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ODC - See the Light.

Hard to find much light here at the moment but plenty of funghi around on the forest floor.

Braid Hills Trail Edinburgh, first snowfall.

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Portland Bill, Dorset.

Isle of Portland, Dorset.

Pulpit Rock, the remains of an artificial stack of rock, the result of a natural arch being cut away by quarrymen from the surrounding quarry in the 1870s.

The rocky promontory of Portland Bill is often regarded as one of the greatest navigational hazards in the English Channel, due to a treacherous tidal race that is created as tide and current clash around the Bill.

CM11868-69.

My new "commute" - walking past the student union to State Street, and on to the Museum of Art.

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sensitivity in bloom

innocence looking for black

quietly

Canon EOS M; Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro; RAW Image Post: Affinity Photo 1.8.4

2020-09-04-EOS-1743

(Summer 2020) GT Cooper

IN the city of Ballarat by the end of September, nearly a 1000 miners were digging for gold on the Ballarat field - By 1853, there were more than 20,000 miners of many nationalities working on the field.

In that same year, 10,000,000 grams of gold were transported under police escort to the Melbourne Treasury. Probably as much again was never recorded but sold secretly and illegally. Over the next four (4) years, more than 77,700,000 grams reached Melbourne under escort. On June 10th 1858, the great Welcome Nugget was found. It weighed 68,956 grams and contained an estimated 68,272 grams of pure gold.

Ballarat's last mine closed down in 1918. The total recorded yield from the Ballarat Goldfield amounted to 20,592,000 Troy ounces (Ballarat Historical Society Publication No. 1) and based on a gold price of $A500 per ounce the total value would be around $10,000,000,000. A remarkable figure when it is realised that a large amount of the gold discovered in the district was never recorded.

Ballarat was the scene of Australia's most famous civic insurrection. On 3 December 1854 at Eureka, miners clashed with police and detachments of the 12th and 40th regiments. In all, 28 men were killed and a large number wounded.

Ballarat was proclaimed a township in 1852, created a municipality in 1855, a borough in 1863, and was proclaimed a City on 9 September 1870.

Note: 31.1034 grams = 1 ounce

1 troy ounce = 31.1034768 grams

The Lime Swallowtail Butterfly, also called the Common Lime, the Citrus and the Chequered Swallowtail is native to Asia, covering the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia. The underside has coloured red, light brown/yellow ochre and pale blue markings on a pale (white or pale yellow) background.

Seen in Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World.

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Snowdon Massif, Gwynedd.

The Crib Goch ridge, towards Garnedd Ugain and Snowdon/Yr Wyddfa.

Out & About - 1 (of 9) - Canon EOS M and Fotodiox EOS-EOS M Pro adapter with Canon EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5.6 IS STM (EOS Mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.

WINTER IN DE TUIN, de potjes wachten op nieuwe plantjes.

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WINTER IN the garden, all pots waiting for new plants.

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Path through the woods in Mortonhall,Edinburgh.

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Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, Colorado, USA

“Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

Canon EOS M; Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro; RAW Image Post: Affinity Photo 1.8.3 — Unsharp Mask; Levels Adjustment; Brightness & Contrast—Screen Blend Mode; Gaussian Blur—30 Px/Multiply Blend Mode; HSL Adjustment; 90% Gaussian Noise.

2020-04-04-EOS-0423

(Spring 2020) GT Cooper