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I spotted a pretty beach from the car after lunch and spent the next several, scorching-hot hours trying various dirt farm roads and tracks in car and on foot looking for a way down to it. Eventually a local farming woman pointed out where to go and I found the path down - totally deserted and covered with crabs.
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A westbound Canadian Pacific train drops into Field, British Columbia, amid the beautiful Canadian Rockies (even in the rain!) on July 18, 2011. The weather changes quickly up here though; by the time the mid-train DPU rolled by, it was full sun!
Agios Sozomenos in Cyprus during Spring
The history of the village as found from an article in the Time magazine
Death at High Noon
Friday, Feb. 14, 1964
CYPRUS Death at High Noon One sunny morning last week, a Land-Rover carrying seven Greek Cypriots bounced up the road to the tiny village of Ayios Sozomenos. Though only twelve miles distant from the capital city of Nicosia, the village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock.
The Greeks say the men in the Land-Rover had intended to turn on a water pump that serves a nearby town, but were ambushed by Turkish Cypriots hidden in the dry riverbed. The Turks charge that the men in the Land-Rover opened fire on the village shepherds, who replied with their shotguns. With two dead and two wounded, the Land-Rover raced out of range, called for help. Greek Cypriots, armed with a variety of weapons, poured from neighboring villages. By noon they had surrounded Ayios Sozomenos and begun a battle that raged for five hours. At last, British troops, assigned the nearly impossible task of keeping the peace between the island's 500,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, arrived in sufficient force to compel a ceasefire.
Pitchfork Charge. TIME Correspondent Robert Ball watched the fighting from a nearby hillside, then entered the village to see the grisly results. His report: "The bitterest fighting was at the western edge of the village, where the attacking Greeks had the cover of gnarled olive trees. In one mud-brick hut, where nine Turks had taken refuge, a window was blasted by a bazooka-type rocket, and the second floor literally sieved with bullet holes. In desperation, one Turkish shepherd tried to flee to the riverbed, but was cut down a few feet from the door. Another grabbed a pitchfork, made a futile, one-man assault on the Greek position, and was mowed down at once.
"Altogether the Turks lost seven dead and several wounded, but they gave a good account of themselves with their shotguns, killing a total of six of the better-armed Greeks and wounding eleven. Next morning a band of 50 armed Turkish Cypriots arrived to escort the 200 survivors of Ayios Sozomenos to the nearest Turkish strongpoint at Louroujina, four miles away. As the villagers moved silently off with their flocks of sheep and few cattle, one member of the Turkish rescue column pleaded with a British lieutenant, 'Please take the dead to Louroujina. We came to save the living. If you do not take the dead, they will be eaten by dogs.' "
Message from Nikita. The bitter fighting at Ayios Sozomenos symbolized the explosive nature of the Cyprus problem. Desperately, with a force of only 2,700 men, the British hoped to keep the peace until reinforcements arrived in the form of U.S. and other NATO forces. At least 10,000 soldiers would be necessary for the job. But Cyprus' Greeks had terrifying visions of a NATO plot to impose a political solution on terms favorable to the Turkish Cypriots. So Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, accepted the idea of a peacekeeping force only on condition that it be under the U.N. Security Council.
Panoramic shot of a field with bales of straw awaiting "collection/roundup" outside Liff
Large view: static.flickr.com/99/251823089_24af348f75_b.jpg
This is my last image from the Carlsbad Flower Fields, I promise! (At least for this week, LOL!) Happy Friday everyone!
Miscanthus sinensis flourish in the field of Osato, Mikasa, Hokkaido.
Mamiya Universal Press Sekor 75mm F5.6, positive self developed.
Andrew sitting at the foot of the Glacier Fields, which we hiked many an hour uphill to get to. In the end, it was 1000 times worth it. The hugeness of the place is absolutely un-caputurable on film. Hopefully having Andrew in the frame gives you a sense of scale.
Field Diary is how I named a collection of photos taken in a certain field, mainly from 1981 to 1994 and then once in a while. I was shooting from 3 permanent viewpoints.
This collection depicts the changes the field was going through the seasons and the various crops grown in it.
Not all survived the time. The first few were slides made into prints that are not real good, and now were scanned again.
Never the less, the changes as they evolve matters, forgive me if not all are in good condition.
I take pride for my involvement in cultivating sowing and so on, in creating the changes in the field. Taking the photos came next : - )
The photos are as they were scanned without any processing. I may have to work on them and replace each one with a processed version.
101/365 - I wrote up a review of my new lens tonight - also did some fun image maps to demonstrate depth of field. To see the full versions - check out the review:
www.100summits.com/articles/photography/item/245-nikkor-8...
Explored Sep 29, 2017 #269
In the Barley field near Tumby Woods (see my previous upload) there were lots of these beautiful little pansys growing up through the crop. It was a real treat finding these little flowers in amongst the barley. In normal years, the crop would have been harvested over a month ago and the stubble probably sprayed off to kill weeds before re-planting for next year - one reason why so many of our native wild flowers have suffered so badly.
The delicate Field Pansy (Viola arvensis) is a wild relative of our garden pansy and can be found in fields and on waste ground and roadside verges - anywhere the ground has been disturbed. Its long-stalked, pale yellow flowers can be found winding their way through the grasses from April to October. It is native to Europe, western Asia, and North Africa, and it is known on other continents as an introduced species and a weed of disturbed and cultivated areas.
Viola arvensis was shown to contain cyclotides, a class of peptides found in plants. The peptide cycloviolacin O2 in particular has shown to possess cytotoxic activity against human cancer cells and is therefore looked at as a potential drug lead.
..seems like it's desperate for sunlight! Just the way it's leaning towards the light.. At least that's what I think of when I look at it. I actually had wanted to upload a different photo, one with a little more meaning to it. It didn't work out though so I'll try re-doing it another day.
I love sunsets and nature.
Today was actually a good day. I woke up and went to the gym then had an amazing breakfast, and the rest was pretty chill. All in all a wonderful Saturday.