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Unfortunately, minimal clouds on this day. Maybe I should have stayed for dusk. Stupid hunger. I stood across the little channel for this composition. Believe it or not I didn't end up in the water.
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The Tay Bridge carries a railway line across the Firth of Tay in Scotland, between the city of Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. Its span is 3.5 kilometres (2.75 miles), most of which is in a straight line running virtually north-south across the Tay. It curves eastwards towards Dundee.
From about 1854, there had been plans for a Tay crossing, to replace an early train-ferry. The first bridge opened in 1878. It was a single-track lattice design, notable for lightness and low cost. Its sudden collapse in a high wind on 28 December 1879 was one of the great engineering disasters of history, and its causes are still debated today.
The second bridge is a construction of iron and steel. The new bridge took just 5 years to build, thanks in most part to special pontoon equipment with hydraulic legs which were designed by William Arrol. The bridge was designed by William Henry Barlow . On June 10th 1887 there was a low key opening; that is without any ceremony.
This bridge is still in service. It’s situated 18 metres upstream of, and parallel to, the original bridge. Construction involved 25,000 metric tons (28,000 short tons) of iron and steel, 70,000 metric tons (77,000 short tons) of concrete, ten million bricks (weighing 37,500 metric tons (41,300 short tons)) and three million rivets. There are 85 piers. Fourteen men lost their lives during its construction, most by drowning.
In 2003, a £20.85 million strengthening and refurbishment project on the bridge won the British Construction Industry Civil Engineering Award, in consideration of the staggering scale and logistics involved.
Technical stuff
This HDR consists of three individual photos; taken in a series of +2/3, -1 2/3 and +2 1/3. The merging was done with Aurora HDR 2018. Deghosting was at a maximum setting, obviously due to the moving train in the frame. I picked the +2/3 shot as a reference.
Post-production involved highlighting the pastel colouring and dusk toning in the sky. Aurora HDR 2018 gives you the possibility to work in layers, therefore is fairly easy to treat different parts of the clouds differently. The wide angle lens, HDR-processing in combination with the many straight lines in the bridge’s construction, makes that the images has a bit more chromatic aberration at the edges than usual.
DSC_2790. Taken in the wild in Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya.
Smal crossing of some zebra. No crocodiles here!
This is wildlife! This is Masai Mara!
Better photo when viewed in large!
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While we were away in Cornwall, the new toucan crossing was opened. This greatly enhances road safety here for pedestrians. Not so good for the undertakers on the hill behind!
Elephants Crossing. When elephants move, they walk in a single file, with the leader defining the path and direction.
The Kenyan drivers know to give the animals the right of way, and stop at a respectable distance. In fact, getting too close upsets the elephants, often invoking one of the adults to pause and glare at the tourists, or even walk threateningly towards the cars, forcing them to back up a little.
Here, we were stopped and could not move. The brush in the middle was masking a little elephant, but waiting for the little guy to move up would have meant I would have lost the leader of the herd. I couldn't go more wide angle without introducing other elements into the scene, so I went ahead and clicked.
Tsavo National Park, Kenya.
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Even with much lighter traffic during Lockdown, it's still good sense to wait for a safe crossing at major junctions - have noticed some people getting too used to so little traffic and just stepping out without looking (and having some near misses as a result!). Stick to the Green Cross Code! Or Tufty Club if you are old enough...
Crossing the street in Vietnam proved to be very challenging. There are very few traffic lights and those painted lines on the street don't mean much. Your best bet is to just start walking slow and let the motorbikes swerve around you. Any sudden movements could be painful.
A Santa Fe local is crossing the Mississippi into Fort Madison with a GP30 and U25B leading in September 1976.
Pulling away from Wansford in cloudy conditions, LMS Stanier Jubilee No.45596 'Bahamas' crosses the River Nene on 22nd August 2021 with the 12:20 Yarwell Junction to Peterborough Nene Valley service.
Here is the Jeffersonville Crossing outlet center in Jeffersonville, Ohio. This shopping center is one of two major outlet centers built the same year (1993) just one exit apart on Interstate 71 in Jeffersonville. The other outlet center built was Prime Outlets (now Tanger Outlets) and was built with the parking lot surrounding it. Jeffersonville Crossing was built around the parking lot. Today, Jeffersonville Crossing is empty except for a few independent shops while Tanger Outlets is mostly occupied. I really don't think this (mostly rural) area has enough people to support two outlet centers, especially since newer outlet centers have been built near Cincinnati and Columbus.
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Shibuya Crossing, also referred to as Shibuya Scramble Crossing is the pedestrian crossing outside the Hachiko exit of Shibuya Station. It is referred to as a scramble crossing as the traffic is stopped in all directions, thus allowing pedestrians to walk in all directions through the intersection.
Shibuya, Japan 2014
Class 197 No. 197006 passes through Onibury level crossing on a Manchester Piccadilly Carmarthen service (1V44). The building on the right is the former Onibury station which closed in 1958 and is now a private residence.
Another hidden gem in Allentown is the Mack Truck Museum and Customer Center. Housed in buildings that made up the original testing center for the plant, the museum is large and informative. Well laid out. Excellent tour. Knowledgeable docent.
Detail of the wall in the anechoic chamber. An anechoic chamber ("an-echoic" meaning non-reflective, non-echoing or echo-free) is a room designed to completely absorb reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves. They are also insulated from exterior sources of noise.
GEA no 4023 crossing the Malgaaten River bridge between Mossel Bay and George on 21 June 2002.
You really needed a 35mm lens for this spot, it was difficult to get it all in on 50mm which this is.
4023 was sold into industrial service after her SAR days ended and remained in regular use till 1993. www.flickr.com/photos/warwickfalconer/49706519088/
Southern Cape, South Africa
Napoleon Crossing the Alps is the title given to the five versions of an oil on canvas equestrian portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805.
I don't like war but I like the Arts & painting. After two hundred years an oil on canvas painted by Jacques-Louis David, I recreate it in LEGO mosaic version instead of an oil on canvas.
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I went to add this image to the pool Altered Signs, and saw another one there just like it. Curious, I did a general search for images titled Rudolph Crossing. I stopped at the first 10! Evidently Rudolph does a LOT of crossing. Makes me smile.
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The northern end of the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway terminated just over the level crossing at Eastern Way, Double Arches. Here the line went left for Arnold's yard, right for Garside's. Here is Garside's 31 (Motor Rail 7371/39), venturing out over the road with sand from Churchways Quarry, for tipping at the screening and drying plant at Eastern Way. There used to be a tall signal here, beside the line behind the drunken finger post. This photograph was taken on 28 July 1977, by which time, the connection with Arnold's yard had been severed.
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Here is the Jeffersonville Crossing outlet center in Jeffersonville, Ohio. This shopping center is one of two major outlet centers built the same year (1993) just one exit apart on Interstate 71 in Jeffersonville. The other outlet center built was Prime Outlets (now Tanger Outlets) and was built with the parking lot surrounding it. Jeffersonville Crossing was built around the parking lot. Today, Jeffersonville Crossing is empty except for a few independent shops while Tanger Outlets is mostly occupied. I really don't think this (mostly rural) area has enough people to support two outlet centers, especially since newer outlet centers have been built near Cincinnati and Columbus.
*Feel free to use this photo, or any others in this photostream, for any use that is non-commercial. Please make sure to provide credit for the photo(s). Please contact me at eckhartnicholas@yahoo.com for questions or permission for commercial use.*