Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is geopolitical, but not in the way you might expect. If the Israelis, Syrians and Jordanese hadn't dammed, diverted, extracted and strangled the Jordan almost dry, it would be a lot bigger than it currently is. Water is a valuable commodity in arid climates (where I live is about as dry as this part of the middle east and I work with water, so I am acutely aware of this) and it's rivers that always suffer. The photos are very nice, it's a beautiful area. Marty On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > Note: These images include border and disputed areas. Please, no politics. > > Jordan River from the pre-1967 Syrian side. It's much smaller than your > would expect. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/israel/7-North/L1007569.jpg.html> > > Pre-1967 Syrian fortifications about 100 feet/30 meters up the lower > slopes of the Golan Heights, which begin rising just east of the river. > The second pictures shows why the barbed wire is still there. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/israel/7-North/L1007576.jpg.html> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/israel/7-North/L1007582.jpg.html> > > A view of part of the Israeli Hula valley from the Golan Heights (same > vantage point as above). We're about 100 feet (30m) up the slopes. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/israel/7-North/L1007580.jpg.html> > > Looking back at the Golan Heights from an Israeli farm in the center of > the Hula Valley. The top is about 3000 feet (915m) up. ?You can see how > the Golan Heights dominate the valley. From up there, if you can see it, > you can shell it. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/israel/7-North/L1007585.jpg.html> > > Tel Hai/Kiryat Shemona: Memorial to eight Israeli reserve soldiers, and a > fragment of the Katyusha rocket that killed them on this spot during the > beginning of the 2006 war in Lebanon. See my shadow on the left for scale. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/israel/7-North/L1007597.jpg.html> > > Looking into Syria (still lit by the sunset) from a viewpoint near the > current armistice line. The white buildings in the foreground are a UN > compound. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/israel/7-North/L1007611.jpg.html> > > Local Druze farmer, from the same viewpoint. ?He had some of the best > apples and honey I've ever tasted. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/israel/7-North/L1007617.jpg.html> > > --Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >