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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.
Three ES44C4's, 6761, 6582, 6530 and a C44-9W, 5379, lead a relatively short westbound BNSF container train.
Holbrook, AZ.
Wednesday, 30 October 2024.
Ratner Beach
Malibu, CA
09-06-21
I don't know the history of this area, and haven't been able to find anything online. On the beach below the Getty Villa in Malibu are the remains of pilings and concrete of what I believe was the site of a restaurant at one time.
It's a neat place to photograph, and I got a lot of interesting shots on Labor Day. This was taken at about 7:30 in the morning, shooting toward the sunrise to the southeast. The HDR has been highly stylized using Aurora HDR on top of Photomatix Pro.
Shipwreck Beach
Lana'i, HI
03-04-26
With an area of 141 square miles, Lana'i is the 6th largest of the 6 Hawai'ian islands tourists can visit. Lana'i City, the only town, located in the center of the island, doesn't have any stoplights and the overall speed limit is 20mph. (Strictly enforced.) There are only 30 miles of paved road. 3203 people live on Lana'i. There is a Four Seasons Resort located at Manele.
I rented a Jeep Wrangler 4X4 and visited three of the attractions listed on the map, then had an ice cream sundae at the 50's themed "Lana'i Bowl" in Dole Park.
To get to Shipwreck Beach, you have to take a dirt and sandy road all the way to the northeast shore of the island. The beach is named for a shipwreck rusting off the coast. (I'll post a photo of it later.)
This is a shot taken further up one of the paths at 10mm. I always love seeing wind twisted trees.
DPR 1 leads another string of bituminous coal from Blue Mountain Energys Deserado Mine to the Bonanza Generating Station
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
Jorge Luis Borges
“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.....
It can be easy to feel alone in life. Sometimes we feel so battered its hard to even imagine anyone there. We have all walked through the desert season before in our lives. It is hard, painful, and very exhausting. It may feel like we have explored every corner of the pit we find ourselves in except the escape rope. The hardest thing about these seasons is that we are believing deceptive lies that are keeping trapped in a prison cell too weak to walk out the open door. In each time we walk through this season, there is hope at the end my dear Christian. There is a Light that will not fade and a fire that will not burn out. As I look back at such a desolate place as this, there was a glimmer of hope and one that would not disappoint. To those of you who are in that season right now, take courage as the Lord is reaching His hand out to you to rescue you! To those of you who may not understand what rescue I am talking about, I am talking about the eternal rescue of our soul. Only Jesus can save you and it is my plea and my prayer that you would cry out to Him and be set free! With much love and compassion, your brother in Christ - Isaac
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.