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Wind turbines in the background, with a small town in the foreground.
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Gestamp Steel Wind Wind is the industrial division of Gestamp Renewables, which specializes in the construction of wind towers, with factories in Spain, Brazil and Turkey.
Lying around 180 km from Dalanzadgad, the dunes of Khongor is known as the «singing sands» and when the wind blows over the dunes it makes strange sound like the high-pitched tone of an aero plane engine about to take off or land. These dunes are largest accumulation of sand in the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park, covering 965 km². They rise abruptly from the plain reaching a height of 800 m and extend over 6-12 km wide by extending for 150 km long. The spectacular dunes are bordered by lush green vegetation supported by a small river Khongoriin gol, which is fed by underground sources from surrounding mountains. Swept into constantly varying shapes by the wind, parts of their attraction is the impressive colors that the yellow-white sands take on with the changing light of day.
Known to be one of the harshest anvironments on the planet, with extreme temperature and seasonal changes, the Gobi is surprisingly full of wildlife, such as gazelle, wild ass or hulan, wild camel or havtgai, antelopes and the endangered Gobi bear or mazaalai. The Gobi Desert was the site of some of the most famous dinosaur fossil discoveries, including the world’s first dinosaur egg nests, some of which can be seen in Ulaanbaatar’s Natural History Museum. The majority of Mongolia’s population of Bactrain camels lives in this region.
Khongor Sand Dunes stretch for an extraordinary 180km and are 15-20m wide and high. The dunes lie on the northern part of the mountains of Sevree and Zuulun. The sound produced by masses of sand moving in the wind can be heard from afar. This is why the dunes have been given the name ‘The Singing Sands’ or ‘Duut Manhan’. Near the Khongor Gol at the northern edge of the sand dunes is an oasis.
These horses started off the morning grazing on lush grass near a small stream, so I followed to take a few pictures. Something about the interplay between the rich browns of their coats and the desert sands fascinated me.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 48 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 18228 × 9115 (166.1 MP; 162.98 MB).
Location: Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park, South Gobi Aymag, Mongolia
A Wind Farm in Taichung. I think to the annoyance of the friends we were visiting I insisted that we stay so I could capture the photo of the sun setting over the horizon.
[2015-11-23]
The is the wind I was riding in. When the the direction was head-on, my speed drops from 15 km per hour to about 7 or 8. It then occurred to me I could run faster than that.
And when the wind was blowing sideways, the bike was actually drifting. I followed the advise of a tour operator I met earlier that day to always ride on the side of the wind, so that when I get blown to the other side, it is onto the other side of the road, rather than off the road.
The sound of the wind still brought back the physical sensation of tightly gripping the bike handles.
A "field" of wind turbines on the eastern Oregon prairie. There is a lot to know about wind energy. Oregon has vast wind energy resources. Many projects have been completed, most of them in rural Eastern Oregon and near the Columbia River Gorge. One of the largest wind energy company headquarters is located in Portland.Estimates from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory showed that Oregon has potential to install over 27,000 megawatts of onshore wind power. Installed wind power capacity in Oregon has seen large growth in recent years and Oregon now ranks among the top ten states with the most wind power installed.
Wind farm at mount Pedroso, Galicia (Spain).
Photo taken with a camera suspended from a kite line. Rokkaku 6.5', Canon A570IS, home made rig.
A sweet little one of the kids from our outing from the other day! It was really, really blowing a gale out there! :-)
One of the wind turbines that can be seen from the Fairlie Moor in Ayrshire.
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reflection off water with wind...picasa.....only rotated and straightened ....hey, it sings to me and brings me peace . I guess I have to keep working with my Nikon software!