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Cabo Espichel (lit. Cape Espichel) is a cape located to the west of Sesimbra, Portugal. Tourists are drawn there due to breathtaking views of its cliffs facing the Atlantic Ocean.
The location is famous for the a sanctuary complex (lit. Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Cabo Espichel), built extremely close to the edge of the tall cliffs, which includes a church still in use today.
Also famous, are the several dinosaur fossil trackways exposed in some of the now tilted Jurassic strata which form the cape's cliffs. It is said that local superstition interpreted the trackways as the path taken by the Holy Virgin ("Nossa Senhora") when riding a giant mule from the ocean and up the cliffs, which led to the eventual construction of the convent at that location.
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O Cabo Espichel está localizado em Portugal, a ocidente da vila de Sesimbra. É delimitado a sul e oeste pelo oceano Atlântico e a norte pela estrada nacional 379 e Ribeira dos Caixeiros. Na sua extremidade, vislumbra-se, vertiginosa e abissal, a Baía dos Lagosteiros.
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An unknown girl doing some yoga on the Trolltunga (the troll’s tongue) rock. Trolltunga is reached after an 11 km hike where you climb up 1050 m in total. We camped on the cliff and returned the 11 kms the next day.
The rock is sticking out of a cliff at 1200 m above sealevel. It is overlooking Ringedalsvatnet (at app. 465 m above sealevel), a lake in the municipality of Odda in Hordaland county, Norway. The lake below is the main reservoir for a hydroelectric power station in Tyssedal which provides electricity for the power intensive industries in the nearby town of Odda. This explains the clearly visible waterlevel-marks on the lower parts of the mountains surrounding it. The Ringedals dam all the way in the back is 521 m wide and 33 m high and was constructed between 1910 and 1918.
Strange as it may seem, Gorge Dam is 2.5 miles upstream from this powerhouse, which is nestled against a cliff at an angle on one side of the Skagit River.
To get a sense of scale, see if you can find three people walking on the cliff tops. Hint: they're at the right of the picture.
We must expect early religions to have been animistic - a world view of landscape and seasons alive with force and identity and in dialogue with the living world. Walking past rock formations and cliffs with worlds upon worlds must have been appreciated in vivid ways.
The tide was in and the wind was blowing ferociously creating this foaming sea at Birling Gap as the sun was setting on the last day of 2015
52 Weeks of 2022
Week No. 27: Environment/climate
Category: Creative / Technique
I had a few thoughts about what to shoot this week, but as I wanted to get out to the coast, I decided to document the problem of cliff erosion in Norfolk. It's a real problem around the coast of East Anglia as much of the coast line is soft sand, so all it takes is a high tide or storm and a section of the coast line falls into the sea.
In places, the coast line is eroding at 2metres per year. There are some sea defences in some areas, but in others, nothing. Anyway, this is East Runton, a beautiful spot to watch the sunset yesterday, but it has no sea defences.
There is a wind farm out to sea though, one of many around the east coast.
Go to My 52 week Instagram to see a couple of other shots.
I post most frequently to my main Instagram so there are more photos there.
Big Bend National Park, Texas - April 2014
Ektar 100 4x5, 210mm lens
1/30th at f22, no filters
These cliffs really tower over your head while standing in the Rio Grande. Here's a video of my Big Bend experience and a little look at life behind the lens: Big Bend National Park Video
Takes 55 seconds - powered by water balance system - pets allowed.
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"In several resorts, such as Folkestone and Southend, the cliff railway has had an historical relationship with the town pier. This is especially true in the case of Saltburn, where the railway's close proximity to Saltburn Pier makes it seem almost like an extension. When the pier was constructed in 1869, the high cliff acted a s a barrier between the town and the shoreline, threatening the commercial success of the resort. The original solution was a vertical lift, which remained operational until 1883; it was demolished for the construction of a cliff railway."
An der Algarve gab es Fischer, die von den Klippen aus ihre Angeln ausgelegt haben. Dabei befanden Sie sich oft bis zu 60m über dem Wasserspiegel.
petrochelidon pyrrhonota
Parenthood.
Cliff swallow nest, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
AF-I Nikkor 300mm f/2.8D IF-ED + Nikon D300S
This photo shows how the kittiwakes live and breed in large, noisy colonies around our coast line, as you approach you are met with deafing cries of 'Kitt-ee-wayke -Kitt-ee-wake' this is also where there name is derived from, to me they have always been the 'elegant looking' gull, they are beautifull looking And this was taken at bempton where thousands nest.