Noone knows if behind this stonework is original opening out or special cave now filled with sand

Still some more from the manmade cave, believed to be carved out by celtic munks some time before norse settlement in Iceland

Thanks the farmer owning the caves today we were aloved to spend a lot of time photographing. We came in from rain and after being here for about two hours i saw that the steam from our breath and wet cloths was making thin fog.

Then it had to be time to say thanks and head to the city after the adventures of a good weekend.

Still some more from the manmade cave, believed to be carved out by celtic munks some time before norse settlement in Iceland

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This is named the altar and around one can see carved old norse runes and newer names or initials

Still some more from the manmade cave, believed to be carved out by celtic munks some time before norse settlement in Iceland

Drystone walls and field barns in Upper Swaledale

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I'm guessing this controls a sluice somewhere - the blue thing beyond it is on the Ouse river.

Another shot of the SuperTrees and their elevated walkway in Gardens By The Bay.

Challenge #186: Man-made Macro

Riverside of the Nigorizawa that flows into Takase Reservoir.

It is like Sai-no Kawara (賽の河原), which means the riverside between this world and the next, where the souls of children who died prior to their parents are believed to stay. They are forced to build stone cairns that are to be broken down by resident ogres when they are completed. They start over to build new ones to be broken down again. The process continues forever…. It is a Japanese version of limbo.

Here in Nigorizawa, a huge volume of white granite sand carried by the stream forms a large expanse of sandy plain. TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings) wrongly forecasted the volume of incoming sedimentation, and it turned out after the completion of the dam that it would fill the reservoir in decades (^_^;

Now a troop of dump trucks are carrying out the sand every day. They must continue forever like the souls of deceased children in Sai-no Kawara. It is also challenging the financial sustainabilty of the hydropower plant.

I heard the sand from Takase Dam is not suitable for construction material due to light specific gravity. Only possible use is for creating artificial beaches.

The Takase-gawa is a tributary of the Shinano-gawa that flows into the Sea of Japan at Niigata City located 250 km to the northeast. The Japan Sea coast in Niigata prefecture is now suffering from coastal erosion. Many good beaches disappeared over the past decades. It was caused by the construction of dams in its upstream.

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Freiston Shore

The Skyway provides a brief break from a midsummer downpour. Chicago RailLink has one of the rare storage car transfers out of Irondale. This one heads north up the District and is about ready to swing into the BRC's Commercial Ave Yard at Rock Island Jct.

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All seen at Stourhead, NT.

Ballyannan Woods - Midleton Forest, Midleton, Co. Cork, Ireland

Wet Damp Day

This relatively small but still impressive underground cave network was recently built using a tunnel boring machine to form the Guray Seramik Museum in Avanos, Cappadocia, Turkey. When I walked in last year, it just had a soft opening and wasn't in full swing yet - hence the quiet bar area in the pic. Beyond that are the entrance and steps from the outside.

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This bridge is in Sunnyvale, CA.

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closer view to the structures of the terraces following the natural curves of the hills and reflecting the rising sun.

all that still glistens

Illuminated escalator, Spoorplein Heerlen (The Netherlands)

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Taken during a five days trip to San Francisco in august. so many perspectives to catch around that bridge. so many visual progressions. it's an epic object for sure.

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I went out to shoot some birds that I know are often swimming in this area but wouldn't you know, when I got there, there were no birds to be seen. So I was left to just just shoot the water.

Close to Monnickendam, Noord-Holland (The Netherlands)

All seen at Mousehole.

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The extensive grounds of Weston Park were landscaped by Capability BrownThe land on which Weston stands was first mentioned in the Domesday Book, when it was held by Norman Rainald de Bailleuil, Sheriff to Roger de Montgomery. The principal survivor of those distant times is the park which now forms part of the medieval deer park and forest.Sir Henry Bridgeman commissioned Capability Brown to landscape the park in the 18th century.

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I have no idea what the little dam at lake Oldevatnet is made for - but when I found it, I knew for sure it would have to be a black & white photograph!

These falls are such a pretty water feature smack dab in the middle of one of the buiset roads in the Birmingham Alabama area. Still they are a lovely reminder for those Urban folk, that a quiet spot of nature is theraputic.

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