8 Amazing Photos From Behind Waterfalls

8 Amazing Photos From Behind Waterfalls

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1Seljalandsfoss Waterfall (Iceland)

Seljalandsfoss is one of the best-known waterfalls in Iceland. It's also one of the country's most popular natural wonders. It has a 60-meter drop and is part of the river Seljalands, which has its origin in the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic glacier. Visitors can even walk behind Seljalandsfoss into a small cave.
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2Dry Falls (Highlands, North Carolina)

Less than a mile from Bridal Veil Falls, Dry Falls drops 80 feet—40 feet of that distance is a free fall. A paved path leads down from the parking lot and takes you inside a recessed ledge behind the roaring—and sometimes drenching—waters for a view from the other side.
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3Tunnel Falls (Oregon)

Tunnel Falls is the traditional turnaround spot for many on the Eagle Creek Trail in Columbia Gorge, Oregon, and it is indeed a splendid climax. Over the last thousand years, the falls have carved a majestic basin here, plunging 160 feet from towering basalt cliffs to the rushing creek-bed below.
While this scene is impressive enough, the most bewildering aspect of the falls in the passageway behind them. Trail builders from the early 1900s blasted a tunnel across the sheer rock face on the far side, making this area the slickest—and perhaps the most dangerous—section of trail in the Columbia River Gorge. Looking downstream, you can see where the two forks of Eagle Creek converge, meeting at Grand Union Falls.
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4Minnehaha Falls (Minnesota)

It gets so cold in Minnesota, waterfalls become completely frozen. What a stunning sight to see! Minnehaha Falls can be found near the entrance to Minnehaha Park.
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5Sipi Falls (Uganda)

Uganda's Sipi River flows across cliffs & rocks that punctuate the foothills of Mountain Elgon in the Kapchorwa District. It has a series of rapids and a set of three incredibly beautiful waterfalls—the Sipi Falls.
The first waterfall plunges 85 meters over a cliff into the plunge pool below. It is the second highest of the three and gives off such a thunderous splash! Midway through the cliff is a trail that cuts behind the waterfall. It looks quite scary from the bottom, but it is safe and is an incredible vantage point for better views of the falls, Mt. Elgon, and the distant plains of the Karamoja region.
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6Sgwd yr Eira (Wales)

The "falls of snow" plunge over a hard band of sandstone—its overhang protects the walker from the full force of the water. The closure of the path behind the falls during the 2007- 2008 season was controversial. Local landowners, the Forestry Commission, the Countryside Council for Wales, and the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority allowed the route to be re-opened later in 2008.
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7Steinsdalsfossen (Norway)

Steinsdalsfossen is a 46 meter (150 ft.) high waterfall near Norheimsund, Norway. It is one of the most visited and photographed attractions in the country and is a spectacular sight when the snow melts in May and June.
The charm of the waterfall lies behind it, where there is a path, which allows visitors an unusual view of the waterfall. It is possible to see its beauty even at night when the water is illuminated with floodlights.
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8Ontario Waterfall at the Niagara Escarpment (Canada)

The Niagara Escarpment is a beautiful and internationally recognized slope extending from New York through Ontario. Photographer Michael Gordon decided to hike behind one of these waterfalls during winter, and the view was amazing.
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photofun4ucom Pada July 10, 2016 Komentar

10 Weird Photos of People Riding Animals

10 Weird Photos of People Riding Animals

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1A Bear

Here's a picture of a man riding his bear down the street in Xingjiang, China. Thankfully the bear is wearing a harness.
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2A Giraffe

Redditor Kidballa uploaded this picture of his aunt riding a giraffe back in 1972.
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3Alligators

Believe it or not, before Disneyland existed, there was a very unusual place called the California Alligator Farm. For just 25 cents, you could visit with, ride, and feed some live alligators.
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4An Ostrich

Cawston Ostrich Farm, located in Pasadena, California, was opened in 1886 by Edwin Cawston. It was America's first ostrich farm and was located in the Arroyo Seco Valley just three miles (5 km) north of downtown LA where it occupied nine acres. It was a premier tourist attraction for many years. Guests were able to ride ostriches, be taken for ostrich-drawn carriage rides and buy ostrich-feathered hats, boas, capes and fans at the gift shop store was connected to the factory.
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5A lion

Gay's Lion Farm was in El Monte, California, which is about 13 miles outside of LA. The farm housed the MGM lion and several animals that were used in Tarzan movies. The site was open to tourists—you can see an amazing collection of the Farm's postcards here.
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6Hippopotamus

A zookeeper and a young visitor with a hippopotamus at the St. Louis Zoo in the early 20th century.
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7A Reindeer

The Dukha people of Mongolia are truly fascinating. The nomadic tribe has lived in the region for centuries and have developed a relationship with wild animals that is utterly amazing. Photographer Hamid Sardar-Afkhami recently documented this relationship in a series of stunning photographs.
Through their own brand of animal husbandry, the Dukha have learned to use reindeer as a means of transportation over the treacherous terrain they call home.
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8A Rhinoceros

William (Bill) D. Snyder came to Africa as part of the Gatti Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon, 1947-1948. Snyder left the team in March 1948 and found another job as a sound technician with Arch Oboler.
Snyder and Oboler visited the compound of Carr-Hartley in Rumuruti, Kenya in the summer of 1948. Afterward, Hartley gave some pictures to Snyder.
Hartley went to Sudan to capture specimens of the white rhino in that country, which were later delivered to Antwerp and Hanover zoos. It is likely that this occurred in 1949, and the photos must date from around that time.
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9A Snake

You might think rice farmer Khuorn Sam Ol and his wife wouldn't be keen on having their child play with a 16-foot-long, 220-pound snake.
However, they are unflustered by their 7-year-old son, Uorn Sambath, who regularly sleeps in the massive coil of the female python, rides the reptile, kisses it and even pats it down with baby powder.
The boy and his snake have become a tourist attraction and a source of wonder to local sin Setbo, about 12 miles south of Phnom Penh.
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10A Turtle

A young child riding a giant tortoise tempts him with food.
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photofun4ucom Pada July 09, 2016 Komentar

Surreal Photos Of Fireflies From Japan’s 2016 Summer

Surreal Photos Of Fireflies From Japan’s 2016 Summer

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We often give you great reasons to visit Japan. The scenery. The lights. The weirdness. But for those of you who still aren’t convinced, here’s yet another brilliant excuse to visit the Land of the Rising Sun. Fireflies!

Every summer, for very short periods, these magical bugs turn forests in Japan into beautiful stages for their ephemeral light shows while trying to attract a mate. And every summer, in the early evening, photographers set out to snap these shows in beautifully evocative photographs. Fireflies are often difficult to find because they don’t like other forms of light (the divas), so you need to be good at hide and seek as well as a skillful photographer if you want to capture their amazing displays for yourself. Because the flash from fireflies is brief and intermittent, photographers often use long exposure shots taken from a tripod in order to capture the sorts of mesmerizing pictures that you can see below.

Image credits: Yu Hashimoto

photofun4ucom Pada July 07, 2016 Komentar

Photos of World’s Famous Monuments Taken The Other Way

Photos of World’s Famous Monuments Taken The Other Way

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Take any famous monument around the world, and look up pictures of it on the Internet, or at your own albums, if you have visited the place. Don’t they all look the same? Sure, there are all sorts of angles, but the cameras are all pointed towards the landmark. But if for once, someone were to turn their backs, point their cameras away from the landmark in the opposite direction, and snapped a picture, would you be able to guess where it was taken?

Photographer Oliver Curtis has been doing this for the last four years. It started in 2012, when he was visiting the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo. Curtis turned away and looked back in the direction he had come from. What he saw fascinated him so much that he has since made a point of turning his back on some of world’s most photographed monuments and historic sites, looking at their counter-views and forgotten faces.



Taj Mahal, Agra, India

photofun4ucom Pada July 05, 2016 Komentar

25 Remarkably Stunning NASA Photos

25 Remarkably Stunning NASA Photos

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We live on a gorgeous planet, but the beauty of our surroundings doesn’t stop there. When we look up to the cosmos, we are wowed and amazed by the thousands of specs of light beaming down to us, twinkling away in their corners of the sky. But that’s only the beginning.

When we turn our powerful telescopes to the sky – and especially when we snap images across visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared light ranges – our universe lights up like a million rainbows streaking in the dark. The complex interactions of dust and gases throughout the cosmos create natural artwork in the sky that turn any spot we point a telescope towards into a fine art museum.

While most of us have seen stunning snapshots of craters on the Moon, ancient lake beds on Mars, and close-ups of solar flares from our closest star, we guarantee you’ve never seen the universe like this. From a picture of Jupiter which makes it come alive with color to a dense mountain of gas and dust swirling away in the sky to a nebula which looks like a bright, burning phoenix, here are 25 Remarkably Stunning NASA Photos.



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The Sunflower Galaxy is one of the most beautiful cosmic structures in the universe. Its expansive, winding arms are made up of new blue-white giant stars.

Source & Image: NASA/ESA/Hubble

photofun4ucom Pada June 25, 2016 Komentar

Drone Photos Capture The Rich/Poor Divide in Cape Town

Drone Photos Capture The Rich/Poor Divide in Cape Town

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Although South Africa’s apartheid era ended more than twenty years ago, there is still a palpable economic tension between the blacks and the whites. The black majority occupies the bottom rung of the society where they continue to be confronted by deep poverty, unemployment and inequality. The economic divide gets even more tangible once you get airborne. That’s what American Photographer Johnny Miller, who now lives in Cape Town, wanted to capture when he began his photo series “Unequal Scenes”.

“Drone photography is interesting because it affords people a new perspective on places they thought they knew,” Miller told CityLab. “Humans have this amazing ability to think we know a situation, having seen it so many times from the same perspective. It becomes routine, almost a pattern. When you fly, you totally change that.”

“I wanted to disrupt that sense of complacency that I felt, and that I knew a lot of privileged people in Cape Town feel,” he said.

photofun4ucom Pada June 24, 2016 Komentar