View allAll Photos Tagged Approach
The rear of Marshall's Factory (now the Marshall's Yard shopping centre), in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. This area has very recently been tidied up, as a new housing development springs up around. This factory wall is likely to be opened up with shop fronts eventually, after years and years of dereliction following the demolition of Gainsborough's magnificent Central Station in 1974 or 75. The Station is to the left hand side of the photo.
40145 approaches Falmouth Docks with 1Z45 1750 Penzance - Falmouth Docks - Penzance leg of the CFPS "East Lancs Champion" railtour on Saturday 15th May 2010.
The evening leg of the superb two-day tour that paired D1015 & 40145. Even though it was a railtour, Falmouth along with St Ives amd Newquay were outrageous branches to visit and undoubtedly the first time a 40 has been.
A beery night in Penzance was followed the next day with visits to St Ives and Newquay - all with storming runs off both machines, especially after they were paired at Plymouth for the run back to Oxford.
This shot was taken at 2055hrs with just enough light at the time for the shot. I don't think if it ever happens again, that we'd be looking at a daytime trip along the Falmouth (or other Cornish) branches.
This picture was taken approaching Barrmill station on the line from Lugton to Giffen RNAD. The line closed in 1996 but everything is still left in situ. This view was taken looking towards Lugton.
Approaching the Elwha Gorge where Elwha Dam was once located. This section of river was under Aldwell Reservoir. Photo by Thomas O'Keefe.
Center Harbor, NH.
August 24-30, 2014.
I came to this crazy beautiful place on Monday and I don't have many words to describe it. Enchanting is one. The building itself is an old Catholic church, built at the turn of the century in Center Harbor, New Hampshire, which is now dubbed Star & Snake. Natan Alexander and K Lenore Siner birthed Star & Snake from a combined dream to create an inspirational space for creation, study and celebration.
As partners and artists committed to realizing beauty and excellence in all that they do, Natan and K graciously welcomed me to enjoy and co-create Star and Snake with them in a week-long artist residency, which I came to with the following aims:
To make body art; process art; earth art and earth works;
To pay tribute to the narrative and poetry of Ana Mendieta. To find ways that re-interpret her work in relation to the site, space and land I find myself on;
To make visible the earth, ephemeral phenomena and conditions;
To match the frequency of my body with the earth element. To approach my work from a place that is slow, present and embodied;
To make works that are impermanent, to communicate in as close a medium to life as possible.
View full project description at my blog here:
www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5779609926102109142#edit...
Compared to the other munros I tackled during my vacations, Ben Lawers was by far the easiest to climb. Nonetheless it was fun too and an enjoyable walk.
152 approaches Newbridge with the 11.00 Dublin Heuston - Galway.
All photographs are my copyright and must not be used without permission. Unauthorised use will result in my invoicing you £1,500 per photograph and, if necessary, taking legal action for recovery.
We took a boat from Elounda to the island of Spinalonga, a very pleasant trip in its own right. Nowadays the island is best known as the setting for Victoris Hislop's novel 'The Island' based on an island leper colony.
As this view clearly shows the island was not originally intended as a leper colony. The Venetians occupied the area from the 13th to the 17th centuries. (It is probably no coincedence that the island of Guidecca in Venice was also known as Spinalunga). The shallow seas in Elounda bay were ideally for the production of salt and Spinalonga island had a key strategic position at the entrance to the bay.
In the 16th century the Ottoman Turks began to take a keen interest in the area so the Venetians decided to fortify the island using the latest techniques. This including building two Mezzaluna Bastions, one at each end of the island, plus high defensive walls where there were no natural cliffs.
The fortifications proved to be very effective as the Turks invaded the island of Crete in 1645 but Spinalonga did not surrender to them for another 60 years.
The final Turkish inhabitants left in 1903 when the island was designated a leper colony. In what now seems a rather barbaric approach, people with leprosy were transferred to from the main island to Spinalonga, provided with a small allowance and left to their own devices. However, at that time there was no known cure for leprosy and it was thought to be highly contagious.
Conditions for the inhabitants changed for the better after 1930 when a law student, Epameinondas Remoundakis, was sent to the island. He started a process of establishing a more 'normal' lifestyle on the island encouraging people to help each other and work to provide more creature comforts. In time a cafe, cinema, theatre and even a small church were established. People also fell in love, married and had children, some of whom grew up on the island without ever catching the disease.
In 1948 a cure for leprosy was discovered and the inhabitants gradually left until the colony was finally closed in 1957.
An inbound Metra train shoves out of the Cumberland station and is about to slam over the UP Milwaukee Sub and CN Waukesha Sub at Deval.
A late #3, Southwest Chief, nears Hill 582 as it enjoys a daytime run down the Cajon Pass, that was blanketed in snow courtesy of an extremely cold winter storm the day before.
While the Cajon Pass is known to get snow from time to time, it is rare for it to get this much snow. The tracks in the foreground are near the summit of the pass and Main 3, on the left is completely covered by the snow.
Freightliner liveried 66619 approaches Wellingborough with the 09.57 Bletchley RMC - Peak Forest Cemex Sidings bogie hoppers.
All photographs are my copyright and must not be used without permission. Unauthorised use will result in my invoicing you £1,500 per photograph and, if necessary, taking legal action for recovery.
Sentinel - by Tim Tolkien (talented family - yes he's JRR's great-nephew)
Stands on a roundabout locally known as Spitfire Island next to the Castle Bromwich Jaguar (engine) factory on the outskirts of Birmingham. it's on the approach to the M6.
When I worked in the West Midlands I drove past it regularly - you can actually see it on the horizon from the M6 between junctions 4a and 5 if you know where to look - and I always infended to stop and photograph it. But it took a business trip to Brum before I actually DID park up and take the time.