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!
21 comments:
Surreal shadows.
Hello Aileni
Yes. And I find it interesting how the ones on the left are quite crisp while the ones on the right are fuzzy and show the curve of the pot.
Lucy
Awesome shaddows!!!
This is neat and so is that Hedgerow for skywatch!
Good eye to be able to see beauty in shadowy leaves.
Very nice shot! Great subject.
a work of art!
lovely!
I woiuldn't have noticed this scene for a shot - but it makes a wonderful abstrat! I really like how the texture of the terracotta can still be seen.
A very arty shot
Great shadows, but it would have taken me a while to work it out.
Hello Arya - I've been looking at some of the photos on your blog and wondering what it is about Norway that produces such a crop of wonderful photographers.
Thank you Kilauea Poetry
I'm glad you like the Skywatch photo too.
Hello Kden
Shadows are like looking through a keyhole into a monochrome world.
Thank you - Just me Again! I like to photograph things which are near at hand because, that way, I have longer to think about them.
Thank you Magic Eye. That's very kind of you.
Kitty - I'm so pleased you like it. Yours is one of the blogs I have been especially pleased to find this week.
Oh dear, Mo! Never mind. But I'm thinking that it would be a good inspiration for a fabric print. Perhaps I'll switch to design!
Hello John. This pot is a major technological contrast with your wonderful railway engines! That's one of the nice things about the Monochrome theme - some very unlikely things get associated yet don't feel out of place with each other.
You might have recognised this one quicker if the pot hadn't been upside down. (It's being used as a kind of plinth for the pot which is sitting on top of it.)
Interesting choice
Great one!
Very cool picture.
Post a Comment