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[A Lark Ascending]

Zingst, Germany: A murmuration of starlings wheel around the sky at dusk before roosting near Zingst on the Fischland-Darss peninsula.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/sep/25/photo-highlights-of-the-day

 

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Lah di dah, lah di dah, 'tis autumn...

 

I travel all over seeking out nice landscapes...but sometimes you need to just look in your own neighbourhood. 

 

Edited September 26, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

Lah di dah, lah di dah, 'tis autumn...

 

I travel all over seeking out nice landscapes...but sometimes you need to just look in your own neighbourhood. 

 

Nice! Particularly like the one with the furrows.

[A Lark Ascending]

Don't know if you noticed this, Bill, but I'm much more aware of the incremental changes of the seasons now I'm not at work all day. I was thrown back to being a kid on the lane in that last picture when I saw a horse chestnut ready to drop.

At work I'd notice the gorgeous colours of autumn in the morning/evening drive but my brain was so full of other things that it was just an passing impression. Having time just seems to make me more aware of it all.  

[BillF]

Don't know if you noticed this, Bill, but I'm much more aware of the incremental changes of the seasons now I'm not at work all day. 

Well, the seasons don't get much of a chance to penetrate into this part of the world ...

Seriously though, I commuted 22 miles to work each day, most of it by train and some of it through countryside, so I was always aware of the seasons. 

[A Lark Ascending]

Ah yes, Manchester rain! Kept the cotton moist so it wouldn't snap! 

My commute was 19 miles, half through open countryside so I was hardly unaware of the seasons. But walking gives a different perspective. Although I always did a lot of walking in the summer holidays and a bit at Easter I generally missed the autumn. Feel like I've got it back. 

[A Lark Ascending]

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/sep/28/photo-highlights-of-the-day

Edited September 28, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

At first I thought this was some ornate 18thC door.

Hanover, Germany: Aerial view of the Great Garden, part of the Herrenhaeuser Gardens. The Great Garden is a baroque garden that includes lawns, hedges, walkways and statues arranged in strict geometrical patterns Photograph: Julian 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/sep/29/photo-highlights-of-the-day

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London-centric

Some beautiful shots of London along with a short essay balancing up London's achievements against criticisms of its dominance. 

Edited September 30, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[Shawn]

[A Lark Ascending]

Nice picture, Shawn.

Curbar, Derbyshire woke up to a blanket of mist on 26 September. Photo by Ian Letchford.

 

Atmospheric sunset over a bog pool at a nature reserve in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands on 29 September. Photographed by Alan Hendry.

Watching the sun rise at the summit of Mam Tor, Peak District. Photo by Adrien Hay, taken on 26 September.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34391831

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Some astonishing satellite imagery:

More:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/02/satellite-eye-on-earth-august-2015-in-pictures

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Autumn creeps forward in north Nottinghamshire (last Wednesday):

Different landscape - Spurn Head in East Yorkshire, a 3 mile sand spit where all the bits of Yorkshire that fall into the sea get washed up:

Looks like this from above:

Real bugger hanging onto that seagull to get this shot. 

Edited October 3, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

Not quite a landscape...but almost...

An autumnally coloured leaf is photographed covered in dewdrops near Oberstaufen, Germany

A different landscape:

Portions of the Martian surface shot by Nasa’s Mars reconnaissance orbiter show channels on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/03/the-20-photographs-of-the-week

[A Lark Ascending]

How we used to live.

Elland, a mill town in Yorkshire. 

I doubt if you could do this any more? How could you hold your iPhone? 

A street corner in the Black Country, West Midlands, January 1961.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/03/hull-international-photography-festival-in-pictures

 

Edited October 4, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

Yorkshire, UK - Mike the horse captured on an autumn morning by a local amateur photographer
 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/oct/05/photo-highlights-of-the-day#img-4

This pumpkin field in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire was photographed by John Earnshaw on 30 September.

Enjoying a bird's eye view - Paul Haxby took this photo while paramotoring in the Peak District on 2 October.

Pretty sunflowers fill a field in the Cotswolds on 3 October. Photo by Pete Llewellyn.

Fog blankets these fields in Buxton, Derbyshire on 1 October. Photo by Terry Baker.

A beautiful misty scene taken in Leeds, West Yorkshire on 2 October by Michiko Smith.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34445038

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 6, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

Reflection in the rain in Glasgow on 6 October, photographed by Alisdair Woodburn.

A flock of birds fly past a warm, pink sunset Beautiful pink sunset over Garton on the Wolds, East Yorkshire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34445038

 

[sidewinder]

How we used to live.

Elland, a mill town in Yorkshire. 

 

6d worth of chips plus some 'scraps' !

[A Lark Ascending]

I think they call them 'bits' round here/ You have to be careful how you phrase your order.

Seen from above, potash evaporation ponds create an eerie beauty in America's Utah desert.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/08/flying-photographer-captures-a-jewel-in-the-desert-potash

An expedition into deepest Tibet in search of new ECM covers.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/oct/08/a-journey-to-the-jianggendiru-glacier-in-pictures

 

Edited October 8, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[Shawn]

The public art installation "Spheres at MacArthur Park".  Many of the 2500 hand painted beach balls were produced by school children in the Los Angeles area.  

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Up in't Pennines again:

Haven't checked this but I'd imagine the mills here would have started in the late 18thC when water power required fast flowing streams - I think I saw 1906 on one mill in Marsden but would imagine industrialisation wouldn't have been far behind Arkwright's mills further south.   

My attempt at a Monet! 

When I set out on Friday the skies were blue and the trees were an absolute riot of autumn colour. Unfortunately a thin layer of high cloud descended at Huddersfield and stayed there over two days. Pity as the trees need the sun to bring out their colours.  

Edited October 11, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

Up in't Pennines again:

Haven't checked this but I'd imagine the mills here would have started in the late 18thC when water power required fast flowing streams - I think I saw 1906 on one mill in Marsden but would imagine industrialisation wouldn't have been far behind Arkwright's mills further south.   

My attempt at a Monet! 

 

Monet didn't work in little squares. More on the way to a Cézanne, I'd say!

Edited October 11, 2015 by BillF

[A Lark Ascending]

 

Monet didn't work in little squares. More on the way to a Cézanne, I'd say!

I thought you'd know the right painter! Though I can't imagine either in Yorkshire! 

[This board seems fond of random little squares (or rectangles !!!!]

Edited October 11, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

This is the sort of Cézanne I was thinking of:

Edited October 11, 2015 by BillF

[A Lark Ascending]

The Huddersfield Canal is clearly involved in art forgery. 

I'll go for Seurat on my next trip! 

[A Lark Ascending]

Godalming: The sun rises over the River Wey in Surrey: Photograph: Alex Glen/REX Shutterstock

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/oct/11/the-weekend-in-pictures#img-7

Mù Cang Chai, Vietnam: A woman from the Hmong ethnic group carries a grass basket on a terraced paddy field during the rice harvest season in north-east Vietnam Photograph: Kham/Reuters

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/oct/04/the-weekend-in-pictures#img-5

Edited October 12, 2015 by A Lark Ascending