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Upper structure of the 1932 railroad swing bridge over the St. Johns River at Lake Monroe. Shot in digital infrared.
The Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum (Map) is an accredited Canadian Forces Museum located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum, more commonly known as The Ontario Regiment (RCAC) 'Ferret Club', traces its roots in Oshawa to 1980, having grown to become the Historic Vehicle Section of the Ontario Regiment (RCAC) Museum. The museum's maintainers are a uniquely skilled and dedicated group of volunteer civilian military vehicle enthusiasts and include several current and former members of The Ontario Regiment (RCAC), other units of the Canadian Forces, the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and the Royal Canadian Army Cadets. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshawa_Military_and_Industrial_Museum]
A pylon for the new Hwy 44 bridge over the St. Johns River at DeLand, Florida stands up against a cloud-spangled sky. Shot in digital infrared.
Calm water reflects the bright lights in this night shot at the Saint Lucie Lock and Dam in Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
Another of my over one hundred photos of St Paul's Cathedral and the Millennium Footbridge over the river Thames in London.
The bridge links Bankside to the area know as The City of London and has a beautiful view of St Paul's Cathedral as you cross northward. This photo was taken with my Samsung Phone Camera. If you have seen the Harry Potter Films you would have seen the bridge with wizards flying under and over it. I have included a link below to St Paul's wiki page for those interested in history.
The concrete beams holding up the roadbed of the new fixed bridge over the Saint Johns River at highway 44 just west of Deland, Florida. Shot in digital infrared.
A normal US municipal, wet-barrel fire hydrant is shown. The hydrant offers two 2½-inch (6.35cm) National Hose Thread connections and a 4½-inch (~11.43cm) National Hose Thread connection.
The modern buzzword in public safety is interoperability. The 2½-inch National Hose Thread connections are a United States nationwide standard. There's probably a small number of community water systems that use hose and hydrants with pipe thread or some other non-standard thread. Generally, one could drive a fire engine from Texas to California — or from California to Texas — and your 2½-inch hose should connect to the fire hydrants.
What's the difference between a wet barrel and a dry barrel hydrant? It's just like the name implies: a wet barrel has water inside it at all times. A dry barrel has water only after you turn it on.
Wet barrel:
* Has a valve for each opening or connection.
* Will imitate a geyser if broken off by a collision.
* Has more parts to maintain, (three valves in this case).
* Does not require you to turn off the water to add more hose connections.
* Might freeze in severe cold weather.
Dry barrel:
* Has one valve at the top of the hydrant for all openings or connections.
* Will lay on the ground and get in the way if broken off by a collision.
* Has fewer parts to maintain, (one valve in the base).
* Requires you to turn off the water during a fire to add more hose connections.
* The water below ground would have to freeze to affect the hydrant.
Need to add hose connections during a fire? If you have a dry barrel hydrant, depending on conditions everybody my have to back out of the building until the water is back on.
The fire agency, water company, county, or city water department would make decisions about what kinds of hydrants are used in your neighborhood. In the US, hydrant standards are created by American Water Works Association (AWWA) and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
People shown are practicing laying a five-inch supply line (hose) from a hydrant to a simulated fire scene. In my opinion, when you've done this so many times that you don't have to think about the steps, training is complete.
"My girl don't go for smokin'
And liquor just make her flinch
Seem she'll go for nothin'
'Cept for my big five inch"
(Apologies to Fred Weismantel and Aerosmith)
Is your "girl" the fire chief?
Journalism Grade Image
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The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle-Carlisle Railway across Batty Moss in the valley of the River Ribble at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct, built by the Midland Railway, is 28 miles (45 km) north-west of Skipton and 26 miles (42 km) south-east of Kendal. It is a Grade II* listed structure.
The underside of this rusty old railroad trestle was seen in historic downtown Melbourne, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.
This is the east side of the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California -- about a 7-minute walk from our new digs. The bridge is on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers. There is a link to a Wikipedia article here: www.wikiwand.com/en/Colorado_Street_Bridge_(Pasadena,_California)
This was just at sunset, but true west is to the right as this photo is oriented. This one will get more attention with my Canon and a tripod!
Continuing Hwy 44 bridge construction on the east bank of the St. Johns River. Shot in digital infrared.
Work/construction site below the roadbed of the new Hwy 44 bridge over the St. Johns River at DeLand. Shot in digital infrared.
Built in 1961 for Yokohama Port’s centennial, Marine Tower once held the record as the world’s tallest lighthouse. Renovated in 2009, it now features observation decks, light shows, and stunning views of the city and Mt. Fuji.
Démolition du bâtiment Kronos sur le plateau du Kirchberg à Luxembourg Ville.
P R É S E N T A T I O N
Construction : 1995
Démolition : 2025 → 2026
Fonction : Bureaux
A R C H I T E C T U R E
Niveaux : R+8
Hauteur : ≈35,00 m
L O C A L I S A T I O N
Pays : Luxembourg🇱🇺
Ville : Luxembourg-Ville
Quartier : Kirchberg
Adresse : rue Edward Steichen, 10
The architectural evolution of Montreal's infrastructure is captured here, showing the intricate green steel truss work of the original Champlain Bridge alongside the sleek, towering white pylons of the new Samuel De Champlain Bridge. The scene is set against a bright blue sky with scattered clouds over the calm waters of the Saint Lawrence River, with freight trucks visible on the new span.
An artsy look at the London Eye.
The London Eye gives great views of central London and I thought it well worth the cost when I went on it. The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3 million visitors annually. I took this photo with my Canon DSLR camera on a mixed sunshine & clouds but very warm day in London. More info below at the Wiki link
Arriving right on time at 6:52pm, a Metra "Surfliner" rolls into the west-suburban Bartlett station on the Milwaukee-West District. An interesting quirk of this stop is that when they built the new station (visible in the back right), they retained the platform from the old station (that I'm standing on) on Main 1 for westbound trains. This allows westbounds to clear the main street through downtown, as opposed to blocking it every time they pull into town.
This is Metra's train 2239, an all-stops local from Union Station to Elgin's Big Timber Rd.
The leader, F59PHi no 81 came to Metra in 2019 from Amtrak California, where it had been serving on the Pacific Surfliners. It was built by EMD in 1998, and arguably, its retirement gig is more taxing than its "career."
Night scene of light trails traffic speeds through an intersection in Gangnam center business district of Seoul at Seoul city, South Korea
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn. It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges. The bridge was opened to traffic on December 31, 1909.
* Main span: 1,470 ft (448 m)
* Length of suspension cables: 3224 ft (983 m)
* Total length: 6,855 ft (2,089 m)
The neighborhood near the bridge on the Brooklyn side, once known as Fulton Landing has been gentrified and is called DUMBO, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.(wiki)
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A view up the River Thames towards central London. Photo taken on a bright, beautiful & hot day in London from Butlers Wharf with my Samsung phone Camera.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust founded in 1282. The bridge was constructed to give better access to the East End of London, which had expanded its commercial potential in the 19th century. The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra, Princess of Wales in 1894.
The tunnel may have been abandoned in the early 70s but i think the car left inside is in worse shape.
Panorama 4 > 1
Aufgenommen von einem vielleicht 4 Meter hohen Haufen aus am Flussufer gelagerten Flußbau-Steinblöcken (Dammkrone = Augenhöhe)./
Shot from a perhaps 4 meters high heap of river training boulders camped on the waterfront (crest = eye level).
Another of my over one hundred photos of St Paul's Cathedral and the Millennium Footbridge over the river Thames in London.
The bridge links Bankside to the area know as The City of London and has a beautiful view of St Paul's Cathedral as you cross northward. This photo was taken with my Samsung Phone Camera. If you have seen the Harry Potter Films you would have seen the bridge with wizards flying under and over it. I have included a link below to St Paul's wiki page for those interested in history.
Our lockdown 3.0 is over, we are allowed out of our houses... and to travel locally. We went somewhere NEW, the intatke at Ardingly where I had a go with the Cokin 10stop ND that has been sitting in my bag for a while now.
I'm looking for tips on eliminating the internal reflections when I'm using the 10stop ND ... the sun was on my shoulder hence artifacts are unexpected...
This year my cameras are going to get some exercise having not had proper usage for 12 months.
My apologies for being out of practice...
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped in vain would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.
so this was my another road trip from Miami to New York. i knew it will be 3000 miles plus trip but what i didn't know was how lucky i will get with the ducks. these ducks are weather, winds, sunsets, sunrises and photo cops. for good photos all these ducks must be in a row. after looking at these photos i am pretty happy the way they turned out. hope you enjoy them the way i enjoyed my trip and photos :)
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