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“It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.”
Mark Twain
Desolation Sound is a deep water sound at the northern end of the Salish Sea and of the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada.
With the lack of a "traditional" subject the light itself becomes the dominant subject in this landscape image.
A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere, right next to an abandoned bridge and railway bed, seems to be a preferred spot for local painters. This adds to the already abondened feeling scene, which probably looks and feels a lot different during another season. I still find the view from this side of the bridge quite fascinating. I also like the modern train in it, but it would be cool to get a vintage looking model here one day: it would send you 20 years back in time.
DB 189 040 + 189 030, Oberhausen 20.2.2016
How would you describe the landscape of Southeastern Colorado? Well, here you go... For many miles, the rolling prairie and desolate landscape create scenes like this. From La Junta to Trinidad, Colorado, US-HWY 350 and BNSF's Raton Subdivision follow each other for 78 miles through a whole lot of nothing. Seen here, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief races along US-HWY 350 just south of Timpas on May 23, 2016.
Gertrude Lake Falls in the Desolation Wilderness. This was from last week's hike at Wrights Lake. It was nice to get up there so early in the spring, normally it is not accessible until mid June.
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Taking a break from limestone and lone tree in the Yorkshire Dales.
More shots from Malham coming next week :)
Have a nice day!
Was standing in the checkout line at the local grocery yesterday morning. Stuck behind a shopper with a cart-load of items, I passed the time idly scrolling through my texts and emails. Confident that my digital life could be put on hold for a few minutes, I pocketed the phone and took stock of my surroundings. I noticed an elderly woman in an adjacent checkout lane staring at me. I felt a wave of sympathy for her as my eye took in her frail and trembly stature, and the fact that she seemed utterly alone in the world. The tendency in such situations is to avert my gaze and pretend not to have noticed the other person. But instead I looked her straight in the eye, smiled, and said 'good morning'. The effect on her was remarkable; it almost looked as if she had stepped into bright sunshine as she felt the embrace of a friendly greeting. She smiled and returned my greeting. We exchanged brief small talk, and the moment was over. It felt to me as if she hadn't been greeted in 20 years. Perhaps even fallen into that cloak of invisibility that often greets the elderly in their final years. Younger people see them, but don't really notice them. I was once the same way, preoccupied with my own life, and running on a very narrow track. But the rocket sled ride I'm taking into my own golden years has totally altered my perspective. That woman's face lingers in my mind even now.
The barren zone created by a retreating Glacier can be one of the most desolate places on earth.
This one in south eastern Iceland was huge, with just a single electric pylon running its entire length.
Shot here in Monochrome under stormy skies, I loved the atmospherics and isolation in this image.
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some of my sculptures in the show IT"S PAINTING SO IT MUST BE GERMAN at Silvershot, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
made of papier mache, wood, wire, more paper, fabric and threads, etc. More on desolation row at spectrescope.blogspot.com/
This photo-video visits the desolate land of Death Valley, California. Photographed in 2010 and 2011.
This month has been such a dark & dismal one. The sun has hardly peeked out from behind heavy cloud cover. This desolate farm scene was a perfect example of the week. I especially like the “Turner” Sky; if you look closely above the tree, you can see a low sun trying hard to break through.
Death Valley, California
We are standing on the dry wash from Desolation Canyon, admiring the view across the salt flats towards the Panamint Mountains.
Old Gang Lead Smelting Mill.
I wanted this to be as "bleak, grim and gritty" as I could get it. (I think the look of patchy snow given by infrared helps.) The average life expectancy of those who worked here was 45! Children were sent up the flues, that follow the contours of the fellside, to scrape of the lead that was deposited there from the poisonous smoke from the smelter!
Not a rural idyll!
On the Fells above Reeth, between Swaledale and Arkengarhdale. The desolation seems complete, as the lead poisoned slag heaps and streamsides are bare of most plants,
(except some very stunted grass), after over a century of disuse.
I spent several hours of a mainly grey day wandering around here. Probably best (for photography), in the sort of weather that has, wet rocks, black, moody clouds and sunrays.
From the web: " This site is the largest remaining smelting complex in the Yorkshire Dales and also contains various stores and workshops of the Old Gang Mine. At the rear of the site is the earliest mill which was known as the New Mill because it replaced earlier mills. This mill began smelting in 1797. In front of this is a larger mill usually referred to as Old Gang Mill which began smelting around 1846. The last smelting on this site took place in 1907. This valley probably has the biggest concentration of lead smelting mills in the country. The first mills were constructed in the 17th century and for more than 200 years this... valley was a hive of industry. "
www.ifootpath.com/walking/walk_ro.php?walkID=39&walkI...
For more information: www.lairdswood.com/ydnp/Lead_Mining_Pages.pdf
Dreams Of Desolation
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: "4K" Road Trip in Tunisia - Visiting Tunisia "2019"
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)