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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.
Sometimes I can look out and this is all that I see. A desolated, lonely, isolated, gray, dark place. If you've ever experienced or had depression, imagine this being all that you feel is this in front of you. Feeling lost...trapped...with nowhere to go. When trapped my soul is silently screaming to get out, and I'm stuck in the confines of the invisible walls that hold me there until it passes. While there, I retreat within...quiet, frozen, numb...creating distance from everyone in the world. While there, I don't feel worthy of much or deserve much either.
And if this is all I see, think of what I feel like on the inside. I call it "Black". What it truly is is my personal hell. One fucking desolate place. I wish it would go away and never haunt me.
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The purple Cobra at the abandoned powerplant.
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Pedestrian tunnel underneath six-lane road in the centre of Hamburg. As most of these sheltered spots in the city it is used as sleeping place by homeless (not the slightly out-of-focus passerby in the photo). It is soot stained after a fire, reeks of urine an oozes with desolation...
Shot with Tamron 35-80 mm @35 mm f/2.8-3.5 and did some cross processing in post to enhance the impression.
Dupont WA, Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-40mm f /4.0L
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The vast desolate expanse of what was once Scunthorpe West Yard, the long concrete footbridge revealing the tell-tale signs of smoke deflector plates once fitted over the top of each track. The 08:56 Milford West to Humber International Terminal coal empties passes, headed by DB Cargo 66160 and viewed across the sliding hooded 'pig pen' steel wagons of the refuged overnight Llanwern to Immingham steel on Saturday 11th March 2017..
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Our daughter turned 49, while I turned 69 (ugh) in June ... she was born on my birthday and Father's day. Here she is at 8 or 9 yrs old while we were on a backpack in the Desolation Wilderness above Lake Tahoe. After the climb she and her dad jumped (briefly as it was freezing) into Lake Aloha to cool off before we moved on and higher to camp. BTW .. our packs and sleeping bags were handsewn from Frostline kits.
Here are the last two shots that i'll post from my summer backpacking trip. It's almost impossible to tell, but the whole sky was filled with clouds an hour before this shot was taken...I guess you win some and you lose some!
I think that the open-cast coal mine at Sandaoling in China is the place where I have seen the biggest evidence (by far) of man's impact on the landscape. The depth and extent of the workings past (largely) and present are vast. The adjectives desolate, barren and brutal spring to mind.
Here a 'JS class 2-8-2 hauls out a loaded train, while a sister loco is propelling a take of empties down to the loading point.
I was able to sneak away for a night with my dog Finn. We opted to head up to jasper area for some landscapes. I haven't been up this way for about 10 years. Since becoming a photographer, I thought it may be a good idea and see it again for the first time but this time through a lens. I found the area very scenic. However, admittedly I did fall prey to breaking one of my personal rules and I found myself photographing some of the more iconic sections in the same angle that every other photographer seems to. I am usually ok with shooting in the same area, but I always strive to make it different if I do. I will have to head back up again and explore and find my own gems I suppose.