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This is an amazing location - a bridge over a double waterfall. I thought about walking over this bridge when i was visiting, but then i had a different thought - what if it's better to not know the possibilities rather than see what reality is? This place had me always wondering, and by not going up there this day, I'm still wondering where this path starts and where it ends. It's something i think i like photography for when you haven't visited a place - your mind extends beyond what was and what could be
Taken with a Converted Nikon D7000.
Torniechelt "little hill of the concealment"
Derelict farmstead on the Cabrach near the Cairngorms.
An Abandoned Farmstead
I have to emphasise I do not know the actual reason for this particular abandonment which could be much more recent judging from the debris about the site though some building are clearly more decayed than others here but,
This from the Web:
news.gov.scot/news/impact-of-ww1-on-scotland
Land issues in the Highlands and Islands
The land raids
The Crofters Act of 1886 ended the Highland Clearances and meant that crofters could not be suddenly evicted from land they rented from the landowner. However, poverty and shortage of good quality land meant that protest and discontent continued in the Highlands.
When the war ended, many soldiers from the Highlands and Islands returned home with the firm belief that they had been promised land as a reward for fighting for their country. When this land was not given to them fast enough, many began land raids.
Land raids involved men occupying land they believed they had a right to work on, without the current landowner’s permission. Returning soldiers simply ‘squatted’ on land throughout the Highlands. Some cited an old law which they claimed gave them the right to the land if they could build a wooden shelter and a hearth on which they could make a fire.
Government response
In response, the government passed the Land Settlement Act of 1919. It stated that land would be made available for men who had served in the war. This left the problem of how to obtain enough land to provide. For the Act to be successful, land would have to be purchased from the current owners but the government could not afford to do this.
Land raids continued and the government was in a difficult position. It was too expensive to meet the demands of the ex-servicemen and to punish the land raiders would be very unpopular. However, to do nothing about land raiders would undermine the authority of the government.
By the end of the 1920s the problem of land ownership, overcrowding and poverty had still not been resolved in the Highlands, and many people saw emigration as the only option.
In the period between the two World Wars, Scotland had the highest emigration rate of any European country. Many Scots saw emigration as an escape from unemployment and poverty in the Highlands and also from the depressed industrial areas of central Scotland.
The Empire Settlement Act of 1922 provided the first large scale government assisted migration programme. It was intended to boost the rural populations of Canada and other parts of the British Empire. Subsidies were paid to emigrants who agreed to work the land for a certain period of time.
The Canadian government actively encouraged emigration from Scotland by promoting their country. Full-time agents encouraged emigration to Canada from offices in Glasgow and Inverness.
The 1931 census showed a drop in Scotland's population for the first time since official records began in 1801.
Side roads and sidewalks are all that remain of the lower housing complex for Stewart Air Force Base. In the 80's when this was Stewart Army Sub-Post and my Army Reserve Unit was here, the houses where inhabited by army families. All gone now
The pathways around Thursley Common weave around an amazing landscape.
This was the result of a day playing during social distancing.
We see the sun, we gotta run
towards the wonderland
the only way where we belong
the search will never end..
Looking through my old shots, I stumbled upon this one. I remember it was such a beautiful day by the sea; I went there with my sister and there was this beautiful sunset, and I truly could not stop taking silhouette pictures.. they were very memorable few minutes, as if the sunshine was reminding me not to lose hope in finding happiness again. I was really depressed back then, but it's moments like these that got me through that summer.. at the end it stayed a memorable, very special summer in my heart, one of the hardest but most special ones. I felt so alive back then. Does that make any sense? I don't know, but it surprises me up to this day, and I love remembering these moments through my pictures..
The McDougal Church in Morleyville (between Calgary and Banff) was built in the early 1870s an renovated in the 1950. It's one of the oldest churches of its kind that is still in its original location.
Can you believe the lack of snow in this area?
A Hoboken/Journal Square PATH train approaches it's western terminus, Journal Square, running along the 4-track cut through Jersey City.