Panoramas

[Richard Tarleton]

Great pics!

And a Lake District story in todays Times - an Ecuadorian artist [sic] has removed a small stone from the top of Scafell Pike and is exhibiting it on a plinth as an artwork at a S.London gallery - to the irritation of the Cumbrian Tourist Board and others who want it back. The artist claims to have reduced the height of Scafell by one inch.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The artist claims to have reduced the height of Scafell by one inch.

A ludicrous claim, in view of the substantial edifice on top of the mountain. I can see why it causes concern. One person taking a small stone is one thing. A few thousand or a million is a different matter.

[MrGongGong]

A ludicrous claim, in view of the substantial edifice on top of the mountain. I can see why it causes concern. One person taking a small stone is one thing. A few thousand or a million is a different matter.

When I used to do a lot of mountain climbing we always used to pick up a stone from the bottom and leave it at the top.....

[Flosshilde]

If seven maids with seven mops ...

I saw an exhibition by an artist (whose name I've forgotten - I might try & find it) based on a similar idea. He had taken a stone, roughly the size of half a brick, some time in the past, from the Great Pyramid. The centrepiece of the exhibition was a knitted replica of the stone, many times life size. The rest of the exhibition was on the ethics & ideas behind removing objects, souvenirs, etc., and finally his experience of deciding that the stone should be replaced & the process he went through to do so.

[Nick Armstrong]

And from the opposite side of the lake…

Love 'em, Alps - this one in particular

[MrGongGong]

If seven maids with seven mops ...

I saw an exhibition by an artist (whose name I've forgotten - I might try & find it) based on a similar idea. He had taken a stone, roughly the size of half a brick, some time in the past, from the Great Pyramid. The centrepiece of the exhibition was a knitted replica of the stone, many times life size. The rest of the exhibition was on the ethics & ideas behind removing objects, souvenirs, etc., and finally his experience of deciding that the stone should be replaced & the process he went through to do so.

Also this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6527511.stm

[Serial_Apologist]

When I used to do a lot of mountain climbing we always used to pick up a stone from the bottom and leave it at the top.....

I'm reminded of my childhood fear of not collecting fossils along the Dorset coast, lest they "ran out" by the following year.

As it happens I hadn't realised it to be illegal to remove geology from Heritage sites. It would surely take longer than the likely survival of the human race to remove Ska Fell in its entirety, stone by stone. I would always take a specimen of rock from locations with which I felt special affinities, ranging from Pre-Cambrian to Chalk, ending up with so many I could not remember from whence most had come!

In the end I ditched them in the garden of my last domicile. Future geologists will be doubtlesss left puzzling.

[clive heath]

I hope the author's depositors put the pebbles back in the right place!

http://www.chesilbeach.org/Chesil/pebbles.html

[Flosshilde]

I would always take a specimen of rock from locations with which I felt special affinities, ranging from Pre-Cambrian to Chalk, ending up with so many I could not remember from whence most had come!

I've got a basket of stones like that.

[vinteuil]

I've got a basket of stones like that.

... ah, it's Beckett's your man for that -

http://www.samuel-beckett.net/molloy1.html

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Looking towards Helvellyn from the High Street range.

[Richard Tarleton]

I meant to say, fabulous colours. In the pre-digital age I would have guessed Fujicolor (esp looking at 13-15), what do you use in the way of filters alpie, if one is allowed to ask

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I meant to say, fabulous colours. In the pre-digital age I would have guessed Fujicolor (esp looking at 13-15), what do you use in the way of filters alpie, if one is allowed to ask

I use a Fuji XPro1 which has various modes of film simulation Provia, Velvia (used in this picture), Astia (soft), Pro Neg Hi, Pro Neg Satndard, Monochrome, Monochrome with yellow, green or red filters, and Sepia .
The trick here was to increase colour saturation on Photoshop.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

In March 1993, I bought an Olympus panoramic camera. 35mm panoramic cameras of that era only achieved the width by cropping the height. I was quite pleased with most of the photos on the first roll of film, but one of these seems rather uninteresting, so i discarded it.








Fortunately, I kept the negative, for a few weeks later, the building on the left of the above photo was destroyed by a landslip and soon appeared as in the photo below. It was Holbeck Hall Hotel, Scarborough.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Of course, coastal erosion is commonplace in this country, but this incident really caught the headlines.