wicks-photo: Manly Beacon Trail Death Valley National Park ..read more

sannioksanen Heaven on Earth ..read more

brunopisani.photos Some spectacular light hitting the sharp pinnacles of Croda Da Lago, Dolomites. Antelao in the Background ..read more

seanparkerphotography Skies were pretty dramatic this evening in Tucson! Swipe left to watch the timelapse I set up while I was shooting with my backup camera ..read more

Airglow over the Atacama One of the several rising steps that climbs to the main cordillera of the Andes through the driest desert on Earth resembles a beach abutting onto a sea of clouds below and provides the backdrop for this gorgeous photo of airglow above the southern skies with our galaxy in the sky above. The ripples are caused by atmospheric waves and produce a completely different pattern to those in the skies above the Tibetan Plateau I shared once before (see http://on.fb.me/1MC62j0). It’s not just auroras that fill our sky with eerie light. The weaker phenomenon in the photo is c ..read more

wildernessjournals: Stone Mountain, Watauga Reserve, Western Blue Ridge Mountains, Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. Photo by Van Miller ..read more

Original Caption: “In spring 2019 gigantic walls of snow piled up along the pass road to the Timmelsjoch, Austria. Johanna Bolanos Cabrera and Jasmijn Hanegraef grabbed their longboards and took the chance to downhill through this stunning scenery. Speed is what the girls are living for ..read more

Norbergite These yellow crystals bear testament to the forces of metamorphism, which transformed the original sea bottom limestone into glistening white marble, concentrating the impurities in the rock into gems. This particular one was magnesium rich, since the marble is dotted with red spinel crystals (magnesium aluminium oxide) along with a larger yellow-brown chunk of normbergite (hydrated fluorated magnesium silicate). The specimen comes from the Mogok stone tract of Burma, source of the traditional pigeon’s blood ruby. The original limestone was transformed from sea bottom to land and ..read more

Original caption: “Almost three weeks of non-stop shooting, 150 Gb of videos & raw image files along with 50 GB of rendered video files to combine into this piece. The time lapse was shot across North Pacific Ocean & East China Sea. The time lapse was taken over span of 20 days experiencing mesmerizing shades of Nature . *Note* The narrative of the time lapse is not linear . I purposefully reshuffled some of the shots to give it a Cinematic look ..read more

wildernessjournals: Quartz outcropping. John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA. Photo by Van Miller ..read more