Tree appreciation
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En el camino de Santiago, en algún lugar de Lugo entre Sarria y Portomarín. Lugo. Galicia. España. Spain.
This is just a lonely Argan tree in the desert of Morocco. I think that is clear enough that I love the "Lonely Tree" theme. But this one has an invisible peculiarity, or better a curiosity: the photo has been made running over the 100kmh on a off-road vehicle, while we were approaching the sand dunes. It is one of the really rare shots I ever made at 1/4000s, but I must say that the nikon shutter and its stabilizer are a hell of gear! Unbelievable isn't it?
" Take me away from this city, To where I can be on my own.
We wanted a good life and now that its done, I just want to be left alone,
Ill still remember your kind word and ill rememer your name,
For Ive felt your twisting and turning, And for me it just wont be the same"
So Im leavin` here next Sunday mornin`, To a place where I know I can hear,
The cry of the gulls and the sea on the shore, With all of the things I hold dear.
And if ever I tire of this quiet life, Ill just walk right back up that hill,
And Ill head out that road and stick out my thumb,
For someone is waiting there still! "
Pat
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Ive used a lot of poetic license on this poem and changed the words a good bit, as it fits my past life accurately which still hurts a bit, and and always will, that's being honest!
The words and idea are partly borrowed from a wonderful song by Liam Reilly with a group called "Bagatelle" and was called "Summer in Dublin" It was a huge hit here and in the UK and deservedly so in my opinion!
I hope you like this late evening photo which I took from Howth Headland through the Sycamore trees, across the sound to Irelands eye, County Dublin. I have wonderful childhood memories of this place as we used to holiday here as children, on Howth head. I spent a lot of time on the island and travelling up and down to "the hill" on the open top electric tram that used to run there. Sadly gone now!
It took me over 50 years to get back to see it again and its still as beautiful as ever. Its another one of "my places!" Lucky me!!
Do hope your week ahead is cracking!!!!
Thank you everybody!!!!
Update; Wow! Im very touched by the reaction to this.
I don't know if its the photo or the words, but hopefully both.
Im pleased with it and inspired and amazed by all you great genuine flickr people!
Pat.
This photo was taken on the road to Porters ski fields to the west of Christchurch, New Zealand
We can see the road cuts through the natural landscape for the car... these three entities then create a revised natural-machine landscape .. which illustrates the notion of both human separation from, and embedment in, nature... indeed the first freeways were built with lots of curves for Sunday outings to see the landscape through contour visualisation.. a sort of more natural fit with nature ...
--- than the contemporary eight-lane, fast, dead-straight freeways, which depart significantly from the sort of utopian idea of the early machine age... but as we well know 'Utopia' means 'nowhere'.... and that's where this idea has largely gone now with the increasing machine enabled separation from nature in the view that technology can dominate nature, and get away with it, and in the questionable belief that such techno-domination is best for human enterprise and survival.
Haut lieu de pèlerinage, le Mont Sainte-Odile surmonté par l'abbaye de Hohenbourg, culmine à 764 mètres d'altitude, surplombant ainsi la plaine d'Alsace. Pour la vue, avec ce temps c'est râpé..
Yes, its that tree. Yes, I waited in a 40 minute line queue to shoot it this time. Yes, I do feel like I need to confess to the photographic community my sins of horrible un-originality. Whats that? Didn't I just post an image of this tree a few days ago? Well, yes. No, mine does not look like the others. Ok, maybe it kind of does. This image is taken about a week after the post I made previously. This tree changes colors fast. I wanted to post this one too just to show the contrasts between the two images. I actually had to clone out a lens peeking into the frame from the guy next to me. Ahhhh, the solitude of landscape photography, just you, the wind, the trees, the nature, and 40 other dudes with cameras that are way better than yours Grrr. Happy Fall.
Ioannina, Greece
Monodendri is one of the famous Zagori villages and belongs to the Municipality of Central Zagori. Built at an altitude of 1,060 meters, just 39 km. from the city of Ioannina offers unique views of the slopes of Tymfi and Astraka.
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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A section of the trail that circles Wildwood Lake.
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Viewed large is nice. L and F11
The last day of a safari is always a sad one. One is aware that it will lonely to be in a new world without wildlife. I find myself thinking back on all of the grand moments I was able to capture and mentally take note of the animals I was lucky enough to see. I missed some this time like a male lion and a leopard, but other sightings made up for it.
My last day on safari in Chobe Park was a very long and wonderful one. My guide offered to take me on a day long game drive. We started off at 6:00AM and finished at 6:00PM. We covered the flood plains of the park and then switched to a boat on the Chobe River and then returned to the lodge by vehicle a different way.
It always seems that my last day on safari is anticlimactic. I never see unusual sightings, but on this day my luck changed. This sunrise brought me good luck. So stay tuned and you will see what I saw.
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This waterfall is located along the trail to Opal Creek in Oregon. I don't know that it's actually called Tree Root Falls, in fact, the falls are not tall enough to merit a name I think. Its the water falling through the tree roots that make it interesting.
Taken over looking the Grand Canyon the tree had a interesting trunk and the background just added to the scene.
A lonely tree at the top of mountain "Kahler Asten" in Sauerland Germany (foggy conditions)
Cheers!
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