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[Hardbopjazz]

[Cyril]

New building with traditional Dutch façades...(don't like it). It's a hotel.

Hunan, China

 

 

 

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[A Lark Ascending]

the interlace Singapore

 

How things change. A photo taken by my dad in 1967 when we lived in Singapore. 

[Hardbopjazz]

[BillF]

Two active volcanoes loom over the Russian city of Petropavlosk-Kamchatsky.

[A Lark Ascending]

If you look closely you can see Putin climbing the one on the left stark naked, chest-wig to the fore. 

[BillF]

If you look closely you can see Putin climbing the one on the left stark naked, chest-wig to the fore. 

Heh heh heh!

[Cyril]

 'Dismaland'

[Hardbopjazz]

[A Lark Ascending]

Went to the Ravilious exhibition in London last weekend - quite wonderful. Particularly taken by this picture of one of my favourite parts of Britain (it shows the Westbury White Horse carved into the chalk dip slope on one of the beautifully curvaceous hills in Wiltshire). 

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Edited August 21, 2015 by Cyril

[A Lark Ascending]

[BillF]

Is that your shadow, Bev?

[A Lark Ascending]

Is that your shadow, Bev?

It is...early evening near Polzeath in Cornwall (where Dave and Sam go for their second holiday of the summer...I kept an eye out for a solitary figure on a cliff edge contemplating dastardly plans but no luck). 

[A Lark Ascending]

"Take the high road … Loch Maree seen from the North Coast 500 route. Photograph: Steve Carter"

This is lovely... "The northern lights over the coast of Caithness. Photograph: Graham Mackay"

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/aug/23/scotland-north-coast-500-road-trip

Good article about a drive along the coast of Scotland. I once did a bit of this from Skye to Ullapool and it was spectacular. 

[sidewinder]

Went to the Ravilious exhibition in London last weekend - quite wonderful. Particularly taken by this picture of one of my favourite parts of Britain (it shows the Westbury White Horse carved into the chalk dip slope on one of the beautifully curvaceous hills in Wiltshire). 

Nice one - never seen that picture before but often checked out that view from there. There's an iron age hill fort (Bratton Castle) at that spot and the village of Eddington just below (plus a cement works creating smoke in place of the train)

Edited August 23, 2015 by sidewinder

[Hardbopjazz]

[A Lark Ascending]

Went to the Ravilious exhibition in London last weekend - quite wonderful. Particularly taken by this picture of one of my favourite parts of Britain (it shows the Westbury White Horse carved into the chalk dip slope on one of the beautifully curvaceous hills in Wiltshire). 

Nice one - never seen that picture before but often checked out that view from there. There's an iron age hill fort (Bratton Castle) at that spot and the village of Eddington just below (plus a cement works creating smoke in place of the train)

Where Alfred beat the Vikings! 

Ravilious seemed quite keen on those horses:

There's also the really famous one viewed from inside the railway carriage. 

On a different subject I was really taken by this one:

His paintings from his period as a war artist in WWII are fascinating too. 

Edited August 23, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

 

Went to the Ravilious exhibition in London last weekend - quite wonderful. Particularly taken by this picture of one of my favourite parts of Britain (it shows the Westbury White Horse carved into the chalk dip slope on one of the beautifully curvaceous hills in Wiltshire). 

In the 1970s I bought a photograph by Fay Godwin from this series after climbing up to the Westbury horse:

[A Lark Ascending]

In the 1970s I bought a photograph by Fay Godwin from this series after climbing up to the Westbury horse:

Nice photos. I'm trying to work out which part of the horse is in the photo. The only curved bit on the Westbury is the tail:

and that goes downhill rather than up.

Could the photo be from the Eddington horse just over the border in Oxfordshire?

Or one of the others.

Puzzled as I can't get my head round where the photo fits on the Westbury.

(Sorry, I'm a bit obsessed with those horses - memories of travelling to Cornwall in the  early 60s when you'd see them on the journey.)

At least she didn't do the Cerne Abbas giant!  

(Edit: now why didn't I just look it up on Google?...it is Uffington - http://www.younggallerysalisbury.co.uk/art-comes-in-many-shapes-and-sizes/)

(Edit 2: Noticed you said you climbed up the Westbury, not that the photo was Westbury...just too eager to ramble on about white horses. I will not, however, mention the Andorran White Horse that Northerners have plagiarised in North Yorkshire)

Edited August 24, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

One of my favourite places - Wheal Coates near St. Agnes in Cornwall.

And the amazing transformations of the sea there every fraction of a second:

 

 

 

Edited August 24, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

Some more Fay Godwin:  Pennine views from a book with Ted Hughes:

 

 

Edited August 24, 2015 by BillF

[A Lark Ascending]

I'm not familiar with Godwin but those images are very striking. I see from linking to that last one it's from around Hebden Bridge. 

I like this one again from Wiltshire:

And this one is iconic for that part of the world:

 

Edited August 24, 2015 by A Lark Ascending