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The remote Gallan Head on the west coast of Lewis has a unique atmosphere and is home to a community project, following the departure of the RAF a number of years ago and the opening up of the peninsula. From the website: "Gallan Head is a high promontory on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland, and is the most North-Westerly point of Britain.
It is a piece of land of strange beauty and a powerful spiritual energy, with fantastic views of historical islands and landscape features in a great sweeping arc around it. From its highest point there is a 360 degree view of all the surrounding sea, wildlife, islands and land, and at night – dark, unpolluted skies afford vast astronomical potential.
It is here that we hope, in a few years, to open an observatory, for both wildlife and sea watching and the many phenomena of the heavens, housed in a specially designed building which will add to, rather than detract from the natural landscape. This will be known at the Cetus Project – listening to whales in the sea and watching the constellation Cetus in the night sky. This project has the enthusiastic support of the Stornoway Astronomical Society and John Brown, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, who has become patron of the project."
Ci sono momenti, all'alba, in cui si vede nettamente il confine fra il regno del sole e quello delle ombre. Le nuvole sospese nel mezzo di due mondi, sembrano la porta per entrare in un mondo fatto di sola luce.
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Last sun rays over Sveinstindur in the deep highland area of Iceland called Langisjór.
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Not my usual route home..
but the lighting and fresh snow were just enough to get me out of my car!
Luckily I had my P5000 with me in the car...
I´m very lucky to have contacts like you guys..
I´m so busy these days and don´t have much time for Flickr... I´ll catch up soon :-)
Have a lucky day
Not as remote as some but remote enough.
'The Iron Pot is a small flat sandstone island with an area of 1.27 ha in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Betsey Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania around the entrance to the River Derwent. It is the site of Iron Pot Lighthouse Tasmania's first lighthouse.' Wikipedia
This is the sum total of all buildings for the Nerlerit Inaat airport and all of the surroundings, with Hurry Inlet and the snow-covered mountains of Liverpool Land in the background, East Greenland. The nearest village for hundreds of miles around is Ittoqqortoormiit (population 450) at the bottom tip of Liverpool Land. iPhone photo.
03/01/2020 www.allenfotowild.com
No mans land, no communication available execpt the Russian and Norwegian border patrols and God!
King Oscar II Chapel in the background.
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This photo is from a backcountry slot canyon deep within the Colorado Plateau. Waterfalls and pools were abundant and the water temperature was perfect with our wetsuits on. This canyon was totally worth the long hike in. Make sure you get out and explore your world!
This was a shot taken upon arrival at our lodge deep in the heart of Kenai Fjords National Park (the only lodge within the park). This remote place was full of incredible, and almost unreal beauty. I still have a few more days here in Alaska and will be traveling, but I will catch up with everyone in the next couple of weeks. Thank you all for your comments and favorites!
To find wild, rugged landscapes where very few people explore you don’t need to leave the UK. Just head north, about as far as you can go.
Think about the numbers; there are 10 million people living inside the M25, an area about the same size as the Isle of Skye on the West Coast of Scotland. In all of Scotland there are only 5.5 million people and 3.5 million of these people live in the central belt. Around the coast of the far north of Scotland you are in for a rare treat. Endless sea cliffs with amazing rock in a wild landscape - with nobody else around for miles - offering as much adventure as you’ll ever need. And then there’s the sea stacks to make it even more fun!
Monument Valley, Arizona
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O Fjord is a long fjord on the south east side of Renland, a penninsula attached to the Greenland mainland that has a large ice sheet despite its proximity to the coast. Renland is a popular destination for mountain climbing owing to its steep slopes, massive rocky crags and jagged peaks. The huge Edward Bailey Glacier on Renland drains through many rocky valleys into O Fjord, one of which is seen here.
03/02/2020 www.allenfotowild.com
Iruya - Salta - Argentina.
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Below Hunters Path looking down at a frosty misty Teign valley towards Drewsteignton. The sun rised and peeked over the trees on chilly start to the day. Taken before Christmas.
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Street carnival, Inhambane, Mozambique.
"To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the the real." Susan Sontag, On Photography
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ScotRail 156446 & 153380 head away from the very remote station of Corrour across Rannoch Moor with 1Y42, the 06:03 Mallaig – Glasgow Queen Street on 19th April 2023.
There’s been times over the past few years when I have had a photo I simply HAD to get and when the opportunity to shoot it came along I took it with both hands.
This is one of them.
Many years ago I watched a documentary on traditional cormorant fishing in the Li River of China and thought “wow – what a window into the past that is” and decided that if ever the opportunity came along I WOULD photograph a traditional cormorant fisherman.
Myself and 20 others from the University of Sydney are spending a few months working in China for a subject in International Strategy,
So I started the research, and I researched more, and more. It was NOT going to be easy.
Eventually I stumbled upon Jack from Yangshuo – Jack is a terrific English speaking tour guide in the Guilin area and once I explained what it was I wanted to do he was able to help me make it happen.
So I arrived in Guilin late at night, raining and extremely hot after almost 24hours of travelling from Sydney. My driver was waiting for me at the airport and drove me to the XingPing area where we would meet the fisherman the next morning.
4am came and Jack and I were on a Bamboo raft going downstream on the Li river, incredible karst peaks all around me were slowly showing their silhouettes against the night sky.
Jack asks “where is your tripod?”
Leading up to this shot I had been thinking how I would go about shooting it – how would I make sure, in a small amount of time, that I could nail this once in a lifetime opportunity. My flaw when it comes to photography is that I often give myself too many options and I waste time experimenting so I decided I would eliminate the variables and focus on the shot. I took with me a light stand, a small Profoto RFi 1 ,3x2” softbox, 1 speed light, 2 pocket wizards, 1 camera and 1 lens.
Should I have bought my tripod? It was very dark – now I was worried.
We got to our location on the river bank and everything started to happen pretty quickly – before I knew it, in front of me, in this amazing wilderness was a traditional cormorant fisherman. Luckily my plan worked and I didn’t need a tripod. The morning light was illuminating the sky exactly as I had planned for and the softbox was throwing out the beautiful fill light just as intended. I reeled off shot after shot after shot and than it was over.
This is a single frame taken just after sunrise.
I’m sitting in my hotel room in Beijing and just going through my bag of shots from the past 2 weeks of trekking through rural China. From fisherman to remote villages to the Great Wall – it’s been an incredible journey and one I won’t forget in a long time.
I’ll be meeting up with the rest of the crew in Shanghai tomorrow and won’t have a chance to post many more shots until I arrive back in Australia but stay tuned. –there’s a lot to come ;)
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Some find the road out west on Ardnamurchan pretty intimidating. But turn on to the little roads that lead out to the lighthouse at the end, or to the heavenly white sand beach at Sanna, and the road becomes even more of an adventure. However park your car at the side of the road and head off into the crater of the ancient Ardnamurchan volcano and things become a whole lot more desolate and remote. Over a hill and far away, where there has never been electricity or a road, and you find a place called Glendrian, Glendryen, Glendrain....all of them, where there was once a thriving crofting community. And it's site is now a Scheduled Monument giving Guardian readers and amazing insight into what post-Brexit Britain would look like.
Glendrian is a depopulated settlement of post-medieval date. It is located on the Ardnamurchan Peninsular on the West Coast of Scotland, situated within a ring of hills forming the caldera of the former volcanic crater of Ben Hiant. The exceptional preservation of the settlement remains, including cruck-slots within house walls, led to the scheduling of the settlement, which is considered to be of regional and national importance.
Settlement at Glendrian was first documented in the early 17th century, in 1618, when 8 families were recorded living there. From 1723, the population grew, jumping from 29 people to 39 in 1841 and 47 in 1861. The census records show a decrease in the population after this however, and it was during the mid-19th century that the smaller townships on the Ardnamurchan peninsular, including Glendrian, were cleared for larger sheep farms. The population fell to 20 in 1881 and 11 in 1901. By the 1930s, only two houses were occupied, and by the 1940s, the settlement was completely deserted.
Glendrian does not appear on Roy’s Military Maps of 1747-55, but it does appear on Bald’s map of 1806, on which it comprised 17 buildings, two enclosures, fields and walls. By the time of the 1st Edition OS 6 Inch map of 1876, three unroofed buildings, 17 roofed buildings, 6 enclosures and field systems were present. More buildings were depicted as unroofed on the 1896 2nd Edition OS 6 inch map, with only 8 roofed. A walkover survey was undertaken in 2011 in advance of a bracken control programme and this revealed many more features than mapped however, including previously unrecorded shielings, enclosures and boundaries. A total of 43 individual features were identified; more than half of these related to use of the landscape and transhumance including areas of rig and furrow cultivation and boundary walls, but the rest were structures and features associated directly with the post-medieval settlement, including houses, a revetted spring, a sheep fank and numerous enclosures.
Although a walkover survey does not record sufficient detail for a full assessment and discussion of sites, at Glendrian, it did discover clear evidence of modification and development through time to the settlement. Houses were of varied style and contained evidence for different phases. For example, some buildings had clearly had extensions and additional rooms attached to the pre-existing structures, and the construction of fireplaces within some of the houses were likely related to the latest phase of use. Additionally, the boundary walls and enclosures were all of drystone construction, but these construction techniques varied and these structures also exhibited characteristics of modification.
The level of preservation at Glendrian is considered to be exceptional, especially when compared to similar types of settlements in the Highlands, as most do not usually preserve evidence of modification and phasing through time. In light of this, the site represents a valuable resource into understanding the changes that took place in post-medieval settlement and economy in the Highlands during the 18th and 19th centuries, and a closer study of the architecture of Glendrian would allow for an interesting study into vernacular Highland settlements.