Credit & Copyright: Sergei Makurin
Explanation:
You may have heard of the
Seven Sisters in the sky,
but have you heard about the Seven Strong Men on the ground?
Located just west of the
Ural Mountains, the unusual
Manpupuner rock formations are one of the
Seven Wonders of Russia.
How these ancient 40-meter high
pillars formed is yet unknown.
The persistent photographer of
this featured image battled
rough terrain and uncooperative
weather to capture these
rugged stone towers in winter at night, being finally successful in February
of last year.
Utilizing the camera's time delay feature,
the photographer holds a flashlight in the foreground near one of the snow-covered
pillars.
High above, millions of stars shine down, while the band of our
Milky Way Galaxy crosses diagonally down from the upper left.
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