Forty Locks
This is the final lock gate on the Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland. There are 39 locks on the canal and the final one is called lock 40 (where is the missing lock you may ask?). The gates are about 20 feet / 6 metres high and hold in the water at Bowling Basin on the River Clyde. On this side of the lock it is open to the sea or the tidal part of the River Clyde, hence the seaweed clinging to the lock.
The Forth and Clyde Canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. It is 35 miles (56 km) long and it runs from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling.
This photo is a 25 second exposure in near darkness with a polarising filter to saturate the wonderful rusting iron and seaweed colours of the lock gate and the water escaping through the cracks in the gate.
Forty Locks
This is the final lock gate on the Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland. There are 39 locks on the canal and the final one is called lock 40 (where is the missing lock you may ask?). The gates are about 20 feet / 6 metres high and hold in the water at Bowling Basin on the River Clyde. On this side of the lock it is open to the sea or the tidal part of the River Clyde, hence the seaweed clinging to the lock.
The Forth and Clyde Canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. It is 35 miles (56 km) long and it runs from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling.
This photo is a 25 second exposure in near darkness with a polarising filter to saturate the wonderful rusting iron and seaweed colours of the lock gate and the water escaping through the cracks in the gate.