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Taken near Shellharbour, NSW, just sout of Wollongong. Please also visit my website alexkess.com and my photoblog . Cheers Alex
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.
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…
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.
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.
aerial view of a quarry, first light
looking up to the top of the quarry
aerial view of a quarry with a low sun
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. (103)
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.
Late afternoon shot, Windmill Point Quarry, Ontario. Canada Nikon D300 / PLEASE NOTE: All images copyrighted to © JKKimball (All Rights Reserved – Worldwide). No image (in whole or in part) is to be reproduced, downloaded, copied, duplicated, modified, sampled, redistributed or archived without the written authorization of JKKimball /
Shrewsbury in Shropshire, UK
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: /
Entrance to Norcliffe Chapel Styal Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire. Opened 1823
Here’s a close up of the Moai statues embeded in the quarry on Easter Island
Until about three years ago, this truck was a working piece of equipment at the local quarry. It probably still would be, if the owner were still living, and the quarry operating. / Placed Third in Rural Nevada Challenge / on Las Vegas AND Nevada / (2009.OCT.23) / Placed Top Ten in Yellow Cars Challenge / on Yellow Gallery / (2009.JUL.30) Featured in / Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits / (2009.MAY.02) / Rural Around The Globe / (2009.APR.14) / Northern Steptoe Valley – Eastern Nevada / (2009.APR.11) RedBubble Album: The Wheels We Were / Hay Hauler / The WorkHorse Canon 350D / Tamron 55/200mm
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.
Place: Shrewsbury, Quarry dingle
Saw this old and tired Mack B-42 truck in a rock quarry near Mifflinburg, PA, while stalking the Amish. It just screamed: “HDR me, PLEASE HDR me.” Wish has been granted …. Single RAW image, converted to HDR in ReDynamix, then Dodged&Burnt in CS3, then ran through Digital Lightroom to adjust various colors. Taken with Nikon D300 and Sigma 50-500mm lens.
First thing this morning, sunrise at my friend Eric’s home on Windmill Point Quarry. Ridgeway Ontario, Canada. / Leica V-Lux 1.
The constantly-changing patterns of the Ross Fountain in the Butchart Gardens, Victoria,Vancouver Island, British Columbia, serve as a lovely backdrop for the array of flowers and plants that line the walkway and viewpoint. The fountain was conceived and built by Ian Ross, grandson of Jenny Butchart, in the deepest part of the sunken garden. This was part of the original limestone quarry which had been worked out. The garden was started by Jenny in 1904. It’s a National Historic Site of Canada and has been visited by millions of people from all over the world. Taken July 12, 2009 with a Fuji S100FS camera.
Captured images of this old Mack truck at a rock quarry near Vicksburg, PA. HDR image generated from five RAW images. / Taken with Nikon D200 and Tokina 12-24mm. Best viewed in LARGE!
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