Thanks Tom. I stand corrected. I do tend to spout off irelevantly, so
apologies. I made an assumption, should be less verbal at times.
But I have learned from this!
My home is under the northern approaches of two airports, and indeed
it takes a trek for anything near pristine... an hpour north on the
freeway and abotu the same one East or West it what it takes to get
anway from it, if even then. One reason I don't get out myself for
much nature recording.
Thanks for the information, I have not been there at all this lifetime!
Lou
Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Feb 26, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Tom Williams wrote:
> Lou,
>
> Something important to remember, and very true in general. In fact
> aside
> from a couple of coastal lagoons the only sizable lakes within 100
> miles of
> here (Dawlish, in the south-western UK) are man-made, the biggest
> natural
> ones being no more than ponds. Some are reservoirs, some are
> artificial
> lakes in the grounds of country houses, and the remainder are
> flooded clay,
> gravel or sand workings. The most remote of these are the upland
> reservoirs
> within the Dartmoor National Park, especially early in the morning.
> During a
> holiday in early May I'm hoping to spend at least one dawn on the
> shores of
> one of these.
>
> Having spent a little time in the SF Bay area I would imagine that
> although
> there's plenty of wonderful landscapes very close to the city, to
> get far
> enough from the urban areas and their associated freeways and
> airports to
> find an environment free from human noise must involve quite a
> journey!
>
> The closest I've come to a truly natural soundscape is the pine
> forests of
> central Sweden - the dense conifers are very good at absorbing
> sound, so
> it's possible to walk no more than a mile into the forest and hear
> nothing
> but the finches in the trees and a diver (of the feathered kind of
> course)
> on a nearby lake. A wonderful experience and one I'd really like to
> revisit
> with my recording equipment one day.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom W.
>
> 2009/2/24 Lou Judson <>
>
>> Mental shift: The lakes were there first, thus the roads and urban
>> areas are near the lakes, not the other way round. Too bad, same
>> result, machines dominate the soundscape... way too prevalent in this
>> overcowded world!
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