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Huayna Potosí is the closest high mountain to La Paz. Surrounded by high mountains, it is roughly 15 miles due north of the city, which makes this mountain the most popular climb in Bolivia. The normal ascent route is a fairly straightforward glacier climb, with some crevasses and a steep climb to the summit. However, the other side of the mountain -- Huayna Potosí West Face -- is the biggest face in Bolivia. Several difficult snow and ice routes ascend this 1000 meter high face.
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Other stairways lead to secondary platforms, where there are other monoliths including the famous El Fraile (priest).
Current state of the Frail Monolith of Tiahuanaco, with similar characteristics as the "Bennett Monolith".
Walls around the temple Kalasasaya.
Located near the south-eastern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, Tiwanaku is one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire. The community grew to urban proportions between the 7th and 9th centuries, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes. At its peak the city had between 15,000–30,000 inhabitants. While only a small part has been excavated, Tiahuanaco represents the greatest megalithic architectural achievement of pre-Inca South America. Today it is one of the top tourist attractions in Bolivia.
East of the main entrance to Kalasasaya.
The Kalasasaya dates to at least 200 BCE - 200 CE. It is located to the north of the Akapana and west of the Semi-Subterranean Temple, other structures in the complex.
North of the Akapana Pyramid is Kalasasaya, a partially reconstructed 130m-by-120m ritual-platform compound with walls constructed of huge blocks of red sandstone and andesite. The blocks are precisely fitted to form a platform base 3m high. Monolithic uprights flank the massive entrance steps up to the restored portico of the enclosure, beyond which is an interior courtyard and the ruins of priests’ quarters. Note the size of the top stair – a massive single block.
The Monolito Ponce monolith, with his turban (no doubt covering up his deformed cranium), mask, ceremonial vase and walking stick, sits at the center of the first platform. Some say the stick and the vase are symbolic of the dualism of Andean culture (nature versus nurture).
Other stairways lead to secondary platforms, where there are other monoliths including the famous El Fraile (priest).
Big and famous cities are not iconic everywhere. Leaving the metrostation, I saw these staircases by some condos. I liked their colours and shapes. Found a nice point to compose the image. Using the telephoto-lens made it possible to compress the scene, so it became more abstract.
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Enhanced image of Chacaltaya ski resort.
El Alto in the middle.
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Bolivia's largest city, La Paz, is currently enduring its worst drought in a quarter of a century. Glaciers in the surrounding Andean mountains are key to its water supply. Simon Parker visited the abandoned ski resort of Chacaltaya, where locals say they have been seeing changes in the climate for decades.
Surrounded by shards of rusty shale, sticky tufts of pampas and a few hundred hardy llamas, Chacaltaya sits crumbling next to a vast furrow in the mountainside: the site of a once mighty glacier.
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As someone who grew up by the sea (Blackpool) I have to confess that I have a real soft spot for seascape photography. There's something about photographing the ocean, the water, the beach complete with all the sounds and smells of life that triggers all of my senses. It fills me with a sense of belonging.
There is something magical about standing on a beach watching a living, breathing entity existing right in front of you. I often close my eyes and from a safe distance, listen to the waves crashing in front of me. The power of the ocean I rarely take for granted for obvious reasons and yet I love feeling part of it. It can be stimulating and calming at different locations and even at different times depending on how I feel.
Here is an image that I captured back in February during my week long trip to the truly stunning Lofoten in Norway. Haukland Beach, along with its neighbour Uttakleiv Beach, became my favourite beaches in Lofoten and I am sure you can see why. The colour of the water, the huge dramatic skies and the waves crashing onto the beach made for a very special visit indeed.
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The Sound of Raasay from Rigg Viewpoint, Isle of Skye, Scotland
I returned to the Isle of Skye mid-November on my own for three days before running my five day workshop there, my first since February 2019 and I had forgotten just how spectacular a place it is.
This truly stunning scene was shot at mid-morning from Rigg Viewpoint on the east coast, just ten miles north of Portree. I was driving by en-route to Portree when I spotted this sublime light and I just had to stop and spend half an hour there capturing this magnificent view and also the one that I have shared in the comment box below. Both images were taken two minutes apart.
The light and the dramatic sky were quite something to witness. I underexposed the camera a little to ensure that the bright spots of sunlight on the water were not blown out but nonetheless, it was a dramatic scene.
I hope you all enjoy the photo :D
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What a fantastic place I visited back in August 2019 when I was putting the loaned Olympus E-M1 MK2 camera through its paces. I also trailed Kase's 16 Stop Filter which performed brilliantly with no colour cast whatsoever and I shot this scene for nearly five minutes. Now that's what I call a long exposure.
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I was told that this boat is due to be cut up shortly and be sold for scrap so if you want to shoot it for yourself, get yourself up to Roa Island as soon as possible. Go when there's an 8 metre plus tide to ensure there's enough water around the boat.
There's a free car park 100 feet away too 😁
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It is true that the tropics have beautiful sunset conditions. Here I was knee-deep in the warm water. Camera with wide angle lens on the tripod. Some kelp and mangrove stems in the shallow water. A few islands in the back and to top it off some clouds in the sky. Didn't need any more......
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The back of the pyramid.
Underground duct. Made with finely cut flagstones and joined with cast copper clamps.
Climbed the hill up to Tiwanaku’s most outstanding structure, the partially excavated Akapana pyramid, which was built on an existing geological formation. At its base this roughly square, 16m hill covers a surface area of about 200 sq meters. In the center of its flat summit is an oval-shaped sunken area, which some sources attribute to early, haphazard, Spanish excavation. The presence of a stone drain in the center, however, has led some archaeologists to believe it was used for water storage.
Recent findings include craniums, assumed to be war trophies, leading some archaeologists to believe the pyramid may have been a ceremonial temple. Others think it was used for the study of astronomy.
Researchers think that Lake Titicaca was coming to this base, which was a port to carry all these huge and heavy rocks.
The Tiwanaku civilization and the use of these temples appears to some to have peaked from AD 700 to 1000, by which point the temples and surrounding area may have been home to some 400,000 people. An extensive infrastructure had been developed, including a complex irrigation system that extended more than 30 square miles (80 km2) to support cultivation of potatoes, quinoa, corn and other various crops. At its peak the Tiwanaku culture dominated the entire Lake Titicaca basin as well as portions of Bolivia and Chile.
This culture seems to have dissolved rather abruptly some time around AD 1000, and researchers are still seeking answers as to why. A likely scenario involves rapid environmental change, possibly involving an extended drought. Unable to produce the massive crop yields necessary for their large population, the Tiwanaku are argued to have scattered into the local mountain ranges, only to disappear shortly thereafter. Puma Punku is thought to have been abandoned before it was finished.
Ramphocelus dimidiatus
(Crimson-backed Tanager / Toche pico de plata)
The Crimson-backed Tanager is restricted to Colombia, Venezuela, and Panama. It is a handsome bird, with scarlet flanks and rump grading into deep velvety crimson head and back. The base of the mandible in the adult male is swollen and brilliant white.
Photo taken at the Aviario Nacional de Colombia; Barú.
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There are few places more magical, more inspirational, more stirring than the utterly spellbinding series of waterfalls on the Glen Brittle river on the Isle of Skye, including the iconic Fairy Pools and this wonderful waterfall affectionately nicknamed the Washing Machine Falls.
One of the joys in photographing this particular waterfall is the wonderful channel that not only contains some gorgeous boulders and rocks but the colour of the water within the channel is a stunning shade of green. I have visited this place so many times and yet the sense of anticipation you experience during the thirty minute wander down and then up the trail that leads you to some of the finest small waterfalls, aqua green water plunge pools and even an underwater arch the UK has to offer is palpable.
The geology in this area is stunning with a million compositions of a million images to capture.
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Someone wrote on Tripadvisor, "An astoundingly beautiful golden-sand bay with an Island just offshore, and a small car park. The sea is crystal clear and fairly shallow just off the beach. Ideal for a swim. A lovely place for canoeing or picnic on the beach." And a pub at Glenuig just around the corner.
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To shoot or not to shoot? That is the question. Actually, there's never a moment of doubt in my mind as to whether to capture on camera an iconic and well known viewpoint. Sure, thousands before me have taken this scene but I don't worry about that, I simply want to do the very best job that I can in photographing it myself.
To that end, I am delighted with this image. It was shot last week on my Glencoe workshop. This was the composition that I wanted but it involved clambering down into the pit as I call it to get water side as opposed to standing high up on the ledge above my head. The main dominant rock in the foreground was my subject and using a 16-35mm lens at 16mm on a full frame Canon 5Ds was the only way for me to get it and still be able to use my range of Haida filters.
I hope you all like it. The coordinates for these falls are 56.647564, -4.866706
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Torpedownia on Babie Dołach
Torpedownia - the Polish common name of the central facility of German torpedo research centers, built in occupied Poland during World War II. Torpedownia was a torpedo assembly hall with equipment for trial shooting, built on the bottom of the basin, a few hundred meters from the shore. Connected to the shore of the pier, which was followed by a narrow-gauge railway transport of torpedo components, eventually mounted in the hall. In the German nomenclature, this building was called Schießstand.
One of the reasons why we chose Tuscany as our goal for this summer holiday was the landscape. I love the curving of the hills and the light touching it. Although it is a rural area, it looks almost as a scifi-filmlocation. So much to see. So much to photograph. Nice people. Good food and driving around in that gorgeous landscape with our rental Fiat 500. How much more Italian can it be?
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San Vito Lo Capo, per il secondo anno consecutivo, è la migliore spiaggia italiana, secondo TripAdvisor, che ha annunciato i vincitori 2012 dei Traveller's Choice Beaches Destinations Awards.
Sfortunatamente nessuna spiaggia italiana compare nella classifica mondiale, né in quella europea.
San Vito Lo Capo (Santu Vitu in siciliano) è un comune italiano di 4.733 abitanti della provincia di Trapani in Sicilia.
Si trova sulla costa occidentale della Sicilia, nella penisola omonima che si conclude con Capo San Vito, con a occidente il Golfo di Macari e a oriente la Riserva dello Zingaro e il Golfo di Castellammare. Vi è una spiaggia di sabbia dorata lunga tre chilometri..
Clays Corner, the FORMER HOME OF The Possum Drop was an annual New Year's Eve event in which an opossum is lowered at midnight. The event began in 1990 in Brasstown, North Carolina and was held for 24years it ended in 2018 ...PITA made a fuss eventhough someone reportedly took good care of the possums (we never went to them)
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Just an old fashioned gas station - It is a quaint spot just down the road from the John C Campbell Folk Center . The real fun is on Friday night when people gather for mountain music in the back room of the ole general store
This image was taken at 4pm today during a sunset that had this wonderful sky present. I have shot this pier more times than I can remember but it impresses me everytime I do so. It is just one of those locations that deliver a great photograph regardless of the weather, light, time of the day, month, year.
Tomorrow is day three of my four day Lake District autumn workshop and we shall be heading south towards the Langdale area.
I hope you are all having a great Tuesday.
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A short citytrip brought us to Dublin - Ireland. A few highlights of that trip were our encounters with Guinness. Here is the famous St. James' Gate. I really tried to tone this image as I think Guinness should be toned. Dark and creamy....
Sláinte!
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.... still here.... the "Kings Wave" was probably not enough to free this 'monster'.... :-)
According to TripAdvisor, it is the newest city attraction :-)
Con la pared por pizarra y la pegatina de TripAdvisor en la ventana... Increíble donde pueden llegar a montar un negocio en la capital de Portugal.
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After one of my most enjoyable day's landscape photography that I can remember for some time, I decided to finish yesterday off by paying the gorgeous, elegant Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta a visit pre-dawn.
This gorgeous little church stands high up on a hill near Pienza flanked by two rows of Cypress trees with a Maritime Pine standing guard close by. It is perhaps one of the most enchanting and beautiful scenes I have ever seen, simple yet so wonderfully evocative.
Once parked in the free car park, a short eight minute walk leads you to the church where naturally I was alone in the dark until the sun rose to reveal the beauty of the church.
I hope you like the image. Here's a link to some more information about the church for those interested in reading up on it. Here's a bit of trivia for you. The church once housed the Madonna sculpture by artist, Andrea della Robbia.
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Arizona, USA
The hubby and I enjoyed exploring Grand Canyon by hiking, helicopter ride and boat ride.
All of the activities were fun. It was worth the long drive to Arizona :)
The violaceous jay is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. This species is mainly a lowland bird although locally this jay may variously range to elevations as high as 500-1,400 m.
The violaceous jay is 33–38 cm (13–15 in) long. It is omnivorous, mainly consuming fruits, insects, and bird and reptile eggs.
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Photo taken at the AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Barú. Cartagena, Colombia.
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