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For several months while and after my relationship was breaking down i did a project at this eerie location in Porlock Bay, as a much needed distraction and fill the long evenings!
It's not the easiest of shoots because the highest tides to capture the full reflections flood the access paths, as well as the old ruined barn and skeleton trees.
The much photographed dead trees are the result of a breech in the shingle bank, which acted as a sea defense; the repeated brine soakings killing from the root-stock upwards over the course of 20 years.
To anyone reading this experiencing relationship break down -- don't hit the bottle, just head for the stars, armed with your camera! (More night shoots to come...)
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I'm not a bird photographer but this little chap was tweeting furiously - and I love Robins.
Luckily zoom lens was in place whilst he waiting for the shot ... then tweeted again before flying off.
There are a growing number of trees dying in paddocks around Tasmania, and this one is in a tree graveyard in the Central Highlands is just a few kilometres from Great Lake. You would not think water would be an issue.
But, there is no evidence that fire has caused these tree deaths (and in fact we'll see the regenerative qualities of fire in my photos tomorrow). Salinity is not a problem in Tasmania as far as I know, although on the mainland of Australia rising levels of salinity is killing trees.
No, the problem here appears to be simply a lack of water under the ground to feed the root systems.
I've borrowed the title here from Aussie artist Nick Cave's superbly dark album "Skeleton Tree". But the lyrics of "Anthrocene" on the same album might be more appropriate:
"Sunday morning, skeleton tree
Pressed against the sky
The jittery TV
Glowing white like fire
And I called out, I called out
Right across the sea
I called out, I called out
That nothing is for free"
by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Marble Canyon after a wildfire raged here many years ago. Want to know more? See my preceding photo.
In 2003 there was a wildfire in Marble Canyon, and 11 years later this is what the place looked like: dead mature trees, but a vivid green undergrowth of young trees are brightening up the place!
This photo was taken from the viewing platform over Marble Canyon waterfall in Kootenay NP (see one of my previous photos). Here you can see the wild and winding water of Tokkum Creek just before it plunges down.
A very late entry for Sliders Sunday.
Not my usual sort of thing but we saw these burnt skeleton trees on our walk today. I thought they looked interesting so took a shot. I added three of my own textures and some birds. HSS
A few tree skeletons remain standing in a meadow years after a fire swept through removing the brush
I had the chance to see Nick Cave's recent film One More Time With Feeling exploring loss and creativity, philosophy and grief, music and humanity not too long ago at The Music Box Theater in Chicago. It was a difficult film to watch in many ways but well worth watching.
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I'm sorry for putting this up twice, but, I will leave it on as it's nice that people are still taking note of this photo
l'albero invernale,nudo, senza foglie, esibisce la stessa struttura della nervatura posseduta dalle sue foglie (quando le aveva) ... lo stesso vale per la struttura delle sue radici: perfetto esempio di frattale in natura...
...faint green glow just above the horizon centre right.
Picture taken at 23:29 hrs on Monday night from a country lane just north west of York.
I pointed my camera due north and hoped for the best!
The clouds on the left of the image are being illuminated by the Moon
Part I
An amazing photoshoot with www.facebook.com/arcfrostcosplay.
I would love if someone could give me constructive criticism about this image. Any suggestions would be rad !!
Although I've been home for two weeks I've had close to no motivation to work on anything. Maybe it's the opioids or school. Always sleeping. Although I am slowly becoming more motivated now :)
Nick Cave's Birthday is Friday but, well, it is already Friday in Brighton, England where he lives and in Australia where he comes from. This Nick Cave is the Bad Seed lead, the masterful performer not to be confused with the performance artist Nick Cave from America who I photographed a performance of earlier this week. Life is so confusing!
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I remember a puzzle my dad used to challenge us to solve when we were kids: "You're locked in a room with no windows, just two doors; one door leads to freedom and the other leads to prison. In front of each door, is a guard - one of the guards always tells lies and the other only ever tells the truth. You're allowed to ask just one of the guards a single question in order to determine which of the two doors leads to freedom so you can walk through it and be free. But what question do you ask - and of which guard - in order to find the correct door that leads to freedom?"
And your time starts........now!...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dhD9zR6hk
I am extremely excited for the new year! I wonder how people think about the new year. The date itself is arbitrary; it has no real meaning. Every new year, I enjoy reflecting on the past year. I do engage in the common practice of making new years resolutions. Mine is simple; it's not a piece of shit. Sounds aggressive. To me, this statement means not being lazy and to try to be a moral person.
As I've written before I enjoy periods of self-reflections. When I think about the last year, there are many things I did not expect to happen. A year ago, I did not foresee my knee surgery. I had no idea I would study and love Anthropology. Or even know the amazing people I would meet this year. Even re-connecting with old friends and learning to forgive others.
All I can hope for in the future is to keep moving forward with the opportunities given me. To continue and be proactive with my life.
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Ok my last one from the archive and not as good as the original www.flickr.com/photos/eddieelm/8427474091/ but worth uploading especially as my reserves are empty. Dublin tomorrow though where I will attempt some street photography!
Alpine wildflowers and a skeleton tree, in Glacier National Park. Moments before, I saw a deer on the side of the road nibbling, but my cameras were all out of film at that moment, so I didn't capture it in time. Flowers instead.
The skeleton tree I refer to is in the background, but looked like the bones of a hand...
Have you seen the movie The Truman Show? Such a wild concept, with the main character growing up in a studio made to look like the real world, with full time actors making him think it's all real, when it's actually for a reality TV show. It's quite entertaining! He says the same thing throughout the movie, "Good morning! And in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"
With that in mind, here's my truman show series, I guess. We start off with a sunrise shot of my fave big tree around us, in my neighbor's yard. A mighty oak!
Magnificent oak tree at the entrance to the arboretum with the moon as a bonus. Enchanted Christmas 2019 at Westonbirt. Old Arboretum. Westonbirt Arboretum, South Gloucestershire, England.
The Mundon Oaks are a group of 'Petrified' Oaks near the village of Mundon in Essex. Access is not as easy as it use to be and the Farmer has now put an electrified fence round with alarms and CCTV......
I appear to have captured two meteors falling together (at the top of the picture).Please note this is a single image.
Taken at Poppleton North Yorkshire UK
It was an exquisite 55-degree December Sunday, so I took my dog Kovacs to the last dog day of the year at the #MortonArboretum. Third time now that we’ve run into a coyote when I’ve been there with my dog. We backed up slowly under its unblinking stare; I’m sure it didn’t want confrontation, just making sure we retreated, but I was a bit nervous being there after that.