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Category: Landscape

A fight for zodiacal light

This is colorful, but also kind of sad portrait of night sky above Jizerka, Czech republic. It is place known as Izera Dark Sky Park and even there is very hard to capture really dark sky with zodiacal light. The strong light pollution in central Europe is literally effusive. So on many places or great…
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A memory of Tenerife monuments

It has been a long time since I left the majestic national park El Teide on Tenerife, Canary islands. But still have many datas for processing. This is result of one of it. It was cold night 2nd October 2013, but so clear to make so many portrais of starry sky. One of the most…
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A sky horseshoe

Deep night from 2nd to 3rd October 2013. An amazing conditions of sky in National Park El Teide, Tenerife, allowed me to make very unusual portrait of sky. Down there you can see terrain of park with peak of volcano El Teide and above it – high around zenith – there are two columns. First,…
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Clear skies, sometimes airglow

What a strong airglow here in Oravská lesná! I was just amazed by dark sky in Slovakia and went to capture some images of Jupiter oposition in Gegenshein. But when I started with photography here, I noticed something amazing – literally clouds of red airglow in all the sky above. The strogest part was capturable…
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My little cottage planet

As usually, during christmas vacation I had to visit my the most favorite place in my life – cottage in Ustupky, Czech republic. It’s kind of unusual, but just one day before Christmas (23rd December 2013) we have no snow here. But is the winter without snow so big problem? Of course not – if…
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Murchison Falls, pearl of Uganda

As Crammy Wanyama says: The spectacular Murchison Falls are usually among the top on the list of highlights for most travellers touring Uganda and Murchison Murchisonfalls National Park in particular. And he’s right. When we came on the spot, the Sun was covered by cirrus clouds, so we could easily see right “sundog”. With this…
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Bridge over the troubled... volcano

Bridge over the troubled… volcano

Milky way in National park El Teide, Tenerife, Canary islands. The far peak is Pico de Teide, highest volcano of Spain, erupted last time around 150 000 years ago. The stone monument left is “tooth” stone called Roque Cinchado. Even the volcano is sleeping now, it’s not dead. One day this “troubled” volcano will change…
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