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After mankind learned how to overcome natural borders like rivers, mountains or canyons, we started to create artificial borders to lock up or lock out poor people.
I was going to post another shot, but given the bookstore's travails, this one seemed--alas!--more à propos.
Colourful bokeh of flowers in the garden beyond is enclosed in this shot by the corrugated fence on the bottom and temporary fencing panels on the left.
.. although the 'ball' is actually Elk. Paddy finding much more fun chasing an animate (in many senses) objects rather than ones that don't growl back at you!
Borders Buses No.11917 keeps out of the way on Warwick Road, Carlisle waiting for time to come round and head back into Scotland working service X95.
This bus is capable of carrying 2 bicycles inside.
We were hoping to find these along the track by the River Dart above New Bridge, and we weren't disappointed. This was the first time I'd seen this species*. Unfortunately they pretty much always landed on the ground (or on the very stunted dandelions) so I didn't manage any 'arty' shots.
*As opposed to the small pearl-bordered, which I've seen a few times before and hope to see on the Mendips very soon!
The original obelisk was made of bronze and installed about 1859. It was stolen by horse packers. This is the replacement.
Eventually I was able to get reasonable photos of this species.
I generally find it much harder to get a ventral shot so was very pleased with this.
Borders Buses ADL Enviro 200 MMC YX20 ODP is seen between Langholm and Canonbie working the X95 every two hour service from Galashiels to Carlisle.
This Marker can be seen from The top of Blue Angels Peak Imperial County Ca.is one of 258 markers stretching from Brownsville, Texas to San San Diego's Coast, California. The monument seems to be located south of the Barb Wire fence that serves as a border wall.
Crosses hang on the wall between the US and Mexico in Nogales, Sonora. Presumably this is a memorial to those who died crossing into America illegally.
Borders Buses - Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 MMC - SN69 ZNC seen on High Street, Eyemouth operating service 253 to Edinburgh Bus Station on November 29th 2019
Viñas fronterizas
Olympus E-3
ZD 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 ED SWD
Aperture Priority Mode
f/8
ISO 100
200mm
1/125
Metering: Matrix
White Balance: Cloudy
B+W UV MRC filter
No Photoshop
No HDR
Chirk Aqueduct (nearest) and viaduct. To the left is the English county of Shropshire and to the right is Wales. The River Ceiriog in the valley below marks the border.
Chirk Aqueduct is part of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and the Llangollen Canal World Heritage site, which stretches from Chirk to the Horseshoe Falls at Llangollen.
Royal Border Bridge spans the River Tweed between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1850, when it was opened by Queen Victoria. The engineer who designed it was Robert Stephenson (son of George Stephenson). It was built for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway and is still in regular use today, as part of the East Coast Main Line.
The bridge is 659 metres long. It has 28 arches, constructed of brick but aesthetically faced with stone. The bridge is 38 metres above the river itself. In the 1990s it underwent significant repair work for the first time, in a Railtrack project with some funding from English Heritage.