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Rima San Giuseppe. Italy
The great skyline of Monte Rosa Massif, showing here its most impressive flanks: the Southern one and the Eastern one. The big mountain stands above the Divide between the valleys of Sermenza river (the most important feeder of Sesia river) and Anza river, making the other rugged peaks look like small things.
Photo taken from the summit of Cima del Tiglio, a great viewpoint and beautiful hike.
Il massiccio del Monte Rosa si eleva sopra le cime che dividono la valle Anzasca dalla Val Sermenza.
Foto presa dalla sommità della Cima del Tiglio.
High Force is a waterfall on the River Tees, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, England. The waterfall is within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and European Geopark.
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
Prints available to view and order from my website:
High Pass, Mount Larrabee, and The Pleiades as seen from the High Pass trail, Mount Baker Wilderness Area, Washington State.
Fire
above
soaked
under
golden sun
dancing
in
sound vim
of bright skies
and tender breeze
then taste some
under
the
tuscan
suns, good times
warming
joy
freshness
high!
- O.E. Guillermo
As the water levels went down the first Yellow-billed Spoonbill arrived in Braside. We spent some good half an hour together because it had been showing all the signs indicating imminent departure from that tree where he landed shortly after 7 AM. The sun was getting higher and higher, I had the feeling it would fly away from me anyway... Finally I got what I wanted, after all.
(Platalea flavipes) - www.flickr.com/photos/108755156@N05/
David Nice thanks for your subtle correction.
These fences high up on the French Alps always amuse me, as they aren’t always where I as a visitor would put them. For example a few feet to the left there’s a hairy drop and only a rope fence to protect one from a perilous descent, whereas there appeared to be some run off past this. There is I’m sure a very sensible explanation and may a further few feet beyond there is grave danger.
This was taken last Friday and knew that it would be on a Friday that I would post this. The view from this point was absolutely beautiful from every angle.
Thanks for stopping HFF
Austria series: Golden High Tauern
Fall had arrived at the High Tauern National Park: The Larch trees had turned golden, the moutain tops were powdered with the first snow and the marmots had gone to sleep until spring.
Der Herbst war in den Hohen Tauern angekommen: Die Lärchen hatten sich goldgelb verfärbt, auf den Berggipfeln lag der erste Schnee und die Murmeltiere hatten sich für den Winterschlaf zurückgezogen.
High Noon
"It's the End of the World as we Know it" - R.E.M.
That's great it starts
with an earthquake
Birds and snakes
and aeroplanes
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
All tied up, no more love and I'd hate to see you waiting
Had to have high, high hopes for a living
Shooting for the stars when I couldn't make a killing
Didn't have a dime but I always had a vision
Always had high, high hopes
Had to have high, high hopes for a living
Didn't know how but I always had a feeling
I was gonna be that one in a million
Always had high, high hopes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXIgEAGe4U
(mood of the week o/)
p.s. envy i tagged you, cuz you're all i think about when i hear this song lol - our plans for domination brother :P
pose by wetcat (me)- (solitary set) taken at my home ^^.
In Grand Portage State Park, High Falls is the highest waterfall in Minnesota and it separates Canada from the US. It was misting so much that we were soaked before we even saw the falls!
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.
After a marvellous Spring walk along the ridge of High Rigg, you are blessed with this wonderful view across to the North Lakeland Fells.
From the left you have the distant Bassenthwaite Lake then the mass of Skiddaw, Lonscale Fell, the wonderfully named Glenderaterra Beck Valley, then the mass of Blencathra with its many ridges running down to the village of Threlkeld.
If you zoom in you can even see the ancient Castlerigg Stone Circle in the green field below the left flank of Skiddaw, (or just left of the White Farmhouse Buildings). The small tarn in the centre of the frame is Tewet Tarn.
This was a walk I had not done before and thanks go to Terry Roberts, who I accompanied together with our American Flickr pals Brad and Barb Eide who were over for a taste of the UK in Spring. A great afternoon after my dawn start up in Langdale.
This was hand held 12 shot pano shot in portrait mode.
Prise pendant un vol de montgolfière
Taken during a hot air balloon flight
IN HIGH PLACES Mike Oldfield
"Look down from in high places
Lift off the ground without a sound, yeah
We move through open spaces
The wind, it pulls The sky gets close, yeah
Could we get much higher?
Could we get much lighter?
Navigator to heaven"