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The cloud reminded me a spacecraft. After showing the photo to my son, we both agreed it looked a bit like Star Trek's Enterprise.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland
Previously unpublished shot from July 2016. Enjoy!
Old windows, old doors of Hudson, NY
Formerly Claverack Landing, Hudson was once a hub for the whaling industry — and it very nearly became New York’s capital city.
Of all the many cities and towns in our region, only one was named after Henry Hudson, the Valley’s first European visitor. How the designation came to be is, well, a whale of a tale.
Until 1784, the city of Hudson was known as Claverack Landing. It was a farming community of 10 or so families—around 150 people. But that was about to change.
In the years during and right after the Revolutionary War, the Royal Navy clamped down on American whaling— one of the biggest industries of the 18th century (especially in New England). In 1783, brothers Seth and Thomas Jenkins from Nantucket set sail for a new beginning. They found a home base in this unlikely locale—100 miles from the ocean— on a deep and safe harbor with plenty of land. Claverack Landing presented an opportunity to build a company town from scratch… which they did.
The Jenkins brothers and 28 other whalers, who became known as the Proprietors, formed a company and bought the land from Dutch families (who had previously purchased it from the native Mohicans). They laid out a city grid and put into place everything a whaling enterprise would need: ship builders, rope and sail makers, coopers, and more than a few saloons. Within three years, the city had several wharves, four warehouses, plus “a covered rope-walk, spermaceti-works, one hundred and fifty dwelling-houses, shops, barns, one of the best distilleries in America, and fifteen hundred souls,” according to the New York Journal.
On November 14, 1784, Claverack Landing became the first city to be incorporated in the brand-new United States of America. However, according to an 1862 chronicle, Historical Sketches of Hudson, the Proprietors wanted a new name. They unanimously agreed that “it should be called by the name of Hudson.” There is no record as to why they insisted on the name change, but according to the book, at least one person wasn’t happy: New York’s first governor George Clinton. He wanted Hudson named after himself.
In 1797, Hudson was one vote short of becoming the capital of New York State. Nevertheless, the city has survived and thrived, and today represents a true gem of the Hudson Valley.
The USS Enterprise is once again being attacked by aliens within the Christmas Nebula ... located in a galaxy far far away :)
This a combination capture overlaid in Photoshop ... the saucer section is at f/16, and the remainder of the image is at f/2.8 to get that real explosive looking bokeh.
The f/16 version of this will most likely be posted for the Monday Macro theme ... though I have a few other ideas for this coming Monday's theme (starts with a vowel)
GM 207, Abhainn na Bóinne (River Boyne) heads the Dublin Belfast Enterprise service across the causeway over Malahide Estuary.
Venezia | Venedig | Venice
The former spinning mill in Brno is situated next to the Svitava River. The most beautiful, the spinning mill has to offer, is the four-storey etagere from 1912 with distinctive industrial windows in metal frames. Inside all halls are empty, unfortunately all machines are gone. This is one of the oldest reinforced concrete skeletons in the Czech Republic. A small hydro power plant is still in operation. At the height of its glory, the factory employed up to 600 workers and was one of the region's most important factories. After the war, the Essler spinning mill was nationalised in 1948 and operated under the name of the National Enterprise Moravian-Silesian Woolen Mills. Production ended in 1992.
68026 'Enterprise' flies past Catterall with the 08.21 Carlisle - Crewe TPE test train on Mon 25th January 2021.
A dramatic April sky photographed yesterday evening about 20 minutes before sunset. On the other side of this gathering of grain bins are several homes that make-up the unincorporated community of Enterprise, Iowa.
Three bracketed exposures merged and processed with
Darktable 4.8.0.
This photo of Enterprise captured at sunset, Iowa was taken on NE 46th Street, Polk County, Iowa just a few hundred feet north of NE 94th Avenue. Enterprise is an unincorporated community just east of Ankeny with a few homes and a large farm co-op.
Developed using darktable 3.6.0
At 2 PM on Sunday afternoon the final boat in the convoy, the Canadian Enterprise rounded the bend at the end of Belle Isle, She was heading downstream to the Windsor Salt Mines terminal for another load of salt.
She was preceded by the Canadian Progress (on her way to Port Colborne) and the the ice breaker CCGS Samuel Risley.
Details for the Canadian Enterprise:
Year Built: 1979
Length x Breadth: 222 m X 22 m
Speed recorded (Max / Average): 9.9 / 7.4 knots
Flag: Canada [CA]
Call Sign: VCJM
IMO: 7726677, MMSI: 316001687
The space shuttle Enterprise is towed by barge next to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum where it will lifted onto the flight deck to be placed on permanent display, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 in New York. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Just a few of the numerous warehouse buildings, most connected by rail, in this (mostly) abandoned facility. A number of these buildings are being used by commercial enterprises for storage.
Savanna Army Depot was a 13,062-acre (52.86 km2) installation, located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, in Carroll and Jo Daviess counties, around seven miles (11 km) north of Savanna, Illinois. It was opened in 1917 as a proving and testing facility for weapons developed at Rock Island Arsenal. In 1921 it became a weapons depot. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) listed the depot as a Superfund site in 1989.[1] The depot was selected for closure through the Base Realignment and Closure process in July 1995 and was officially closed on March 18, 2000. The Jo-Carroll Local Redevelopment Authority (LRA) was established to redevelop a portion of the property for commercial and business usage referred to as the Savanna Depot Park. On September 26, 2003, the United States Department of Defense agreed to transfer 9,404 acres (38.06 km2) of land to become the Lost Mound Unit of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. 3,022 acres (12.23 km2) were initially transferred with the rest to be transferred following environmental cleanup. The portion near Lock and Dam No. 12 was transferred to the United States Army Corps of Engineers and a small part to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.