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Several thousand pounds of calcium carbonate, carried in solution from the hot springs that bubble up through thick limestone, are deposited onto the enormous terraces each day. As the terrace complex spreads and grows, surrounding vegetation is overtaken. In this photo dead trees are seen embedded in calcium carbonate,
Maruyama Senmaida Rice Terraces.
Located : Maruyama, Kiwa-cho, Kumano-shi, Mie pref.
丸山千枚田 / 三重県熊野市紀和町丸山地区
Leganés, Madrid, Spain
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Rows of tall stone terraced houses tower above the town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, England.
(Zooming in will be a good idea on this one as you can see the height of these buildings more clearly)
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Yuanyang Rice Terraces, located on the southern slopes of Ailao Mountain in Yuanyang County (part of Honghe Hani Autonomous Prefecture) and located in the south of Yunnan Province has been a masterpiece of the ingenuity of the Hani people for generations. Southern Ailao Mountain, with this typical tiered landscape, is famed for its unique frontier scenery.
The Hani people's ancestors came to this steep mountain area 2,500 years ago. In their struggle against the difficult terrain they successfully established the terraces, where they grew rice in order to make a living. The technology of developing fertile land on rugged mountain slopes didn't spread all over China and Southeast Asia until 14th century. The creativity of the Hani people turned this mountain area into one of artistic beauty. In recognition, the Ming Dynasty emperor granted the title of 'Skillful Sculptor' to Hani people and their good reputation was passed down from generation to generation. At present, known as 'land sculpture' the terraced fields have been being officially acknowledged by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage site.
Yuanyang Rice Terraces, located on the southern slopes of Ailao Mountain in Yuanyang County (part of Honghe Hani Autonomous Prefecture) and located in the south of Yunnan Province has been a masterpiece of the ingenuity of the Hani people for generations. Southern Ailao Mountain, with this typical tiered landscape, is famed for its unique frontier scenery.
The Hani people's ancestors came to this steep mountain area 2,500 years ago. In their struggle against the difficult terrain they successfully established the terraces, where they grew rice in order to make a living. The technology of developing fertile land on rugged mountain slopes didn't spread all over China and Southeast Asia until 14th century. The creativity of the Hani people turned this mountain area into one of artistic beauty. In recognition, the Ming Dynasty emperor granted the title of 'Skillful Sculptor' to Hani people and their good reputation was passed down from generation to generation. At present, known as 'land sculpture' the terraced fields have been being officially acknowledged by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage site.
The Bear River near Grace, Idaho cuts through a lava flow, creating steep black walls called Black Canyon. As it exits the steepest part of the canyon the river flows over dozens of beautiful terraces. It is a great place to fish but there are lots of deep crevices that make wading hazardous. An old foot bridge is a convenient place to cross, and part of the lava flow is visible behind the bridge.
I wanted to capture one of our many terraced streets here in the U.K, and finally settled on this view, taken from an elevated position.
I am actually standing where we all used to pay our electricity bills, and where, as a boy, i used to deliver an evening paper to the man in the guard house..
The archaeological site of the Moray Terraces is located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Peru. These mysterious concentric circular terraces (andinas) were used for agriculture. Some scholars believe that they may have been used as a Inca agricultural research center - the higher terraces would be at a higher temperature than the inner ones and could simulate the conditions of various ecological strata. (Source: National Geographic).
Terrace Walk, a typical Georgian parade of shops in Bath, Somerset, originally dating to around 1730 but amended around the beginning of the 19th Century. These may have been among the four houses on Terrace Walk begun by John Wood the Elder.
Above the scene rises the tower of Bath Abbey. Founded in the 7th Century, it was rebuilt most recently in the 16th Century, and work had only just begun when the Reformation began to convulse Europe, which makes it an unusual example of church dating in significant part to the first century of the English Reformation. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the South West of England.
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset. With a history going back to Roman times, when it first became a centre for bathing, much of its famed architecture dates from the Georgian era, when it became a fashionable place for wealthy Londoners to take the waters, connected by the ever faster stagecoach network.
Many of the streets and squares were laid out by John Wood, the Elder. Jane Austen lived in Bath in the early 19th century. Further building was undertaken in the 19th century and following the Baedecker Blitz in 1942.
The Machu Picchu plateau is supported by steep Inca terraces on all sides. Inca farmers used such terracing throughout the empire to control erosion and increase surface area in their Andean enclaves.
Passing through the residential district of Northwich, Freightliner Shed 66616 has a sizeable load in tow with its 2,400t train of limestone aggregate quarried in Derbyshire. The working is the 9.56am from Tunstead which is headed for Garston on Merseyside (6F70).
The terraces on the left stand on Greenall Road, once a prime spot for watching the trains go by but now partly obscured by vegetation. The houses on the right stand on Alan Street and in fact it's the back of them you can see, hence the occasional garden shed! Hidden by the bushes is the single track east curve of the triangle carrying the line to Middlewich and Sandbach - still regularly used by freight as well as a diversionary route for passenger traffic when the West Coast Mainline is closed between Crewe and Hartford.
I took this shot with a pano in mind, so centred the train in the middle of the frame (vertically) to get the best lens performance. The occasional white streaks here and there are rain-drops.
11.53am, 26th April 2019
HFF
Villa Terrace is a historic house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was built in 1924 for the Lloyd R. Smith family - an Italian Renaissance-style home on a bluff above Lake Michigan. Since 1966 the house and grounds have housed the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Lloyd R. Smith House. [Wikipedia]