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Always Turn Away
Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (1996)
There are pools across the tidal plain
That look like white sheets draped across
The vacuum beyond our conversation
The thread of our lives unraveling
Always turning away
Away
The tide makes all our decisions for us
It breathes just like a pearl accordion
The water softly inches for your eyes
Kisses the soft skin under your disguise
Always turning away
Away
Under the sun we flood across the shallows
And lay on our backs
Gleaming like liquid pearls
The wind and the light
Give us up a show of hands
Gives us to any justice that'll have us
Always turning away
Away
The Dance
The Cinematic Orchestra - Les Ailes pourpres : Le Mystère des flamants (2008)
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The Cinematic Orchestra - Les Ailes pourpres : Le Mystère des flamants (2008)
By stalking along from log to log, plunging his long legs into the oozy swamp!
I spotted this Grey Heron on the swampy pool in the Plantsbrook Local Nature Reserve, which is a part of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham.
It has a number of pools, surrounded by fringes of woodland, wetlands and a wildflower meadow, making it an oasis for wildlife.
The only trouble was I could not get a clear shot of this heron, with all the overgrowth in this part, where one can spot Herons.
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New rock pools to explore on this section of this beach. A while back the foreground area was covered in sand. There is a hole in the big rock section in the background and a rock pool was located just in front of it. This day the waves were not rolling through the hole as they usually did. This beach ever changing, especially this year with all the heavy rains. Bunga Beach South Mimosa Rocks National Park NSW.
Why leave me standing here
Show me the way!
(If you want to see the fairy pools, check out my Scotland Album)
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Glenbrittle, Isle of Skye
A really cool spot about halfway through Soldier's Pass where water collects in these 7 natural pools, surrounded by towering rock formations. A beautiful (and popular) area and we were fortunate enough to have it to ourselves for a short while.
These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
The total sky almost without defect,
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,
And yet not out by any brook or river,
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on.
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods --
Let them think twice before they use their powers
To blot out and drink up and sweep away
These flowery waters and these watery flowers
From snow that melted only yesterday.
Robert Frost
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The Fairy pools are a string of waterfalls on Sky Isle in Scotland. It is close to a road and the challenge for photographers is to get it without the people. The clouds add to the mysterious mood, but just a little bit of sun would have been nice...
Shafts of sunlight break through the clouds over the Fairy Pools, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
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The Fairy Pools are a natural waterfall phenomenon in Glen Brittle on the Isle of Skye. The vivid blues and greens of the pools suggest an unnatural origin. They are a popular place for wild swimmers.
The habitat of the Fairy Pools hosts a variety of animals, such as red deer, rabbits, and sheep. The area is also host to a large number of birds. Large flocks of crows, ravens, and gulls are present in the area, as well as such smaller birds as meadow pipits, turnstones, common ringed plovers, grey herons, dunlins, and curlews. The physical landscape is predominately rocky, with some boggy areas here and there. The water in the area is typically cold.
The Fairy Pools are a popular location for walkers. It is about a 20 minute walk to the Fairy Pools from the Glen Brittle car park.
This was our first full day on Skye and the first time seeing it in the light, albeit subdued. I had planned for an overcast day with a trip to the Fairy Pools, an easy walk up the side of the Allt Coir' a' Mhadaidh and a great collection of plunge pools and waterfalls that tumble down from the foothills of the Black Cuillins into Glen Brittle.
I do wish there was a little more separation in the form of some direct light on the foreground, but you can only work with what you have. To try and combat the 'flatness' of the final image I decided to cross process the picture with magenta and teal hues.
Green Pools in Williams Bay National Park, Western Australia. We came here some 12 years ago on a cold rainy day and it was nothing special. This time we could see what all the fuss was about. Beautiful!
We had big waves this day and when they crashed on the black rocks they often sent exciting spray into the air. The photo was taken from the 804 trail. From Yachats State Park on the north side of the Yachats River to a sandy beach 1.7 miles to the north, this trail provides expansive ocean vistas and access to tide pools and pebbled coves. www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Yachats_804_Trail_Hike
Precipitation has been good this winter, resulting in some very wet conditions in many areas of Arizona. Benefits from the precipitation include opportunities to capture scenes in different ways, with interesting compositions. One example here, features rainwater flowing through Soldiers Pass, filling the Seven Sacred Pools, beneath Coffee Pot Rock.
This is what Mana Pools is all about.
Great landscape with animals.
You don´t visit Mana Pools for close ups of animals.
All animals in Africa bite, but the safari bug is the worst.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
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The wonders of Mammoth Hot Springs always amaze me. I wondered what the water source was, never knew it traveled that far:
"Terrace Mountain at Mammoth Hot Springs is the largest known carbonate-depositing spring in the world. It was created over thousands of years as hot water from the spring cooled and deposited calcium carbonate (over two tons flow into Mammoth each day in a solution). Because of the huge amount of geothermal vents, travertine flourishes.
The hot water that feeds Mammoth comes from Norris Geyser Basin after traveling underground via a fault line that runs through limestone and roughly parallel to the Norris-to-Mammoth road."
Have a most wonderful weekend!
Kapoho Gezeiten Pools
Tide pools are rocky pools on the sea shore which are filled with seawater. Many of these pools exist as separate pools only at low tide. Big Island, Hawaii.
Gezeiten Pools sind felsigen Pools an der Küste, die mit Meerwasser gefüllt sind. Viele dieser Pools bilden eigenständige Becken bei Ebbe. Big Island, Hawaii.
This is a colour version taken just after the other shot I have posted, I like the Black & White version but i am swinging more to this colour one now
Just got home from Beaumaris in Anglesey Wales so late with my photo this week. We visited Penmon Lighthouse on a very sunny but cold afternoon, in the lead up to the lighthouse there were very many interesting rock pools so I thought this would be a good idea for a water element. I have cropped the photo down to fit in with the 3" limit.
Again the visit here wasn't without incident. Upon arrival I found both car parks were closed. The top one for an unknown reason and the main one closest to the path up for resurfacing work. They are currently resurfacing the path too with diggers and JCB's dotted along it's length with wagons going back and forth dropping off materials, more about this later.
I got out and walked over to a stern looking man in a hi-vis jacket. He spoke with a broad Geordie accent and informed me the car park was closed and that the path up whilst open (it's a public footpath,) was treacherous and I'd be knee deep in mud if I attempted it.
After having a little chat where we spoke about Newcastle United's resurgence and mentioning how tough the weather had been for photography his demeanour softened and he told me to swing the van in next to his car by the welfare container being used for the workers but they couldn't be responsible for any damage. 'Can't charge you mate, there's no facilities open.'
I thanked him and put my wellies on in preparation for the knee deep mud. It wasn't as bad as he claimed with only a small section that was muddy but easy enough to negotiate.
The wind was just as strong as it had been in previous days and with the pools being in a valley it was funneled up like a venturi and was even stronger than lower down. Thankfully it was blowing from directly behind me so I knew I wouldn't have any issues with spray which by this point was becoming my nemesis. I only saw two other people in the couple of hours I spent here which for The Fairy Pools is probably unheard of.
After trying various compositions, as and when the wind would allow and happy that I'd have a few shots I could work with I returned to the car park and had another little chat over a cup of tea I made for us both in the van. More football talk and the relative merits of foreign owners etc. I thanked him again for his kindness and as I didn't have to pay the £8 for the car park I gave him a fiver and told him to buy himself a beer.
On the drive back I had to pull over in the passing places a number of times to let a wagon through and the fourth wagon I saw flashed me to go first. Except he pulled over on a small strip of uneven concrete that wasn't anywhere near as wide as the passing places. It seemed to happen in slow motion. The strip of surface began to crumble under the the weight and slowly the wagon started to tip over until it finally came to rest at about 30 degrees. Thankfully the driver was unhurt but he was particularly sweary and very angry. I've never heard the 'f word' used so many times in one sentence before. Think Begbie from Trainspotting levels of anger and square it and you'd still not be close.
I spent three days on Skye. I fell over, slipped or was blown over eight times. I got a parking ticket despite being the only vehicle parked at The Quiraing after a council worker dropping off fence poles told me to park in any of the roadside bays ( the main car park doesn't allow motorhomes or vans to park in it, ) but neglected to tell me the closest one to the path was allocated for minibuses only, I got a puncture shortly after the ticket on the awful road just by Loch Fada and The Storr because of the potholes and I had to change the wheel in 40mph winds and driving rain after knocking on the door of a house to see if I could use his phone to ring the recovery company because I had no reception, unless he had a scaffold bar handy for additional leverage because the wheel brace wasn't for budging the wheel nuts. Amazingly he did. I saw a wagon tip over, spent countless hours huddled behind boulders and had to dive on concrete in the car park at Elgol to save the camera after the tripod blew over. Oh and a waterfall flowing in the wrong direction.
I absolutely loved it though, but would quite like my next trip to not have so many incidents.
The Fairy Pools is a series of picturesque waterfalls and crystal-clear pools in the heart of scenic Glen Brittle, in the western foothills of the Black Cuillins. The Pools offer stunning views of the Cuillin Hills.
Poznan, Poland
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Winter/Dawn
My fascination with puddles will likely never stop. So here we have a little sunrise, beautiful red cast of light reflected in the street. Luckily for me no traffic was happening on this morning......
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Sunrise skies over the North sea reflected in the tidal pools, low tide at Seahouses in Northumberland
The famous Fairy Pools on Skye after a bit of rain, not much swimming going on due to the inclement weather and strong current. Used my waterproof Olympus Tough TG4 for most shots taken here.
Cootamundra has long been one of my favourite country towns in New South Wales and I regularly visited there when I lived in Sydney for train photography trips. It's a country town steeped in railway history and has two railway stations. This one at Cootamundra West is no longer used and it has always amazed me by it's grandeur and style. So it was lovely first thing in the morning after a night of thunderstorms to find a few pools of water so I could reflect on this magnificent structure. Here it has a slightly surreal feel to it with the early morning mist and reflections to emphasise it's charm and character.
Photo By Steve Bromley.