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Continuing the theme of "quirky Indiana", today's feature is this old Impala sitting on the top of a metal tower.
One may ask "why", and I don't have an answer. But this is (or was) part of a menagerie of unusual stuff that included a vintage motel sign, old railroad cars and junk trucks. All located at a train station that was converted into a seafood restaurant. The business has since closed and to my understanding most of this stuff have been removed from the property. I'm not sure if this car is still there or not!
Charlestown, Indiana
UPDATE: Unfortunately this car (and everything else) has been removed from the property as of 10/2021.
Penmon point taking a battering at high tide last Saturday morning. Always ignored these cottages in past visits but the fantastic moody light and high tide made for some compelling shots
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Little lion family in the Chobe Nationalpark, Botswana
I take pictures because I like it, not because I am good at it.
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High Pass, Mount Larrabee, and The Pleiades as seen from the High Pass trail, Mount Baker Wilderness Area, Washington State.
The lake of Zurich, from the window of my flight with Avro RJ100 Swiss Air HB-IYZ
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Black and white re-edit of a shot from August 2017. Enjoy!
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Black and white capture of a lonely Tree near Godshill in the New Forest. Canon EOS 77D | f9 | 1/125 seconds | ISO 200 | 400mm | EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
The New Merwede River: protection through depolderization
The Netherlands has long been associated with polders, ever since its engineers became renowned for developing techniques to drain wetlands or reclaim land from the sea and make them usable for agriculture and other development. This is well illustrated by the English saying: “God created the world but the Dutch created Holland.” In an unusual project, one of the famous Dutch polders is being handed back to nature. To reduce the risk of flooding on the New Merwede River, water has to flow faster when its level rises. A large-scale ‘depoldering’ project was embarked upon.
Taking place between 2011 and 2015, this project involves creating a floodplain at the ‘Noordwaard’. This is an area covering approximately 4,450 hectares — approximately 6,000 soccer pitches — in the province of Noord Brabant. Part of the Noordwaard will be ‘depolderized’, restructured and transformed into an intertidal area, through which large amounts of river water will flow to the sea.
Work includes the construction of creeks, dikes, mounds, bridges, pumping stations, roads and channels and a range of soil remediation operations. Sustainable solutions are characteristic features of the approach. Cooperation with local residents, businesses and stakeholders has been crucial to the success of this project.
The number of areas with dike protection in the Noordwaard was reduced and a new ‘Green Wave reducing dike’ was built. To spare the local residents from having to look out onto a higher newly-built dike, a 100 meter-wide willow forest was planted on the river side of the dike. Every other year the willows will be pruned back so that the stumps produce shoots which will catch a large part of the wash. By regularly replacing the willows they are expected to be able to absorb up to 80 per cent of the waves’ energy. Farmers and local residents were given the option of staying in the ‘depolderized’ Noordwaard by relocating their houses and some buildings to the tops of mounds to protect them.
The new landscape will be a resting place for birds throughout the year and the combination of the river discharge and the tides will create opportunities for major nature developments that are unique in Western Europe.
I do love summer too, almost as much as spring. Here's one I took down by the stream in Newhall Valley Country Park, one of my favourite places to visit with Marnie. There's such friendliness here, both human and dogs, so Marnie likes it there too !
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