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With art worthy of any museum in the world, the wall of Buckskin Gulch is admired by Moment’s Notice. As with Paria Canyon into which it flows, Buckskin Gulch is composed of Navajo Sandstone, deposited as massive sand dunes 200 million years ago. Water has carved what is considered the longest slot canyon in the Colorado Plateau (and perhaps anywhere), approximately 12 miles/ 19 km long, as narrow as 4 feet/ 1.2 m wide, with walls as high as 500 feet/ 150 m. Wind, water, and gravity have sculpted the canyon walls into beautiful forms and textures, with desert varnish adding some lovely streaks, illuminated here by sunlight reflected from the adjacent wall.
In Transsylvania, churches served as fortresses at the same time and were walled and fortified. Most of them can be visited nowadays on arrangement. The one at Cincsor is one of the better preserved.
Taken last winter on a visit to York. The medieval city of York has this wonderful old wall encircling it which is fully open to the public. It dates back to Roman times although most of the Roman bits were replaced by another wall built by the Viking invaders around 1400 years ago. The current wall, while retaining elements of the Roman and Viking structures, dates back to construction that took place from the 12th to 14th century, so basically it's a pretty old wall. What a treat it was for me to capture this elderly gentleman in his traditional flat cap strolling along this part of the wall. But look closely because this is something I just can't figure out. He doesn't appear to have any hands! I have no idea why that is. I haven't touched this image other than to process it in the normal way. Very weird indeed.
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A flat cap (sometimes "scally cap") is a rounded cap with a small stiff brim in front, originating in Great Britain and Ireland. The hat is known in Ireland as a paddy cap, in Scotland as a bunnet, in Wales as a Dai cap, in New Zealand as a cheese-cutter, and in the United States as a driving cap. Cloths used to make the cap include wool, tweed (most common), and cotton.
A three photo stitch.. light was fading fast as we headed back down but Skiddaw was still catching that golden light :-)
The walls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone as seen looking from Artist Point toward the North Rim. The canyon walls are made up of rhyolite (Volcanic rock) that has been altered by hudrothermal activity (Hot sptings). Alteration of the rock gives the canyon its beautiful colors. The traces of several small hot springs can be seen on the canyon wall
Image taken in Sept 2022 at the Cley Wildlife Nature Reserve in North Norfolk, my first time with this species of Butterfly, I can't remember seeing one in the East Midlands where I live.
maybe if you squint really hard something will come to light, I see a red headed smurf at the bottom.
A piece of the Berlin wall in the HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany. Standing right in front of the Elbphilharmonie. Pieces of the wall where given to each German state as a present. It used to be standing near the Autobahn to Berlin but was moved to the new location near the Elbphilharmonie. The square is called "Platz der Deutschen Einheit".