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Photo by Ian Thorpe

October 29, 2010 11:52 AM UTC (Updated: August 30, 2012 12:30 PM UTC)

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One of the themes I keep returning to for my landscape photographs is Reclaimd By Nature, beautiful vistas that quite recently the site of industrial activities. This shot of a setting sun over a lake in Farnborough, Hampshire is a man made landscape. During the vast urban expansion of London in the 19th century hundreds of pits were excavated as gravel and clay were extracted for the construction industry. The natural vegitation was devastated and the pits simply abandoned without any attempt to restore the land. They rapidly filled with water (none are much more than ten feet deep) and then nature took over and crated a new environment.

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Sue B.© The Sting IS Worse Than the Buzz Oct 29, 2010, 12:02pm UTC

Oh, that is exceptional! Breathtaking doesn't begin to describe it. What a capture with the clearest reflection!

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Ian Thorpe Oct 29, 2010, 12:09pm UTC

I'm good with reflections. It might be a symptom of narcissism :-)

Sue B.© The Sting IS Worse Than the Buzz Oct 29, 2010, 12:15pm UTC

Hahaha...get over yourself. I was thinking exactly the opposite. How anyone could observe such a phenomenally majestic moment and not be humbled enough to see a Creator is as mindboggling as the perception itself. :)

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aniko Oct 29, 2010, 2:23pm UTC

That's stunning.

Do you have a daylight picture of the place that shows to what extent nature has taken over?

Ian Thorpe Oct 29, 2010, 3:21pm UTC

No sorry, Farnborough is at the opposite end of the country to where I live so when I was working there I was always out of the office just after lunch on Friday and hitting the motorways hoping to beat the gridlock.

I did not find that place until late summer so the light was not great on my evening walks. But when the light is not great it can lead to the best photographs.

Trust me though, nature has completely reclaimed the site.

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