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Tor Hutchinson
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Esteban Toré
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Glastonbury Tor rises high above the Somerset levels.
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A rocky outcrop, known as Vixen Tor, situated in Devon UK. / Copyright 2007 Richie Dean All rights reserved. / . / Image was worked in Photoshop CS3 and PhotoArtmaster Clickable
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The badlands stretch for 4000 miles on Kraken Tor,you need a good map for treking though this,even then!!! / Legend as it there’s a City of the Ancients somewhere out there,some have looked / and some even came back. / Its a forbidding place at any time. Excerpt from Chapter 63 of the “Travels of Zorind Rakkmnn”.
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Legend has it that this is the final resting place of King Arthur…
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This shot is a composite of 45 one minute images taken at Sheeps Tor on Dartmoor. The light on Sheeps Tor itself is from the full moon just out of shot to the right.
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Hound Tor, Dartmoor, Devon, UK. Just some of the weathered rock formations to be found there on a frosty February morning.
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Hound Tor, Dartmoor, one early frosty February morning looking East towards Haytor on the horizon (right).
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This is another of my photos taken around the Sheepstor area of Dartmoor. These wind-blasted trees (this one is probably a hawthorn) are typical of higher moorland.
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Helman Tor is near Bodmin, Cornwall. It is one of the granite topped hills (tors) which run through Devon & Cornwall. The Saint’s Way, one of the long distance footpaths traverses Helman. There are a couple of interesting local nature reserves in the lowlands beneath this tor. These were once the site of ancient tin streaming works. Nature has reclaimed the land which now provides a home for various species such as the marsh fritillary butterfly
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Sunset at Bowermans Nose, Dartmoor, South Devon, England. View the rest of our portfolio here Or visit our own website here
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Berliner Kanaldeckel – Copyright by Marcus Botsch – Mit freundlicher Genehmigung durch Marcus Botsch
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Only the ruined tower is standing / on top of the Glastonbury Tor / A very windy place!
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This is the top of Glastonbury Tor. There are many legends associated with the tor. Prominent among them, in the Arthurian legends, Glastonbury Tor is often considered to be part of Avalon. In ancient times, the tor would have been an island in a marshy land, but it was later drained and now the Tor rises out of the village of modern day Glastonbury. The tower on the top is the remains of a 14th century church that was destroyed during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. The tower is all that remains of that church and was restored in modern times.
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The famous Paine Massif showing clearly the Horns or “Los Cuernos”. In the foreground is the natural vivid cyan of lake Pehoe. Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile.
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Glastonbury Tor
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/ Brandenbuger Tor,Berlin,Germany Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin and Germany. It is located west of the city center at the intersection of Unter den Linden and Ebertstrasse, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. It is the only remaining gate of a series through which one formerly entered Berlin. One block to the north stands the Reichstag. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. The Brandenburg Gate was restored from 2000 to 2002 by the Stiftung Denkmalschutz Berlin (Berlin Monument Conservation Foundation). Today, it is considered one of Europe’s most famous landmarks. / The Brandenburg Gate consists of twelve Doric columns, six to each side, forming five passageways. Citizens originally were allowed to use only the outermost two. Atop the gate is the Quadriga, a chariot drawn by four horses driven by Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory. The Gate’s design is based upon the Propylaea, the gateway to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece and is consistent with Berlin’s history of architectural classicism (first, Baroque, and then neo-Palladian). The Gate was the first “Athens on the River Spree” by architect Karl Gotthard von Langhans. The capital Quadriga was sculpted by Johann Gottfried Schadow. The Brandenburg Gate’s design has remained essentially unchanged since its completion even as it has played different political roles in German history. After the 1806 Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Napoleon took the Quadriga to Paris. After Napoleon’s defeat in 1814 and the Prussian occupation of Paris by General Ernst von Pfuel, the Quadriga was restored to Berlin and Victoria’s wreath of oak leaves was supplemented with a new symbol of Prussian power, the Iron Cross. The Quadriga faces east, as it did when it was originally installed in 1793. When the Nazis ascended to power they used the Gate as a party symbol. The Gate survived World War II and was one of the few structures standing in the Pariser Platz ruins in 1945 (another being the Academy of Fine Arts). Following Germany’s surrender and the end of the war, the governments of East Berlin and West Berlin restored it in a joint effort. Vehicles and pedestrians could again travel freely through the gate, until August 1961 when the Berlin Wall was erected. The wall and its fortified death strip ran just west of the gate, cutting off access from West Berlin and the “baby Wall” on the Eastern side rendered it off limits to East Berliners as well, until the wall’s demolition in 1989. In 1990, the Quadriga was removed from the gate as part of renovation work carried out by the East German authorities. On December 21, 2000, the Brandenburg Gate was privately refurbished at a cost of six million dollars (U.S.). On October 3, 2002, the twelfth anniversary of German Reunification, the Brandenburg Gate was once again reopened following extensive refurbishment. The Brandenburg Gate is now again closed for vehicle traffic, and much of Pariser Platz has been turned into a cobblestone pedestrian zone. (Text from Wikipedia)
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On this tor a Celtic Church stood in the 2nd century,but after the assimilation in the 12th century the church fell into ruin and the stone from its walls fell back into the tor from whence it rose. The only indication of its passing today is a crumbling Celtic Cross on the summit. Legends say that on the summer equinox the old Celtic gods make storm clouds gather, the storm lasts most of the day and night with much thunder & lightening.
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Oil on Canvas
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... to the vale of avalon ... site of arthurian legend Hiding behing the tree in a Somerset field lies Glastonbury tor .. Olympus SP560UZ f/5.6 / 1/500sec / ISO-50 Levels and lighting tweaked in PS Els6
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Went for a little drive this morning to find a tor! Don’t know where many are at the moment, but had heard of Haytor so plugged in the sat nav and off I went! Infront of Haytor are a few wild ponies. The hill was much stepper than it looks too! For those who don’t know the Devon and Cornwall moors are famous for their tors. A tor is a rock outcrop formed by weathering, usually found on or near the summit of a hill. In the South West of England, where the term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves – particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Tors are composed usually of granite or metamorphic rocks. Tors can also be found around any previously erupted volcanoes (although Devonian and Carboniferous outcrops are also found), though occasionally of other hard rocks such as quartzite, and are the result of millions of years of weathering. In prehistoric times, when the land was covered in forest, rain water seeped into the ground and gradually weathered the bedrock through its natural cracks, or joints. Once the land became exposed, the weathering was accelerated, particularly during the Ice age when freezing water expanded in the cracks. The result can be seen today in dramatic rock formations. TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA MORE ON HAYTOR Nikon D40 18-55mm Oron effect added in CS3
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