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decs down - pretty lights gone - had to do this pic after being inspired by ginny b's gorgeous picture yesterday
The snow melted. The ice is on the wane. The sun came out.
It seemed like a morning for flowers.
The first of the year.
view up close
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Sun Light passing, alighting on and going through the recumbent stone based and standing lintled flanked aperture of Tomnaverie a Four Poster Stone Circled Monument near Aberdeen.
Twelve is far too many for most people, please don’t look at all. Some of the best are beyond the first few. There are seven images with the Nuclear Bunker in view to the left of the major focus of stones. I have mentioned the bunker below and in other pictures alongside these on Flickr. I had something to say about Knockargety Hill unfinished fort, but I forgotten what, but I still including a link to it.
Tomnaverie Stone Circle has also been known as Mill Of Wester Coull, The Tomnaverie, Tarland Burn.
Tomnaverie Stone Circle near Tarland in Aberdeenshire is quite fantastic. It nearly killed me to reach it up one short steep slope. It would be quite easy for many people to follow the well set path. The 'after life' at the top of the path was magnificent. I feel sure that I intended to take another picture to join with this one and I failed to do.
This prominent site with marvellous views is only part of the ancient remains here that extend to further circles and mounds that are probably burial cairns. The full extent of the remains is not at all easy to see in Summer growth. Beyond and below and unfortunately most likely through the site, which does show signs of use up to the 1600s, there is also a Nuclear Watch and Fall Out point. Both medieval landscaping and concrete bunker are within a Megalithic site. We humans love to follow on in the footsteps of our predecessors current roads run close and sometimes over ancient sites and we are still drawn to the ancient stone settings which are sited in the landscape when there was less built and more opportunity to see and be seen from site to site.
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“In 1926 when there were only four stones still standing Alexander Keiller succeeded in getting the quarrying stopped after what he wrote was the "hectic riot which I created in the quarry last summer" with the landowner Lord Aberdeen. Keillor also got the monument made a scheduled monument in 1927 and taken into official state guardianship in 1930.[26][27][28] State care meant little more than erecting a fence and keeping the grass cut.[12] With Aubrey Burl in 1995 writing "Tomnaverie, ... a once fine recumbent stone circle, is a wreck ... its stones are now a jumble", Tomnaverie was chosen as the site for a major archaeological excavation in 1999 and 2000 led by Richard Bradley. Not only was the site to be closely investigated but also, so far as possible, it would subsequently be restored to something more like its original condition with its stones re-erected in their original sockets.[29][30]”
Tomnaverie stone circle
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Tomnaverie Stone Circle
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Tomnaverie
Welfare, Adam (2011a). Halliday, Stratford (ed.). Great Crowns of Stone The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland Gazetteer and Appendices (PDF). RCAHMS. pp. 473–477. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 December 2019. – only published online.
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Knockargety Hill unfinished fort
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Well, I've had quite a haitus from my love affair with conceptual photography but with the help of a lovely muse and the relief of not needing to photograph myself... I am recently re-inspired! Meet Willow... someone I hope to be working with again very soon... and our photo, 'Alight' in celebration of the impending onset of winter.
The effect of this shoot has been an awakening within me from my conceptual photography slumber. Cheers to seeing, feeling and creating beautiful things again! x
The sun is obscured by clouds and this statue of an alighting angel.
First upload from the 24-105 I got from Sudi Chakravarthy www.flickr.com/photos/captivemoment/ (elsewhere on Flickr) last year. I needed an IS lens for travel shooting and he was moving from Canon to Pentax medium format, so I picked this up to replace my lemon of a 28-135. (However, I'm still keeping my vintage 35-105 as it is small, light, and sharp for when I don't want to be burdened down).
Passengers alight the train at Brundall station on a service destined for Lowesoft on the 2J88 from Norwich.
This moth alighted on my window. Seen from outside my home to inside. La Ceja, Colombia.
Lasiocampidae Moth
The Lasiocampidae are a family of moths. Over 2,000 species occur worldwide, and probably not all have been named or studied.
As adults, the moths in this family are large bodied with broad wings. They are either diurnal or nocturnal. Moths are typically brown or grey, with hairy legs and bodies.
If it weren't for Russian Olives, perches would be few and far between on the Summer Lake marsh. These are hardy trees which can thrive in white alkaline soil.
Guess who went to the Photo show and came back with a Macro lens :-) Bit of a cliche shot, however it just had to be done.
Sunset explodes on a freezing January evening over the majestic Vestrahorn from Stokksnes.
Looks best on black.
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When I visited Blacktoft Sands this week there were plenty of other birds to watch and photograph (besides the White-tailed Plover). Several Snipe were feeding right in front of the hide and I managed to capture this one just as it arrived. Snipe is yet another declining bird in Britain and across Europe too. It needs soft wet mud to probe for worms and drainage, particularly in the lowlands has made many of its habitats unsuitable. In the lowlands, surveys in England and Wales showed a 62% decline between 1982 and 2002, though numbers have held up better in upland areas. At the last count there were 67,000 pairs breeding in Britain but that number increases to about a million in winter when Snipe arrive from Iceland and Fennoscandia although the winter population has also declined between 25-50% and the winter range has contracted. Compared to body length it has the longest bill of any British bird, but a few bigger birds (Heron, Curlew, Godwits) have bills that exceed the length of Snipe. They use their camouflage to sit tight and will often fly before you have spotted them on the ground. They have a swerving flight and give a flight call like tearing cloth. The scientific name Gallinago gallinago means "like a chicken". Gallinaceous birds are game birds like Partridges, Grouse and Chickens, but the family does not include Snipe.
Just got back from a week in the South Island. I spent the first day in Wanaka and it was overcast and showery all day, so didn't really get any shots at sunset or sunrise the next morning.
I left Wanaka the next day and arrived in Tekapo to pretty much the same conditions - dreary and overcast. By 5:30pm (sunset was at 6:15pm) I'd all but given up hope on a decent sunset shoot, so much so that I was thinking about staying in my motel room and flagging it altogether. But I looked out the window and saw some gaps in the cloud towards the west, near the horizon, so there was hope. I decided to head out just in case (the lake was a whole 10 minute walk from the motel...).
I got there just in time to see the sun peek below the clouds and light up the lake like crazy. It looked pretty good against the dark clouds in the background. Not only that, but the mountains that had been hidden all day by clouds decided to reveal themselves, and they were snow-capped! (That only lasted about a day, so it was a great piece of lucky timing for me).
Things got even better after this with a pretty colourful sunset, but more on that next time....
Passengers alight from the 1456 Manchester Victoria to Leeds at a wet Hebden Bridge station.
The 1893 station buildings are maintained in good order with an attractive Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway style signage.