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Sailing Stones of Death Valley by ParchenPhotography
Facebook page for updates Website for full portfolio Sailing Stones; The Racetrack in Death Valley National Park is just one of those locations that must been seen to be believed. These rocks, some weighing hundreds of pounds, have never been seen moving but the evidence is obvious as they leave tracks across this dry lake bed. Aliens? Wind? Unsupervised children? I'm no scientist so I'll just take the pictures for you to enjoy. This spot has been a bucket-list location since I started shooting the night sky and the early summer Milky Way was a perfect reason to head down to California, fight the desert heat, and drive on a very long and nasty dirt road to get there. I may have completely obliterated the shocks on my rental car to get here (seriously, they were gone by the end of the trip), but I guess that's just a sacrifice that I was willing to make. Enjoy! Tech: ILCE-A7r Zeiss Distagon T* 2,8/21 Sky: Tracked 4 Minutes, ISO 800, F/2.8 Ground: 30 seconds, ISO 800, F/4. Focus Stacked LR5 -> CS6 via 500px http://ift.tt/1neQO68
Shy Geyser by ACWaddington
Probably one of the hardest places I ever had to photograph, access is hard but it's also dependent on wind direction and temperature. Too cool a day and there's too much steam from this hot spring. If the wind blows from the south you're covered in water. I shot a 7 frame focus stack with some exposure blending. The geyser is roughly about 10 feet high. Sadly it's starting to cave in and is only photogenic from this side. Please share it via Facebook if you can spare the time. via 500px http://ift.tt/1hyGTt6
Heaven's Fire by DustinLeFevre1
False Kiva sunset with a little fakery magic in the sky. via 500px http://ift.tt/1rpawkF
Loche the Smoke Monster by MattGranz
Yes, it really was this blue and glowing. It took a lot to get to this storm. My team and I had to cut through two other storms, one so severe that we could not see in front of our vehicle, as the roadways beside us turned into rivers. This was what chasers call a "core punch" going through the heaviest part of a supercell downburst, which can at times be mingled with large hail. Lucky for us, the hail did not arrive, and after about 45 minutes of traveling through white knuckled, tension filled driving we were met by a mass of unstable air. We continued driving for some time chasing after a wall of rotation on our radar, and then suddenly, we saw something that looked like the sky meeting the ground. This slow moving beast was lit green at the start, and as time went on turned a teal color and finally at the end a royal blue. The blue in the cloud mass is being caused by large hail in the core being kept aloft by warm updrafts. The radar was saying that the hail was somewhere around 3" in diameter. We met someone the next day who was under the core of this shelf cloud. His window of the car he was driving was obliterated.The shelf cloud you see here had a rotation signature on it. Probably right where you see that dark bump near the front. We carefully monitored this storm, and scooted out of the way as it started to overtake us. It was a rich reward for a lot of chance taking and nerve wracking moments. via 500px http://ift.tt/1ivOd3c
Used UFO Lot by MilesMorganPhotography
*processed to view on black* Maybe it's because I like cars that these Hoodoos look like UFO's to me. Or maybe it's just because I'm a dork. David "DBreezy" Thompson and Paul "Romeo" Rojas were kind enough to let me tag along on a trip to the amazing Bisti Badlands In New Mexico. The highlight of our trip was meeting the wizard behind the curtain of the Southwest in the form of one Cecil Witt. That in and of itself made the trip special. Stories ensued, but I won't bore you with them. Ok, I'll bore you with one. Fatigue is an insidious, relentless, obnoxious bastard. As an airline pilot, I spend a great deal of time thinking about, managing, studying, and trying to avoid fatigue. It can turn a sober man/woman into a staggering waste of air if left unchecked. ** Cue looming foreshadow music... DUN DUN DUNNNNNN ** I arrived a day early, and set about the business of shooting a nothing sunset before getting truly, deeply, passionately, and properly lost. Eventually stumbling upon my rental car, I went back to town and waited for my friends to arrive. And arrive they did. In style, at 3am. This after working all day and being up all night. There is no point in trying to sleep for 30 min, so we all piled in the rental and headed out into the cold desert night air. Not much is said in the middle of the night on a long, straight, lonely highway in the middle of nowhere. Just a few glances to the stars to see what kind of conditions we could expect. The dashed yellow line in the middle of the road whizzing by can become mesmerizing at 3:30am. Paul moved over to the left lane of our two lane road, to avoid some sort of object he must have seen in our lane. I nodded thankfully that he was driving because I hadn't seen a thing.... A pregnant pause later and we were still whooshing along at 80mph in the left hand lane. I wondered if we had transported to England. Time slowed down. The car didn't. "Uhhhhh, Paul?" Breezy chimed in from the back seat "Yeah?" "Dude. Do you realize you are in the wrong lane?" "Oh" *Lane change back to the correct side* Pause........ Breezy: "Dude, I've got kids". I always love that line, and I know when I hear it whatever we are doing is probably a bad idea. Paul has gotten really good at putting together little videos of our trips, so I thought I'd post the link here. I apologize for the following 1) I might have sworn by accident a few times 2) My hair. I usually mousse each individual strand which takes me around 3 hours 3) The smell. If you are watching on smell cam, we didn't bathe much. Paul's Video via 500px http://ift.tt/1tTKyna
A View Through The Arch by backcountrygallery
(Be sure to check out my free video tutorials at http://ift.tt/KW3xf4 ) This was image was captured in Valley Of Fire State Park, NV. The arch itself (Thunderstorm Arch, I think it’s nicknamed) is well off any regular trails and, although we knew of its existence, all we knew for sure about it’s location was that it was probably in the park. Somewhere. It took several trips before we finally got lucky and stumbled upon it. The first time you see the view through this arch is pretty amazing and I knew I wanted to capture it with some cool clouds in the sky. My first attempt was at sunset. Not only did the clouds not cooperate, but it was painfully obvious that the sun was not going to get involved at that time of day. So, I decided sunrise would be better. But there were lots of clear skies. For days. It came down to my final day of the trip. I had to leave for home that morning, but I decided that it would be worth the effort for one last try. The truth is, I had already resigned myself to the idea that this was going to be one of my “project” shots that I had to keep coming back to before the magic actually happened. You can imagine my surprise when the sky lit up! I have to say, I almost felt like it was a bit too easy since most of the time it takes trip after trip before I get the shot I want. Hey, I guess even a blind squirrel gets a nut now and then :) I gotta say, to me this image really epitomizes this place of wild, color rock formations. I will be back! via 500px http://ift.tt/1lI4OEA
Desert Light by everlookphotography
Eyre Peninsula , South Australia This image is a composite showing two dune areas of south australia. Part of the image is from Coffin Bay National park (upper third) during a dramatic morning at Almonta dunes. The lower part of the image is from a windy clear day at Yanerbie dunes near Streaky Bay. To see the discussion about composites using smart objects, there is a facebook thread here : http://ift.tt/1llrKKh [Deviant Art Gallery] [Facebook] [Web Gallery] [Flickr] [G+] via 500px http://ift.tt/1llrKKj
Sand Waves by AbdullaAlmajed
The Rub' al Khali or Empty Quarter is the largest sand desert in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia and areas of Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The desert covers some 650,000 square kilometres (250,000 sq mi) (the area between long. 44°30′ −56°30′E., and lat. 16°30′ −23°00′N). It is part of the larger Arabian Desert. via 500px http://ift.tt/1tPXzip
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