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Sunset on Mono Lake
Tufa, the rock formations that "grow" in Mono Lake, is essentially common limestone. What is uncommon about this limestone is the way it forms. Typically, underwater springs rich in calcium (the stuff in your bones) mix with lakewater rich in carbonates (the stuff in baking soda). As the calcium comes in contact with carbonates in the lake, a chemical reaction occurs resulting in calcium carbonate--limestone. The calcium carbonate precipitates (settles out of solution as a solid) around the spring, and over the course of decades to centuries, a tufa tower will grow. Tufa towers grow exclusively underwater, and some grow to heights of over 30 feet. The reason visitors see so much tufa around Mono Lake today is because the lake level fell dramatically after water diversions began in 1941.

Fruit bats over Gatton
This photo was taken in Gatton near Toowoomba, Queensland. The fruitbats would roost noisily all day and then head out like smoketrails at dusk heading for local farms and trees in blossom.

Sunrise in the Desert
Sunrise in the Desert just before it rains.

before the sunrise
Just before the sunrise is sometimes the best time to take a picture

Perfect river view
The boat run with a perfect blackground it make a perfect view

Bright Sunset in deep North
Bright Sunset in deep North

Corban VI
Turned the exposure down on my camera to get some more of those pretty reds.

Violent Orange Sunset
Violent orange sunset with clouds in the sky, taken in Botswana in Southern Africa

Malibu Sunrise
Malibu, Ca., sunrise beach with hues of blue, white and red

Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud
"Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called "Rho Oph" by astronomers, it's one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system. Located near the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, the nebula is about 407 light years away from Earth. Rho Oph is a complex made up of a large main cloud of molecular hydrogen, a key molecule allowing new stars to form from cold cosmic gas, with two long streamers trailing off in different directions. Recent studies using the latest X-ray and infrared observations reveal more than 300 young stellar objects within the large central cloud. Their median age is only 300,000 years, very young compared to some of the universe's oldest stars, which are more than 12 billion years old. The colors in this image reflect the relative temperatures and evolutionary states of the various stars. The youngest stars are surrounded by dusty disks of gas from which they, and their potential planetary systems, are forming. These young disk systems show up as red in this image. Some of these young stellar objects are surrounded by their own compact nebulae. More evolved stars, which have shed their natal material, are blue." - Official NASA Site. This is an official NASA image.

Parnell Square
Dublin, Ireland

Dark storms icy wrath
Stormy evening clouds taking over Matanuska glacier in beautiful Alaska