tiabunna's photos with the keyword: hills

What's a series on China without a shot of the Great Wall? Unlike most of the promotional images, you can expect that you will be sharing your visit with quite a few other people. :-)

We stopped in the highlands of Laos to look around this village. It was interesting to see how the dwellings are changing from the traditional to either painted timber or (sometimes) concrete blocks. One to view large. Explored.

This empty house in South Australia is a favourite subject for many photographers. Best viewed on black. HFF, everyone. Explored.

Queenstown, on Tasmania's west coast, still operates as a mining town for the nearby Mt Lyell mine. It dates from about the same time as Zeehan (earlier shot), as can be seen from the ornate post office up on the right of the street. Behind are some of the hillsides desolated by fumes from the mining operations over more than a century.

Somewhere near Phonsavan. Happy Fence Friday.

From an old slide. The main plateau is over 30km long, so walking it requires a few breaks. This much younger version of me is doing just that. The plateau is frequently enshrouded in cloud (as is rolling in here), so marker pegs provide guidance on the main walking routes.

From an old slide. This was taken on the plateau of Macquarie Island, somewhere about 300 metres above sea level. I was impressed by these rocks, looking so much like the sea stacks (see my earlier coastal shots). Years later, geological research showed that Macquarie Island is unique in being the only place in the world where an active mid-ocean ridge is actually rising above the ocean surface and exposing rocks from the earth's mantle. In geological terms the island is very new (8-10 million years) : no wonder I saw "sea stacks" on the plateau! Macquarie Island was added to the World Heritage List in 1997 because of its geological importance and uniqueness.

From an old slide. Macquarie has rainfall on most days, so it is unsurprising there are a number of small lakes on the plateau. I am fairly sure that insects are the largest life forms to be found in them.

From an old slide. Macquarie is treeless (not surprising as it rose from the ocean only recently) and grasses struggle to grow on many of the poor soils of the windswept plateau. (Suggest view on black)