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Is all
we seek
all in all
sought
for the heart
or
the soul of another
in passing
in seeking
in reaching for the light
we hold
all we held most dear
treasured
in one moment of nature.
by anglia24
17h45: 13/11/2007
[My dear friends, I am struggling with serious health difficulties, so I'll try to visit your photostreams 'as and when' ...forgive me please.]
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Photographer's Footpath, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA.
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"To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeting reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Well OK not quite but there is no footpath on this side of the road outside Rathmore train station so I had to dodge the oncoming cars! Happy New Wall Wednesday, also taken for Growing in the Gaps group, so many plants eking out a life in this old wall. I think these are ferns but I'm not sure?
Oil on board
Somerset has seen a lot of rain over the last few days, but it has been good for me. Inspiration to pick up a half finished piece I had given up on.
Here you can see the new major link road A6211 which links to Colliery Way.
Gedling Country Park, Nottinghamshire (Local Nature Reserve), is a 580 acres of open space, footpaths and cycle paths with stunning views over the surrounding area.
It's a Green Flag Award Winner.
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i was especially pleased with this image as Stapleford is not necessarily at the top of my list as a landscape venue.I was actually driving to Dale Abbey at Kirk Hallam when I decided to stop and get out the car, as the sunset was already happening. As is often the case, I had left things a bit late, so I pulled over in Stapleford and made my way into this field looking towards Trowell.
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Leaving the towpath I crossed a stile to follow a little used public footpath. The bridge was decidedly precarious.
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, west of Lapworth in Warwickshire.
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal was conceived as part of a network of canals which would allow coal from the Dudley Canal and the Stourbridge Canal to reach Oxford and London, without having to use the Birmingham canals. An Act was passed on 28 March 1793 for the construction of a canal from a junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal in Kings Norton to Stratford-upon-Avon.
The route would take it close to Warwick and Birmingham Canal at Lapworth, but the act did not include any provision for a direct connection with it, or with the River Avon at Stratford. Negotiations started with the Warwick and Birmingham, and to second act was obtained on 19 May 1795.
Josiah Clowes was employed as the engineer, and construction began in November 1793, starting at the Kings Norton end. He was also working on the Dudley Canal's extension, and another four canal schemes at the same time, and was the first great tunnel engineer. The main line reached Hockley Heath in May 1796; one mile (1.6 km) short of the first lock at Lapworth.
The Dudley Canal extension through the Lappal tunnel was opened in early 1798, and with progress being made on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, the Company obtained a third act of Parliament on 21 June 1799, which allowed it to raise more money. Work restarted in 1799 under a new engineer called Samuel Porter. He continued as far as Kingswood Junction, which was formally opened on 24 May 1802.
Construction only recommenced in 1812, under the leadership of William James of Stratford. James, who had owned shares in the Company since 1793, had a wide interest in turnpike roads and railways and coal mining. He rose to become chairman of the Canal Company, and personally bought the Upper Avon Navigation in 1813. He wanted to create a through route between the River Severn and the Midlands, and so the Canal Company obtained a further act of Parliament on 12 May 1815, which authorised a connection between the canal and the Avon at Stratford. The canal reached Stratford in June 1816 and a connection with the River Avon was made.
The southern section of the canal never realised James' ambitions, as the Upper Avon was too tortuous and prone to floods to be a reliable through route. He spent some £6,000 on improvements to the Upper Avon locks in 1822, but over-reached himself, and was declared bankrupt shortly afterwards.
Traffic steadily built up, although tolls were low, to offset the costs imposed on goods passing through Kingswood Junction to the Warwick and Birmingham Canal. In 1845, the company agreed to sell the canal to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, who were also keen to purchase the Stratford and Moreton Tramway. Another change of ownership occurred in 1863, when the railway company was absorbed by the Great Western Railway. Traffic gradually decreased, but the fall in receipts was faster than the fall in tonnage, as the railway took the long-distance loads.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Taking a widescreen format for this shot where I simply loved the silhouette shape being made as this man crossed the road, and the convenient leading lines to him. Enjoy!
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O Parque dos Moinhos, situado nas cascatas do rio Barosa, na freguesia de Barro, Galiza, é um espaço natural que abriga um conjunto de quedas de água que descem por várias camadas rochosas, formando pequenas lagoas e canais. Este local é rico em património etnográfico, com vários moinhos de água construídos entre os séculos XVII e XIX, que aproveitavam a força do rio para a moagem de cereais, exemplificando a arquitetura rural galega ligada à pequena propriedade agrícola. Ao longo do percurso pedestre circular, os visitantes podem observar vestígios desses moinhos, desfrutar de trilhos, pontes, zonas de piquenique e piscinas naturais. O parque, ponto de passagem do Caminho Português de Santiago, é um destino popular para caminhadas e contacto com a natureza.
Parque dos Moinhos, located in the Barosa river waterfalls, in the parish of Barro, Galicia, is a natural space that houses a set of waterfalls that descend through several rocky layers, forming small lagoons and channels. This place is rich in ethnographic heritage, with several water mills built between the 17th and 19th centuries, which took advantage of the river's strength to grind cereals, exemplifying the Galician rural architecture linked to small agricultural properties. Along the circular pedestrian path, visitors can observe traces of these mills, enjoy trails, bridges, picnic areas and natural pools. The park, a crossing point on the Portuguese Way of St. James, is a popular destination for hiking and contact with nature.