Galaria: 12/2005

Enter the Labyrinth

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lost in the maze

. . . . . . . . . . Click on the Machu Picchu labyrinth to enter, then choose a route by clicking on one of three images. If you reach an obstacle, click on an alternative image to retrace your path.

Over The Top

This one of the less flattering images of the Grand Canyon. Here is prettier image of the same view, and a much, much more colorful image! Link to Grand Canyon gallery.

Do Do That Hoo Doo

. . . Bryce Canyon . . .

Antelope

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Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon located near Page, Arizona. The photo is of Upper Antelope Canyon, or The Corkscrew. Lower Antelope Canyon is also photogenic! Depending on the sun's position, the walls of water-sculpted, layered sandstone glow golden and the floor is illuminated by shafts of light.

Labels: Antelope Canyon, Arizona, layered sandstone, photogenic, slot canyon, The Corkscrew, water-sculpted

To The Brim

The Grand Canyon in a standard view from the South Rim, and roll-over this link for a lovely image of the same view at sunset. More Grand Canyon photographs, and a side-scan image from a satellite.

Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow

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Bryce Canyon spires are called hoodoos and are located in an amphitheatre of these eroded columns of colored limestone nestled up against a cliff-face. This photograph was taken from farther along the plateau. Bryce Canyon is in southwestern Utah, and is named after Ebenezer Bryce, an early rancher who described it as "a helluva place to lose a cow."

Labels: amphitheatre, Bryce Canyon, hoodoos, limestone, Utah

Shrouded

A River Runs Through It

. . . Grand Canyon . . . the Colorado River runs through the bottom of the canyon, here seen from the air. The muddy Little Colorado River can be seen at the base of a canyon in this photograph. Here's a panorama from the top, and another. Here's a nice slide-show.

Labels: Colorado River, Grand Canyon, panorama

Cleft D'Or

Depths of Despair

Rocky Montane Home

Location, Location, Location

Zabriskie Point

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Zabriskie Point in California's Death Valley, where eroded lakebed sediments have created a stark landscape best photographed at dawn or sunset.

Links to full-screen panoramas of Death Valley (northwest to southeast): Racetrack Valley (1) Northern Death Valley (1) Lee Flat and Darwin (3) Panamint Valley (6) Emigrant Pass Road (6) Skidoo (4) Wildrose Canyon (6) Stovepipe Wells (1) Salt Creek and Vicinity (5) Greenland Ranch (7) Furnace Creek Inn (5) Zabriskie Point / Golden Canyon (3) Twenty Mule Team Canyon (4) Dantes View (3) South of Furnace Creek (3) Badwater (4) South of Badwater (6) South End of Death Valley (3) Jubilee Pass / Salsberry Pass (5) Shoshone and Tecopa (6) .

Labels: California, Death Valley, Zabriskie Point

Mists of Moria

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Labels: Mists of Moria

Twenty Mule Team Canyon

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Mined borax was hauled along this sinuous canyon from the Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley and the Amargosa works near Shoshone to the railhead at Mojave. Each team comprised 18 mules and 2 horses. The 30 ton load was across 165 miles of desert in 10 days.

Other views in spectacular Death Valley: fossil-bearing Middle Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Titus Canyon Road : Artist's Palette :

Labels: Amargosa, Artist's Palette, Borax, Death Valley, fossil, Harmony Borax Works, Mojave, Shoshone, Titus Canyon, Twenty Mule Team Canyon

Pasiphae

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Pasiphae (Pasipae) was wife the wife of King Minos. She wast the daughter of Helios and Perse, and mother to Glaucus, Andogeus, Phaedra, and Ariadne.

After King Minos insulted the god Poseidon by sacrificing a substitute bull, the god made Pasiphae develop a passionate love for the White Bull. Pasiphae became mother of the Minotaur after having Daedalus design a construction that permitted her mating with the White Bull.

Labels: Andogeus, Ariadne, Daedalus, Glaucus, Helios, King Minos, Mintaur, Pasipae, Pasiphae, Perse, Phaedra, Poseidon, White Bull