Nature reclaiming

in his latest release, romain veillon invites us to ponder an intriguing question: what would the earth look like if humans suddenly disappeared?

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Machinery at the old gunpowder works, Ponsanooth, west Cornwall, photographed during my visit on 14 July.

The Old Piano Tree, California | Artist Jeff Mifflin’s Piano Tree was a so-called “living installation” set in a forested area just off the Disc Golf Course at California State University in Monterey Bay. Mifflin took an old stage piano and after some judicious sawing, made it appear an ancient tree was growing out of the old upright’s heart. The tree continued to grow even after it was unnaturally mated, however, and would be evolving today if a drunken music-hater had not taken his…

We humans often build roads and bridges, canals and ports, even entire cities at the expense of the environment. But nature isn't planning on giving up. On the contrary, it is determined to persevere, showing just how fragile our creations are.

Nature taking over, in a beautiful way.

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Sometimes a building just takes your breath away, you can forgive the damp walls, the flourishing plant life, the cracked and crumbling plaster. You can hear the walls whisper their never ending s…

One thing that I firmly believe all human beings share is our inner yearning for adventure. We might try and satisfy this calling with good movies, awesome video games, or top-tier tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons (as a Dungeon Master of several years, I’m guilty of this). However, at the end of the day, there’s no real substitute for going out into the field with your own two feet and starting your very own adventure going into the abandoned and mysterious corners of the Earth.

Seen in rural Shropshire this morning - how fab is this