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The two boys living it up in the Border Country. A battle of the tongues :))
Gowbarrow looking towards Sandwick Bay and the Martindale Valley.
Blue markings are not natural. I have been told this may have been applied as part of a catch and release programme.
A closer view of the Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 13 shot stack using a reflector to bounce some light back.
Charlie, wondering what are you doing and is that camera edible.
This is my daughters dog and it was great to be able to catch up with them after lockdown.
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord --Importance of memory--
Landschaftspark is a public park located in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany. It was designed in 1991 by Latz + Partner (Peter Latz), with the intention that it work to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it. The park closely associates itself with the past use of the site: a coal and steel production plant (abandoned in 1985, leaving the area significantly polluted) and the agricultural land it had been prior to the mid 19th century
Conception and creation
In 1991, a co-operative-concurrent planning procedure with five international planning teams was held to design the park. Peter Latz’s design was significant, as it attempted to preserve as much of the existing site as possible. Unlike his competitors, Latz recognized the value of the site’s current condition. He allowed the polluted soils to remain in place and be remediated through phytoremediation, and sequestered soils with high toxicity in the existing bunkers. He also found new uses for many of the old structures, and turned the former sewage canal into a method of cleansing the site.
Design
The park is divided into different areas, whose borders were carefully developed by looking at existing conditions (such as how the site had been divided by existing roads and railways, what types of plants had begun to grow in each area, etc.). This piecemeal pattern was then woven together by a series of walkways and waterways, which were placed according to the old railway and sewer systems. While each piece retains its character, it also creates a dialogue with the site surrounding it. Within the main complex, Latz emphasized specific programmatic elements: the concrete bunkers create a space for a series of intimate gardens, old gas tanks have become pools for scuba divers, concrete walls are used by rock climbers, and one of the most central places of the factory, the middle of the former steel mill, has been made into piazza. Each of these spaces uses elements to allow for a specific reading of time.
The site was designed with the idea that a grandfather, who might have worked at the plant, could walk with his grandchildren, explaining what he used to do and what the machinery had been used for. At Landschaftspark, memory was central to the design. Various authors have addressed the ways in which memory can inform the visitor of a site, a concept that became prevalent during Postmodernism.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landschaftspark_Duisburg-Nord
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Just been going through some of my older pictures again and came across this one with Asha with her paws up on a palm tree in our back garden. I love the way Asha's claws are on the bark of the tree and she is looking directly at me...lol
He watched us turn around and never left his position. Am sure he waits for his human to return home.
texture by flickr.com
The background photo is mine from a few years ago …very highly edited shot of some dandelions with an inverse effect and more. Just now used Adobe photoshop express sticker to get the lion image (a little play on words there). Also chose one of their gold borders.
Between Wangaratta and Glenrowan, CLP12, GM27, S311 and CLF1 get stuck into the grade with a load of grain from The Rock in NSW bound for Appleton Dock.
After an aborted mission at Tocumwal, I quickly scooted across to the North-East to try and intercept this train coming out of NSW. Victoria and NSW dropped border control measures at the end of October due to both states achieving an extremely high level of Covid-19 vaccination quickly, bringing their various outbreaks under control. Pretty much all restrictions are dropped, or are close to being dropped, in both states. The ACT and SA are now part of the same bubble, with QLD, NT and TAS joining by 20 December. WA is holding off until next year due to having slow vaccine uptake and large vulnerable remote communities.
2021-11-29 SSR CLP12-GM27-S311-CLF1 Wangaratta South 2CM5
This started out as a lavender and yellow water lily surrounded by green leaves in a pool of water. it was shot with a Canon 5D and the lens was a EF Canon 100-400 zoom. I processed the image in Lightroom, PhotoShop, and Smart Photo Editor. Sometimes it's just nice to cut loose and see what comes about as the journey progresses.
The trail is like a border between ancient worlds. The earth behind this trail was formed 40 million years ago, in warm world of near-tropical, jungle-like forests.
The colorful red and golds hills represent a world with seasonality, 33 million years ago. Then, deciduous forests covered the land.
The distant ridgelines are topped with layers of flood basalts. These lava layers represent another world in time, 16 million years ago when enormous lava flods covered thousands of square miles of savanna-like ecosystems.
Now residing in Melrose in the Scottish Borders - 40 miles from the sea :(
Finding landscape shooting very tricky and challenging with large variations in light across the image I feel I can only do HDR to bring out the details. Hats off to all those landscape photographers as seascapes are loads easier. Sky seems to be more yellow on Flickr as was more orange on my PC..
This was taken perhaps a hundred yards inside the California border with Oregon. This stretch of coast contains many medium sized rocks that are jumbled close together. I found them difficult to arrange in any satisfying way. Regardless, it was a great sunset and a fine way to end a week driving the southern Oregon coast
The pack after trudging through the snowy blizzard for over a couple of hours ontop of a non descript extruberence somewhere in the lake district in the mist and snow enjoying it thoroughly, Mist is even smacking her lips!
Mist and Paddy on a munro top beyond Cairn a Claise during a brief window in the mist ... obviously wondering where next?