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Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonata).
Village Creek Drying Beds. Arlington, Texas.
Tarrant County. 25 June 2020.
Nikon D850. AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4 D IF-ED + TC-17e II teleconverter.
(500mm) f/7.1 @ 1/3200 sec. ISO 400.
Summer holidays, taking the children up the hill to see the view from the camera obscura. Lovely day! This is where we live, and i love it.
Huntcliff through the window. I never heard of it being called Saltburn Tramway but apparently it is, sometimes. The stained-glass windows were re-instated in 1991.
More about it here
www.saltburnbysea.com/html/clifflift.html
With two little videos to show how it works (and you can hear the accent I grew up with).
Thursday 20 April 2017: Musi Khola camp (2890 m) - Kakkot Gaon (3358 m)
Another al fresco breakfast, under clear blue skies. No news of Chhiring, Nima or Dawa.
We set off along the trail through the cedar trees a little after 7.30am. Destination Kakkot Gaon / Kakotgoan about 5 hours further up the Barbung Chu / Barbung Khola.
A super morning’s walk. Clear skies and peaceful surroundings help. A short way out of camp we crossed the Musi Khola / Musi Chu on a relatively new suspension bridge. Further along several sections of the path were built out from the hillside, with only cedar / juniper trees between you and the river waters way below. We passed Val’s riverside gravel beach camp site, unscathed by any sign of landslide, and sections with mani walls and chortens.
An hour or so later the valley closed in leaving the river in a narrow corkscrew gorge. The trail crossed at the narrowest point, a stone stairway hugging the cliffside leading to a short suspension bridge, its older wooden predecessor close by. Upstream, the valley widened again with the river broader and braided between gravel bars. Very photogenic!
There followed a stiff uphill section weaving between large cedars to emerge onto a small area of grassy flatlands where goats and sheep grazed. Quite an alpine feel, and a lovely view back down the valley. Lots more photos. We arrived just after one of the nanny goats had given birth, her kid still covered in birth gunge. The couple tending their flocks were very shy, very Tibetan in dress.
Onwards passing a series of large chortens, half collapsed, meeting the odd dzo or two, taking in the valley views. In time the trail dropped down to the river bed where we walked on gravel and stone strand, the waters hugging the spur that forces a bend in the river here. The trail then climbed up under the high cliffs, initially on a sloped rock outcrop and then back down in a long stone staircase. Wonderful.
A final section across the grey sands and stones of the river bed and up into pine trees brought us to Kakkot Gaon / Kakotgoan, a beautiful village nestling at the base of a 400m bluff topped with Tibetan prayer flag poles. Stone built houses stacked one on top of another, with painted wooden window frames and tree trunk ladders leading up to roofs where firewood seasoned. Three well maintained chortens welcomed us into the village.
We walked through the village and on to the school where we’d camp for 2 nights. The school was on a vast sandbank raised above the river, backed with sandy cliffs leading to steep hillsides. Glacial sediment maybe? I wish I knew more geography/geology. Further along a new village was being built on the same flat section - the high lama had advised the move after a rockfall at the older village.
Ernst and I helped Budi put up the tents while the kitchen crew got to work on a late dal bhat lunch, based in one of the school buildings. Inquisitive school children came over during their break to say hello. Charles charmed them with photos. We lunched in one of the older classrooms, with primary school English language books piled on bookshelves and the windowsill.
A pottering afternoon in a beautiful setting. We’re on the north side of Putha Hiunchuli and Churen Himal, with Dhaulagiri IV occasionally visible too. A veranda provided a nice shady spot for reading, and a long hose pipe brought water through the school yard, so a chance for some washing.
As the afternoon wore on the wind got up bringing dust and clouds, and Nima and Dawa with the excellent news that they’d made contact with Chhiring who was on his way with a mule man and our supplies. Relief all round, and celebrations when Chhiring and the mule train turned up just before dinner. Val recognised the mule man, and had photos of his brother’s family, so the potentially short lived hire was extended to cover the next few days.
So good to have Chhiring back, and it was pizza and chips for dinner!
Read more on SparklyTrainers: Val Pitkethly's Dolpo Expedition 2017.
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Just north of the village of Robin Hoods Bay are some dramatic cliffs along the North Yorkshire coastline.
North Yorkshire, twixt Scarborough and Whitby, January 2009.
Duncansby Head (Gaelic: Rubha Duncansby) is the
most north-easterly part of the Scottish mainland. The headland juts into the North Sea, with the Pentland Firth to its north and west and the Moray Firth to its south.
Coastal Maine is renowned for its majestic granite shores. These cliffs are just below Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse.
This is my new finished project. A cliff scene!
Perhaps there are few things that I need to improve but my computer had rendered really long for this single image so I don't render it again. #b3d #visualization #3d #landscape #cliff #cg #render #behnkes3design
Next Project: Blender Coockie's Halloween Competition. ;)
The Brazos Cliffs of Northern New Mexico are surrounded by Aspen trees. The scene was exposed on Fuji Velvia film and a Cibachrome was scanned to create this photograph.
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Látrabjarg, the most western part of europe, a 14km long birdheaven you might say.
Taken last weekend, 2nd of august ´08.
The chalk cliffs at Durdle Door, Dorset. Taken on a lovely day. There were quite a few clouds here when I first arrived but later in the day there were very few in sight and it turned out to be the best day of my stay in Dorset.
Using 2 stop ND filter over the sky.
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Replaced with a lighter version 20.07.10
Der Ambro entspringt beim Monte Priora in den Monti Sibellini und mündet bei Montefortino (Provinz Fermo) in den Tenna. Das Ambro-Tal, umgeben von Bergen bis zu etwa 2.300 m, besitzt eine abwechslungsreiche und üppige Vegetation und ein besonderes Highlight ist die rote Felswand des 1444 m hohen Balzo Rosso aus eisenhaltigem Kalkstein.