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The Midland Pullman heading south through Corrour station after the weekend at Fort William. The highest mainline station in the UK at 408m above sea level. Low cloud base but dry so not that bad, atmospheric some may say.
Day 15
It rained on and off most of the night, lots of wind too, but now the sky was mostly clear, only a few wispy clouds hovering over Merriam Peak. The fish were jumping while photographing sunrise. After taking sunrise photos I tried fishing, but no luck. After packing up I hiked northwest from Moon lake to Elba lake. Elba lake looked more interesting for photography, I'll have to stay there next time. I saw a tent there but no people. I reached French Canyon by following the creek flowing from Elba lake. Upon reaching the canyon, I turned west and followed a trail to a creek that flowed from the falls that cascade down from Royce Lakes. I stopped there for breakfast.
After eating I left the French Canyon trail and ascended diagonally up the sloping canyon wall through patchy forest and talus fields. Today is really hot day. Above me the clouds are building towards the west. The forest is becoming denser and I finally reached the creek coming from Merriam Lake, and the non-maintained trail that follows the creek. Turning north to follow the creek instead of the trail, (because the creek doesn't just disappear like the trail only to reappear in two places at once) I started to make my way to the meadowlands beneath Merriam Lake.
The clouds have begun to block the sun and are spreading to cover the whole sky, finally a break from the heat. I hope I can reach a good camping spot by the lake before the rain starts.
I reached the small unnamed lake just south of Merriam, at first I thought this was it but I remember what the guy I met at Paiute Pass trail head told me, that Merriam Lake is huge, this one appeared too small, so I checked my map and sure enough this wasn't Merriam Lake. I was going to continue north, but as soon as I put the map back in my pocket there was a rumble of thunder in the distance. I began to hurry. More thunder. I wasn't sure how much farther so I started looking for a place to shelter. THUNDER! That one was close and loud. Time to drop pack and get my rain jacket and waterproof pack cover out. I covered my pack and then I realize that I'm on top of a hill! Lightning on the other side of Merriam peak. Leaving my pack on the hill I ran downhill towards a group of trees. (I know we are told not to shelter under trees in a thunderstorm but there are no large rocks or anything else to shelter under and I don't want to be the tallest thing or out in the open either.) The thunder is closer now and sounds almost electronic in the way it reverberates off the jagged granite peaks. A light rain begins to fall, and I can see tendrils of lightning as they reach down from the cloud base and disappear behind the peaks and ridges. The majority of the storm appears to be over the bear lakes area to the north where I will be heading tomorrow. After about an hour the lightning strikes less frequently and the thunder becomes more distant, and then subsides altogether and all that is left is a light rain. I feel it is finally safe to venture back to my pack. I hiked the last little bit to Merriam lake (10932) in the light, gentle rain. After reaching a good spot I waited for the rain to let up so I could set my tent up. Once that was accomplished I wandered over to the outflow creek to fish but I had no luck. I started looking for a good place to get pictures at sunset, and I found a beautiful pond just a bit further down the creek from where I was fishing.
I went back to my tent and made some tea, (chai green tea) and returned to the pond and photographed with tea in one hand and camera in the other.
Once below the cloud base, the rugged but intensively farmed (rice) landscape is revealed as our Airbus heads north again into the Paro Chhu river valley. Great fun as the valley sides close in and the plane performs numerous changes of direction as it pushes closer to Paro.
# Travelling on Tuesdays (retrospective)
It's blue hour on January 30th, 2020 and an eastbound Metra "Scoot" rushes towards its next station stop at Elmhurst, Illinois.
I haven't been up to much photographically lately. I'm having trouble matching free time and good light up together. So not much new, alas. Hopefully I can get a rhythm going again soon.
In the meantime, I have a couple of odds and ends projects going. One is trying out Nikon's surprise announcement of NX Studio. It's a processing/database program similar to Adobe Lightroom. I've had misgivings for awhile about where Adobe is going with Lightroom and have been mildly looking for a replacement for if and when Adobe drops the Classic version of Lightroom and forces everyone to use the cloud based Lightroom. I'm not going to subscribe to Adobe's cloud service just to process and catalog my photos.
I'm still working out my feelings on NX Studio (it was just announced a couple of days ago, so I haven't been able to work my way through all of it yet) but it's nice to know that there's a free Lightroom-esque program for my Nikon files available. The processing part of NX Studio is basically the same as Capture NX-D which I always found gave the best results for RAW processing of Nikon files.
I've also been digging through some old forgotten folders. This shot was one of hundreds that I had forgotten about on my little Coolpix A. It's about as technically imperfect as it gets but there's an aesthetic to it that I think I like. Even if it's trash (which it well might be) at least it's something to post. Given that I'm not producing anything lately, posting a potential garbage picture like this is at least something...
Here's hoping I can find some well aligned free time and good light soon.
As I find you here again;
A thought runs through my mind;
Our love is like a circle;
Let's go 'round one more time.
This photo whilst not something I would necessarily do today was taken to replicate a photo from 2009. I had just started photographing aeroplanes then. The first inflight photo I uploaded, the first Ryanair I ever flew on.
In a different world entirely too.
Whilst thinking about this photo on the way home last night I decided to start a list of things were different in 2009, feel free to chip in with anything that's different to today.
Beneath the list, I have referenced the original photo from all those years ago.
This aircraft had different seats and lighting. (Now has BSI hybird layout)
Aircraft has been repainted.
Smart phones weren't such a thing.
People still had landline phones.
Facebook was still in its infancy.
Memory sticks were used over Cloud based Drives
E-Cigrettes weren't a thing as such
Tablet PCs wre still a long way off.
No self service in Tesco.
HST were the mainstay of British intercity travel.
**No Alexa/Google Home Hub
I thought this wren's face just summed up my feelings on the weather this year :-) Tired of freezing or having very thick cloud or rain :-( Anyone else fed up?
(It is 12 degrees here today. The cloud base is almost on the ground, and we have had thick, extremely wetting, drizzle most of the day)
July 6, 2025 - North Central Kansas US
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Evening Clouds that I have played with using some of the Nik Collection.
Base Edit in DxO PhotoLab 3
NIK Color Efex Pro 4
NIK DFine 2
Mammatus Clouds, or "breast-clouds", are fascinating formations in the sky, made mostly from the cumulus cloud base. Although they are not a sign that a tornado is about to form, they often accompany tornado-producing storms, or even may be direct byproduct of tornado activity - an aftermath of severe thunderstorms.
Taken with an old Pentax camera.I was just amazed at these clouds..I stepped out as a bad storm had just went through and this is what I saw in the sky.. kind of eerie! I had to let a little bit of the tree top and telephone wire in pic so I'd remember which way the clouds were going.
Camera Model Name:Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Artist:SARAH H. ALSAYEGH
Copyright:SARAH H. ALSAYEGH
Exposure Time:1/6
F Number:14
Exposure Program:Manual
ISO:100
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
Flash:Off, Did not fire
Scene Capture Type:Standard
Lens Model:EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Seems like this sun pillar is reflecting off the cloud base of thin cirrostratus. Surface temperature was 20F. Taken 12 minutes before sunrise.
on the recent trip to snowdonia we did get some lucky breaks in the cloud base with the sun coming through in patches.
Las nubes cúmulos pertenecen a las Nubes de Crecimiento Vertical. Son nubes esponjosas de color blanco o gris y, parecen motas de algodón flotando en el cielo. Las nubes cúmulos tienen un margen bien definido y una base plana. Generalmente la base de las nubes cúmulos está a una altura de 1 000 metros y tienen 1 kilómetro de ancho.
Cumulus clouds belong to the Clouds with Vertical Growth. Fluffy clouds are white or gray, cotton balls appear floating in the sky. Cumulus clouds have a well-defined margin and a flat base. Generally the cumulus cloud base is at a height of 1000 meters, have 1 kilometer wide.
Day 15
It rained on and off most of the night, lots of wind too, but now the sky was mostly clear, only a few wispy clouds hovering over Merriam Peak. The fish were jumping while photographing sunrise. After taking sunrise photos I tried fishing, but no luck. After packing up I hiked northwest from Moon lake to Elba lake. Elba lake looked more interesting for photography, I'll have to stay there next time. I saw a tent there but no people. I reached French Canyon by following the creek flowing from Elba lake. Upon reaching the canyon, I turned west and followed a trail to a creek that flowed from the falls that cascade down from Royce Lakes. I stopped there for breakfast.
After eating I left the French Canyon trail and ascended diagonally up the sloping canyon wall through patchy forest and talus fields. Today is really hot day. Above me the clouds are building towards the west. The forest is becoming denser and I finally reached the creek coming from Merriam Lake, and the non-maintained trail that follows the creek. Turning north to follow the creek instead of the trail, (because the creek doesn't just disappear like the trail only to reappear in two places at once) I started to make my way to the meadowlands beneath Merriam Lake.
The clouds have begun to block the sun and are spreading to cover the whole sky, finally a break from the heat. I hope I can reach a good camping spot by the lake before the rain starts.
I reached the small unnamed lake just south of Merriam, at first I thought this was it but I remember what the guy I met at Paiute Pass trail head told me, that Merriam Lake is huge, this one appeared too small, so I checked my map and sure enough this wasn't Merriam Lake. I was going to continue north, but as soon as I put the map back in my pocket there was a rumble of thunder in the distance. I began to hurry. More thunder. I wasn't sure how much farther so I started looking for a place to shelter. THUNDER! That one was close and loud. Time to drop pack and get my rain jacket and waterproof pack cover out. I covered my pack and then I realize that I'm on top of a hill! Lightning on the other side of Merriam peak. Leaving my pack on the hill I ran downhill towards a group of trees. (I know we are told not to shelter under trees in a thunderstorm but there are no large rocks or anything else to shelter under and I don't want to be the tallest thing or out in the open either.) The thunder is closer now and sounds almost electronic in the way it reverberates off the jagged granite peaks. A light rain begins to fall, and I can see tendrils of lightning as they reach down from the cloud base and disappear behind the peaks and ridges. The majority of the storm appears to be over the bear lakes area to the north where I will be heading tomorrow. After about an hour the lightning strikes less frequently and the thunder becomes more distant, and then subsides altogether and all that is left is a light rain. I feel it is finally safe to venture back to my pack. I hiked the last little bit to Merriam lake (10932) in the light, gentle rain. After reaching a good spot I waited for the rain to let up so I could set my tent up. Once that was accomplished I wandered over to the outflow creek to fish but I had no luck. I started looking for a good place to get pictures at sunset, and I found a beautiful pond just a bit further down the creek from where I was fishing.
I went back to my tent and made some tea, (chai green tea) and returned to the pond and photographed with tea in one hand and camera in the other.
487_GHP_SoireePortraits_2019.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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A RED KITE, wheeling just below the cloud base at altitude, above my garden. A rarity over South London borders.
Camera hand held and around 90X
Virga (aka fallstreak, fall-stripe) are generally streaks of rain or snow appearing to hang under a cloud or tapering down from the cloud base, descending and evaporating before reaching the ground. The name of this supplementary cloud feature derives from the Latin virga meaning 'rod' or 'stripe'. It also is an acronym for "Variable Intensity Rain Gradient Aloft", meaning the rain gradient varies in intensity dependent upon altitude. As the precipitation evaporates as it falls, its intensity lessens, hence; virga."
Well yesterday afternoon it started as steady persistent rain and it hasn't stopped yet - so a full 24 hours of rain here in Hemyock (so far):
Met Office weather warning: Severe heavy rain to drench UK Today.
The warning covers much of Devon and Somerset, from Dartmouth right up to Lynton.
Regions and local authorities under warning as Devon, Somerset and Torbay.
This is a 'yellow' warning, with the Met Office rating the likelihood of impact 'very likely'.
Here there is some localised flooding and the cloud base has got lower and lower during the day, it will soon be fog.
Maybe its time to test how weatherproof my newest lens is.
Stay safe, get vaccinated when you can.
(The ends in sight but its not over yet).
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The White Cloud.
Based on a drawing of ca.1831-2, this landscape was painted a year or two later. The composition reverses the general lines of The Bright Cloud (Manchester City Art Gallery) painted at about the same period. The atmosphere is altogether lighter, with animated figures returning home to the cottage under a huge white cloud.
Ashmolean Museum Gallery, Oxford.
Each frame from top left to lower right only took 6/240 sec.
The step leader only took 3/240 sec to move ~8000 feet from cloud base to ground. Once the strike became grounded, the scene exploded in blinding light but was gone almost as fast as it was created.
Taken with an iPhone 11. Lightning was 1.5 miles away.
Picture of the Day
I felt like Jia Dao's hermit today as I ventured up onto a cloud hidden Kinder Scout. The rain wasn't quite as unrelenting as last time, but still; it had a steady enough rhythm to it.
Ringing Roger has featured in a few photographs in my portfolio as it's a great place to see how layers of sediment were deposited and solidified in succession, forming what are called "bedding planes" in technical geology speak. Over time the wind and rain have also had their influence on the shape and form of these rocks, creating (in my opinion) some of the most interesting gritstone sculptures to be found in High Peak.
I managed to get below the cloud-base eventually, the rest of the day spent mainly (and fruitfully) scouting out the leeside of Win Hill for compositions to re-visit in heather season...I think I found some great scenes. We'll see in August!
Looking southwest from Homolovi State Park at a monsoon thunderstorm near Williams, Arizona. The red desert color is being reflected into the cloud base as torrents of rain sculpt it—10 August 2016.
For an hour or so this afternoon we had the most amazing clouds over Garioch, ahead of a thundery trough, which was slow moving over western Aberdeenshire and the Grampians. The cloud base looks to be around 2000-3000 ft, so I guess you would call then undulating stratocumulus or Asperatus clouds.
With slightly more sun than was forecast I ventured to Acton Bridge Station as there were 2 freights due through within a few minutes of each other. I fell lucky with the sun as both workings passed through during breaks in the ever building cloud base.
First through was 60096 “Impetus” seen here with 6E10 the 11:25 from Liverpool BioMass terminal - Drax AES, crossing over from the fast onto the slow line to run through Acton Bridge station before accessing the mid-Cheshire line at Hartford Jcn.
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The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground here in Nottingham. This year, 2022, it runs for 10 days, usually it's 3 days. Final day 09 Oct 2022.
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Wheeling just below the cloud base at altitude, above my garden
Camera hand held and approx 90X mag.
Sorry about the lousy quality, but it was very high.
I revisited this location recently with my new Pentax K-1. You have to stand around a fair while here to avoid traffic at the intersection. The green glow at the top of the image is caused by a search light in downtown Montreal that was illuminating the cloud base. The last time I imaged this, I struggled in post processing to remove numerous sensor reflection artefacts that were present using same lens on the Sony A7. No such artefact in this image I am happy to say. Aside form being a big fan of Pentax cameras, the biggest reason I ditched my Sony A7 was its unpredictable performance at nigh with point light sources in the field of view. Taken with a Samyang 14mm f/2.8 mounted on a Pentax K-1. The lens was sopped down to f/11. Exposure was 20s at ISO 100.
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This morning's cloud base started developing into something interesting at about 7.00am. I believe that these are altocumulus stratoformis undulatus clouds.
This statue of the founder of Montréal stands in Place D’Armes. I noticed a green patch of light caused by a searchlight in the downtown areas illuminating the cloud base above Maisonneuve’s head and decided to attempt an image. Because there was a wide range of lighting in the area, I have used LightRoom to HDR merge four exposures from -3EV to 0EV in 1 EV steps. I am not a huge fan of ‘overcooked’ HDR images, so I hope I have not gone too far with this myself. Some stylisation was applied using ON1 Photo 10.5. The image was taken with a Samyang 14mm f/2.8 mounted on a Pentax K-1. The lens was sopped down to f/11. Exposure was 25s at ISO 100.
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Darwin Jingili Water Gardens Day 4-5
Across the first 3 to 4 days of walking around Jingili Water Gardens my thinking evolved from discovery and my understanding of the actual scope of commitment it will take to realize a creative breakthrough. My reflection efforts have been centered on observing my thinking and my thoughts about my thinking. I now realize that I have evaded thinking about my cognitive psychology and what I bring to the gardens each repeated activity. In short, the subconscious filters that inhibit my perceptions
As mentioned in previous reflections, I am a career educator and a fledgling artist, and I am preparing my exit from educational leadership and building my aspirations as a late-career artist. The repeated activity is intended to enable me to find a difference that can help support a transformation.
On the macro, when I entered my artistic and education-based careers, computers were not readily available. As such, the Fine Arts course I completed at RMIT was in oil painting and teacher training at Monash University did not address information technology in the classroom. The notion of creativity was constructed on elite aspirations and consumption. Fine Arts belonged to the rich and the successful studio artists sold art through commercial art galleries. Schools sorted youth onto either blue and white collar pathways. Access to achievement relied on school resources - access to non-curriculum activity, teacher knowledge, and the school library. I would like to suggest that Jingili Water Garden's were designed by yesterday's concepts - a 1980's pre-information technology design. Like how I passed through school and acted as an artist how I pass through the gardens conforms in with the design concepts. The basis of my usage is low-level physical exercise, a fleeting form of mobility within the space, and an adoration of the natural components. I more or less follow the path that has been laid out for me.
However, this design factor is the purpose of my repeated entry. I am seeking something different within the design constraint. My repetitive engagements are to find a difference that may support an artistic transformation. This is not a pursuit of relaxed "just-do-it" consumption. Despite not knowing what I will specifically gain, I am employing the design agents embedded into Jingili Water Gardens to create my discreet insights. I am investing my time in the park to transpose my thoughts to find a way forward.
In the book The Road Ahead, Bill Gates combined the consumption of the Internet by the populous, and the fledging placement of Microsoft in society to reestablish the corporation within what was evolving as a devoted movement of nonproprietary computing. Open-source and internet-connected computing were threats to Microsoft. I believe that Gates employed the act of writing The Road Ahead for himself and his corporation. The intended reader was not for the general public reader - unless the message was read as; hang in there with us we will catch up. In short, Gates had to reestablish Microsoft within an emerging creative force and his reflective writing was the stimulus for organizational change. The transformation into cloud-based services was a struggle, as has been the transformation of education and the arts from 20th to 21st-century change. What I have observed is that the transformation from broad-based consumption to user-centeredness is occurring, however, my knowledge and experience is struggling to keep up. I am not dissimilar to Education services and the Arts industry who are struggling to develop the strategies to step forward.
In short, the world's population is aging at the same time there is rapid technological change. Forbes research highlights the aging of audiences and declining numbers attending museums and fine arts events. Ironically, the future of art attendance seems to be stable for attendees over the age of 75 and over. So what are the younger adults doing if not attending? The average age of teachers is 45 and from my observation of the teaching-force is that it is struggling to be suitably responsive to rapid societal change. Many academic educationalists comment on student disengagement and the turn over of young teacher graduates. My walk begins at 7:00am, numbers are few and the age group is in the mature age group. Despite school holidays, the Jingili Water Gardens are basically empty. The rapid changes in society must have some impact on the contextual purpose of suburban/city parks. I think it is fair to say that the unconscious purpose has changed, however, the lingering structures have not
This leads to a subtle variation of my reflective focus. That is the conceptual interface that governs access and activity in the arts, schools, and parks and gardens have constant variables. Despite the uniqueness of each domain, there is a consistent challenge. This challenge is also my challenge.
What I am looking at is my opportunity at aged 60, to actually see the opportunities created by change within what are established services I think and operate in. In regards to Jingili Water Gardens, my initial thinking has to do with, aesthetics, access, and interactivity. My challenge is that as an older artist I presently create products differently to that that interests younger users. My step forward is in the art and science of engaging users, and what I can do to attract the interest.
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The names of the farm bottom right, the house or area around the centre of the frame, and shaded hill far left on the moorland respectively.
On the horizon, Ben Rinnes is where we started this flight on surprisingly good day for October. With some decent thermals, we were soon up to cloud base and in the bitterly cold air that exists at that altitude, but rewarded with views through the incredibly clear air. Here, I'm circling above Cathal, who is hunting for the next thermal coming off of the heather below. In ten minutes or so we'll be back up nearer the clouds than the land again.
Before anyone says "cool tornado" I want to make mention that this is not a tornado photo. What you see in the distance is a rain/hail shaft from a storm that was south of the Campo Colorado tornado.
This image was taken as I was just starting to hit the storm clouds that were a distant part of the tornado storm. I still had a good 15 miles to travel before seeing the funnel emerge from the cloud base off to my distant right and then another 30 miles after that to actually reach the storm.
This was the moment that I realized that these clouds might just do something. The orange glow along the horizon in mid-day sun was a huge clue. Lets just say that from this point on I might have broken a speed law or two…
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The weather for most of the week whilst I was in Snowdonia was very grey & drab although on occasions the sun did break through the heavy low lying cloud base to light up the mountain ridges and was occasionally fortunate to be at a reasonable viewpoint to capture some images of the snow capped peaks of Mount Snowdon which is shown in the distance, lake Nantlle in the foreground with the steep rising craggy ridges of Mynydd (pronounced mun-ith meaning mountain) Tal-y-Mignedd to the right.
The breaking light lasted for only a few minutes just enough to scamper to a view point for a couple of handheld shots, fortunately using one of the IS range of lenses.
Always fun, if you like marmite! Heavy rain at the time of the display, but the lower cloud base reflected the light to give a coloured backdrop.
Daek, wet, miserable day, did not go out.
2 shots of a Grey Plover on the mudflats yesterday in the sunrise light & a short video of the Pinkfeet geese flying over very high in the clear sky. With a low cloud base they would have been much lower
it rained yesterday, the cloud base was on the road, it was as if the mountains didn't exist...
this morning it was sun and blue sky, but still a mass of boiling cloud covered the peaks; slowly the sun burned holes through the clouds confirming the fact that rain in the valley means snow up high...
this is the kreuztörltürme as viewed from the village of ellmau in the kaisergebirge
Fly to this location (using Google Earth)
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Bing Wong passed away peacefully at Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria BC on January 17, 2015 at 94 years. Bing was born in 1920 in Vancouver he and his family moved to Alert Bay BC in 1934 to establish Wong Toy & Sons Ltd, a general store serving Cormorant Island as well as families from villages throughout the region. “Pop” enjoyed fishing for cod and halibut, wood working, and building things. He was a member of the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers and a 65 year member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 198. Though he retired to Victoria BC in 1985 he held fond memories of Alert Bay and his lifelong friends. LINK to his obituary - www.northislandgazette.com/obituaries/bing-wong/
ALERT BAY is a village on Cormorant Island, in the Regional District of Mount Waddington, British Columbia, Canada. 1,200-1,500 (2016) people live within the village.
Named in association with the water feature, Alert Bay, in turn named in 1860 by Captain Richards, HMS Plumper, after HM Alert, a screw corvette with 17 guns, which was the first steam vessel to call at Alert Bay. The Alert was built at Pembroke in 1856, and was on this station 1858-1861 under the command of Commander W.A.R. Pearse; the Alert returned to this station 1865-1869 under Commander Arthur John Innes, and in 1867 her officers were engaged in a resurvey of Alert Bay.
The ALERT BAY Post Office was established - 1 October 1885.
/ COURTESY / QCA / QUEEN CHARLOTTE AIRLINES / VANCOUVER - CANADA / - handstamp in bluish green ink
- entered the mail system at - / VANCOUVER, B.C. / SEP 26 / 1130 PM / 1949 / CANADA - / SUPPORT YOUR / COMMUNITY CHEST / - slogan cancel (Coutts S-2075).
- article from - BRITISH COLUMBIA P0STAL HISTORY RESEARCH GR0UP / Volume 17 - Number 3 - Whole number 67 - September 2008 - COURTESY AIR MAIL SERVICE — BRITISH COLUMBIA - Following the demise of the Semi Official Air Mail service in the mid 1930s many of the pioneer airlines continued to accept mail as a service to their customers and in some cases stamped the company name on the envelopes as a form of advertising. There is much confusion as to the exact status of this mail, as under the postal regulations "mail couriers" were required to receive letters offered them when the distance to the nearest post office exceeded one mile. Since most of the small airlines held mail contracts, this made them in terms of the act "mail couriers," and as a result they were required to accept mail. Such mail was considered to be "way mail," and Vancouver A.M.F. was issued, in 1949, with a suitable hand stamp, although the dater was rarely used. The practice of stamping the name of the company on courtesy mail appears to have started in the mid 1930s and continued until the start of the war in 1939. Following the war the practice was reintroduced, reaching its payday in the mid 1950s and by the early 1960s had been discontinued. A study of the limited number of existing covers produces some confusion as to how the mail was treated. In some cases the mail was picked up at a non post office point and cancelled at Vancouver or Vancouver A.M.F. while in other cases the mail was cancelled by the post office at the point of origin with no further postal marking at Vancouver. It should also be noted that some covers are philatelic and were never actually flown but were courtesy stamped at Vancouver and mailed at the Vancouver A.M.F. post office. LINK to the complete article (pages 574 to 576) - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/bcr/bcr-2008-09-v017n03-w06...
The following companies are known to have carried courtesy mail in British Columbia;
Air Speed —Associated Air Taxi Limited. (1950]
Ginger Coote Airways Limited [1938-1940]
B.C. Airlines Limited [1952-1955]
Pacific Western Airlines Limited [1954]
Canadian Airways Limited [1938-1940]
Queen Charlotte Airlines Limited [1947-1952]
Canadian Pacific Airlines (C.P.A.L.) [1950's]
The following article was written by Tom Watkins for the "The Pilot's Log - Newsletter of the BNAPS Airmail Study Group" - Oueen Charlotte Airlines Queen Charlotte Airlines (QCA) was founded by Jim Spilsbury in 1943 and operated on the West Coast of Canada until 1955, when it was sold to Pacific Western Airlines. At the time of its sale, it was the third largest airline in Canada and it often carried mail.
Above is an example of a commercial cover carried by QCA as part of the unofficial "courtesy" airmail service it provided on the west coast during its years of operation. Note the company's handstamp applied to the front of the cover.
Tom has about a dozen courtesy airmail covers carried by this airline, all have this handstamp in either bluish-green (7) or red (5). The earliest cover is dated Sept. 4, 1947 and the latest is Apr. 21, 1949. Most originated from small coastal communities such as Sullivan Bay or Zeballos. Link to his complete article - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/air/air-2005-04-v013n01.pdf
Clipped from - The Province newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 29 July 1946. - UNIQUE AIRLINE SERVES COAST - "It's unorthodox. That's the word unorthodox." And when a traffic manager terms his own airline "unorthodox" it's really different. But that is how W. J. "Bill" "Wood described Queen Charlotte Airlines as he stood on a boomstick at O'Brian Bay. Just so you get the idea - it really wasn't O'Brian Bay, but actually Sullivan Bay, 15 miles from O'Brian. It is known as O'Brian Bay because the floating settlement was towed by tug to Sullivan Bay from its former position, and somehow the Post Office hasn't got around to changing the name, All of which is only to illustrate that "floating towns" which change position overnight, are only one of the many unusual characteristics which help Q.C.A. in its bid for being the most unique airline in the world. FASCINATING GAME - These settlements provide a fascinating game for the airline's skippers. Often they prepare to land at a village, only to discover an empty cove where, a few days previous, stood homes and shops. But B.C.'s newest air service has more trumps to back up its bid for its unique line. Its routes are over what world-experienced pilots call the most beautiful country on the globe. The scenery is never-ending kaleidoscope of vivid color, from gaunt, snow-capped mountain peaks to cobalt blue inlets, muddy rivers spilling bottle-green and tan silt into azure bays, glaciers full of dead white or blue ice, and nearly always in sight is the blue of the Pacific. Its a color photographer's dream from 7000 feet. PILOTS NIGHTMARE - But in bad weather it is the pilot's nightmare. Often they thread their ways up narrow, mountain-rimmed channels and inlets, almost at water-level with a 200-foot cloud base. They fly "contact", and must know the myriad channels all of which look alike to the newcomer as well as a steamship's captain. For there are few radio beams they can use. No trip on Q.C.A. is ever dull. Passengers vary from Indian papooses to loggers, staid businessmen and fishermen. And the moment the plane is loaded the air of casual informality between crew and passengers is noticeable. When the Stranraer flying boat puts its bow against a float, the captain and crew sing out for a dinghy hopeful that a fast launch will appear, but satisfied if an Indian brings out a row-boat. Occasionally passengers start out for a short flight to Seymour Narrows or Humphrey Inlet, only to end up at the northern tip of the Queen Charlottes on a mercy flight. Mercy, flights are now almost routine, for the company performed 30 in one recent three-months period. In some cases, men are returned to work from hospital, only to be casualty passengers again in a couple of weeks. When a passenger proves to be an experienced flyer, he is sometimes permitted to fly the aircraft by dual control, though ever under the watchful eye of the skipper. Q.C.A. is doing a service on this coast that is lauded by large and small settlements from Vancouver to Prince Rupert and northward. It is filling a great heed in rapid transportation and life-saving, and with an air of casualness and friendliness.
Addressed to: Gault Brothers Ltd., / 361 Water Street / Vancouver, B.C. /
In 1853 Andrew F. Gault and J. B. Stevenson founded the wholesale textiles firm Gault, Stevenson and Company in Montreal. Four years later, Stevenson left the firm; thereafter Robert Gault joined his brother to form Gault Brothers Limited. The firm manufactured and distributed textiles. Attracted by the growing market on Canada's West Coast, the firm established a branch in Vancouver in 1899. Henry A. Stone was appointed manager. By 1906, the firm moved to larger premises at 361 Water Street. In 1915, the firm acquired a local work clothing company to ensure a continuous supply of goods for its customers. In 1918, local interests assumed control of the firm. In 1930, the federally chartered firm was succeeded by a B.C. company of the same name. Gault Brothers established a marine subsidiary, Caribou Shipping in 1936. In 1952, the marine service was replaced by an air service. In 1971, the company was sold to New York interests. Gault Brothers was last operating as a division of J.J. Newberry Canada Ltd.
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At the start of 1948 (only months after the first aerial demonstration by British European Airways), BEA started dummy mail-run services in Dorset and Somerset. The Sikosrsky S-51s travelled a 115-mile route in just under two hours including stops. These trials achieved timekeeping within the five minute tolerance demanded by the GPO.
The story then moves to the east of England. The success of the dummy mail-runs led to BEA inaugurating the first helicopter-operated public mail service in the UK. On 1 June 1948 Captain John Theilmann with a Royal Mail pennant flew a S-51 from Peterborough to King’s Lynn, Wells, Sheringham, Cromer, Norwich, Thetford, Diss, Harleston, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Beccles, Norwich again, and East Dereham before returning to Peterborough. 140lb of mail was transported.
Flights continued until 25 September 1948 by which time 38,046 lb of mail had been carried and 95% of the flights rostered had been completed.
By 1954, GPO Chief Inspector Mr L J Taylor reported looking back at the experiment: ‘trails were necessarily limited in several directions, e.g. the maximum weight lift was 700lbs, and the machines could not operate with a cloud base of less than 500 feet…the most that could be said was at the then existing stage of development helicopters could not be regarded as an economically attractive proposition for the carriage of mail’.
An amazing experiment I knew nothing of until reading this in the Meccano Magazine.
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