On the horizon are two of the landmarks my captain uses to navigate – the radio mast just left of center and a cement plant just to the right of the white cloud.
Tag Archives: landscape I love the tight crop on this image that eliminates the sky and thereby accentuates the height of the limestone cliffs. You can just make out a small beach and a hut in the center of the photo. The aqua water is shallower than the blue water. If you look closely you can see a thin line of aqua on the far shore also. The ferries and fishing boats typically stayed in the blue water to avoid grounding. 
[...] took this shot while wandering across the isthmus between Ton Sai Bay and Loh Dalam Bay on Koh Phi Phi Don. The boy was completely oblivious to my presence, fully [...]  In the background is the Parish Church of Saint Wilfrid while in the foreground, the River Wharfe flows beneath a five arched bridge that carries the Dalesway  When I was younger I would fling my BMW 5-series (and younger still my Honda motorbike) down this hill and around the bend in the photo at over 60 mph, trusting to luck that there wouldn’t be a tractor around the blind corner. 
That is an awesome picture! 
Thanks Milla!
[...] yesterday’s photo, this was also taken in February 1989 and I thought I shot it on Fujichrome Velvia, hence the lush [...]  If you look at yesterday’s image you can see the telegraph pole to the left of center. Taken on the same day but with a telephoto and from a slightly different location.
[...] Theunissen, we moved east towards Bethlehem and rolling farmland as far as the eye could see. Huge fields [...]
[...] again, at the right time of year, the sunsets in South Africa provide a fantastic display of color. This image is taken in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve in the Free State. The lake has been [...]  What this photo actually shows is a stretch of the Libyan-Algerian border about 90 miles (140 km) south of Ghadames. Libya is on the left, Algeria is to the right, as if you couldn’t tell for yourself!
[...] 150 miles (230 km) south east of Ghadames, or about 60 miles and four or five years away from this totally different shot (this Land Rover is a 110 and is [...]  Where my previous drilling photos were located near the center of Concession 20 and in the northern part, this one (I’m fairly sure from its sequence in my collection) is from the southern end of the concession.  On windless days there’d often be nothing to hear but the sound of your brain over-driving your ear drums to try and pick up the faintest vestige of sound. True silence – the absence of all sound – can be quite painful!  This wadi had obviously seen some reliable moister over the years judging by the palm tree. There’s also some scrubby bushes around. The surface also looks ‘caked’ rather than sandy or gravelly.
[...] same location as yesterday, well a few hundred feet to the right, later in the day and a slightly different processing [...]  The traditional definition of a desert is based on a (lack of) rainfall figure – less than 250 mm (10 in.) rainfall per year. An alternative definition is a place that lacks sufficient vegetation to support human population. the English word desert comes from the Latin ‘desertum’ meaning an abandoned place.
Currently parts of east anglia qualify as a desert, and summer has just finished here too, over 20 and no rain for weeks. The ditch along Lottage road is as dry as any desert gulch no road flooding this year, waiting for the Dabchick so that we can se when some nonegenarian tells us when, if ever, it last happened. |
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by Richard Davis
[...] but my photos of them suck, to put it politely. This is the rougher area below the white cloud in yesterday’s photo. However, I rather liked this view to the north. In the background to the left the rain is pouring [...]