This beautiful canyon was created by erosion from glacial meltwater cutting through the palagonite over millennia. It has carved strange, twisted pillars of rock standing on either flank of the river. A well-laid walking trail climbs the eastern side for about a mile, ans contains many observation platforms.
Fjaðrárgljúfur ("Feather river canyon") in Skaftárhreppur, southern #Iceland.
Photographer Brandt Ryder: ‘Superblooms can be a once-in-a-lifetime event. An atmospheric river in the winter of 2023 caused record amounts of moisture to fall in the eastern #Sierra Mountains and their foothills. The result was one of the best wildflower or superblooms on record for the state.'
On a drizzly day, we drove through the eastern Highlands of #Iceland towards a controversial dam. Just as we reached the walkway across it, the sun came out behind us and this gorgeous rainbow appeared.
Hafrahvammagljúfur is a majestic canyon, roughly 8 km in length. With a width of about 100 to 150m it's not the country’s widest, but its depth reaches a staggering 200m.
Wild #horses trot past the Hermitage of El Rocío during the annual Saca de las Yeguas (roundup of the wild mares) in Almonte, south-western #Spain. Each year in late June large herds of free-roaming horses are rounded up from the marshes and forests at the Doñana National Park to be driven past the hermitage, where they are blessed before heading on to run through the crowded streets