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Completed, one 200-year Service.


Completed, one 200-year Service.
Photo Information
Copyright: Peter Turner (petertee) Silver Note Writer [C: 6 W: 0 N: 19] (103)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-09-13
Categories: Mountain
Camera: Canon IXUS 430
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/400 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2004-09-20 10:35
Viewed: 1026
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Dry-stone walls are a feature of upland and northern landscapes in Britain. They arose as a consequence of the Enclosure Acts from 1760 to early in the 1800s when the Commons were appropriated to improve agricultural production and practices.
Nowadays they are having something of a revival and a substantial body of expertise is available to landowners to renew and repair what is now recognised as a valuable habitat for wildlife and vegetation.
Shelter not only from the perpetual (or seemingly so :o) wind and rain but also from predators. Birds from Wagtails to Little Owls, nest here, weasels have their lairs and a whole range of insects live out their lives in and around these mini-cliffs. Lichens, mosses and bigger plants can thrive in the sunny/shady or exposed/sheltered faces.
Built from fieldstone and locally quarried stone they vary from place to place but are all built without the use of mortar or cement. Careful placing of individual stones on proper foundations that enable them to be locked together has enabled them to endure over the centuries. They had been in danger of disappearing into lines of rubble piles before the current revival of the old skills.
In the picture, old stones with lichen and moss skins and stones still bearing the patina of soot acquired over many years of the smoking chimneys of Victorian Britain,can be seen alongside the paler surfaces of newer cut stones and even a rounded stone (left of centre) deposited here from afar by retreating glaciation.
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A very different sort of image for TN . But thank you for posting, the note more than justifies its posting and is very informative. some of the new stones are a little overexposed ans so a little bright but otherwise a beautiful colection of colours and textures.

This is nature at it's best. It doesn't fly, it doesn't eat, yet nature's own creations have protected this area for over 200 years. Life grows on it, and will be renewed hopefully for the next 200 years. Very pleasing to see this kind of image on TrekNature. Well spotted. A pity the sky was dull that day. I was born and raised in UK, so I know what the skies can be like. (Have you tried a polarizer filter; they seem to bring English skies to life).

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