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Life and death stand side by side in this scene found in the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
"The stripped and shapely
Maple grieves
The ghosts of her
Departed leaves.
The ground is hard,
As hard as stone.
The year is old,
The birds are flown.
And yet the world,
In its distress,
Displays a certain
Loveliness"
- John Updike, A Child's Calendar
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this dress was an absolute steal at £30 on ebay! its boned with a heavy ruffled underskirt for a great shapely fit, lovely silver buckle on the waist and it shimmers in the light! it was worth the wait, love it!
"My old boat rests on the shore,
By the river's sedgy brink,
Where the meadow grass bends o'er,
And the cattle come to drink;
'Tis a rusty, batter'd boat,
Boat without master sail,
And it never again may float,
In dead calm or in gale;
For its timbers and ribs are rent,
Shiver'd and crack'd and bent,
And the paint has faded away,
From its sides this many a-day;
Sides gaping in every seam,
Wide open to the stream.
And yet a brave boat wast thou!
When I launch'd you long ago,
When thy shapely, sharpen'd prow,
Cleaved the waters like a plow;
Gay then each painted side,
With umber and green and white,
My triumph and my pride,
My glory, my heart's delight!
Was ever a joy in the past,
Like mine when first arose,
The flag at the head of the mast,
A pennon of purple and rose;
When first thy snowy sail,
I gave to the riotous breeze,
And steer'd from this river-vale,
Straight out to the open seas!"
- Isaac McLellan, My Old Fishing Boat
Capture and edit by Orchid Arado
Photo Locale, Remembering IASWAS (scenery change):
A slice of autumnal woodland from within Hillock Wood, Buckinghamshire. I was originally focusing on the shapely tree to the right but soon got lost in the myriad of shapes and colours that presented themselves through the viewfinder and felt the scene was more balanced if the other elements were included.
The glorious end to a glorious day. The Cheviot (815m, 2674ft) is the long flattish lump in the centre of the shot. It's not the most shapely of hills, being referred to charitably as resembling a whale - or as a slug if you are in defamatory mode!
Hedgehope Hill, much more shapely but 100m lower at 714m/2343ft can be just made out in front of The Cheviot's right flank.
This view is from Corby Crags on the Alnwick to Rothbury road, 5-6 mins drive from the house.
Macro Mondays ...... Theme "Double Exposure"
The stem of a small glass with red wine and decorative cracked glass candle holder with lit candle.
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As I neared the summit of Parkhouse, I saw the only other soul out on this area, stood on the summit. He had a small dog with him and I presumed he had made the climb up from the (West) Chrome Hill side as I hadn't seen anyone making the climb up on the East side from Glutton Bridge.
I took this shot, showing the final slope and the shapely Chrome Hill behind the walker, before I joined him on the top. The climb up was pretty slippy and I asked him how things were on the West side before I started the descent. He said, "oh that's much worse, it's lethal"! Hmm, not what I wanted to hear from the "Dragonslayer".
These hills are often referred to as the "Dragons Back", as they are Carboniferous Reef Knolls from ancient sea beds. The resistant Limestone has been left to form these shapely beasts with the softer sedimentary rocks that surrounded these ancient coral reefs having been eroded away.
This was one of those, "stop!, I want to get off" moments, when you see a mountain and it just beckons you. That ridge and shapely summit just scream out, "climb me".
Unfortunately, on this occasion I was stood on deck of the "Viking Venus" sailing steadily northward on Norway's photogenic Inside Passage to Tromso. Everywhere you look on this stretch of the Fjords just appears magical in these conditions.
I'm sure this mountain gets a lot of visitors from the Norwegian climbing community given its proximity to the road that runs along this Fjord. If anyone does know its name, please let me know, its allure is beckoning me!
Or something. I'd had the previous 4 Fridays off work. The others had been filled with awful weather and fun work-related stuff. This one, I was determined to make the most of.
The plan was for a South Lakes sunrise and walk, but then when I woke up and checked the forecast... Sod it! I had time to get there so I made the 2.5 hour journey north. So pleased I did, such a pleasure to watch an absolutely superb inversion ebb and flow over Keswick.
I'm not sure how much I'd appreciated just how shapely Catbells is prior to this morning.
Shame about the drive home, those M6 roadworks! 😆
A mystical, stormy, morning light hits the side of this shapely massif on the fjord side of the Norwegian Inside Passage.
One of many glorious scenes I managed to witness on this Viking Journey to capture the elusive Northern Lights. It will live long in the memory!
A fine Autumn Morning illuminating the very shapely Castle Crag with the high fell of Skiddaw in the distance.
A winter dash around the snowy plateau of Twisleton had me capturing some of the shapely wind sculpted trees. Boy, was it cold up there too, with a pretty strong breeze making the snow drifts tricky to negotiate on the way to this spot!
Ingleborough always provides a beautiful backdrop, particularly in its winter coat!
I must admit that I do find woodland photography pretty daunting. You walk through wonderful forests and there are shapely trees everywhere, but finding compositions is really difficult. Very different to landscape and seascape photography where the composition is pretty clear and foregrounds leap out at me!
I wandered around these woodlands near home most of the morning and enjoyed the walk, but I honestly struggled to see a shot. I came away with lots of images of trees and copses, but many of them seemed uninspiring and lacking any real sense of shape and interest. I must have binned more than 70% of the shots I took.
I was left with just a couple of images that looked alright and I played around with them and even added a bit of "orton effect" on them, but remained underwhelmed by the whole experience. I will have to work with the genre and try to educate my lazy woodland eye, or stick with landscapes.
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Kupferbarren 1oz "Kupferknuffel"/Cu, gegossen
Kupferbarren 1oz "Kupferknuffel"/Cu, gegossen
Produktbeschreibung
1oz Kupferbarren / Kupferknuffel.
Bei diesem 1 Unzen Kupferknuffel (31,1g) handelt es sich um ein gegossenes Stück Kupfer, welches auf der Oberseite punziert ist mit 1oz, Kupfer 999 und dem ESG Logo.
Da die Herstellungskosten bei kleinen Kupferbarren deutlich über dem Materialwert liegen handelt es sich hierbei nicht um ein Investmentprodukt, sondern um einen formschönen Handschmeichler, welcher sich hervorragend als Geschenk, Briefbeschwerer oder ähnliches eignet. Da die Kupferknuffel gegossen werden, ist jedes Stück ein Unikat mit leicht abweichenden Abmaßen.
Copper ingots 1oz "Kupferknuffel"/Cu, cast
Product
1oz copper ingots / copper pinchers.
This 1 ounce copper nut (31.1g) is a cast piece of copper, which is marked on the top with 1oz, copper 999 and the ESG logo.
Since the production costs of small copper bars are significantly higher than the material value, this is not an investment product, but a shapely hand flatterer, which is ideal as a gift, paperweight or the like. Since the copper sniffles are cast, each piece is unique with slightly different dimensions.
HMM to all participants 💙💙💙
Sunset light hits this old tree on the limestone escarpment above Conistone in Wharfedale.
It has been quite a few years since I made the walk up the canyon of Conistone Dib up to the Dales Way here. I was immediately struck by the amount of stubbly growth that is now on this limestone pavement. I recall taking a nice picture of a beautiful shapely Juniper tree to the side of this tree here. The tree was still there but it is surrounded by twiggy saplings and vegetation. I will post a shot looking in the other direction of that lovely shapely tree, but the shot I wanted was this way with ridge and wall leading away to the South East towards Grassington. No matter how I tried though the shot that way of the tree looked messy with all the foreground stumpy growth.
So here is a shot with the less shapely tree. It still looks nice with the light hitting its gnarly form. The cloud hoover was also in operation as dusk approached and the sky cleared rather rapidly. I set off back down to find some frost forming on the car! Seasons are changing!
A cow grazing near the top of Ecton Hill. In the distance can be seen the shapely hills of the Upper Dove Valley.
Another fantastic shapely array of Mountains attracted my attention whilst sailing south from Tromso on the Norwegian Inside Passage.
The sun was illuminating the flanks of the Peaks whilst the summits were still bathed in misty cloud. They certainly had a dreamy appeal.
Kalhene Night - ERIKAMeshBodyCONTEST2021
Capture for the Kahlene Erika contest, This is a shapely body so check it out! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Heels/64/110/535
Before we start getting into the moody cloudy images, here's one to show that it doesn't always rain in Scotland! This is the Eilean Chasgaig in Loch Torridon in front of the very shapely Beinn Alligin, and the western end of Liathach. This was taken on the one sunny afternoon in the 8 days I was there from the shore behind the Torridon Hotel - which I would recommend as a bolt-hole when the weather is rubbish!
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Kupferbarren 1oz "Kupferknuffel"/Cu, gegossen
Kupferbarren 1oz "Kupferknuffel"/Cu, gegossen
Produktbeschreibung
1oz Kupferbarren / Kupferknuffel.
Bei diesem 1 Unzen Kupferknuffel (31,1g) handelt es sich um ein gegossenes Stück Kupfer, welches auf der Oberseite punziert ist mit 1oz, Kupfer 999 und dem ESG Logo.
Da die Herstellungskosten bei kleinen Kupferbarren deutlich über dem Materialwert liegen handelt es sich hierbei nicht um ein Investmentprodukt, sondern um einen formschönen Handschmeichler, welcher sich hervorragend als Geschenk, Briefbeschwerer oder ähnliches eignet. Da die Kupferknuffel gegossen werden, ist jedes Stück ein Unikat mit leicht abweichenden Abmaßen.
Copper ingots 1oz "Kupferknuffel"/Cu, cast
Product
1oz copper ingots / copper pinchers.
This 1 ounce copper nut (31.1g) is a cast piece of copper, which is marked on the top with 1oz, copper 999 and the ESG logo.
Since the production costs of small copper bars are significantly higher than the material value, this is not an investment product, but a shapely hand flatterer, which is ideal as a gift, paperweight or the like. Since the copper sniffles are cast, each piece is unique with slightly different dimensions.
HMM to all participants 💙💙💙
These are the nearby Hills in their winter hue. This is from a public footpath on the hill above "The Inn at Whitewell", looking back across the Hodder Valley to Totridge Fell on the upper right leading along the plateau left to Fair Oak Fell and Burnslack Fell.
It was -8 here as a stood looking across the valley. I can walk out here from home, yet I very rarely do! Instead, heading for the lure of the Lakes, Dales or the coast. It is strange, you do tend to take your local area for granted and yet there are some really nice photogenic spots nearby. The fells here are not the easiest to get great landscape shots of, I suppose because they are a block of subtle plateaus rather than individual shapely hills.
I did think the dusting of snow against the brown winter hues was worthy of a post though!
………I thought mono was the best way to show this shapely scene off to its best. Alan:-)…….
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On Friday evening I had some time to myself so headed down to Seacliff Beach. It's one of my favourite places locally for seascape photography. As high tide was coinciding with sunset I thought why not as the last few times I've been there its been nearer low tide. I think high to mid or the retreat is the best as it reveals some nice compositions... the shapely rocks offers new compositions every time and I have been many times! The sea was fairly calm but I found one section that for whatever reason was offering a little white water to work with. I stayed the whole night in that 20m stretch of shore and manages about 5 nice compositions! A lovely nights photography with just a single casualty!
I have had a baseball cap that I have worn for photography for about 5 years now... its been a fairly faithful friend and protected my bald head well from the sun and the rain! A out of the blue gust blew it off my head and straight out to sea... it was about 6m out and prob in an area I could have got to if id reacted fast and waided in... but I was conscious of not just abandoning my camera on the tripod in a windy place where waves where coming in... by the time I got the camera off the tripod and safely in the bag the hat had drifted out further... I hoped the waves would bring it in but it never... it got further and further away and more soaked with water... eventually after a few mins it sank to the murky depths... at least it got a good sea burial!
A quick dash up Holme Park Fell, saw me hunting around for a different composition. I have been here so many times and most of the shapely trees here are better shot in Winter when they are devoid of foliage. The sunset was rather diffused until the sun eventually made a last appearance over the Lakeland fells.
I thought the limestone textures made for an interesting enough foreground just near the Fell summit, so I went for this at f22 to try and get a bit of a sunburst.
The half hour after sunset proved to be interesting too, with some fantastic red cirrus clouds and I have yet to get round to processing those!
The sharp, shapely summit of Slogen. Seen from the little town of Sæbø across the Norangsfjord a side fjord of the Storfjord in western Norway.
A scan from a slide taken in August 1994, with a Canon EOS 100 on Fujichrome100.
Peony stands out with special cultural message...Its fullness in bloom emits a sense of elegance, happiness, fortune and prosperity, the feelings of which are cherished in Oriental culture. This lovely plant has large, shapely flowers with petals slightly curved inwards, bright, clear red with a tidy tuft of creamy yellow stamens. The bees just love them too.
This is what it will look soon: flic.kr/p/2joP8dX
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Some shapely gritstone tors on Kinder Scout at the point where the path to Grindslow Knoll branches off.
Kalhene Ocean Breeze - ERIKAMeshBodyCONTEST2021
Capture for the Kahlene Erika contest, This is a shapely body so check it out! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Heels/64/110/535
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Whilst walking back to the car from the shore of Derwentwater, I saw the bright low winter light hitting this old dying tree on the edge of Cockshot Wood.
It has obviously had a long life here in the Lake District and its shapely structure was indicative of a "last hurrah"! Sadly a lot of the mature trees here in the North of England seem to be on their way out. It looked great in colour, but I think the black and white conversion shows more detailing its withered frame.
The shapely "Bride" and her attendants on the Moor above Todmorden.
1400 Feet above sea level on the windswept Moors above Todmorden is an escarpment of Gritstone which has been shaped over centuries by the ravages of its hostile Pennine climate.
There are quite a number of fabulously shaped outcrops and the one at the top of this incline is shaped like a giant Anvil. The area gets its name from a prominent boulder called "The Great Bridestone" which is shaped like an upturned bottle with a very narrow base.
Another discovery whilst staying local! I walked miles in the bright sunlight yesterday and I came across this bridge over the Lancaster Canal near Garstang.
I thought it may look better in the low evening light, so I returned again later with the camera and took this shot. I suppose one thing about lockdown is that you are forced to explore your own hinterland and its surprising what you find!
The rusting metal pipework arching over the canal is nicely reflected in the still waters to produce an "eye" shaped image with the curved towpath adding to the shapeliness of the scene.
An image taken a few years ago in Sherwood Forest. A shapely birch shows off its moves among some regimental conifers.
Kalhene Day Dreaming By The Sea - ERIKAMeshBodyCONTEST2021
Capture for the Kahlene Erika contest, This is a shapely body so check it out! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Heels/64/110/535
……And chair! I used the back of a garden chair to frame the sundial. The garden still retains its winter look - soon be time to play catch-up when the weather improves a little. Shotonaphone with editing using Lightroom and NIK Silver Efex Pro2. Alan:-)……
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…… Another shot from yesterdays walk, this is looking back to Edgmond and the Wrekin rising above. Taken on my phone in Apple RAW and edited to B&W in Lightroom. Alan:-) HTMT ……..
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The North Edge of Kinder Scout is a fascinating landscape and it is also a fair challenge to get up here.
I underestimated the scale of my evenings endeavour having set off from the bottom of Snake Pass and scaled the 1000 foot of height up to the Kinder Ridge by the Seal Stones. This left me with quite a long traverse along the escarpment to the Fair Brook Gulley and then onto Fairbrook Naze and then finally here to The Edge. By the time I got here the light was as good as it got and I had quite along way back to descend Fair Brook Gulley in the dark and get back down to the Valley. So I spent a short while here before heading back along the ridge line.
This shot shows the sun setting over Manchester to the West with the North Edge of the Kinder Ridge lit with the setting sun, falling down to Featherbed Moss below. There are some fabulous shapely rock formations all along this ridge line commanding views away to the summit of Snake Pass to the North.
Anyway I set off back shortly after I took this and in the 4 hours I was out here I never saw another person. About half a mile from here walking back, I disturbed a Short Eared Owl and it set about swooping at me as I made my way back towards Fairbrook Naze. Thankfully no harm came to either party and I made the rest of my long hazardous descent without incident.