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You may remember under the Rev. John Thomson's painting, I mentioned the line of corbel stones along the wall-head, that once supported a parapet. Well here they are! But as any student of architecture will know, they are upside down! The keep, as painted by Rev. Thomson, was badly damaged when it was struck by lightning during a great storm in 1871. The fact that this massive chunk of masonry survived the fall is a tribute to the quality of the lime mortar used!
The blurry white building in the far distance is the Torness nuclear power station.
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Wales.
Day eight .. Stopping at the Elan Valley Reservoirs before making our way to Aberystwyth for the night.
The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man-made lakes created from damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid Wales. The reservoirs, which were built by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department, provide clean drinking water for Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. The five lakes are known as the Claerwen, Craig-goch, Pen-y-garreg, Garreg-ddu, and Caban-coch.
Water from the reservoirs is carried by gravity to Frankley Reservoir in Birmingham via the Elan aqueduct. Pumping is not required because the network drops 52 metres (171 ft) along its 73 miles (117 km) length from its source to Frankley. A gradient of 1:2300 maintains a flow of less than 2 miles per hour (3.2 km/h); water takes two and a half to three days to reach Birmingham. The aqueduct, which was started in 1896 and opened in 1906, crosses several valleys and features numerous brick tunnels, pipelines, and valve houses.
Work to build the Elan Valley reservoirs was undertaken because the rapid growth of the industrial city of Birmingham in the late 19th century had led to a lack of available clean water. Numerous outbreaks of disease prompted Birmingham City Council to petition the British government which passed the Birmingham Corporation Water Act in 1892. It allowed the Corporation to acquire by compulsory purchase all the land within the water catchment area of the Elan Valleys. Thousands of navvies and their families lived in the purpose-built Elan Village during the construction of the first four dams at the turn of the 20th century. In 1952, the Claerwen dam was opened by Elizabeth II in one of her first official engagements as monarch.
Drinking water from the Elan Valley is noted for being exceptionally soft, contrasting with water from local supplies in the West Midlands, not served by the Elan aqueduct, which are noted for hardness.
SR-T 101 with fast 58mm 1.2 Lens
EOS Digital Rebel / EF 35mm 2.0
f-22 / 3.2 sec. / 100 ISO
Shot RAW and processed in DPP. No fancy processing.
The setup for the shot was both cameras on a turntable. A long 3.2 second exposure was made as the turntable was moved back and forth to give the background the feel of high speed. I also find a longer exposure gives a nicer rendering of the glass in the lens. Although I did get the look I was aiming for, it is not as obvious or dramatic as I had hoped for. Perhaps the background needs to have more variation than what I was using.
The camera is the venerable Minolta SRT 101, a great camera that was probably Minolta's best seller ever. The lens is Minolta's fastest! Minolta made the 58mm lens when others made 50mm's. One big advantage of 58mm is that it is exactly the same perspective as the human eye. If you have one eye looking through the viewfinder and the other open they will see the same. The 58mm 1.2 was made in 1969 when high speed films were ASA 400 and very grainy!, so the super fast glass meant a lot more back then than it does today with our great high speed films.
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Rainy night at a BC Hydro fast charger, River Parkway and Leslie Road, Richmond, B.C.
Nikon D200
Voigtländer Color-Skopar 28mm ƒ/2.8 SL
triple exposure
Robert Logan 7th of Restalrig, grandson of Sir Robert Logan and Elizabeth Home, and son of Robert Logan and Dame Agnes Gray, obtained possession of his father's lands in 1576, 15 years after his father's death, on reaching the age of 21. He immediately began disposing of various lands and properties - something he was to continue doing for the rest of his life.
Also in 1576, he married Elizabeth M'Gill, daughter of David M'Gill, advocate, of Lochcotes, Nisbet, and Cranstoun Riddell, but they were later divorced.
A transaction is recorded in the Register of the Great Seal under the date 13th May 1580, in which the King willed that Robert Logan should pay, within seven years, a sum of £3380 to John Lumsden of Blanerne. He was cited at an address over the north side of the loch of Restalrig, where he commonly had his residence, and at the castle and fortress of Fast Castle, where he had his residence at the time with his retainers and family.
In 1584, the Privy Council ordered "Dame Agnes Hume, Mr Thomas Lyoun of Balduky (the Master of Glamis), now her spouse, and Robert Logane of Restalrig, keepers of the castle of Fast castell, to deliver it to the King's officers within six hours after being charged, on pain of treason."
About 1586, he seems to have married again. His wife at the time of his death in 1606 was Marion Ker.
A daughter (to Logan of Restalrig) was christened at Fast Castle in May 1590 attended by the Earl of Bothwell and Lord Home.
In 1593, Logan got into increasing trouble with the law. On 12th February, having failed to appear to answer "upoun his treasounable conspyring, consulting, trafficquing, and divising with Frances, sometyme Erll Bothuill," he was denounced rebel. In the same year, "under silence of the night," he took, from William Nisbet of Newton, gold and silver to the value of 3000 merks.
In 1594, in one of the acts he is most remembered for, Logan called in the (alleged) magician, John Napier of Merchiston, to help find treasure said to be hidden within Fast Castle. Searching for hidden treasure, by supernatural means, was occasionally practiced in those days. The origin of the treasure, if it ever existed, is not known, but one wonders whether it was connected with the jewelry that had belonged to Mary Queen of Scots and was given by William Kirkcaldy of Grange to Logan's mother, as security for the loan she had given him.
In 1597-8, Logan had dealings with George Ker, the Catholic intriguer with Spain, on whose person the famous "Spanish blanks" were found.
Fast-food chains rely on frontline employees to provide first-class customer service, setting their establishments apart from competitors in this highly-competitive industry.
This Land Rover is used by West Midlands Fire Service to respond quickly to small fires. It's quicker and cheaper than sending a full-sized tender. Seen at the International Fire Fighters Day event in Walsall town centre. Note also the man with a cone on his head.
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Saw a similar photo posted on my facebook feed some days earlier. That was definitely an inspiration to try this out. Not satisfied with the end results much though. But that pushes me to try again.
A typical fast food stand on Blackpool promenade.
Ohhhhh this picture was used in one of my fave blogs - the ever lovely lifehacker! :-)
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Buitre leonado / Griffon vulture / Gyps fulvus
Fotos hechas desde hide fijo
Photos taken from a fixed hide
The last shot in my photostream was of my friend, Viv, when she was only about 15 or 16 years old. Fast forward to the present, and this is her now!
This shot was taken recently when her husband, Fran, (who probably took the photo,) and she were vacationing on Florida's west coast, by the Gulf of Mexico. Viv is just a few months older than I, and still looking great after 47 or 48 years! The smile is just as big as ever. I did a bit of retouching on the smile lines on her face, and took a couple of years of age off, but other than that and a little cropping and brightening, not much was done to the shot. I absolutely love it! Viv is still photographic after all these years.