Comments on: The most alien landscapes on Earth

By: Matt Krems

Matt Krems — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:59:00 +0000

Awesome photos and information. One glaring omission though is Zhangjiajie National Park in Hunan province, China. By far, the most bizarre, alien world I have ever seen (and I have been to several of the places on the list).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:13:00 +0000

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By: ARNOLD KLOIAN

ARNOLD KLOIAN — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:10:14 +0000

Having a well traveled eye, I appreciate perhaps more than others either the work involved or the chance encounter that lets a person capture such images….Yes they are good and great…..And yet, I too would wish to share other worldly photos of our planet, been far and wide….But over our own continent and that of Greenland , one might think that they were on another planet….I have not posted any of these photos to date,,,you are all welcome to see the many of them….if you would like to take the time to view the work of other unsung travelers….Let me know , if there is a way for me to send you a myriad of photos…..I have time to share……Arnold Kloian

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:04:23 +0000

Thanks for your open response – and, as I’m sure you know (the knowledge and intuition are in your photos) not just the humans, but what a blessing if we could have the conversations with the non-human life in these places.

By: Hal Amen

Hal Amen — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:27:02 +0000

Thanks for this perspective, Mary. Would be great as a followup if I could go to each place and talk with the people for whom it’s home.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:14:13 +0000

Thank you for these astonishing photos of astonishing light and astonishing distinctly terrestrial places. Here is a fragment from my novel, Going Through Ghosts, on earth as alien:
She heard a crunch on gravel. A beige van pulled up, two sea kayaks on top. A couple climbed out. ”God,” the woman said, “God, this is a moonscape.”
“No,” Maggie whispered. Not a moonscape. It was home. Harsh, scarred and utterly unto itself. A dirty yellow cloud floated over the power plant to the west, Creosote metastasizing below it, where it was midnight in broad daylight, where a bunch of people she might never see again were dealing hands, frying bacon, making change and, earning in two days what this couple might spend on dinner.
She understood why tourists had to re-define the desert. You could visit a moonscape, be amused, uneasy, bored, afraid. You might think you owed the place nothing.
Beer bottle shards lay at Maggie’s feet. Amber. Green. “Name this,” she thought and pressed her finger on one. The pain cleared her anger.

By: fdavis

fdavis — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:14:09 +0000

Sylvester, if you only do one more trip in your life, make it Namibia; the rolling dunes of the Namib and Sossusvlei, the desert elephants of Damarland and the Himba of Kaokoland will change you.

Simple.

By: Gurpreet

Gurpreet — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:05:09 +0000

Actually I also forgot about Mono Lake California – some good photos here: http://scottreither.com/blog/?tag=lake and generally all over flickr & google images.

By: Gurpreet

Gurpreet — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:01:41 +0000

I’m surprised Atacama, Chili didn’t make it into this list…but I guess you have the Bolivian salt flats instead. Gorgeous set of images! Thanks for sharing

By: f royan

f royan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:59:26 +0000

Truly Surrealistic Landscape