Outdoor Scenes—Week 11 Gallery
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- Cayo Arena
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- Cayo Arena is a beautiful sandbar 10 kilometers into the middle of the Atlantic off the coast of Punta Rucia. It’s often called Paradise Island by tour guides, and it is easy to understand why. Ultra-white sand gently slopes into the mind-bendingly clear turquoise water, where snorkeling is good due to coral reefs making a home for schools of fish that could quite possibly eat out of your hand. It is difficult to say how big the “island” is because it shrinks and expands depending on the season and the ocean’s currents.
Photo and caption by David Pou
Location: Cayo Arena Punta Rucia Luperon Dominican Republic
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- My Psychedelic Garden
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- My Psychedelic Garden
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- Taken in Sweden on a night of spectacular aurora during February this year. Although I have now seen aurora on may occasions, getting particularly photogenic shapes in context with the environment is a very difficult thing to do. With massive activity building, these huge loops began to appear overhead, before stretching out across the sky. (PS I have this as a larger image if required)
Photo and caption by David Clapp
Location: Sweden, Kiruna
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Aerostatic globe
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- Aerostatic globe over Teotihuacan
Photo and caption by Guillermo Keller
Location: Teotihuacan, Mexico
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- Beginning of the summer
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- Beginning of the summer
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- A magic moment in the midnight in northern Finland in late may 2012, taken on a swamp towards the midnight sun and nighthaze.
Photo and caption by Jari-Matti Salonurmi
Location: Finland, North-eastern, Pudasjarvi
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- dance in the village of Tireli Dogon, the Dogon country, sahel, mali
Photo and caption by Anthony Pappone
Location: tireli
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- Flower Island of the Azores
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- Flower Island of the Azores
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- Traveling from Bermuda to Europe, the first grass, trees and cows sailors see after days of just Atlantic Ocean is the island of Flores. Overlooking the small town Fajãzinha, on the right one of at least 20 waterfalls of Ribeira Grande that flow into see here. On the horizon Fajã Grande, Europe's westernmost village. 4000 inhabitants life very remote, visited by a few tourist per year only. Flores and the smaller Corvo are part of the North American tectonic plate, unlike all other Azorean islands which sit on the European plate. Flores on UNESCO's list of World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
Photo and caption by Sybrand Treffers
Location: Fajãzinha, Flores, Azores, Portugal
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Glowing Tree
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- Glowing Tree
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- On a fishing trip in Mpumalanga, South Africa I took this photo of this tree next to Klipvoor Dam. The golden light in the background was cast by a nearby settlement's lights. I lit the tree up with a torch painting it over a period of a minute and a half.
Photo and caption by Erlo Brown
Location: Klipvoor Dam, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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- The Wave
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- The Wave
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- I was one of the lucky few that have seen this amazing rock formation, only 20 permits are issued a day and there is an actual lottery to win the permit, 10 are issued online and 10 are issued at the Paria Canyon rangers station. This rock formation is Navajo Sandstone which has been created by the natural elements over eons. It is one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen and I felt privileged that I had the chance to do so.
Photo and caption by Miriam Perritt
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Arizona, USA
Category: Outdoor Scenes
