Patterns of Mother Nature, "top view" Bashny.Net

Etiudivitelnye photos from National Geographic captured the intricate patterns of landscapes of our beautiful planet.
9 ph via bigpicture

1) The snow-covered orchard in the United States. (Richard Olsenius)





2) Shadow of plane on Lake Natron in Tanzania. Red color of the lake due to the presence of cyanobacteria living in the lake due to the increased level of salts in the water. (George Steinmetz)



3) The icebergs floating in the waters of the lake thawed at the foot of the glacier in the National Park Grinnell Glacier (Glacier), Montana. (James Balog)



4) take off on Flamingo Lake Magadi in Kenya. (Robert Haas)



5) Trucks, careening through the sand dunes in the desert of Al-Rub Al-Khali, also known as the Empty Quarter of the world, on the Arabian Peninsula. (George Steinmetz)



6) towering above the ground terraces in northern Congo - possible traces of land cultivation in the past. (Michael Nichols)



7) Sea ice most of the year covers the Arctic Ocean, the smallest of the oceans of the Earth. (Norbert Rosing)



8) The cone of crumbled rock at the base of a slope in the national park, Wrangell-Saint Elias in Alaska. (Frans Lanting)



9) Water flows in the national park, Wrangell-Saint Elias in Alaska. The largest among the United States National Park, Wrangell-St Elias represents the largest cluster of glaciers in North America. (Frans Lanting)



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