This is Triund.
At 2900 Mts above sea level,
9 kms away from Indrahaar pass, Southern Himalayan Range (Dhauladhar Range).
There is no electricity here but just some solar battery panels. The only food available was Maggi and Rice.
No motorable road from McLeod Gunj to Triund which is 9 kms away and 1200 mts high.
Only 2 sheds which can provide shelter at night other than the tea/snack shaks.
Chacaltaya – Height 5, 395m
One hour drive from La Paz, we had to leave the car and climb the last 300 meters by foot. At this height, with the lack of oxygen, every step we made was an achievement.
At the end, we arrived at the top of the mount, and we saw then an incredible view of the Andes. When the weather is good (better than what we had), you can see the Titicaca lake.
We were at the hightest ski station of the world.
Bolivia, 2003
This image was taken on the western side of Fraser Island – the largest Sandpit in the World. The sand here is very soft and boggy at some places no surprise I found this magic crack in the sand to compose this image.
Taken with the Canon Angle Finder C and my belly was covered with sand….not a comfortable position to shoot when it’s hot and humid. But who cares…you can not see this in the shot so it’s still worth the extra effort
Last night, a final ray of light burst through the clouds on Mt. Diablo, 20 miles inland from San Francisco. No HDR, the reds in the sky are slightly desaturated to retain detail.
I drove up and down the mountain up to the nearly 4,000 summit and back to the road seen below at 2,000 ft. elevation. Then ran up about 700 feet to get above the fog bank. This is a few hundred feet below the Livermore Valley vista point.
A mid-winter storm provided some much needed rain and some much needed atmosphere too! After looking at the satellite movies and radar images, I decided to go up to Mt. Diablo in hopes of the clouds clearing up just before sunset. Fortunately for me, they did. Even a few minutes before I made this image, the light was rather dull but I could see a hole in the clouds developing. I parked the car out of sight on the road below and ran up and down the hill until I was high enough above the fog bank to see the light over the top of it. Then I ran around looking for the best composition that showed the rolling shapes and contours of the landscape. I’m glad that nobody saw me because they would probably think I was crazy because I kept running around frantically trying to find the best spot in case the sky opened up at the last moment!
Once I had the right composition (see my notes), I made a decision to stick with it as the sunset developed. I made about 10 images over 15 minutes. I thought the first one was good, but the second to the last one turned out to be the best. Once you find a good spot, stand your ground or you may miss out on the brief period of best light!
deep breath and exhale by louie imaging(away).
golden gate bridge fog, san francisco ,View On Black
a memory from the past
a bit surreal to say the least… to watch the city engulfed by fog only to see one of the
7th wonders in the world, the golden gate bridge protrude strikingly from the scene
as if to pronounce to the world its existence.
with the downturn in our stock market & economy,many have been affected one way or another,
even the international scene. i
just wanted help put a smile on your face, if even for a moment, then the image will
have served its purpose. cheers!
On Holiday., originally uploaded by [ Kane ].
I’m staying in Coffs Harbour, NSW.
Anyone who has been to Coffs Harbour should know this spot, Muttonbird Island, looking towards the town of Coffs Harbour, NSW.
The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Plain
