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Created from a photograph of the willows along the Oxford Canal for the TMI Challenge in the style of Fauvism
All the textures used are my own
very busy day so a quicky will have to do
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far away gaze
happy cliche saturday!!
A glimpse of the sunlight yesterday afternoon, provided some nice reflections by the river on day 78/365
Was playing around with photoshop and used the oil paint filter and changed leaves colors. It was a fun experiment.
For the Mosaic Montage Monday theme of looking up is a blend of 3 photos. The Golden Balls at the Wilson Botanic Park reaching up to the sky and framing the bare branched trees and looking up to the moon.
Old Mill Cottage is in an idyllic location near the tiny village of Stert just outside Devizes; hills to the north shield it from sound from the nearest main road; it is more open to the south giving it sun; It sits at the dead-end of one road where it terminates at an idyllic little stream; a footbridge crosses it, and the road on the other side has only one farmhouse before it dead-ends. In late winter and early spring, it is near some magnificent displays of snowdrops and daffodils.
It is not a listed building so I can find no information about the date of construction.
The history of the American West is a study in leaving it all behind. Back when the West was still largely unsettled this was an easy thing to do. When things went sour folks packed up what they could and headed further west looking for new land and opportunities--not unlike the Joad family in Steinbecks "The Grapes of Wrath." Here, it appears that someone once put some loving care into this home. Not sure they headed west, but they certainly left it all behind.
Nevada County CA
Nevada County CA
One of the wonders of early industrial engineering, the Caen Hill Locks are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire. Built in 1820, the locks enable canal boats to change 72 metres in altitude in barely 3 kilometres, with the stretch around this lock being much steeper.
After the coming of the railways, the canal fell into disuse and was closed. The last cargo through the flight was a consignment of grain conveyed from Avonmouth to Newbury in October 1948. From the 1960s there was a major clearing and rebuilding operation, culminating in a visit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 to open the new locks officially, although the flight had been navigable for a number of years before then.
In 1810, this was the last section of the 140 kilometre long Kennet and Avon Canal to be completed. The canal links Bristol and Bath with Newbury in Berkshire, and therefore to London as well as to key early industrial centres in Central Southern England like Reading. Nowadays, the canal carries a substantial tourist traffic of some economic significance to the towns along it.
This description incorproates text from the English Wikipedia.
There are moments when our entire being dissolves into the night to expand to every corner of existence and we feel at once infinitely small and unimaginably endless... When we are tree and earthworm and moon and ocean, present to the primordial formation of galaxies and the collapse of supernovae, to the rise of life and the extinction of a myriad species.
I travel Deerfield road often and if the conditions are right it's a good place for a sunrise photo.
www.thetravelpictures.com: An old barn house stands on the autumn fields of the rural Finland. The autumn is turning into winter and the skies are very grey. - ift.tt/2DO4bLG //
On Monday Marg and I decided to point the car up the San Juan Ridge to the old mining town of Humbug. Of course Kenzie the pup and a nice picnic lunch accompanied us. Autumn for the most part had lost its luster in Humbug but I'm never one to scoff at bare tree shots. Here the trees were indeed bare to their bones as they fanned out behind a cluster of old shacks.
North Bloomfield CA
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
From Do go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953
Created for March TMI Contest – As THE SUN GOES DOWN
Textures, Rainbow and Sunset on Water are my own and are available in My Texture Set