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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.
Having been forced to climb Snowdon the day before due to the poor weather forecast we spent time driving around the area. With very low clouds and hazy conditions it was hard to take any reasonable photographs. A wonderful place which we were fortunate enough to have to ourselves for 15 minutes.
Rock formations are fascinating because they tell us the story of Earth. This vertical stack represents millennia of sediment depositions in ancient seas, now long gone but plain as the type on a page.
Grand Canyon, Arizona
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).
Early spring on the Minnesota River near Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
It's almost a hundred miles from home, but this is one of my most favorite places! This is a sub-channel of the Minnesota River - possibly even a man-made channel. If you look on the map, it takes a shortcut between two bends in the main channel. There is evidence that there was once a mill of some sort on the other side of the bridge from here.
The rocks in this area are some of the oldest exposed rocks in the world, estimated to be some 3.6 billion years old. They were gouged out over the millennia by the Minnesota River's "grandpa", Glacial River Warren.
On the other side of the bridge that I am standing on to take this shot, you can walk up on a rocky bluff and see cactus (yes cactus growing in Minnesota - click HERE to see it!)
Just north of here is the Minnesota Valley Scenic Byway which is one of the prettiest drives you could ever hope to take. This photo was shot near the section between Morton and Granite Falls. It's a dirt road (in good shape, though) so the vehicle will get a little dusty, but if you're ever in the area, it's well worth it!
Along the way you'll see beautiful panoramas of the river valley, wetlands, farmland, woodlands, lots of ancient bedrock, and several historic sites that were key places in the U.S./Dakota war of 1862 (formerly known as the Sioux Uprising). It's a trip worth taking!
Sandhill Crane
Kearney, Nebraska
I was invited to join some friends to witness the annual crane migration in Kearney. I have to admit that it was not on my bucket list, but it SHOULD have been! I thoroughly enjoyed this experience. Nothing like getting up way before dawn, and quietly walking to a viewing blind to see and hear thousands of cranes waking to greet the morning. During the day, these beautiful birds are in the corn fields adding weight for their long journeys into Canada and the Arctic. I highly recommend that you add this destination to your bucket list.
I've never been very successful at bird-in-flight photos, but this (rented) lens helped me get some keepers.
CY Summer 2015
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!
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."
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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
This oak tree has been in our neighborhood for as long as anyone can remember. We call it the "party tree" because families, kids, and visitors often come to hang out under its canopy.
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.
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
This circular dome is found in the vestibule at the Palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in the Croatian city of Split. Peeking through the open roof is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Saint Dominus. These ancient structures, the palace and the cathedral, are said to date from the 4th Century. The bell tower is dated from the tenth Century. The longevity of Roman architecture is a testament of their building skills; their use of the arch, cement, and domes which still stand two thousand years later. This old photograph is a stitched panorama taken in 2004 with my Canon PowerShot G3.
This 2,000 year old aqueduct speaks volumes about the engineering abilities of the ancient Romans when they were building their empire.
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A barn at the museum of rural life - Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum - with two carts in open "garages".
The subject was backlit by the cloudy sky. Even though I tried to shade the lens using my hat I ended up with some flare. I hink I will have to do this one again next year at a different time of day.
Shen Hao PTB 45, Schneider-Kreuznach Super Angulon 5.6/90, yellow filter, Fomapan 100 4x5" sheet film developed in Rodinal 1+50 using the SP445 developing tank, scanned on my Epson V800 and adjusted in Lightroom.
The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is home to the oldest trees in the world. Some of these living trees exceed 4000 years of age and exhibit spectacular growth forms of twisted and beautifully colored wood. These trees grow above 11,000Ft or 3,352 meters in the White mountains of the Eastern Sierra mountain range and hiking along this trail is breathtaking and like being in an enchanted forest.
The "Temple of Janus" is a cultic structure of Romano-Celtic design located in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France, to the North-West of the ancient city of Augustodunum.
The temple lies in the centre of a vast sanctuary, whose extent and complexity was revealed by excavations conducted from 2013 to 2016, on a site whose history goes back to Neolithic times, and which experienced an important phase of monumental constructions in the 1st Century AD. The temple was abandoned at the onset of the Early Middle Ages, and its structures were later reused in the fashioning of a Medieval defensive work. The temple has retained two sides of its square cella, at a height of over 20 metres, as well as vestiges of its ambulatory and side structure foundations. The temple's supposed dedication to the Roman god Janus is not based on any archaeological or historic fact, and the deity that was venerated in the temple is unknown.
The Temple of Janus was included on the first list of protected historical French monuments, established in 1840. (Wikipedia)