Amazing photography of morning mists

Mist is a phenomenon of small droplets suspended in air. It can occur as part of natural weather or volcanic activity, and is common in cold air above warmer water, in exhaled air in the cold, and in a steam room of a sauna. It can also be created artificially with aerosol canisters if the humidity conditions are right.

Morning mists of Denis Bodrov

the Stunning Sun Snap Pictures

For a few, it’s an hobby that would take far a bit much patience. Just one photographer waits for hours just to capture the amzaing photography of storm clouds breaking. Kris Dutson, 53, has spent ten years scouting out the ideal locations across Britain to capture the most astonishing atmospheric shots on his camera as rain falls.

He carries meteorological charts and a sun compass with him and will patiently wait for clouds to break before capturing the perfect shot. Kris, by Compton Valence, near Dorchester, Dorset, scours the countryside for the most beautiful and interesting scenes to shoot. He sometimes waits for months on end before returning to a particular spot at the right time of year to catch these astonishing images.

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One of his incredible photos shows a perfectly-formed rainbow stretching across vivid green fields, glowing in front of a moody grey sky. Another captures billowing white cumulus clouds rising imposingly behind the deep green peaks of Colmer’s Hill, near Bridport, Dorset. Others show sinister grey clouds gathering above fields of barley, daisies and rape, while others capture the striking cloud formations above the Jurassic coastline.

One striking image captures a full moon illuminating mist as it rolls over fields, and another shows a stunning panoramic view across Hardy country. Father-of-four Kris, who has been a photographer for 30 years, said: ‘I must be one of the only people in the country hoping for rain.

Beautiful photos of nature by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.

He founded the Altitude Agency in 1991, which was the world’s first press agency and images bank specialising in aerial photography (500,000 pictures taken in more than 100 countries by more than 100 photographers).

He made a picture inventory of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, taken from helicopters and hot-air balloons. The book from this project, Earth from Above (‘la Terre vue du ciel’) sold over 3 million copies and was translated into 24 languages.

In 2000, his “Earth from Above” free exhibition was set up on numerous big posters on the gates of Jardins du Luxembourg in Paris. It then travelled worldwide from Lyon to Montreal, to 110 cities and was visited by 120 million people.

Thousands of ice balls in the Lake Michiga

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. Hydrologically, the lake is a large bay of Lake Michigan-Huron, having the same surface elevation as Lake Huron. It is bounded, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The word “Michigan” originally referred to the lake itself, and is believed to come from the Ojibwa word mishigami meaning “great water”.

See numerous ice balls that have formed in Lake Michiga. Wind, wave motion and a temperature just below freezing likely contributed to the creation of the ice spheres.

Photos of Eastern Congo by Richard Mosse

Mosse finds inspiration for his work in art and literature, citing Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” as an influence for his journey to Congo. “That novella is full of preposterous and enigmatic images.”

Mosse used Aerochrome, an obsolete technology, to create an alternative image of the complex social and political dynamics of the country.

In his Quick series, Mosse documents the conflicts in Congo using infra-red film, which make his images seem magical and serenely beautiful, but reality continuously lurks in the faces of refugees and the rifles brandished by purple-uniformed soldiers.

Beautiful travel photography by Viktor Borisov

Viktor Borisov: ”From early childhood I was attracted to new and unusual places, and I wanted to learn more interesting things. Gradually I got into photography and travel. Now it’s two of my main interest in life, are constantly supplemented with creativity and passion extreme sport in all its manifestations.” See these amazing travel images.

Breathtaking Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon is part of the Watarrka National Park in Northern Territory, Australia. Traveling at the western end of the George Gill Range, it is 323 km southwest of Alice Springs and 1,316 km south of Darwin.
The walls of Kings Canyon are over 300 metres high, with Kings Creek at the bottom. Part of the gorge is a sacred Aboriginal site and visitors are discouraged from walking off the walking tracks.

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Two walks exists at Kings Canyon. The 2 km and approximately 1 hour Kings Creek Walk traces the bottom of the gorge. At the end of the walk is a platform, with views of the canyon walls above. The 6 km and 3-4 hour Kings Canyon Rim Walk traces the top of the canyon. A steep climb at the beginning of the walk, which locals call “Heartbreak Hill”, takes visitors up to the top, with spectacular views of the gorge below and of the surrounding landscape. About half way during the walk, a detour descends to Garden of Eden, a permanent waterhole surrounded by lush plant life.

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The last half of the walk passes through a large maze of weathered sandstone domes, reminiscent of the Bungle Bungle. A slow descent brings the visitor back to the starting point. The loop can also be done in

Beauty of Zion National Park

Zion National Park are placed in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature of the 229 square miles park is Zion Canyon, which is fifteen miles long and up to half a mile deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River. The lowest elevation is 3,666 ft at Coalpits Wash and the highest elevation is 8,726 ft at Horse Ranch Mountain. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park’s unique geography and variety of life zones allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. Numerous plant species as well as 289 species of birds, 75 mammals (including 19 species of bat), and 32 reptiles inhabit the park’s four life zones: desert, riparian, woodland, and coniferous forest. Zion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches.

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Birds eye view of Britain

British landscape photography, shot with air, will be put on displays in the center of Bass. And of course, they will be completely free of charge are available for viewing for all residents and visitors Bass. We suggest you look at some of those shots that will see these lucky.

Amazing beauty of the sky Earth

Greek photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos is one of the few lucky people in this world with the talent to capture the beauty of the heavens and make it accessible here on Earth and it all started by accident. We have selected some of his best shots. Travel through Greece offers a myriad of experiences, landscapes and activities. Greece is a country with a hallowed past and an at-times turbulent present. Photos bellow are amazing product of really creative design by Greek photograph.

Beautiful “Nemophila Harmony” at Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan

Piercing blue cloudless skies poured onto the canvas Chernozem and created a bizarre figure, striving for perfection. In the Land of the Rising Sun each year attracts thousands of tourists to look at this magical piece of zanebesya. Japanese National Seashore park Hitachi is located in Ibaraki Prefecture on o.Honsyu.

Beautiful spectacle of the Japanese fleet during the flowering Hitachi Nemophila : the feeling that there is heaven and earth are intermarried.

Nemophilas are annual flowers. It’s a combination of two Greek words nemos (small forest) and phileo (love). Nemophilas might be their best in mid-May. The literal translation from Japanese Hitachi means” dawn “.

Currently, the park has expanded to 120 hectares and plans to expand to 350 hectares.

Colorful flowers from Japan

The language of flowers, sometimes called florigraphy, was a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken. This language was most commonly communicated through Tussie-Mussies, an art which has a following today.

The nuances of the language are now mostly forgotten, but red roses still imply passionate, romantic love and pink roses a lesser affection; white roses suggest virtue and chastity and yellow roses still stand for friendship or devotion. Also commonly known meanings are sunflowers, which can indicate either haughtiness or respect – they were the favorite flower of St. Julie Billiart for this reason. Gerbera (daisy) means innocence or purity. The iris, being named for the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology, still represents the sending of a message. A pansy signifies thought, a daffodil regard, and a strand of ivy fidelity.

Beautiful Mount Taranaki

Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont, is an active but quiescent stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Although the mountain is more commonly referred to as Taranaki, it has two official names under the alternative names policy of the New Zealand Geographic Board. The 2518-metre-high mountain is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world. There is a secondary cone, Fanthams Peak (1966 m), on the south side. Because of its resemblance to Mount Fuji, Taranaki provided the backdrop for the movie The Last Samurai.

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Amazing Huangshan mountain

Huangshan, is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The area is well known for its scenery, sunsets, peculiarly-shaped granite peaks, Huangshan Pine trees, and views of the clouds from above. Huangshan is a frequent subject of traditional Chinese paintings and literature, as well as modern photography.

Physical features for which Huangshan is known include sunrises, pine trees, “strangely jutting granite peaks”, and views of clouds touching the mountainsides on more than 200 days out of the year.

The Huangshan mountain range comprises many peaks, some more than 1,000 meters high. The three tallest and best-known peaks are Lotus Peak, Bright Summit Peak, and Celestial Peak. The World Heritage Site covers a core area of 154 square kilometres and a buffer zone of 142 square kilometres. The mountains were formed in the Mesozoic, about 100 million years ago, when an ancient sea disappeared due to uplift. Later, in the Quaternary Period, the landscape was shaped by the influence of glaciers.

The mountains have also appeared in modern work; James Cameron, director of the 2009 film Avatar, cited Huangshan as one of his influences in designing the fictional world of that film.

Island

Deception Island is an island in South Shetland off the Antarctic Peninsula, which has one of the safest harbours in Antarctica. A recently active volcano in 1967 and 1969 caused serious damage to the local scientific stations. The only current research bases are run by the Argentine Army and Spain.

Deception Island (62°57′S, 60°38′W) is one of the most incredible islands on the planet. It is an active volcano in the South Shetland Islands, off the Antarctic Peninsula. Its unique landscape comprises barren volcanic slopes, steaming beaches and ash-layered glaciers. It has a distinctive horse-shoe shape with a large flooded caldera. This opens to the sea through a narrow channel at Neptunes Bellows, forming a natural sheltered harbour. It is one of the only places in the world where vessels can sail directly into the centre of a restless volcano.

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The Cano Cristales – River of Rainbow in Colombia

The Cano Cristales, touted as the most beautiful river in the world (also called as the “River of five colors”), is definitely a treat to human eyes. It is so indistinguishable from other rivers of the world, that just a look at it or a beautiful visit to it can leave an everlasting impression on a person. A river flowing in Colombia runs for about 100 km before joining into the main water body. It is located in the northern part of Colombia, in “Sierra de la Macarena”. The real pictures of the river look more of a graphical representation, but which is not the case. It appears like that because of the rainbow colors which the river reflects, at a particular season every year.

Pitch Lake – A Natural Asphalt Resource

Sir Walter Raleigh first discovered the Pitch Lake while cruising through La Brea in southwest Trinidad. The Pitch Lake is one of the several natural asphalt lakes in the world. Since its discovery in 1595, several investigations and research have been conducted to determine the chemical composition and use of this substance found in the lake.

The lake has awed explorers, scientists and common man alike. The Pitch Lake is 40 ha and 75 meters deep.

Huge and White Mushroom Stones

In Bulgaria you can find beautiful and weird nature, and one of the examples is the Giant Stone Mushrooms of Beli Plast. They are basically white lime stones that are shaped like mushrooms, and they will get up to 3 meters. It took them thousands of years to be shaped like this, and there are a lot of myths going on about these stones. One of them is that the stones are actually severed heads of four sisters who was pursued after fleeing an oppressor. Nobody believes that today, but it just makes the mushroom stones more mysterious.

They got their weird shape because lot of water has eroded the stones to make them look like this, because the “mushrooms” are mostly located by lakes or rivers. The water has now of course left the area, and the funny shape is the result of its work. Other stones that have strange shape are the Moeraki Boulders.

Unusual Upside-down Trees

If you look at these trees you will notice that something is not right. It looks like they are growing upside-down; the roots are seen up in the air, and not in the ground as they are supposed to be. The so-called Baobab tree grows mostly in Africa and Australia, but only in low-lying areas.

Lofoten – Beautiful Paradise For Fishes

In Nordland region in Norway you can find an arctic paradise called Lofoten. It has a million species of birds and a amazing sea life. You will also find a lot of otters in the area, swimming around peacefully.

It is definitely the center for cod fisheries, and the paradise for all fishermen. The climate is perfect for those conditions, and it is actually the largest positive temperature anomaly in the world relative to latitude. It was the first recorded town in northern Norway during the Viking time.

Belogradchik – Misterious Rock Formations Full Of Legends

Weird rock formations has created what is today Belogradchik Rocks in Bulgaria. Limestone, sandstone and conglomerates are parts of the formation, and the rocks range up to several hundreds of meters. They are all covered in beautiful shades and colors like red, grey and yellow.

It is the place on the Balkans that has the most legends surrounding it, and some people even think ghosts live there. 230 years ago the formation for this landmark started, and the rocks have names like Adam and Eve, Rebel Velko, the Dervish and goddess Bendida.

Moravian Karst – A Spectacular Cave System of Europe

In the Moravian Karst cave system of the Czech Republic near Brno and Blansko you can find a sinkhole named The Macocha Abyss, also known as Macocha Gorge, that is 138,7 meters deep. It is considered to be the largest in central Europe. It is remarkable for its amazing fragile and colorful dripstone formations.

One of the stalagmites, called “Svícen” (Candle), has a lace-like collar an effect created by sinters, and the place has also been used to a lot of archaeological work. Today it is a very popular tourist attraction and it has a lot of visitors every year. Also cavers and technical divers can go in there. From the pictures it looks like a magical place, like something you hear about in the fairytales. Other amazing caves are these ones in Bahamas.

A Geyser Not Like Any Other Geyser

This weird fly geyser can be found in Hualapai Valley near Gerlach in Nevada. It “made itself” during the 1960s by all the water and minerals that is their content. Around the geyser small fishes live in the pounds, as well as swans and mallards. This fly geyser is 4 meters high and is built by many years of minerals just piling around it.

Under the geyser there are lots of mud and dirt. The minerals and the sun has made the geyser so colorful, that it looks like it comes from another planet, because you are probably used to the geysers from Iceland. The water can squirt up to two meters in the air spraying the surroundings with fresh and hot water.

I didn’t know that you could find something that beautiful in the nature of Nevada. When you look at other

White Desert Of Brazil

Deserts are beautiful but they can also seem very threatening because of the stories that describe them. The hot sun, the snakes, the heavy sand to walk in, no water, no clouds, hallucinations and death. Yes, that’s how most people know the desert. But the Maranhenses National Park is like a desert, only it’s super beautiful and it has small lakes with clear water.

It’s almost like some sort of paradise for desert travelers. It is located in northeastern Brazil and it’s about 1000 square kilometers. The funny thing is that has no vegetation even though it has water and rain. Its status is very protected so there are no vehicles allowed, and you can only entrance the park with a 4-wheel drive truck.

In the waters of this desert you can find fish which has their eggs brought by sea birds. It has actually inhabitants that use the desert to fish, but when it’s dry season they go nearby to work at the farmer fields. All

Svalbard – Place With The Cleanest Atmosphere On Earth

It’s claimed that the cleanest atmosphere is to be found on the Norwegian island Svalbard, which makes it a perfect location for astronomical, meteorological or climate research. Svalbard is located between North Pole and Greenland. Svalbard has historically been a base for both whaling and fishing, but now the main industries are tourism, coal mining and of course research.

Even NASA has a research station on Svalbard. The whole landscape in Svalbard is marked with different kinds of measuring technological equipment. Photographer Christian Houge has been capturing the beauty of this landscape and this stunning and powerful equipment. He has captured the coldness and the loneliness, but it still looks mystic, like the radars are already communicating with aliens. Speaking of lonely places in arctic places, here are the abandoned hut of Robert Scott on Antarctica.

Stunishing Rocky Attractions Of Norway

Maybe you will feel funny just by looking at these pictures, especially if you’re afraid of heights. These are some really crazy heights, I don’t even understand how people dare to walk on the edges. What you see is some rock formations if Norway that are huge tourist attractions; Trolltunga, Kjeragbolten and Preikestolen. You will experience some unforgettable views when reaching the top of each destination, that’s for sure.

Preikestolen

The Preikestolen  is located above Lysefjorden. It’s a giant cliff that has a drop of 604 meters straight down. It takes about 3 hours of hiking and some areas are really steep.

The walk to Preikestolen is very steep in places. The path starts at the Preikestolhytta, at an elevation of approximately 270 metres (886 feet) above sea level, and climbs to 604 metres (1982 feet). The hike takes 1-3 hours depending on experience and fitness level.