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Explore #75 - 04.02.2009
This the pathway by the river that I take every day on my walk to the beach and back. Flanked on one side by a regenerating dune area and on the other by protected wetlands, its a peaceful relaxing walk. The roof of my house can just be seen in the distance to the left of the stand of Totara trees.
Photo of the rock cairn, driftwood and the surrounding sea stacks, with Abbey Island in the far background, captured at Ruby Beach via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24mm F/2.8 Lens. Olympic National Park. Coast Range. Olympic Peninsula. Jefferson County, Washington. Late December 2016.
Exposure Time: 1/4 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None
I've chosen this image to share today as I have just read of the decision of site director Gabriel Zuchtriegel to limit daily visitor numbers.
The first Sunday in October this year saw over 36,000 people enter the gates - greater than the original population of Pompeii in the 1st century.
Roman history and especially sites such as Pompeii have fascinated me for decades. I have been so lucky to have visited back in the 1980s, then twice more, the last time being when I took this shot in January 2013.
The first two times were in summer and even then it was very pleasant with small sprinklings of tourists and one could spend all day there, observing, learning, taking it all in. Now it sounds horrific.
I worry about the preservation of the archaeology and I for one, applaud this recent decision.
This was a tiny back street in an area that not many tourists make it to. In this shot, Vesuvius can be seen in the distance. One can also see stepping stones placed by the city builders that allow pedestrians to cross paths and streets without getting wet or dirty.
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Macro Mondays and the theme of "Board Game Pieces".
For this theme I surmised that there will be quite a few images of Chess pieces and other well known board game pieces so I decided to use on of my wife's board games that should be less popular.
The objective in "Pathways" is to join together the coloured pieces which are three blocks long each so your pieces make a chain the entire length of the board. One colour from top to bottom and the other from left to right. Eventually one colour will block the other and win.
I wanted as much in the image as possible so I focussed the lens at 3 inches and moved the camera up or down and the scene forward or backward until I was happy with the composition. The board was framed from corner to corner.
The box lid is used for the background to add more interest. Next I shot at different apertures and eventually decided on one that gave less depth of field which was the opposite of what I started thinking of.
There's a Lady who knows...
read from the mighty tome
only now the sunlight shows
a very different way home
A lateral inclination announces the Sun
a liberal view confirms recognition
a thankful sound comforts whats yet to be done
a thankless task confronts a Seasons transition
Yet...in the shadow of a Winter Lime
without motion, not a breeze to tease
this minutia is calling this time
spellbound months now ready to appease...
by anglia24
© 2007anglia24
Explore: Feb 14, 2007 #99
Aizu Painted Candle Festival
会津絵ろうそくまつり
At the Aizu E-Rosoku Festival, there were also lights illuminating the pathways like this.
会津絵ろうそくまつりでは、このように通路を照らす灯りもありました。
Aizu-wakamatsu city, Fukushima pref, Japan
This is my favorite part of the entire Japanese Tea Gardens in Golden Gate Park. When the stones are wet, the ground looks like a river. It's ethereal.
2024-09-10, Day 4
An unnamed creek that drains the ice fields surrounding Mount Hoge fans out to reveal the many pathways chosen over the course of hundreds of spring floods as the water readies itself to join the Donjek River which is out of the frame to the right, Kluane National Park, Yukon.
Once the Glacier first came into view, its vast terminus dominated the landscape for miles as we pushed our way southward along the River’s east bank following game trails that bore the signs of Grizzly, Moose, and what were likely Wolf tracks. Though the days remained long, evening began to introduce herself, trailing tresses of lengthening shadow and rich colorful tones. We traveled further than expected on the previous day, so we thought to make camp in a place with a captivating view and stop early enough to allow time to explore the River and the place where the ice arrived at the end of its tortuous and crushing journey.
On the terrain east of the river where we walked, swales filled with sedge and lined with willow ran in narrow strips between heaved, billowing ridges comprised of moraine, cast-off material flung by the immense, sculpting artistry of the mountains themselves. Cresting one of these hills we encountered the scene here, where the ravages of the spring floods presented themselves overtly, leaving no doubt that powerful currents shape this place and give it its life.
After descending through the golden foreground trees and negotiating the cut-bank to gain access to the floodplain, we searched the opposite bench for a place to pitch the tent. Rather than immediately finding anything suitable for the tent, I noticed the print of a Grizzly’s rear foot hardened into the mud - it was more than a foot long (30+ cm) and likely 7-8 inches wide (18-20 cm). Clearly made by a large creature. Just a reminder to make good choices while living amongst dear Ursus, nothing more. We pitched our tent in the elevated meadow above the opposite side of the creek, then hung the food a good distance away off amongst the spruce trees. Finally, we followed the floodplain to the River to find out just what the ice and water had wrought.
I've been a bit tardy catching up with Flickr after the holidays, but I hope to see folks' recent images soon!
Cook's Meadow, Yosemite, California
This tree arching over a pathway on the edge of Cook's Meadow caught my eye. Trees with fresh new leaves in the spring can often be as attractive as trees with more traditional fall colors. The far background is the southern wall of Yosemite Valley.
I took this last week at Signal Mountain Summit, Teton National Park, Wyoming. Single exposure.
No artificial lighting (light painting) is allowed in Grand Teton NP, but you can use your headlamp to get safely to your shooting location (as well as operational camera lights). Once at this spot I turned off my Petzl Actik Core (350 lumens) headlamp and went to it’s super weak 5 lumens “Max Autonomy” position for this exposure (it actually puts out less light than that silly red exposure indicator light on the back of my Canon camera!).
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Mont Saint-Michel has this unique entrance pathway, making it look like pathway to a castle. It does as well look like a castle.
Pathway up the side of the quarry at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Antonio, Texas
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