Landscapes

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by Gage, Aug 28, 2010.

  1. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    I was at Bongseonsa (temple) in Namyangju today with my wife and daughter. The fires of summer are still blazing here, as you can see.

    As ever, the only panama-wearing white chap wandering around all day, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

    View from the courtyard, facing the main buildings.

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    Reverse shot showing the 'gate house' I passed through to get in—tipping my hat to the Four Heavenly Kings.

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    The 'belfry'.

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    Shrine for the recently dead (rather poignantly decorated with family photographs inside).

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  2. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    The wife and I climbed up the John Barrow monument at Ulverston.
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  3. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    The castle at Conway (Conwy) (oils):
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    A royal charter of 1284 set out that its Constable was also the mayor of the new town. He oversaw a castle garrison of 30 soldiers (including 15 crossbowmen) supported by a carpenter, chaplain, blacksmith, engineer, stonemason and other retainers. I might have expected a larger garrison, the numerical equivalent of a platoon.

    The first prototype Mulberry Harbour was assembled close by at the Morfa, Conway, prior to being tested at Garlieston in Scotland.
     
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  4. dryan67

    dryan67 Senior Member

    Provincetown Harbour, Massachusetts in August 2024. IMG_0243.jpeg IMG_0244.jpeg IMG_0245.jpeg IMG_0252.jpeg IMG_0256.jpeg
     
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  5. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce Patron

    Queen's View, Pitlochry
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  6. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    35⁰C and 62% humidity? Perfect weather to hike a fortress wall at lunchtime.

    Gongju.

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  7. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

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  8. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Not unless I've strayed very far north!

    That said, the bridge in the foreground does seem incongruously old. Most of those thrown up after the war in the 50s and 60s were replaced by much more modern structures in the 80s and 90s.
     
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  9. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    There'll be a plaque on there somewhere saying " The Bridges at Toko-Ri wuz shot 'ere", which would clearly give it protected status :)

    Kind regards, and Grace Kelly, always,

    Jim.
     
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  10. Juha

    Juha Junior Member

    Pitkäkoski of the River Vantaan, on the right Helsinki, the capital and the most populous city in Finland, and on the left the city of Vantaa, the fourth most populous city in Finland. Photo from Tuesday, it
    has been a long dry season here, so the water level is quite low.

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  11. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    A Capable view

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  12. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Stopped here for a break on my hike.

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    Skirted disaster on the descent, but have only horribly scratched arms and legs—you live and learn!
     
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  13. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce Patron

    Lovely sunny day in North Yorkshire on part of the Cleveland Way from Lordstones Country Park, Carlton Bank.
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  14. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    In the Shires
    Sun in the woods
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  15. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    But for all his great powers
    He's wishful like me
    To be back where the dark Mourne
    Sweeps down to the sea ............... from the song Mountains of Mourne; view from Murlough Beach
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    On 20 May 1944, newspapers in Northern Ireland announced that General Dwight D Eisenhower had been in Ulster over the preceding couple of days. This had included a visit to an amphibious school and the 28th Infantry Battalion at Newcastle (at the foot of the mountains) and to Dundrum, just off to the right, where he observed a simulated attack by an infantry battalion with support from a tank platoon.
     
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  16. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    The Hermitage, Tollymore Forest:
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    (Lower right foothills of Mournes, above).
     
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  17. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Tint in the cloud

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  18. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Ever changing

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  19. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    The head of the Briksdal glacier in Norway:
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    (acrylic study)

    The Briksdal glacier is an arm of - and lies on the north side of - the Jostedalsbreen, attributed the largest ice cap in mainland Europe. In WW2, a plan was considered to parachute a small force of Allied commandos (principally US/Canadian) into the Norwegian mountains to establish a covert base on the Jostedalsbreen for guerrilla actions against the German army of occupation - an element of Geoffrey Pyke's Project PLOUGH.

    Pyke features at:
    Project Habakkuk: Britain’s WW2 Ice Warship
    and PLOUGH features at:
    WW2 Canadian Airborne Units
    and
    First Special Service Force - Wikipedia
     
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  20. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    Beautiful area of bonny Scotland.

    Had that view earlier this past summer while in the Pitlochry and Tummel Bridge area

    Pitlochry a splendid town to visit...houses a superb butchers shop. Excellent quality of meats on display, including haggis which became a favourite at dinner

    Have a good photograph of the impressive Black Watch Memorial.....yet to transfer the image off the camera.
     
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