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One of my first images taken when arriving in Iceland earlier this year. The desolation of the farmhouses (many of which are abandoned) underscores the harsh nature of the working on the land. I hope this image captures that feeling.
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“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a balanced grip on one's own being. The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self." - Haruki Murakami
It's amazing how the weather can totally transform a scene, this is one of my favourite locations in the UK for shooting and walking, I like to get up here in different weather to show how the scene just takes on a whole new feel, the weather this trip was extremely harsh and was snowing for the most part this day, it was pretty hard to get anything without having the element covered in snow and having to start again, just a case of keeping trying until you got blob free images, not the easiest when your trying to shoot a pano sequence...
Luckily the odd break / reduction in snowfall allowed some shots to be bagged with the tops of the mountains still visible against the darker areas of the snow filled sky.
The day after this was taken the land was far more visible and a lot of the snow had gone until it started again later i the day, this was pretty much what I wanted with the little cottage almost disappearing in the the mass of white beneath the now scary looking mountain, looking back to the shots I took here in August it is almost unrecognisable as the same place, but still the thoughts of lighting a fire in there with a decent bottle of single malt remain the same! even more so at this time of year.....
Leviticus 26:32 “And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.”
Not many people about these parts on this morning, saw 1 guy in the distance, but the further away from the beaten track I got that was the last person I saw till dropping back down again, from the last location this was a complete nightmare to get out to but with just taking my time and testing for loose rock and deep now in each step ahead I got here in the end, better to be slow than to get stuck somewhere..
The snow on the Limestone Pavement seems to accentuate it's shape even more than normal, the addition of the tree that could be straight out of Lord of The Rings made for a great foreground against the backdrop of snow covered Ingleborough and the attractive sky which had kindly appeared while I was rock hopping my way here.
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n.*Desolateness:
The state of being desolate i.e. rendered unfit for habitation or use.
Peeled Roof, Barn in St-Ursule, Quebec, Canada.
A stormy day on The Great Sand Dunes National Park. We made it back to the car just before the storm hit.
I took this on my photo walk last week. I'm not sure I like where the sliding took me, but it's different, anyway. HSS!
Two textures by pareeerica on Flickr, one by CoffeeShop Blog.
It is great to see storm clouds building up again so soon in the Southwest! We have our fingers crossed for a good monsoon later this summer. This is a great time to try and capture dramatic clouds and storms! We have a couple spots open on our Monsoon White Pocket Overnight Workshop. Learn more here: actionphototours.com/white-pocket-photo-workshop/
The bristlecone pines are some of my favorite trees. In Utah they grow in very high elevation areas with dolomitic soil. The cold temps, poor soil quality, and high altitude tend to exclude other types of plants, allowing these trees to flourish in their own special ecosystem. But it comes at a cost. These trees grow very slowly. In fact, their needles can stay on the tree for nearly 40 years! That is why the live branches on the tree tend to look like bottle brushes, which is how they got the name bristlecone!
The dirt road from Big Water to Smoky Mountain passes through
shale badlands that present desolate vistas. Here, Mancos shale beneath orderly layers of sandstone. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, UT
I stood in awe of the desolate beauty.
So lucky to capture the full moon setting
behind the barren branches.
Descending the valley towards Akureyri (Iceland) I suddenly saw this deserted farmhouse. It was I bit of climb down from the road but definitely worth it...
Here is a rather depressing photo, that I took last winter. There are lots of places in our forests that look like this, as currently a lot of deforestation is going on, mostly with heavy machinery that compacts the soil enormously and leaves a lot of damage. This is all being justified with fighting bark beetle infestation. However, healthy trees are also felled, probably an attempt to at least partially compensate for the loss of tax income caused by the corona pandemic. (A good part of our forests belong to the state.) A very bad and shortsighted strategy ...