Wildfyre by aaronmmoshier

Had the good fortune to catch this powerful sunset in Yosemite Valley recently. Storm clouds had descended on the valley and all but strangled the last of the dying sunlight, prompting most photographers to pack up and depart. Several of us stayed and were rewarded with this view.

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Morning Grandeur by jaychong

“Morning Grandeur”

I haven’t been to all the national parks in the USA, but Yosemite National Park has been by far my favorite. To me, the most impressive time of the year is when it snows in the valley. Just everything about it is sublime. I am hopeful for a great snow dump this year, but even more hopeful if I can take a photo of it. Here’s to wishing!

Techy Stuff: Single exposure but I reprocessed the same raw file twice to just recover more details in the sky and shadows in the trees. All processed in Adobe CC /w Luminosity masks.
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Sunset at Stonehenge by JJFarquitectos

Sunset on neolitih monument of Stonehenge.

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles north of Salisbury. Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.

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Valle de Rocas by intrepidphotos

Monolith in the Valle de Rocas, Bolivian Altiplano, Bolivia.

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Before Dawn – Yosemite National Park by Darvin

Getting up early to see the sunrise in Yosemite National Park can be worth the effort. Before all the crowds arrive and the tour buses park an unload there is a peace and quiet where the only sound is the thunderous waterfalls off in the distance. And then the glow begins and the stars fade. And then like magic the sky becomes drenched in color signaling the arrival of a new day.

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Some Stones in a Field by johnfharper

Yes, I know, it’s Stonehenge, it’s never been photographed before! I decided to take the motorbike for a run and picked this destination as it’s only 25 minutes from my home. Around 12 noon when I took this, which isn’t ideal. Plus there were thousands of tourists. When I was a younger you could drive up to it, get out of the car, carve your name on a stone, chip a piece off as a souvenir….perhaps move the stones around for a different design, dance around naked if the mood took you 😉 Now you can’t get near it, the whole monument is roped off.

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Shiprock by WaynePinkston

This is the iconic Shiprock for which the town of Shiprock is named in NE New Mexico. The rock rises 1583 feet (482 meters) above the desert plain, and can be seen for miles around. It is sacred to the Navajo people. The formation is similar to those in Monument Vally about 90 minutes to the West. This photo is Panorama of 11 vertical images combined in Photoshop and taken with a Canon 6D camera, and a Bower 24 1.4 lens at f 1.4, 20 sec, and ISO 6400.

I wanted to get a more horizontal Milky Way and so this was taken relatively early in the night, near the crossover from twilight to true dusk (darkness). The illumination is from a very small crescent moon to my back, as well as some light pollution. The presence of the moonlight also tends to make the sky bluer in the photos.

The yellows and oranges are not a sunset! The sun set to my back. This is light pollution from the town of Shiprock (population of around 8,000) approximately 10 mikes (16 km) away.

There are many reasons why this photo almost did not happen.

I did not know that this monolithic rock even existed and I was traveling across northern New Mexico to get to the Bisti Badlands near Farmington. But you can see this huge rock for an hour or more as you drive across NE New Mexico. As I stared at the rock my driving dazed brain started to think “I wonder what this looks like at night”?

And then there is no easy access to the rock. The nearest paved access is more than 2 miles (3 km) away and was on the wrong side of the rock (south side). As I was riding around I noticed a couple filming off of a dirt road and pulled over to talk. The woman seemed to be a Native American and assured me the land was not private or restricted. When I told her what I watched to do she pulled a map out of her car that showed a maze of dirt roads. She showed me how to get to a position north of the formation and how to avoid impassable ravines and ridges. Thank you nice lady!

And then there was the light pollution. It is best to be shooting away from the light pollution, but this time I had to shoot right into the brightest spot. I had doubts that the photo would succeed. As it turned out the light pollution could be used to enhance the photo. It is not a truly “dark” night photo, but is still interesting.

And then I was supposed to be in another park, but the nice park ranger told me I could not shoot there at night as he gave me a speeding ticket. This was not the way I wanted to meet a ranger.

And then the sky was so hazy near the horizon that night that I believed there was no way to get a clear photo. I just went ahead with the attempt just because I was already there.

Anyway it turned out to be more colorful and interesting than expected.

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Running ☺☺☺ by Rosetta-Nota

VIESTE is a town in the province of Foggia, in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. A marine resort in Gargano, Vieste has received Blue Flags for the purity of its waters from the Foundation for Environmental Education. The area covered by the town is included in the Gargano National Park.
PIZZOMUNNO
At the beginning of the beach known as the Castle Beach, or the south of the town, stands, nearly to guard the town of Vieste, a monolith about 25 meters high called Pizzomunno , symbol of the town. To it a legend is linked :
LEGEND
It is said that Pizzomunno was a fisherman who fell in love with the beautiful Vieste, this provoked the envy of the sirens,and they killed her. The PAIN petrified Pizzomunno, who still rises from the depths of the sea in front of the city which took its name from his beloved VIESTE ♥♥♥.
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