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We biked upriver on the dike to the late-nineteenth century monastic town of Steyl. Many of the monks were trained to be missionaries in Farflung Lands across the globe. Part of their training was in the sciences especially in botany, and to that end Steyl had a fine botanical garden. The Jochumshof continues today as a 'secular' place. If you visit and marvel at the variety of plants set out in lovely glades, go as well into the glass house for many beautifully nurtured tropical plants. It's a wonderful collection. On Steyl - scenically overlooking the Meuse River, see my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/41138869105/in/photoli....
The photo is of a Crimson or Pink River Lily or Flag on the bank of a little pond. It hails form South Africa.
After centuries of intense interstellar warfare, nothing remains of the native flora and fauna on Earth. A force of explorers is created with a specific mission; find and recover the farflung seeds of nature. Braving wilderness both natural and urban, these explorers strive to bring life back to their home planet, a sample at a time.
Here's one more photo from the Ontario Highlands from where I have been recently posting.. The Tatlock Quarry is not too far from us in the Lanark Highlands section of the larger landform. You may remember that we took a bus tour down into the pit early in the fall on a very overcast day. When we returned later in September, conditions were brighter, and the marble looked quite nice from the fenced in observation area.
When I last posted photos some thought that it was an eyesore, but I don't feel that way; I like the gleaming rock. In effect, this is in the middle of a very unpopulated area with no viable alternative land uses beyond forestry, and there is already abundant forest all over this region. The quarry isn't all that large, so it really doesn't take much land out of other production. In the farflung future, when the rock becomes unviable, it will be turned into a recreational area. I am happy with that notion although I certainly won't be around to witness it.
In comments is a photo of some of the extracted rock at the top of the quarry.
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Arltunga is located on the 5 000 hectare Arltunga Historical Reserve. Arltunga was officially central Australia’s first town, that was born out of a gold rush after gold was found in dry creek beds in the surrounding areas during 1887. Arltunga was producing gold until 1913 when production stopped. The area is now open for exploration and is filled with many old ruins. The police station and jail (displayed above) was restored after rumours were told of gold being hidden within the walls that were later destroyed in search of it.
Tennant Creek _457 LR
The White Hills side of the FARFLUNG/White Hills split 12 in.
pretty psyched how it came out.
"the enlightened ape"
FARFLUNG:
www.facebook.com/pages/Farflung-official-Site/210883438782
White Hills:
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Left to right……
Sàil Liath, 954m. (3,130 feet.)
Corrag Bhuide, 1,049m. (3,442 feet.)
Lord Berkeley’s Seat, 1,030m. (3,379 feet.)
Sgùrr Fiòna, 1,060m. (3,478 feet.) and
Bidein a’ Ghlas Thuill, 1,062m. (3,484 feet.)
Five of this mountain’s amazing ten peaks.
Epic.
Magnificent.
Supreme.
The expulsion, by land-owners, of the crofters,
to far-flung corners of the Empire, in the
process of emigration, known in the 18th. Century,
as “The Clearances.”
What sad, tragic and heart-rending stories these
peaks would have witnessed, in times gone by.
However, the only sights better than the views of this
incredible mountain, would be the views from it.
It is very special.
Awesome.
Momentous.
When it's Spring again
I"ll bring again,
tulips from Amsterdam.
Recorded by a gentleman who threatened to clip my ear during a Christmas pantomime at the Hippodrome in London decades ago. Of course it was a prearranged joke organised by a family friend. I had to shout " get off you old codger, they're all asleep out here " The audience loved it, guffawing for several minutes.
We often spent Christmas in London. My love of the British Isles stems from spending time here but never enough time, always flown off to some farflung place when I wished so much to be here. 2001.
this is just a compare/contrast shot to show why i like abiz so much. it's obvious, obtrusive, big, sloppy, imprecise, etc etc. not that abiz has never tagged like this, because he has, but for every plain old crappy abiz out there, there are hundreds of neat, inconspicuous, wellplaced, farflung, welldrawn, longlived abizes.
Arltunga is located on the 5 000 hectare Arltunga Historical Reserve. Arltunga was officially central Australia’s first town, that was born out of a gold rush after gold was found in dry creek beds in the surrounding areas during 1887. Arltunga was producing gold until 1913 when production stopped. The area is now open for exploration and is filled with many old ruins. The police station and jail (displayed above) was restored after rumours were told of gold being hidden within the walls that were later destroyed in search of it.
Tennant Creek _479
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Gouged.
Chiselled.
Fallen slabs of earth.
Folds of rock, soil and green mantle,
lie prostrate,
like a pile of giant dominoes.
Cliffs.
Edges.
Precipices.
Rock-faces and
spires of stone,
proliferate this dream landscape,
gravity-driven, and ancient.
As Geomorphologists do,
I have seen many, many landscapes.
This one is unique.
It is mystical
and almost……
beyond belief!
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Superb white, shell-sand beaches.
Rocky peninsulas.
Skerries in shallow water.
Undulating, mountainous islands.
Tombolos.
Green hills sinking to the shore.
Isolated villages like Portuairk.
Utter serenity.
A magical place at the far western extremity
of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula.
Remote, but a heavenly haven has been found!
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The sun catches the rocky headlands guarding
the entrance to the awesome sea-loch, Loch Hourn.
I was trundling my way across the Sound of Sleat
on my journey from the mainland at Mallaig, to Armadale
on the Sleat Peninsula, part of the wondrous Isle of Skye.
Hourn twists east, then south-east and finally east again, where it narrows to under a quarter of a mile wide,
from a maximum of three miles, at its mouth.
It is not absurd to suggest that this terrain represents one of the wildest, most remote and isolated in Caledonia and the United Kingdom.
To the left (north) is Knoydart, the “Rough Bounds.”
To the right (south) is North Morar ( out of shot.)
Both are only accessible by foot or boat.
There are no metalled roads within an area exceeding a hundred square miles.
They are truly rugged, remote, untamed and aloof to the influence of humanity.
Starkly untouched, rocky, bare but spartanly pristine, unspoiled, natural wildernesses.
Their raw, unsophisticated beauty rakes at your psyche, your soul, your spirit.
But in this “other world” you find your real self because refinement and urbanity has been stripped away
in the face of precipitous rock and mountains like Beinn Sgritheall and Ladhar Bheinn.
This three peaked mountain (two visible), just left of centre is another sentinel, like Sgurr na Ciche, an icon, a landmark for 20-40 miles in all directions, in this land of raw, unbridled beauty.
Even in this shot it lies beyond the southern side of Loch Hourn, twelve miles away in this image.
Should you wish to be “far from the madding crowd,” come here, to the mountains, to the eternal thrones of the Gods.
This is God’s Garden. It is a rocky one. Walk with him.
See your real self in the mountain pool, not the work-place window.
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Multiple bays, wooded islands, small peninsulas,
coniferous forests, cruising Paddle-Steamers and a
winding, confined, elegant, graceful sweep of water,
called Loch Katrine, dominate this scene.
The mountains of Crianlarich, to the north,
near 4,000 feet, but here, in the Southern Highlands,
the colours range from grey to Blueberry blue,
and pink to brown to bottle-green.
As clouds blot out the sun’s rays
form and hue and tone and texture
seem to transform constantly,
in a living montage of exuberant colours.
This is a much loved and exquisite area
for outstanding scenery, in the round.
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Dramatic, angular cliffs over 300 feet, 100 metres high,
made of distinctive Devonian Old Red Sandstone,
that is common on Scotland’s East Coast.
It is rare to have stacks so large and sharp,
like pointed daggers, some over 200 feet.
A good part of the Wester Ross coastline and all of the Sutherland and Caithness coastlines make up the now famous NC 500, including, of course, the Duncansby Stacks.
Mountain, loch, forest, gorges, geos, waterfalls, beaches, headlands and cliffs makes for a route of grandeur, beauty and variety.
Over thousands of years, the action of wind, weather and water created forms on land. Archipelagos like the Philippines are more than blessed with coastlines that are yet undeveloped if not undiscovered. Isolated islets like the ones in farflung Tawi-Tawi are a joy to watch from above. Without vestiges of humanity, they showcase on what is still pristine and immaculate.
an islet near Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, Sulu archipelago, the Philippines
check out my 10 tips in aerial photography, part 1 in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
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The purple heather and the blue-toned distant peaks,
the dark-green pines and the spiky sedges and rushes,
sandwich a treasure of nature as ferns and silver birch
metamorphose into their burnished golden apparel.
“Glorious,” is too weak a word to describe such glens in autumn.
For pure, natural, vivid colour, Cannich, Affric and Strathfarrar
are truly inspirational…… world class.
Your many miles of travel will be well rewarded.
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High stratus clouds allow shafts of sunlight
to beam off the sea in a glow of burnished gold.
Four miles across the mouth of Loch Hourn,
the familiar silhouetted headlands
spike, dagger-like, into the Sound,
from the remote peninsula of Knoydart.
The Isle of Eigg, on the horizon,
and one of the Sandaig Islands, in the foreground,
float on a pewter-grey sea.
Mesmeric beauty and soulful bliss.
Arltunga is located on the 5 000 hectare Arltunga Historical Reserve. Arltunga was officially central Australia’s first town, that was born out of a gold rush after gold was found in dry creek beds in the surrounding areas during 1887. Arltunga was producing gold until 1913 when production stopped. The area is now open for exploration and is filled with many old ruins. The police station and jail (displayed above) was restored after rumours were told of gold being hidden within the walls that were later destroyed in search of it.
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Track leading to as well as the abandoned mines in the Central Harts Range, Central Desert region, Alice Springs, Australia. The track and walking trail extends from Atitjere Community to the Spotted Dog and Disputed mines on Mount Palmer.
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Serrated, dog-tooth ridge.
Wall of rock.
Gabbro and basalt.
Ten mile volcanic tee.
Remnant of a super-volcano.
Glacially scoured.
Massive striated bluffs.
Pot-bunker-like corrie lake of Coire Lagan.
Great Stone Chute.
Two thousand foot boulder path of ice-riven debris.
This is what makes such a climb memorable and magnificent.
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The Ardnamurchan Peninsula protrudes for over 30 miles
out into the realms of the mighty Atlantic Ocean.
It is remote, beautiful and unspoiled.
It is the site of an eroded, gigantic and extinct volcano
that may have reached in excess of 20,000 feet.
In the 60 million years since it erupted
immense and continuous erosion has left
but remnants of its former self.
Around these fragments is a coastline of unparalleled beauty.
Fjords, mountains, cliffs, islands, headlands and beaches
fringed by forests of Ancient Oaks and Mosses, Rhododendron and Azalea.
Sanna Bay is one of the jewels in the crown.
Further west than Land’s End and on the same longitude as the Scilly Isles,
the beach and island views here, are sublime.
Few get this far, but their efforts find a true paradise.
Unforgettable.
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What a mountain!
One horseshoe ridge around Loch Toll an Lochain,
made up of ten tops or sub-peaks.
Torridonian Sandstone over 500 million years old
on a base of Lewisian Gneiss up to 3 billion years in age.
North and south of the ridge, the slopes plunge precipitously, 3,000 feet, to corries and lochs like Loch na Sealga.
Here, from the highest point, Bidean á Ghlas Thuill, 1,062 metres (3,484 feet) we look back at the serrated arête we have just traversed.
The views in all directions are stupendous.
West, we can see Gruinard Bay and the Scoraig Peninsula.
North-West is the Summer Isles and Coigach.
North are the monoliths of Assynt in Sutherland.
East, Ben Wyvis (1,047 metres.)
South-East, Sgùrr Mor (1,110 metres) and the mountains of Affric and South, the Torridon Range and the Cuillins of Skye.
Probably, the most dramatic and impressive mountain in
Britain.
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The West Coast of Scotland starts so green, low and mellow on the golfing links of Ayrshire.
So verdant, forested and peaceful in the convoluted yachting havens of Argyll or Dalraida.
By Lochaber the Nevis Range dominate the mountain backcloth of long “Sounds” and sea lochs.
Ardnamurchan, Arisaig and Morar provide the balmy silver sands and island vistas of so many films and documentaries.
Knoydart to Torridon provides the harsh bare rock and steep slopes of fjord-like sea-lochs.
Gairloch to Gruinard is a series of broad bays backed by distant mountain vistas.
Sutherland is unique.
From an endless swathe of “knock and lochan” hinterland, the low-hill profile is dramatically broken by stark, ominous, monolithic mountains rising from the ancient bedrock like the back of a monstrous dinosaur rising from its slumbers.
Here in Assynt the coastline is undramatic but austere.
Ancient, bare-rock headlands are pristine and pure,
punctuated by dazzling, isolated bays of silver-white sand.
Beautiful, but quite unpretentious.
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Glen Shiel has many “Munros,”
culminating in the glorious ridge
called, “The Five Sisters of Kintail.”
About half way along the valley,
on the southern side, is typified by the rocky, rugged, ragged nature of these illustrious peaks.
In spring, snow can still dominate on slopes over 200-300 metres.
The combination of green and yellow foliage,
azure-blue lochs and gleaming white peaks,
makes spring a favoured time to enjoy vivid colours and contrasts.
Roche moutonnée, like the one on the right,
often bear the scars of abrasion, scouring and scratching on one side, and the plucking of ice-shattered rock on the other.
Glen Shiel is one of many iconic valleys in the Western Highlands.
The Barkly Tableland is a rolling plain of grassland in the eastern part of the Northern Territory going into the western part of Queensland. It is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory and covers 283,648 square kilometres.
Tennant Creek _77 LR
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Only six miles from Cape Wrath in north-west Sutherland
and a three-mile walk from Blairmore, near Oldshoremore, there is Sandwood Bay.
There is no road to here, only a track.
The three-mile stretch of sand continues well to the south (left) of this image, to cliffs and a mighty stack known as Am Buchaille.
This is one of the most remote beaches in Britain.
So isolated, so serene, so beautiful and so mystical is this place, that local legend suggests that “Mermaids” frequent
its golden sands and dunes.
Sandwood Loch sits in a hollow landward of the beach
and flows via a short burn, across the beach and into the bay.
It is the only beach I have ever visited that filled me with a
spiritual sense of pure, wild, unspoiled nature.
Superlatives fail me, but……wow!
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Remote. Wild.
Rocky. Unspoiled.
Isolated. Peaceful.
Hilly. Mountainous.
Island-strewn. Bays.
Headlands. Landing Piers.
Dwellings-past and present.
Deep. Shallow.
Austere. Wildly beautiful.
Moorland. Wooded shores……
Such is Loch Morar.
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None of the mountains of Assynt reach 914 metres or 3,000 feet.
Yet, rising steeply, as they do, from a low, hilly, lochan-strewn base, they appear to be twice their actual height.
This landscape, in Sutherland, is like no other
in Scotland, Britain or much of Europe.
It always inspires incredulity-
very “other-worldly,”
but also, amazing and intriguing.
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Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
is a protected area of magnificent and beautiful scenery.
Here, from 2,385 feet above the glorious Loch Katrine
we peer west to see the distinctive peak of Ben Lomond
from the summit of Ben Venue (727 metres.)
On the right horizon, fading in the haze,
are the peaks known as the Arrochar Alps,
above and to the north-west of Loch Long.
Views in all directions leave the senses
almost overwhelmed, but very impressed.
This upload brings to mind a recurring thought: Man, my images are so (ridiculously?, interestingly?) varied. Will I never settle down into one, two, or even 10 types of photography? I guess if someone paid me to shoot farflung landscapes or championship sporting events, it might happen.
The one more painful activity the women flock of the area has to undergo is fetching water for domesting and drinking usage, in the region of Nangarparker. They have to travel to farflung area just to arrange this basic necessity for their use.
i'm working on a FARFLUNG/White Hills split 12 inch and i'm psyched that they are using the art from a poster i did for them awhile back.
The other side will be the White Hills design.
can't wait to see & hear this shit!
FARFLUNG:
www.facebook.com/pages/Farflung-official-Site/210883438782
White Hills:
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On a two-week break to the Highlands and West Coast of Scotland,
myself and a friend walked from the seaward end of the Kirkaig Gorge to the Falls, and then further east, to climb
the twin peaks of the iconic, Suilven.
The Kirkaig Falls are an impressive sight
and the river is a roaring torrent
of white-water and rapids.
Sutherland is an amazing county.
and this is just one of many
incredible landscapes in the far north-west.
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Probably the finest ten-mile ridge
of 1,000 metre plus mountain-climbing in the U.K.
The Black Cuillin are the truncated base of a 20,000-foot plus
Super-Volcano that blew its top over 60 million years ago.
The force would have matched the Krakatoa explosion and sent lava over 40 miles in some directions.
Today, this Gabbro igneous rock, with basalt intrusions and dykes, is a traverse, par excellence.
What makes it outstanding is that it occurs on the Isle of Skye,
one of the most outstanding islands in the world.
Views take in expanses of over 100 miles from Sutherland to Mull, Rum and Eigg to the Outer Hebrides, Ben Nevis to Slioch and An Teallach.
Bays, cliffs, beaches, headlands, peninsulas, islands
mountains, glens, forests, lochs, rivers and coastline
along a hundred-mile stretch of the North-West Highlands.
Truly world-class, and totally awesome!
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High level tops.
Purple heather.
Mosses and peat store much water.
Joints in limestone or sandstone
are found by the fallen rain.
A trickle becomes a surge.
A surge becomes a torrent.
Rocks are moved.
Rocks break rocks,
thousands of times.
Rock becomes sand, silt,
clay, minerals-alluvium.
The valley deepens as the beck
weaves its course through the dale.
In the hollow, trees grow in a sheltered,
watered enclave.
Sheep graze.
People visit this other world.
Such is the North York Moors.
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Almost 1,900 years old.
Sixty miles long.
Built by the Romans to quell raids by the Scots from their northern land.
Much diminished in height for stone in subsequent structures.
The wall well south of the modern English/Scottish border often follows natural features.
Where a volcanic dyke or sill produced a rocky ridge the barrier would be enhanced in its difficulty.
Not the Great Wall of China but with very much the same purpose.
The Barkly Tableland is a rolling plain of grassland in the eastern part of the Northern Territory going into the western part of Queensland. It is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory and covers 283,648 square kilometres.
Tennant Creek _93 LR
Giant sculpture of an Aboriginal people
Situated 123km north of Alice Springs, Aileron is a great rest stop along the Stuart highway. It offers meals, accommodation, fuel and is located close to many historical reserves. The 17 metre tall statue created by Mark Egan that calls Aileron home was erected in 2005 and took 18 months to construct (along with the Hollywood style Aileron sign). The woman and child were then erected December 2008 to demonstrate the size and scale of the man overlooking the small establishment.
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NEW for Mainframe, opening Jan 20th!
The infinity couch lives up to its name with countless options for assembly! The Outpost version is worn brown leather and grungy metal - perfect for rundown spaceships and farflung cantinas!
There is an adult and a PG version. Adult animations can be previewed at the mainstore, and the PG version is out at the event.
Included in the kit:
-Couch 2 LI - Seats 2 independently, plus couple anims
-Chair 2 LI - Seats 1, plus couples
-Chaise 2 LI - Seats 1, plus couples
-Filler Chair (no anims) 1 LI
-Coffee Table 1 LI
-Short Side Table 1 LI
-Long Side Table 1 Li
-Glow Lamp 1 LI
-Glow Lamp Tall 1 LI
-Corner Wedge 1 LI
Includes a color HUD to easily pick glow color and intensity of the decor pieces.
The seats can function separately, with or without side tables, or be fitted together into a massive club couch! The coffee table also perfectly fits the Holopole without base for adult establishments!
Copy/Mod/Original Mesh.
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Stark.
Rugged.
Brutal.
Uncompromising.
Awesome.
Wild.
Untamed.
Wonderful.
Old, hard, striated boulders.
Coarse grass.
Hardy Heather.
Lone pine.
Steep, snowy, sinister rock-faced mountainside.
Dramatic.
Moving.
Hostile.
Fantastic.
Glen Cannich.
Magnifique!
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Llyn Idwal is a lake in a giant cwm or glacially sculpted,
bowl-like valley, in Gogledd Cymru (North Wales.)
Amazingly, the rocks of the mountains here
were beneath an ocean 450 million years ago,
in the Ordovician Period.
As a result of volcanic activity the huge slabs of rock
above Lyn Idwal are known as “The Idwal Slabs.”
They are complex containing layers of ash,
marine sediments, intrusive rhyolites,
where magma has been exposed following later erosion
and pyroclastic breccias,
large angular rocks and pumices.
The mountain scenery here is very impressive and Eyri National Park
receives hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
IN A SMALL UNDERGROUND CRYPT in the Allegheny Mountains lie the mortal remains of a fascinating Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.
Dubbed the “Apostle to the Alleghenies,” Demetrius Gallitzin gave up a life of aristocratic privilege to become a missionary on the farflung American frontier. Mostly forgotten, he’s now under consideration for sainthood.