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Taken from the top of the Babusar Pass, at 13700 feet, looking south towards the start of the Kaghan Valley. In the cold, empty air, these piles of stone were in a perfect setting.
A lot like how I feel at the moment..... Desolate.
Actually this phone box is not as desolate as it looks as it is next a road at Studland where traffic queues to board the Sandbanks Ferry.
The red telephone box is a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar. Despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, the traditional British red telephone box can still be seen in many places throughout the UK, and in current or former British colonies around the world. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot.
The red phone box is often seen as an iconic British symbol throughout the world.
This one is the much used K6 (kiosk number six) design which In 1935 was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be extensively used outside London, and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but, and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red.
Studland Bay is protected from the prevailing southwesterly winds and storms by Ballard Down and Handfast Point, the chalk headland that separates Studland from Swanage Bay to the south. In the 17th century there began a process of sand accumulation in the bay and along the South Haven Peninsula stretching north, resulting in natural land reclamation and the creation or expansion of the bay's beaches and its sand dune system.
The beaches at Studland Bay are amongst the most popular in the country, and on rare hot summer weekends they fill up with thousands of people. The beaches are situated in civil parish of Studland on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. The South East Dorset Conurbation of Poole, Bournemouth & Boscombe lies on the other side of Poole Harbour, resulting in the beaches being relatively accessible to a large population via the Sandbanks Ferry. North of the visitor centre the beach and dunes are owned and managed by the National Trust, who have restricted parking provision at the site to prevent overcrowding. A short northern stretch of beach is reserved as a naturist beach.
Since the early 20th century the supply of sand to the bay has depleted and erosion is occurring so that, if natural processes are uninterrupted, the coastline may in time retreat back to its previous line, visible as a line of higher ground between Redend Point and the hill east of the Knoll House Hotel. In January 2004 the BBC television series The National Trust investigated the conflicts between different groups of people who use the beach and heath at Studland. The series particularly covered the debate about coastal management, with the Trust proposing to remove defensive walls to allow natural processes to shape the coastline, though this would result in loss of some land and property.
The final stage of the South West Coast Path (if walked in the conventional anti-clockwise direction, starting at Minehead, Somerset) follows Studland Bay and ends at South Haven Point, where a sculpture marks the end.
The actual village of Studland lies 2.5 miles (4 km) to the south of here and it is famous for these beaches and a nature reserve. It lies within the Purbeck administrative district, and is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town of Swanage, over a steep chalk ridge, and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the South East Dorset conurbation at Sandbanks, but separated from it by Poole Harbour and the Sandbanks Ferry. The parish includes Brownsea Island within the harbour. In the 2011 Census the parish had a population of 425, though many of the houses in the village are holiday homes, second homes, or guest houses, and the village's population varies depending upon the season.
Sandbanks Ferry is a vehicular chain ferry which crosses the entrance of Poole Harbour and its route runs from Sandbanks to Studland and in doing so connects the coastal parts of the towns of Bournemouth and Poole with Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck. This avoids a 25 mile journey by road.
The ferry, along with the this road that connects with it on the Studland side, is owned by the Bournemouth - Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Company, which initiated the ferry crossing in 1923, and a toll is charged for use of both road and ferry. The current toll for a car is £3.50 each way. The current ferry boat, named Bramble Bush Bay, was put into service in 1994 and can carry up to 48 cars. It is the fourth vessel to operate on the route.
The entrance to Poole Harbour is a particularly busy waterway, used by many private and leisure craft along with commercial vessels including large ferries serving routes to France. This often affects the ability of the ferry to maintain its nominal 20 minute frequency. Wilts and Dorset buses cross the ferry frequently throughout the day, on route 50 from Bournemouth to Swanage.
Here's the final version of my "Desolate" series. I will be uploading this for the next few days, be sure to check it out.
Full version is on my website
Rock formations exposed to the weather, battered and cut into by the wind, resulting in the circular shapes on top of the desolate moorland.
30 second exposure with a Lee Big Stopper.
DESOLATION RIDGE ~ Western Platte County, Missouri USA ~ Copyright ©2013 Bob Travaglione ~ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ~ www.FoToEdge.com
A church in the desolate wilderness of north Iceland with a dramatic volcanic rock mountain background.
Photo by Russell Eck
Last Friday I tried to chase down another sunset at Discovery Park in Seattle. I made it to the South Beach just as the sun was ducking behind the Olympic Mountains. The sunset left a little to be desired, but the driftwood that littered the beach looked otherworldly.
Sigma 10-20mm
Singh Ray Blue and Gold Polarizer
Along the Enchanted Highway, we saw a few abandoned buildings that I was excited to be able to photograph. Most of the ones we see on trips are not accessible, so I have to admire them from afar. This one was quite the beauty.
still there, and not much change in the 2 or 3 years I've been keeping an occasional eye on the place
"Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row"
-- Bob Dylan, "Desolation Row"
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Taken at Desolation Nowhere Halloween Sim: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deadlands/135/159/23
Taken by Drew Drakul-Blackheart, Co-Owner of Drakul-Blackheart Imagery Studios.
An Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) seen in a sandstorm in an area of very desolate Sahelian wasteland within Djoudj National Park, Senegal.
Sunrise at the Valley of Desolation, Camdeboo National Park, sorroundings of Graff-Reinet, South Africa.
.. in more ways than one. There were tons of such scenes on our drive down South.
View on black, it makes a hell lot of difference.
Explored! #10
I have been tagged by Jayashree and Madhu, so here are 16 things about me.
1. I think 16 is way too big a number.
2. I just watched a crappy movie and am watching another one now - my 10th movie this week. I'm quite a movie buff, but this series of crappy movies is something I've never done.
3. I don't usually like making lists, but am compelled to write this after seeing other flickr friends do it :-)
4. I like reading - anything. After reading the extremely influential Ayn Rand's works, I have hugely cut short on reading nonsense fiction.
5. I don't really "play" piano, but I like "playing with" my piano (well, keyboard, actually).
6. I've spent a TON of time on photography in the last 6 months.
7. I'm a vegetarian.
8. I hated Social Studies as a kid, but now am quite interested in History and Economics. And I've always liked Geography anyway.
9. I like dark chocolate. I am not much into sweets or even ordinary milk chocolate.
10. Cricket is my favorite sport. I spent so much time on it as a kid that my dad threatened to disown me if he saw me with the bat again. (of course, he didn't :P)
11. I like Philosophy and Psychology, and to think about the "why/how" of things.
12. I have a list of 'places to visit' (Peru to Turkey to Ireland to.. ), and I hope I get a chance to visit all of them.
13. I like music, all kinds of them. I sometimes tend to completely ignore the lyrics and just let the music/tune stick in my head.
14. I keep wishing that people looked at the bigger picture, stopped fighting about religion, money, gas etc., and worried about more important things instead.
15. While growing up, I wanted to be an astronomer, cricketer, and a doctor - ended up designing/writing software.
16. I once bought 'Learn Tamil in 30 days' book so that I could watch the following episode of Marma Desam in Tamil right after the one in Telugu. I managed to learn only a few words, but can now read/write Tamil. :D
17. And oh, I'm a *HUGEEEE* fan of Matrix.
Polaroid One 600 camera
Automatic
P. O. Originals 600 B&W film color frames edition
Production date: 09/ 17
This is a photo for this weeks photo assignment, themed Dusk till Dawn.
I realised yesterday evening that I had yet to take a photo for this week's photo assignment, so at about 10:30pm I ran outside into the rain and jumped into my car as this would be my last opportunity to capture a suitable photo. I drove around for about twenty minutes with no real inspiration but just hoping something would catch my eye. Eventually I came across this petrol station hidden away in the middle of a an industrial park. I think that it has something to do with Sunseeker yachts as it is not open to the public and there was security guard in a hut nearby.
I particularly liked the slightly retro look and the fact that it had been raining so there was sections of reflection within the puddles. It is the first time I have ever seen this subject having lived in this area for over 30 years, it just goes to show that a camera can help you to see so much more. :)
With time quickly running out I decided to try and capture a shot. I took a few shots but initially wasn't very happy with them. I wanted to move back further but there was a wall behind me and a spotlight beaming down exactly where I wanted the camera to be so it would completely ruin the shot. In the end I decided to take three shots at different exposures with the intention of creating a monochromatic HDR shot, which is what I have ended up with. I used Photoshop to create the HDR and then I applied a slight vignette in Lightroom to make the edges slightly darker and give the image a more desolate feeling.
In the larger view you can just about make out the trees and the sky in the background, but in the smaller shot it all looks black.
EDIT:
I was pleased to find that this photo features in Explore for June 14th, thank you to everybody for your feedback! :)
As you wind along the narrow road of the Elan Valley, Wales towards Devil's Bridge you pass through the ancient mining area of Cwmystwyth
A black and white shot I captured while visiting Pismo Beach Sand Dunes. This place was really cool and right on the ocean. I loved the textures and feeling the B & W gave. Enjoy.
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