Gjáin in Thjorsardalur valley is a pair of falls within a lush garden paradise nestled within a rift zone. While the waterfalls themselves are attractive, the rift zone setting is really beautiful in that it feels like you are entering a different place that contrasted from the typically dry and desolate desert highlands surrounding the area.
This is a lava area and the lava can take on such beautiful form. There are several lava caves in Gjáin and all over there is columnar basalt and volcanic tuff.
If you look closely to the left on the photo you can see people standing there on a cliff in red and blue jackets, that will give you a sense of scale
Pluto’s Majestic Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy Hazes
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon.
September 17, 2015
💙 Sunset at Torvhusvika on 500px by Vidar Fredheim, Egersund, Norway
☀ NIKON D700-f/18-1/40s-75mm-iso400, 1997✱2995px-rating:84.9
💙 Morning Glow on 500px by James Marvin Phelps, Henderson, United States
☀ Canon EOS 5D Mark II-f/18-1/10s-200mm-iso100, 3734✱5600px-rating:92.9
◉ Photo location: Google Maps
💙 Barbarine on 500px by Dietmar Herzog, Gersthofen, Deutschland
☀ 600✱840px-rating:88.5
💙 The gentle indifference of the moment on 500px by Giovanna Griffo, Rome, Italy
☀ NIKON D800-f/-s-14mm-iso, 800✱1200px-rating:90.1
💙 Red Cornwall on 500px by Alessio Putzu, London, UK
☀ NIKON D750-f/9-2s-17mm-iso50, 3896✱5736px-rating:98.8
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