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"Ghost III"
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II
5"
F16
ISO 100
Canon 70-200mm @ 78mm
Tripod + Remote control
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib in southern Namibia, 10 kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz. It was named after a transport driver named Johnny Coleman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement. Once a small but very rich mining village, it is now a popular tourist destination run by Namdeb, a joint firm owned by the Namibian government and De Beers.
In 1908, in what was then German South-West Africa, a railroad worker Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while working in this area and showed it to his supervisor, the German railway inspector August Stauch. Realizing the area was rich in diamonds, German miners settled, and soon after the German Empire declared a large area as a "Sperrgebiet" (German, meaning "prohibited area"), starting to exploit the diamond field.
Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theatre and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well as the first tram in Africa.
Kolmanskop had a railway link to Lüderitz and was also the terminus of two private narrow-gauge electrified railway lines that served the diamond mining industry further south. One ran 119 kilometres (74 mi) via Pomona to Bogenfels. It was completed in 1913 but destroyed during World War I in 1915 by South African troops. The other railway line, 7 kilometres long and completed in 1920, led to Charlottental. Both were powered by a 1.5 megawatts (2,000 hp) power station in Lüderitz, then assumed to be the largest in Africa.
The town started to decline during World War I when the diamond field slowly started to deplete. By the early 1920s, the area was in a severe decline. Hastening the town's demise was the discovery in 1928 of the richest diamond-bearing deposits ever known, on the beach terraces 270 kilometres (170 mi) south of Kolmanskop, near the Orange River. Many of the town's inhabitants joined the rush to the south, leaving their homes and possessions behind. The new diamond find merely required scouting the beaches as opposed to more difficult mining. The town was ultimately abandoned in 1956. The geological forces of the desert mean that tourists now walk through houses knee-deep in sand. Kolmanskop is popular with photographers for its settings of the desert sands reclaiming this once-thriving town, and the arid climate preserving the traditional Edwardian architecture in the area. Due to its location within the restricted area (Sperrgebiet) of the Namib desert, tourists need a permit to enter the town.
A population of rare brown hyenas uses the town's deteriorating infrastructure for shelter.
Canon EOS 6D - f/14 - 25 sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- this friendly Halloween chocolate ghost is 5.5cm high.
it was photographed, held upright with 2 cocktail sticks pricked (ouch!) in the back, and a small frontlight and a stronger backlight
This is a young ghost crab, no larger than maybe two centimetres!
I spotted it on a night walk along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia with my family and three dogs.
I used my two extension tubes that I luckily brought to get this magnification and had to get really close.
Those blue eyes are simply incredible, don't you think?
I seldom can capture planes in flight with much detail when they are very high up and traveling fast. This little propeller plane was low enough for me to get a mediocre image out of it, so I started playing with some textures for effect. I liked the moon, but it still wasn't quite what I wanted. That's when I thought of putting the uncropped image over the cropped one, and got this pair of planes, with one looking somewhat like a ghost plane! It was rather fun, even if not the best image out there, so I might try similar effects in the future with crisper images and see how they turn out.
The reason I wanted the moon in it was because years ago my brother and I went for a night flight in a plane that was a lot like this one, with a friend who was going for his pilot's license. When we left the runway, it was daytime, but we continued flying north until the sun set and the moon came up. It was really quite a sight to see! It was a lot like flying in a VW Bug! There were windows in the one we were in, and a backseat, which was where I was. the full moon that night was spectacular from up in the sky like that, and we flew right over the ocean.
The pilot, Bill, turned south to head home, and began flying over A-1-A, the beachside highway that runs pretty much the length of the state, with breaks here and there. When he did so, he cut the engine! Let me tell you, I know it's part of their training, but there's nothing quite as scary as being up in the sky in a little tin can, and suddenly the engine cuts out! that little thing that sounded like a lawn mower is a comforting sound, lol! He told us not to worry, since he had lined up the highway below just in case the engine wouldn't come back on, and would just glide down and land if necessary! I was quite relieved when the noisy little motor started back up!
I will never forget our night flight in the little plane under a full moon! (No ghosts, though!)
♂ Ghost Moth | Hepialus humuli | Hepialidae
Samsung NX1 & Helios 44-2 - 58mm f/2
10mm Macro Tube | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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In the ghost town of Robsart, Saskatchewan.
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This photograph won second place for Canadian Scenery in Vistek's Capture Canada contest in 2009.
...the only type this little place will ever be able to service now.
Urbana, Ohio
Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim
So langsam bricht selbst in der Innenstadt von Moers der Weihnachtsstress zu späterer Stunde aus. Kurz vor Ladenschluss sind mir doch tatsächlich noch einige Geister der Weihnacht vor der Linse vorbeigehuscht
This image based on the scene from the old movie Ghost of Love (Fantasma d'Amore) with Marcello Mastroianni and Romi Schneider.
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Roma family, Doel, Antwerp. Kids watching a Bollywood dvd.
Doel is a small ghost town next to the ever expanding port of Antwerp.
Since 1999 the villagers are being expropriated, and most of them left. Anarchist squatters and Roma families have taken their places, since then living illegally in the abandoned houses. Kids are playing outside (instead of going to school), dogs look for food amongst the garbage, and the household stuff is often thrown on the streets. Yet, a couple of pubs are still serving their customers, the police is driving around, and the government is promising a quick solution for the 100 or so illegal Roma gypsies...
Taken for 'Saturday Self Challenge': "Leaves"
I saw the shape of a flying ghost in this fallen leaf, with the very low sun emphasising the form of the leaf.
Old picket fence in Grafton Ghost Town. The sandstone mountain off in the background in part of Zion National Park. Utah.
Grafton is a ghost town, just south of Zion National Park in Washington County, Utah. Grafton is said to be the most photographed ghost town in the West, it has been featured as a location in several films, including 1929's In Old Arizona—the first talkie filmed outdoors—and the classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. By 1890 only four families remained. The end of the town is usually traced to 1921, when the local branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was discontinued. The last residents left Grafton in 1944. The nearest inhabited town is Rockville, which now includes the Grafton ghost town inside its legal boundaries. -- Courtesy Wikipedia
To see more of Grafton check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157680324416066/
Ghosts are Real - Leucistic/dilute plumage Bald Eagle (not sure about the exact technical term). A couple friends found and documented this bird around the bay from 2016-2019. Eventually this bird, "Lucky" as we called him, settled down with a normal plumage female in south Santa Clara County and successfully raised offspring. The bird hasn't been seen since 2019, and presumably moved on or passed. Nevertheless, it's most impressive that he beat the odds and survived to adulthood and passed on his genes. Nature is truly inspiring and I'm not sure I'll ever get a chance to see a bird like this up close!
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Species: Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Location: Los Gatos, CA, USA
Date Taken: February 2017
Equipment: Canon EOS 7D Mark II + EF 400mm f5.6L + 1.4x III Extender
Settings: 1/1000s, ISO: 1600, f/8 @560mm, Handheld
Ghost sign on a building in Malden (MA) square. The interesting thing is that Black's Furniture & Carpet had ceased being a commercial enterprise almost a century ago and this sign has to at least pre-date the Great Depression, and yet it is still in remarkably good shape.
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The Chattaroi Railroad is one of the many ghost railroads of Kentucky.
Completed in 1883, the almost 50 mile Chattaroi hauled coal and timber out of the hollows along the Big Sandy River and its many creeks along a tortuous route to Louisa, Kentucky.
The C&O, assuming control of the line in 1892, had big plans. Knowing this region had mineral riches beyond compare, they built a new line from Louisa to Richardson, the present day main line of CSX.
This small section of track that remained in daily service until 1939, when the local mines were worked out.