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taken at the Prypjat Lake near the abandoned Ghost Town(exclusion Zone of Chernobyl)
It was snowing hard and freezing cold minus 25 degrees.
It is well known that different warblers can inhabit the same ecological niche, and sometimes the same tree. Spend some time in the forest this time of year and even if you never leave one locale, you are likely to encounter more than one species of warbler. This, however, would seem to be an exception to what is known as the “ecological rule of exclusion.” In essence, any two species which inhabit the same ecological niche should not be able to coexist because one will always, eventually, out-compete the other. Close comparative study, however, has demonstrated that although these birds inhabit the same locale, and sometimes even the same tree, they will feed at different portions of the tree. Some birds will feed higher, others will hunt on the interior vs the outer portions of the tree (like this Black-throated Blue feeding at the buds of the tips of branches) and still, others will more commonly hawk insects on the wing. So, by hunting in different areas of the same tree these birds expose themselves to different kinds of food. In essence, the rules of ecology do apply, and perhaps one single tree can represent more than one single biome. #BlackThroatedBlueWarblers
Did you notice the ferris wheel?
Picture is taken in a Gym in the abandoned Ghost Town of Prypjat - Exclusion Zone / Chernobyl
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Las Lagunitas es una zona especialmente protegida de la Isla de Lobos.
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Isla de Lobos - Fuerteventura, Las Palmas.
Picture I taken in the abandoned exclusion Zone Chernobyl
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Collection of Soviet postcards in an abandoned house in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
In a few days, on April 26th, we will commemorate the 30th anniversary of one of the worst nuclear accidents to date.
An accident that shook our confidence in nuclear energy and still affects hundreds of thousands of people in Belarus and the Ukraine.
Nature is slowly conquering the abandoned homes in the exclusion zone, destroying all traces of the former inhabitants. The house where we found these postcards fell victim to a wildfire only a few weeks after our visit.
Disregard the Exif data. This shot was done with Fuji X-Pro3 plus Helios 44M-7 plus a 720nm infrared filter. The light source is a 550-2500nm infrared lamp. "What's the point?" is a phrase I have been hearing in my village - usually used by young men. When digging a bit deeper I am hearing more: that their income is minimal with no real chance of betterment, that they are excluded from the "opportunities" and "prospects" promised by the politicians, that having a family would be economically risky for them, that they would never be able to own their home. And, turning to me "oldie" with a pension, that people like me are consuming a major share of the nation's wealth. And what did I say? You are right, young man. When it comes to social equality or, other way round, to social exclusion, this country, the UK, is in a deep mess.
Another image from inside the swimming pool building. Although derelict, this building was apparently in use by those working inside the exclusion zone for many years after the disaster and evacuation.
CHERNOBYL, Take 2! - Back through my archive!...
☢️ O N E - C A R E F U L L - O W N E R ☢️
Another photo of the red Lada (or what's left of it!) in Zalissia - just inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
This village was our first stop inside the zone. Abandoned even though it's slightly further from the blast (almost 30km) than the town of Chernobyl which is still home to a few hundred people - and where we stayed.
Zalissia was very over-grown. Main roads are now no more than footpaths and trees obscure buildings.
Several cars can have been abandoned there - stripped for parts, presumably by looters.
These old Ladas were once a favourite in eastern Europe. In fact we saw a few pootling around the city of Kiev where we spent a couple of days after leaving the exclusion zone.
FUJIFILM XT-2 | XF18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS lens at 18mm | ƒ3.6 | 1/220 sec | ISO 640 | Handheld | No filters | Taken 06-05-2019 at Zalissia (Chernobyl Exclusion Zone)
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Simon - a friendly fox, who often approaches groups in the exclusion zone, "asking" for food.
Shot during my 2-day trip in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Sony a6000 converted to full-spectrum, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DN, 590nm #Infrared filter.
For the exclusions group:
Well, only semi-exclusionary..... Just giving an appearance from afar that the gate is locked. May 2006.
Part of a set of photo subjects of the extraordinarily ordinary, taken over a span of forty years.
Picture is taken in a Gym in the abandoned Ghost Town of Prypjat - Exclusion Zone / Chernobyl
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CHERNOBYL, Take 2! - Back through my archive!...
☢️ L A D A ☢️
After we passed the first military checkpoint, we were to stay inside the exclusion zone until we had finished our 3 tour.
Our first stop just inside the zone, was an abandoned village called Zalissia. Abandoned even though it's slightly further from the blast (almost 30km) than the town of Chernobyl which is still home to a few hundred people - and where we stayed.
Zalissia was very over-grown. Main roads are now no more than footpaths and trees obscure buildings.
Several cars can have been abandoned there - stripped for parts, presumably by looters.
Here's an old Lada - once a favourite in eastern Europe. In fact we saw a few pootling around the city of Kiev where we spent a couple of days after leaving the exclusion zone.
FUJIFILM XT-2 | XF18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS lens at 18mm | ƒ4 | 1/60 sec | ISO 640 | Handheld | No filters | Taken 06-05-2019 at Pripyat
Copyright Andrew Hocking 2020
First photo from my visit in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Lots of broken glass inside the main room of this former cafe.
... drawing lines and fences all over the world, visible and unvisible, destroying lifes, families, children's futures, habitats, environment ...
Picture I taken in the abandoned exclusion Zone Chernobyl
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would you still love me in the morning?
I'm sorry for being away. School has begun and photography has turned into a job, rather than an escape.
I got an Olivetti worth $425 for $6. I've never been this lucky. Ever.
Pripyat chernobyl exclusion zone
Hospital No. 126, provided early treatment to many of the firemen and personnel irradiated in the Chernobyl accident in April 1986. Some of these individuals' highly-radioactive personal effects may still be found in the damp and pitch-black corridors underneath the hospital. Some off the personal effects have been stolen over the years .
The entrance to the basement is blocked by tons of sand, seems like the rest of the clothes are safe for now. Even if a few things went missing trough the years
A classroom in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Everything just left to rot in the radiation.
The bell has rung,
This lesson ends,
Leave your books,
Don't return again.
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has many sites that are surprising tourist attractions, but none could be less likely than the Duga Radar.
This was the site of one of three “Over The Horizon” radars (OTH) in the USSR. This and another site in Ukraine beamed towards Europe; one in the Russian Far East, beamed out into the Pacific. By using shortwave rather than the UHF or SHF frequencies usually used by radar, the range could be extended over the horizon by detecting signals refracted by the ionosphere. Despite the fact that the ionosphere is always in a somewhat chaotic state, in theory a powerful enough computer could still detect the source of any given reflection.
In a metaphor for the entire Soviet system, however, no computer powerful enough existed and these enormously powerful 10 Megawatt transmitters merely sent out an intensely irritating pulse known as the woodpecker which blocked most shortwave transmissions over large parts of the world, annoying Soviet friends and allies alike to absolutely no utility. The system operated intermittently from 1976 until 1989. It was located near Chernobyl to benefit from the enormous amount of electricity it generated.
Ugly as the signal generated might have been, the antenna array itself is a thing of majesty, bursting from the forests that stretch on a flat plain for miles in every direction; a cascade of metal cones and struts that is 150 metres high and 700 metres long.
The radar had its own secret town attached; it was never officially acknowledged but was known as ‘Chernobyl-2’. It came complete with a gymnasium, school, hotel, and fire station. This was the only fire station in the region not called out when Reactor No. 4 caught fire on 26 April 1986 – a sign of the importance attached the OTH radar project.
Maintaining a structure like this is expensive, and nobody is expending any money on it, so see this strange Cold War engineering wonder while you can. It won’t last forever.