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Took this shot down at Hallett Cove Conservation Park.
Standard 3 shot exposure (+2,0,-2EV), then taken into Photomatix using Details Enhancer. Some colour adjustment done in Photoshop, overlay of -2EV for the sky only (masked) and some USM.
Enjoy
- Canon 5D Mark2.
- ISO 100, f16, 1/8, 17mm.
- Canon 17-40 f4 L.
View On Black to see the gutters from the water run off and the sediment layers in the foreground.
About The Sugarloaf
Perhaps the best known feature of Hallett Cove Conservation Park is the Sugarloaf. It is a residual landform, exposed as surrounding material has been weathered and removed. It sits within a depression called the Ampitheatre. The coloured layers hold the key to understanding the original formation of these features.
The Sugarloaf is made of sediments that represent a considerable time difference; they have been exposed as surrounding material was eroded away. The brown capping is Pleistocene alluvial silt and clay (deposited during the beginning of the most recent glacial period). This layer is hard enough to help slow down erosion of the soft, older layers underneath. Between the clay layer and the white sand layer is an unconformity, representing a 'break' in the age of the layers of almost 300 million years.
Below the unconformity are several visible layers of Permian sediments, each representing a distinct depositional phase. The upper Permian layer is a soft, mainly white sandstone, with small dropstones. Beneath that is a red-brown silt, sand and clay glacial bed with pebbles and numerous dropstones (erratics). The lowest is composed of white glacial sand, gravel and some dropstones. Beneath all of these layers, but not visible at the immediate vicinity of the Sugarloaf, is the old metamorphic bedrock upon which these layer were deposited during the later Permian and Pleistocene times.
In spite of intensive study, aspects of the palaeogeography of the Sugarloaf are still not fully understood. These include the role of wind in forming the white layers, and the origin of the red glacial layer.
Windmills have always played a great part in the life of Holland and its inhabitants. While at first they served to grind corn, to remove excess water from the low-lying districts, and to saw timber, thus making the country fit for human habitation and adding to habitable area, they developed - especially in the seventeenth century - into a most important factor in the social structure of those days. It is with increasing interest that one learns about this.
Although it can be said that windmills which can be compared with the Dutch windmills are to be found in other European countries as well (England, Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Finland), it has to be observed that their number is relatively small there. It is only in Holland that so many windmills are present in so small an area. These windmills moreover are in very reasonable, many of them even in excellent, condition and a considerable number of them are working regularly. There are windmills of the most varied types: drainage mills, corn mills, and industrial mills for all sorts of purposes.
Windmills form an important element in the Dutch landscape with its wide horizons, its glittering waters and big clouds floating overhead; without them we can hardly imagine this landscape, which is unique in the world.
The following pages will show these windmills from the aesthetic, the historical, and the technical point of view. We hope they may help to deepen the fascination which windmills exert on the spectator, and to add to the pleasure of seeing them in their own natural surroundings.
'The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and wither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.'
The weather has been extremely chilly this week, so I didn't do a long walk..
Weekly Photowalk #2 of 52.5
heath or heathland is a shrubland habitat found on mainly infertile acidic soils, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, often dominated by plants of the Ericaceae. It is similar to moorland, but is generally warmer and drier.
Heaths are widespread worldwide. They form extensive and highly diverse communities across Australia in humid and sub-humid areas. Fire regimes with recurring burning are required for the maintenance of the heathlands. Even more diverse though less widespread heath communities occur in Southern Africa. Extensive heath communities can also be found in California, New Caledonia, central Chile and along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to these extensive heath areas, the vegetation type is also found in scattered locations across all continents, except Antarctica.
Goeree-Overflakkee is the southernmost delta island of the province of South Holland, Netherlands.
In the spring, the island is known for it's tulip-fields in the most amazing colors. Every year a lot of, mostly Japanese, tourist will visit the island just for the tulips.
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Castle Heeswijk is water citadel former at Heeswijk from the 11th century. The castle had been restored in 2005. Already in the year 1080 there a preamble of the current castle, so-called motte-burcht arose. In the course of the middle ages the motte (castle hillock) were blunted and on the place of the citadel a castle were built. Castle Heeswijk several times have played a role in the history. It did not succeed prince Maurits around 1600 up to two times to take the castle. It's halfbrother Frederik Hendrik succeeded in this in 1629, however, in, so that he could besiege then s' Hertogenbosch. In 1672 the sun king Lodewijk XIV the uninvited guest on castle Heeswijk were during its fight against the republic. On the end of the 18th century Pichegru, general still used the castle of the French revolution under the guidance of Napoleon, as a headquarter. In 1835, André bought baron of pine Bogaerde of Terbrugge the castle touched in decline and started immediately a massive reconstruction. For its growing collection art objects and curiosa, of him and of its sons, the noblemen Louis and Donat, the castle was extended with among other things the weapon room and the Irontower.
The current castle museum gives a picture of the life sitation and the collect tradion from the middle of the 19th century. After the recent restorations there meanwhile guided tours by the castle are possible. The weapon room of the castle does service as official marrylocation of the municipality Bernheze. In under the promenade cellar roofs lain (marry)partys and receptions are given and the carriage house of castle accommodate Heeswijk - and training facilities as well as congress - and presentation spaces meet.
if you want to see the castle and you use a car navigator is the end destiny is the Gouverneursweg, Heeswijk-Dinther
Kasteel Heeswijk is laying on circa 10 minutes from 's Hertogenbosch en 20 minutes from Eindhoven.
The municipality of Drimmelen is a large, rural area in western Noord Brabant. Its northern border encloses the National Park The Biesbosch (wetlands) and to the south its border is formed by the increasingly important Mark river.
The six towns and villages of Drimmelen, Hooge and Lage Zwaluwe, Made, Terheijden and Wagenberg are situated in a typically agricultural area in which nature and recreation are strongly represented.
The transport route Rotterdam-Breda-Antwerp forms the municipality’s western boundary.
The municipality of Drimmelen is part of the province of Noord Brabant.
The municipality of Drimmelen covers an area of 48 square miles. The six towns and villages are home to 27,000 inhabitants.
Made is, with its 12,000 inhabitants, the municipal centre. There are many sub-regional facilities in the areas of small to middle sized commercial enterprises, health and education.
The young and dynamic municipality of Drimmelen (created in 1997) is working towards a future in which nature, water sports, cycle- and hiking routes play a central role. The administrative organisation is equipped, and policy is in place, to strengthen and expand this position.
De Oude Buisse Heide is een natuurgebied en landgoed in de gemeente Zundert van ruim 200 ha. In 1945 werd het door Henriette Roland Holst geschonken aan de Vereniging Natuurmonumenten
Het gebied bestaat uit bos, heide en vennen. Op natte plekken vindt men planten als zonnedauw en gagel. De Buisse Hoeve, een langgevelboerderij uit 1809, is een Rijksmonument. Aan de oostkant sluit de Oude Buisse heide aan bij het ruim 100 ha grote natuurgebied Wallsteijn, eveneens in bezit van Natuurmonumenten.
Er is een blauwe wandelroute van 12 km en een rode van 5 km.
In 1945 schonk schrijfster en politica Henriette Roland Holst (1869-1952) dit bijzondere natuurgebied aan Natuurmonumenten. De eigenares bracht hier met haar man, beeldend kunstenaar Rik Roland Holst, vele zomers door in de Angora Hoeve (Buisse Hoeve).
In de Herenkamer van de naastgelegen boerderij ontvingen ze beroemdheden als architect Hendrik Berlage, schilder Charley Toorop en dichter Herman Gorter. De Oude Buisse Heide is voor het echtpaar Roland Holst een bron van inspiratie geweest.
Toda's sunrise from the Marina headlands lookout. It glowed nice for about 15 minutes. 4 images merged to bring out the color in this high contrast scene.
Constructed around 1300, the stronghold belonged to the counts of Gelder until 1526. The building originally consisted of an irregular four-sided corps de logis with a circular donjon as its south-west corner tower.
The location of this tower on one of the diagonals (as at Flint Castle, built 1277, in Wales) is unusual in the Netherlands; so, too, is its massive size, acquired when it was rebuilt on the old foundations after a fire in 1412. It is c. 25 m high and 16 m in diameter, with walls ranging in thickness from 1.2 m to 4 m.
Square chambers have been contrived in the thickness of the wall. The donjon formerly was not connected to the corps de logis, but it was linked sometime after the rebuilding of 1412. The present corps de logis used to be the barbican, replacing the original corps de logis when the latter was destroyed.
The narrow section that joins it to the donjon must have been built after 1512. Rosendael Castle was altered again around 1615, when two residential wings were built, crowned with Gelderland gables and Renaissance decorations; these are joined to the donjon by means of the narrow section.
A lower ward surrounded by a moat served as an ornamental garden. Rozendaal underwent further alterations in the wake of another fire in 1714.
The Gelderland gables were replaced by a new gable, which united the living-quarters under a single roof, and a splendid park was laid out, with classical temples and pavilions; the donjon was probably lowered by one storey during the same period. Despite its history of rebuilding much of the medieval fabric of Rosendael survives.
The Rosendael Castle now houses a museum, established after the latest restoration of the building and the park, completed in 1990.
Address: Kasteel Rosendael, Rosendael 1, 6891 DA Rozendaal, Netherlands
Knackers yard for Boats in Bali, Indonesia
Many many thanks for the visit and any faves and comments you may leave, always welcome and always very much appreciated.
Location : Futami , Mie Prefecture , Japan
Meoto Iwa or Wedded Rocks. An iconic subject to visit in Ise.
My itinerary only allows me to spend 2 day in Ise. 1 day for travel from Tokyo to Ise which took me almost the whole day and 2 day for shooting. After a long weekend running around rim of Mount Fuji, 170km; body and mind still feeling really sore and fatigue but told myself, I had to visit this location since I am in Japan.
Woke up early in the morning the next day and made my way to this location but the tide level was not ideal but did grab few shots in different angle for study so that I can re-do the shoot based on the correct composition that I want.... It is a waiting game for me while waiting for the right tide level. Well, I had to admit I did a school boy mistake for not checking the tide level earlier prior visiting this location.
It was almost late afternoon when the tide level starts to rose up but still not optimal. Besides the tide level, I am facing a strong wind; which you can observe from the straw connection between the rocks.
So, running out of time as body and mind asking to call it off for a day to rest but tide level still not at it best level and facing very strong wind....I had to decide whether to capture few shots at this location as the next day, I had to leave for Kyoto. It is quite depressing moment for me if I didn't get a good shot from this location which I had planned for so long.
I find this composition best to only capture both rocks without having any other elements besides the rock and clear horizon. Hope it justify to portray the iconic wedded rocks in Ise!
Cheers and good weekend to all!
After the last occupant of the House was seven years broekhuizen left empty. With a grant from the Empire is the exterior was renovated in 2008. The new owner wants now also addressing the inside to make an exclusive hotel/restaurant with wedding location to start. In the history of broekhuizen play a large role painted side there shall be hangings. The five large figure paintings, referred to as ' Theatre jewelry ', Hung earlier in the Orangery. In the 60s of the last century they were taken away and since then they lie curled up in a depot. Because of their vulnerability, they may be deployed only once; namely to be restored and then get a new place for good on broekhuizen. In 1906, the original Castle broekhuizen, built between 1793 en1796, in flames. the cause of the fire was probably a light that came into contact with a curtain. Two months later, the then owner of M.I. Knight Peacock of Wieldrecht all in the rebuilding. In 1909 was the new castle broekhuizen ready. It was almost a verbatim copy of the old building, with the main difference that new and fire resistant building materials such as reinforced concrete, were used.
A manual blending of 2 exposures taken with the Big Stopper (Lee Filters). You can contact me on my Facebook Page
The color of fall leaves.
Plants make their own food. They take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. They turn water and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Oxygen is a gas in the air that we need to breathe.
Plants make their food using sunlight and something called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll gives leaves their green color.
Winter days are short and dry. Many plants stop making food in the fall. The chlorophyll goes away. Then we can see orange and yellow colors. These colors were in the leaves all summer, but the green covered them up.
Some leaves turn red. This color is made in the fall, from food trapped in the leaves.
Brown colors are also made in the fall. They come from wastes left in the leaves.