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Converted to Fuji Neopan 100 Acros
Leica M9
50mm f0.95 on ISO 250 at 32 sec at f4
Lee Big Stopper + Lee Coral Grad
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Orkney Wartime Orkney
Orkney played an important part in both world wars. The British Grand Fleet used the great natural harbour of Scapa Flow as a northern base in World War One. In June 1916, Lord Kitchener, the Minister of War, left Scapa Flow on board HMS Hampshire. Near Birsay, the Hampshire struck a mine, and just 12 men out of 665 survived. The Kitchener Memorial at Marwick Head near Birsay commemorates the loss. After the armistice, seventy-four ships of the German High Seas Fleet were interned in the harbour for ten months. During this time, they became a tourist attraction. In June 1919 Admiral von Reuter, the German Officer in command at Scapa Flow, gave the order for the German fleet to be scuttled. They all sank. Many of the German battleships were removed and in the 1920s, the firm Cox & Douglas began salvage operations, lifting many of the ships. Only eight scuttled ships now remain in the Flow but they remain a tourist attraction for divers.
You can still see the legacy of World War Two above the sea and travel across the Churchill Barriers, causeways to the linked South Isles. In 1939 a German U-boat broke the Flow’s defences and torpedoed HMS Royal Oak with the loss of 833 lives. Winston Churchill ordered the eastern entrances to the Flow to be sealed. The barriers were constructed by Italian POWs based on the islands of Burray and Lambholm. Their legacy is the Italian Chapel, Orkney’s most visited tourist attraction. This iconic building formed from two Nissen huts symbolises hope and peace. Artist Domenico Chiocchetti and fellow craftsmen created a masterpiece with a wrought iron rood screen, a painting of the Madonna and Child, a concrete statue of George and the Dragon and even lanterns made from bully-beef tins.
All around the Flow you can see fascinating remnants of the wartime defences and Orkney’s amazing wartime heritage. At the Scapa Flow Visitor Centre and Museum at Lyness Pier in Hoy you can hear oral history accounts, see film footage, view photographs and enjoy a café and shop. Up to 60,000 servicemen and women were stationed around Orkney during the war.
Remains from an earlier war can also be seen in Hoy at Hackness Battery and Martello Tower. They were built in 1813–14, at the height of the Napoleonic War to protect the Pentland Firth.
50th Anniversary
The Main Garden
At the heart of the garden, Borde Hill House, an Elizabethan Tudor mansion from 1598, provides a superb backdrop to the formal 17-acre Garden which flows into a series of linked ‘garden rooms’, each boasting its own distinctive character & style.
For over 100 years the plantings have evolved with the vision of seasonal colour and interest to compliment the plantings of Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Camellias and Magnolias. The Rose Garden and herbaceous borders add a blaze of colour and the sub-tropical Dells have an air of tropical mystery, whilst sheltered areas within a mature landscape bring unexpected delights
History
The Garden was created in the early 1900’s with plants gathered by the great plant collectors from their travels to the Himalayas, China, Burma, Tasmania and the Andes – a legacy which today’s visitors continue to experience and enjoy. Listed as Grade II* importance by English Heritage on its register of Parks and Gardens, Borde Hill contains the best private collection of champion trees in Britain and one of the most comprehensive collections of trees and shrubs in the world. In 1999 it won the South East Tourism Board’s prestigious ‘Attraction of the Year’ award, and in 2004 it won the HHA / Christies Garden of the Year.
1598Borde Hill built by Sir Stephen Borde whose family lived in Cuckfield for generations. “SB 1598″ above West porch.
1703Purchased by Walter Gatland with 200 acres for £2,382.
1803Purchased by Mr Randle for £4,700.
1825Purchased by Preston family who added the central portion of the house. Their family crest can be seen in the house and the gate to the Rose garden.
1853House passed to a Major MacAdam via his wife, Miss Preston.
1864Purchased by the Cunliffe Lister family.
1892Purchased by Col. Stephenson Robert Clarke who built the East Wing, altered and restored the central Southern bay windows & added the present porch to the North front door.
1898South Lawn and Ha-Ha created.
1900-
1930The Clarke family were patrons of some of the great plant collectors who went to the Himalayas, China, Tasmania, the Andes and North America.
1902Azalea Ring planted with Knapp Hill varieties.
1905Warren Wood planted.
1906Roadside plantings.
1910Stephanie’s Glade planted.
1925Garden of Allah extended with plants from the collector Kingdon Ward.
1937Expansion of the collection to the outlying woods (e.g. Gores Wood).
1949Sir Ralph &Lady Clarke take up residence as Stephenson R. Clarke died in 1948 aged 86.
1965Garden opens to the public as a registered charity.
1972Sir Ralph Clarke died and was succeeded by his son Robert Nunn Stephenson Clarke.
1987The storm of October 1987 caused extensive damage to the gardens and woods. Robert N. Stephenson Clarke died and was succeeded by his son Andrewjohn Patrick Stephenson Clarke.
1990Victorian Stable Block converted into Restaurant & Tea Rooms and creation of the lakes in the South Park.
1992Borde Hill Garden Restoration Study – Lear Associates / Land Use Consultants.
1994Adventure playground created.
1995Rose garden recreated based on the 1902 designs shown in Country Life magazine.
1997Heritage Lottery Fund donation for restoring the Victorian Greenhouses and access improvements.
2001Harvey Stephens is appointed head gardener.
2002The Potting Sheds are refurbished and given a ‘Southern Hemisphere’ theme.
2003New plantings in The Italian Garden to redefine its Mediterranean inspiration.
200540th Anniversary of the opening to the public of Borde Hill Garden and centenary of Warren Wood.
j'ai mangé des pétales de fleurs blanches servies dans un bol noir, c'était à Guatemala City, chez un ambassadeur... les fleurs et l'ambassadeur étaient exotiques...
Tonight there was one of the best sunsets I have seen in months, unfortunately I was facing away from it! it managed to throw some colour over my way though which was nice!
Messing about with the D700 still, this is a 7 exposure HDR -3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2,+3
Tone mapped in photomatix and processed in Photoshop.
Crap! Just realised I've already got a shot called "Flow"..... I must be running out of name ideas lol :(
Exploring the Niska Trail yesterday.
Looking for signs of spring
This was a "happy accident" I kicked the tripod ...
But I was trying to capture the flow of the river ;-)
Walking on the lava flow. Much of which is obsidian.
Newberry National Volcanic Monument was designated on November 5, 1990 to protect the area around the Newberry Volcano in the United States. It was created within the boundaries of the Deschutes National Forest and is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. It includes 50,000 acres (20,000 ha) of lakes, lava flows, and spectacular geologic features in central Oregon. These photos are taken from the summit Paulina Peak 7,985 ft, (2,434 m). Just below us are East Lake and Paulina Lake and The Big Obsidian Flow, created 1,300 years ago, covers 700 acres. It is hard to fathom as you drive through the summit area that you are within a 17 square mile caldera at the summit of a 500 square mile volcano, a volcano that remains very active to this day. Newberry is both seismically and geothermally active. Geologists believe the caldera sits over a shallow magma body only 2 to 5 kilometers deep. Visitors see numerous cinder cones (over 400 throughout the area), miles of basalt flows, as well as rhyolite flows of obsidian.
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More from Coquina Beach ...
When you leave the boardwalk from the parking area, the first rocks you see are these rather small (comparatively speaking) ones. If you look closely at them, even in this image you can easily see the embedded shells that make up this kind of rock. The tide was going out, as evidenced by the direction the seaweed attached to the rocks is facing. I had to wait awhile for a wave to break with enough force to cause this flow - imagine how cool it would be with the force of an incoming tide!!
For any of you who have been down to Blowing Rocks in Jupiter, this is the same geologic formation.
Happy Tuesday, Flickr world!!