I have found some shots in my archive that are just right for this 'landscapes' topic.
 |
| High Force - on the River Tees in Teesdale |
The English writer Arthur Young arrived there, on horseback, with his wife in 1771. He wrote:
- "The whole river (no trifling one) divided by one rock into two vast torrents pours down a perpendicular precipice of near fourscore feet: The deluging force of the water throws up such a foam and misty rain, that the sun never shines without a large and brilliant rainbow appearing...
- After preaching at Cuthberton and in Teesdale, I went a little out of my way, to see one of the wonders of nature. The river Tees rushes down between two rocks, and falls sixty feet perpendicular into a basin of water sixty feet deep."
Back in the 1956 I went on a geology field trip to the island of Raasay just off Skye. The landscapes there were quite spectacular even in black and white.
 |
| St Andrews University students on Raasay |
 |
| Raasay |
The landscapes in the Yorkshire Dales are spectacular in a different way.
 |
| A view in Swaledale (Arkengarthdale?) |
 |
| Another Swaledale view |
All these shots were taken before the digital age. I wish I had kept a record of when and where the last two were taken.
For landscapes from other parts of the world check out what's been posted at Carmi's Thematic-photographic-294.
