Autumn is upon us...

Early morning as the fog clears, Greenwich Park

El Caminito del Rey is a walkway, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Ardales in the province of Málaga, Spain. The walkway had fallen into disrepair and was partially closed for over a decade. The walkway is 1 metre (3 ft) in width, and rises over 100 metres (330 ft) above the river below.

The flower of the Floripondio, Devil’s Trumpet or Angel’s Trumpet (Brugmansia arborea), has hallucinogenic properties like all plants of the Datura family. Its shapes and colors, its branches, along with the effects it produces on the mind and consciousness, are part of the cultural imaginaries we weave with the natural world. Since ancient times and across all civilizations, human beings have experienced an intuition of “totality,” sought through rituals considered sacred due to their extraordinary essence. Thus, each culture seeks answers to its ancestral concerns. Mystery, enigma and secret, shadow, hiddenness and silence are words that come to mind when we think of the Floripondio.

The fast moving clouds danced around the foothills of the sacred mountain Illimani illuminating a majestic waterfall and a high altitude shelter hardly visible at the top of the waterfall.

I saw these spring onions and had to do something about it.

A series of black and white photos

Continuing to follow the rules of Dynamic Symmetry...

The Süleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. An inscription specifies the foundation date as 1550 and the inauguration date as 1557. Behind the qibla wall of the mosque is an enclosure containing the separate octagonal mausoleums of Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana).