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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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Roots release their grip of soil
Trees arise and wander the hills
Their footfalls thunder and shake the earth
Their gathering collective, whispers
Rise to a furious whirlwind
In the arid regions of western India, stepwells were a means to cope with seasonal fluctuations in water availability. Constructed since the 3rd millennium BC, they evolved over time from a basic pit in sandy soil to elaborate subterranean structures, many storeys deep.
The basic design of a stepwell had a well shaft deep enough to provide dependable, year-round ground water. The ground water would be augmented by rainwater during the few weeks of monsoon. Steps leading down to the water kept it accessible throughout the year.
These needed money to build, so unless they were commissioned by queens or kings, they were utilitarian in design. However, the engineering was advanced, and have survived major earthquakes.
Stepwells were one of the of the many traditional ways of efficient management of water resources. With the onset of 'modernisation' these traditional systems have fallen into disuse and disrepair and lost community support.
The few which survive provide a peep into our heritage.
The Borsad Stepwell, in the small town of Borsad, in Gujarat, India, is one such stepwell. It is a non-ticketed monument protected by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI), with hardly any footfall. It is a seven storey stepwell, built in 1497, and the only one I have seen yet with arches.
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New World First Ferry Services Limited (“First Ferry”) operates five main inner harbour and outlying island ferry routes in Hong Kong, including North Point-Hung Hom and North Point- Kowloon City, as well as Central-Cheung Chau, Central-Mui Wo and Inter Islands (between Peng Chau, Mui Wo, Chi Ma Wan and Cheung Chau), together with one special ferry route (plying between North Point and Joss House Bay, Sai Kung during Tin Hau Festival only). First Ferry’s five main routes record a daily traffic footfall up to 38,000 passengers (as of 30 June, 2013)
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📍 Timanfaya National Park, Lanzarote
The Timanfaya National Park in Lanzarote is a little different to the national parks at home!...
As usual, I was on location early... before sunrise. I was the first to park in the car park which I guess alerted a ranger who approached me.
A little research before I arrived informed me that you have have to stick to the paths. I guess this is to keep the mountains looking pristine and not eroded by footfall. I get it. But the ranger told me I could only enjoy the national park by walking the main road. It seemed odd, but I did as he asked, even if it limited my composition options. Days later, I drove the road to see people walking the path! What the...?!!
It was nice to have some cloud on the tops of the volcanos to create a bit of mood... except there was too much to let any kind of dramatic light through. So I worked with what I had :)
Just one more moan! The already low standard of road users in Lanzarote troughed at this point!... We saw hoot toots: stood in the middle of the road for selfies without moving for traffic, U-turn on a main road using a filter lane, people parked on a narrow switchback mountain hairpin, people driving mountain roads with their camera phones out the sunroof, dangerous overtakes... it made Cornwall's emmets seem almost sensible!
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The weather has been a bit variable and so have the spring flowers locally, often later than usual and some affected by the late frosts. There is a small nature reserve 5 minutes walk from home which I often go through & has had good displays of garlic in the past. Whether its lockdowns or just more houses there seems to have been much more footfall through it & unfortunately the garlic now gets very trampled - new "paths" and areas where dogs have gone through it making for the stream through the reserve. I managed to find a small patch with some flowers in good condition and practiced some focus stacking through the bloom with a camera I'd hired to try out.
♫ La Gossa Sorda - "Entre Canuts"
♫ "Games People Play" - Joe South (Keith)
♫ Flamingosis - "Football Head" (Francesc Candel)
♫ AIR - "So Light Is Her Footfall" (Francesc Candel)
♫ Oda o Futbolin Diplomaticos de Montealto xabarin club (Alberto)
As we are listening the footfalls in the night before sleeping
The memories like today’s noisy busy works many beauties at a time
Designed by the same chap that built St Pancras, the similarity is clear to see.
Sadly, the footfall here has been decimated by the Westfield/Intu shopping centre.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
—TS Eliot, Burnt Norton
On Tuesday, I woke up at 7am so that I could start watching inauguration coverage. There was a gorgeous, intense sunrise while I was cleaning up after breakfast, and the sprinklers were on. I told Wolf Blitzer that he needed to shut his yapper, grabbed my camera and ran outside to capture this. Wow! What a great day that was.
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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Oakery Clapper Bridge over the Blackbrook River near Princetown on Dartmoor. The river is a tributary of the West Dart River.
I don't imagine this ancient bridge sees much footfall these days, as it appears to be fenced off within the area of Oakery Farm, which is adjacent to the river.
If anyone knows any different, I'd really like to know myself.
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
again, had to handhold so a bit noisy but a great view (the bridge vibrates quite a bit with passing footfall, and t was quite windy too,
Eventually found this tree tunnel! Apparently it's in the Ashdown Forest 🤔... Don't believe the lies people!! This is in Halnaker, Chichester!
This lane follows an ancient track along the route of Stane Street, the London to Chichester Roman road. Over the years many have walked along this route forming a hollow way, where the path has sunk down, worn away by centuries of footfall.
I would not normally click when the enemy of landscape photography is about. However, blue skies aside, I was passing and it was time for my exercise walk. The Q tree is still there but it does need storm light and clouds to bring out the best of it. A slight consolation to the Corvid restrictions is that the path is not getting pounded by footfall. It is the widest and deepest I have ever seen it- not in a good state.
Here are some shots that did not make it into the last chapter of Edrelle's tale, glimpses of a curious wanderer with painted wings watching the group pass, of the group sharing a few kind words near the imposing sihouette of Whiterun's keep, of a guard standing watch at an outpost among the swaying grass whistling a tune and of a less walked path among frosted pines under falling snow.
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The last of the pictures from Last weekend's Fantasy and Sci Fi costume party, this time of me.
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Kirsty Hawkshaw vs Kinky Roland--Fine Day Reloaded
Early morning mist and dew lie over 'the mound in the dark grove', a Bronze Age passage grave on Anglesey. The ditch in the foreground belongs to an even older, Neolithic stone circle and henge which occupied the site originally.
At first light, on a still, autumnal morning, I stood here wondering about all the other footfalls which had gone before mine.
Interesting sight in Yellowstone this week. I watched a coyote hunting voles in the middle of a herd of bison. I saw the coyote catch three voles in about 15 minutes (including at the end of the midair pounce in this photo). I wondered if the coyote was using the herd intentionally, to improve his chances. Maybe all those buff hooves caused the voles to have to move around and thus be easier to spot, or maybe the heavy footfalls and occasional bellowing made it harder for the voles to hear/feel the coyote's approach. The bison mostly ignored the coyote, although at one point the coyote got a bit too close to a cow who kicked at it to shoo it away. A friend who watched the scene a few minutes after I left actually saw a bison calf chase the coyote for a few seconds, although to no effect.
Viewing this incredible chasm from the new, more restricted trail, reveals one of the older, more precarious paths that hasn't yet been recovered by nature--in Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, Iceland.
Like so many wondrous places in Iceland that tourists once passed by unawares, Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon was 'discovered' by the world through photography and soon overwhelmed with footfalls along every fin of rock and earth along the canyon's rim. The views may be slightly different now, and the paths less trepidatious, but the canyon's beauties aren't lost on or for anyone--present or future.
On this cloudy day, I loved the tiny hints of fall color among the green and sage mosses clumped along the canyon's edges and walls. And, of course, that waterfall snaking its way into the stream below was pretty great too.
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Dzukou Valley - A Perfect Trail To Trekker's Paradise
Dzukou valley is the North East's answer to the popular Valley of Flowers trek. According to the locals Dzukou means cold water, referring to the cold river stream that flows through the valley. Dzukou is situated on the borders of Nagaland and Manipur. However, the trek is approached from the Nagaland side owing to the harsh terrain from the Manipur side coupled with lesser info on the route. The Dzukou campsite is at an altitude of about 2400 meters. The Angami tribe stays around the villages predominantly. The valley is looked after by the Southern Angami Youth Organization (SAYO), a local body.
The best season depends on what you're looking for. If it's the Dzukou lily and abundant flowering then June July 1st week is the ideal. But expect plenty of rain. Then till Sept 2nd week expect plenty of rainfall. Post monsoon season is when the rains subside and the valley sees the most footfall. You'll see greenery and a bit of flowering though till Nov 1st week. The sky will be clear mostly and days will be sunny. Nights will definitely get cold though, ensure to pack in a warm jacket. Winters normally don't see much folks, but you can still visit. You may also plan it as part of your Hornbill festival itinerary. Towards Dec end or Jan expect a layer of snow engulfing Dzukou.
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"Christmas carols, choir, light and sound exhibition, rock music, shimmering lights, delectable food - these are the myriad nuances of Christmas Celebration at Park Street in Kolkata. Christmas in Kolkata cannot be complete without an illuminated Park Street and a mad jostle to get into one of the famed restaurants at the city's entertainment hub. Kolkata will be swinging to the Yuletide spirit like never before this winter. The city's entertainment hub will usher in December with a unique Christmas Carnival, bringing together different communities through music, food and carols at a street mela. To be held at Park Street from December 18th to December 25th, the festival - the first of its kind in the city - will be inaugurated by chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the Allen Garden.
Mother Teresa Sarani, formerly Park Street and still often called by that name, and originally Burial Ground Road, is a street in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India. Park Street has been the recreation zone for Kolkata people since the British era, with many restaurants and pubs. It is often known as "Food Street" and "The Street that Never Sleeps". This road runs from Chowringhee Road in the west to Park Circus in the east. The portion of Park Street between Chowringhee Road and Mullick Bazar has been the one of the city's attractions for years. Park Centre has many shops, and several notable buildings such as the Asiatic Society, St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, a Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the South Park Street Cemetery has cenotaphs and tombs of prominent figures from the British Raj era and Kolkata's Armenian population." - www.westbengaltourism.gov.in
So went the invitation......
Half a million footfalls on the 25th...!!! That's the official count. I personally think it was much higher.
Just couldn't resist a struggle through the "mad jostle" with the camera.....
A better experience can be had at vimeo.com/34210121
Fog fills the silent forest,
damping sight and sound,
my footfalls unremarked,
in the deep Winter sleep.
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
Among the variable and volatile whims of Iceland's weather are moments like these when calm pervades and lazy golden light streams in from the welcome sun low in the western sky--at Vestrahorn, near Hofn, Iceland.
The warm light here looked beautiful on the black volcanic landscape, bringing out rich brown hues, and lighting the scattered clumps of reeds and grasses that managed to survive both the challenging elements and the innumerable footfalls of eager travelers (I found a mostly untrammeled spot here, but the broader dune field--behind me from this angle--was covered in tracks on this day without a vigorous wind to refresh the sands).
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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In the early 16th century a chantry of St. Mary, whose date of foundation is unknown, provided in theory for an additional priest, though the stipend was evidently not sufficient to keep the priest in the parish. In 1933 the £150 realized by the sale of the schoolroom was invested in trust for ecclesiastical purposes. The Church of ST. MARY, a building of stone with a Cotswold stone roof, comprising chancel, nave, north aisle, organ chamber, and vestry, and a western tower with spire, was almost completely rebuilt in 1867 by the lord of the manor, Charles Shapland Whitmore, in the Early English and Decorated styles. It contains, however, an early 13th-century arcade of four bays and a piscina of the same period. The arches of the arcade are of two chamfered orders supported on plain round columns with octagonal scalloped cushion capitals; the easternmost bay may be a 19th-century copy. The piscina has a semi-octagonal projecting basin, scalloped inside. The arcade suggests that the rebuilding was roughly to the plan of the earlier church, and c. 1700 the church had a north aisle and a western tower with a saddleback roof. By 1851 there was a gallery. The church contains monuments, from the late 17th century, to members of the Whitmore family buried in the north aisle. Of the six bells, one is thought to be by Robert Hendley of Gloucester , two are by Edward Neale of Burford, 1683, and three were made in 1866. The plate includes a chalice and paten cover of 1576. Baptisms, marriages, and burials at Lower Slaughter were entered in the registers of Bourton-on-the-Water until 1813.
Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
Eurasian Green Woodpeckers. really are very cool birds. I had a good couple of years photographing these charismatic birds. Sadly increased footfall, post covid coupled with the big increase in Green Parakeet numbers seem to driving them out of the local hotspots for them in Cheshire.
At this point in the game the Hornets were down by two touchdowns and had just had their fourth turnover. Quarterback Phillip Wheatley went on from this down moment to lead his team to three unanswered touchdowns and the win of this state championship game.
This lane follows an ancient track along the route of Stane Street, the London to Chichester Roman road. Over the years many have walked along this route forming a hollow way, where the path has sunk down and worn away by centuries of footfall.
I couldn't resist a quick pit stop during my trip to Sussex a few days ago! The way the light was piercing through the darkness was really something else....
Yet to get the desired footfall, Mumbai's new Metro line 3 (aqua line) is presently a white elephant (shot at 9pm on a Friday evening). While the line is partially open, perhaps the complete line will attract the desired commuter strength.
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Footfalls dwindle.....the flow peters out....time to call it a day.....Ferry service closes by 11:30 pm. As the last boat for the night makes for the opposite bank, a calm descends........
Here are some shots of Edrelle and Honey Stripes taken among those for the tale of the Laughing Fox, a glimpse of them as they left the peaceful village of Riverwood, setting out into the warm hue of the morning rays, the pleasant scent of pine so clear in the crisp air, a carpet of pine needles softening one's footfalls on the rocky path. The gentle wind pushed the stubborn clouds from their perch on distant mountains as one peered across the plain of gilded grasses.
I am starting to build up some shots for a chapter or two, trying to get a little ahead with my shots so I can think more about the actual writing, aiming to resume the tale around next weekend.
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Couldn’t resist a few shots at the Calatrava building in Oviedo, a rather neglected and under-utilised example of his work. Derided by the local residence, this really felt like a white elephant in every sense of the expression, albeit a beautiful one! Footfall was pretty minimal aside from the odd dog walker and so I just waited and hoped, as was the case, that one past the little light Apex to provide the human element.
A frontal view of the Seated Man at Castleton Rigg, taken on our visit in December 2017.
We must have chosen the coldest of days to visit the Seated Man on the North York Moors back in December. A biting, icy wind with snow on the tops! It is a 3 metre high painted bronze statue, created by the artist Sean Henry, and commissioned by the David Ross Foundation. David Ross is the co-founder of the Carphone Warehouse and owns the land that the statue stands on. Some people say it looks like Jeremy Corbyn!
The detail is amazing, seen in person, even down to a wedding ring on his finger!
**The Seated Man is on top of Castleton Rigg above Westerdale. It is visible from the road out of Castleton towards Hutton le Hole. You have to park on the roadside and walk approx. half a mile uphill to reach it.
**AN UPDATE ON THE SEATED MAN. It has been moved to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park 7 miles south of Wakefield. The reason given was it was so popular that the increased footfall up to it was causing too much damage to the moorland.
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I mentioned cliched shots a few posts ago, and this is probably the ultimate one, at least in the UK.
Whilst I have no issue from a photography point of view of any of us trying out take on such a shot, what you can't see is perhaps the biggest problem with popular photography spots, and that's the damage to the surrounding area from footfall - I was shocked at how much the area immediately behind here had been trampled down into flat mud where there should have been heather and other wild folige growing, compared to when I was last here perhaps 5 years ago.
Having had my turn to try my take on it, it may be one place I have to resist temptations on any future return visits to the area and leave it for others who haven't had the pleasure yet.
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Shot by Ed
Taken at Alnwick Gardens, Northumberland.
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The Orkney Islands possess a wealth of ancient historical remains and artifacts, including this astonishing site from the Iron Age, "Broch of Gurness". At present you can walk around and into the central tower here but there can't be long before this is closed off as tourism and sheer footfall becomes prohibitive to the long term preservation of the site.
Hollowmoore Keep is quiet. It is a quiet so unnatural that it commands and occupies attention far more than any sound could. There is rustling of a breeze, for there is no breeze. There are no sounds of birds or animals. No crickets or frogs.
"Do you see aught, Lady Pendragon?"
"Nay, Lord Cogliostro. Nor do I hear aught. Tis most passing strange."
"Aye, tis unnatural. This silence makes every footfall, every clink of armor almost deafening. I feel as if every movement we make puts us in a spotlight."
"Mm. A spotlight that someone, or something is watching."
"I need not advise you keep your spear at the ready, Milady, and I am thankful you are at my side."
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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Cogliostro
1999, McFarlane Toys
Action Toys
Lady Pendragon
1999, Silver Hawk Productions
Cogliostro was last seen in the ill-fated Snoopy directorial effort in BP 2021 Day 59!
Re-arrangement of found cracked common passageway tiles due to be replaced in a 1970s apartment block.
Reminds of some old wives' joke I once saw visualized on a mobile home's rear window sticker, comparing men to floor tiles, that went along the lines " if you lay them right the first time you can walk all over them forever"
Well I wouldn't know that, but a certain part of me kind of understands the "logic" ;-)
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
It is the wind that whispers
Through gates cast open
Whistling through the folly of fences
And o’er walls of yesterday
My shadow recedes from them
Footfalls along a crooked path
To find wonder in the land and the sky
And tread among the fallow and the furrow
To stand precarious
The razor edge
Of sunlight and shadow
Halves my soul
The fine line
Between the ridiculous and the sublime
The pain and pleasure
Of dreams and reality
To fall upon my knees
And know the earth
As a tear might ripple
Upon the puddle of humanity
The cold agony of the past
Swept gentle away
Soothed by the warm caress
As the grasses sway
I inhale the land
And become of it
The dust
And the sweet smell of sage
To know the winds that whisper
Will sweep me forever from memory
Grain by grain
‘til footsteps covered
Yet,
I mourn not the future
For at long last
I am home
Loosed upon the earth and the heavens
Just o’er the horizon
Where dreams still live
And love never dies
---RAM
Rick Malo©2024
Eastbound on the BNSF Transcon.
Lipscomb County, Texas.
April 2023.