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!
8 comments:
Love the textures here!
That is quite an image - and I do like to see large pictures.
Hello Monica.
I think perhaps we should take more black and white photos of plants than we generally do - for that very reason - that it brings greater attention to the texture.
Hello Aileni. Glad you like the photo of the leaves drying.
I might ask you for advice sometime on adjusting the size of photos within the main text of blogs. I haven't yet managed to do this without unintentionally lopping bits off or ruining the quality of the picture. That's why I did the large version here as a 'gadget'.
It does have very nice patterns that you probably wouldn't have noticed in b & w., but I'd rather watch paint peel than dry :-)
PS That was the title of my former monochrome weekly.
Hello Rune. Like many others, I'm very pleased to have found your blog.
They look handsome - dry leaves make me sneeze, though...and crisp as the image is, I can feel a tickling in my nose :)
Dry leaves don't make me sneeze, Bim - I love the smell and they make me think of wonderful autumn days and bonfires. It's sweet-peas which make me sneeze. I'm not a summer person!
But I'm glad your nose tickles when you see this photograph. That's a pretty good compliment!
Post a Comment