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A composition driven by the Most Versatile challenge and processed for use in Week 29 - 'Clean background' - with the Compositionally Challenged Group.
Taken with a black background to circumvent any post-processing which has been a feature of all my previous attempts at the ‘clean background’ homework.
Did it work? No! The black background came out grey so I had to adjust the levels to get it back to black.
DIY border in Photoshop elements 13.
The border between Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and Co. Leitrim, Republic of Ireland along the northern shore of Lough Melvin. This is very close to the western edge of N. Ireland.
Behind me on the roadside is a memorial to a local man who died on the road in February 1994 'as a result of British Army excavations' - he drowned after falling into a water-filled crater which at that stage blocked the road. There is another memorial to two men who died in similar circumstances further south along the border, between Kiltyclogher and Scribbagh.
All five roads along the Fermanagh / Leitrim border were closed by the British at the height of the Troubles in the 1970s and only reopened in the mid 1990s.
tajik border guard. in retrospect, it was pretty stupid of me to take this photo, especially considering that i had been smuggled into tajikistan illegally and was in the process of being bribed back into uzbekistan (my guide is the guy in red who just paid off another guard who walked back to the uzbek officers). maybe that's why i waited for them to turn their back before i took the photo.
The privately funded Border Patrol "Museum", El Paso Texas. A truly terrifying monument to anti-immigrant xenophobia in America (all in the name of security of course).
Another "face" shot, this time of a beautiful, freshly emerged Pearl-bordered Fritillary at Bentley Wood in Wiltshire. I often find that freshly emerged specimens (particularly the Fritillaries) usually have their proboscis out and are quite unsure of what to do with it :) Its quite amusing to watch. This one couldn't quite grasp the concept that it is almost impossible to sit on top of a bluebell and feed from the down-turned flower head.
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Information: Pearl-bordered Fritillary (one | two)
Technical: 1/100 | f/7.1 | 100mm | ISO400
Camera/Lens: Canon EOS 500D | Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM
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Jeremiah and I crossed the border into Oregon from Washington. There was a lookout point not too far after crossing the bridge, and we saw this beautiful view of the river and the landscape.
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LX59 CLU Scania N230UD OmniCity of Border Buses heading along York Place working the X62 service to Peebles.
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These two characters were part of a team who provided security for myself and our team during visits to the Georgian border. They are from the Georgian Border Guard elite unit. The photo was taken in Omalo on the Russian (Dagestan) portion of border.
A wagon train remains on the tracks of Portbou Station, Spain on 3rd September, 2015. Portbou (North Catalonia) is the last Spanish seaside town before the border with France. Currently has a population of 1,200 inhabitants and mainly economic activity is tourism. Had his years of splendor around 1930, with about 4,000 inhabitants and numerous businesses dedicated to transportation and customs. After the Spanish Civil War (1939) by Portbou and roads passed more than 350 thousand people en route to exile. Its imposing train station (the last before the town of Cerbere-France) lost importance with the opening of land transport by the point of La Jonquera. In 1993, the creation of the European Union and the subsequent Schengen Agreement definitively invalidated the border.
This ancient fort is still manned by a couple of border guards. A cigarette for each of them got us entry to look over the river into Afghanistan.
Chuck from the Scottish Tartans Museum and Ern from Virginia who appropriately wears a four yard box pleated kilt by Matt Newsome of the Scottish Tartans Museum.
A good comparison of the traditional eight yard knife pleated kilt in Cunningham tartan alongside the four yard box pleated kilt in the xmarksthescot tartan which is the world's first internet tartan. Note though that the modern kilt is worn at the traditional high waist position in contrast with the traditional kilt which is worn at the more modern low waist position!
This sheep is part of a small flock at Moulton in Norfolk.
The Border Leicester is a polled, long-wool sheep and is considered a dual-purpose breed as it is reared both for meat and for wool. The sheep are large but docile.
The Border Leicester was developed in 1767 in Northumberland, England. Their name derives from the fact that their birthplace is near the Scottish border with their foundation stock being Dishley Leicester rams.
The Dishley Leicester was created and bred by Robert Bakewell (1726-1795) by crossing the old Lincolnshire breed with the Leicestershire type sheep. The Dishley Leicester became very popular with local farmers. George and Mathew Culley bought some of Robert Bakewell's Dishley Leicesters and the breed was soon found on both sides of the border. Around the 1830's two distinct types of Dishley Leicesters were developing on the two sides of the border. The Culley brothers were crossing their sheep with Teeswater sheep while other farmers in different areas along the border were crossing with Cheviots. This variation in the breed resulted in the two being nicknamed 'bluecaps' and 'redlegs'. Many farmers preferred the hardier redlegs and around 1850 this variation of the Dishley Leicester became known as the Border Leicester. They were a fairly common breed in the UK by the 19th. century.
Registered flocks are now found in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Border Leicester sheep have been exported to Australia in 1871, British Guiana, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Hungary, India, Iran, Japan, New Zealand in 1859, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, where the first breed association was formed in 1888, and Yugoslavia.
Border Leicester's are all white with a distinct long body, well-developed chest, well-sprung ribs and a wide, strong back. The nose should be black and the ears should be large, upright and alert. Feet should also be dark in colour. The head and legs should be free of wool and only covered in short white hair making it easier for shearing. Sheep of this breed should also have a distinct 'Roman' nose
The weight of a mature Border Leicester ram is in the range of 309 to 386 lb. (140 to 175 kg) and a mature ewe 200 to 260 lb. (90 to 120 kg). A yearling ewe is around 141 lb. (64 kg).
Their white wool tends to be very long and is prized by spinners because of its crimp and lustre. Sheep are normally shorn twice a year when the wool has reached a length of around 3.9 in. (100 mm). Lambs yield an average of 4 lb. (1.8 kg) of wool, yearlings may yield 7.1 lb. (3.2 kg) at each shearing.
The Border Leicester is an excellent breed for farmers. They produce good milk and are good mothers with a lambing percentage of about 150%. Lambs finish quickly due to their high growth rate and produce high quality, desirable meat. The breed is also hardy and easy to keep and manage.
Edlingham Castle was a dinky delight of a building, a fortified manor house with the potential to become something much grander which was sadly nipped in the bud during its history. Visiting Northumberland for the first time I discovered that 'castles' in this county are smaller and more home-made than in the 'soft south' of England. Close proximity to the Scottish border meant that every large home had to be capable of defence against raiders or Reivers.
The next-door village church was consecrated as early as 831 to 847 AD but by 1230 to 1256 John de Edlingham had built a two-storey hall house near the river with a hall, parlour, chambers, kitchen, bakehouse, brewhouse and other services. This was defended by a moat fed from nearby springs.
The property was taken over by Sir William de Felton in 1296 who appears to have added fortifications including a palisade (timber stockade) inside the moat and built a gatehouse. His son William had better ideas and added a magnificent solar tower on the sunny side of the hall from 1340 onwards. This tower would have provided warm and comfortable accommodation for the family as well as providing a more formidable defence in the style of a Border peel or pele tower - common in this area. The guide notes in the neighbouring Norman church make no reference to this but we noted that one side of the solar had projecting stones which were clearly intended for a larger curtain wall but which was never built. William junior also improved the gate which at some stage gained a portcullis and probably a drawbridge. Why the work on the better wall next to the solar tower was never finished is unknown but the arrival of the Black Death (1348) affected many building projects in the UK, often for several decades. Disease, death or the border wars could equally be to blame.
This solar tower would have been a little stunner in its prime - 35 feet wide on all sides with round bartizan towers at each corner in the style of some Scottish castles and Border peels. It had a lower fore building and an external portcullis gate. A particular feature inside the solar was the 'joggled' fireplace lintels on two floors each made 'Lego' style by slotting multiple stones together each keyed by a line of '3's (see picture). This was a feature I had never seen before. The solar had at least two garderobes (toilets) on different levels. The guide in the church suggests that the subsequent collapse of the solar tower may be due to it being partly placed over the filled-in moat and then insufficiently supported at foundation level. By 1400 the site was robust enough to be called a castle implying that a formal licence to crenellate (fortify) had been obtained.
After 1420 it passed into the hands of the Hastings family and stayed with them until 1519. Under later owners there was much stone robbing and it degenerated into a farm but two metres of wind blown soil managed to cover the surviving (and almost complete) cobbled yard which was first unearthed by English Heritage in 1978.work finally finished in 1985 with steel ties being used to hold the two halves of the solar tower together. It is a very sick building!
The guide in the church said that the peaceful early 13th century reflected the first - minor - defences of the site but once the Scottish wars of independence began the whole Borders area became an unstable war zone, not helped by the raiding families from either kingdom 'nipping over the border' to do a little shopping at their neighbours' expense. Sheep, goats, cattle, horses - any portable wealth that could be moved quickly plus the contents of any strong boxes which could be opened or carried off by the Reivers.