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We stopped for lunch in the RV at this abandoned rest stop in Coaldale, Nevada. Never assume these places will be open for business when looking at a map as we discovered throughout our travels in rural NV. It was pouring rain when we pulled in and just as we finished lunch the sunshine broke through the clouds. It's amazing something so ugly can be beautiful too.
When I was a young boy
Back in Orangefield
I used to gaze out
My classroom window and dream
And then go home and listen to Ray sing
"I believe to my soul" after school,
Oh that love that was within me
You know it carried me through
Well it lifted me up and it filled me
Meditation contemplation too
[Chorus:]
Oh we've got to go back
Got to go back
Got to go back
Got to go back
For the healing go on with the dreaming (Van Morrison: Got to go back)
Reaching Refuge de Larry I had a flashback to the sensation I felt decades ago reading "Desolation Angels" from Jack Kerouac, with the soundscape of Van Morrison's "Got to go back"
Sometimes crossing paths lead to a contemplative moment on the core of life.
Desolated Santa Luce, Tuscany.
Anybody out there?
Texture; courtesy of Skeletal Mess.
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With our family we went to the amusement park 'Juliana Toren' in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. At the end of the day, even the covered terraces were empty. No wonder, it was rainy since 14:00 hours and very cold. Here we drunk warm chocolate milk before returning home.
The frozen fog covered much of the color, but left some areas showing thru making this image look as if it was manipulated, but the only thing I did was add a spotlight at the end of the tunnel to draw the eye into it more.
Desolate. Cold. Deserted. Lost. Well, not really, as this seagull flies over the frozen Sea of Okhotsk, off the coast of north east Hokkaido, Japan. Flying further north, it'll reach Russia :)
Daniel Otero shows visitors the Osborne Fire-Finder.
Photograph by: Basil Tsimoyianis, photo volunteer.
This was taken in Atlantic City on the East coast of the USA a few years ago. Its the beach front prominade just near the Hilton Hotel and this structure looked like it had been abandoned for a while. It was a rainy, stormy day, Gloomy and brooding...
Far above the dense forest, chaparral and grasslands of Mt. Kenya is a 4,000m+ valley, a perfect location to set up base camp for the ascent to Point Lenana, the highest accessible point without rock climbing expertise. Directly on the equator, this desolate high-altitude scenery is covered with sparse scrub and tufts of grass and the very impressive Giant Lobelia and Giant Groundsel.
This image came from a 33 year old 35mm negative shot from a Yashica ELECTRO 35CC camera, scanned by an HP Scanjet G4050 and restored using multiple Photoshop operations.
"The Desolate Hallway"
Settings: 50mm and 1/10 at f/1.8 (ISO 800)
This is day 7 of 30 in my personal challenge to post a photo to Flickr every day in April 2013. See the rest in the 30 Days of Creativity set.
Here's a picture I actually took today! I am currently on a road trip with a couple of friends to Napa Valley. We stopped at the Castello Di Amorosa Winery—a huge, stone, medieval-style castle. Inside one of the rooms, my friend David found this awesome hallway behind a gate. It was lit just right for this awesome shot. I couldn't wait to share it, so I made it today's 30 Days of Creativity photo of the day. Enjoy!
I bumped the ISO up to 800 so I could get a fairly steady handheld shot at 1/10sec. Had I brought my tripod, I might have gotten a lower ISO/shutter setting. Not much post-processing. Just light level/contrast adjustments and a 16:9 crop.
Find out more about my 30 Days of Creativity here:
aaronkaiser.com/blog/2013/04/02/april-30-days-of-creativity/
Nordkapp, Norway
Road to Nordkapp, Norway
July-August 2015
Me, my motorcycle and 3.000 km to the North. The weather by the way from Larvik to Nordkapp is really changeable and the landscapes too, ones of the best I’ve ever seen. 62 shoots to show my lonely trip on motorbike to North Cape: Geirangerfjord, Jotunheimen Nasjonalpark with its "Snow Road", Trolls’ Path (Trollstigen), Atlantic Road, the endless Road E6, the Arctic Circle desolation, the wonderful Lofoten Islands and the end of the land, Nordkapp.
Daniel Otero locates possible fires using the Osborne Fire-Finder.
Photograph by: Basil Tsimoyianis, photo volunteer.
Another shot of the morning Liverpoool-Newcastle, this time with a class 47 at the helm. Sometime in early '76. Actually it might have been the Liverpool portion of the combined Liverpool/Manchester-Glasgow/Edinburgh train, which was usually a 47. 35mm Tri X/Unitol.
Fire lookout Daniel Otero greets hikers that have come up Desolation Peak.
Photograph by: Basil Tsimoyianis, photo volunteer.
Our Daily Challenge ... create a mood.
It was late afternoon, completely overcast with rain threatening. I had been labouring for most of the day building a new garden. When I saw the challenge I did some quick research and went for a drive to try to find a suitable subject before dark. I wouldn't go so far as to say I was feeling desolate but I was certainly feeling rather drained, lacking energy and uninspired, so in a way I guess this image reflects my mood this afternoon.
Fire lookout Daniel Otero looks over a map of the Cascades with a visitor.
Photograph by: Basil Tsimoyianis, photo volunteer.
Most of this set look great in colour. But this particular shot looks better in a moody BW. :)
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The Wilderness Act of 1964
“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
The Desolation Wilderness was established in 1969.
Previously known as the Desolation Valley Primitive Area.
The Valley of Desolation is a unique Karoo landscape and ecosystem that surrounds the town of Graaff-Reinet, creating a type of oasis in the midst of the aridness of the Karoo.
Fire lookout Daniel Otero points out some of the local berries that one can find on Desolation.
Photograph by: Basil Tsimoyianis, photo volunteer.
Went fishing in Hólmarnir near Kirkjubæjarklaustur, east of Iceland.
The surroundings of the water stream is all in black sand with mountains in the distance, it's quite strange to be fishing in this landscape.
sculpture in the show IT"S PAINTING SO IT MUST BE GERMAN at Silvershot, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
More on desolation row at spectrescope.blogspot.com/
This abandoned red brick farmhouse still sports solid exterior walls, even though the roof and interior walls have failed.
Each morning fire lookout Daniel Otero hangs the American flag from the doorway of his fire lookout on Desolation Peak.
Photograph by: Basil Tsimoyianis, photo volunteer.
What appears to be a desolate landscape is actually an art installation at the Dongdaemun History and Culture Park in Seoul Korea