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Pond skater in my pond.

 

I took this with a canon macro 100mm 1:2.8 USM lens that I am borrowing from my friend Jonathan Hood.

Sadly he wants it back.

Like any good monster movie, you have to have a girl in a swimsuit be the first victim of the creature. Well, her day is probably going to end quite badly :D

This is a photo of a reflection on a lake surface near it's shoreline. The actual photo has the sky on the bottom and the hills on the top. I decided to see what it would look like if I rotated it so the orientation is what you see here -- what we would expect to see in a landscape type photo. (Leslie Gulch DSC_3658.jpg)

Looking down onto the surface of the Land Yeo in the town centre of Clevedon. This small river has its source at Dundry Hill, south of Bristol, and drains into the Severn Estuary at Clevedon Pill.

 

Saturday 17th April 2021.

 

Ilford FP4+

Pentax SPII

Takumar 55mm lens

Epson V600 scanner

 

Ilfosol 3, 1+9, 4 minutes 15 seconds, 20º C.

November clings to the lake’s surface, a brittle silence stretching between water and air. Étang de la Oussade lies like an unblinking eye in the cold grip of the French Pyrenees, a liquid stillness that refuses to surrender to ice. The midday light, thin and pale, filters through moving veils of cloud, catching briefly on the frosted edges of stone before dissolving into shadow. There’s a chill here that doesn’t pierce but settles — a quiet certainty, a whisper of winter held just at bay.

 

The mountains loom above, shrouded in transient veils of mist. Their flanks are streaked with frost and the bare-boned honesty of stone, half-concealed, half-revealed. The clouds glide through the summits, detached, like thoughts that refuse to be pinned down, reshaping themselves with each passing breath of wind. They dip and rise, unsure whether to embrace the heights or descend into the lake’s cold reflection.

 

Beneath this trembling mirror, the water seems to hold its own secrets. A school of trout darts along the shore, swift and deliberate, weaving patterns of motion beneath a surface that barely acknowledges them. Their sleek bodies fracture the clarity, creating ripples that fade almost as quickly as they form — fleeting disturbances in a place where time itself seems reluctant to move forward.

 

This is not a scene of waiting, nor of stillness. It is a conversation — water murmuring to cloud, stone whispering to cold air, fish tracing lines through invisible currents. There is no destination, no climax, only the unfolding of an ever-shifting equilibrium. The lake reflects not just the sky, but the tension of being on the cusp of change, where one element teeters on the edge of becoming another.

 

In this fragile hour, where the known balances precariously on the edge of the unknown, you sense that the lake is more than a body of water. It is a memory pool — one that holds the fleeting shapes of clouds, the sharp edge of frost, the urgency of fish, the infinite patience of mountains. And in its depths, it keeps something else: a question that cannot be answered, only felt.

  

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Beneath the lake’s trembling reflection and the sky’s quiet unraveling, there lies a doorway — one that leads to more moments where nature reveals its hidden dialogue and the world’s edges blur.

 

To explore further, where images breathe with the same wonder as words, step softly into the world crafted by the artist and writer at www.coronaviking.com. Each photograph, each phrase, offers an invitation to pause, to listen, and to see with eyes that wonder and a heart that remembers.

 

catherine, below the soundless sea

dust removal tool of SilverFast, no difference from the other scan done with standard settings on the early scan.

 

Just invited to Explore. Nice for a 59-year-old image, but new scan.

 

See some dust using NOTES

 

Description from the image below..

 

South of Caiguna B2R24-26cliff cut

See ExplorOz track notes, May 2009

www.exploroz.com/TrekNotes/SouthCoast/Nuytsland_Nature_Re...

 

Dave and I traversed all this country a number of times in '65, and I have some fond memories of all of the Nullarbor, just search my stream for Nullarbor...

noted 34 months after the comment below! 29/5/09

 

See also wasg.iinet.net.au/nulla.html for a bit about the Nullarbor limestone.

 

"In 2005, The Wilderness Society nominated the Nullarbor Plain for protection under South Australia’s Wilderness Protection Act. The nomination recognised the cultural significance of the region to its traditional owners.

Widely acclaimed for outstanding natural and cultural heritage values, the Nullarbor is the largest semi-arid karst cave system in the world."

 

Bunda cliffs now protected as a result of Wilderness Society and other's pressure...

www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/outback-australia/histori...

 

See old exploration map here..

www.explorationswa.com.au/people/

 

See an informative blog here about Eyre's crossing here...

www.nullarbornet.com.au/themes/edwardJohnEyre.html

 

Nullabor plain

 

janhawkinsau.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/the-oondiri-travell...

  

The Nullabor, the name has always irritated me because it is such an enigma to what you actually find. The vast ancient region was named in August 1865, while an explorer was travelling from the east across the Hampton Tablelands, along the most arid of sections. E. A. Delisser in his journal named both the Nullabor and Eucla. This was how the largest limestone karst in the world received its European name. Its meaning is found in the Latin Nullus Arbor (It seems Delisser spelt it Aus’ style) the meaning is however ‘No trees/plants’. This is a simple misconception as the vast region is not treeless.

 

To the tribal aboriginal people, the vast plain was known as the Oondiri, meaning a waterless plain, as surface water is not easily found across the ancient karst of limestone. This limestone karst is the largest in the world. It was formed 40 million years ago when the Australian continent broke away from Antarctica and it is also very unstable.

  

Baxter Cliffs..

 

www.adventures.net.au/information/baxter-cliffs

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_Cliffs

© David K. Edwards.

Surface stream on the Black Rapids Glacier in the Alaska Range. This world feels a bit surreal at times.

My last post this year portrays a beach during an amazing sea foam high tide. Incoming water was barely visible. A column of foam 1 meter high advanced through the beach with every major wave leaving a silky white surface drifting slowly backwards until the next wave.

 

This is also the chance to thank all my flickr friends for their presence and support and to wish all of you friends, contacts and occasional visitors a very Happy New Year! Thank you all.

Solar surface detail in Ha - 16-10-16

 

Sky-watcher 120mm Evostar Achromatic Refractor

Quark Chromosphere plus tilt

PG Blackfly

"Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow..."~Isaac Watts

 

It's cold today, and another snowstorm is headed our way, so I thought I'd dig into the archives for something a bit warmer. This was photographed along Leigh Lake in the Tetons this past fall....such a calm, peaceful, tranquil place to visit; so full of natural beauty in every direction which provides one with countless composition opportunities.

 

Have a wonderful weekend....be safe & enjoy!!!!! And as always, many thanks for all your visits & kind words :-)

I accidentally dropped an old sash window balance weight. The weight is rough cast iron and broke cleanly leaving a nice macro example of a cat iron brittle fracture.

It took me back half a century to when I was an enthusiastic student of Metallurgy.

'Eye of the Beholder' for Macro Mondays

You can purchase this photo on Getty Images

 

Dasht-e Lut, also spelled Dasht-i-Lut and known as the Lut Desert, is a large salt desert in southeastern Kerman Iran and is the world's 25th largest desert. The surface of the sand there has been measured at temperatures as high as 70.7°C (159°F), and it is one of the world's driest places.

 

Iran is climatically part of the Afro-Asian belt of deserts that stretch from the Cape Verde islands off West Africa all the way to Mongolia near Beijing, China. In near-tropical deserts, elevated areas capture most precipitation. As a result, the desert is largely an abiotic zone. Iran's geography consists of a plateau surrounded by mountains and divided into drainage basins. Dasht-e Lut is one of the largest of these desert basins, 480 kilometers (300 mi) long and 320 kilometers (200 mi) wide, and is considered to be one of the driest places on Earth. Area of the desert is about 51,800 square kilometres (20,000 sq mi). The other large basin is the Dasht-e Kavir. During the spring wet season, water briefly flows down from the Kerman mountains, but it soon dries up, leaving behind only rocks, sand, and salt. The eastern part of Dasht-e Lut is a low plateau covered with salt flats. In contrast, the center has been sculpted by the wind into a series of parallel ridges and furrows, extending over 150 km (93 mi) and reaching 75 metres (246 ft) in height. This area is also riddled with ravines and sinkholes. The southeast is a vast expanse of sand, like a Saharan erg, with dunes 300 metres (980 ft) high, among the tallest in the world.

 

Measurements of MODIS (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) installed on NASA's satellite "Aqua" from 2003 to 2005 testify that the hottest land surface on Earth is located in Dasht-e Lut and land surface temperatures reach here 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), though the air temperature is cooler. Precision of measurements is 0.5 K to 1 K. The hottest part of Dasht-e Lut is Gandom Beryan, a large plateau covered in dark lava, approximately 480 square kilometres (190 sq mi) in area. According to a local legend, the name (in translation from Persian — "Toasted wheat") originates from an accident where a load of wheat was left in the desert and was eventually scorched by the heat in a few days.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasht-e Lut

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