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Evaporation ponds, Potash, Utah

Stunning Aerial by Jassen Todorov

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Jassen Todorov is not just a photographer. He is a licensed pilot, a professor of music at San

Francisco State University, and an acclaimed violinist who has performed and lectured throughout

North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

“If I’m well organized — which often times I’m not — I can fly the plane, I can play my violin, I can

teach, I can take pictures and I can take a second flight at sunset,” said Todorov to KQED.

Jassen Todorov grew up in Bulgaria in a family of musicians and started playing the violin at age 5.

His fascination for flying began about the same time. His grandfather used to take him to the airport

in Sofia to watch the planes come and go. He has a huge collection of model cars and airplanes that

he began collecting at an early age. About 200 of them can still be found in his house in Bulgaria.

-- Amusing Planet

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Potash, Utah

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Salt. This is the Great Salt Lake, Utah

5Precious Salt, Great Salt Lake

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The Tree of Utah, sometimes called the Tree of Life

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There are numerous very picturesque islands in northwestern Florida

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Florida

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Florida's fields (Dec. 2015)

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Numerous crocodiles and alligators call this place 'home' - Everglades, Florida

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Parts of Arizona look like Mars! Awesome craters in the middle of the red desert

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Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, Arizona

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Yellowstone at sunrise

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Long shadows at sunrise - traveling to the Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park is more than spectacular, Wyoming

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Grand Prismatic Spring at sunset, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

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A large oil refinery in Houston, Texas

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This is an enormous and very colorful train depot - Houston, Texas

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Colorful trains, Houston depot, Texas

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Our treasured and most beloved... El Paso, Texas

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Flooded lake, Texas (Dec. 2015)

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Texas doughnuts!

22Our mighty trees, Mississippi

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Baja, Mexico

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Baja, Mexico

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Next to Mt. St. Helens, Washington

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Our last glaciers - Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington

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Awesome forest from above - Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

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Dunes, Death Valley, California

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Sausalito's boats from above, San Francisco Bay Area, California

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Dry land - Bombay Beach at Salton Sea, California

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A new housing development at sunset, California

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Massive construction of solar panes in the deserts of California and Nevada

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California produces 82% of the world's ALMONDS

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'Little boxes' about to be built in a newly constructed development just north of Rio Vista, California

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Koehn Lake in the Mojave desert, California. This lake is very saline

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Texas Winter - a very symmetrical orchard

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In the middle of nowhere, someone lived here...California

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San Francisco Bay Salt Marshes. Northern California

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Oil dependence - Southern California

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So Leafy - Owens Lake, California

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After a heavy rain, some of California's hills finally turned green

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Tree of Life, Koehn Lake, Mojave Desert, California

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Volcanic silt rivers

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Frozen - Lake Tahoe, California

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Owens Lake, California

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Grand Kite-surfing, California

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Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, California

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Highway 178, Death Valley, California

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Death Valley

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Mt. St. Nicholas (9,375 feet)

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Fjallsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland.

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This is the delta of an Icelandic glacial river meeting the ocean, surrounded by black sand beaches

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This is the delta of an Icelandic river meeting the ocean, surrounded by black sand beaches

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Iceland's glacial rivers

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Tjorsa from above - the longest glacial river in Iceland

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Glacial rivers, Iceland (shot from 1,000 feet), June 2016.

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Glacial rivers from above, Iceland. Aerial image (shot from a plane at 1,000 feet)

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Tjorsa - Iceland's longest river - it is a glacial river and its source is the Hofsjökull glacier

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Surreal,Southern Iceland

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Vatnajokull glacier, Iceland

61Fairy Tail in the Sierras

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Cool looking water pumps in Lewiston, Idaho.

August 14, 2016 王文堯 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.C All photos were taken from The Smithsonian, Jassen Todorov.

Music : John Dreamer - True Strength

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