot for the trail head to Olmstead Point. Didn't need much walking here :) It wasn't anywhere near 'good light'. It was almost 1pm. I I tried a few different things as I was working on this image. I tried with filters, without filters, and bracketed exposures.
When I got home to work on the photos, I found that I liked this HDR processed version of the panoramic the most.
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Old Lyon is much more colourful than Paris and dark pink is the dominant colour.
Examples of the beautiful colours of Old Lyon.
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Another view of the newest part in the Stick-A-Thing family. The size of the body of him (not icluding arms) is 60 x 30 mm. Ready to be sticked up in your favourite spot.
Susquehanna River in Wyalusing (Bradford County) Pa
Warriors Path - A great Indian highway from Six Nations country, New York, to the Catawba country in the Carolinas. It made it way through the Allegheny Mountains by following the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys.
[Wales, July 2016. A walk from Arthog inland, opening up to great views of Barmouth across the Afon Mawddach estuary, then turning south, and returning via a plantation, finishing on the old tramway track, now a cycle path.]
A view of the Chattahoochee River from West Point Dam.
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View from 3rd floor of VIVO city. Star Virgo is docked on the right.
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BB18 1/4 1089 runs down in towards Palmwoods with a transfer run north to celebrate 150 years of Cloncurry, a town in the north west of the state.