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Une côte particulièrement dangereuse...Plus personne n'habite dans ce phare ... (a very dangerous coast...No one lives in this light house...)
Péninsule de Snaeffelsnes, Islande.
A voir en grand, better in large, click L.
See the Heron in the two images below as he prepares to grab one of the Electric Blue Cichlid fish for his meal
Mývatn (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈmiːˌvaʰtn̥]) is a shallow eutrophic lake situated in an area of active volcanism in the north of Iceland, not far from Krafla volcano. The lake and its surrounding wetlands have an exceptionally rich fauna of waterbirds, especially ducks. The lake was created by a large basaltic lava eruption 2300 years ago, and the surrounding landscape is dominated by volcanic landforms, including lava pillars and rootless vents (pseudocraters). The effluent river Laxá is known for its rich fishing for brown trout and Atlantic salmon.
The name of the lake (Icelandic mý ("midge") and vatn ("lake"); the lake of midges) comes from the huge numbers of midges to be found there in the summer.
The name Mývatn is sometimes used not only for the lake but the whole surrounding inhabited area. The River Laxá, Lake Mývatn and the surrounding wetlands are protected as a nature reserve (the Mývatn-Laxá Nature Conservation Area, which occupies 4,400 km2 (440,000 ha). Information from Wikipedia.
The park itself lies at around 6,562 feet (2,000 metres) above sea level and in winter can be covered in snow. Temperatures during this time often drop to below freezing, while in the summer months they frequently go above 40 celsius.
Information by Spain-Tenerife.com
Texture's and effect by William Walton & Topaz
An Madeiras Ostspitze ragt der trockene, windgepeitschte Basalt Ponta de São Lourenço in den Atlantik. Das dramatische, abwechslungsreiche Gelände der Insel führt zu einem reichen, komplexen Wein mit einer geschichtsträchtigen Geschichte.
At Madeira's eastern tip, the dry, windswept basalt Ponta de São Lourenço juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. The island's dramatic, varied terrain results in a rich, complex wine with a history steeped in history.
Snow covers the Absaroka Mountains above a ranch in Sunlight Basin northwest of Cody Wyoming. This panaroma created by stiching several images taken with a 85mm lens together.
The water of Iceland's famous geothermal Blue Lagoon, have this color as a function of the interaction of suspended silica particles and how they reflect visible light.
This area of Denali National Park was named for the colorful volcanic rocks and vegetation. This is the single road to get to the Eielson Center, close to The Mountain.
Even though the weather was stormy and blocked the view of Denali (dang!) it was still a wonderful day spent with Denali expert and tour bus driver (like the bus in the corner) Rebecca Tifft. Thanks for a great day Rebecca! Shot taken from a moving bus....
I sincerely appreciate you stopping by!
A small natural arch sits on Hrútafell, a cliff in the foothills west of Eyjafjöll (volcano). The cliff looms above Skarðshlíð. a farm along Iceland’s Ring Road in south Iceland just west of Skógafoss (a famous waterfall). An Icelandic folktale tells of a strongman named Grettir Ásmundsson who was showing off and ripped a giant boulder right out of Hrútafell cliff and tossed it to the valley floor. That boulder, Drangurinn ( not pictured), was the location of early structures built in caves along its base. Hrútafell is composed of, volcanic ash< from the nearby volcanoes. A storm moved in while we were there making for some great shots.
References:
www.katlageopark.com/geosites/drangurinn-i-drangshlid-2/
guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/regina/drangshlid-r...
Jón Árnason. Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur og Æfintýri. 2 vols. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1862, 1864
Night falls on a late December evening along the North Fork of the Shoshone near Pahaska Teepee, Wyoming.
White Mountain rises above a ranch in Sunlight Basin located in the Absaroka Mountains northwest of Cody, Wyoming. Aspen Trees and spruce line the far side of the meadow.
This beautiful building on the Plaza de Armas stands out for its stark white sillar (volcanic rock) and massive size – it's the only cathedral in Peru that stretches the length of a plaza. It also has a history of rising from the ashes. The original structure, dating from 1656, was gutted by fire in 1844, rebuilt and then flattened by the 1868 earthquake.
This lovely area is a good place to relax and use as a base for hiking around the clean small river and surrounding hills.
Location: North Bengkulu - Indonesia
Read more about Palak Siring at virtualadrian.blogspot.com/2013/04/palak-siring-waterfall...
Castle Rock rises above a field along the South Fork of the Shoshone River southwest of Cody Wyoming. The feature is an erosional remnant of volcanic dikes that intruded into the sedimentary country rock. Explorer, mountain man and trapper, John Colter, passed this landmark in 1807 while exploring the wilderness that was to become northern Wyoming. He is believed to be the first European-American to visit this feature. The volcanic dike, as well as the nearby stacked lava flows, flow breccias and debris flows that makeup the mountains behind Castle Rock are part of the Absaroka Volcanics Supergroup. This group of igneous rocks are the remnant of a volcanic field that was active in the Eocene between 53 and 43 million years ago.
This huge rock, nearby Salar de Tara, rising to almost 30 meters high, is very impressive because it is alone in the middle of a desert of sand, with no other rocks in the neighbourhoods. It is actually a mass of volcanic rock. You can also see a person on the right side of the rocks, it gives you the scale!
This is an image from the only day during our two-weeks-roundtrip around Iceland which I did not enjoy. We wanted to visit Aldeyjarfoss, a waterfall which is very tough to access in winter and early Spring but offers the most astounding setting within columnar basalt rock. The only day we had for doing so promptly brought weather misery. We got there only half way with our campervan, had to park kilometres away from the place, rescued four very silly young girls who I guess had recently made their driving license and had tried to access the waterfall with their 4x4 ending in terrible failure and them being stuck in an ice hole. After all that excertion we went on our hike to get to the waterfall, got lost in bad weather, poor visibility and snow that reached up to our waste soimetimes. In the end we only got short glimpses of the river and its strange volcanic rocklands but never reached the waterfall and were rather happy just to having made it back to our van :) And so it goes ... :p
The North Fork of the Shoshone River flows out of the Absaroka Mountains in Shoshone National Forest. The burnt trees on the hillside are from a forest fire in 1988.
Or "Agata's Eye of the Cloud"
Macro Monday: #Rock
Goodness, another theme with way too many possibilities. Or probably I just have collected way too many minerals, rocks, stones... worry stones, that is... over the years. Worry stones. I begin to understand why they are called "worry" stones in English ;-) MM worry for sure ;-) In German these stones, often polished, semi-precious stones of a size that fits nicely into one's hand, are simply called "Handschmeichler". "Hand" is obvious, and "Schmeichler" roughly translates to "charmer" ;-).
This is a very close look at a (mostly - mostly?) rose coloured "eye" agate, taken today. I was surprised to find this pictogram-like cloud shape in close-up. And at the many different colours that appeared by simply applying some general processing steps (Luminar, ON1 Photo RAW). No filters used, no effects, just regular processing... I was running out of time anyway, so no danger of doing too much processing :-) This is another in-camera focus stacked image. The Oly's focus stacking function ROCKs ;-)
A Happy Macro Monday to you, and I wish you a colourful week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
This lovely area is a good place to relax and use as a base for hiking around the clean small river and surrounding hills.
Location: North Bengkulu - Indonesia
Read more about Palak Siring at www.virtualadrian.blogspot.com/2013/04/palak-siring-water...
#LetsGuide
Drystone walls built from volcanic stone are common in the farmland surrounding Mt Franklin and the many other extinct volcanoes that punctuate the landscape in this part of Victoria.
a winter sunset showcasing Snaefellsnes peninsula in Iceland with its stark, volcanic landscape. To the left two ginormous volcanic rocks that must have been hurled towards the shore by the last eruption of Snaefellsjoekull volcano about 200 A.D.. You get a sense of the scale of those rocks from the poles
to the right :)
Juxtaposition of this wonderful lake, Iceland's largest, within Þingvellir rift valley. In the front of both images one can appreciate aspects of the rift valley where volcanic rock is being folded up through the gaps being opened by the drifting away of the two tectonic plates Iceland is located upon.
I chose that moniker because it roughly translates in Latin for 'photograghy' and I've somehow gone from shooting EVERYTHING to mainly landscapes, probably due to my wonderful surroundings, but every once in a while I'm in the right place at the right time and the light tells the story for me.
coming back from NOT finding Moulton Falls at the end of the Moulton Falls trail and being a bit dejected I spotted this through the trees, it was like a moth to the flame. The famous bridge is over my left shoulder and I'm sitting on a most excellent volcanic rock boulder as the light filters through the canopy onto this scene with the amazing Lewis River for a backdrop. Blow it up and sit a spell. :-)
The North Fork of the Shoshone River flows out of the Absaroka Mountains in Shoshone National Forest. On this day, The smoke and haze in the photo probably came from several wildfires burning quite a way off to the west in Idaho, Oregon and California. Due to the western fires in US during the summer of 2021, Wyoming skies were often smoky or hazy. These smoky conditions were often a challenge for photographers like me who are accustomed to beautiful, clear Wyoming skies.
View up the North Fork of the Shoshone from the canyon mouth in Wapiti Valley. Clouds obscure the Absaroka Mountains. All the rocks on the hills, visible in the photo, belong to the Eocene Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup.
Nigretta Falls occur not far from Hamilton in South Western Victoria. They are fed by the Wannon River and flow over very old (Devonian) rhyolitic volcanic rock.
We made the long climb down the steep steps to the bottom on a warm, sunny afternoon. When I got to the bottom, I had that wonderful feeling you have when you are alone and free to position yourself without worrying about others.
That lasted all of five minutes. It wasn't long before I heard, rather than saw, people yelling and screaming. A group of tourists descended down into the rocky canyon and began to climb all over the cliff face, right up to the waterfall where they proceeded to take selfies for the next 45 minutes. While I know it is so easy to be selfish as a photographer, they had as much right as I did to be there, but they showed no consideration or care at all that I was there. A long exposure helped blur them out.
I'd love to go back in winter when there are multiple branches of this waterfall cascading over the edge.
Castle Rock rises above a field of newly cut hay along the South Fork of the Shoshone River southwest of Cody Wyoming. The feature is an erosional remnant of volcanic dikes that intruded into the sedimentary country rock. Explorer, mountain man and trapper, John Colter, passed this landmark in 1807 while exploring the wilderness that was to become northern Wyoming. He is believed to be the first European-American to visit this feature. The volcanic dike, as well as the nearby stacked lava flows, flow breccias and debris flows that makeup the mountains behind Castle Rock are part of the Absaroka Volcanics Supergroup. This group of igneous rocks are the remnant of a volcanic field that was active in the Eocene between 53 and 43 million years ago.
Algar do Carvāo is an unusual volcanic cave system. It is a volcanic pit or vent, also called a volcanic chimney that is about 80-90 meters (262 -295 ft.) deep. Secondary magma chambers open up on its sides. The vent first formed roughly 3,200 years ago during the eruption on the side of the Guilherme Moniz caldera. It lies near the intersection of 3 volcanic complexes: Santa Barbara to the west, Pico Alto to the north, and Guilherme Moniz, which is a short distance to the south. A second eruption, occurring in the same spot 1,200 years later. It created many of the magma chambers seen today. It is rare to find an open vent or chimney as they are usually blocked with solidified magma/lava.
Link to a cutaway of Cave System: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TER_ANG_pju_algarCarvao.png
Bartholome Island
Galapagos Islands
South America
Off The Coast of Ecuador
The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to coastal Spain, the Azores, and areas of far southern Europe.
Wikipedia - Bartolomé Island (Spanish: Isla Bartolomé) is a volcanic islet in the Galápagos Islands group. It is a volcanic islet just off the east coast of Santiago Island. It is one of the "younger" islands in the Galápagos archipelago. This island, and Sulivan Bay on Santiago island, are named after naturalist and lifelong friend of Charles Darwin, Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, who was a Lieutenant aboard HMS Beagle.
With a total land area of just 1.2 km, this island offers some of the most beautiful landscapes in the archipelago. The island consists of an extinct volcano and a variety of red, orange, green, and glistening black volcanic formations.
Bartolomé has a volcanic cone that is easy to climb and provides great views of the other islands. Bartolomé is famous for its Pinnacle Rock, which is the distinctive characteristic of this island, and the most representative landmark of the Galápagos. – Wikipedia
Playa Hoya del Pozo at sunrise, Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). A long exposure shot, magic moment in the silence of the nature.
The sun sets over White Mountain and the Sunlight Basin in The Absaroka Mountains north of Cody, Wyoming. This view is from the Chief Joseph Highway.
A dairy farm sits in front of Pico do Malhāo on the Island of Terceira in the Azores, Portugal. Pico do Malhāo is one of five scoria cones (also called cinder cones) that sit inside a eroded collapsed Caldera. Name for the five cinder cones, this caldera, the Cinco Pecos Caldera, formed during a volcanic collapse about 370,000 years ago. It is the oldest volcanic complex on the island of Terceira. The caldera Itself measures about 7 x 9 km (4.3 x 5.6 miles). In this photo, a cloud covered remnant of the Caldera rim, Serra do Cume, can be seen on the horizon at the extreme right of the photo. The image was taken from atop the Serra da Riberinha which is the eroded remnant of the caldera rim on the east, The caldera is filled with basalt flows and scoria associated with post caldera eruptions that formed the 5 Picos as well as trachytic pyroclastic flows and pumice falls that originated from the volcanoes to the west. Much of the caldera floor is farmed and divided into pastures and fields by stone walls made of volcanic rock. Cattle operations seem to dominate the Island producing milk, cheese, and meat. The Azores are responsible for almost half of Portugal’s dairy production.
Iceland and its rift valleys featuring the power of our planet's hidden forces, like here in Thingvellir where one can see with their bare eyes how the American and the European continental plates are drifting away from each other tearing Iceland apart. I found this place especially beautiful in autumn after having visited it in all other seasons before.