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Scale, noun, relative size. From Latin scala, ladder. Sometimes hard to judge in viewing and/or photographing landscapes. For example, this is a portion of the East wall of Glen Canyon, immediately downstream from the dam. The ladder at right apparently offers safe passage for a broad-shouldered man from the path with handrails at top right down to what appears to be a narrow ledge leading left to a cement block with a railing on top. Obviously functional, but completely mysterious to me. An example of Nature and Culture in close contact, neither making any concession to the other.
9-10-2022; 00:20 UTC; Velvia
En route to Refuge de l'Alpe de Villard d'Arene. Two people on the trail give an idea of the scale of these fine mountains.
Navajo Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona
An eastward moving thunderstorm climbs out of the canyon, scaling the Palisades of the Desert just north of Desert View.
A view of the sheer enormity of the marsh grasses at the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, September, 2024. I had this one in my mind's eye, with the high winds today bending the grasses.
A little trip today to Scale Force near Buttermere. With a single 170ft drop followed by a further two 20ft drops Scale Force is considered the highest Waterfall in the Lake District.
Wordsworth described it as ‘a fine chasm, with a lofty, though but slender, fall of water’.
That plateau on the foot of this waterfall just seemed to be destined to have my freind stand there and give some scale :)
Scale force waterfall has a drop of 120 feet been after this for a while now early start 2 hour drive half hour walk and a 2 minute slippy clime up a rock face and to be created by this beauty
Passeggiando per il centro storico di Vitorchiano (Viterbo)
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Walking inside the historic center of Vitorchiano village (province of Viterbo town, Italy)
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One factor in what i call "true minifig scaling" is not to just keep the minifig height in mind, but also the fact that the original minifigs low hip joints might create the impressions of tires being "too large" for a vehicle. I also forget that fact myself sometimes, since i often place minifigs next to my vehicles. However, if you keep using the realistically proportioned "human fig" as a template next to your MOC, selecting the right tires/rims for your vehicles wont be any trouble.
Flickr Friday theme Scale. Cookie lost a bet with Rusty and had to pay his weight in cookies. I think he cheats. Has a his hand on the scale. Happy Flickr Friday. the old photographer,;-)
A line of hikers making the ascent. Also reminds me of the 'ants go marching...'
Bonus points if you see the two hikers descending.
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With the disused lines into Chatterley Valley opencast in the foreground 56105 rolls towards its destination at Pinnox Sidings near Longport with 6K38 from Crewe Basford Hall. Personally I wouldn't usually include a mast at the side of the line but with three blokes scaling it, thought it was too good to miss.
Another day with a forecast of low cloud and >95% chance of rain. In these conditions there isn't much else other than fast flowing rivers that are worthwhile capturing.
Today, we travelled to Buttermere via Cockermouth and Crummock Water to reach the foot of Scale Force, a huge waterfall that sits in a gorge on red pike and feeds Crummock Water via Scale Beck. It's actually the tallest waterfall in the Lake District at 170ft tall.
I've been to Buttermere a number of times and never seen Scale Force flowing as quickly as it was today. We could even hear it from over 1/2 a kilometre away.