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My last shot from my last pack of 600 film. I'll miss it, but so happy The Impossible Project are making fantastic colour film to replace it!
Polaroid SLR680 with 600 film.
Porcupine caribou's wintering ground is one of the coldest places in North America, but still provides some shelter and conditions required for them to survive through the winter.
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Breaux Bridge, Louisiana
Colorful lichen covered cypress tree on Lake Martin. A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria (or both) living among filaments of a fungus in a symbiotic relationship. The combined life form has properties that are very different from the properties of its component organisms.
Samyang 85mm F1.4 Auto Focus, edited in Aurora, custom Filter Sun Forest, 2 images manually focus stacked in Affinity
I head out to these ruins every year trying to get the perfect shot that captures my vision of the place. I haven't gotten that shot yet, but here are a couple attempts from 2018.
Continuamos con los saltos en Beluntza.
We continue with thejwaterfalls in Beluntza.
SONY A7RM2+SEL1635Z+POLA NISI
It wasn’t the best day to head to the forest but we promised my girls to visit the fairies.
Despite the rain and cold, the girls enjoyed the enchanted forest and even learned a few witch crafts when visiting Mrs Witch.
Lakeside Forest
Forests and Lake Biwa
In Shiga Prefecture, forests cover 200,000 hectares, i.e. roughly half the total area of the prefecture, accounting for about 60% of the land area. Most rainwater falling in forests surrounding Lake Biwa flows into the lake, which nurtures rich ecosystems and thereby sustains our lives.
In addition to playing these roles as a water source, forests offer a variety of values such as disaster prevention and timber production.
Currently, an increasing number of forests are ill-managed and devastated due to various changes in socioeconomic conditions and people’s lifestyles. If we allow these forests to continue to deteriorate, the subsequent decline in the multifunctionality of forests will have significant impact on our everyday lives. - Shiga prefecture
Lake Biwa, the largest lake of Japan, is located in central Honshu and fills the bottom of an oblong tectonic basin. The lake was formed some five million years ago and is therefore one of the oldest lakes in the world geologically, though it was originally located some distance south and moved gradually to its present site about 700,000 years ago. The long history of isolation from ther water bodies is suggested by the lake's biota, which is fairly rich for an island lake, containing about 50 species of fish, 40 species of mollusca and a number of indigenous species.
Lake Biwa measures 63.5 km from north to south and is strongly constricted at about 16 km from its southern end reaching a minimum width of only 1.35 km. The deep main basin (average depth 44 m) north of the constriction is called the Northern Lake, while the shallow sub-basin (average depth 3.5 m) to the south is called the Southern Lake. The two basins differ considerably in water quality, physical conditions, flora and fauna.
The lake's catchment area is 4.7 times as wide as the lake itself, and corresponds closely to the administrative limits of Shiga Prefecture. Forest-covered hills and mountains accounts for nearly 60% of the land area of the Prefecture, and farmlands (mostly wet paddy fields) makes up additional 25%. The forest vegetation consists mostly of secondary forests of pine on low hills and of mixed deciduous hardwoods on marginal mountains, and plantations of conifers. There are several cities of moderate size, the largest being Otsu with a population of 240,000.
Lake Biwa is also the biggest water resource in Japan that supplies city and industrial water for some 13 million residents in Osaka/Kyoto/Kobe megalopolis. The quality of lake water was profoundly influenced by economic development since the 1960's through rapid eutrophication. The legal control of waste water discharge from industries implemented by the National Government in 1970 slowed down the rate of eutrophication to a certain extent, but the steady increase of population, ever-rising standard of living, increased fertilizer application, etc. in the catchment area combined to result in a slow but steady march of lake water quality degradation.
The Shiga Prefectural Government enacted in 1980 the Ordinance for the Prevention of Eutrophication of Lake Biwa, which, for the first time in this country, prohibited the use of phosphate-containing synthetic detergents. The phosphorus content of lake water was thereby reduced considerably, but the effect of reduced phosphorus loading on biological processes in the lake is not yet apparent. - World Lake Database (The International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC))
Out today with ianbartlett for a wander around Friston Forest. We didn't have a planned route and just took paths as we found them, and we managed to walk 11 miles. We decided on the woodland as we expected heavy rain all day, but we only had light rain, now and then, and it wasn't that cold.
Peak Forest in the Peak District with its Semaphore signals and signal boxes, abundant freight trains and beautiful scenery, is a unique combination that is surely difficult beat anywhere else in the UK. In this scene taken at around 21:04 in the last of the evening light, from left to right, is DRS shunt loco 66427; GBRF Shed 66788 loading up with aggregates from Dove Holes quarry which will form the 23:45, 6B10 Peak Forest to Bletchley Cemex; DRS Shed 66428 with loaded aggregates, and Freightliner Shed 66510 working the 20:58 Tunstead to Wembley Sidings. We had hoped this train would be double headed with a banker at the rear, but it wasn’t this day. In the rear, the red train has DB Tug 60017 in front which will work the 6E19 Peak Forest Cemex Sidings to Aftercliffe Sidings.
Thanks to Nigel Capele, www.flickr.com/photos/whosoever2/, and Gavin Bland, www.flickr.com/photos/49068127@N06/, for taking me to this splendid location