Armageddonesque Pictures

Started by slipshod, November 29, 2007, 12:37:01 PM

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November 29, 2007, 12:37:01 PM Last Edit: May 01, 2008, 01:40:50 PM by slipshod
I just found this while looking for a new desktop wallpaper and thought I'd share:



Late afternoon sun silhouettes dead acacia trees against a backdrop of sand dunes. In Namibia's Namib-Naukluft Park on southern Africa's west coast, the dunes rise as high as a thousand feet (300 meters) from the desert floor.
"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow."

-Aaron Burr
November 29, 2007, 03:05:01 PM #1
made it my desktop.

thanks.

was disorienting at first.

This is a real shot, not the background photoshopped in?

weird.
November 29, 2007, 03:52:43 PM #2
Another one from the same area. I was thinking one of the massive dunes just north of the salt flats...

November 29, 2007, 04:05:03 PM #3
oh i see it now.

wicked.
November 30, 2007, 04:01:31 AM #4
Very cool, Great Find.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.  Zalanthas is Armageddon.
December 02, 2007, 01:18:40 AM #5
They look like photoshopped.  Or are they original?

The second picture looked to me like the mountains east of salt flats actually.  The steep rise gave me more of a "solid" ground than loose sand.
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December 02, 2007, 02:39:45 PM #6
They definately do look photoshopped or something. But, I think they are actually real, and just very very trippy. National Geographic pictures actually.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.  Zalanthas is Armageddon.
December 02, 2007, 09:00:34 PM #7
Quote from: palomar on November 29, 2007, 03:52:43 PM
Another one from the same area. I was thinking one of the massive dunes just north of the salt flats...



I like this one, my new BG now.
December 02, 2007, 10:28:58 PM #8
The original picture is not photoshopped.  It's from National Geographic.

Here's another picture of a location that makes me think of Armageddon.  It's an area of Death Valley called 'The Devil's Cornfield'.  These are clumps of grass that originally grow on the surface, but as years of wind whips the sand away from them and the surrounding land, they end up standing above the ground, with the only dirt remaining being the dirt held in place by their roots.  They look really neat when they die, but I couldn't find a pic of dead arrowweed grass.

"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow."

-Aaron Burr
December 02, 2007, 10:43:06 PM #9
Totally looks like scrub lands fading into red desert.
December 03, 2007, 04:20:55 PM #10
When they die, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they just become tumbleweed?

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December 03, 2007, 04:23:12 PM #11
METAL FENCE!  :o
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December 03, 2007, 04:26:12 PM #12
Quote from: Goldberry on December 03, 2007, 04:20:55 PM
When they die, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they just become tumbleweed?



Yup. Now I know what the scrub lands are missing.

TUMBLEWEEDS.
December 03, 2007, 04:42:14 PM #13
lol...that's a representation of a tumbleweed, not a representation of Zalanthas.  ;)
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."~D. Adams

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December 04, 2007, 02:33:50 PM #14 Last Edit: December 04, 2007, 02:38:44 PM by slipshod
Aha.  I found the picture I was looking for - of dead arrowweed grass in the Devil's Cornfield



Salt Flats, anyone?


Rocky Badlands?


Middle of Nowhere, Zalanthas?:


Looking south, from the scrublands towards the Red Desert?:



Ok, I can keep posting links and eating up bandwidth all day.  Suffice it to say, this photoshoot from Death Valley has some really cool images, and you can check them out at http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/death-valley/melford-photography.html
"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow."

-Aaron Burr
December 13, 2007, 01:30:31 PM #15
Really nifty pix, thank you for posting those!
May 01, 2008, 01:02:15 PM #16


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-Aaron Burr
May 01, 2008, 10:38:49 PM #17
Quote from: Goldberry on December 03, 2007, 04:20:55 PM
When they die, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they just become tumbleweed?



Nope, tumbleweeds are a specific type of plant, some of which when they dry up in autumn break off the root and blow away on the wind.  Most plants don't do that.
May 02, 2008, 12:07:55 AM #18
Quote from: slipshod on December 04, 2007, 02:33:50 PM

Middle of Nowhere, Zalanthas?:


I see Allanak far off in the distance... I think I can make it...
May 02, 2008, 11:50:02 PM #19
Quote from: Sokotra on May 02, 2008, 12:07:55 AM
Quote from: slipshod on December 04, 2007, 02:33:50 PM

Middle of Nowhere, Zalanthas?:


I see Allanak far off in the distance... I think I can make it...
A tall, hooded figure has arrived from the west, darting after you, his obsidian blade slicing into the air!
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
     -Niccolo Machiavelli
May 04, 2008, 08:01:36 PM #20
Quote from: Archbaron on May 02, 2008, 11:50:02 PM
Quote from: Sokotra on May 02, 2008, 12:07:55 AM
Quote from: slipshod on December 04, 2007, 02:33:50 PM

Middle of Nowhere, Zalanthas?:


I see Allanak far off in the distance... I think I can make it...
A tall, hooded figure has arrived from the west, darting after you, his obsidian blade slicing into the air!

Beep.
A staff member sends you:
"Normally we don't see a <redacted> walk into a room full of <redacted> and start indiscriminately killing."

You send to staff:
"Welcome to Armageddon."
May 04, 2008, 10:23:49 PM #21
Quote from: Majikal on May 04, 2008, 08:01:36 PM
Quote from: Archbaron on May 02, 2008, 11:50:02 PM
Quote from: Sokotra on May 02, 2008, 12:07:55 AM
Quote from: slipshod on December 04, 2007, 02:33:50 PM

Middle of Nowhere, Zalanthas?:


I see Allanak far off in the distance... I think I can make it...
A tall, hooded figure has arrived from the west, darting after you, his obsidian blade slicing into the air!

Beep.
*mantis head* Welcome to Armageddon!
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
     -Niccolo Machiavelli
May 05, 2008, 11:02:35 AM #22
Quote from: Archbaron on May 04, 2008, 10:23:49 PM
Quote from: Majikal on May 04, 2008, 08:01:36 PM
Quote from: Archbaron on May 02, 2008, 11:50:02 PM
Quote from: Sokotra on May 02, 2008, 12:07:55 AM
Quote from: slipshod on December 04, 2007, 02:33:50 PM

Middle of Nowhere, Zalanthas?:


I see Allanak far off in the distance... I think I can make it...
A tall, hooded figure has arrived from the west, darting after you, his obsidian blade slicing into the air!

Beep.
*mantis head* Welcome to Armageddon!

Damnit! ... ...
... ...
Hey I wonder if any new races or classes were unlocked for me!
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Oh my god he's still rocking the sandwich.
May 05, 2008, 01:19:56 PM #23
Quote from: musashi on May 05, 2008, 11:02:35 AM
Quote from: Archbaron on May 04, 2008, 10:23:49 PM
Quote from: Majikal on May 04, 2008, 08:01:36 PM
Quote from: Archbaron on May 02, 2008, 11:50:02 PM
Quote from: Sokotra on May 02, 2008, 12:07:55 AM
Quote from: slipshod on December 04, 2007, 02:33:50 PM

Middle of Nowhere, Zalanthas?:


I see Allanak far off in the distance... I think I can make it...
A tall, hooded figure has arrived from the west, darting after you, his obsidian blade slicing into the air!

Beep.
*mantis head* Welcome to Armageddon!

Damnit! ... ...
... ...
Hey I wonder if any new races or classes were unlocked for me!

You can now play the giant dung beetle.




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