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Huayna Potosí is the closest high mountain to La Paz. Surrounded by high mountains, it is roughly 15 miles due north of the city, which makes this mountain the most popular climb in Bolivia. The normal ascent route is a fairly straightforward glacier climb, with some crevasses and a steep climb to the summit. However, the other side of the mountain -- Huayna Potosí West Face -- is the biggest face in Bolivia. Several difficult snow and ice routes ascend this 1000 meter high face.
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Other stairways lead to secondary platforms, where there are other monoliths including the famous El Fraile (priest).
Current state of the Frail Monolith of Tiahuanaco, with similar characteristics as the "Bennett Monolith".
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Walls around the temple Kalasasaya.
Located near the south-eastern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, Tiwanaku is one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire. The community grew to urban proportions between the 7th and 9th centuries, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes. At its peak the city had between 15,000–30,000 inhabitants. While only a small part has been excavated, Tiahuanaco represents the greatest megalithic architectural achievement of pre-Inca South America. Today it is one of the top tourist attractions in Bolivia.
East of the main entrance to Kalasasaya.
The Kalasasaya dates to at least 200 BCE - 200 CE. It is located to the north of the Akapana and west of the Semi-Subterranean Temple, other structures in the complex.
North of the Akapana Pyramid is Kalasasaya, a partially reconstructed 130m-by-120m ritual-platform compound with walls constructed of huge blocks of red sandstone and andesite. The blocks are precisely fitted to form a platform base 3m high. Monolithic uprights flank the massive entrance steps up to the restored portico of the enclosure, beyond which is an interior courtyard and the ruins of priests’ quarters. Note the size of the top stair – a massive single block.
The Monolito Ponce monolith, with his turban (no doubt covering up his deformed cranium), mask, ceremonial vase and walking stick, sits at the center of the first platform. Some say the stick and the vase are symbolic of the dualism of Andean culture (nature versus nurture).
Other stairways lead to secondary platforms, where there are other monoliths including the famous El Fraile (priest).
I have been editing images all day today from my recent week long trip to Lofoten last month and the editing queue never seems to lessened such is the sheer quantity of images I captured. Of course, to have three dozen plus images to edit is a lovely position to be in but enough already, ha, ha.
Anyhow, here's one that I thought I would share with you tonight as to me, it feels very much like a Sunday evening image.
The warmth of the house lights set against the coldness of the snow capped mountains all around as the sky turns a gorgeous colour of blue fills my heart with joy. The blue hour is a wonderful time to capture these kind of images. I love these kind of shots where coldness meets warmth. It has me feel like I want to sit in the window of one of those red cabins looking out through the window watching the darkness fall while drinking a mug of hot chocolate.
How lovely would that be?
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Big and famous cities are not iconic everywhere. Leaving the metrostation, I saw these staircases by some condos. I liked their colours and shapes. Found a nice point to compose the image. Using the telephoto-lens made it possible to compress the scene, so it became more abstract.
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Enhanced image of Chacaltaya ski resort.
El Alto in the middle.
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Bolivia's largest city, La Paz, is currently enduring its worst drought in a quarter of a century. Glaciers in the surrounding Andean mountains are key to its water supply. Simon Parker visited the abandoned ski resort of Chacaltaya, where locals say they have been seeing changes in the climate for decades.
Surrounded by shards of rusty shale, sticky tufts of pampas and a few hundred hardy llamas, Chacaltaya sits crumbling next to a vast furrow in the mountainside: the site of a once mighty glacier.
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The UK's current conditions very much remind me of my time spent in Iceland a couple of weeks ago when we were being battered by 90mph gale force winds, snow blizzards and up to -15 degree temperatures.
It was incredibly harsh weather, some of the worst the Icelanders had seen in many years but the other side of the coin is that the scenery was beyond stunning with many subjects isolated against their surroundings.
Here is one such subject and a church that is always an absolute pleasure to photograph. The church at Vik is elevated high up over the town below and this gives you commanding views of the ocean, the iconic sea stacks and the hotel below.
A whiteout started as we arrived hence the somewhat soft nature of the image. It was so beautiful being there in person, not just at Vik but in Iceland full stop. I did not want to leave.
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Found this little building tucked away in Dereham,Norfolk.
later to discover on trip advisor...It's a museum
Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum
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It is true that the tropics have beautiful sunset conditions. Here I was knee-deep in the warm water. Camera with wide angle lens on the tripod. Some kelp and mangrove stems in the shallow water. A few islands in the back and to top it off some clouds in the sky. Didn't need any more......
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Railway station Tiahuanaco is located near the archeological complex.
Tiahuanaco, an important object of pre-Columbian archaeological site in Western Bolivia.
The back of the pyramid.
Underground duct. Made with finely cut flagstones and joined with cast copper clamps.
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I am often asked, which do I prefer, sunrise or sunset and my answer is always the same, sunrise without a shadow of a doubt and looking at this image from running a workshop in the Outer Hebrides last November, you can see why.
This image captured at dawn is practically a 'straight out of camera' shot with minimal post processing needed. Isn't it just beautiful and of course Luskentyre Beach is one of the most famous beaches in the world and with good reason. It's always worth a pre-amble down along it pre-sunrise in the hope of some magical colour and on this particular morning, we got it.
Capturing some gold on camera makes the full Scottish breakfast back at the Harris Hotel in Tarbert all the sweeter and more enjoyable.
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Just take a look at this 756m mountain range located past Vestrahorn in the south-east of Iceland. Isn't it absolutely stunning?
Although I have visited Iceland on nine occasions since Feb 2016, I have only ventured past Vestrahorn and through the tunnel once and that was back in Oct 2018 while running a workshop. I remember driving out of the tunnel to see such incredible beauty before me and actually feeling so excited in discovering a new part of Iceland.
I aim to return in October to travel the whole ring road up along the north coast and down the east before resuming my known locations in the south and the west (Snaefellsnes Peninsula) and I cannot wait.
Until then, enjoy the spectacular views that I experienced nearly two years ago now. Iceland, it truly is one of my favourite countries in the world.
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The glacier on Chacaltaya served as Bolivia's only ski resort. It was the world's highest lift-served ski area and the northernmost in South America as well as the world's second most equatorial after Maoke, Indonesia. The rope tow, the very first in South America, was built in 1939 using an automobile engine; it was housed in the site's original clapboard lodge, and is now inoperable.
The road to the base of the 200-meter (660 ft) drop is reached by a narrow road, also built in the 1930s.
Traditionally, due to the extreme cold weather, the lift operated exclusively on weekends from November to March. Since 2009, skiing is restricted to a 600-foot (180 m) stretch that sometimes receives sufficient snowfall for a run during the winter.
The mountain is also popular with amateur mountaineers, as the road stops only 200 metres (660 ft) from the summit. Guinness World Records considers the ski resort restaurant to be the highest restaurant in the world.
Climbed the hill up to Tiwanaku’s most outstanding structure, the partially excavated Akapana pyramid, which was built on an existing geological formation. At its base this roughly square, 16m hill covers a surface area of about 200 sq meters. In the center of its flat summit is an oval-shaped sunken area, which some sources attribute to early, haphazard, Spanish excavation. The presence of a stone drain in the center, however, has led some archaeologists to believe it was used for water storage.
Recent findings include craniums, assumed to be war trophies, leading some archaeologists to believe the pyramid may have been a ceremonial temple. Others think it was used for the study of astronomy.
Researchers think that Lake Titicaca was coming to this base, which was a port to carry all these huge and heavy rocks.
The Tiwanaku civilization and the use of these temples appears to some to have peaked from AD 700 to 1000, by which point the temples and surrounding area may have been home to some 400,000 people. An extensive infrastructure had been developed, including a complex irrigation system that extended more than 30 square miles (80 km2) to support cultivation of potatoes, quinoa, corn and other various crops. At its peak the Tiwanaku culture dominated the entire Lake Titicaca basin as well as portions of Bolivia and Chile.
This culture seems to have dissolved rather abruptly some time around AD 1000, and researchers are still seeking answers as to why. A likely scenario involves rapid environmental change, possibly involving an extended drought. Unable to produce the massive crop yields necessary for their large population, the Tiwanaku are argued to have scattered into the local mountain ranges, only to disappear shortly thereafter. Puma Punku is thought to have been abandoned before it was finished.
Someone wrote on Tripadvisor, "An astoundingly beautiful golden-sand bay with an Island just offshore, and a small car park. The sea is crystal clear and fairly shallow just off the beach. Ideal for a swim. A lovely place for canoeing or picnic on the beach." And a pub at Glenuig just around the corner.
Every year thousands of people venture here, in the Finnich Glen. So many are tourists, drawn by the entry on Google Maps, Tripadvisor, Instagram and by the urge to see where movie scenes from Outlander were filmed. Although the entry on Google Maps is accurately positioned, so many people never find the Devil's Pulpit. That's because most approach from the 'main' car park, which is on the wrong side of the gorge. They need to walk in from the small layby on the A809 just over the bridge over the Carnock Burn and then venture down the steep steps 200 yards into the woods. The way down is pretty challenging, a bit of a scramble, yet still the white trainer and flipflop brigade work their way to the bottom where it is totally otherworldly.
Your eyes are drawn upwards to the moss covered cliffs, the canyon walls, dripping and hanging with vegetation, the trees leaning over 80 feet above, leafless branches fracturing the patch of sky overhead. And you look into the darkness surrounding you in the floor of the gorge where the water runs red, almost blood red in the parts where it flows over the sandstone. it feels creepy and haunted. For salvation your eyes seek out the safety in light which lies up the gorge, through a narrow gap between the rock through to the cathedral nave upstream where stands a domed, carved rock in a pool of light from above: the Devil's Pulpit where it is said the Devil gave his sermon to those down in the hell amongst the washed down detritus of jumbled logs and trees at the bottom of Finnich Glen.
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Torpedownia on Babie Dołach
Torpedownia - the Polish common name of the central facility of German torpedo research centers, built in occupied Poland during World War II. Torpedownia was a torpedo assembly hall with equipment for trial shooting, built on the bottom of the basin, a few hundred meters from the shore. Connected to the shore of the pier, which was followed by a narrow-gauge railway transport of torpedo components, eventually mounted in the hall. In the German nomenclature, this building was called Schießstand.
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This bronze statue of St. Stephen was created by Hungarian sculptor, Alojs Stróbl in 1906 and features St. Stephen as an old king, mounted on a war horse, holding a reign in one hand and a staff in the other. There is a gold ring around his head, indicative of his saintliness, having been canonised in 1083.
Four lions amongst other nice decor can be found surrounding the St. Stephen Statue.
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Sunrise, Over Owler Tor, Peak District
This image was captured on the final day of my four days spent shooting the Peak District recently. This image was taken at 5.38am so it was an early start, and the brisk 15 minute yomp up to the amazing 350 million year old gritstones of Over Owler Tor paid off when the pre-dawn colours started intensifying with each passing minute.
I had spotted this viewpoint the night before when shooting the sunset and sleeping in my makeshift campervan complete with mattress and camping stove (Merc Vito minibus minus all the seats) was a great idea.
Once I had sized up my exact position among the gritstones, it was just a matter of standing and waiting for the magic to happen.
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber - Rathaus und Ratstrinkstube: in dieser trafen sich einst die Ratsherren nach der Sitzung zum Umtrunk, nun bekommen hier Gäste aus aller Welt von den Mitarbeitern des Rothenburg Tourismus Service ihre Informationen.
Die Stadtuhr an der Front stammt aus dem Jahr 1683, die Sonnenuhr aus dem Jahr 1768.
Von 11-15h wird hier stündlich der Meistertrunk dargestellt. Altbürgermeister Nusch trank zur Rettung der Stadt Rothenburg vor Tilly im Jahre 1631, der die Stadt zerstören und die Ratsherren ermorden wollte, erfolgreich einen 3-Liter Krug Wein aus.
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