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Tiny hair-like structures of salt grow and combine to form the salt flats at Badwater in Death Valley. Here is a wider view of the same area showing how the salt combines to form geometric pools.
Photo taken in the Badwater area of Death Valley National Park (California, USA).
A Second World War pillbox near Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. Visual would have been in the front line of a cross-channel invasion in 1940. I am sure the pillbox would have been valuable then as a defensive structure. Recent scholarship has reached the conclusion that the castle was built to provide an illusion of martial strength rather than as a major fortification. Perhaps the brick pillbox was also to give more a feeling of security?
Inspired by Stephen Shore's gorgeous photo; U.S.10 Post Falls, Idaho and it's lyrical beauty and acceptance of the world around us I went this morning searching for just such a scene.
I looked for a location with minimal expression and inherent beauty, yet without drama. Found it 16 miles away.
Some photos are created in a snap or two. this one took me 10 minutes to compose and click.
Full of elements, yet those puddles are the most important ones.
They give your eyes a runway to take off and escape this place.
[...] I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show [...]
-- Quote by Andrew Wyeth
Nikon D200, Samyang 8mm, f/3.5 fisheye, 8mm - f/8 - 1/125s - HDR 5xp +2/-2EV
Rome, Italy (November, 2016)