A crumbling wall at the Sutro Baths ruins at San Francisco’s Lands End.

I learned it till it thumped my head to numbness

Yearning it would let me rest

And then I learned it more, I learned it again

And then, just when I thought I had it done

I found myself mid-mistake, realizing I’d not yet begun

I have seen the lions turn to cubs

I have seen the hunters turn to prey

Our lessons will come again tomorrow

If they’re not learned today

Olympus em-1

autumn in the spring :-)

I came across this image and had an instant desire to process it today :-)

This could well be a tabular iceberg that has been stranded on a shallow and exposed to erosion for many years...

Taken 45 minutes before sunset around Snow Hill, an island southeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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For reproduction rights, see www.deselliers.info/en/copyright.htm.

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ET 2404 Earth 579

Near Otterberg, Germany

I couldn't get any closer to this "greenish" crumbling house and you know I wanted to :)

St. Michael's Mount

Cornwall, Engand

scanned from slide

{Explored #10}

An old ghat along the Hooghly river. The banks of the Hooghly River in Kolkata tell the tale of an old, forgotten empire. Kolkata, once the seat of British power in India, and the capital under the British Raj until 1911, Kolkata saw stagnation after India's independence, and everywhere shows the scars of former struggle and imperial rule. It was this river that made it possible for the British to build their economic hub here and that made Kolkata into one of the largest urban areas in the world.

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Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada

The 2020 census put the population of Esmeralda County at 792. At one time Goldfield alone had a population over 20,000.

Fairy Inkcap | Coprinellus disseminatus | Psathyrellaceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Lincoln County-Washington State

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The wharf was built around 1917 and was originally used to store coal for bunkering vessels. From the 1970s it was used as a transshipment facility for exporting coal from the Hunter Valley. Wharf operations ended in 1992.

Mueang Chiang Mai District ~ Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Sony DSC-HX1, ISO 400, f/4.5, 33.6mm, 1/160s

old mudbrick 2 room miner's cottage, slowly returning to nature.

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decaying brickwork of an old homestead, a once proud and well to do family in the early goldrush days

for wall Wednesday, hww!

Abandoned Farm, easily accessible and next to a parking place.

Camera: Canon Eos 7D

Lens: EF-S17-85mmF/4-5.6-IS-USM

Aperture: f/9.0

Focal Length: 75 mm

Shutter Speed: 1/80

ISO: 125

Thanks for the recipe Stephanie. It turned out delicious.

Here is the link to the recipe:

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“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”

― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-BnRZ52jHs

The Closest Thing To Crazy by Katie Melua

There you are; so distantly; hidden behind the blossom where lovers meet;

standing so pensively on castle stones trodden smooth

by the endless march of time and soldier's feet.

There you dream so deeply; scented flowers wafting by, in clouds of white,

falling gently to the ground, like angel feathers float down from the skies at night.

I look to you in vain hope you will see how much your story means to me,

but we are parted by nine hundred years and a thousand deep seated memories;

through layered time and misty veils of weathered treasures,

I seek the truth of all that went before and ancient pleasures.

My romantic heart has travelled through the morning haze,

to find you here and follow quietly the direction of your silent gaze.

I wonder if you will ever look my way or brighten up my darkest day.

I trace your steps across the lawn and make my way; to await the dawn.

I'm surer than I've ever been that lost in time; a change of scene,

our love that once traversed the universe was never just a dream.

In my pocket I carry with me the musty yellowed remnants of what you wrote;

imprinted on my mind and soaked by tears I shed and filled with hope.

Is it possible to transcend the sands of time and love at last will find a home

within a heart where sorrow lived so long that love was left no room …

- AP - Copyright remains with the author

'copyright image please do not reproduce without permission'

© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved

Some urbex/rurex photography from a derelict Admiralty facility near to Arrochar, Scotland.

This building was part of the Loch Long Torpedo Range which operated on the loch from 1912 to 1986. Testing peaked during World War II with some 12,000 torpedoes being fired down the loch. The building now is completely unsafe, naturally, and that manhole opening you can see centre frame is an open 15ft drop to the loch below surrounded by jagged rough concrete pillars. You definitely have to watch your step!

This is a previously unpublished shot from March 2020 just after I had decided to begin shielding from infectious people, some four weeks before official guidance. I thought a 'torpedo range' shot would be timely given that the Russian Navy is about to conduct a military exercise in the Irish Sea directly above our massive swathe of Trans-Atlantic undersea communication cables. What could possibly go wrong?

Enjoy!

I helped to build this (Crumbles Castle) 1973/4

Made largely of granite setts and leftover cement that 'ReadyMix' donated (and the cement we mixed manually till we got a motorised mixer). The walls are 3 feet thick at ground level,

(skin of 2 rows of setts filled with cages and concrete) so are not just going to fall down! I built the shuttering for the 'Main' beam (and poured the concrete around the steel cages that reinforced the huge 'Beam' that the 'Big Tower' sits on. (see 'Crumbles' Album)

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This was taken at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. This is a high point of the lake's rim. Crater Lake itself is several hundred feet below this point. The severe winters and the rock type itself are creating a loose and deteriorating face. (Southern Oregon Cascades Trip DSC_8030.jpg)

Bad weather, improvising studio photos

Another large Italian 6 day tour. Eventful to say the least.

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Macro Mondays - Decay

Image measures 2 1/4" on the long side.

This is part of the leather strap on the case of my 1930's Remington portable typewriter. A few months ago I was moving the typewriter. The strap fell apart and I almost dropped the thing on my toes. : )

Happy Macro Monday!