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Wraiths.
Spirits that linger on, unable to pass on to whatever afterlife awaits them. They haunt the remains of stones that were once their home, their necrotic presence slowly withering the land and corrupting all life that wander close...
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Well this turned out to be an interesting challenge. I wanted to build something for the Summer Joust but kinda forgot to until yesterday when I realized that I had a single day left till the deadline. And because that apparently wasn't enough to worry about, I thought I'd try to make a build that would fit 3 categories at once (namely: no bley, no grey; non-human civilizations; and ruins).
All in all I am pretty satisfied of this little build that got me to use some colors that I would rarely try.
Let me know what you think! :D
"The Anasazi, a civilization that arose as early as 1500 B.C. about 1250, many of the people began constructing settlements high in the cliffs—settlements that offered defense and protection. These villages, well preserved by the dry climate and by stone overhangs, led the Anglo explorers who found them in the 1880s to name the absent builders the Cliff Dwellers."
Smithsonian
First Nation houses, built with 2X4's and poorly insulated. During the Polar Vortex, wood stoves must be constantly going. There's higher risk of fires destroying the home. It has happened before and most likely happen again.
Upper cliff dwelling at Long House ruins. Taken this last summer in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in western New Mexico. Well worth the trip through the remote Gila National Forest. Canon T2i with Rokinon 16mm lens.
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Scott Kelby's WORLDWIDE PHOTOWALK HK.. organized by Mr. Phey Palma..
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This shot is taken during our PHOTOWALK at Fan Ling HK this morning (July 18, 2009) after we arrived
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Wishing everyone, a very happy day, and a wonderful week ...
Beautiful setting along Norway's coastline between Alesund and Narvik.
See other images from a 2025 trip to Norway, Svalbard, and Iceland here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCiG8a.
Along this valley in the Bandelier National Monument, ancient Pueblo people carved cave dwellings into the soft tuff of the valley.
This Bandelier Tuff is a geologic formation exposed in and around the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. It has a radiometric age of 1.85 to 1.25 million years, corresponding to the Pleistocene epoch. The tuff was erupted in a series of at least three caldera eruptions in the central Jemez Mountains.
The formation is composed of ignimbrites produced by a series of at least three Quaternary caldera eruptions that culminated in the Valles Caldera eruption 1.256 million years before the present.
In its major eruption 1.256 million years ago, the Valles Caldera volcano spewed out over 300 cubic kilometers of ash, mostly as the Bandelier tuff. The Bandelier is an ash-flow tuff, meaning that it flowed from the volcano as a hot slurry of ash particles and gas (~500-700°C). This slurry, flowing faster that 100 km/hr, and travelled 25-35 kilometers from its source at the caldera. The Bandelier tuff is several hundred meters thick on average, thins to nothing far from the caldera, and is much thicker where it filled canyons.
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock.
Tuff is a relatively soft rock, so it has been used for construction since ancient times. Because it is common in Italy, the Romans used it often for construction. The Rapa Nui people used it to make most of the moai statues on Easter Island. The Pueblo people of the Southwestern United States carved dwellings into the soft tuff and also used it as bricks to build dwellings.
Canon EOS 6D - f/5.6 - 1/13sec - 100 mm - ISO 200
- Cliff dwellings are dwellings formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, with more or less excavation or with additions in the way of masonry.
Examples (voorbeelden) here (hier);
www.touropia.com/cave-dwellings/
barnacles on a shell
- Barnacles
Imagine spending most of your life standing on your head and eating with your feet! Sound like a difficult way to get through the day? Well, that's exactly how barnacles spend most of their lives.
If you walk along the sea shore, you can find barnacles on almost any solid surface that gets covered by water. On rocks, dock pilings, boats, even mussels, you can find clusters of these hard, white, cone-like houses. That's where barnacles live, peeking out only when water covers them so they can filter food into their homes.
Although they may look like mollusks with their shell-like covering, barnacles are actually crustaceans, related to lobsters, crabs and shrimp. They look like tiny shrimp in their larval stage, where they swim as members of zooplankton in the ocean. When they are ready to settle down, they search for a suitable site, pulling themselves along by the adhesive tips of their antennae. In nature, barnacles may take days to find a suitable spot, investigating one area, then allowing the currents to carry them to another.
After selecting a spot, the barnacle secures itself head-first to the surface with a brown glue. Now the larva is ready to grow into an adult and build its tough housing. The barnacle secretes the calcium-hard plates which totally encase them. These white cones have six nearly fitted plates that form a circle around the crustacean. Four more plates form a "door" which the barnacle can open or close, depending on the tide. When the tide goes out, the barnacle closes shop to conserve moisture. As the tide comes in, a muscle opens up these four plates, and the feathery legs of the barnacle sift the water for food. All six pairs of these feather-like feeding appendages, called cirri, are jointed and set with sensory hairs which brush through the water collecting plankton for the barnacle to eat.
The sessile lifestyle of barnacles makes sexual reproduction difficult, as the organisms cannot leave their shells to mate. To facilitate genetic transfer between isolated individuals, barnacles have extraordinarily long penises. Barnacles probably have the largest penis to body size ratio of the animal kingdom.
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- Zeepokken, of Thoracica, behoren tot een aparte groep van de kreeftachtigen: die der rankpotigen (Cirripedia), waartoe ook de eendenmosselen behoren.
Ze zitten met het voorste deel van de kop permanent vast aan de ondergrond. Het meest in het oog springende kenmerk van zeepokken is natuurlijk hun kalkhuisje, wat bestaat uit een aantal platen: een rugplaat, een buikplaat, en daartussen in twee stel zijplaten. Samen vormen ze een kegel. De opening aan de bovenkant kan afgesloten worden door een tweetal sluitplaten. Dat gebeurt bij het droogvallen, en soms bij gevaar. Vanuit hun huisje waaieren ze met een aantal ‘pootjes’, die voor een effectievere filterwerking bezet zijn met vele kleine haartjes, ritmisch door het water om voedsel te vergaren.
De voortplanting is een speciale aangelegenheid. Je zou verwachten dat, zoals bij veel andere zeedieren het geval is, de eieren en zaadcellen in het water worden afgegeven en dat daar de bevruchting plaats vindt. Maar nee, de zeepokken hebben iets anders bedacht. In het voorjaar krijgen ze er zin in. Een mannetjes-zeepok heeft een hele lange penis. Zo eentje uit Duizend-en-één-Nacht, die een aantal malen langer is dan zijn eigen lichaam. Die steekt hij door de opening van zijn huisje naar buiten, en brengt hem naar binnen bij een vrouwtjes-zeepok die in de buurt zit. Een bijzonder spannende manier van vrijen. Wat bijvoorbeeld als er iemand voorbij komt die denkt: ha, lekker hapje, die worm….
Maar als alles goed gaat vindt de bevruchting dus inwendig plaats. De eieren komen uit, en er ontstaan, zoals bij alle kreeftachtigen, nauplius-larven met drie paar 'pootjes'. De vrouwtjes-zeepok laat deze vrij in het water in een paar grote witte wolken. Die larven eten plantaardig plankton, groeien en vervellen. Ze ontwikkelen een eerste vorm van schelp, met twee klepjes - en worden dan cypris-larven genoemd. Ze hebben nu ook al 6 paar pootjes. Door het gewicht van de schelp zakken ze naar de bodem, waar ze met hun antennes aftasten of die bodem geschikt is om zich op vast te zetten. Is dat het geval, dan doen ze dat en veranderen opnieuw via een aantal vervellingen in volwassen zeepokken. Zo raakt een hard voorwerp dat zich in het water bevindt vrijwel altijd snel begroeid met zeepokken.
(an older photograph, in black and white, but one that's grown on me in colour, and that feels particularly right today)
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I need to do more research and this group of dwellings but I have been drawn to their shabby details and overall looks. I surmise that they may be part of a low income housing development.
In Iceland, these green-cloaked dwellings melt into the natural landscape, a technique that first appeared with the arrival of Norse and British settlers during the 9th through 11th centuries at the height of the Viking Age in Europe.
Your comments and faves are greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
Masked Lapwing
Scientific Name: Vanellus miles
Description: Masked Lapwings are large, ground-dwelling birds that are closely related to the waders. The Masked Lapwing is mainly white below, with brown wings and back and a black crown. Birds have large yellow wattles covering the face, and are equipped with a thorny spur that projects from the wrist on each wing. The spur is yellow with a black tip. The Masked Lapwing has two subspecies resident in Australia. The southern subspecies has black on the hind neck and sides of breast, and has smaller facial wattles. Northern birds are smaller, without the partial black collar, but have a much larger wattle, which covers most of the side of the face. The sexes are similar in both subspecies, although the male tends to have a larger spur. Young Masked Lapwings are similar to the adult birds, but may have a darker back. The wing spur and facial wattles are either absent or smaller in size. The southern subspecies is also known as the Spur-winged Plover.
Similar species: The Banded Lapwing, V. tricolor, is much smaller (25 cm to 29 cm). It has a mostly black head and upper breast, with a distinct white eyestripe and bib. It also has a distinctive red patch at the base of the bill.
Distribution: The Masked Lapwing is common throughout northern, central and eastern Australia. Masked Lapwings are also found in Indonesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia and New Zealand. The New Zealand and New Caledonian populations have been formed from birds that have flown there from Australia.
Habitat: The Masked Lapwing inhabits marshes, mudflats, beaches and grasslands. It is often seen in urban areas. Where this bird is used to human presence, it may tolerate close proximity; otherwise it is very wary of people, and seldom allows close approach.
Feeding: Masked Lapwings feed on insects and their larvae, and earthworms. Most food is obtained from just below the surface of the ground, but some may also be taken above the surface. Birds are normally seen feeding alone, in pairs or in small groups.
Breeding: Masked Lapwings may breed when conditions are suitable. Both sexes share the building of the nest, which is a simple scrape in the ground away from ground cover. This nest is often placed in inappropriate locations, such as school playing fields or the roofs of buildings. Both sexes also incubate the eggs and care for the young birds. The young birds are born with a full covering of down and are able to leave the nest and feed themselves a few hours after hatching.
The Masked Lapwing is notorious for its defence of its nesting site. This is particularly the case after the chicks have hatched. Adults will dive on intruders, or act as though they have a broken wing in an attempt to lure the intruder away from the nest.
Minimum Size: 33cm
Maximum Size: 38cm
Average size: 36cm
Breeding season: At any time of the year
Clutch Size: 3 to 5
(Source: www.bridsinbackyards.net)
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Dating from 1870, this dwelling overlooked Gweedore bay in northwest County Donegal. It's astonishing that people were living in these as late as the 1870's. To the left (with window) the human inhabitants lived, to the right the livestock were housed with a gully separating the two living areas to drain the animal waste away. It can't have been very comfortable.
The ruins were inhabited by the Anasazi people 2000 years ago in the Canyon de Chelly, northeast Arizona. They mysteriously left the canyon that was subsequently inhabited by the Navajo.
This is the entrance to the Wentworth Dwellings building on Goulston Street where it was discovered around 2:55 am on September 30th 1888, a torn piece of apron belonging to Catherine Eddowes was found underneath some anti-Semitic graffito.
She had just been murdered by Jack The Ripper about an hour earlier in the City of London at Mitre Square.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 14mm F2.8D lens. Lomochrome Color '92 400 35mm C41 film.
The cave dwellings on the Schäferberg were carved out of the rock around 1855 and were created purely a housing shortage. Workers from the Langenstein estate and their families urgently needed housing in the mid-19th century. The houses in the village were occupied, and there wasn't enough money to build their own home. A piece of rock face was available for 8 groschen. Using hammers, pickaxes, and chisels, they carved 10 dwellings out of the sandstone, which was formed during the Lower Cretaceous period 145 to 100 million years ago, within 2-5 months. Sheep and goats grazed above the caves. This prevented the cave dwellers from establishing trees and shrubs, whose roots could have damaged the cave ceilings. Since 1990, some of the apartments have been restored and can still be visited today. And... until the residents moved out, there were no window panes. The windows were covered with blankets and covered with wood in the winter.
The last residents moved out in 1916.
Not far from the ghost tower in Bangkok I saw this apartment house, which is really scary. The concrete dissolves and hardens cracks, the reinforcement rusts. Nevertheless the house seems to be well inhabited. The inhabitants adapt to the condition of the building: closed curtains, dirty aircond systems, poor laundry.
Música (abrir en nueva pestaña) / Music (Open link in new tab): Mike Oldfield - Closer.
Austera y espartana fachada de una vivienda de la localidad albaceteña de Peñas de San Pedro.
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An austere and spartan facade of a typical rural house in Peñas de San Pedro (Albacete, Spain).
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Nearly every trip there's a contender for best/most unusual campsite. Here's the most unusual from this trip.
Looking for shelter from an extremely aggressive wind, we camped in an alcove in a huge redrock fin. It was almost dead quiet in there, even when the rains blew through. Next time we get that spot I'm digging a little kiva...
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Summer 2014 1st leg: "Many Rivers"
June 18: Moab, mostly.