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Something a bit different. For a change ;)
We took a ride on the famous Ba Na Hills cable car near Da Nang, and what a breathtaking (and slightly eerie) experience it was! This beast holds multiple Guinness World Records, including longest single-wire cable car system and largest elevation difference between stations. It stretches 5,771m, climbs 1,368m, and takes 20 minutes to ride. That’s 20 minutes of stunning waterfalls, lush forests, and majestic mountains... or, in our case, pure fog and mist. Every now and then, another cable car would ghost out of the mist heading down the mountain like some airborne apparition.
Something about the landscape below, the bits we could see, felt straight out of Jurassic Park. I half expected a pack of raptors to come sprinting through the trees after some unfortunate hikers. Thankfully, at that height, there were no pterosaurs lurking to spice up our ride.
At the top is one of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks - the Golden Bridge. This photo? Not the bridge. But these are the gigantic, massive stone hands that hold it up. They look like they’ve been standing for centuries, ancient and weathered, except they were actually built in 2018. The hands create an illusion of emerging from the hillside and lifting the golden thread that is the bridge, high into the sky. It was a surreal and breathtaking sight. I'm sure Trevor would have insisted they were actually the hands of sleeping giant trolls.
I only had my old point and shoot with me that day, but as the saying goes: the best camera is the one you have with you.
Thanks for any comments and likes, they are all greatly appreciated.
**P.S.** I swapped out the solid grey mist background for something more… “ancient.” You’re welcome. 😏
A frosty start on Loch Ba while camping with the kids. I'd spent more time than i'd realised taking shots the night before so my battery died after this shot which, was devastating. My two spares didn't want to fire up either after getting cold. Had dipped to -4 during the night.
Apart from keeping batteries in a warm place (i'll not saying where), it's the first time the i really noticed the reliability of aftermarket batteries compared to nikon batteries. Maybe an extreme test but they failed none the less.
The elevating observation platform at Brighton Beach, flanked by the rusting supports for the old West Pier. Taken at sunrise.
The former whaling and fishing vessel Gardar BA 64 is Iceland’s oldest steel ship and was launched in 1912. It was retired in 1981 due to safety reasons. The remains of the ship can be found on the coastline of the Patreksfjordur in the Islandic Westfjords.
On the north descend from bosnian Ivan Pass we observe a coal train between the stations of Raštelica and Pazarić near the houses of Luke village.
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She waits,
cold and alone
a stranger in a foreign land
no friendly face awaits her arrival.
But this place,
unknown to her before her need
...will heal her, and comfort her,
give her it's strength.
Will shelter her
until
it is time
to go home
again
JS 8195 approaching the signals at Ba'erzhan Junction from the loading area at Xikeng on 23 November 2012.
Sandaoling coal mine
Xinjiang, China
Friends had been visiting for a couple of days...he came rushing in the kitchen one morning, "Quick!!! Have you got a banana??"
This arrived in the mail several days later.
Thass my story an I'm stickin' to it.
Photo & post processing are his, mosaic artwork is mine.
Photo: Steve Napoli, Berkeley, CA.
An early morning panorama looking east over Loch Ba towards what I believe are Glas Leathad Beag and Glas Bheinn.
Blossom&Seeds
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Ty to Phobs SPAD for the background light and pose ;) xxx
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Managed to capture the British Airways Retro Airbus A319 in the British Europe Airways livery at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol a couple of weeks ago. Only thing left to do is go to Londons Heathrow Airports to catch the 3 747s
Garðar BA 64.
Hér liggur Garðar í fjörunni inni í Skápadal innst í Patreksfirði en þar var honum komið fyrir árið 1981.
The Gardar BA 64 is Iceland’s oldest steel ship, a former whaling and fishing vessel, now lying on the Patreksfjordur fjord shoreline in the Westfjords
Habe mir zum Hobby gemacht, 'meine' Bäume zu verschiedenen Jahreszeiten und Witterungsverhältnisse zu fotografieren. Und immer wieder erweckt es einen ganz anderen Eindruck.
Another shot form last month's trip with Steve.
I had the idea that the sun setting behind the Cuillin Hills taken from the Bealach na Bà on the Applecross peninsula would be a good way to end our day out in the west. Unfortunately the bank of cloud over Skye stopped that happening but I still fired off a few shots as the sun slipped out of view.
Garðar BA 64 is thought to be the oldest steelship in Iceland, built in Norway as a whaling vessel exactly one hundred years ago.
Garðar was launched in Norway in 1912, the year Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was named Globe IV and was equipped with both sails and a steam engine to use when the weather was still. It was specially reinforced to endure the harsh conditions of the Southern Ocean where it was used to hunt whales.
Globe IV was sold to the Faroe Islands in 1936 where it got a brand new name and a somewhat less dignified role in the whale hunting business. At the end of the second world war the ship was sold once again. This time to Iceland. Once here it was given an icelandic name, Siglunes SI 89, and the old steam workhorse which has powered it all those years was replaced with a 378 hp Ruston Hornsby diesel engine. The ship traded owners and names for number of years until 1963 it finally aquired the name it has today, Garðar. It was a good ship and served it’s many owners well for a long time.
In december 1981 Garðar BA 64 was deemed unfit for duty. Instead of sinking it a sea as was the custom in these days when ships went out of service it was and rammed ashore at Skápadalur valley in Patreksfjörður.
Bealach na Bà is a historic pass through the mountains of the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands..
The road, the A896 is one of few in the Scottish Highlands that is engineered similarly to roads through the great mountain passes in the Alps, with very tight hairpin bends that switch back and forth up the hillside and gradients that approach 20%. It boasts the greatest ascent of any road climb in the UK, rising from sea level at Applecross to 626 metres (2,054 ft), and is the third highest road in Scotland.
The name is Gaelic for Pass of the Cattle, Scottish Gaelic: Bealach na Bà, as it was historically used as a drovers' road.
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