Images Dated 2nd January 2016

Hell Bay, Bryher in a storm, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall. Around 1925

Glass lantern slide from a lecture, entitled Some Historic Cornish Beauty Spots, given by Cornishman and amateur photographer, Major Arthur William Gill, in around 1925. He was well known in Cornwall and elsewhere during the 1920s and 1930s for his presentations of stills and cine film to many groups including The Royal Institution of Cornwall, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the London Cornish Society. The quarter plate slides which he took prolifically with his ordinary camera are, in many cases, colour. These were painted by his own hand to great effect

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Storm waves off the coast of Praia do Norte, Nazare, Portugal. January

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A pile of salt in one of several areas of wetland in Cuatro Cienegas Biosphere Reserve

A pile of salt in one of several areas of wetland in Cuatro Cienegas Biosphere Reserve. Live stromatolites live in the Reserve pools. NASA has recently declared that the area may have links to the discovery of life on Mars as its adaptability of bioforms is unique on this planet. Cuatro Cienegas Biosphere Reserve, Chihuahua Desert, State of Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico

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