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The Ancient Limber Pine stand is in the lee of the Continental Divide, just 5 miles south and west of Fairplay, Colorado. Many of the trees on this site are in excess of 1,000 years old. Dead snags are interspersed with trees that hang on, year after year, under fierce, battering winds and extreme cold at 11,200 feet on Sheep Mountain.
Live trees may have limbs or a portion of the trunk that have lost their bark, exposing wood to the elements. Many trees (including this one) show burn marks from lightning strikes. The colors and textures of raw wood delight artistic esthetics.
An ancient submerged forest is visible at certain times of the year at low tide along the stretch of shore at Borth. Pine, Oak, Birch and Willow stumps can be seen when the tide retreats up to 150 yards.The normally submerged forest has become associated with a 17th Century myth of a sunken civilization known as Cantre'r Gwaelod, or the Sunken Hundred.
According to the legend, the kingdom was lost at sea when Seithenyn, the guardian of sea defences, forgot to close the gates. In one version of the myth, the forest stretched 20 miles to the west of Cardigan Bay.
It has been discovered that Greek and Roman sculptures were often painted and quite colorful. This new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum --Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, demonstrates how they discovered the color and recreates many such statues in color. They are striking! You can learn more about the exhibit here: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/chroma
This is quite the old olive tree. I would guess a minimum age of 1500 years old. It is in a place you can only get to by walking a few hours or by boat. The stone you see the olive tree hugging belongs to an ancient town here. There was a town that traded and has an asclepio, which is a temple for healing physical and spiritual. This place is one of my most favorite places in Crete, and it is off the beaten track.
Destination: Turkey (another shot from my only trip there). This is the Roman style gymnasium with its three-story Marble Court at the ancient and Biblical city of Sardis.
Turbine blades from a former power generation engine,
Krumbach, Bavaria
Alte Turbinenschaufeln einer ehemaligen Stromerzeugungsanlage, gesehen in Krumbach, Bayern
Ancient redwood trees are the keeper of knowledge. They survived when most were cut down. They have stories from long ago and our magical.
Ancient monuments in Bhaktapur's historical quarter, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. For the travel stories associated with my Flickr travel photos, please see my True Tales of a Traveller series, on Amazon, and Lulu.com (the first nine stories are free on Lulu).
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Ancient Curium or Courion. A fine place to visit if you are in Cyprus.
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Probably no other Dom in Germany has seen more action when it comes to Kings than the Imperial Cathedral or Kaiserdom of Aachen fitting since it is the oldest church in Northern Europe.
The Kaiserdom houses the remains of the first great European unifier come saint Charlemagne and has coronated 30 Kings and Holy Roman Emperors since the 12th century.
Besides its importance to the German nobility it is also a pilgrimage church of the people and chock full of relics that are out for display every seven years when the new cycle of pilgrimage begins, the list of relics include: Christ’s loin cloth from the crucifixion; a cloak of Mary’s; the cloth that shrouded John the Baptists head when he was decapitated and finally the swaddling clothes of Jesus.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 Lens at 70mm 1/25, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, Topaz Denoise, PS (Lumenzia curves masks and DXO Nik Color Efex)
Disclaimer: Not trying to be realistic in my editing there is enough realism in the world, my style is a mix of painterly and romanticism as well as a work in progress.
This Milky Way photo was taken close to a popular beach with hundreds of visitors and cars by day and yet having an excellent night sky after the onset of astronomical twilight. The foreground was illuminated by the rotating lighthouse beam a few hundred meters away, thus providing a means of light painting of the scene.
Some of the most beautiful stories of ancient times refer to the silvery band of the Milky Way - a celestial river comprised by the light of billions of stars, that has traveled for thousands of years to reach our eyes. This majestic arc of light is more clearly visible on summer nights, when our gaze is towards the center of the Milky Way, which lies at about 25 thousand light years away - the brightest part of the band just above the tree and to left of the “Dark Horse” silhouette.
This band is bisected by obscuring clouds of interstellar dust, thus forming the “Great Galactic Rift”. The interstellar gas and dust gave birth to everything else in the Universe, including us - we are all made of stardust after all.
My deepest thanks and warmest wishes to everyone for 2025 - stay healthy and keep looking up!
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The bridge at Froggatt crossing the River Derwent in Derbyshire has just two arches. The smaller arch is rounded, whilst the larger arch is pointed. Apparently the round arch is part of a bridge erected in 1653. The river widened after the Calver Cotton Mill Dam was built in the 18th century, and the pointed arch was constructed to accomodate it. There is a date stone under the arch of 1780.
Approaching the wonderfully atmospheric ancient city of Gaeta in southern Italy from the sea.........
(Explored 24/7/2023 #385)
Wikipedia states: "Magnolia is an ancient genus. Appearing before bees did, the flowers are theorized to have evolved to encourage pollination by beetles. To avoid damage from pollinating beetles, the carpels of Magnolia flowers are extremely tough. Fossilized specimens of M. acuminata have been found dating to 20 million years ago, and of plants identifiably belonging to the Magnoliaceae date to 95 million years ago."
Ashenbank is classified as ancient woodland, meaning it is at least 400 years old – and probably much older than that. The open areas here are relics of the wood pasture system, and in spring the woods are home to a wonderful display of bluebells and wood anemones
The Ayutthaya historical park is the ruins of the former capital of the Kingdom of Siam. It is the site of sacked and destruction of the Ayutthaya city, its art and buildings by the Burmese in 1767, which is recognized internationally as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was refounded a few kilometers to the east. The city is sometimes called "Venice of the East".; credit wikipedia
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Sweet Chestnut (Castanea Sativa).
These trees are around 250 years old and still look amazing.
Growing in the grounds of Killerton house.
Everything about this tree is old. The tree is probably thousands of years old. Some are 4000 years old or older. Even the pine needles are about 40 years old. Found in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California.
Ancient granaries along the canyon wall at Nankoweep are lit by a setting full moon over the Colorado River. The native people used to cultivate grains high above on the mesa and carry them down to these small caves to store them for the winter.
This image was created with two photos stitched together to capture the width of the scene. I used a headlamp to paint the wall on the right while the moon lit up the canyon and the river. I used a Sony a7r, Samyang 14mm 2.8 lens and a tripod.
Nikon D800, Nikkor 24mm f2.8.
Cottonwoods are probably the fastest growing tree in ND, and seem to thrive pretty much anywhere the seeds land that is out of the way of a combine. This cluster of 2 or 3 trunks is absolutely massive - easily over 100 years old. The clouds that day prompted me to look up and get a couple of shots that I composited for this pano.
The ancient Bas-relief work inside the cave like Sani Gompa, said to be built in the 2nd century, being the oldest religious site in entire Ladakh
Taken in Sani village, Zanskar valley, Ladakh Himalayas, India