This is a photograph taken at Janet’s Foss, Malham, the Yorkshire Dales. Foss being the norse word for waterfall. Folklore states that Janet, Queen of the Fairies lives behind the waterfall in a cave.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Green
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Games People Play
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Toys
Refraction
Refraction– “the turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density” (freedictionary.com).
These images were taken in my garden on the 28th February 2014 at sunset. It was reported on my local news broadcast that the Aurora Borealis maybe visible so I kept watch that evening and this is what the eye was to behold. I can not be certain that this was nothing more that a February sunset and I do not claim that is anything more that just that. But to me it is a beautiful atmospheric sky over the roof tops.
A local newpaper reported sightings of the Northern Lights in the county on the previous evening.
Trees in Reflection
As the light
Hits the shade
Streams cascade
On the dark
Sun collides
Shadow glides
Picture change
All to fade
Briefly made
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Reflections and ShadowsVibrant Sky
A Longing View
I feel you so near
But we’re miles apart
All would become clear
To confide and impart
Consuming intensity
Of wishing you here
Back then perplexity
Was pasted with fear
Thinking you are close
That you are at my side
A constant repose
Possibilities reside
(A view, a daydream for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy)
The Beauty of Urbex
“Urbex (urban exploration or UE) is the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment”(Wikipedia).
These buildings are often abandoned hospitals, asylums, and industrial buildings, areas that look desolate. I am always intrigued by such photographs. To me they hold a history of a bygone age, a story of our society from an era now removed from our existence. These buildings often served the community and held a workforce of many in our towns and cities.
The images are often taken in black and white, to me this is to represent the historical value what is being captured, but what I ask, is the onlooker to see deeper into the psyche of urbex pictures. Try to imagine the time and motion of the buildings in their working form, such as a busy hospital ward, workers in the factory and life within the picture, not just the abandonment of its current existence.
The beauty of these pictures is their past to present portrayal. I have tried to take some urbex photographs recently on a visit to Lancaster Castle. The history of the Castle is thought to go back as far as Roman times as a fort and in the 11th century came under Royal possession as a medieval castle. It has a dark history of executions and the Lancashire witches trials in the 17th century.
The Castle is also known for being a Prison until 2011, but now it is a historical monument, open to the public as a visitor’s attraction for tours.
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: What is beautiful to you
Here are some Urbex Experts;
