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This is a photo of the plywood floor of a bin for garbage at Martinique Beach with the imprint of two garbage cans from last year.
The remains of whaling are everywhere in Svalbard. The bones of these great beasts, bleached ashen white, lie piled high on the beaches where they fell. Standing amidst such desecration, I can hardly bear to look at them. I turn away and photograph an abandoned boat, its hull leaden grey, a ghost that haunts the beaches still. It seems to me the mountains should be wreathed in angry cloud beneath a dark and brooding sky. Instead the sun shines and the mountains sleep. Nature does not mourn, I think to myself. The days pass. The seasons turn. Bones and boats will one day fall to dust. I wonder, when they are gone, will whales still cross the oceans? I hope so.
Nikon Z7, 24-70/2.8 S. Original photograph copyright © Simon Miles. Not to be used without permission. Thanks for looking.
The architectural highlight of gothic Highgate Cemetary was walking through Egyptian Avenue out into the Circle of Lebanon. It is a breathtaking structure of twenty sunken tombs built around the roots of an ageing and ancient Cedar of Lebanon tree, from which the Circle gets its name.
Sadly, due to major structural problems and serious decay of the tree, which predates the cemetery itself, it had to be cut down and removed; a new, small one has been planted in the same place.
Macro Mondays: "Circles"
An LED flashlight (torch? pardon my Hollywood english) lit with a single LED constant light.
The image is about 2.5 cm (1 inches) on the long edge.
I hadn't made any plans to go out this morning but after waking up at 02:00 and being unable to get back to sleep, I decided that I might as well give it a go. I headed to one of my regular spots down on Derwentwater and arrived just before sunrise. The sunrise didn't amount to much but around 30 minutes later the sun started to light up the clouds with a bit of colour so all was not lost :-)