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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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Unique design with lots of greenery and water cascades. The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 161-year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of Singapore's Orchard Road shopping district. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Botanic Gardens has been ranked Asia's top park attraction since 2013, by TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards. It was declared the inaugural Garden of the Year, International Garden Tourism Awards in 2012, and received Michelin's three-star rating in 2008.
The Botanic Gardens was founded at its present site in 1859 by an agri-horticultural society. It played a pivotal role in the region's rubber trade boom in the early twentieth century, when its first scientific director Henry Nicholas Ridley, headed research into the plant's cultivation. By perfecting the technique of rubber extraction, still in use today, and promoting its economic value to planters in the region, rubber output expanded rapidly. At its height in the 1920s, the Malayan peninsula cornered half of the global latex production. 31309
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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Former Sky Resort on our right.
La Paz is just above the third lake.
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The view would have looked very different 20 years ago:
Thought to be 18,000 years old;
Bolivian scientists started measuring it in the 1990s;
They predicted in 2005 that it would survive until 2015;
But it shrank faster than expected and had vanished almost completely by 2009;
Scientists think that the speed of its melting is an indicator of climate change.
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.
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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).
It's not always about over saturated images with dynamic compositions that win the hearts and minds of people, sometimes images like these can move someone to tears. It almost did me when I captured it. Yorkshire, in the right light, it is just magical.
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Slightly north of Taichung City, a bit further east in the foothills past the Hou-Feng and Dong-Feng Bike Trails, in Dongshih town, you pick up the road to Big Snow Mountain National Park.
My old I-Phone shot! :-)
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Abra Havn is a pirate-style hotel by Kristiansand Dyrepark. The hotel opened in 2012. It is built as a village with 171 units (apartments) with a total of 750 beds. The apartments have names such as Captain Sabeltann's suite, Langemann's house, Skalken's rottsmug and also quite ordinary pirate houses. The apartments are designed for self-catering with a fridge, hob and microwave. The hotel is open from March to October.
In a rating from TripAdvisor for 2016, the hotel was ranked 12th among Norwegian hotels.
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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This scene really did look as amazing as you see it here. The vibrancy of the rainbow is genuine. My clients, who were with me this week can confirm. It was astonishing to see perhaps the brightest rainbow that I have ever seen.
Heavy rain clouds were passing overhead all afternoon and you just had to choose your moment quickly and efficiently move into position and keep your head knowing that you perhaps only have a single minute to get the shot and that's if you're lucky.
Skye has been incredibly generous to me this autumn where rainbows are concerned but this one is particularly special to me.
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WOW, WOW, WOW, what a sunrise I was treated to in Iceland back in October last year. I cannot wait to return this October.
I have longed to capture the beautiful sights of the sea stacks of Vik with some wonderful colour and on this particular morning, my wish was granted.
I positioned myself on the beach to catch the rising sun and shooting at f16, I ensured that it would starburst as soon as it made an appearance. It was also important to me to capture the streaks of water on the beach which would reflect the golden light and colours beautifully.
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Clichéd, St Anne's Pier, Lancashire
So I spent an hour or so at St Anne's shooting the pier and the old section of pier during the highest tide of the year. It was a 10 metre tide as it turns out and I have been after this image for a number of years now. It is rare that the tide comes in and surrounds the main pier and so when a very high tide is offered, you have to head down to capture it on camera.
The issue was, that every man and his dog were out too, enjoying the mini heatwave and glorious conditions but in shooting long exposure images, everybody disappeared from shot. I managed to purchase this used deck chair from a local Facebook seller and I collected it en-route to St Anne's.
I know the shot is a cliché one but I have the same image without the deck chair as well. The sky was absolutely featureless with no clouds in sight and for once, I did not mind as it places all the focus on the chair and piers. If you have been out and about today, I hope you enjoyed it. Life is precious and to be experienced.
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About the mountain up there in the middle, Huayna Potosí from where I am:
The first ascent of the normal route was undertaken in 1919 by Germans Rudolf Dienst and Adolf Schulze.
Some climbing books report this mountain as the "easiest 6000er in the world", but this claim is debatable. The easiest route entails an exposed ridge and sections of moderately steep ice, with a UIAA rating of PD.
There are many 6000m mountains that are easier to climb in terms of technical difficulty. Perhaps therefore, the main reason Huayna Potosí has been referred to as the easiest 6000m climb is that the elevation gain from trailhead to summit is less than 1400 m; with easy access from La Paz.
Since La Paz is at 3640 m, climbers have an easier time acclimatizing.
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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The back of the pyramid.
Underground duct. Made with finely cut flagstones and joined with cast copper clamps.
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Isthmus Bay, Derwentwater, Lake District
My favourite body of water in the Lake District (because there's only actually one lake in the Lake District, Bassenthwaite, the rest are either meres, tarns or waters) is Derwentwater.
For me, it has the greatest number of subjects to photograph, from the beautiful wooden steamers to the iconic Ashness Landing Pier, from marinas to wonderful little bays like Mantle and this one Isthmus.
Here is a ruined old concrete pier that is in a serious state of disrepair. As soon as I saw it a few weeks back for the first time, I knew that I had to get a shot of it. So I returned with my friend Phil Buckle a few weeks later when the weather was more favourable and I knew on location, that I wanted to create an infrared image of this scene.
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On a roadtrip across Negros (PH) we passed these palmtrees that were nicely lit. We stopt the car on the side of the road and I entered the fields, finding my composition.
I really liked the rhythm of the trees. It looks like a music bar (upside-down).
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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.
Chester Zoo was founded in 1934 in Upton on the outside of Chester in the North West of England.
It is the most-visited wildlife attraction in Britain with more than 1.4 million visitors in 2014.
In July 2015 it was named as the best zoo in the UK and seventh in the world by TripAdvisor.
I first visited the Zoo in the early Sixties and been a regular visitor through the years I held a Zoo membership through the eighties and again over the past few years.
I try to call into the zoo as oftern as possible.
This visit was a cold and rainy day so I spent most of the time in the Hot house. A jungle in the winter.
It's amazing to look back through your images and find the odd gem from your early days. Take this one here for example. This was taken during a stunning evening up high on Twistleton Scar in the gorgeous Yorkshire Dales, positioned right behind Ingleton Falls and about twenty-five minute walk from the free roadside parking layby.
I remember seeing the sun slowly setting during that stunning mid-October evening back in 2009 and thinking to myself that this is what I wanted to do for life and for a living. Fast forward to the present day and how fortunate am I to be doing just that? It just goes to show that hard work, dedication to your craft and an ability to be able to point the camera in the right direction can pay off and to think that I use to work in a camera shop selling 9-5.
I hope you enjoy my trip down memory lane. Time to get back to my accounts as the new financial tax year has arrived. Sitting at my desk slaving over reams of bank statements and receipts on an Easter weekend is definitely the less glamorous side of running your own business, lol.
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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.