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There are some remote parts of Dumfries and Galloway and none more remote than in the former Stewartry at Grobdale.Here the Royal mail post van kicks up some dust along the unsealed road from delivering the mail to the remote cottage at Grobdale of Girthon. It used to be a Shepherds cottage but has now had extensive modernisation.
New Zealand State Highway 43, also called the Forgotten World Highway, is a road that runs 148 km from Stratford in Taranaki to Taumarunui in the King Country. It contains the only unsealed portion of the New Zealand state highway network
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%2B:
M+ is an art museum located in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong. It exhibits twentieth and twenty-first century art encompassing visual art, design and architecture, and moving image. It opened on 12 November 2021.
The M+ Collections focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture, encompassing the disciplines of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art, and the thematic area of Hong Kong visual culture. The museum is intended to rival the Tate Modern, New York's MoMA and the Centre Pompidou in terms of the breadth and importance of its collections. The HK$5.9 billion institution is led by Museum Director Suhanya Raffel since January 2019 and administered by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA). A separate subsidiary company will be set up in the future with the aim of ensuring its "independence and efficiency".
The inaugural director, Lars Nittve, explained that the name is drawn from the concept of being a "museum and more", and that his team sought to move beyond the typical model of the art museum, for example, by serving as a showcase of diverse subjects like architecture, film, and all manner of moving images including animation and video games.
After an architectural competition, six finalists for the design of the M+ museum were announced in 2012, namely Herzog & de Meuron and Farrells, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Shigeru Ban and Thomas Chow Architects, Snøhetta, and Toyo Ito and Benoy. Each team was compensated with HK$1 million. The winning design, by Herzog & de Meuron and Farrells, was announced by the WKCDA in June 2013. As part of the Masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District designed by Foster + Partners, the architects proposed incorporating the use of underground "found space", referring to the space surrounding the Airport Railway tunnels running directly beneath the site, as a "radical" subterranean exhibition and performance area.
The building's design has the basic appearance of an upside-down T. The main horizontal slab housing exhibition spaces is lifted off the ground, permitting pedestrian circulation underneath. Above, a tower houses "public restaurants, lounges and gardens" along with offices and research facilities. Of the structure's total 700,000 square feet (65,000 m2), plans call to reserve 185,000 square feet (17,200 m2) for exhibitions, only slightly more than MoMA. In addition to the interior space, an LED lighting display system is integrated into the facade, serving as a gigantic screen for works of art, visible across Victoria Harbour.
Construction of the museum began in 2014. A time capsule containing artwork of local schoolchildren, to be unsealed 100 years later, was laid on the site in 2015. The museum building was completed in December 2020, with the occupation permit obtained on 24 December 2020.
These impressive waterfalls are situated between Whakatane and Rotorua in the North Island.
They are in a forestry area and you need to gain a permit to access them using the private forestry roads which are unsealed and quite rough in places with the odd large logging truck on the same roads. Permits are easily obtainable from the Kawerau information centre.
The falls are a 20 minute walk through beautiful native New Zealand bush along a well defined path beside the clear and tranquil waters of the Tarawera river. The falls are a very impressive sight, the photo doesn't do justice to the area - the water bursts through a fissure in the rock face cliff which is very high. Well worth the visit!
(Lee 0.9 Proglass ND Filter)
Just another back country road picture as a farmer's ute approaches. It is taken from the top of the hill in the last photo. Hope you are having a good Tuesday. Thanks for comments and faves!
Unsealed road junction, near Tantangara Reservoir in kosciusko national park on a foggy Autumn morning.
Storm Warnings
The glass has been falling all the afternoon,
And knowing better than the instrument
What winds are walking overhead, what zone
Of grey unrest is moving across the land,
I leave the book upon a pillowed chair
And walk from window to closed window, watching
Boughs strain against the sky
And think again, as often when the air
Moves inward toward a silent core of waiting,
How with a single purpose time has traveled
By secret currents of the undiscerned
Into this polar realm. Weather abroad
And weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.
Between foreseeing and averting change
Lies all the mastery of elements
Which clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter.
Time in the hand is not control of time,
Nor shattered fragments of an instrument
A proof against the wind; the wind will rise,
We can only close the shutters.
I draw the curtains as the sky goes black
And set a match to candles sheathed in glass
Against the keyhole draught, the insistent whine
Of weather through the unsealed aperture.
This is our sole defense against the season;
These are the things we have learned to do
Who live in troubled regions.
-Adrienne Rich
She is a famous character from Marcus's favourite manga anime
inuYasha 犬夜叉
KAGOME is a 15 year-old 9th grade student. She is the reincarnation of Kikyo, a priestess (miko) who died 50 years before the time Kagome first emerges from the Bone Eater's Well in the Feudal era. Because of this Kagome has powerful spiritual powers (miko powers) herself and can even sense jewel shards. Kagome can be extremely sweet, but can also become very dangerous when provoked. InuYasha wears a special bead necklace (known as the Beads of Subjugation) which only responds to Kagome's command: when she yells "Sit!" ("Osuwari!") (Often "Sit, boy!" in the dub). At this, InuYasha is thrown to the ground. The necklace was placed upon him by Kaede due to his dangerous attitude when he was unsealed.
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my post-surgery, get-weLL-soon present to Marcus
taking pictoors of his toys =]
I stopped when I saw dust in the rear view mirror. Then the truck came over the hill and I had to leave quickly! Taken on my way home from work last Friday.
Thinking of our friends in Sydney tonight. Our son who works there has had lunch at the Lindt cafe a number of times but not today!
Thanks for your comments and faves. Much appreciated. Next photo is from the top of this hill looking back.
Gooden's Nomad bee, Nomada goodeniana. (male).
9-13mm
Gooden’s Nomad bee (Nomada goodeniana) is one of the largest and most common Nomad bees, (often called Cuckoo Bees), in the UK. Seen from April to June and commonly found throughout the south of Britain, with some more localised records in Scotland and Ireland.
Found in a wide variety of habitats, including open, woodland, coastal and inland, (anywhere that the host Andrena nests are found), and is one of the most common Nomad bees found in urban areas.
They feed from a wide variety of spring blossoms, including Dandelions, Buttercups, Forget-me-nots, Cow Parsley, Rape and Greater Stitchwort.
Hosts include the Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea), Grey Patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida), Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica) and possibly the Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica).
Nomads are wasp-like cleptoparasites which, instead of digging their own underground nest site, will target unsealed pollen-stocked nest cells created by their Mining bee hosts. The female Nomada goodeniana waits until an Andrena female has excavated a nest tunnel and has provisioned a nest cell with pollen for her larva. This will take many pollen gathering trips and the Nomada female will take advantage of the host's absence to visit the cell and lay her own egg in it.
After a Nomad larva’s first moult, they are able to use their large sickle-shaped mouth parts to destroy the host’s resident egg or grub, meaning all the stored pollen is theirs for the taking. The adults of the 'Cuckoo' species will emerge the next season, synchronously with the new generation of the host bees.
Males are similar to females, although slightly smaller, with more yellow on the face and some black markings on the antennal segments.
Females are mainly hairless with bold yellow markings across the abdomen, and pairs of yellow spots at the base of the thorax, the collar of the thorax and where the wings stem from. Their legs and antennae are orange. Marsham’s Nomad bee (Nomada marshamella) is similar but the first yellow abdominal band is either absent or very faint and the second is quite obviously separated into two parts.
On the way back to my car, I looked to my right and there were still people arriving for the festival. Note how dry the landscape is. In the distance, dust can be seen coming from an unsealed road. Rain is badly needed in this region.
Meanwhile, another field has been opened up as a makeshift
car park ... exiting should be a breeze !
Tarawera Falls. No post-processing.
Wikipedia: Tarawera Falls is a 35 m high waterfall on the Tarawera River in the Bay of Plenty region in New Zealand's North Island.
The Tarawera River flows out of Lake Tarawera and across a rhyolitic lava flow that erupted from Mt Tarawera about 11,000 years ago. The river disappears into flooded caves in the lava and pours out halfway up the cliff on the far side of the flow. After rain, part of the flow passes over the top of the cliff as a 65m companion fall.
Access is from the town of Kawerau and is a drive of about 45 minutes over unsealed roads, followed by a walk of about 20 minutes. A forestry access permit is required, available from the Information Centre in Kawerau.
Anawhata is one of the least used beaches in the area because there is a long and unsealed road to reach it, and a steep track from there down to the beach. Following the main road, it leads to Piha, a very popular surf beach. There is a programme on TV following the Surf Living Saving Club at Piha.
This dormitory at the old New York City Farm Colony was sealed up with blocks sometime after shutdown in 1975. Sometime after that, it was unsealed with a sledgehammer.
“A flower unblown;
A book unread;
A tree with fruit unharvested;
A path untrod;
A landscape whose wide border lies In silent shade 'neath silent skies;
A wondrous fountain yet unsealed;
This is the Year that for you waits Beyond to-morrow's mystic.”
~ Horatio Nelson Powers ~
From a piece of commercial art noticed at "Home Goods"
to a sculpture photographed in our back yard . . .
Influenced by a recent documentary on the fascinating artist,
David Hockney, which features both art and photography.
Gooden's Nomad bee, Nomada goodeniana. (male).
9-13mm
Gooden’s Nomad bee (Nomada goodeniana) is one of the largest and most common Nomad bees, (often called Cuckoo Bees), in the UK. Seen from April to June and commonly found throughout the south of Britain, with some more localised records in Scotland and Ireland.
Found in a wide variety of habitats, including open, woodland, coastal and inland, (anywhere that the host Andrena nests are found), and is one of the most common Nomad bees found in urban areas.
They feed from a wide variety of spring blossoms, including Dandelions, Buttercups, Forget-me-nots, Cow Parsley, Rape and Greater Stitchwort.
Hosts include the Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea), Grey Patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida), Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica) and possibly the Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica).
Nomads are wasp-like cleptoparasites which, instead of digging their own underground nest site, will target unsealed pollen-stocked nest cells created by their Mining bee hosts. The female Nomada goodeniana waits until an Andrena female has excavated a nest tunnel and has provisioned a nest cell with pollen for her larva. This will take many pollen gathering trips and the Nomada female will take advantage of the host's absence to visit the cell and lay her own egg in it.
After a Nomad larva’s first moult, they are able to use their large sickle-shaped mouth parts to destroy the host’s resident egg or grub, meaning all the stored pollen is theirs for the taking. The adults of the 'Cuckoo' species will emerge the next season, synchronously with the new generation of the host bees.
Males are similar to females, although slightly smaller, with more yellow on the face and some black markings on the antennal segments.
Females are mainly hairless with bold yellow markings across the abdomen, and pairs of yellow spots at the base of the thorax, the collar of the thorax and where the wings stem from. Their legs and antennae are orange. Marsham’s Nomad bee (Nomada marshamella) is similar but the first yellow abdominal band is either absent or very faint and the second is quite obviously separated into two parts.
Unsealed on a porch a letter sat
Then you said I wanna leave it again
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave it again, yeah...
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Old farmhouse sitting along Ca. State Rt 1.in Manchester...
The corner Milo & Macquarie roads, Monga. The ridge top has eucalyptus trees. On both sides of the road are juveniles of the rainforest trees which occur in the gully to the right. (Atherosperma moschatum, Elaeocarpus holopetalus and Eucryphia moorei).
One could almost call this ridge top eucalyptus a "rainforest margin". With an absence of fire, all the eucalyptus will die out, and the rainforest will continue to colonize this roadside scene. However, with the warmer, drier climate of recent years, this is unlikely to happen in the next century.
Geological Park, Iceland -
The road that enters the Geological Park in South Western Iceland. This gives a good idea what the weather was like on a few of the days we were there, and that is an unsealed road ahead :) #iceland #road #car #landscape #weather #travel #olympus #mountains
450mi to Sydney! Fortunately we soon got back on to sealed roads :)
Lightning Ridge near the Artesian Bore Baths
April, 2019
Though 9˚C, and my wife waiting for me, at home, I took 41 photos, today. Some subjects I photographed multiple times and from slightly different positions and focal lengths, exposure settings. I have processed 18. I will call 8 keepers. By keepers, and by my measure, I believe they are special. Of course, I could have processed all 41 and made equal effort on each. I just go through the photos I take and make an initial assessment as to the qualities that appeal to my sense of aesthetics most of all, such as framing, angle, kind of a yin and yang balance, or a complete offset, quality of light, colour, et al. Then, I only harvest the best of the best. That in no way suggests the remaining 33 were shit, just that they did not meet my vision. For example, one hand held photo, at a 200mm focal length and 1/500sec. was tack sharp, but the framing was just slightly off. So, it was a "reject". I made several, like this, then decided, "To hell with it", I walked back to the car to get the tripod and remote and walked back to the vicinity of where I took the original photos. Sometimes I am hasty and lazy when I see a subject. I just want to get the shot. I brought the tripod and Remote Shutter release, why not use them? The time it takes to extend the legs, attach the base-mounting plate, the Remote Shutter Release, level the tripod and camera, reposition the tripod for the angle and framing I want, set the camera exposure . . . The mood is gone, a cloud has blocked the sun or the ray of light shining upon a certain part of the subject has changed, the amount of illumination and colour temoerature has changed . . . et cetera. So often, being in the right place, at the precise moment the Shutter is released makes a great photo.
Colour Temperature: 5,576˚K
A gentle reminder about copyright and intellectual property-
Ⓒ Cassidy Photography (All images in this Flickr portfolio)
The Danseys Pass Coach Inn is a few kilometres from Naseby, in the Kyeburn Diggings. Built in 1862, it's one of the few old coach inns that remain.
Danseys Pass is the border between North and Central Otago. It's a scenic drive through tussock-covered hills...but the road is unsealed, narrow with lots of twists and turns, so not recommended for inexperienced drivers or passengers who get car sick.
And because it's in Central Otago and at 2,000ft., the weather can change at any time...as we found out!
Later estimated to have blasted across the Maniototo at over 100kmph., this storm turned an overcast but pleasant day into a snow storm within 5mins!
Camden Hotel.
When it was first built it was named the Commercial Hotel and was built of the site of the former tannery which was run by the Simpson Bros.
It is interesting to note that this notice appeared in the Empire Newspaper on 16thJuly 1859.
CAMDEN. TANNERY.
SIMPSON, BROTHERS', LIST OF PRICES.
In consequence of the recent advance in hides we have been
obliged to advance our prices, our list is as follows :—
Sole, heavy and light, ls.
Fix this textKip. ls. 9-1. and 2s.
Calf,4s. to 5s.
Harness, black and brown, ls. 2d.
Mill belt leather, ls. 4d. per lb.
Bay and bridle, 15s. per side.
Basils, 12s. to 15s. per dozen
Strong boots, 144». per dozen pairs
July 16th,
Camden Hotel is located at 105 Argyle Street where it was originally built in the 1870’s when its conception came about as it attracted thirsty hardworking and no doubt hard drinking drovers.
These drovers would make a point of stopping at the hotel as a stopover point to not only quench their thirst but also to catch up with other drovers to gather information and just enjoy a chat.
At the time the Camden Hotel opened it was on the stock route that led from Melbourne to Gippsland and the roads were unsealed and the only means of travel was by horse.
The original Commercial Hotel building which was demolished in 1935 was a simple weatherboard building consisting of a single storey but that did not prevent it from becoming the hub of the community attracting travellers, locals and others.
The newer building which is based on the Tudor style of architecture was designed by S.H. Buchanan and Cowper architects from Sydney.
Throughout the ensuing years the hotel underwent numerous name changes from being the Commercial Hotel, Camden Inn, Camden Tavern, Molly Maguires Irish Pub and the latest name change which occurred in 2015 when it was named the Camden Hotel.
Today the Camden Hotel is an integral part of Camden’s social scene that attracts many of Australia’s leading artists who feature at the venue.
Camden Hotel.
Camden, New South Wales, Australia.
This is the beautiful unsealed road that leads to the Geological Park, in Iceland. Only one or two potholes...
#iceland #photography #travel #road #trail #landscape #olympus
New Zealand State Highway 43, also called the Forgotten World Highway, is a road that runs 148 km from Stratford in Taranaki to Taumarunui in the King Country. It contains the only unsealed portion of the New Zealand state highway network
Metal tamper seal for large Lamb Weston food transport truck door. Variation on the Macro Mondays theme anything goes.
Another from the recently developed black and white film.
There are a surprising number of unsealed roads in Mt Martha still, which causes issues with silting up of the local Balcombe estuary. After heavy rainfall, lots of this sand and gravel makes its way into the estuary, with all sorts of negative impacts.
A silt trap has recently been installed in some of the worst affected areas, although I cannot help wondering whether just sealing the roads would be a better option in the long term. The ruts and divers in many of these roads are perilous for drivers and walkers alike.
I have put some more of the film images on my blog:
Scarlet Creative Austin House Boat 0.2
8f8 - Out of Sight - Ivy Type 1 - SPRING
FINCA - happy pennant (group gift)
[ zerkalo ] Bergen Rocking Chair -
dust bunny . midnight apothecary . cabinet . dark wood
dust bunny . giant palm plant
TM Creation - [The wall drawers] Wood dark shelf w/ decors D10.wd
{what next} 'Emma' Tulips Bouquet (pale pink)
8-Serenity Style- Blooming Garden - FLOWERS TRAY
15-Serenity Style- Blooming Garden - AUXILIARY TABLE
3-Serenity Style- Blooming Garden - CANISTERS CRATE
6-Serenity Style- Blooming Garden- METAL BASKET
12-Serenity Style- Blooming Garden - PLANT CARAFE
13-Serenity Style- Blooming Garden - STOOL
Pitaya - Love letters - Seals
Pitaya - Love letters - Pile of Letters
Pitaya - Love letters - Scissors
We walked up Mt Donaldson in the dark to catch the dawn. It was well worth it! Spectacular views over a landscape with almost no trace of human impact for as far as the eye can see. Just the one unsealed road snaking across the hills.
Central courtyard in the old Seth Boyden housing project in Newark, N.J.
The 530-unit complex was completed in 1941 and abandoned around 70 years later, on the tail end of the city’s campaign to replace its old public housing. Some of the infamous high-rise towers came down with the aid of explosive charges, some low-rise complexes were bulldozed, some sites were just left to rot, and some were refurbished.
The housing authority went with option No. 3 at Seth Boyden. It sealed the buildings up but they were promptly unsealed by intruders who also punched through the interior walls, making it easy to navigate out of sight of police.
That’s what I read, anyway. I didn’t attempt to verify it.
Location, Lake Mungo, east of the Mildura- Pooncarie rd.
If you venture out there, prepare for a further 65 klms of unsealed rough in parts road to the lake, closed to traffic in inclement weather.
The Federal Standard historic printing office in Chiltern Victoria with a very patient caretaker posing for my pic.
It was a warm day when i visited but in this building ( metal roof, unsealed on the inside), it was soooo hot that I was literally dripping with sweat to the max in the small time I was there. How the workers worked in that building with the machines running and making it even hotter, I cannot understand!!!
New Release.
Designed as a companion to Noctrya, Memorium extends our ongoing study of light & reflection.
This collection introduces an urn-shaped wax warmer paired with an assortment of jar & carton wax melts. The fatpack includes a decorative unsealed vessel for display.
Available this weekend for K9
PBR Exclusive Only
From the Big Trip 3D slide archives - 2004.
This wonderful view in far north Queensland was from the Walu Wugirriga lookout (also known as the Alexandra Range lookout) within the beautiful Daintree rainforest world heritage area, and looks south-east toward the mouth of the Daintree River.
It was a very steamy day with frequent heavy showers coming through between the sunny spells. Here, it had just finished raining and everything was dripping gently. The road from here led us up to Cape Tribulation on a wonderful quiet sealed road through some amazing scenery. We were quite surprised at how much agriculture there was in the area, with lots of tropical crops growing, interspersed with dairy cattle among patches of incredibly dense rainforest. That was our personal furthest point north within Queensland that we managed on our trip, but from Cape Tribulation, an unsealed road would have taken us further north to Cooktown. (Next time!)
(Slide scanned using Canon RP with 24-240 and Nisi close up lens. Original taken using Fuji Sensia 100 slide film)
Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday!
From the main road to Kalbarri from the north, a turnoff puts one onto a 30 kilometre long unsealed road within the national park. There are several lookouts to the Murchison River below, but by far the best known one is Nature's Window, shown here.
From the carpark, a 500m sealed walk takes visitors down to the feted formation, and onward to the river below for the superfit. The pathway is lined by wildflowers, seen at their best in Springtime. The river is at its lowest point in Spring, but during late summer can be huge!
The sandstone of the region is believed by scientists to be 400 million years old. The view is fabulous.
Kalbarri National Park is in fact in two parts, the inland park seen here, and the coastal park south of the township of the same name.
The door slid halfway open then began slowly closing again. I jumped through, and hit the floor as the airlock snapped shut. I could hear the noise of crumpling metal, then silence.
I suddenly became aware of my surroundings: A broken cyrogenic chamber spilled globs of gel and broken glass on the tiles. A body lay half out of the chamber. Another, still frozen, dead. A broken table was flipped on its side, and eight canisters lay scattered. Two had been unsealed. I opened a third and pulled the contents out: A uniform like the one I was wearing, and a map of the ship.