Passo Gardena is a high mountain pass elevation; 7008 feet in the Italian Dolomites

Passo Gardena is a high mountain pass elevation; 7008 feet in the Italian Dolomites, connecting Sëlva in the Val Gardena on the west side with Corvara in the Val Badia. The mountains here are part of the Sella group. I had done some scouting here earlier in the afternoon and couldn't surely decide what I wanted for a foreground; big sheets of snow still leftover or rare patch of flowers that were beginning to finally bloom; I clearly decided to go with the latter. I also went back and forth about cloning out the car down there (my rental!), but thought it gave a decent sense of scale here, so I kept it. It might wind up going back and axing it, though. I wanted to stick around to shoot some stars after nightfall, but temperatures rapidly dropped below freezing my hands and feet were numb at the end of this photograph and I was sadly not equipped to spend hours out in that kind of weather. Source: Chris Lazzery

K2 Mountain 8,611 meters (28,251 ft) GB, Himalaya Pakistan.

The name K2 is derived from the notation used by the Great Trigonometric Survey. In the 1850s Thomas Montgomerie made the first survey of the Karakoram from Mount Haramukh, some 130 miles to the south, and sketched the two most prominent peaks, labeling them K1 and K2. It is famous as the Savage Mountain due to the difficulty of ascent and the high fatality rate among those who climb it. Almost every four people who have reached the K2 summit, one has died trying.

Chulyshman River is a river in Altai Republic in Russia.

Chulyshman River is a river in Altai Republic in Russia. The length of the river is 241 km. The area of its basin is 16,800 km². The Chulyshman flows into Lake Teletskoye. It freezes up during late October - early December and stays icebound until late March - early May

Lava flowing out of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano

This beautiful photograph is taken on June 21, 2014, when it shows lava flowing out of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano, one of the world's most active volcanoes, located on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The Piton de la Fournaise started to erupt early on June 21. (Photo by Richard Bouhet/AFP Photo)

An Early Morning on Mount Zugspitze - High in the Alps, Germany

Early Morning on Mount Zugspitze - High in the Alps, Germany. The Zugspitze, at 2,962 m above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains as well as the highest mountain in Germany.

 

Photo by Torsten Muehlbacher

NASA Releases Stunningly Colorized Photograph of Our Sun

NASA's SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) has just released this stunning, painterly image of the Sun. The Solar Dynamics observatory was designed to assist us to know about the Sun's influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere. In this lovely image, NASA's sun-gazing spacecraft spotted an unusual series of eruptions, forced by fast "puffs" from the Sun's outermost atmosphere (the corona), to interplanetary space. It starts on January 17, 2013, the puffs took place about once every 3 hours, and then after twelve hours, larger eruptions occurred.

Nathalia Alzate a solar scientist at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales said; if you look at the corona in intense ultraviolet light we can review the source of the puffs is a series of energetic jets and related flares. The jets are localized, disastrous releases of energy that spew material out from the sun into space. These swift changes in the magnetic field cause flares, which release an enormous amount of energy in a very limited time in the form of super-heated plasma, high-energy radiation and radio bursts. The large, slow structure is unwilling to erupt, and does not originate to smoothly propagate outwards until numerous jets have occurred. 

We still need some time to evaluate whether these’re shock waves, formed by the jets, passing through and driving the slow eruption, or whether magnetic reconfiguration is driving the jets letting the bigger, slow structure to slowly erupt. Many thanks to latest advances in observation and in photo processing techniques we can throw light on the way jets can lead to small and fast, or big and slow, eruptions from the Sun. She continues; this spectacular photograph is a combination of three wavelengths of light. It shows one of the multiple jets that led to a series of slow coronal puffs. The striking photo has been colorized in red, green and blue.

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Mind-blowing Railway Photos show South American Trains Teetering on Cliff Edges and Tunneling through Mountains

56 Year old French photographer Jean Marc Frybourg went to great lengths to capture these unbelievable pictures of some of South America's most scenic rail routes in Peru and Chile. The Paris based photographer whose job is in the pharmaceutical industry, has an obsession with travel and photography, in particular immortalizing his favorites railways.

The photos feature trains mainly servicing mines as they weave through incredible landscapes which are made accessible due to just as impressive engineering feats that make the viewer wonder how on earth they got a track there in the first place. You can well see in one shot, two trains are flawlessly aligned on a mountain side, which was taken with the cooperation of the railway company while another is transporting tanks of sulphuric. 

Frybourg says; I was very keen in travelling photos, when I was boy. I have always taken photographs. I have started to learn photography and using serious cameras in 1972 when I was 11 or 12-years-old. His love of trains started with model roads and went from there. I wanted to travel and see the trains. Since then, I’ve always preferred taking pictures of trains.

Iceland has become a favorites filming destination for Hollywood and these spectacular images definitely show why.

Known as the 'Land of Fire and Ice', with stunning scenery and otherworldly vistas, a photographer's dream place, says Peter Rolf Hammer, who captured these remarkable pictures on a five-week journey across the country. Peter Rolf belongs to Melbourne Australia actually inspired by Iceland's varied landscape from geysers and waterfalls to volcanoes and mountains. It is not surprise for me at all that Hollywood movies are filming in Iceland. The scenery is truly spectacular. The 69 years old photographer travelled around Iceland in a bid to capture its beauty on film and the results are an awe-inspiring set of snaps, filled with rugged landscapes and dramatic scenes.  I’ve always liked to travel those places which are not average tourist destination and where you can view the stunning landscapes. The nature beauty in Iceland is so amazing and varied from thermal areas to glaciers, mountains, waterfalls, glacial lagoons and seascapes. Peter Rolf travelled over 4,000 miles across Iceland, photographing the majority of the country.Source: Charismatic Planet