*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.07.20 ***

The path itself is nice to walk around with good views, the photos have just made it a bit more interesting :-)
In the meantime since we started this open air gallery there are now some other attractions along the route too.
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A bee keeper has installed a "show hive", you can open a door and see them all busy behind a glass.
A society trying to help prevent Alzheimer's has set of posters with some special tasks, puzzles and some memory games to get your mind working overtime.
And one or two of the farmers have labeled their different wheat and other crops and planted flowering borders for the insects.

Thanks Steve!
Yes, I think I've probably posted all these colour images on DPREVIVED before

It's a scene I can never resist shooting when I'm coming down from the hill. The conditions are never quite the same, so it always feels fresh.

My school gave me a hatred of football and competitive sport that has never left me. I can still remember vividly playing football in just shorts and a football shirt on our windswept hilltop school playing fields during a blizzard, for an hour and a half. Back in the seventies PE at my school was considered a necessary machoism to make men of us.

It's just a little gentle ICM. I think I moved the camera away from the eye and back. It takes quite a few tries to get something satisfying.
Yes, the colours of the landscapes were wonderful.

Tórshavn

Visited Faroe Islands, here are some shots from Tórshavn, capital of islands. I took walk in city on arrival evening to load off my frustration: our first flight was delayed over 2 hours, so we had only 30 minutes in Kopenhagen to get into flight to Tórshavn and this meant that all luggage was left behind, arriving 24 hours later. Fortunately I took enough clothes to cope with 12C (fortunately sunny and not very windy) weather.

Sunset

Oldest part of town. There was discussion to tear down these old buildings, but fortunately it was decided otherwise: government bought these houses, renovated them and then sold back. Now it's most prestigious part of town, with private and governmental buildings.

Old road

By old (danish) custom govenmental buildings are red and private black (though not always). Here is governmental building

Governmental area

Road for tourists. Markers show suggested route to protect privacy of locals.

Private building. Very expensive, even smallest are probably north of million euros...

Old fortress, built for protection from pirates, and lighthouse.

Another view to fortress.

Near fortress is gun from WW 2 British occupation.

Harbor

To be continued...

I relocated the girls in Chris' original photo to where they are in this edited version to make the title "Appoaching" more appropriate.

Chris' original photo and the reason I edited it is in the post in this link -

dprevived.com/t/wednesday-cc-no-theme-thread-848-revived-068-on-2024-07-17/6054/post/81414/

The 2 girls were not at the base of the steps in Chris' original photo.

I agree the relocated girls make the scene more interesting now.

Chris' original photo and the reason I relocated the girls is at -

dprevived.com/t/wednesday-cc-no-theme-thread-848-revived-068-on-2024-07-17/6054/post/81414/

An interesting set of pictures. I am curious about the grass growing on the roofs of many of the buildings.

Travel by air is a frustrating buisness these days with all the hassle you have to go through to even board a plane. We escaped almost unscathed from the IT disaster on Friday, when we flew back home. Just an hours delay.

Machair

Machair is a rare and beautiful habitat found in a few Scottish islands. It comprises fertile shell sand soil and damp patches with a multitude of wildflowers, lying just behind the coastal dunes. Mostly found in the Outer Hebrides, there are also a few patches in Orkney, mainly on Sanday.

More of 'the locals'. Usually fulmars nest on cliffs, but as there are no cliffs on Sanday, they have to make do with a hollow under a sand dune. I nearly stepped on one when approaching the beach! They aren't gulls, their closer relatives being albatrosses as you might guess from their weird beaks.

Interesting place, I'd love to visit. The traditional buildings with their turf foofs are rather Icelandic - not surprising really. Is that a cruise ship in the harbour? Probably one of the ones I saw sailing out from Kirkwall 😁
Hope you're reunited with your luggage!

Hi Nigel
Yes, the pictures are up for a whole year 24/7. There's no entrance fee :-)

I love the northern landscapes.
My favourites are shown here.
-The panaorama is nicely done. Maybe this would have been one of those occassion where a drone with a bit more altitude would have produced an even more interesting view. But, I'm not really a fan of drones, too loud for my liking.
-The double exposures are your speciality and well done here.
-The beaches look great, clean and fresh, and you have it all to yourself :-)
Super, thanks for sharing :-)
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Thanks for the tour.
The first is my favourite and the complete set is good,... especially the houses, with that red colour that is typical also for Islandic houses.
Never been to the Faroe Islands before, maybe I'll get there one day if I'm lucky :-)

Great tour of Faroe Island.

My fave.

Great landscape and tour of the place.
History still present..

Spectacular indeed.

I like this shot, people with hats are not often seen nowadays. Which is shame.
Some of your photos look familiar indeed.

I like this bridge, looks quite elegant.

I was on my back trip on Thursday, so I avoided this mess, fortunately.
This turf roof is old scandinavian tradition. I've seen similar roofs in Norway, but not so much as in Faroe islands, I guess that mild climate without snow in winter makes it better suited in Faroe islands. Interesting is that they use traditional birch bark as waterproof lower layer, something that does not grow there so they must be importing that all from Scandinavia.

There was cruise ship, not sure from where it came, there seemed to be quite lot of tourists, I heard lot of different languages.
My luggage was OK, just 24 hours later. I put my 40-150 f/2.8 lens into luggage, wrapped into clothing, to reduce weight of my photo backpack, even that lens was OK on arrival. But for return trip I put it into my carry-on backpack, just to be sure.

I want to participate more but I struggle without a threaded view.

It is a fresh shot from today.

I agree with you about Flat vs threaded view issue, very unfortunate state of affairs...

As to image, to me it's a perfect" light at the end of a tunnel " shot, full of contrast and great interest. Well seen.