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A window I spotted on my wander through McGregor in the Western Cape.
Happy Wednesday, everyone!
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The vegetable garden at Hill Top is not the model for the fabled garedn that Peter Rabbit raided for food. Those books were written and drawn before Potter moved here. This garden can be seen in later books and illustrations though.
This lake is just simply incredible. Its rawness and beauty is something that can only be appreciated while witnessing on its shoreline. Take some time...get there!
Seen at Haunted Silent Peacock Hotel & The Town of Lost Shores
Great Haunted Sim with many surprises. ✈ Visit Peacock Hotel
Taken at Midwest Mayhem
Strobist Info:
AB800 into AB Large Octabox to camera left. Metz 48AF into medium shoot thru umbrella up against the wall at waist height from camera right. Triggered with cybersyncs.
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Early morning sun spills over the mountains and creates a bowl of light. Lake Mcgregor, South Island. NZ.
McGregor Mountain, elevation 10,486 feet, as seen from Fall River Road looking across the winding Fall River and a rather broad meadow known as the Horseshoe Park area of RMNP.
A 500-foot thick glacier once covered this valley. As the glacier inched along over thousands of years, it scoured out the distinctive U-shaped valley and carried the rock debris downhill. About 15,000 years ago, the glacier began to recede. At the farthest point of the glacier's advance it deposited a load of rock fragments, called a terminal moraine. The glacier also dropped rubble along its flanks, forming lateral moraines, and the melt water left behind the sediments that formed the meadows of Horseshoe Park.
Fall River Road, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. Elevation: 8,560 ft. September 11, 2015.
Typical Karoo architecture, from the Victorian period - shutters, ‘broekie lace,’ a modern curved wall…. I love the details of these places.
Established in 1861, the small Karoo village of McGregor was originally called Lady Grey. It was renamed in 1905 in honour of the Rev. Andrew McGregor, who for forty years had served as the Dutch Reformed Minister for the area.
The once-sleepy village has become something of a refuge in recent years for those seeking respite from the big city blues, in search of quieter, slower, more creative or adventurous lifestyles. For visitors and weekenders, too, McGregor offers the perfect Karoo getaway, within easy driving distance from Cape Town, yet a world away. Still, the old persists with the new, and the influx of new money can’t wholly hide the inequalities that lurk on the outskirts.
Taken over a ten-year period, between 2012 and 2022, this series of photographs is from a project on South African country villages and towns. Many of the images are of small Karoo towns, and many of these in turn are of the Dutch Reformed Churches whose steeples are visible for miles around in the vast, semi-desert region that lies, metaphorically and geographically, at South Africa’s centre.
There is something about these Karoo towns, in particular, that has always spoken to me - the stillness of the empty streets in the heat of the day, the white, shuttered cottages, the big skies overhead. And always, at the edge of town, or sprawling out into the arid land, the coloured settlement or African location. In South Africa, as elsewhere, as Faulkner wrote, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
"PRIX DE LAUSANNE 2023"
Le Prix de Lausanne 2023, qui fêtait son 50e anniversaire avec cette édition, a ainsi désigné deux premiers ex aequo : l’espagnol Millán De Benito de Royal Conservatory of Dance Mariemma et Fabrizzio Ulloa Cornejo, élève de l’école de Bâle.
Une petite entorse à la règle pour récompenser deux grands talents, aux même choix de variation classique (Flammes de Paris) qui ont chacun brillé en scène.
A McGregor cottage of a different kind - stylistically a nod to traditional Karoo architecture, but turned inside out, face to the rear with only a solitary door leading onto the street, and not a window in sight. The monumental, monolithic, almost abstract quality of this construct is what interested me, along with what it says about social relations and sense of community.
Established in 1861, the small Karoo village of McGregor was originally called Lady Grey. It was renamed in 1905 in honour of the Rev. Andrew McGregor, who for forty years had served as the Dutch Reformed Minister for the area.
The once-sleepy village has become something of a refuge in recent years for those seeking respite from the big city blues, in search of quieter, slower, more creative or adventurous lifestyles. For visitors and weekenders, too, McGregor offers the perfect Karoo getaway, within easy driving distance from Cape Town, yet a world away. Still, the old persists with the new, and the influx of new money can’t wholly hide the inequalities that lurk on the outskirts.
Taken over a ten-year period, between 2012 and 2022, this series of photographs is from a project on South African country villages and towns. Many of the images are of small Karoo towns, and many of these in turn are of the Dutch Reformed Churches whose steeples are visible for miles around in the vast, semi-desert region that lies, metaphorically and geographically, at South Africa’s centre.
There is something about these Karoo towns, in particular, that has always spoken to me - the stillness of the empty streets in the heat of the day, the white, shuttered cottages, the big skies overhead. And always, at the edge of town, or sprawling out into the arid land, the coloured settlement or African location. In South Africa, as elsewhere, as Faulkner wrote, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
I have this in a little box with about 4-5 other charms and pins. My handwritten note says "From Grandma Winterbottom -- her dad maybe?"
I have always been told that Scottish is included (among several others) in my lineage, but I don't remember ever hearing the name McGregor. So who knows.
The background lighting here is coming from an LED lighted running safety vest. Sadly this unanticipated effect is about the closest I got to seeing the aurora borealis in the past few days.
Behind the scenes:
This is the grave of Rob Roy McGregor, his wife Helen and two of his sons at Balquhidder Church. Rob Roy McGregor is a Scottish folk hero.
A five-pack of blue and yellows heads downriver through McGregor, IA. T'was a fine train for our first chase on the Marquette Sub.
Not a bad way to put 600+ miles on DK's car. We ended up in Dubuque waiting for CN to cross the river, but, the sun went away before they showed up.