Recipe #12-Isolated Light

[Ken Rennie]

From my local 2000 yr old quarry.

 

[AlanLichty]

Very nice sun rays.

You posted another shot earlier this week that was a stunning example of isolated light too.

 

[Jeffrey]

Sweet light Ken.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Wow everything in your neck of the world has a history. This is very nice

 

[JimFox]

This is super cool Ken! And like Ben I also marvel at all of the history over where you are.

 

[lightsgood]

From my local 2000 yr old quarry. View attachment 16133

Stunning seems to say it well!

 

[Ken Rennie]

We have lots of history here for Geographic reasons. The very North of England is a narrow neck of land, approx 70 miles wide. North of here is Scotland. 2,000 yrs ago the Romans built fortifications to guard their Northern frontier this has left us with Hadrian's Wall, 2 miles North at its closest and quarries with Roman inscriptions. The Scottish borders is 10 miles North and for 1,000 yrs there has been trouble so Castles and ruined buildings everywhere. We have fertile land between the hills and the sea and this led the monks to build an important Abbey here, stealing the stones from the Roman wall to make their job easier. My town was granted a Royal Charter to hold a market in the 12th Century but unfortunately the weekly market is reduced to 1 van that sells excellent fresh fish. This small town (4,000 inhabitants) would look totally different from any American town, sandstone houses with slate roofs, narrow winding streets some of which are still cobbled. A 12thC church just outside of town but the local Church of England church has windows designed by Edward Burne-Jones and made by William Morris so if you are into the Pre-Raphaelites you are in luck. The church isn't particularly pretty but the windows are stunning. So history we have with old buildings, my house is 150 yrs old but not thought old here, rain in abundance, some snow but not as much as the latitude would suggest and lastly weather that changes hour by hour. NW Scotland has weather that changes minute by minute. I do envy you the Rockies and the dramatic scenery of the SW but here I can be in scenery that changes in a few miles and with a trip of 150 miles I am in a totally different world. The good point of the smaller scale scenery, small rivers are easier to photograph, small waterfalls lack the awe factor but wading to get the best viewpoint is fairly safe and many different viewpoints are possible. I hope that this gives you a better idea of where I live. Ken

 

[AlanLichty]

Thanks for the followup. I love hearing the local history for places like this. We have more than a little bit of it here but most of our "history" is what happened after Europeans arrived and wrote about it.

Interesting thought: Your archaeological record extends back far beyond the obvious impacts the Romans had and recorded as written history. Your story begins with what we have written records for.....

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks for the follow up. I am a history lover.