The Road Less Traveled
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" I have traveled through many storms
Felt the sunlight leave my sky
But I am still here
I have fallen from many heights
Took the time to heal my wounds
And I’m still fighting
And I’m growing stronger
Even when I’m broken
Piece myself back together,
Stand up tall
Fight the fear and carry on
I’m growing stronger ... "
- Fearless Soul -
As I traveled through the Scottish Highlands, I found the many deserted crofts particularly poignant. They stand as a symbol of lost hopes and dreams for me.
"There are some griefs so loud
They could bring down the sky,
And there are griefs so still
None knows how deep they lie,
Endured, never expended.
~ May Sarton
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I have been wanting to post this image for a while but I keep forgetting to do it. Perhaps you think I would have been better off to continue to forget about it but I love it enough to venture on these lesss traveled roads. :)
In the north of Kenya we traveled on dust-roads and corrugated iron tracks. Since the Landy was anything but tight, we always got out of the car covered with dust in the evening. But it was great! Sometimes we pulled a mile-long plume of dust behind us.
Camera: Nikon F90
Film: Kodachrome 200
Scanner: Epson V850 Pro
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Back roads in the Colorado Rockies in the fall with the Aspen glowing everywhere.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend
Thank you for your support and visit!
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
Taken @ Wild Edge
Traveled to some unchartered territories this morning looking for some owls. Almost turned around as I was a good hour North. Found this obliging one. I should have done video is the only regret I had. Got some decent close frames today. :)
"You traveled a long way to find out if the Bloodcroft Family still existed. You traveled up the winding rock path towards their door and it was then, as the clouds seemed to close in around the top of the castle, you realized your curiosity was going to kill you....or leave you undead for eternity." Morbid D.
Coming this weekend to the DRD mainstore......if you dare to make the journey.
This is a GACHA and will be 75L per play.
21 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Grande Chandalabra
5 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Canopy Bed
23 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Crypt Candles - Three, two and one
19 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Coffin - One
39 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Carpet - Three
38 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Grande Fireplace - Short
14 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Settee - Violet
28 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Side Table
27 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Mirror
10 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Desk Chair
9 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Desk
10 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Desk Decor
31 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Long Banner - Red -
22 - DRD - Bloodcroft Castle - Grande Chandelier
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30 - DRD - MM1 - Library Book Pile - RARE c/m
DRD Victorian Musicroom - cello
DRD store
I have traveled up to here several times in recent months, primarily to pass Edge Hill and Allerton depots, looking for new Northern units.. usually out one way and back the other, that is surface/Northern and Mersey Rail.
As i have a Mersey pass, being a resident and age qualified it costs zero... happy days.
At this limit of the Mersey rail system, appropriately named "Hunts Cross" you can detrain from one service, cross the platforms and board another, the Mersey rail frequency is such that you only need wait 15 minutes for a ride back into the City, or where ever you fancy....
What a disappointment. Traveled 6 hours to take this photo, weather said there was going to be plenty of high clouds, great for a sunrise. Well, there were no clouds, and I couldn’t travel all that way and not take a photo, captured just as the sun was peaking over the mountains to the east. A little golden light on the viaduct. I also missed peak color by a week.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Lens: Nikkor Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR
(135mm @ f/16, .6 sec, ISO 100)
Last Saturday I traveled to Whanganui to capture a change in the weather, Whanganui is a historic City, once the 5th largest in New Zealand. The Durie Hill tower is one of the landmarks and looking south you can see the clouds of the approaching front. This and many other images are included in my latest Vlog, the link to which is here
I traveled on Tonle Sap in a very “basic” boat, and was fortunate to find a local boatman, who was able to take me close to shore and “beach” the boat several times so I could see life there as it really was. The family living here supplemented their income by raising pigs seen center foreground. Some were kept in very small crates, others allowed to walk freely in the space between houses. Some of the crates were constructed so they would float tethered to the main home when the lake waters rose to the level of the houses. Because of the change in water levels as the water flows in and out of the Mekong, the houses on the lake are built on stilts to allow for the 8-9 meter rise in the water level during the rainy season.
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
“Para entender todo, es necesario olvidarlo todo”.
"Lo que eres es lo que has sido. Lo que serás es lo que haces a partir de ahora."
Buda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj5IsFtx8tY
Fringe Element - Road Less Traveled
Gracias a todos por vuestras visitas y comentarios.
Thank you all for your visits and comments.
A less traveled road is the road for me.
In just about another week this will start to turn to a golden yellow. Hopefully I can get the right light to show it's true beauty. This one was shot on a dark slightly foggy morning. No matter the light it's a beautiful place to be.
Thanks to all who stop by. Have a safe and fun weekend.
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Road Less Traveled - Lauren Alaina
I traveled the world
Looking for understanding
Of the times that we live in
Hunting and gathering first hand information
Challenging definitions of sin
I traveled the world
Looking for lovers
Of the ultimate beauty
But never settled in
I am a Wanderlust King!
- Gogol Bordello
I traveled all the way from Florida to California in a failed attempt to photograph Bobcats. We, of course, have them in Florida. Recently, a family of Bobcats has taken up residence at a local wildlife refuge, and as such, is more tolerant of humans than would otherwise be the case. I only had a few days to try to get some images any only got lucky twice on several attempts. This one's my favorite.
We recently traveled to Vancouver where I had a chance to capture a few non landscape images. My goal was to explore some of the nooks and crannies around the Vancouver Public Library. Here, steps appear golden from reflected light. This is as a result of "the building's walls that are clad in sand stone coloured pre-cast concrete." It was a superb afternoon working with existing light, shapes, angels, and a few people.
Absolute fun.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Cagle's Chasm
Marion Co. Tennessee
Main pit depth 186'
Natural lighting
I traveled over 20 hours from Georgia to Miami and back for this super rare vagrant from the Caribbean. This is the 3rd recorded spotting of this bird in the US, making it an American Birding Association (ABA) code 5 (Code 6: bird is considered extinct).
In the deeper recesses of Canyonlands, we traveled the bottoms along the Green River. It snakes a corridor of buttes and mesas, sometimes opening up into the flood plains of the side canyons, most of whose interiors are even deeper recesses. But it was up one of those arterioles that we navigated, across rough badlands on a dirt track crisscrossing its wash, another five miles deeper, to the end. We set up camp, in an amphitheater of red rock cliffs, talus slopes, and Wingate monoliths. In the silent witness of desert and sky, even our words were spare. They say there are vortexes, like Sedona, where psychic forces swirl. I have found myself in places that hold a magic of their own, independent of us, where the power of the land just exists in the arrangement of features that somehow sync with our sense of universal order. Perhaps we can’t help trying to humanize that. This was such a place. It is always surprising, this far from civilization and the absence of artificial light, how swiftly the dark descends...twilight seems just a word in passing. I stayed up awhile, fighting off the sleep that long days of exploring bring, waiting for a full moon that would rise behind me. But sometimes these places don’t wait for you, moving on of their own accord. After a time of darkness, moonlight was greeted by the songs of coyotes, and washed down the walls of the circle, spreading across the desert floor. Horizons pushed closer, tendrils of cloud blown ahead in vanguard, pushed by currents I could not feel. We turned under the universe above, all of it powered by forces I cannot explain, that people have prayed to from time immemorial. I awoke in the morning, a new energy pushing the night away, as if I was still in a dream.
I've traveled quite a bit, but I've rarely seen such a location: sea in front, a beautiful coastline and just across the road, an impressive, steep mountain.
Biokovo is the name of the mountain and in the 2 short days of staying there, it had it's peak always covered with clouds.
Haven't got the chance to get to the top, but I've added that to my to do list.
I have traveled for a thousand years across a timeless universe.
I have looked into millions of eyes and escaped shooting stars and falling skies.
I have talked to billions of people, but what led me to you was a simple steeple.
I gazed into your soulfire and felt the cosmos burn.
After hearing your heart song, I made endless wishes, dreamed of blissful kisses, and watched the hourglass turn.
You are an eternal flame yet so much like a comet shooting across my sky.
You come to light me up and then flitter away with the wings of a galactic butterfly.
Your soulfire pulls me in ever so closer to the treasure; the prize.
Feeling the burn as I am lost, once more, in your eyes...
I thought to pair this image with a song, but how can you contain soulfire? It is not just one when it is in them all.
This is a double image of leaves that I took in April. I added a third layer with my star photography that I did back in September of Sagittarius and Scorpio.
I hope you all continue to let your soulfire burn as we head into May and hear the beautiful music of your own heart.
Thank you for the kind favs and comments. I'll come visit your solar system soon.
Still too young to go far, one of the three Barred owlets leave the nest to explore otter parts of its birthplace.
Urban wildlife at its best, this shot was taken at Cherokee Park in Louisville Kentucky. The nest is wedged between a heavily traveled street underneath and popular trails on the other side.
Where Love That Traveled Far Had Found Me
"Remind Me" - Rӧyksopp
And anywhere I go
There's always something to remind me
Of another place in time
Where love that traveled far had found me
We traveled the 27 mile rocky, washboard road to the Racetrack Playa. The playa is three miles long and over a mile wide. It is adorned with the imprint of "sailing stones", rocks that moved in strong winds across the playa in icy conditions after rainfall and left trails of their travels.
We traveled to a remote area which is about a 2.5 hour boat trip from Campbell River, called Bute Inlet. There we met up with local guides who took us out into the wilderness where we were able to view Brown Bears from secure viewing platforms. This one came out of the bush about 3 meters away from us and crossed the river right in front of us, taking the occasional look over its shoulder. It was clearly watching us as closely as we were watching!!!
The Theodore Roosevelt Lake Bridge is a vehicular bridge traversing Theodore Roosevelt Lake between Gila County and Maricopa County, Arizona.[2] Prior to its completion, traffic on Arizona SR 188 traveled directly on top of the Theodore Roosevelt Lake Dam. The bridge's completion relieved traffic over the dam. It had been designed to accommodate the width of two Ford Model-T automobiles, but increasing vehicle widths meant that the dam could only support one-way traffic until the new bridge opened.[3]
Per the United States Bureau of Reclamation, in 1995, along with other bridges such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge, the bridge was listed by the American Consulting Engineers Council as one of the top twelve bridge designs in the United States,[3] and is the "longest two-lane, single-span, steel-arch bridge in North America".[3] The build contract was awarded to Edward Kraemer & Sons, Inc. of Plain, Wisconsin,[1] with an overall total cost of $21.3 million USD in 1992.[3] It was initially painted sky blue, but has since turned white.[4]
Steel material for the bridge was originally a part of the Washington Street elevated in Boston, Massachusetts. When the elevated was torn down in 1987, the steel was shipped to Japan and melted into bars, then shipped again as building materials.[5]
This bridge was the beginning or ending of the Apache Trail, a very scenic dirt road all the way to Phoenix depending on which way you were going. It takes several hours to complete. Our monsoons destroyed parts of the trail some years ago and they just got it repaired and reopened it last year. It is a very scenic drive and worth while taking the trip if you love the outdoors in Arizona. It is one of my favorite drives but not for the faint of heart :)
The Apache Trail in Arizona was a stagecoach trail that ran through the Superstition Mountains. It was named the Apache Trail after the Apache Indians who originally used this trail to move through the Superstition Mountains.
The historic Apache Trail linked Apache Junction (33.4152°N 111.5807°W) at the edge of the Greater Phoenix area with Theodore Roosevelt Lake (33.6725°N 111.1531°W), through the Superstition Mountains and the Tonto National Forest.
From Apache Junction heading northeast to Tortilla Flat, the Trail - named The E. Apache Trail (Arizona State Rt 88) at this point - is paved, turning into a dirt road a few miles east of Tortilla Flat, and continuing as such for nearly the full remainder of its length. The section east of Apache Junction is known officially as State Route 88. It is also the main traffic corridor through Apache Junction, turning into Main Street as the road passes into Mesa, and regains the Apache name by becoming Apache Boulevard in Tempe, ending at Mill Avenue. Prior to the completion of the Superstition Freeway in 1992, the Apache Junction portion of the Apache Trail was part of US Highway 60, which was rerouted to the Superstition Freeway once it was completed.
The Trail winds steeply through 40 miles (64 km) of rugged desert mountains, past deep reservoir lakes like Canyon Lake and Apache Lake. The narrow, winding road is unpaved from just east of the town of Tortilla Flat to Roosevelt Dam; there are steep cliff drops and few safety barriers. The trail requires caution when driving and it is not recommended for large RVs, SUVs, or caravans. Some large RV rental companies in the US do not allow their vehicles to be taken on this route.
Fires and floods in 2019 resulted in a massive landslide between the Fish Creek Hill Overlook and Apache Lake Marina.[1] This section of road was closed for repairs, and reopened in September 2024.[2]
Some examples of AI generated country music and videos :) What will be next :) Don't know if I am ready for this new AI world :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtNtsxtFsPg
My Texas Lady - A Country Love Anthem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOLk_di0igo
Longing for a Cowboy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInrWfMIirE
Sippin' Tennessee Gold
So, I traveled to looking glass rock overlook last night. Was mainly planning on assembling a composition to see what would be possible in the event of good lighting. I spent an hour wandering around, trying different angles. I determined this will be a great place for a sunrise photo during a cloud inversion. Providing that the clouds don't cover looking glass itself. I need more green, though I did like this particular composition, the light clouds, a streak of light through the valley.
ISO: 160
Aperture: f11
SS: 1/8th
Focal: 72mm
Off the tripod, in strangely frigid temperatures.
Well, bike path less traveled, alongside the highway. A couple of inches of new snow two days ago, and I am the first human to tread here.
She traveled this road as a child
Wide-eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
Taken @Sunny's
Pose: wine o' clock
For the Perseid Meteor Shower this year we traveled to a low light pollution location near Encampment, WY. We found our campsite here for Saturday night and I thought I would see if I could catch some meteors reflecting in the pond. Achievement unlocked~!
Shot Notes: this is a composite of all the meteors seen from this location over the entire evening. For foreground detail I used frames from when the moon was still out, and the actual background image is a two-frame panorama (vertorama) so I could get the shot I envisioned in the field. In testing out the Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 on the Nikon D500 I was surprised to find coma distortion on the edges of the frame, contrary to what the Lens Tip review suggested. If any other owners of this lens have experience the same, please let me know!