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Reworking of an old shot from Deadvlei in the Namib Desert in Namibia. A truly amazing place.
"Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Also written DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, its name means "dead marsh" (from English dead, and Afrikaans vlei, a lake or marsh in a valley between the dunes).
The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area.
The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. There are some species of plants remaining, such as salsola and clumps of nara, adapted to surviving off the morning mist and very rare rainfall. The remaining skeletons of the trees, which are believed to have died 600–700 years ago (ca. 1340-1430), are now black because the intense sun has scorched them. Though not petrified, the wood does not decompose because it is so dry."
A number of California cities had operating trains and electric street cars in the early 20th century. This electric car is an example from the Key System which operated in Oakland, California in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The system fell victim to the Great American Streetcar Scandal. You can see this and other beautiful old train cars at the Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista, California. You can even take a ride through the Montezuma Hills on a restored electric route. More info here: www.wrm.org/
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Life and Death
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Abandoned sometime ago, was used by an artist for a "1,000 shadows" project - seems to have gone downhill since then.
The 4H tour. Taking in some Italian delights on a 4 day explore.
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some years ago in kruger park,i witnessed to a death match.
a leopard decided to get a complicate meal, an huge porcupine.
the battle continued for an hour.
sometimes the leopards die after the quills injuries,sometimes leopard wins... but one thing is sure,
the leopard can decide to abandone the fight whenever wants.
the porcupine not, it's too slow...it can just try to resist and to inflict pain to the enemy ,forcing the leopard to leave.
for the porcupine it's just a death match and will sell dearly the skin!
shingwedzi,north kruger.
old photo remastered,orginal file here:
20 minutes before sunrise at the southern end of Embleton Bay, Northumbria and the sky literally caught fire. It had been a 4.30 am start from the rental house in Seahouses and a dash down the roads to park in the dark and start the walk across the golf course to the beach with the head torch guiding the way. You never know what you will get in the way of sunrise. The early portents were not good. Then comes the really exhilaratingly dangerous bit! Trying to make your way in the dark over these greasy, oily bowling balls of dolerite on a receding tide! They are not called the "death rocks" for nothing, they are positively lethal and must see many an injured photographer and a litany of insurance claims for damaged and broken photography equipment, such is their hazard!
Anyway, unscathed but still like Bambi on ice, I managed to set myself and tripod in a semi secure position and awaited developments. I was lucky I was completely alone at this location and around 5.30 the sky started to get really interesting. The light over Dunstanburgh Castle was phenomenal and the backdrop to the Lilburn Tower looked like it had been painted by a surrealist artist! It was one of the most memorable mornings I have ever had at the coast with my camera and will live long in the memory. There is something about the light and colour at dawn in Northumbria that you don't get elsewhere and I can't wait to return at some point soon, when the lockdown ends. Just wished I had framed the shot a bit better and got a sharper foreground! Hey but we all learn!!
Revelation 13:3 “And I saw one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast.”
As some of you know, I spend about as much time ruminating what I've done in the past as I do capturing and editing new photos. And being an LA urbanist in my local environment, thinking about my relationship to landscape photography helps me see better, in some cases, better than when I pressed the shutter. For context, I'm going to be out in the wilds of Utah for several days soon - Just me and my kit and hopefully zero people. So I'm getting my landscape brain ready.
Anyhow, I was in Death Valley a few years ago and I was reviewing the photos from that trip. I'll be in a similar environment in Utah (hopefully cooler!). So I figured I needed to get into that environmental mind space. Originally I edited this photo in color. I didn't like it. However, this time I started with black and white. On removing the color, the photo became what (I believe) it was supposed to be when I framed it in my viewfinder. As often the case, the photo needed to age a few years before I could see it for what it really was. One of the reasons I love photography; I discover new things when I visit my old photos.
For those unfamiliar with Death Valley, this area is known as the "Bad Lands" near Zabriskie Point. It was early in the morning and the sun had just gotten high enough to illuminate the bad land terrain below. And it was already too hot. Worth the sweat.
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The surreal landscape of Death Valley, California. Winter travel, USA.
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The Gate House, the main entrance to Auschwitz II (also called Auschwitz-Birkenau), the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, the largest in the Third Reich. It was called the "Gate of Death”.
It is estimated that the Nazis deported at least 1.3 million people to the Auschwitz complex between 1940 and 1945. Of these, the camp authorities murdered approximately 1.1 million people.
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A shot from a trip to Death Valley, USA.
Panasonic DMC-FZ7
Aperture ƒ/5.6
Focal length 19.0 mm
Shutter 1/160
ISO 80
Twilight envelopes an abandoned house as it awaits its fate here in the village. The structure has already been scheduled for demolition; it's just a question of time. I'm holding my breath as I approach the site these days, not knowing if I'll see the familiar roof line come into view, or only emptiness where it once stood. The waiting is the worst part. Guess I would prefer to photograph the actual razing, but it won't upset me if I miss it. I much prefer to absorb the atmosphere the old house exudes, still standing in these final days. I know the place is looked upon as a blight by most residents. I see houses such as this a counterpoint to modern development. But there's also an inexplicable, almost primordial obsession. I am quite literally attracted to places like this. Have been since childhood when I was first exposed to them through TV. It has become a lifelong passion, not just finding them, but portraying them in the most haunting and eerie possible manner. This one checks every box.
Mesquite Sand Dunes :
Elles offrent un paysage digne du Sahara (la planète Tatooine dans la saga Star Wars). La plus grande des dunes s’appelle d’ailleurs la Star Dune, ça ne s’invente pas !
Entouré de montagnes, les monticules de sable lisses contrastent avec les montagnes pourpres déchiquetées au loin. Bien que la plus haute dune ne s'élève qu'à environ 100 pieds, les dunes couvrent en réalité une vaste superficie. Ce champ de dunes comprend trois types de dunes: croissant, linéaire et en forme d'étoile. Elles se trouvent au sommet d'un ancien lit de lac connu sous le nom de lac Mesquite. Les dunes ont été créées par des vents soufflant dans de petites particules de matériaux qui comprenaient du quartz, provenant probablement du Marble Canyon et de la vallée de la Panamint
Les dunes de Stovepipe Wells ont la particularité d’émettre un son provoqué par le vent qui circule entre les grains de sable. Ce son est poétiquement appelé le chant des dunes !
Mesquite Sand Dunes:
they offer a landscape worthy of the Sahara (the planet Tatooine in the saga Star Wars). The largest of the dunes is also called the Star Dune, it does not invent!
Surrounded by mountains, the mounds of smooth sand contrast with the crumbling purple mountains in the distance. Although the highest dune is only about 100 feet high, the dunes actually cover a large area. This dune field includes three types of dunes: crescent, linear and star-shaped. They are on top of an old lake bed known as Mesquite Lake. The dunes were created by winds blowing into small particles of materials that included quartz, probably from Marble Canyon and the Panamint Valley.
The dunes of Stovepipe Wells have the peculiarity to emit a sound caused by the wind which circulates between the grains of sand. This sound is poetically called the song of the dunes!
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The new film "Pinocchio" by director Guillermo del Toro debuted on Netflix today and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has an exhibit of the sets and models used in the film. A rare and fascinating behind the scenes look at what goes into making a stop-action film.
I saw the exhibit yesterday in member's preview and watched the film today and recommend both.
The character Death is voiced by Tilda Swinton in the film