Nuclear Foxgloves

Nuclear Foxgloves, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
- Bob Dylan

In the windblown wastelands of Dungeness the Nuclear Power Plants are framed by some wild Foxgloves blowing in the wind.

Dungeness A (foreground) was build in 1965 and closed down in 2006, it will be 2111 before it is fully decommissioned at a cost of £1.2 billion... another 100 years! Dungeness B (background) was built in 1983 and has just had its active life extended until 2018.

Dungeness Dreaming Series #2

*Samsung EX1 - 3 shot HDR

Dungeness Dreaming

Dungeness Dreaming, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

It's here where the land meets the sea,
flat, wilderness, desolate in it's beauty.
Pebble-dash shingle, stretches, runs free
for miles and miles.

It is here where the land merges into sky,
which covers like a blanket over your head.
Colours ever changing, as weathers break by
black to blue, grey to gold.

From Dungeness by Ann Rta

Dungeness is a desolate, surreal and beautiful place. A shingle headland jutting out into the English Channel, its designated as a National Nature Reserve (NNR), a Special Protection Area (SPA), a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and part of the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It is also home to the 4 Nuclear Reactors that make up the Dungeness Nuclear Power Station and to a scattered mixture of ramshackle huts, old beached fishing boats, shipping containers, cottages and designer cottage conversions along with odd scrap sculptures and the iconic Old Lighthouse pictured here.

Dungeness Dreaming Series #1

*Samsung EX1 - 3 shot HDR

Sunset Seagull Fly By

Sunset Seagull Fly By, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly."

— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

* Pentax K20D and Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm Lens

You Will Never Walk Alone

You Will Never Walk Alone, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone

- R. Rodgers and O. Hammerstein II

* Pentax K20D and Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm Lens - 3 shot HDR

Above Below Sunset Glow

Above Below Sunset Glow, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

"Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know."
— René Daumal

* Pentax K20D and Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm Lens

One Man and His Dog

One Man and His Dog, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

* Pentax K20D and Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm Lens

Layers of Meaning

Layers of Meaning, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers"
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

* Pentax K20D and Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm Lens - 3 shot HDR