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These photos are also shown at AGAVE AND DETAIL on PICTURES JUST PICTURES
You can see lots more monochrome photos from photographers round the world at MONOCHROME WEEKLY.
What's over the top? This is what Hermes and Debbie asked when I showed this photo on 'Pictures Just Pictures'.
. . . This is what you see when you come over the brow on this stretch of path.
Portland Harbour - where the sailing events for the 2012 Olympics will be taking place - and Portland in the distance.
Not that I recommend you take your eye off the path, or you'll be tumbling down here.
Over and over, people make new paths as the old ones crumble away;
higher, then higher . . .
So that's what I do now - take the higher path, in case that next edge is ready to tip.
There are lots of little coves below; each one protected from the waves by boulders. They loop in and out like a lace edging.
Gorse burns - and there's a lot of gorse round here. This fire was recent; the smell of burning so strong it may still have been smoldering. On the way back, I met women bringing buckets of water to put out a smaller fire before it spread.
This is another photo from Pictures Just Pictures, 'Rusted Rails Near Ferrybridge'. This is where the path I was on meets with the route of the old line to Portland. When I first walked here, the tracks had been lifted but there was nothing but broken stone under foot. It has a tarmac surface now and lots of people walk or cycle in and out of town along it. Great! Except I feel a bit churlish. It was nice to be here when hardly anyone else was!
6 comments:
I too love close-ups of agave. I especially like the imprints left by the leaves before they unfurled outward!
Hello Monica. Agaves are extraordinary and subtle and wonderful and interesting - close up; and dead boring from even a short distance.
Lucy
It looks velvet soft and sticky at the same time and in detail even more exotic to me than it already is. Well, I can't try it out because we don't have them here. Tequilla is made of some species of agave (wikipedia), new to me.
These are beautiful close-ups Lucy. I feel like I should be able to reach forward and feel the textures.
Janice.
Hello Janice
I was rather pleased with these photos of the agave, Janice. I wish all my photos would turn out so well!
Hello Hildegarde - these agaves are neither velvety nor sticky - more leathery, I suppose. They look stiff and uninteresting from a distance and one can easily pass by without paying them attention. But, when you do, when you go up close - they are extraordinarily full of pattern and delicate colour.
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