Cork, The Rebel County
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Wooden slates put together and fanned out to make a spiral, this spiral I used for Light and Shadow 101.
My sister made this cork board for me. It is enclosed in an old picture frame and looks beautiful. I obviously was more than willing to help with contributing the corks from drinking wine.
Canon EOS 6D - f/8 - 1/80sec - 100mm - ISO 500
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays,
theme: Bottle cap
- When I was a schoolboy of about 15 years, I earned some money with vacation jobs. One of those was at a wine bottling company (Siebrand in the city of Kampen) where I had to remove all the wine corks from the empty returned bottles.
These bottles origined from many different factories, and many corks had an attractive appearance. I did collect a few hundred of those, and I did keep them for almost 60 years now. Why? Probably hoping once I will make a fortune by selling them to a 'wine cork collectioner' (do those exist ?).
- See pictures in the first comment !!
- Olifant jenever (gin)
In 1841 a family named Melchers started a jenever factory in the very heart of Dutch jenever production: Schiedam.
They exported their jenever to Dutch colonies in West and South Africa. To distinguish their product from other jenevers they did chose a logo that would be easy to recognise in that continent: an Elephant !
Whether a champagne cork or a cork floor.
The cork oak provides the raw material, and in Portugal it has given us some shade in the midday hours.
Another photo from the Cork Forest in the National Arboretum in Canberra. Fog not as thick as I would like but nevertheless some good early morning sun shining through the trees and down the path.
The River Lee in Cork Ireland was one of my favorite places to photograph city reflections. I have posted several from Cork in the past - here is another one with some colorful buildings.
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On our first stone circle walk we started by meeting the Cork Stone.
According to Derbyshire council "The Cork Stone is a natural, isolated, block of wind eroded sandstone which derives its name from its shape. It is 2.8 metres in width, 4.2 metres in height and has no archaeological significance "
It has graffiti carved into it unfortunately. Someone has also inserted handles to hold onto so as to be able to climb to the top.