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If you look carefully you can see The Red Cottage in a very remote part of Glen Dee in the Scottish Highlands, which is now being renovated to a Bothy. It is miles from anywhere in this desolate landscape, remote from anyone and anything.
Taken during the isolation period
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Stay safe!
This is a Tabaiba bush (Euphorbia balsamifera) that is distributed from the Arabian Peninsula to Sahara and the Canary Islands. This one is from Tenerife.
The small bush has only few leaves which are sesonal and disappear during the long and dry summers. It has a single yellow flower at the end of its many stems. The plant is popular due to its latex. Its sap was used as a natural glue or as a chewing gum to clean the teeth.
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Stay safe!
Macro Mondays theme In Ice
A simple image of a frozen snow drop.
I experimented with various ideas until I gave I up. The trouble with ice is that it has a tendency to melt and by the time you get to a subject or composition that you like it's all over and gone.
After a few days of messing around and sad news coming in that my Godmother had been taken gravely ill with the virus, I found this solitary snow drop that I had frozen last week. It seemed quite apt under the circumstances.
This photo is dedicated to all those who have lost loved ones to this awful virus.
HMM
[The width of the ice cube is 3cm, the overall image is around 7cm and within the MM requirements.]
Lyrics (Wave by Beck)
"I move away from this place
In the form of a disturbance
And enter into the world
Like some tiny distortion
If I surrender
And I don't fight this wave
I won't go under
I'll only get carried away
Wave
Wave
Wave
Isolation
Isolation
Isolation
Isolation"
There are people who take a folding chair, a thermos of coffee and cake to the dike and can wander for hours into the distance. If wild geese disturb the peace, it is also a welcome change.
Es gibt Menschen, die nehmen sich einen Klappstuhl, eine Thermoskanne Kaffe und Kuchen mit zum Deich und können Stunden lang in die Ferne schweifen. Wenn dann noch Wildgänse die Ruhe stören ist es auch willkommene Abwechslung.
Another on the theme of social isolation during lockdown. This shot was taken last November in Lanzarote. Oh to be there now!!!!
The last time I saw these guys was days before lockdown.
A lot has changed during the ensuing months and I hope this pic is a portent of better things to come.
Turnstone - Arenaria Interpres
Oban Bay - Scotland
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Taken at the entrance to the Oculus in 2016. It struck me at the time to take this rare photo in NYC with someone alone in a public space. Who knew how prophetic this scene would be.
Stripped of its companion buildings as well as its original purpose, a barn stands isolated. Meanwhile, a busy world passes it by without much regard. One of life's challenges as we age is to fight the sense of isolation and the lack of purpose once the activity of raising children and fulfilling a career no longer occupies our days.
A cobalt steely sundown looking towards Edinburgh with the distant Pentland hills still bearing their mantle of recent snowstorms
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
Jessica Lange