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As dawn breaks on top of a mountain near the China-Vietnam border, hundreds of water-filled rice terraces reveal themselves, clinging to the mountainside in geometric patterns in every direction. The rising sun, reflecting off the water, turns some of the terraces bright shades of orange and gold.
Yunnan, China
The rice terraces built by the Hani nationality in Yuanyang County are a little known scenic wonder in South-West China's Yunnan province. Dropping from near the summits of the 2500 metre Ailao Mountain Range to the deep cleft of the Red River, they are among the world's most spectacular and extensive terraces. Were they in a more accessible part of China these terraces would already have been heavily developed for tourism, and no doubt lost much of their appeal. Perhaps then it is a blessing in disguise that by accident of modern geography they lie in Yunnan, a province so abundant in natural beauty and diverse scenery that these rice terraces have so far been overlooked to a certain extent.
However, things might change, as it was just awarded by UNESCO as the world heritage 1 week before I visited. The local people are planning invest heavily to attract more tourists.
The best time to photography at Yuanyang is between November and March when the terraces are filled with water.
The Baerenschloessle (in English: "Bear Small Castle"), a former maison de plaisance and today’s café, located at the Baerensee (in English: "Bear Lake") in the red deer park near the city of Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Some background information:
The red deer park, that is also known as red deer and wild boar park, is located near Solitude Palace west of the city of Stuttgart. It is a nature reserve and hence, a protected territory. Today the red deer park covers an area of 830.5 hectares (8.305 square kilometres resp. 2052.2 acres). It mainly consists of broadleaf woodland that stretches back to include several more than a 400 years old trees. However, the forest is even older and already existed during the Middle Ages, when it was used as a silvopasture by the local farmers.
In the 16th century, the city of Stuttgart suffered from a shortage of water. Hence, in 1566, during the reign of Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, an artificial lake was laid out in the woodland area, the Pfaffensee (in English: "Parson Lake"), which served as a water reservoir for the citizens of Stuttgart. In 1618, after another shortage of water had occurred, a second artificial lake was laid out, the Baerensee (in English: "Bear Lake"). To keep improving the water supply of the city of Stuttgart, three more lakes were laid out in the first half of the 19th century.
Already in the 18th century, the forest was utilised by Charles Eugene, Duke of Wuerttemberg, who built nearby Solitude Palace as his summer residence and hunting retreat. In 1768, a maison de plaisance in the shape of a two-storey oval pavilion, the so-called Baerenschloessle, was planned and erected on the Bear Lake by the French architect Philippe de La Guêpière. The building that was situated just three kilometres (less than two miles) away from Solitude Palace, was designed in the ancient Roman style and built from stone. Venetian gondolas were set out on the lake, which Charles Eugene brought along from his tour of Italy in 1767. At the same time, the area around Bear Lake and the new maison de plaisance was made a fallow deer park. After Charles Eugene had died in 1793, both the maison de plaisance and the gondolas on Bear Lake came to rack.
But in 1815, the park was even more laid out and utilised by King Frederick I of Wuerttemberg, who stocked it with a livestock of 568 red deer and 138 fallow deer. Certainly, from then on, commoners were not allowed to set foot in the forest. Only against the payment of a fee, they got the permission to traverse the area on three designated forest tracks, while the then hunting grounds of the noble authorities were bounded by fences. The fee had to be paid on the tracks at the access to the park.
After Frederick I had died in 1816, his son and successor on the throne of Wuerttemberg, William I, pulled the first Baerenschloessle down in 1817, just to replace it by an even larger octagonal pavilion. The new building was designed in the classical style, including a terrace and a hall that was equipped with hunting trophies and paintings. On its outside, the new Baerenschloessle was originally wainscoted with bark and also decorated with hunting trophies, while zinc glazed bear figures stood on both sides of the pavilion. But Frederick I also enlarged the park and the game reserve.
In 1919, after World War I, the collapse of the German empire and also the collapse of the kingdom of Wuerttemberg, the fence around the deer park was removed and the area was made publicly accessible. In 1937, the pavilion became a guest house of the state and the city of Stuttgart, while the park was again fenced in. In 1939, the red deer park, and in 1958, also the wild boar park were declared nature reserves.
Today the park belongs to the urban district of Stuttgart-West. It is an unfenced publicly accessible and very popular local recreation area for the residents of the city of Stuttgart with an old tree population, several game preserves, playgrounds and barbecue areas. Furthermore, rather rare tree species grow in this woodland area like checker trees and sorb trees. By the way, the Baerenschloessle has become a nice restaurant catering for day-trippers.
Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known locally as the "Stuttgart Cauldron." The city’s urban area has a population of more than 609,000 residents, making it the sixth largest city in Germany. However, 2.7 million people live in the city's administrative region and another 5.3 million people in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. Stuttgart is also a transport junction, and possesses the sixth-largest airport in Germany. Several major companies are headquartered in Stuttgart, including Porsche, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler AG and Dinkelacker.
Stuttgart is unusual in the scheme of German cities. It is spread across a variety of hills (some of them covered by vineyards), valleys and parks. Stuttgart’s green and hilly appearance often surprises visitors who usually associate the city with its reputation as the "cradle of the automobile". Due to the many jobs the city has to offer, mainly in the car and car component industry, every third inhabitant of Stuttgart has an immigrant background. Stuttgart is often nicknamed the "Swabian metropolis" in reference to its location in the centre of Swabia and the local dialect spoken by the native Swabians. The city name has its etymological roots in the Old High German word Stuotgarten (in English: "stud farm"), because the town was founded in 950 by Duke Liudolf of Swabia to breed warhorses there.
Wandering through the rice fields of Banaue admiring the spectacular world heritage listed rice terraces in the Philippines.
Agricultural terraces at Machu Picchu, Peru
The Machu Picchu plateau is supported by steep Inca terraces on all sides.
Provident Terrace on Hopper Street – part of the 1868-70 phase of development.
These streets tell the story of Wallsend’s own aspirational artisans who spent their earnings in their own cooperative society. They were families who got together and put their dividends and savings towards providing mortgage loans so they could their own homes.
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La Lanzada beach, Galicia, Spain
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The Garden Terrace @ Calas, Calas Galadhon (16, 26, 49) - Moderate
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The pool on the Upper Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs at Yellowstone. Truly a remarkable place and a must see no matter what the weather conditions.
Shortalls / Dungarees - Kmart
Sleeveless Bodysuit - Piazetta
Semi Opaque Tights - department store generic
Hiking Boots - DARE
Also near St Johns Church and cemetery were the Kapunda marble quarries at Koonunga. These grey marble quarries provided the impressive marble for the South Australian Parliament on North Terrace. The Kapunda Marble and Building Company got the contract to provide the marble and build the western wing of the SA parliament. After some legal difficulties and a restructuring of the company work began around 1883 and was finished in 1889.The company quote for the work without dome or tower in 1883 was over £100,000. 500 tons of lime and 3 million bricks were needed for the structure and Victor Harbor granite was used for the basement. To provide the best marble the company bought new land at Koonunga sections 88, 115 and 116 of the Hundred of Belvidere for £1.145 covering 299 acres. Also in 1883 Robert Barr Smith of Torrens Park House put in an order for Kapunda marble for steps at his mansion and the City of Adelaide ordered 1,000 yards of marble flags for footpaths in Adelaide. During construction of parliament around 100 men were employed in the quarry. In 1886 a dispute on the final cost erupted between the government and the company and the contract was suspended and the quarry closed. After a year or so of negations a new company took veer the supply of marble from the Kapunda quarry and completed the building of parliament house! When the new company took over the quarry several workers’ deaths occurred. As parliament house neared completion the government allowed the Kapunda Marble Company to resume their lands and quarry in 1889. In 1887 the Kapunda Marble Company had won a medal at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition for their marble. The Company auctioned the plant and equipment at the marble quarry in July 1889 and voluntarily wound itself up in September 1893. Today you can still see where the quarry was once worked at Koonunga. It was not until 1936 when Sir Langdon Bonython the owner of the Adelaide Advertiser donated gave £100,000 that work began and the central and eastern sections of parliament house. Different marble quarries around Kapunda were used for the central and eastern sections of parliament house. Thanks to Sir Langdon Bonython’s generous donation the new wing opened in 1939 still in grey Kapunda marble. But the money did not stretch to incorporate the planned central dome above the building.
Not far from the copper mine was a completely Irish Catholic settlement called a clachan at Bakers’ Flat. Susan Arthure researched this Irish settlement through an archaeological survey and reconstructed history for her MA. in archaeology at Flinders University. Her ground breaking study resurrected knowledge of the existence of such a village which had been recorded now as the only clachan village in Australia. Ms Arthure started from some 1920s Kapunda stories about a former Irish village. Her research discovered old photographs of the thatched cottages, and when the land of Bakers’ Flat was sold in 1898 a surveyor was employed to draw a detailed map of the area previously in 1893. This survey map showed the location of houses and other buildings at Bakers’ Flat. The Irish immigrants settled on the lands from 1854 when they came to be copper miners. The village flourished in the 1860s and 1870s with Catholic Church records indicating around 100 families lived at Bakers’ Flat with 250 recorded births up to 1906. The Sisters of St Joseph ran a school at Bakers’ Flat from 1876 to 1882. By 1902 there were only 38 occupied dwellings down from an earlier 100 dwellings. All dwellings were on rented land or more usually on land occupied with no rental paid. After the Kapunda mine closed in 1878 the villagers moved away and the village declined with the last residents leaving the lands in the 1920s. All buildings were then destroyed or rotted away and Bakers’ Flat became a wheat paddock which it is today. The details it must have been to dig and find them. Ground penetrating radar allowed her to eventually located foundations of some dwellings beneath the soil. Her traditional archaeological work revealed the remains of 13 dwellings and over 1,000 objects. The objects included 91 food items like pepper pots and sugar caster, 62 pieces of cutlery, 700 buttons and 12 decorative buckles, 93 jewellery items, 275 coins, 12 ornaments and 29 religious artefacts etc. Some of these mid-19th century items were stunningly beautiful. You can seem photographs of them in her Master’s degree on line at flex.flinders.edu.au/file/ae35c92e-c373-49b6-b8e2-f5c47fb...
To me the four leaf clover decorative buttons, the snake head buckles, the cricket players buckle, the partial male bust, the lily of the valley, the butterfly and the coiled snake broaches and the triple copper horseshoe broach are superb.
The Lake Mirror Terrace is one of Lakeland, Florida's icons. Located on the edge of downtown, the terrace completely encompasses the small lake, which is a popular destination for walkers. Several notable locations ring the lake, including Hollis Gardens, Lakeland's current Amtrak Station, Lakeland Community Theater, the Magnolia Building, and the wonderful Texas Cattle Company restaurant, a highly rated steakhouse.
The historic Terrace Hotel looms over the center of the picture. The iconic gates shown at left in this picture once guarded an underground tunnel leading directly to the aforementioned hotel.
Lakeland is a small city between the larger urban centers of Tampa and Orlando.
Shrine of Remembrance:The Terrace Courtyard to the south-west recalls Australia’s misadventures in Vietnam in the ’60s and ’70s, in its use of south-east Asian planting. It also features the names of every Victorian town, and embedded into its concrete walls is the pixelated camouflage used today by Australian soldiers (the wars go on).
The sun rises over the green fields of the Tegalalang rice terraces in the heart of Bali, Indonesia.
The Hungduan rice terraces are one of the four clusters that make up the UNESCO World Heritage designation for the Ifugao rice terrace landscapes of Luzon, Philippines. We were lucky to visit Hungduan on the day of a festival where many locals dressed up in traditional clothing.
These rice terraces (The Jatiluwih Rice Terraces in Bali) were a gorgeous sight to see. They are actually protected by UNESCO.
Another from the Cliff House videos.
Coming up the steps from the rear garden to the terrace. Ready to head into town looking for a man to ride me!
The well-known thoroughfare that connects Finchley Road with deepest West Hampstead was home for me for almost 40 years. I took this shot for the record of an Abellio-operated AlexanderDennis Enviro400 operating a Jubilee Line replacement service. After snatching this view on Good Friday, I nipped over to Gatwick Airport to catch an afternoon flight to Las Vegas - a complete contrast in scene.
April 2015
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
An Arriva Trains Wales Class 150 Sprinter DMU, on the Cardiff to Treherbert service, is seen heading north through the Welsh town of Trehafod in the Rhonnda Valley, with its rows and rows of terraced houses along the valley sides, so typical of many of the former coal mining towns in South Wales. The head frames and mining infrastructure seen to the left of the train are part of the Lewis Merthyr Colliery, a former underground coal mine that ceased operations in 1983 and is now preserved as the Rhondda Heritage Park.