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It's 1737m here in Murren, I climbed up from the closed cogwheel train track, over there is Jungfrau (4158m) looms over heavy fog.
Top of Europe
The harbour, known locally as 'Top Tieb', was built in the late 1920s to provide a landing place for boats to and from St Michael's Mount. But the entrance is tricky and narrow and the harbour arm is only accessible an hour or two either side of high water.
Nowadays an amphibious craft travels the five-minute journey between Marazion beach and the Mount, but the harbour is also used on occasions when landing from the beach is impractical.
Marazion is the oldest chartered town in Cornwall. It was granted a charter of incorporation by Henry III in 1257; the charter was renewed in 1595 by Queen Elizabeth. Marazion's modern name derives from the important fairs and markets that existed there until the late medieval period when the town was challenged for commercial supremacy by an upstart Penzance. The Cornish for market is marghas and at Marazion there were two markets, the Marghas Byhgan, the Small Market and Marghas Yow, the Thursday Market. Time has blurred the pronunciations to Marazion and Market Jew, names that have no relevance to historic Judaism.
I seem to remember a few years ago that because of a territorial spat whereby Stagecoach spread south westwards from their traditional old Devon General area, First retaliated by moving into the Torbay open top market. Here in the summer of 2007 one of their converted ex Bristol Roe bodied Leyland Olympians A813 THW heads into Torquay with a less than impressive load.
From the top - a lidded greenware vessel just trimmed on the wheel, and now waiting to be glazed and fired. This texture is fun to see from all angles and shadows. #cy365#captureyour365#potterystudio
Belfast City Sightseeing Volvo Wright Eclipse Gemini SFZ7967.
The full gallery from this three-day weekend in Northern Ireland is here: mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2017/May-2017/Northern-Irel...
I have to do a little trimming to do, but the top is basically done! Now on to basting and quilting.
Calella, Catalunya (Spain). I was on top of the Torretes hill for a sunrise session, absolutely alone - the very few people I had bumped into while walking along the quiet streets of Calella towards the hills were not early-risers but rather (half-drunken) late-stayers :-).
At some point I heard the faint noise of an approaching car winding up a gravel road - it is a distinctive noise, you know, growing and decreasing with the curves of the road. So I discovered that on the opposite side of the hill there was a dirt road leading almost to the towers.
The driver was a middle-aged tall, fair-haired man - a German, I suppose. Some silent greetings, not to disturb the peace of the place. He was there, just like me, to capture the magic of sunrise from that vantage point. He brought out his cell phone and took some shots ( I could hear the "click" at every shot, amplified by silence). Then he made himself comfortable leaning against the wooden structure of the observation point and, forgetting completely the growing fires of the sunrise and the glittering, rippled surface of the sea ... he begun chatting on his phone :-)) So I captured the scene to upload it as a memento: every moment in our life has its top priorities - let everyone determine her own :-)!
Walked all the way to the top of Berlin's Victory Column. Nice to have this view after the extremely claustrophobic spiral steps.
A scene shot from the top of a slickrock mesa in Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
This shot is not hdr. It does allot to show what a solid histogram, luminosity masks and curve adjustments can do for a shot.
Non Flickr notes below.
Remember the Battle of Midway today. If the U.S. would have lost that battle we would have lost the war both in the Pacific theater and the European theater. Although unimaginable to some, and hardly a thought to others, this world would be a completely different place if Hitler would have triumphed in Europe.