(I imagine its blue light suddenly flashing, and it beetling off along the pavement, at speed.)

*looks at more joyful maintenance hole photos*

What a splendid thing to do to make Mondays better.

Thank you, Richard!

Such a pile up of semi-orderly, semi-chaotic activity -- it ends up with almost a natural smoothness, the sharp corners of individual human intent and action crashed together so much that they are rather rounded off.

The more you look the more you see. Got a tale or two to tell, that one.

There's good news, too: the resurgence of the Co-op, or other competitive local/convenience shop.

I don't understand, and I don't know what to say, about decline in town centres, across the country.

Was this an inevitable downside, a known & Faustian quid pro quo, of globalization? of internet shopping that bypasses council rates?

Or was this change unforeseen, mismanaged, misgoverned?
*sigh*

*unlikes*
:-(

"Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the man-hole.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

... if I'm remembering it right? ;-)

A portent, in any case.

Just beautiful photographs, Dave! Perfect.

Dreamy, with cubs out there amongst the dandelions -- kindergarteny :-)

Are these guys in the UK?

Such a peculiar beauty in this...

And a very very human portrait, ... just with the humans absent.

Straight through-line from archaeology to still-life?

Undulating pointy hills are illuminated by the early morning sun.

Happy Wednesday folks. Some lumpy hills this morning, I've run out of waterfalls 😆

#LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Photography #Sunrise

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Great portrait, and the writing is a perfect vignette too. 👏

Great portrait, and the writing is a perfect vignette too. 👏

Beautiful --
thanks for sharing.

👋 hello!

A good feeling when you get a portrait / self-portrait that makes you think... yeah, that's the one 👍

(...eek: I guess by implication this means I have, much more often than not, been kinda shocked to be presented with the reality of my appearance! 😆)

Black and gold

Divine light over the mesmerizing reliefs of Grand Canyon. Story: back in 2019 I took a long roadtrip in Southwest US, mostly in Utah, in middle of summer. After a week, I was literally dying from the heat, so I followed the advice of a random guy I met on one of the spots I visited: going to GC to get some fresh air (higher altitude). But the thing is I had zero plans, no precise locations in mind… So when I arrived in GC I just went around shooting randomly. On that day, I was exploring a spot for sunset but quickly realized it wouldn’t be ideal for sunset light, so I was hesitant about what to do. That’s when I met a local and started to chat with him, then he proposed to take me to a spot that was ideal for sunset. I followed him and ended in that spot. It’s been one of the best shooting I had during the whole trip 😂. Crazy light, beautiful sunset, incredible location. Sometimes having no plan = good plan on the end.

Some cool light rays over Grand Canyon Cape Royale…
Funny story about this shot is I ended there by total coincidence. Full story in ALT.

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Hard Frost

#fsprintmonday
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Still Life with Tea Towel

Mies van der Rohe would approve

*grabs jawbone*

...

"The physicists think it could be some kind of a... communication portal, sir."
:-)

Looking more closely, the tree-like ('dendritic') pattern around each centre looks like it could be a drainage effect: like rivers merging as they head down to the sea -- but incredibly symmetrical, because the ice they are cutting through is so uniform and featureless.

Overhead view of a frozen surface with star-shaped patterns where melting ice has drained into central points. Layers of snow create contrasting textures around the stars, lending a subtle, intricate design to the otherwise white, wintry scene. Cairngorms national park, Scotland

Frozen Textures ❄️

I captured this textural abstract black and white photograph from my drone in the Scottish Highlands. It's not the usual type of capture that does well on social media, but that's okay. I'm sure some of you will enjoy it too 😃

#bnw #nature #photography #abstract #drone

Fun to guess what caused this. Hole in a sheet of floating ice, allowing a circular puddle that absorbs solar heat better and reinforces melt??
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I am fascinated by the #iceformation. Those large circles -- what's responsible for that symmetry, the process that 1) picks the centre, 2) determines radius, isotropic (same regardless of direction, ie. circle), and 3) quite similar across several circles.
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Hidden away on a secluded hill top in the Cairngorms National Park is the Balmoral Pyramid, or Prince Albert's Cairn. This unique structure was commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1862 as a tribute to her beloved husband, Prince Albert.

This keeps making me giggle.

A portrait format photo of a snow cornice that looks a bit like a monster, on top of a peak caught in a beam of sunlight amid swirling blue clouds.

Here be dragons. My favourite photo from the frozen south.