Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some very nice shots Daniel, though I can't help wondering what some of them would have looked like in colour,e.g. the autumn leaves on a stone. BTW, Kulturlandschaft is German too - cultivated landscape, man-made environment (doesn't quite hit the mark), heathland is a perfect example, a landscape resulting from overgrazing of woodland areas by sheep or pigs, usually in conjunction with the removal of trees by local inhabitants, e.g.L?neburger Heath in Germany mostly heather and Juniper bushes, which are poisonous to most animals, though not for us - we make Gin out of it. The process reverses slowly when birch trees start to grow, the soil retains more water, vegetation rots forming new humus (Peat) , other deciduous trees take root, becoming woods and forests again. It's also used to describe the current goings-on in the artistic world in a certain location or region (seems to have something to do with sheep and pigs too) ;-) Cheers Douglas Daniel Ridings wrote: >A quiet week, autumn is here. I missed most of the colors when I was >away, but there are still phases. > >http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/43.html > >Ewa and I take our week-end walks. On Saturday we went along a five >mile trail in Sandsj?backa and on Sunday we went on another one (felt >like 5 miles straight up, but since we came out at the same place, it >must have come down somewhere). > >Sandsj?backa is walking distance from where we live. There's a word I >don't know how to translate: kulturlandskap (culture-landscape, >literally). It implies that nature has not just taken its course, but >you can see signs of human existence; not necessarily building >remains, but even open landscape (signs of cultivation) and the like. > >Sandsj?backa is a mixture of large expanses of open heather (grazing >land), forests and lakes. I was away when the heather was in bloom. >Now I just get the sun in my eyes. > >http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/43alt1.html > >The land is public, and it is now a nature preserve. But before it >became a park, centuries before, the grazing rights had been assigned >to farms in the vicinity. These rights cannot be revoked (unless you >don't use them and the open landscape starts to revert to brush). Some >of the farms are quite far away and modern expansion cuts them off >>from the pastures. But they still use the area. > >http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/43alt2.html > >I must be getting old ... no action ... > >Best, >Daniel > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >