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Your packing up your sleeping bag,
Your lantern and your tent,
and you're off to find the life you lost,
But you're not sure where it went,
And I hope those mountains teach you,
How to stand both tall and proud,
That you see your life much clearer,
With your head above the clouds,
I hope you swim through rivers,
With their currents swift and fast,
That they show you must be careful,
When you wash away your past,
I hope that you are humbled,
By the vastness of the sea,
That the eagles high above you,
Make you feel like you are free,
I hope when night has fallen,
and your fire's just a spark.
That the stars shine to remind you,
That there's beauty in the dark,
But most of all I'm hoping,
That You're learning while you roam,
That no matter the distance,
You can always come back home.
~ E.H ~
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One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.
I should not be withheld but that some day
into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.
I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.
They would not find me changed from him they knew--
Only more sure of all I though was true.
by Robert Frost
We find the works of nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
(Joseph Addison)
View from Giau pass - Dolomites, Italy.
From journey (photographic expedition) through the Dolomite mountain range, September 2016.
As always, thank you so much for your visits, comments and faves!
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This is an impressive view of the vastness of the countryside in the big sky country of the U.S far west with a storm blowing through.
Alagna Valsesia & Gressoney. Italy.
From the top of Corno del Camoscio, Chamois horn, 3,024m, a look toward the divide marking the border between the Piedmont Region and Valle d'Aosta.
Starting from the closest summit, you see Corno Rosso, Punta Straling, and the threatening Corno Bianco, the highest point of the long ridge, 3,320m, with its satellites, Punta di Netscho and Punta di Ciampono.
You can reach this view point from a nearby cable car station in less than 30min. I opted for a longer trail, starting 1,000m below. It's a lovely hike, amid the pastures and the first rock fields, and you can forget the presence of the lifts till the last steps, when you reach the summit and you look on the other side of the ridge.
The show offered by the clouds is common up here. Humidity rise up from the plane and the big lakes of Northern Italy and collide against the South East side of the divide, leaving the sky above Valle d'Aosta almost clean. Usually the clouds bring then the rain, but this last summer they forgot their job.
Dalla cima del Corno del Camoscio, uno sguardo verso lo spartiacque che segna il confine tra Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta.
Partendo dalla vetta più vicina si vedono Corno Rosso, Punta Straling e il minaccioso Corno Bianco, il punto più alto della lunga cresta, 3.320 m, con i suoi satelliti, Punta di Netscho e Punta di Ciampono.
È possibile raggiungere questo punto panoramico da una vicina stazione della funivia in meno di 30 minuti. Ho optato per un sentiero più lungo, partendo 1.000 m più in basso. E' una bella escursione, tra i pascoli e le prime rocce, e si può dimenticare la presenza degli impianti di risalita fino agli ultimi passi, quando si raggiunge la vetta e si guarda dall'altra parte della cresta.
Lo spettacolo offerto dalle nuvole è comune quassù. L'umidità sale dalla pianura e dai grandi laghi del Nord e si scontra con il lato sud-est dello spartiacque, lasciando il cielo sopra la Valle d'Aosta quasi pulito. Di solito le nuvole portano poi la pioggia, ma quest'estate hanno dimenticato di fare il loro lavoro.
Seceda - Dolomites, Italy.
From journey (photographic expedition) through the Dolomite mountain range, September 2016.
It was a rough, crazy day...That afternoon before sunset was so much lightning in one period that is not a miracle that I was caught tiny one in a series of shoots that I fired.:)
As always, thank you so much for your visits, comments and faves!
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We were setting out on a perfect winter day to enjoy another excursion of Iceland's Southwest and this became a truly perfect day with fresh snowfall and heavenly light illuminating the beautiful white vastness.
44:52 Black and white landscape – you can either shoot in black and white or process it in mono afterwards.
South Island, NZ
The wildflowers at Carizzo Plains were beautiful last spring (not quite as fantastic as 2010 but they came close). I love the feeling of vastness there.
Among the vastness in time and space
Miraculous how I found your face
You are the one that waited, no matter how out of place
❤❤
Patience is a wonderful virtue among friends. Happy Sunday!
Giau pass - Dolomites, Italy.
From journey (photographic expedition) through the Dolomite mountain range, September 2016.
As always, thank you so much for your visits, comments and faves!
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Remembering Holland
Thinking of Holland
I see wide rivers
slugging through
limitless low-lying land,
lines of implausibly
gauzy poplars
like feathered plumes
in far distances stand;
and sunken away
in the formidable vastness
the farmsteads
scattered are found,
tree clumps, villages,
pollarded steeples
churches and elms
in one great design bound.
the sky hangs low there
and in grey vapours of
colour
the sun there
is slowly blurred,
and in all the regions
the voice of the water
with its eternal disasters
is dreaded and heard.
H. Marsman
Translation: Paul Vincent
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Cairn on the foreground of the Vatnajökull glacier in south east Iceland.
A lovely sunrise at The Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland
My last post before I leave for Keswick then Scotland tomorrow morning at stupid O'clock! Those who have followed me for a while know I love panos and found I had this one in my 'bank' ready to post. The light wasn't amazing but then again on Skye it doesn't have to be to get images you like and I do like the feeling of vastness this pano hints at and the soft colours.
I'll try to comment on others photos as I'm able but apologies again for being behind.
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Trasquera. Italy.
The East ridge of Monte Teggiolo (2,385m) divides the Valley of Cairasca, on the left, from the one of Diveria river, with this last one continuing then till the great basin of Toce river. On the right, The peak of Pizzo del Rovale.
This summit offer impressive views all around and is a pleasant hike.
There is a route to the summit that follows the upper part of this ridge (that sinks from the top to the village of Varzo, 1,850m below), with some chains helping you on the last rocks below the summit. On the other side the mountain is much more peaceful, covered by wide meadows, and I followed the normal route along those slopes, starting from the village of Bugliaga, at 1,310m.
At the following link, the panorama on the other side of the mountain with some of the giants of the Alps, the Weissmies range and Monte Leone.
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La cresta Est del Monte Teggiolo (2.385m) divide la Valle della Cairasca, a sinistra, da quella del fiume Diveria, con quest'ultimo che prosegue poi fino alla grande conca del fiume Toce.
Questa vetta offre viste impressionanti tutt'intorno ed è una piacevole escursione.
C'è un percorso per la vetta che segue la parte superiore di questa cresta, con alcune catene che aiutano sulle ultime rocce sotto la sommità. Dall'altro lato la montagna è molto più clemente, coperta di ampi pascoli. Io ho seguito il sentiero su quest'ultimo versante. Partendo dal piccolo paese di Bugliaga, a 1.310m.
Al link sopra, il panorama dal lato opposto, con il gruppo della Weissmies e il Monte Leone.
She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small- but free as well.
George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
one of the many many glacier tongues making their way down from the Vatnajoekull mountain range and through the icy vastness of Iceland's Southern coast.
A shot from a long ago trip to Lahaul & Spiti valley in the state of Himachal Padesh,India.Near Chandra Taal lake at at altitude of around 14000 feet above sea level.
It is while standing in awestruck silence in a place like this that man comes to terms with his own insignificance before the vastness of nature and feels the presence of the Divine.
I might have uploaded a similar shot earlier but since many new friends have joined me since then I thought I would share it again.
I will be off for a few days.See you soon my friends.Take care.