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Malmsbury, Victoria (ABC1 Weather) This is the old Malmsbury blacksmith's workshop I have subsequently discovered.
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We met Dr Brian John over the weekend, and were impressed by his arguments - was this the origin of Stonehenge's Blue Stones?
Given the right lighting / tones there in the early morning light about 45 minutes before sunrise, and the rocks are a pretty blue.
Vertical version of Bluestone Bay when the dawn glowed red.
Nikkon D700, Nikkor 167-35mm,
60 s @ f 16, ISO 100,
Singh ray 3 stop soft, Lee 0.3 hard GND,
Singh Ray Mor-Slo 5 stop ND
Brush Creek Falls
Bluestone River Tributary
Mercer County, WV
With the new greens of spring rapidly emerging, I'm sure it makes perfect sense to post an autumn image! Just going through my files for an upcoming project and thought I'd share one more of this beautiful waterfall.
Have a great weekend, everyone, and thanks for looking, your comments are much appreciated!
An excellent evening's trainspotting chasing 925.
Train 925, 3 Nov 2020, 7051-5114, Waianakarua SIMT-NZ
On the New River near Hinton, WV. The dam's construction began in 1941, and was put into operation in 1949. The dam created a reservoir known as Bluestone Lake.
My mother-in-law grew up in the surrounding hills, and her family farmed river bottom that was later flooded during the creation of the reservoir.
The dam has been undergoing major repairs and improvements.
Bluestone Bay | Freycinet Peninsula | Tasmania
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Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. Stonehenge's ring of standing stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.
One of the most famous landmarks in the UK, Stonehenge is regarded as a British cultural icon. It has been a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1882 when legislation to protect historic monuments was first successfully introduced in Britain. The site and its surroundings were added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage; the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.
Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. Deposits containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug, and continued for at least another five hundred years.
Pathway to Port Fairy lighthouse. Built 1859 - from basalt rock. Known in Victoria as "bluestone" it is a very hard and difficult to work rock.
Used in many old buildings around the state.
Blue tones on the blue stones that cover this area of the Chesapeake Bay.
A cloudy morning that hid most of the sunrise.
Lowered the composition here some to focus more on the rocks along the ledge of the highlands in the Dolly Sods area of West Virginia
I can't quite call this a blue hour shot as it was taken close to midnight, and all around me was very dark to the naked eye. The light comes from a 2/3 moon over my right shoulder combined with an exposure time of around three and a half minutes. Bluestone Bay is a kilometre or two further west from the main township of Port Fairy on Victoria's south coast.
Original slide taken in around 2010 with the 3D World stereo medium format film camera (80mm lenses) using Fuji Provia 100F colour slide film.
Exposure at f2.8 for three and a half minutes.
Scanned with a Canon R10, RF 24-240 lens and Nisi close up attachment.
And, yes, my feet got wet from some surprisingly large waves breaking on the rocks! Thankfully the sturdy Manfrotto tripod stayed rock steady.
Some gorgeous late evening light on the rolling contours of the Lincolnshire Wolds. Looking out from the Bluestone Heath Road, in the approx. direction of Belchford.
A swirling cloudscape caught my eye. Built in 1869 this is one of the older buildings in our city. The dark stone is volcanic breccia consisting of fragments of rock lava in a matrix of ash that was ejected from a volcanic vent near our Port Chalmers about 13 million years ago. It is called bluestone.
Bluestone Bay is a superb inlet on the eastern side of the Freycinet Peninsula, a few kilometres north of Cape Tourville.
The bay is completely out of character with most of Freycinet as it's shore is covered with pale blue and pink boulders.
Access is via a very eroded 4WD track which starts a kilometre short of the Cape Tourville lighthouse.
Despite the cloud cover the light was quite good and leant itself ideally for a long 30 second exposure which smoothed the water and added some movement to the sky.
A lot of fish, eels and platypus hatch their young further up river. Sometimes in flood the young are swept down by the flooding waters.
When the European settlers arrived they build weirs and fords across the river and prevented small fish from getting to their traditional breeding areas.
In the past few years, to help the journey, a series of fish ladders have been installed so the fish don't have to fight against the velocity of the water, nor the obstacles built across the river.
Just upstream from here is a old bluestone ford. WIth the speed of the water over the ford and the height needed to get over it, it became an impassable barrier for a number of fish species.
Here. a series of installed rocks make small pools for the fish both to rest and move upward to the next pool past that ford.
And it makes the return journey easier for the young.
Now as your average enterprising Nankeen Night Heron knows, fish in small ponds are an easy lunch. And what goes up... Must come down.
A large flush of water after some heavy rains must have bought the young down the river.
Each of these pools is likely to keep a Night Heron very busy during the day.
"Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight." Daniel Boone
White Oak Creek Falls
Bluestone River Tributary
Had the pleasure of sharing this beautiful place w/ my good friend Brent McGuirt last weekend - check out Brent's new website. The hike is easy and full of beauty as the trail parallels Brush Creek and then the Bluestone River. Numerous wildflowers were blooming and the new greens of spring were beginning to emerge. The trail leads to the point where White Oak Creek empties into the Bluestone River. To access the waterfall requires a tricky scramble and climb, but it is well worth it.
I first visited this waterfall close to 20 years ago, and have returned only a few times since. . . glad I finally made it back.
Something a little different this evening. Here we see remains of the Bluestone Branch that Norfolk Southern stopped using back in the mid 1980's. The line begins in Bluestone, Wv and ends around Giatto, Wv. The line that was originally N&W, now sits silent and overgrown, and in some places actually runs through people's back yards.