[Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Lovely images, its about time we had some competition to GB's 
disgusting overload of English country side ;-) Keep them coming


On 03/10/2005, at 12:30 AM, Don Dory wrote:

> Well, after seeing daily scenes from the overpopulated British Isles 
> this
> year, I decided to see what wilderness there was in urban Atlanta. It 
> seems
> that there is quite a bit, sort of. First up is a playground buried in 
> the
> forest. These trees are probably 80-100 years old as that is when they
> stopped lumbar operations in Atlanta. The trees are so small because 
> bedrock
> is about half a meter below the soil.
>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/playgroundII
>  I liked the rock in the middle of the creek reflecting the forest
> surrounding and enclosing.
>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/rockI
>  Last up for this week is a creek wandering through this urban 
> wilderness.
> While the water has been slowly wearing away the bones of the earth 
> history
> has passed by with little effect on what is here. You would never know 
> that
> an entire civilization of Cherokee passed by, more than 7000 men died 
> in the
> immediate vicinty as recently as 1864, or that 150 yard uphill a
> neighborhood of cottages and bungalows is being gentrified into 
> McMansions.
>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/waterfallwide
>  Many thanks to Graham for getting me into a different surrounding than
> normal.
>  Enjoy, comment, shoot more pictures.
>  Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
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Alastair