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Dolphin Ice Sculpture
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock. This one looks like a dolphin to me.
From Iceland
From Maine
From Maine
The view from the Old Town Hall Tower, built in 1338 and harboring the famous astronomical clock, in Old Town Square. The dual spired Cathedral is Tyn Church. The colorful red tented marketplace below opens for Christmas each year, and is full warm breads, candy and other Christmas treats.
From Prague
From Paris
From Maine
Party On Tokyo Bay
Party skiffs and yachts light up Tokyo Bay under the Rainbow Bridge. The Tokyo skyline shimmers in the distance.
From Japan
Horse Barn Graffiti
This decrepit, abandoned horse barn has some fabulous graffiti depicting a modernized cartoon of a nordic viking battle painted on it.
From Iceland
The Path
Words can not describe the feeling of this 10 mile hike beneath 300 ft prehistoric redwood trees. I passed not another soul, and heard only the languid drip of slow rain cascading through the never ending branches. This particular trail emerges onto the rolling surf of the California coast.
Bamboo Forest
Dappled morning sunlight decorates this serene path through a majestic forrest of Bamboo and moss covered rocks.
Jackson Barn
A secret Texas trail that has a spectacular display of fireflies each May. This is about an hour worth of twinkles.
From Miscellaneous
Tokyo Tower in Blue
This is a closer shot of Tokyo tower with its blue lights afire. Daikanransha ferris wheel (the worlds second largest after the London Eye) spins away on the horizon to the right. The Rainbow suspension bridge over Tokyo Bay is also visible to the right.
Tokyo Skyline In Orange
The electric fires of Tokyo shine in this nocturnal skyline shot. Tokyo tower (which changes color periodically) blazes orange tonight, and sets low hanging clouds ablaze with its orange glow. Taillights of the unending traffic resemble a river of lava in this time lapse shot. Daihatsu ferris wheel, the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo bay are visible on distant right horizon.
From Japan
Redwood Sorrel
This beautiful clover is bright green on top, and a beautiful maple red on the underside of the leaf.
Redwoods, Boulder, Curves and Ferns
Heartwood
God's Favorite Bench At Sunrise
A 2 am sunrise backlights this beautiful church on a hill. The path and bench seem serene and inviting. Eyjafjörður (fjord) near Akureyri and the surrounding mountains are seen to the left. The fjord is full of whales, and the surrounding land is full of farms, flowers and horse ranches.
From Iceland
The Lonely Black Church
From Iceland
Ice Sculpture 2
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock.
From Iceland
Nordic GPS
Called "steinvarða" in Icelandic, these rock cairns are scattered across iceland. Our guide called them "primitive GPS"; they are frequently placed across the landscape in trails that are visible for miles and mark important pre-road paths through the mountains. Some are very very old. If you look closely there are three cairns seen extending to the horizon in a row pointed toward mid screen across this lava field.
From Iceland
Ice Sculpture 3
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock.
From Iceland
Dandelions Before The Sea, Wait For Sunrise
Just before sunrise at 3 am, these closed dandelions wait for the sun to rise over the mountains. In a couple of hours this predominantly green field will explode with vibrant yellow as the dandelions open to greet the sun. Eyjafjörður fjord passes just between the two central snow capped mountains and exits to the sea.
From Iceland
Peaceful Hay Farm
A lush hay farm overlooking Akureyri and the Eyjafjörður fjord. This was shot about 3 am.
From Iceland
Godafoss, Waterfall Of The Gods
The water of the river Skjálfandafljót falls from a height of 12 meters over a width of 30 meters. In the year 999 Christianity usurped the Norse gods in Iceland. Legend has it that Thor, Odin, Loki and kin were drowed in this waterfall at that time.
From Iceland
Dandelions Before The Sea
This glorious field of yellow flowers stretches to Eyjafjörður fjord which passes just between the two central snow capped mountains to the sea.
From Iceland
A River Of Blue Lupines
This sea of blue lupines weaves toward the horizon where it meets a blue river winding back to the mountains.
From Iceland
Ice Sculpture 4
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock.
From Iceland
Ice Sculpture 5
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock.
From Iceland
Volcanic Steam
From Iceland
Thor's Hammer
From Iceland
Aldeyjarfoss Under Lenticular Clouds
Aldeyjarfoss, a 60 ft drop of snowmelt over volcanic basalt pillars. This photo was taken several minutes before the earlier version and the higher sun provide less color, but the sculpted lenticular troposphere clouds are more prominent. The cutaway volcanic landscape shows the deep basalt pillars which are primarily hexagonal crystal formed by cooling lava.
From Iceland
Ice Sculpture 6
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock.
From Iceland
Ice Sculpture 7
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock.
From Iceland
My Happy Place
A hay field overlooking Akureyri and the Eyjafjörður fjord. The Inn on the left with red roof was where we stayed, a beautiful corner of the planet. The hay is wrapped in a white cloak and suctioned free of air to help it last the winter without rotting. The white hay bales dot the landscape like giant marshmallows.
From Iceland
Aldeyjarfoss In Midnight Colors 2
Aldeyjarfoss, a 60 ft drop of snowmelt over volcanic basalt pillars. The midnight sky of Icelandic summers creates dramatic "near sunsets" (the sun never actually sets with sculpted clouds and spectacular color. The cutaway volcanic landscape shows the deep basalt pillars which are primarily hexagonal crystal formed by cooling lava.
From Iceland
