Letterboxes
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An image captured on the Tees road, heading out of Hartlepool, where nature meets industry.
The lakes on either side of this road, provide a wonderful habitat for many species of birds, with Saltholme Nature Reserve close by.
As the sun descended, the sky became a blaze of colour, lighting up the large band of cloud overhead. Combined with the foreground grasses in silhouette, I thought it provided quite a frame for this beautiful scene.
Small towns in Australian hills were scattered with so many kinds of creative, beautiful letterboxes, like this one :)
A nice red Letterbox and Door I found in Berne, Switzerland. Shot with my Sony A7 Mii and the beloved Zeiss Batis 1.8/85mm a F=1.8. Might be bokehlicious.....
Haven't had the opportunity to get out for a couple of weekends so here is a re-visit to my Droma trip last month. I liked this wide view at the time and thought I would try a crop to a 65x24 letterbox aspect for a change.
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Unfortunately not. Actually, neither the Cliffs nor the Royal Mail are unchangeable. The Royal Mail is an institution with a history, true, but it is exposed to the wear and tear of time as any human institution is. Shot with the Helios44M-7 wide-open.
These letterboxes on North Bruny Island make an interesting picture in themselves. But when you look more closely at them they reveal some very important historical links.
Two names in particular stand out here: D'Entrecasteaux and Pybus. The first letterbox of interest belongs to the most impressive modern house on the island, the 2019 award winning design of D’Entrecasteaux House. room11.com.au/projects/apollo-bay-house/
The second is the family name of Pybus, directly descended from Richard Pybus who in 1829 was granted the largest plot of land on Bruny Island. This certainly makes the Pybus family the most important landholder on the island to this day. His great great granddaughter, the historian and author Cassandra Pybus has written several classic books interpreting the role her family played in the early colonisation, and raising some very pertinent, if personally difficult questions.
Tomorrow I will show you her book on Truganini, a tale of supreme tragedy and personal courage in the face of a true cultural apocalypse.
Cassandra Pybus: Uncovering Tasmania's gruesome past | ABC Conversations Podcast
Pentacon 3.5/30 wide-open and as close as possible (contre-jour). A letter box in my village that every year is getting this Christmas treatment. This is done by otherwise very private people. For a few weeks of the year, they externalise parts of their inner world and make it public. It is a small-scale neighbourly world of harmony. Magic!
When I went to the letterbox to collect the mail this morning I spotted this Huntsman (I think) had moved in.
I haven't done any letterboxes for a few weeks and I still have a few to go. As usual, today's two have a rural theme. This one, Mr. Piggy I guess was in suburban Brisbane.
Pigs are surprisingly common themes as they are often fashioned out of old gas cylinders.
Another creative letterbox on the way into Tamworth, New South Wales and Country Music Capital of Australia. I thought John Deere would be rather proud of this recreation.
Early next week, in one fell swoop I am going to upload a large batch of very creative letterboxes that we found on the road from Coonabarabran to Siding Springs Observatory in the Warrumbungles, a dramatic range of mountains west of the town. I'll disable comments because there are just too many of them but I am eager to contribute them to a couple of letterbox groups of which I am a member. There is a lot of talent out there and they certainly add their bit to make a country drive in Australia a bit more enjoyable.
Spotted this in Whitchurch (Hampshire), the peeling and flaky paintwork encouraged me to record an image.
Apparently the famous neon signs of Hong Kong are disappearing. It’s such a shame because they’re such cool things, a unique part of the city. There already aren’t many left (I think these two were the only ones we saw on our trip) but these at least had a real presence to them.
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I know, I know. Hong Kong, again! I’m not wealthy- I just keep spending all my money on going there. I don’t think they say ‘Fourth Times the Charm’ but this trip was just that - a success. For almost the entire time I kept my mental health issues at bay. It was a good trip. After three disasters - It is really nice to say that.