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At Arcadia National Park the trails can look like this.
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Dog Rocks is located near Geelong in Victoria, Australia.
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Yosemite National Park, California, USA
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An area in the central/northern Ontario region; part of the Muskokas. The drive to this place is over a lot of rough terrain and takes around slightly more than hour from our house, but the drive is well worth it.. Leaving our house you start out on a highway, which is about 15 minutes driving time. You cut off the highway at “Cooper’s Falls” (once a thriving community, established in the 1800s, but today calling it a hamlet is generous) and follow the road into Cooper’s Falls. At the “end” of Cooper’s Falls (it ends at the Black River) and just to the left is an old cart-track that has been paved over. You follow that for about 15 minutes, where the paving ends and the old corduroy road begins. This is where it gets dicey. The corduroy is a road constructed with underlying logs and covered with rubble and dirt, and hard-packed. Lots of the old country roads were constructed this way. Part way along this dirt road the logs have begun to rot and there are many pits and potholes (craters wold be a more apt word) along the laneway. It isn’t really fair to call it a road at this point…it is basically dirt where the tires go and grass, stone and undergrowth in the center and to either side. Many areas have no pathway at all. The granite shield has lifted over the years and the soil has eroded, so in some spots you are driving over granite outcrops. Further on, there are huge wetlands and swamps to either side of this track and places where the swamp has washed over the trail. There ride along here is a half hour on a good day (where the water is not covering the road…tho half hour on this road feels like a century), and considerably longer on a bad one. Just before you reach this idyllic wilderness the road dips down a large hill and the swamp is almost always covering it. Depending on the water level, you can cross the road…or not. We’ve taken to carrying a large pole with us in the truck. When we hit this spot I we stop and I get out with pole to test the water depth. If it’s below the upper portion of the tires (we’ve got a 3/4 ton with heavy duty raised suspension) we cross, if it’s not, we turn back. We almost lost the truck in the swamp our first time out here. Once you brave this last hurdle, you are home free. Up the small hill on the other side and when you crest that, you see the bridge and parking area. This photo was taken from the bridge. The area is predominantly rock – granite, black basalt and other types. These are natural forests with some small wildlife present all the time, and occasionally bear, deer, moose, and the odd wolf. Though the area is known as Victoria Falls, there are no waterfalls, only a series of rapids at different points along the river. On the opposite side of the bridge is a large wetlands area. This is probably my favourite place in the world to spend a day.
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As part of the drier tropics on the Nth Qld coast, these granite boulders glow with incredible intensity under a brilliant pastel sky. / I frequented this spot morning and night almost daily for near on 6months in hope of such a transition occuring…finally my wishes were granted and an explosion of pastel light rendered this scene with brilliant luminousity. what a gift to experience ! / / / EOS A2, Fuji Velvia 50. / ©T.Middleton2008 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— / / / see more pf my photography from Nth.Qld by clicking on the image below / / /
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Larkin Cove is my favourite beach/ cove in the world. It is simply perfect, small, gorgeous white sand, beautiful boulders, flanked by green headlands with a great view. It is in a remote wilderness with no tracks to it and would seldom recieve any footprints except from the occassional sea kayaker or intrepid bush walker. A true natural treasure. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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Nature can be a powerful force. Millions of years in the making, each of these rocks shows off its unique colours and shape. Like snowflakes, no two are the same. / __ View more of my work at www.DLPhotography.ca. DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUT MY HUGE HOLIDAY SALE ON NOW!
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This was taken on my way down from a long scramble up to Treasure Lakes, Little Lakes Valley, Eastern Sierra. It was raining a little here and there but I kept going because I’m not one to turn back once I’m 5 miles into a hike. Luckily the clouds began to break and it became a beautiful afternoon in the end.
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One of my favorite hikes in the Eastern Sierras is through Little Lakes Valley. The trail follows Rock Creek to its source high in the mountains and continues on to connect with other trails. This was taken near the Mosquito Flats Trailhead in late summer. I still caught a few wildflowers in bloom since the valley is so lush.
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Steps in the Federation Building, Melbourne Australia, made from granite from central Australia. Each slab is different and full of color … I could tell people thought I was crazy, down on my hands and knees photographing these as they tramped up and down and around me, wondering what on earth I was taking a photo of. But each slab has fantastic patterns and colors. Here I feel as if Im looking down on a bay where the waves are slowly and gently rolling in and breaking one after another on a seashore. /
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Taken at Bridport, North East Tasmania
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This is the HDR version of this photograph. The weather was really beautiful and ominous that day. Everytime the sun would peek out I would drop everything and set up my tripod. This is Little Lakes Valley and I’m still amazed that I live so close to something so beautiful. This trail eventually ascends Morgan Pass and up into the alpine High Sierras. You can see them in the far background.
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Scenic Mirror Lake is known for its mirrored reflections, here captured on a beautiful sunny spring morning in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California. All content & images © Stephen Vecchiotti. You may not use any images in any way without written consent from artist. All Rights Reserved.
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The Glen, Uralla, NSW. All images also sold separately, contact me if you are interested. Best viewed LARGE
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...on the rugged west coast of Tasmania
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Last spring we paid a visit to the eastern wheatbelt with a view to seeing the wonderful wildflowers in that region. We stayed on a wheat farm some 80 kms north of Mukinbudin. Well, the wildflowers were absolutely stunning – the roadsides everywhere were a solid carpet of colour and we were taken to see one particular flower that grows nowhere else. / Then we were told about the rocks! WOW We never before knew that Wave Rock had a rival but, as this photo shows, ELACHBUTTING runs it pretty close with waves on both the east and west faces. There is a good track that goes all the way round – a drive of 6 kms which will give you a good idea of the size of the thing. There is also a tunnel through part of the rock but don’t do what we did and go without a torch because it is pitch dark in places. The previous day the farmer had driven us right to the top of this rock in his 4WD. The views were stunning and we even discovered a rather rare wild Dragon Orchid growing quite happily in the undergrowth. / All the roads in the area are good, well graded gravel, but the nearest shops – and petrol – are all a LONG way away, so come prepared! / I would say we were roughly 500 kms east of Perth.
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Featured in Your Living spaces on Aug. 22, 2009 / Featured in Artistic Libation on Aug. 23, 2009 / Featured in ImageWriting (2/24) on Aug. 24, 2009 / Placed in the top ten in Artistic Libation ~ Spirits In Art “Reflections Challenge” on Sept. 4, 2009 / Placed in the Top 10 in Your Living Spaces “HOME, SWEET HOME” challenge on Nov. 14, 2009 / Featured in Alphabet Soup (Letter W) on Dec. 5, 2009 A little fairy with a bird on her toes rests on my kitchen countertop. A golden glow signals the start of happy hour. It’s magic time! / The Bourbon is Woodford Reserve my favorite from the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky. / (131 views)
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Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town / Rhodes Memorial, built in remembrance of Cecil John Rhodes who contributed greatly to the formation of the sub continent, lies on the northern flank of Table Mountain, at the base of Devil’s Peak. A national landmark, Rhodes Memorial lies within the Table Mountain National Park and the views from up here are stunning, offering panoramic vistas of industrial Cape Town, out over the airport and the Cape Flats, and on a clear day, the Helderberg and Hottentots Holland Mountain range. Built on the site where Rhodes was said to sit and restlessly contemplate his future, the memorial was designed by Sir Francis Macey and Sir Herbert Baker, and built with money raised by the citizens of Cape Town. The memorial today is a popular venue for tea or lunch at the restaurant, which now occupies the original cottage built by Herbert Baker between 1910 and 1912. The designers used granite from the rock bases on which the mountain rests, incorporating the classical architecture so admired by Rhodes.
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Granite Point, Bridport, Tasmania
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Went for a little drive this morning to find a tor! Don’t know where many are at the moment, but had heard of Haytor so plugged in the sat nav and off I went! Infront of Haytor are a few wild ponies. The hill was much stepper than it looks too! For those who don’t know the Devon and Cornwall moors are famous for their tors. A tor is a rock outcrop formed by weathering, usually found on or near the summit of a hill. In the South West of England, where the term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves – particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Tors are composed usually of granite or metamorphic rocks. Tors can also be found around any previously erupted volcanoes (although Devonian and Carboniferous outcrops are also found), though occasionally of other hard rocks such as quartzite, and are the result of millions of years of weathering. In prehistoric times, when the land was covered in forest, rain water seeped into the ground and gradually weathered the bedrock through its natural cracks, or joints. Once the land became exposed, the weathering was accelerated, particularly during the Ice age when freezing water expanded in the cracks. The result can be seen today in dramatic rock formations. TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA MORE ON HAYTOR Nikon D40 18-55mm Oron effect added in CS3
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Exibited at Gallery RAW Newcastle NSW Australia
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