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RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat). Mono shot with orange filter applied. Sanna Bay,Ardnamurchan Peninsula.Scotland
The Radical Newcastle Book was launched during the Newcastle Writers Festival held at the Newcastle Town Hall on the 22 March 2015.
The images here represent a slideshow prepared by Mr Gregg Heathcote for the event. They come from a variety of creators, sources and contributors.
They can be used for research and educational purposes, but cannot be republished without notifying the copyright owners of the individual images.
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As part of the AFLOAT recovery project, ephemeral artist Sue Berry joined with each community to create a temporary public artwork using items that workshop participants brought along together with objects found.These footprints symbolically connected the communities and enable people to discuss their experience of the 2010/2011 floods through art and community building.
Geotag is approx -- somewhere towards the outer portion of Resurrection Bay. There's a nesting site on the cliffs on the east edge out towards Cape Resurrection.
"A ship of stone, eternally afloat upon the Rhine, and eternally lying at anchor before the town of Pfalzgrafen." That is how Victor Hugo described Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, known as the Pfalz.
Burg Pfalzgrafenstein functioned as a toll-collecting station that was not to be ignored. This former stronghold is famous for its picturesque and unique setting. Its keep, a pentagonal tower with its point upstream, was erected 1327. Additional walls, defensive turrets and a gun bastion pointing upstream were added later. The Pfalz worked in concert with Burg Gutenfels and the fortified town of Kaub on the right side of the river. A chain across the river forced ships to submit, and uncooperative traders could be kept in the dungeon until a ransom was delivered. Unlike the vast majority of Rhine castles, "the Pfalz" was never conquered or destroyed, withstanding not only wars, but also the natural onslaughts of ice and floods by the river.
On the hill beyond the Pfalz are the ruins of once-formidable Castle Gutenfels. The castle, whose name means “solid rock”, was built around 1220 and withstood several sieges in the 16th century. In 1793, however, the castle was handed over to French troops without a fight. In 1806, Napoleon had the castle’s fortifications razed, reportedly because his arrival was not met with the appropriate gun salutes.