The Henry Whitehead place.The ultimate log house, built in 1898. From logs sawn square at a nearby mill, a tight-fitting crib was built with hardly any spaces left to chink. The corners are worked to near perfection. Most of the interior log faces, ceiling joists and boards were dressed with a hand plane. How many endless strokes brought them up to this smoothness? The wall toward the prevailing wind was weatherboarded to keep out wind and rain, and to preserve the chinking. A brick chimney, rare for the Smokies, was made of brick molded and fired on the property. A transition house, this one is a beautiful blend of log work and sawmill technology. By contrast, the older cabin was built almost entirely with a felling axe under emergency circumstances. Rough-hewn logs with jagged ends, and the rubble stone chimney show the most hasty kind of construction. This pair of dwellings represents about the roughest and finest of log construction in the Smokies. Sepia tones can be ajusted on request by e-mail
Pool of Siloam, Leura, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
The Province of British Columbia is considered the jewel of Canada, i would have to agree.
I have taken this self portrait of myself in the hub of truck wheel. I thought i could try and look at myself. line up my camera and judge the end of the lens, and well hope for the best.
A Cabin in the Smokey Mountains. An American dream.
While out driving in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado this past summer, I came upon this scene near a little church in the middle of nowhere, near Poudre Canyon… I could have sat on that log for hours and enjoyed the wonderful views…. These Dreams In The Mist. /
A mountain ‘road’ winds through the rain and mist as I return to my favourite forest – This majestic cool temperate rainforest stands unprotected whilst the buzz of ‘action’ and ‘destruction echoes through the deep lush valleys overpowering the wizardry of the Superb Lyrebird…It’s enough to make you cry…. Located and defining South Gippsland is the Strzelecki Ranges – once one vast rainforest which was a unique blend of cool temperate with amazingly isolated pockets of warm temperate rainforest. / When early settlers began ‘opening up’ the region South Gippsland was known as the’land of the lyrebird’ as this vast rainforest was home to the Superb Lyrebird in such great numbers – the majestic mimicking skills not only had the repertoire of everything that lived around them but quickly took on the sounds of the new comers with inpeccable calls of camera shutters and chainsaws. The Strzeleckis are not only home to Superb Lyres… but endemic Koalas and native Fish,Quolls, Gliders, Platypus, Wombats, Bandicoots, Potoroos,Echidnas.Wallabies..the fauna list goes on…. / The Flora of the region no less impressive with it once being a stronghold for the largest flowering plant on Earth – Eucalyptus Regnan. It has been reputed that the tallest tree on the planet once grew in the heart of these ranges – some 120m+ it measured when it lay on the floor near Thorpdale earlier in the 20th century.Very few pockets of these old growth ‘emperors’ remain – but where they do surely they rival their protected cousins in the world famous and hard fought for forests of Tasmania. / Now less than 20% of this bioregion remains with an alarming 2% protected – the lowest of any region in Victoria. Election promises of 30,000 h NP’s or ‘Cores and links’ have not eventuated after many years… Instead we see logging and clearfelling rates INCREASE. With Hancocks been the major forrestry operator – a US company.. Is this really worth it ? Speak up and have a say in our country – our planet – for our future generations… 100% of any profit from print sales I may happen to make here will be donted to the ‘Save Our Strzeleckis’ campaign. / / EOS A2, Fuji Velvia 50. / ©T.Middleton2007 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— / / see more of my rainforest photography by clicking on the image below /
Historic Australian Homestead
Morning sun filters through the trees at John Olivers Cabin with a few dogwoods in the background…The cabin is almost completly surrounded by split-rail fence also…...The Oliver’s bought land in the Cove in 1826 and this cabin site remained in the family until the Park was established. The house is typical of many found on the eastern frontier in the mid-1850s, and reflects the skills and techniques brought into the mountains by descendants of British and European immigrants. This cabin is located on the Cades Cove Loop Road, in the Great Smoky Mountain N.P.
This was taken at The Valley of the Waters / In the Blue Mountains Australia. The Valley of the Waters may be reached by a direct walking track, which descends steeply through temperate rainforest. Cool, moist, shady conditions prevail, and the area is a rich wildlife habitat. / Apart from the regular bushwalkers, you are likely to meet wetsuit-clad abseilers who like to take a more direct, and wet, route down the numerous waterfalls. I made a video of this day http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=IUyyD0GvvsQ Shot: Nikon D40X / Format: Raw / Date: 2.9.08 / Exposure: 30.000 second / F No: 18.0 / Focal Length: 26.0mm / Lens: 18-55mm / Tripod Used
I took this photograph on Christmas day while vacationing in Nipika Resort in British Columbia. The lighting was perfect along with the low cloud. It had snowed lightly in the morning so the snow was nice and fresh. © 2009 Anne Hale. /
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest bluebells to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines~ / Nikon D90
Large view best :) / This flamingo beauty was having a nap… / Coton Northants / Nikon D90~
Sorry i haven’t been around lately…have been quite unwell / for several weeks, I have had some tests done… / This is an image I have done for my friends birthday / on Monday of her two terrier dogs playing in the heather
This is before the spring bloom…
BEST VIEWED LARGE / / Lake Louise, in Banff National Park / / Another shot from my hoildays. / / Settings & Gear Used / / Manual Exposure / Shutter Speed: 45 seconds / Apeture: 10 / ISO: 100 / Focal Length: 10mm / / Canon 400D / Canon 10-22 lens / Manfrotto 055XProB Tripod / Manfrotto 222 Joystick / Cable Release / B+W ND110 Filter (10 stops) / / Visit my website On The Rock Photography / / MORE FROM MY ROCKY MOUNTAIN SERIES / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Another shot from my trip to the Rockies. I took this shot on a back country quad trip. This abandoned trappers cabin was hidden deep (about 30kms) in the mountains. / / CLICK HERE for a video I took of some of our back country adventures. The image of the trappers cabin was captured during this trip. / / Settings & Gear Used / / Manual Exposure / Shutter Speed: 1/6 / Apeture: 8 / ISO: 100 / Focal Length: 10mm / / Canon 400D / Canon 10-22 lens / Manfrotto 055XProB Tripod / Manfrotto 222 Joystick / Cable Release / / Visit my website On The Rock Photography
Shot in the Bunya Mountains National Park, Queensland, Australia. this dead log was covered in Bracket Fungi. the fungi was old, and even the moss had settled in towatds the centre of the brackets.. Canon 50D, 22mm, 16:9 crop. Available Large and best viewed Large!
When you think of flotsam and jetsam, what comes to mind? The seashore..coastlines,oceans,beaches..the normal places. / So it was a surprise when we arrived at Moraine Lake, in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The lake is one of the most famous in the Rocky Mountain park systems, and a long,long way from any seashore. Very high up, too! But here we found this scene of glacial lake, towering peaks, and a great array of logs which had accumulated at the end of the lake. Since this isn’t in a logging area, being in the heart of a huge National Park, we assumed they result from avalanches, rockslides, wind or ice storms. At any rate, they made an interesting variation to the usual photos we had seen of this beautiful lake. Sept. 5, 2009, FUJI S100FS camera. Featured in Flotsam and Jetsam /
I love this superb chalet in the mountain near the lovely village called Beuil in the Alpes-Maritimes.
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