View allAll Photos Tagged Soding
The Prairie Homestead in Philip South Dakota is the original home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brown who homesteaded this 160 acres in 1909. Mr. Brown used cottonwood logs (a native tree) for his homestead home. The beams are the original ones he used. The log front is also original. He plowed buffalo grass sod for the upper walls of his home.
PsP gallery (buy PsP pictures on SmugMug)
PsP (Wordpress)
500px
www.instagram.com/pspimages4u/
Shutterstock
DBSO 9702 gets away from Frome with 37612 pushing at the rear forming 3Q14 10.28 Westbury-Westbury (via Weymouth).Obviously I had no info on which way round this was !
Soda Candy Luncheonette. New York City. December 29, 2017. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Street scene in winter light on the Upper East Side, Manhattan
Today's photo takes us back to the urban world again, and away from the world of winter migratory birds that I have shared more recently. The photograph is from our weeklong visit to New York City between Christmas and (almost) New Year's Day. It was a cold week! As we usually do, we went out and wandered Manhattan quite a bit — hard to do street photography without going into the street! Daytime highs made it (barely, and not always) into the low 20 degree range, but we fought back by layering up and by stopping frequently for refreshments in warm places. Not that the latter is a bad thing!
I made this photograph on one of those cold days. We had queued up to get into the Guggenheim, but the line wasn't moving at all. Standing there in the bitter cold and strong wind, the thought of finding a place with warm soup suddenly occurred to us, and we left the line and found food. Feeling warmer now, we headed back out onto Lexington and walked south. When I first spotted this place, somewhat interesting in its own right though not quite unique as a structure, the words on the sign caught my attention: "Soda Candy Luncheonette." Then I noticed the nice light coming up Lexington and the interesting arrangements of pedestrians as they walked past.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
Blog | About | Flickr | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | LinkedIn | Email
All media © Copyright G Dan Mitchell and others as indicated. Any use requires advance permission from G Dan Mitchell.
A man in old aleppo pull his bike in front of damaged building 2018
رجل في حلب القديمة يجر دراجته اما مبنى معطوب 2018
The El Sod crater lake is the property of the Borana people. Traditionally, they have the monopoly for extracting salt out of the mud in the crater lake. Other tribes do not have the right to extract salt and if found doing so, they face severe punishment. Because of the acidity of the water, men work completely naked to dig up the salt from the muddy bottom of the lake. Sometimes they have to immerse the whole body in order to reach the salt. For this reason some men put plugs in their nose. Depending on the season, the salt can be very dark, nearly black, and only suitable for animal consumption, or nearly white and good for human consumption.
A sod roof or turf roof is a traditional Scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards. Until the late 19th century, it was the most common roof on rural log houses in large parts of Scandinavia. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the vernacular architecture of Finland and the Scandinavian peninsula. The load of approximately 250 kg per m² of a sod roof is an advantage because it helps to compress the logs and make the walls more draught-proof. In winter the total load may well increase to 400 or 500 kg per m² because of snow. Sod is also a reasonably efficient insulator in a cold climate. The birch bark underneath ensures that the roof will be waterproof.
By now the sun has come round further and I get the best shot of the day so far.East Coast HST 43316 with East Midlands Trains stock heads north to Aberdeen.
Another example of the brilliant color we saw in the Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia... This was on the Bear Rocks Trail. The low red shrubs in the foreground are huckleberries.
Dolly Sods Wilderness Area, Monongahela National Forest. This was the venue for sunrise photography two of the three mornings of the Potomac Highlands Photography Workshop I participated in September 11-14 (offered by Randall Sanger Photography), but we had heavy cloud cover and fog both mornings. Happily, the setting is beautiful whatever the weather -- but I'd still like to catch a great sunrise there. (Time in EXIF data is standard, rather than daylight, and I did not reset the camera's clock.)
Press "L" for larger image, on black.
This is a shot I took while Adam was changing our flat tire in the Dolly Sods Wilderness a few weeks ago.
The shot isn't anything special, but I think it shows the stark beauty of the area. It's mostly rocky and barren with a few windswept pines hanging on. The flats are covered with blueberry bushes and the area is especially beautiful in the fall when those bushes turn crimson red.
Another thing you notice about Dolly Sods is that it gives you a great opportunity to look down on the shorter mountains all around.