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I love working with the light and capturing isolated leaves and flowers when the sunlight is giving me natural light.
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The hard truth is we are doomed to be chaste. To never touch each other, hear each other, see each other... so what harm can there be to write to each other?
-Elizabeth Whitcomb from "The Love Letter"
Playing with Traffic XVI
Looking through two windows. The light rectangles are the road surface in the next street seen through the distant window. The right side of frame is a black car passing in the street behind me, and reflected in the near window in front of me.
Finding time to appreciate the natural rhythm of solar time. For the alternative monochrome angle, go to: www.michikofujii.co.uk/blog/4y5fa4rfljrh5wx6ajkk962zy3tbb9
Inside the fascinating Real Alcázar de Sevilla you find the Jardín de la Alcubilla. One of many amazing gardens within the walls of the Alcázar.
Point of Ayr Lighthouse, Talacre, North Wales.
Point of Ayr Lighthouse Coordinates... 53.357044°N 3.322174°W
Point of Ayr Lighthouse OS gridSJ 121 853
The Point of Ayr Lighthouse, also known as the Talacre Lighthouse, is a Grade II listed building situated on the north coast of Wales, on the Point of Ayr, near the village of Talacre
It was authorised by the Chester Lighthouse Act 1776 (16 Geo. 3. c. 61) and built in 1776 by a trust of the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen of Chester to warn ships entering between the Dee and the Mersey Estuary. It was replaced by a pile light and was decommissioned in 1844. It is now a privately owned property.
The lighthouse was listed for sale in 2011 by then owner James McAllister, along with two acres of land, for £100,000. It was eventually sold in April 2012 for £90,000 to a private couple who continue to own the property. Two alleged incidents have been reported by Wales Online.
In 2009, the BBC reported that planning permission had been sought to erect a "human sculpture" inspired by the reported ghostly sightings on the lighthouse balcony. This application was made by then owner James McAllister who intended it to serve as a "serious art installation". Local artist Angela Smith was contracted to design the 7 foot stainless steel ‘lighthouse keeper’ with the initial planning permission being approved for a three-year period. Permission was not sought to retain the structure after this point and the sculpture was relocated.
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Little Town XII
(Intentional Camera Movement)
This little town
... has a construction site on every block ...
Great Orme Tramway, Llandudno, Conwy County, North Wales.
Great Orme Tramway Coordinates....: 53.3321°N 3.8544°W
Great Orme Tramway opened in 1902
The Great Orme Tramway (Welsh: Tramffordd y Gogarth) is a cable-hauled 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge tramway in Llandudno in north Wales. Open seasonally from late March to late October, it takes over 200,000 passengers each year from Llandudno Victoria Station to just below the summit of the Great Orme headland. From 1932 onwards it was known as the Great Orme Railway, reverting to its original name in 1977.
It is Great Britain's only remaining cable-operated street tramway, and one of only a few surviving in the world, and it is owned by Conwy County Borough Council. The line comprises two sections, where each section is an independent funicular and passengers change cars at the Halfway station. Whilst the upper section runs on its own right of way and is similar to many other funicular lines, the lower section is an unusual street-running funicular.
Whilst the street running section resembles the better-known San Francisco cable cars, its operation is quite different in that it adheres to the funicular principle where the cars are permanently fixed to the cable and are stopped and started by stopping and starting the cable, unlike San Francisco where cars attach to, and detach from, a continuously running cable. As such, this section's closest relatives are Lisbon's Glória, Bica, and Lavra street funiculars.
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Llyn Dinas, Beddgelert, Snowdonia
Llyn Dinas, Coordinates....: 53°01′N 4°04′W
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Llyn Dinas is a lake near Beddgelert, Gwynedd in north Wales. It is formed by the River Glaslyn.
Llyn Dinas lies on the valley floor a few miles north of Beddgelert at an altitude of about 55 metres above sea level. It has an area of 60 acres (240,000 m2) and is fairly shallow, with the maximum depth only 10 metres. The lake offers good fishing for salmon and trout.
It takes its name from the nearby Dinas Emrys, a rocky and wooded hill just downstream of the lake where the remains of both medieval and older fortifications have been found. A rock near the lake named Carreg yr Eryr (The stone of the eagle) was said in a charter of 1198 to mark the spot where the boundaries of the three cantrefs of Aberconwy, Ardudwy and Arfon met. According to Giraldus Cambrensis an eagle used to perch on it once a week, anticipating battle between the men of the three cantrefs.
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