lsdphoto's PhotoBlog

Memories of Christmas

2009-01-01T18:43:37Z

Salty path..

2008-11-25T18:19:29Z

Badwater Basin - 85.5 m below sea level

Joy Ride

2008-11-20T18:56:32Z

Entrance to Death Valley National Park. Getting There: From the Las Vegas Strip, take Interstate 15 south to Nevada Highway 160 (Blue Diamond Road). Take NV-160 west to Pahrump, then left on Bell Vista Road to Death Valley Junction. Turn west on CA-127 to Death Valley. Return to Pahrump on CA-178.

Lost in the air, above water, above it all...

2008-11-19T10:56:14Z

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean, great experience, not so boring as I thought :)

not everything dies here..:D

2008-11-19T18:46:38Z

Some vegetation in Death Valley.... "Death Valley was given its forbidding name by a group of pioneers lost here in the winter of 1849-1850. Even though, as far as we know, only one of the group died here, they all assumed that this valley would be their grave. They were rescued by two of their young men, William Lewis Manly and John Rogers, who had learned to be scouts. As the party climbed out of the valley over the Panamint Mountains, one of the men turned, looked back, and said “goodbye, Death Valley.” This name, and the story of The Lost '49ers have become part of our western history. " http://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm

Dance with me...

2008-11-18T20:52:29Z

The Fountains of Bellagio is a vast, choreographed water feature with performances set to light and music. The Fountains are set in a nine-acre man-made lake. Contrary to a common urban myth that the lake is filled with treated greywater from the hotel, it is actually serviced by a fresh water well that was drilled decades prior to irrigate a golf course which previously utilized the site. In fact, the fountains use less water at present than under its prior golf course use.[3] They incorporate a network of underwater pipes with over 1,200 nozzles that makes it possible to stage fountain displays coordinated with over 4,500 lights. The "Super Shooters" nozzles send a water blast as high as 250 ft (76 m) in the air.

Greenland from above

2008-11-18T20:21:19Z

'Greenland was also called Gruntland ("Ground-land") and Engronelant (or Engroneland) on early maps. Whether green is an erroneous transcription of grunt ("ground"), which refers to shallow bays, or vice versa, is not known. It should also be noted, however, that the southern portion of Greenland (not covered by glacier) is indeed very green in the summer. Continuous ice sheet covers 84% of the country; the rest is permafrost. The Greenland ice sheet is three km thick and broad enough to blanket an area the size of Mexico. The ice is so massive that its weight presses the bedrock of Greenland below sea level.' P.S. I am sorry for the quality of these shots; The porthole was not to clean :D

Those days are gone

2008-10-23T21:17:01Z

There was a time when I was studying for my exams...now other worries fill that time...

sky into flames...

2008-09-10T14:34:12Z

"I do" is the answer...

2008-09-07T09:46:06Z