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Crossing Kaweah Gap. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
The High Sierra Trail crosses alpine terrain near Kaweah Gap
I have been reviewing my older archives of raw files recently, partly because it simply is important to do so from time to time, and partly because I'm between locations and looking for additional images to work on. Any time I go back through the older files I find things that are interesting, and occasionally I even find some excellent photographs that I overlooked the first time around.
This photograph comes from 2008. To me it seems more interesting as a record of a particular place and a particular event than on a purely photographic basis. (I could have wished for a more interesting sky!) This was my second crossing of the High Sierra Trail, which we followed from the west side of Sequoia National Park, across the entire range, to the summit of Mount Whitney, and then down to Whitney Portal. On this trip I traveled with a group of long-time backcountry friends... unlike the first time I did this trip perhaps 25 years earlier, when I did it with my wife. I made this photograph from the top of Kaweah Gap, the pass through the Great Western Divide before dropping into Big Arroyo. The photograph looks back to the west, across the trail we had ascended to reach this point.
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for 7DoS: I was bored by my bridge options so decided to use this shot of cyclists crossing under the Maas
The Queensferry Crossing (formerly the Forth Replacement Crossing) is a road bridge under construction in Scotland. It is being built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge and will carry the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Lothian, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry.
Proposals for a second Forth road crossing were first put forward in the 1990s, but it was not until the discovery of structural issues with the Forth Road Bridge in 2005 that plans were moved forward. The decision to proceed with a replacement bridge was taken at the end of 2007; the following year it was announced that the existing bridge would be retained as a public transport link. The Forth Crossing Act received Royal Assent in January 2011, and construction began in September 2011.
The Queensferry Crossing will be a cable-stayed bridge, with an overall length of 2.7 kilometres (1.7 miles). Around 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) of new connecting roads will be built, including new and upgraded junctions at Ferrytoll in Fife, South Queensferry and Junction 1A on the M9. It will be the third bridge across the Forth at Queensferry, alongside the Forth Road Bridge completed in 1964, and the Forth Bridge completed in 1890. The bridge is due to be complete by 2016. Following a public vote, it was formally named on 26 June 2013.
African waterbuck captured crossing a creek near the Zambezi River during a night drive. To avoid a potentially lethal encounter with a crock, they leap from one bank to the other one at a time. Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia
Caribou Crossing Footbridge, Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada. The town of Carcross is about 70 miles north of Skagway, Alaska.
Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, is an unincorporated community in the Territory of Yukon, Canada on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It has a population of 431 (June 2008) and is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.
It is 74 km (46 miles) south-southeast by the Alaska Highway and the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse, at 60°10′12″N 134°42′13″W. The south end of the Tagish Road is in Carcross. Carcross is also on the White Pass and Yukon Route railway.
Caribou Crossing was a fishing and hunting camp for Inland Tlingit and Tagish people. 4,500-year-old artifacts from aboriginal people living in the area have been found in the region.
Caribou Crossing was named after the migration of huge numbers of caribou across the natural land bridge between Lake Bennett and Nares Lake. That caribou herd was decimated during the Klondike Gold Rush, but a recovery program raised the number of animals to about 450.
The modern village began in 1896, during the Klondike Gold Rush. At the time, Caribou Crossing was a popular stopping place for prospectors going to and from the gold fields of Dawson City.
Caribou Crossing was also a station for the Royal Mail and the Dominion Telegraph Line, and it served as a communications point on the Yukon River.
In 1904, Caribou Crossing was renamed Carcross as a result of some mail mix-ups with the district of Cariboo in nearby British Columbia, Canada.
Silver mining was promoted nearby in Conrad, Yukon in the early 1900s, but there was little to be found and mining efforts soon ended. Mineral exploration continues today, but tourism is far more important to the economy of the community. The book Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams by Murray Lundberg details a nearly complete history of Conrad.
Carcross relies on tourism to support the local economy. It lies on the Klondike Highway between Whitehorse and Skagway, Alaska and offers a variety of historic attractions and outdoor activities. Popular with road traffic including tour buses and RVs, in 2007 the White Pass railway also resumed service to Carcross railway station.
Just north of the town is the Carcross Desert, often referred to as the "world's smallest desert."
(From Wikipedia)
Back in August of 2016 I was working for the City of Brantford and my supervisor asked me to check out the progress of the Mohawk Street Railway Crossing replacement.
Here we see PNR Railworks crews moving the new track section into place.
The whole replacement took 3 days in total for removal, replacement and refurbishment.
I visited this crossing 3 times in one week to photograph the progress and ensure that city infrastructure was returned to how it was left.
A Swansea - London (Paddington) First Great Western HST crossing Porthkerry Viaduct in the Vale of Glamorgan.
This was the only bit of sunlight we got the whole time we were there and the waves are from when I crossed the stream.
Caribou Crossing Bridge, Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada. Historic truss bridge on the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway. The town of Carcross is about 70 miles north of Skagway, Alaska.
Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, is an unincorporated community in the Territory of Yukon, Canada on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It has a population of 431 (June 2008) and is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.
It is 74 km (46 miles) south-southeast by the Alaska Highway and the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse, at 60°10′12″N 134°42′13″W. The south end of the Tagish Road is in Carcross. Carcross is also on the White Pass and Yukon Route railway.
Caribou Crossing was a fishing and hunting camp for Inland Tlingit and Tagish people. 4,500-year-old artifacts from aboriginal people living in the area have been found in the region.
Caribou Crossing was named after the migration of huge numbers of caribou across the natural land bridge between Lake Bennett and Nares Lake. That caribou herd was decimated during the Klondike Gold Rush, but a recovery program raised the number of animals to about 450.
The modern village began in 1896, during the Klondike Gold Rush. At the time, Caribou Crossing was a popular stopping place for prospectors going to and from the gold fields of Dawson City.
Caribou Crossing was also a station for the Royal Mail and the Dominion Telegraph Line, and it served as a communications point on the Yukon River.
In 1904, Caribou Crossing was renamed Carcross as a result of some mail mix-ups with the district of Cariboo in nearby British Columbia, Canada.
Silver mining was promoted nearby in Conrad, Yukon in the early 1900s, but there was little to be found and mining efforts soon ended. Mineral exploration continues today, but tourism is far more important to the economy of the community. The book Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams by Murray Lundberg details a nearly complete history of Conrad.
Carcross relies on tourism to support the local economy. It lies on the Klondike Highway between Whitehorse and Skagway, Alaska and offers a variety of historic attractions and outdoor activities. Popular with road traffic including tour buses and RVs, in 2007 the White Pass railway also resumed service to Carcross railway station.
Just north of the town is the Carcross Desert, often referred to as the "world's smallest desert."
(From Wikipedia)
Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People. The youngest of Portland's bridges over the Willamette River, the Tilikum Crossing opened just over a year ago in September 2015. The bridge was named in honor of the Chinook people. Tilikum means "people", "tribe" or "family". The LED lighting changes in response to the Willamette's temperature, depth and speed. It was designed by TriMet for Portland's MAX light rail passenger trains.
Crossing the bar
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Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Astute' & 'Intrepid' Class68s take charge of two nuclear waste wagons from Winfrith to Crewe. 68 003 leading 002 are seen crossing the causeway aka 'The Mud' at Holes Bay, Dorset.
The causeway is also known as "The Mud" by local railwaymen and was originally constructed in 1842 as a single line. Creekmoor and Upton Viaducts were built in 1937.
The train is operated by Direct Rail Services, part of Nuclear Transport Solutions NTS and consists of purpose-built flasks and wagons.
More recently the train has consisted of either 6 or 10 special wagons but always with 2 locos top-n-tail.
On a sunny day in June, Portland's Eastern Promenade is a great place to be. There are cool breezes, plenty of grassy hillsides for a picnic and even beaches, for those who don't mind water temperatures in the high 50s. In this scene, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company's excursion train is pictured crossing Cutter Street, which leads to a public parking lot with bathhouses for the beach-goers. On the point is Bridgton & Saco River #7, which is the museum's largest operable steam locomotive. Because this short, 1.3 mile line does cross public roads, this railroad is FRA-regulated and all steam locomotives which operate here are required to have current FRA Form 4s. This image was captured in 2018, not long after the #7 returned to service, after a lengthy restoration process.
Following up yesterday's Venetian gondola crossing with a very different crossing. No less fun to capture.
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This week's theme for The Teleidoscope is Obsession.
TOTW this week is Pieces of Me
Obsession is a persistent and recurrent thought or idea with which the mind is continually and involuntarily preoccupied
Of course I obsessed over the theme all week and finally decided that at times, the line between passion and obsession is quite thin.
It occurred to me that passion is from the heart. But passion can grow into obsession when it overtakes the mind. I walk that line frequently. Photography is certainly my passion and at times is definitely my obsession.