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QBX005 and QBX004 cruise into Picton as a late 3112, container train from Harefield to Port Botany.
Picton, NSW
5/1/19
Aqua blue waters and amazing patterns and textures from above around this beautiful rocky cove that is a marine haven as fishing is prohibited here.
Sunrise overlooking Botany Bay, Sydney from the boat wharf jetty. Pretty clouds in shades of mango yellow and pinks colour the sky and reflect in the water.
Driving around waiting for the tide to go down on Botany Bay to take pics of the trees laying on the beach.
Fighting tiredness I couldn’t resist heading out late last night lured out by clearing skies and occasional stars peeking out. I didn’t have the energy for the long drive in search of dark skies so I just popped down the road to Maryhill to a location on the Port Dundas spur of the Forth & Clyde Canal. I’d visited this spot 3 years ago to check out the fabulous brick building that sits there. The area is called Botany. One internet source says prisoners were loaded on ships here destined for Botany Bay in Australia. Another more prosaic source says the name came about because the locals were all so rough they were felt destined for Botany Bay. The local gang was ‘The Butny’. Sadly the most credited explanation is even duller: a school called The Botany stood in the area. The fabulous brick building on the right was built for Glasgow Lead and Colour Works (Alexander Ferguson and Company). It was on the ‘At risk’ register for several years but in 2019 conversion of the upper floor into residential flats started.
It always feels way scarier standing in populous areas like this with blokes passing by en route to last orders at the bar or the all-night McDonalds rather than some quiet, dark abandoned building...
did not get my rain I was hoping for on Van Island, but this fog/fine drizzle was perfect too for this location.
A few more shots from some recent trips.
Botany Bay on a freezing day in February. Still a lot of walkers and their dogs out enjoying the breeze.
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I'd like to say that all compositional elements of this picture were planned although in reality half of it was by accident. I had deliberately set up the 2 primary objects (the sea stack and the tide pool) in a counterpoint relationship on the opposing thirds. Only in the editing process did I notice that there is also a visual vortex with all lines leading to the distant cloud in somewhat of a vanishing point.
23.5.2021.
Class 91 Electric No 91110 'Battle of Britain' races north with 1D14, the 12.33 LKX - Leeds LNER passenger service.
DVT 82223 was at the rear of the train.
Seen here having just past Botany Bay crossing.
Beautiful purple Rock Purslane, complimented by a dark gray background making the already outstanding color pop out in graceful splendor.
I love live oak alleys and how they seem to frame roads effortlessly. This road screams to be photographed. This was my first time to Botany Bay Plantation. Hopefully not the last.
These plants are found in tropical America. They can be raised in the hot house or home. The bloom mostly in the summer and fall and they need a minimum winter temperature of 55 degrees when grown under glass. Their leathery leaves have spines around the perimeters and as they grow directly from the base they overlap each other to form a long tube from which the flower spike emerges. Some have scarlet and blue flowers, some have pink flower heads with blue flowers and some have red, yellow and black flowers. The foliage also may have variegated colors such as maroon and green, green with white stripes, or completely red. They can grow up to 12 inches long
A walk along the Bow River on this day provided the usual waterfowl.
I also noticed the lovely designs in this fallen tree after I sat on it to rest for a minute.
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Pulling up at the old 'staff hut' to pull the 'peg' for the section to Cooks River is Freight Corp's 8047/ 8017 on T106 to Enfiled Yard.
This location has changed a lot with the Electric Staff gone, and overhead bridge replaces the walk way pedestrian crossing just behind me but Kellogg's still remains in the right of the shot.
Thursday 6th Januuary 2000.