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Meall a’ Ghiuthais
There have been signs of good weather in the last few weeks and even at the weekend the sun has come out. I hadn’t been up to Torridon for a while so headed north arriving at the Glas Leitire car park a little before noon.
Things were looking good and blue skies dominated with a white capped Slioch looking rather good across the waters of Loch Maree. The forecast was for cloud to spill in from the west later on but I hoped to beat this and get some views and photographs from the top before the cloud capped the magnificent Torridon Mountains….
The walk through the pinewood was fantastic and felt very spring like in the sun with the dancing flies out and about! The path is probably one of the most engineered (in a good way!) I have seen. Steps cut into the rock and even cross hatching scribed into the rock to prevent slips. A lot of work had gone in to this!! Numerous cairns mark the way and soon I was reaching the small peak of Leathad Buidhe at around 450m. The views were amazing. The Beinn Eighe Massif dominated the south with wide spread views east and North, a great viewpoint on its own and worth a trip even if you don’t fancy a Corbett into the bargain. A photo stop was had ad I snapped happily away
The exposed location meant that the breeze had picked up here and after a few snaps, I was soon on the go and ascending the steeper slopes towards Meall a’ Ghuithais. I kept to the wind scoured slopes as I didn’t fancy treading across loaded open slopes! If I thought the views from Leathad Buidhe were good, the summit views only got better with Torridon spread out before me. The summit sits on a perch high above the Glen below and Beinn Eighe, Alligin and Dearg all looked superb with their white coats on. After more photos and filming I was soon heading down aware that sunset was approaching. I took the western branch of the path down which was a good option as it was slightly less steep but still beautifully made.
A fine outing on a fine winter’s day with grand views of one of Scotland’s finest areas.
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Silloth Steps, a slightly different view of Silloth taken from the same location as the ultra minimal groyne shot from last week.
© Brian Kerr Photography 2014
The gryphons flanking these steps have the head of a lion on the body of a horse. These are one of several sets of steps to the New Palace in the Citadel, the imperial palace complex in Hue, Vietnam. Each set of steps has a different pair of mythological animals. The New Palace was built in the latter half of the 19th century during the French colonial period and was a blend of European and Vietnamese styles and motifs. The imperial family resided here until the 1940s up to when the revolution began that eventually forced out the French in the 1950s.
Steps at Borde Hill Gardens in West Sussex, with water from a fountain which runs down into an ornamental pond at the base
Unknown EL eastbound taken from the steps of "WC" Tower in Waldwick N.J. SD45 3622 is running long hood forward and I now wish that I had taken a going away shot of this train. That second tank car has a weird looking dome,the fourth car is a flat car which may be hauling concrete culverts,the fifth car is old refrigerator car with its roof ice hatches open,and the eighth car is light blue on the bottom and white on top and I don't think its a D&H "I Love NY" box car. Howard Kent Jr. 10-17-1973
"Vertigo" is often used (incorrectly) to describe a fear of heights, but it is more accurately a spinning sensation that occurs when one is not actually spinning. It can be triggered by looking down from a high place, or by looking straight up at a high place or tall object, but this alone does not describe vertigo.
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Hold on to what is good,
Even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if someday I'll be gone away from you.
~ A Pueblo Indian Prayer
Moki steps, sometimes spelled alternately as Moqui steps, are a recurring feature found in areas of the American southwest previously inhabited by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples and other related cultures. The steps consist of alternating hand and toe holds carved into vertical or near-vertical sandstone surfaces. The steps are usually two to three inches deep, and three to four inches in width and height. Moki steps are often found near cliff-dwellings and water sources. They may have allowed relatively quick access to difficult-to-reach areas such as slot canyons, look-out positions, and granaries. In some cases, Moki steps are thought to have provided access to fertile canyon bottoms from more defensible dwellings on or above surrounding cliffs. The steps may have been used in conjunction with handmade ropes. (source: wikipedia)
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Nikon D600, Sigma 28-300 mm
Fotopro MGC-684N carbonfibre tripod
Fotopro FPH-62Q 36mm Ball Head
Really Right Stuff universal L-plate
3 Exposures (2 EV steps), AEB M
23 Dec 2015 07:48:12
Exposure Time: 1/0
Focal Length: 42
ISO Speed Ratings: 200
Had a trip out to Whitby with good friend and fellow photographer Andy Aveyard. He is at the bottom of the 199 steps at whitby his shot can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/ukseagull/
"The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top."
Whitby 2015. Scanned from the negative.
Rolleicord Va II
Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 75mm f.3.5
Fomapan 200