Posted on 11/20/2018 6:28:01 PM PST by Candor7
These sweeping photos certainly command attention. The stunning shots have been revealed as the winners of an international panoramic photography contest. Both professional and amateur photographers were invited to enter their best landscape shots for the Epson International Pano Awards 2018 in a bid to win more than $50,000 (£38,000) in cash. And this year's competition received 4,937 entries from 1,251 photographers in 74 countries. The overall winner of the contest was Veselin Atanasov from Bulgaria, who impressed with his shot of the sun rising over a tree-lined hill in Tuscany. We were also very taken with the shot of lightning lashing the Grand Canyon, a diver in a Brazilian abyss and a haunting shot of fog drifting around a U.S swamp. Scroll down to sweep your eyes over some of the incredible panoramic pictures that caught the judges' eyes...
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I wonder what attracts the lightning? Interesting topic.
Those are my thoughts too......
Thanks for the link. I studied geology back in college in the late 1960s when tectonic plates and continental drift were regarded as radical theories not generally accepted. I learned a new kind of rock: “minette,” a heat fused sandstone which forms the matrix of Shiprock in Arizona. The Grand Canyon would have been formed by subsurface sealed water pockets and aquifers with high ionization potential that attract massive electrical discharges.
Because of this apparent truth, Mars itself has large quantities of aquifer loaded substrate. There can be little doubt about it when one regards the surface locations there carved by plasma and lightning discharges in the electrical web configurations much like the Grand Canyon.
It would be interesting to build a massive device which could actually attract lightning strikes that way, and store the power for later use.
Thanks for the link. You can learn something every day, even at my age, LOL.
Fantastic photos.
Yep, now think of Tesla...and free, unlimited power. Won’t happen while established science refuses to acknowledge the UNIVERSE IS ELECTRIC.
P.S. Take a virtual tour around Mars sometime.
Imagine a Huge Leyden Jar capacitor , 500 yards wide and 200 feet high,storing repeated lightning strikes attracted by a substrate of sealed, highly ionized salt water, a huge subterranean aquifer. An abandoned salt mine would do quite nicely.
I have done a virtual tour of Mars and will again with an eye to the patterns.Barsoom!
Catastrophist Geology | EU2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDbDMlEWIIY
Michael Steinbacher died...pity.
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