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     Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I've always been facinated by remote and isolated locations. The far east and north of Russia is breathtaking. More here: http://www.shpilenok.com/reserves/kronotsky/index.htm | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
The Valley of Death, known for its noxious gases capable of killing people and animals, is situated at the foot of Kishpinich Volcano. http://www.shpilenok.com/reserves/kronotsky/pages/KR_L_M_011.htm | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Raised wooden pathway through a swamp: http://www.shpilenok.com/reserves/kronotsky/pages/KR_L_F_002.htm Is there a remote swamp like this in the Severn valley, Ramsey? With a solitary lonely island and an ancient hovel slowly rotting like its owner. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.36.82 |
Thanks for posting Griff. I adore places like that. As a matter of interest, also - what locations are members attracted to? | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
David Caspar Friedrich territory: http://www.shpilenok.com/reserves/kronotsky/pages/KR_L_M_020.htm | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Awesome vistas: http://www.shpilenok.com/gallery/panorama/index.htm | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Somehow sinister: http://www.shpilenok.com/gallery/panorama/pages/KR_L_P_019.htm | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Unbelievable: http://www.shpilenok.com/reserves/kamchatka/pages/KR_L_M_009.htm | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.36.82 |
Spot on for me Griff. Especially the last one. Give me a tent, a warm sleeping bag and a bottle of wine and I'd be happy there for days. I travelled around Iceland on my bike to do see that sort of thing. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Iceland on a bike? That's like Tony Hawkes round Ireland with a fridge, isn't it? I like Simon Marsden's eerie take on places, when 't comes to pictures of places. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.184.141 |
Good for you, Ally! I'm a bit of a wanderer myself (never been to Iceland, though). Some terrific pictures there, Griff. Very evocative. If I'm not mistaken, Lord Probert passed through Russia (Siberia?) last year as part of his 'Horror Express' holiday - I still remember his vivid descriptions of Lake Baikal. Now that would be a place for RCMB members to get together to read, write and make merry... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.118.144 |
Scenery gets creepy the more abstract it becomes. Also we get a sense of the world not being what we'd thought, but more otherworldly. Reminds us we hang in space on a planet that is alien, not 'ours' but rather its own thing. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
Some amazing vistas! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Reminds us we hang in space on a planet that is alien, not 'ours' but rather its own thing. Indeed, but we're doing our best to smash it into shape though. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
I travelled around Iceland on my bike Did you bump into Kerry Catona? "Mum's shop at Iceland." | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.128.129.49 |
Photo of me taken by my wife in Ely Cathedral when on holiday last week. http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/green-dolphin-country/ | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
The spot where I am doing most of my studying right now:  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.34.237 |
That's BIG grass. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
Appy polly logies. How do I make these pictures smaller? The area has always reminded me of "The Inhabitant of the Lake", that's why I posted the picture. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.128.129.49 |
 Something I saw last week on holiday near the idyllic banks of the Burlow Lode. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.128.129.49 |
sorry - BURWELL Lode. | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.40.72 |
I've been doing a local project on some of the historical sites around my home town recently. This is what remains of Sir Thomas Brisbane's observatory in the glen behind town:  | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.40.72 |
These are the Three Sisters, which were meridian sighting pillars to be viewed by the above stone:  | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.40.72 |
This is another of the sighting stone, I can't decide which one I like more:  | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.40.72 |
This is the marker for the battle with the Vikings we had, though it's been relocated a couple of times so doesn't really mark anything anymore:  | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.40.72 |
This is the Prophet's Grave, hidden away in a copse of woods in the farmland near to the observatory sighting stone. "A plague (possibly typhus) hit Largs in 1644. The Reverend William Smith was one of many who took refuge from the plague by living outside the town. Unfortunately he contracted the disease and died in 1647. As he lay dying he asked for two Holly trees to be planted at either end of his grave and prophesied that, providing the trees were prevented from ever meeting, the plague would not return. The spot has been known as the Prophet's Grave ever since and, to this day, locals ensure that the Holly trees are kept apart."  | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.40.72 |
There are some other locations too, a neolithic tomb, two or three castles (depending on how far beyond the town boundaries I stretch the project), some very old graveyards, one with a painted ceiling from the 1600's, but I'm still working away at it all. | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.40.72 |
Copse of woods doesn't make sense, does it? I blame tiredness. I'm off to bed. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.128.129.49 |
Great stuff above. Thanks. I've decided to actually physically post here the photo my wife took of me last week in Ely Cathedral. The tower of Ely cathderal feaures in the SF novel 'Facial Justice' by LP Hartley and effectively, for me, represents the Power or Tower of Interzone!  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.128.129.49 |
....and here is that Tower:  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
The House on the Borderland, unkempt garden and all:  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Fab photos, everyone! I have a particular liking for old houses, churches, ruins and unkempt graveyards. Always had a fascination for them since I was a kid. Hubert - your "House on the Borderland" is awesome. In fact, with that balcony, you ought to enter it into Des' "Last Balcony" competition. | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.29.112 |
Got told this one was eerie on Facebook today so thought it was worth a post   |