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Meldon Quarry, on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK Taken from close to the parking area at Meldon, this is a January view of South Down, near Okehampton, on an extraordinarily clear day. It is an image which had slipped into the wrong folder when I was sorting them in the new year. (104)
Captured this one in the quarry in Shrewsbury this Summer, had to not show the face as the person wasn’t too happy about me pointing a bigma lense at him…
Late afternoon shot, Windmill Point Quarry, Ontario. Canada Nikon D300
The Quarry Hill Collection was gathered over the summer of 2008. Walking around my area, observing and taking the odd cutting over fences etc. I found many surprises during this exercise, including these pears in the backyard of a derelict miner’s cottage.
Taken near Shellharbour, NSW, just sout of Wollongong. Please also visit my website alexkess.com and my photoblog . Cheers Alex
Turkmenian Eagle Owl this Beauty is only 17 weeks old ! ........ (-: Very large owl with prominent ear tufts and vivid orange eyes, with a deep resonant “ooh-hu” with emphasis on the first syllable. From Europe across Russia to Pacific, South to Iran, Pakistan across to China and Korea, Mainly remote rocky areas, river valleys, ravines, quarries etc. also open forest, Taiga, steppe and semi desert. Eats mainly mammals from shrews up to foxes and young deer. Also a wide range of birds, reptiles and amphibians. Rare or uncommon through most of its range. Becoming very scarce in parts of Europe.
We sometimes go climbing in the old abandoned quarries in the hills above Perth. These places, once noisy, dusty and now damaged beyond repair are little bits of high adventure for city folk who can be bothered to discover these ‘scars’. I love them…in the morning when the sun hits those big western walls they just glow with the warmth, it feels so good to touch that rock, to caress it, to seduce it, to hold on for dear f&%$in life! Please, don’t reject me, don’t spit me off, hold me, baby…like snails journeying across pathways we leave our trail across the rock in the form of chalk dust, it keeps our hands dry and our arses on the rockface…good thing that, I hate falling, I love chalk dust :) As the day lengthens the quarry becomes an oven, the sun traverses overhead and bakes everything within cooee…nothing moves except the cicada legs of the males, playing their tune against their wings, serenading the babe cicadas, hoping, just hoping to get lucky… We hide amongst the rocks, under the trees and spruik bullshit to each other until the warm air gently sends us to sleep, the silence is deafening in it’s completeness, the smell of the bush is perfume, god i love these places… Summer is here, let the good times roll :) Acrylic, ink & chalk on stretched canvas / 60×60 cm Private collection Detail: /
Cwmorthin is a beautiful valley near Blaenau Ffestiniog in the Snowdonia National Park. / The valley once had a thriving slate industry, with four mines, houses and barracks for all the workers. / Nobody lives here now, and even the chapel, seen in the photo, has become a ruin.
Shrewsbury in Shropshire, UK
i took this over at rosehill quarry, and it made me think about how many people have sat here thinking and enjoying the veiw or maybe holding hands with a loved one drinking tea.
aerial view of a quarry with a low sun
aerial view of a quarry, first light
looking up to the top of the quarry
Entrance to Norcliffe Chapel Styal Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire. Opened 1823
Model: Liz / Photography and styling by me
Quarry Brook,Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Feb 2008. / (on the CBS road not too far from Holyrood) Taken with a Zero612b Pinhole camera. / Agfa print film (nominal 160ASA, actual 50ASA), 60sec @ f158. Scanned then processed with Photoshop.
Toolshed for an abandoned Quarry near Newberry, South Carolina. I used a tonemapping filter in Photoshop CS4 to even out the highlight and shadow, and reduce the contrast to a more manageable level. This is 100% of the filter’s effect. The contrast in the original Kodachrome slide is out there.
One of the hundreds of discarded millstones at Bole Hill Quarry in the Peak District in Derbyshire, England. In my opinion, these make fantastic subjects – particularly in the autumn with the contrasts between the green of the moss and the orange of the leaves. A proper symbol of the Peak District National Park
Here’s a close up of the Moai statues embeded in the quarry on Easter Island
I am afraid I don’t know what kind of plant it is. Perhaps a fellow bubbler could help out. It was growing at the waters edge Taken at the Flooded Quarry near the Trelowarren Estate. Cornwall UK Hard say where it is coz it aint raelly near anywhere. But if you drive from Helston to St.Keverne and turn right opposite the entrance to the Trelowarren Country Estate then It’s about half a mile along on the left hand side opposite a smallholding entrance. Large anti hippy travellers boulders mark the entrance. . / . / . / . /
I loved this atmospgeric scene in a disused slate quarry in County Tipperary
Below, to the right, is Queen’s Canyon where the Punch Bowls flow, and beyond straight ahead almost crowning the cliff is the Garden of the Gods.
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