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The green Earth that has nurtured humanity is slowly beginning to shrivel and die. Many seem blind to changes that are occurring before our very eyes.

 

This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:4.5/75mm lens with a Pentax 67 82ø Y48(Y2) SMC filter using Efke R50 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

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A so desolate place that only beauty grows.

Un lieu si désolé que seule la beauté y pousse.

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As I've mentioned earlier, the 135 miles of Dakota Subdivision is surrounded by North Dakota desolation. If a McDonalds is your yard stick for civilization, then Wishek is 83 miles away. Turning around from my previous post, 7556 will descend down another hill, diving deeper into the sparsely populated southern tier of North Dakota. Not much straight and level track will be seen for this train on their slog east towards Hankinson.

Icelandic winter landscape in the highlands. inhospitable and desolate, and yet beautiful and fascinating...

Ausgediente Schüttgut-Pier.

Disused bulk cargo pier

North Norfolk coast at Thornham

Maybe the winter is over. Maybe the spring is near. But what I see now is the desolation of nature.

It is the island.

It is desolation.

It does vigorously stand.

It is center of attraction.

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.

 

It's in the midst of trying times that maybe I will learn to say and do what is right, even if it means that I stand alone.

  

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We have just returned from a visit to the Etosha National Park, extremely hot, very dry and desolate. Large parts of Namibia are experiencing extreme draught after two bad rainy seasons and unfortunately Etosha has not been spared.

 

Brindled Gnu carcass next to the road to Okondeka, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

At 1am I had to awake my son and convince him to go climb and stand on top of this rock to give this image some scale. He is a good sport!

Just south of Jökulsárlón, we came across these sheep, looking somewhat forlorn and desolate. I am of course ascribing human emotions to these beasts and given that the grass is green and it is the height of summer, they were probably as happy as sheep could be.

A church in the desolate wilderness of north Iceland with a dramatic volcanic rock mountain background.

 

Photo by Russell Eck

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.

 

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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.

 

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It's a late Sunday afternoon and Union Station's Great Hall is a desolate place. Normally on a late Sunday afternoon, the Great Hall would be teeming with Amtrak and Metra patrons returning home from an afternoon or weekend of shopping and sightseeing and college kids returning to campus after visiting friends and family.

 

But this is Sunday afternoon during COVID-19. The stores and attractions that are open are doing so with limited hours and limited occupancy. Theaters and music venues remain shuttered. The Bulls, Blackhawks, Blue Demons, and Wolves are playing behind closed doors.

 

No long-distance overnight trains (save for the Texas Eagle) arrive or depart Union Station on Sundays in this era of COVID-19 service reduction. The state=supported trains to Wisconsin, Michigan, & Downstate Illinois remain in daily operation.

The historical building of the National Technical University of Athens waiting restoration.

In Val d' Ampola between Lago d'Idro and Riva del Garda , May 2015.

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Another treatment on an earlier image...one more "deslolate" than the last.

Captured this sunset in the meadows of the Kaibab National Forest on the way out of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The drive was pretty tense since we probably passed more than 200 deer on the side of the road on the way out. Also had quite a few buffalo pass in front of us. I had to pull over and capture this once the sky started turning. I didn't fake this sunset or hyper-edit it in any way, this is what it looked like which was stunning.

 

Photo by Russell Eck

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.

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.

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