The World’s Largest Flower Garden in the Middle of a Desert.

Well, the world's largest flower garden in the last place you would expect, a spectacular rainbow-colored oasis with more than 45 million flowers is in the middle of a desert exploding with colors and textures. The Dubai Miracle Garden consists of more than 45 flowers species imported from all over the world. A multitude of shaped archways, flowerbeds and structures can be seen at the 18 acre site, is watered by a system that recycles waste water while avoiding evaporation. But then again, in the city that prides itself on pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved - from the world's tallest building to indoor ski slopes in the desert what can you expect? The remarkable bonanza provides a colorful oasis for the eyes of city workers, who can escape to the natural splendor which is nestled close to Arabian Ranches, in Dubai land. Currently there’re 45 species of flowers in the garden, which are imported in from all around the world, especially from Egypt to the United States.

The Dubai Miracle Gardens were opened in 2013, and were designed to attract tourist all over the world. In order to produce a fresh experience for visitors visiting the rainbow gardens, the displays are changed seasonally. These’ve included millions of flowers in the shape of a UAE floral flag, floral clock, a Ferrari car with driver decorated by flowers, a vertical buried car zone, flower apple structures, artificial animals, flower boats and an Islamic Arch Design. It is obvious that attractions would not be complete without open parking, VIP parking, sitting areas, prayer room, toilet blocks, security room, ablution facility, first aid room, and carts for handicapped visitors, retails and commercial kiosk and all other related services available to facilitate visitors.

If the natural landscape was not sufficient, what makes this attraction mostly impressive is the unique sub-surface irrigation system that recycles waste water via drip irrigation while avoiding evaporation and saving up to 75 % of water and energy. Moreover; there’s an awe-inspiring assortment of flowers most of which are rare and seen for first time in the Middle East, such as petunias and geraniums.

Britain's Breathtaking Beauty Spots

These mesmerizing photographs of Britain’s beauty spots should be plentiful to convince any holidaymaker to scrap their plans to jet abroad this summer and remain closer to home. The spectacular photographs of wild and urban landscapes serve as inspiration for the eventual staycation with photographers capturing magnificent images that collectively serve as a visual love letter to the UK’s amazing scenery. These beautiful photographs show everything from panoramas of London’s modern skyscrapers to climbers on Pinnacle Ridge on Isle of Skye in the north of Scotland. One amazing snap shows a misty morning on Ullswater in Cumbria, with snow-topped mountains reflecting off the water and the trees turning a shade of orange. The pictures include amazing snaps of rocky coastlines and lush woodland, and the volatility of Britain’s weather. 

Silver Falls State Park in Oregon, United States

Silver Falls State Park is a state park in the Oregon, United States , actually located near Silverton, around 32 kilometers east-southeast of Salem. It is the largest state park in Oregon with an area of more than 9,000 acres, and it includes more than 39 kilometers of walking trails, of around 23 kilometers of horse trails, and 6.4 km bike path. The waterfall 14 km Canyon Trail/Trail of Ten Falls runs along the banks of Silver Creek and by ten waterfalls, from which the park received its name. Four of the ten falls have an amphitheater-like surrounding that lets the trail to pass behind the flow of the falls. The Silver Falls State Park Concession Building Area and the Silver Creek Youth Camp-Silver Falls State Park are separately listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. The park's most visited waterfall is South Falls, a 177-foot cascade. Remote Double Falls, however, is listed as the highest waterfall in the park, plunging 178 feet in a small tributary side canyon deep within the Silver Creek Canyon. Silver Falls City formed in 1888 and was primarily a logging community with a few homesteaders, and the area was extensively logged. The small lumber town of Silver Falls City sat atop the South Falls, and as the land was cleared, a local entrepreneur sold admission to the Falls area, with attractions such as pushing cars over the falls and even hosting a stunt with a daredevil riding over in a canoe. By 1900 a Silverton photographer, June D. Drake, began to campaign for park status, using his photographs of the falls to gain support. (Drake Falls was later named for him. In 1926, however, an inspector for the National Park Service disallowed the area for park status because of a proliferation of unattractive stumps after years of logging.

In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the Silver Falls area would be turned into a Recreational Demonstration Area. Private land that had been logged was purchased, and workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps were employed to develop park facilities, including the historic South Falls Lodge, completed in the late 1930s. It was used as a restaurant from 1946 until the late 1950s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Silver Falls State Park Concession Building Area in 1983. The Silver Creek Youth Camp Silver Falls State Park was also added to the National Register at this time. In January 2008, supplemental legislative session, Fred Girod of the Oregon House of Representatives sought federal designation of the area as a national park via a house joint memorial to the United States Congress, but the bill died in committee. The history of the canyon's formation originates about 26 million years ago to the Oligocene period, when most of Oregon was covered by ocean. After the waters of the ocean retreated around 15 million years ago, the flood basalt flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group covered the sandstone that had been the ocean floor. The softer layers of sandstone beneath the basalt sheet eroded over time, creating pathways behind some of the waterfalls that Civilian Conservation Corps workers widened to make safe for public use. Another geologic feature are many tree "chimneys" or casts, formed when hot lava engulfed living trees and disintegrated them. Moreover within the park are many waterfalls, including ten along the Trail of Ten Falls (marked * in the table below) and five more below the confluence of the North and South forks of Silver Creek. Volunteers inspired by the beauty and history of Silver Falls have been active there since establishment of the park in 1933.

Therefore, in 1986 the peoples and the park staff envisioned a mission and established the Friends of Silver Falls State Park, Inc. The main mission is "to further the educational and interpretive opportunities available to park tourists; to promote the preservation, protection and enhancement of the historical, natural, and entertaining resources within the park; and to assist in the implementing park improvements and educational programs compatible with the nature of Silver Falls State Park. As a result, this private and public partnership has created a more meaningful park experience for the nearly one million annual visitors to the park, far beyond what state park funding alone can provide. Since 1992, volunteers of the Friends of Silver Falls State Park have operated the Nature Store in historic South Falls Lodge. This store offers a variety of books, clothing and souvenirs in keeping with the park's nature theme. 

The organization has also been accountable for much of the interpretive signage along the Trail of Ten Falls. Other goals of the Friends include compiling oral histories from those who have memories of the park region, keeping alive the history of Silver Falls City, recognizing the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s and 1940s, maintaining the park's historic district, and continuing to place interpretive signs throughout the park's more than 9,000 acres.

Nohkalikai Falls India

The tallest plunge waterfall is Nohkalikai in India, with a height of 1115 feet.  Nohkalikai falls is located near Cherrapunji, which is one of the wettest places on Earth. This waterfall is fed by the rainwater collected on the summit of somewhat small plateau and decrease in power during the dry season in December till February. The waterfall has formed a plunge pool with rare green colored water. In Khasi language it is called Jump of Ka Likai, which is actually connected to a legend about local women Likai who jumped off the cliff next to the fall. Nohkalikai Falls made a dramatic free leap from a fairly well-forested drainage into a rocky base accompanied by a pretty blue pool. The most of the waterfalls in the Cherrapunjee area had really lost their luster outside of the monsoon season; this waterfall seemed to have maintained its performance. 

Nohkalikai Falls plays the part of a dramatic legend even if you haven’t yet heard the terrible tale that led to its christening. It thunders down and crashing almost brutally on to the rocks below. Nohkalikai is one of the five tallest waterfalls in the country, it roars, swollen with water, so that you can hear it right at the viewing gallery, a fair distance away. You can’t make a spontaneous visit to the bottom of the falls either. It involves a difficult trek over a number of days through the forest. Moreover the weather adds to the drama, making it almost difficult to see the falls without a layer of fog clinging to the cliff or floating protectively around the drop.

 The village nearby Nohkalikai Falls is name “Rangjyrteh” the women Ka Likai resided but had to remarry after her husband died.  She was in deep financial crisis with her infant girl with no means of income. Then she decided to become a porter herself. When she had to go out for work, then her work required leaving her daughter unattended for long intervals, but when she’d be at home, she has spent most of her time with her daughter by taking care of her. Therefore, when she married second time, she couldn’t pay much attention to her second husband. Her husband could not bear her ignorance, and feel jealous of infant and one day he decide to kill her and cooked her meat after throwing away her head and bones. 

Thus, when she returned home, and she saw nobody in the house but except for a meal that had been prepared. She wanted to go look for her daughter but she ate the meat as she was tired from work. Ka Likai generally had a betel leaf after her meals but she found a detached finger near the place where she normally cut betel nuts and betel leaves. She immediately realized what had happened in her absence and went furious and got mad with anger and grief and started running as she swung a hatchet in her hand. She ran off the edge of the plateau and the waterfall where she jumped from was named Nohkalikai Falls after her.Source: Charismatic Planet

Roma, Italia - 4K Rome Timelapse

Timelapse film produced in Rome, Italy from 12/31/2014 to 01/04/2015. More than 17.250 RAW-Pictures were taken with the Canon EOS 5D MK II and MK III with the Canon EOS 24-70mm 2,8, Canon EOS 24-70mm 2,8 II, Samyang 14mm and Canon EOS 70-200mm 2,8 II. Postproduction with Adobe Lightroom and LR Timelapse. Music by krizmental / homecookin.de. Produced in Spring 2015.

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Melbourne 2015 - Travel Timelapse

A travel timelapse / hyperlapse video (holiday in Melbourne) - visited 23 to 31 March 2015

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Prominent locations include
Queen Victoria Market, Yarra River, Flinders Street and Train Station, Federation Square, Bourke Street, Docklands, Southbank, Eureka Skydeck, St Kilda, Luna Park
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Nikon D7100 (Nikon 10-24, Sigma 17-50 and Nikon 75-240)
iPhone 5S (testing instagram hyperlapse)
Samsung Galaxy S5 (testing 4k video)
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