The Viaduct Millau the highest bridge in the world designed by Sir Norman Foster and on one of the great drives through France....... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Okay I know this is owned by the one man cash machine that has bank rolled that lot down the Kings Road, but having seen this in the flesh so to speak, it docked next to us in Gibraltar whilst we on a cruise, it is a thing of beauty....... please log in to view this image
He was in Scotland last year on a fishing holiday with friends, and spent a couple if days docked locally - here it is sailing past my house, away off to Arran...
We are conditioned to see ‘raw nature’ like untamed coastlines and mountain wildernesses as the essence of beauty. But for me the ancient engineered landscapes, like the mountain rice paddies in Indonesia and the Philippines, the fields of Tuscany and Umbria and the dry walled farms of the Cotswolds and Yorkshire Dales remind you that sometimes we enhance nature.
I remember seeing waves like these on a visit to Bridlington a few years back. Awesome nature at it's most powerful...