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Morning light over the picturesque harbour town of Symi, on the island of Symi, part of the Rhodes regional unit, in South Aegean, Greece.
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Beautiful alleyway in the old town of Locorotondo ("round place" in Italian), in Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia region, southern Italy.
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A Titan Arum (Amorphophallus Titanum) in the wild, near the edge of the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia
Countdown Day #5
In 2009, we decided to go somewhere in Alaska that we had never been. A friend of mine had gone to Cordova the year before and told me that it was absolutely amazing! It is also a bit off the beaten track as far as Alaska goes - accessible only by airplane or ferry. So we decided to go last year.
Cordova is home to the famous Child's Glacier, amongst other wonderful glaciers and the infamous Million Dollar Bridge (to nowhere) - which both unceremoniously are at the end of the 48-mile Copper River Highway through the Delta landscape. What makes the Childs so spectacular is that it is an extremely active calving glacier - with it's thunderous roars and spectacular crashing of ice into the tidewater that the terminus of the glacier resides on. It did not disappoint.
But one thing that a Flickr contact of mine discussed once - Alaska is more than Denali, glaciers, and wildlife. Alaska is home to many rainforests, with it's lush green trees and wonderful wildflowers. The first day that we got there - at the suggestion of mkenney49 - we drove out on the Power Creek Road and entered the rainforest along the way. It was beautiful! So incredibly lush and wet - it was a sight to see.
So, when you plan to go to Alaska for your "dream vacation", try to keep in mind the many "faces" of Alaska. Each year when we visit, we try to do the same and indulge in another "flavor" of the wilderness that is Alaska.
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A dip back into the dried Mud Crack archives again.
Enjoy the flow of this comp. And how the eye drifts from white spot to white spot.
The Creighton Lied Art Gallery presents the Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibit of four senior students Rachel Bennett, Heather Burk, Michael Mayer and Peter Walsh. Each student is required to present his or her most recent work and identify the themes. These four candidates offer a wide range of artistic forms:
Rachel Bennett presents Dichotomies – figurative paintings
Heather Burk presents Off The Beaten Path – graphic design
Michael Mayer presents The Process – photographic new media
Peter Walsh presents Self In Story – figurative sculpture in installation
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Social Distancing along the back roads of Baker County Oregon
A beautiful Spring day exploring the back roads of Baker County Oregon . Some great wildlife and lots of wide open scenery and wildflowers along the way .
Located at the intersection of three Oregon Scenic Byways Baker County is surrounded by spectacular scenery and wide open spaces. For more information about Baker County's back roads and scenic byways visit the Baker County Tourism website at www.travlebakercounty.com
Exterior view of Saint Mary Magdalene Orthodox Church, built in 1901, located in Chania, on the island of Crete, Greece.
The church is built according to the Russian Orthodox church architecture, which sets it apart from any other church in Chania city.
Its history begins in 1898 when the Ottoman occupation of Crete ended and the island was declared an autonomous state. Then, Prince George of Greece was appointed High Commissioner of the Cretan State and came to Chania. After his sister Mary paid him an official visit, her husband, the Grand Duke of Russia George Mikhailovich, decided to commemorate the event for political reasons. He donated 10,000 rubles for the construction of a church, dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene.
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Photo of the Santa Lucia Mountains Range taken on the Old Coast Road, more or less parallel to Highway 1 (the Cabrillo Highway), on the vast El Sur Ranch property in Big Sur. Monterey County. Early July 2012.
We came across this incredible , snow-white spider in our explorations. On first glance, I assumed this was some sort of bizarre cave-dwelling spider with some very unique adaptations. Unfortunately, it was too high up on the cave wall to be able to study it well. I immediately posted the photo when I got home, and a friend suggested that it could be a spider covered in a fungus. A close inspection of a hard crop did seem to show similar patterns on the legs with another type of spider we came across in the cave. So in the end, this seems to be a variety of Huntsman spider (Sparassidae) infected with a pathogenic fungus, possibly a type of Cordyceps - www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
What a horrific way to go!
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The Creighton Lied Art Gallery presents the Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibit of four senior students Rachel Bennett, Heather Burk, Michael Mayer and Peter Walsh. Each student is required to present his or her most recent work and identify the themes. These four candidates offer a wide range of artistic forms:
Rachel Bennett presents Dichotomies – figurative paintings
Heather Burk presents Off The Beaten Path – graphic design
Michael Mayer presents The Process – photographic new media
Peter Walsh presents Self In Story – figurative sculpture in installation
For more information, see
Once a thriving diamond mining town, Kolmanskop now stands as a haunting testament to time and nature’s power. Shifting desert sands have crept into abandoned homes, turning once-grand interiors into surreal, silent landscapes of decay.
Beautiful alleyway in the old town of Locorotondo ("round place" in Italian), in Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia region, southern Italy.
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Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
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Exterior view of the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, also known as the Kastello, in the Medieval City of Rhodes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the best-preserved medieval towns in Europe, on the island of Rhodes, part of the Dodecanese island group, in South Aegean, Greece.
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The burst of bougainvillea flowers in the summer, with the Holy Trinity Church (Church of Agia Triada) in the background, in Lefkes, a picturesque village in the central part of Paros, part of the Cyclades group, in Greece.
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Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
Havilah and Bodfish, Kern County, California. The saloon. Corlew's Silver City - manufactured ghost town. Old buildings from all over the Kern Valley have been hauled in and re-arranged in the form of an old western town.
Corlew's Silver City, Bodfish, Kern County, California. Corlew's Silver City is a not a real ghost town, but a manufactured one. In the sixties and seventies, Dave and Arvilla Mills found several old, historic buildings from all over the Kern Valley region, hauled them to Bodfish and rearranged them to re-create the old western town of Silver City.
While the town itself is not real, nearly all of the buildings are authentic. Brought in from all over the area, from Keyesville to Isabella, from Whiskey Flat to Kernvale - many old towns and mining camps that are just a faded memory, or lost under the waters of nearby Lake Isabella. The Corlew family purchased the attraction and re-opened it in 1992, and have spent many hours restoring the buildings to an authentic state. Some of the buildings include the Isabella Jail, church, hotel, post office, saloon, and more.
Corlew's Silver City is waaaay off the beaten path, tucked away in the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, roughly an hour northeast of Bakersfield, a few miles from Lake Isabella. It's a bit of a faded tourist stop, a little worse for wear from the ravages of time - but that's partly by design, because the buildings are meant to be preserved in a state of 'arrested decay'. A bit of tourist-trap kitsch with the creepy mannequin displays, but still worth the visit for old western buffs and history enthusiasts.
For more information on Corlew's Silver City, visit Their Official Website.
Or, visit the information page on www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/silvercity.html.
Picture taken December 16, 2007. Photo #55 of 60 of my Havilah and Bodfish' photoset.
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A painted vehicle in the old town of Locorotondo ("round place" in Italian), in Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia region, southern Italy.
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"The Great Mosque" in the village of Pondok Tinggi, Sungaipenuh. It was built in 1874 without nails.
Morning light over Lake Braies (Italian: Lago di Braies), situated at the foot of Seekofel (2,810m), part of the Prague Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
Havilah and Bodfish, Kern County, California. The general store, complete with creepy mannequin. Corlew's Silver City - manufactured ghost town. Old buildings from all over the Kern Valley have been hauled in and re-arranged in the form of an old western town.
Corlew's Silver City, Bodfish, Kern County, California. Corlew's Silver City is a not a real ghost town, but a manufactured one. In the sixties and seventies, Dave and Arvilla Mills found several old, historic buildings from all over the Kern Valley region, hauled them to Bodfish and rearranged them to re-create the old western town of Silver City.
While the town itself is not real, nearly all of the buildings are authentic. Brought in from all over the area, from Keyesville to Isabella, from Whiskey Flat to Kernvale - many old towns and mining camps that are just a faded memory, or lost under the waters of nearby Lake Isabella. The Corlew family purchased the attraction and re-opened it in 1992, and have spent many hours restoring the buildings to an authentic state. Some of the buildings include the Isabella Jail, church, hotel, post office, saloon, and more.
Corlew's Silver City is waaaay off the beaten path, tucked away in the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, roughly an hour northeast of Bakersfield, a few miles from Lake Isabella. It's a bit of a faded tourist stop, a little worse for wear from the ravages of time - but that's partly by design, because the buildings are meant to be preserved in a state of 'arrested decay'. A bit of tourist-trap kitsch with the creepy mannequin displays, but still worth the visit for old western buffs and history enthusiasts.
For more information on Corlew's Silver City, visit Their Official Website.
Or, visit the information page on www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/silvercity.html.
Picture taken December 16, 2007. Photo #38 of 60 of my Havilah and Bodfish' photoset.
This photograph is free for use on the internet under the 'Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial' license. You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and/or adapt this photograph without seeking permission first, as long as you provide attribution to the photograph (preferably by linking to this web page, or including the phrase 'Copyright Matthew Lee High'), and as long as the the photo is not used for commercial purposes. For more information about Creative Commons licenses, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en.
The decoration of angels and saint, on the ceiling inside the 13th-century Duomo di Matera (Matera Cathedral), a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the designation of the Madonna della Bruna and to Saint Eustace, in the city of Matera, Matera province, Basilicata region, southern Italy.
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[Nara, Japan] Following the steps of Mishima Yukio in Enshou Ji, the most puzzling shrine I have seen because it has this dry garden at the very entrance. Mishima visited this temple as part of his study for his masterpiece The Sea of Fertility. This place (called Gesshu in the final novel of the trilogy, The Decay of the Angel) is the setting for the very final scene of The Sea of Fertility and it is used by Mishima to portray the Buddhist image of Paradise: an empty garden with no memories and only the sound of the cicadas remains.
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Sin Ho's markets is the biggest and most colourful market for Hill tribe people in Vietnam. Non turistic and still off the beaten path, we rented a motorbike and did a trhee days route through the most scenic region of North Vietnam
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Morning light over Lake Braies (Italian: Lago di Braies), situated at the foot of Seekofel (2,810m), part of the Prague Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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Colorful houses in Jodipan (local name: Kampung Warna-Warni Jodipan, means "Village of Color"), in Malang city, Malang regency, East Java, Indonesia.
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Row of trullo houses in the town of Alberobello, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia region, southern Italy. A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof.
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Colorful houses in Jodipan (local name: Kampung Warna-Warni Jodipan, means "Village of Color"), in Malang city, Malang regency, East Java, Indonesia.
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A cat resting by the window of a whitewashed traditional house in Lefkes, a picturesque village in the central part of Paros, part of the Cyclades group, in Greece.
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Night view of the Church of Agios Nikolaos (St Nicholas), situated by the Aegean Sea in the town of Ermoupolis, on the island of Syros, South Aegean, Greece.
It is known locally as the Church of St Nicholas the Rich because it was partly funded by donations from wealthy benefactors, including shipowners living abroad, and to distinguish it from the Church of St Nicholas the Poor in Ano Syros.
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