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Snowdonia National Park, North Wales
We spent a week here off the grid. It was charming and remote.
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A toned b&w long exposure taken just after sunset at the Lairds Lunch Hut in the Upper Cabrach Moray.
A narrow pathway leading through the northern Canadian forest during the summer months, under the midnight sun of the Northwest Territories near Yellowknife.
Ancient redwood trees Humboldt county with family . All three of my girls their husbands who are like sons to me and all six grand dogs. It was a special wonderful trip. Memories created will last a life time
This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Off Grid. Food, water, shelter and solar power are all here. HMMM!
This was the view looking out from our cottage off-grid in Snowdonia National Park. It was the kind of place where the world felt comfortably far away. There was a tiny front porch and every morning Mark had to shoo away several sleeping sheep so he could get to the generator in the stone shed.
My house. It has been a long winter, getting the roof on and snow out. I'm worn out and tired but happy at where this project is at this time.
I hang a light on the shore where my camp is located, this way I can go fishing in the evening and still find my way to camp.
Overlanding can be challenging at times especially when you’re pressed to find a campsite and you run into gates or roads that are no longer driveable. This was lucky number 3. Paradise. Quiet, secluded and devoid of human life except for us. For me, this was a blissful 4 days of respite from the human population before moving on.
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- Title? I´ll get back to the topic. Was it in Stralsund? I could be way off. I can not put them pieces together at this moment. It is off something, somewhere, as so many times before.
For me, personally, its the bricks that gets my attention. There are bricks in the family. My father haved painted them in on his paintings and one ancestor had a brick factory. We have a family brick with his initials engraved in it (like on all of his stones!). But I mean they are just pretty, and who does not like pretty things?
During the recent trip to South Wales I took advantage off the geography and headed under the Severn to Bristol for a long anticipated trip along the branch to Severn Beach.
The place definitely has an off-grid feel about it and, unsurprisingly, seems to beat to the rhythm of the tidal Severn estuary which dominates the landscape - along with the Prince of Wales Bridge crossing lying less than a mile upstream. Add to that a legacy of industrial and shipping infrastructure in the area - some still used, and some abandoned.
Helpfully, the turnaround of the train I arrived on was a decent 37 minutes - ample time to take a few photographs and partake of tea and a bacon butty at Shirley's Cafe just around the corner. Not enough time to explore the place with serious intent however - that will have to wait for another visit.
This shot captures GWR's class 165 'Networker Turbo' unit 165132 ready to head back with the 12.01pm service to Bristol Temple Meads (2K25).
Looks best full-screen.
11.34am, 10th October 2025
Looking south over Lake Shasta from Hirz Mountain Lookout. A U.S. Forest Service rental in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California.
A vintage trailer sits among trees next to a small wooden shed in a forested area.
Canon AE-1 with Ilford HP5 Plus
VueScan / Canon 9000F Mark II
One of the first to be released to traffic of what will eventually be sixteen members of GBRf's class 69 conversions, unit 69002 'Bob Tiller CM&EE'; stands at Tonbridge West Yard awaiting its next turn of duty.
Converted by Progress Rail at their Longport facility in Staffordshire, each locomotive is a substantial rebuild from a class 56 unit (aka 'Grid') released to traffic in the period 1976-1984.
The story behind the conversions is that GBRf, the owners, were looking for more locomotives offering similar performance to the class 66s which, since 2010, could no longer be purchased as they were deemed non-compliant with National Technical Specification Notices. As a consequence it was determined that converting an existing locomotive would prove to be more cost effective than designing and buying something completely new. The 69s include many similar control systems, as well as the same power plant, as that used in the class 66s.
In the case of 69002, the rebuild was from 'Grid' 56311 which was released to traffic in 1979 as unit 56057 fresh out of Doncaster Works.
Rather than take this shot over the footbridge rail, I opted to take it through the grid mesh as a spin on the narrative. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but........
4.10pm, 25th March 2024
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Coming soon at The Liaison Collaborative's April round.
The theme this time is "Rain in the City".
We made original mesh windpump along with a water tower. Let's live sustainably!
The windpump includes sound + movement function for the rotor blades (click to turn on/off).
Original mesh and textures, 7-8 LI each, copy/mod
Event opens April 3rd!
Native American tribes were, and still are, drawn to Mt. Shasta for its spiritual significance. A sacred site with powerful spirits and deities, while others believe it to be a gateway to other dimensions, a vortex of energy, or even the location of a hidden city called Telos.
Hirz Mountain Lookout. Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California.
I wanted to share this unique and interesting place with you. : )
Just northwest of Taos, there a development of sustainable homes, called Earthships and it may look like something from a sci-fi movie, but it's self-sufficient housing, built with natural and recycled materials, with energy conservation in mind - designed to produce water, electricity, and food for its own use.
There is a 2nd shot in the first comment.
The sky clears after a rainy day.
Lake of the Woods Lookout. Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.
The lookout has a solar light mounted to the antenna that illuminates the catwalk at night. The lights of Redding, California and the Interstate 5 corridor glow in the background.
Hirz Mountain Lookout. A U.S. Forest Service rental in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California.
Maria Dogaru the off grid 'Mountain lady'
Black valley - Vrancea - Romania
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Sometimes remote locations like this increases our paranoia.
Lake of the Woods Lookout. Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.
Who said busy family life stops photography... nipped out of the house for 30 mins earlier to catch the setting sun in the Lower Cabrach
Shafts of sunlight bask the trees on the final morning of an off grid adventure in the Slovenian forest.
Trailhead for Hirz Lookout. Park here and walk the last quarter mile to the top of the mountain.
Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California.
Maria Dogaru (b.1928) lives completely off grid and alone in the forested mountains of Vrancea county. The valley where she lives is also home to wolves and bears.
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