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We have many old bridges and viaducts here and further north. All seemed to have been built with such pride and elegance, and this is but one example.
The bridge carries something quite mundane, pipes which carry water further southwards. The stonework is very good, and the whole design aesthetically pleasing.
The River Lune floods severely very frequently, so this bridge has to be sturdy (on the other side of the bridge is a record of some of the flood heights).
Taken in the Lune Valley with a small compact Canon camera
Enjoying the user experience of this lens with the T/S functionality. Still getting used to it and loving the results. One thing to remind myself is not to go crazy on the T/S functionality, it can be overdone. Using this lens at 0/0 setting provides very good imagery, sharp! The 45mm focal length offers a great perspective.
View other shots taken with this lens here. Small but a growing collection.
This image is the functional equivalent of me throwing my hands up in the air and walking away because I can't settle on an edit that I like.
Wednesday night, the skies cleared and I made a quick run out to Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area to stalk the Milky Way. I took 23 shots over the course of maybe 30 minutes and headed home, feeling pretty satisfied with what I got, at least based on what I saw on the camera LCD screen. At home, the stacks and panoramas weren't coming out well, and even the single frame edits weren't working, so I let the images sit, thinking I'd try to make sense of them tonight, Thursday. But, tonight I'm not feeling any better about them. The more I fuss with them, the ickier it gets.
I think there was more haziness in the air than I realized, and going earlier in the night (10 pm or so) meant there were a zillion more planes and more horizon light than I'm accustomed. (I bet it didn't help that low on the horizon to the southwest were occasional lightning flashes from distant lightning).
So, in quasi- defeat, I offer a frame directly from the memory card, a test image taken with the 12mm fish-eye lens as I waved a flashlight around. No edits, no adjustments in Lightroom, just a direct export to jpeg.
Details:
ISO2500, f2.8 and 25-seconds with a Canon 5D4 and a Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens.
The Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad Depot, constructed in 1917, is a locally significant example of standardized, functional railroad architecture in Sparta, Tennessee. The depot is associated with a pattern of railroad growth and monopoly that shaped economic and settlement trends in the southeast during the early twentieth century. Between 1902 and 1921, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the parent company of the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis, expanded its miles of track from 3,327 to 5,041 miles, representing an increase of 57%. Some of this new construction took place in White County as the railroad extended its 1884 Bon Air spur line to the new coal towns of Clifty, DeRossett, and Ravenscroft, near the border between White and Cumberland counties, in an attempt to better exploit coal and mineral ores. As historian Maury Klein observed in his study of the Louisville and Nashville, "it is significant that none of the new trackage tried to extend the L & N's territory but rather sought to exploit the existing territory more fully. What might be called a more mature phase of interterritorial strategy had arisen and was flourishing...[in the] cultivation of the sources of coal and ore traffic." (pp. 397-98)
White County was a significant producer of raw materials, especially coal and timber products, during the early twentieth century. After the coal company built an underground shaft at Bon Air in 1902, that single mine produced an average daily tonnage of 350 tons for the next twenty years. The adjacent Eastland Mine also opened in 1902 and produced an average of 350 tons daily for the next thirty years. Demand for raw materials increased even more dramatically during the First World War and great amounts of Cumberland Plateau coal and timber was shipped out of Sparta. White County walnut was especially in demand for use in gun stocks, first in orders from Allied nations and then, in late 1917 and 1918, for the U.S. Army.
Due to the increased traffic and demand for railroad services, the company in 1917 decided to replace the original frame Sparta depot, which housed only an office and freight room, with a new much larger brick depot. The new depot reflected the importance of the railroad, and the county's coal mines, to the economic life of Sparta. As the town's "gateway", it symbolized local prosperity and confidence at the height of the wartime boom in demand for raw materials. Moreover, the depot served Sparta itself as the town's major contact point between the national corporate economy and the local market economy.
The Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad Depot also embodies a trend in early twentieth century railroad architecture that balanced the cost-saving strategies of the railroads against the demands of a more sophisticated local community. The design achieved economy, functionalism and comfort under one roof. The waiting rooms accommodated more passenger traffic on the line, while the spacious freight room and loading platforms handled the increased volume of timber, mineral, and agricultural products being shipped out of the county. Although a standardized design lay at the heart of the depot's plan, its roof line and minimal Craftsman-style exterior detailing reflected the use of minor architectural features and varying roof shapes to give uniqueness to the building. Particularly distinctive were the wide, overhanging, unbracketed roof eaves. The square bay window of the business office also helped to add variety to the form while the functionally-placed windows on east and west elevations, along with the decorative band of bricks, added rhythm to the building's appearance.
The Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad Depot is associated with and physically represents the peak of railroad influence in White County during the early twentieth century. Even after a period of decline due to the popularity of the automobile and the building of the Memphis to Bristol Highway, this small-town depot has survived and was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on December 7, 1992. All of the information above (and a bit more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/9ea0e226-5cd8-49c3-9e5...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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I finally set the pole to mount the remote wind speed/direction, outside humidity and rain gauge device. The sunny afternoon and high term of 68 F prompted this sudden burst of energy! Rains are predicted all day tomorrow so I should get some input on the accuracy of the rain catching device! The rain gauge is self dumping so you don't have to go outside to dump the accumulated rain and the amount is transmitted to this indoor display!
needle roll made from felted scarf (blue) with felted cashmere sweater pages...part of the functional felt swap with accompanying pin cushion. Vintage glass buttons and trim.
blogged at overmilkwood.blogspot.com
I think this helps to understand the layout of the main space.
It is actually a square and four different sections/functional areas are created by dividing the space in a cross.
Counterclockwise, starting from the right:
-> dining area/occasional seconf office
for me
-> lounge / sofa area
-> little office corner ( the desk actually
doesn't belong in the square, as it's
placed in the nook, created from the
diagonical shape of the roof ) with
bookcase / media area between the
small and the big Expedit units.
-> reading corner/area and stairs up to
the bedroom and open dressing
areas.
....the tiny kitchen in placed directly
behind the reading area. The
bathroom is close to the entrance
area with the tool unit in front of the half
semicircular smaller window.
Views of the entrance can be found
here:
www.flickr.com/photos/ivy_style33/sets/72157621632739156
and of the bathroom here:
www.flickr.com/photos/ivy_style33/sets/72157622250448312
I guess it'll help more to draw the plan, so I'll do that in the next days.
New wall is up and running, fully functional, ready for visitors to experience and be in awe of.
This is probably my biggest wall, yet, wraps around a stairwell, covers four different walls, used up all the polaroids from the previous wall, had to go into the archives to keep going, left a few spaces for new photos...of which I've already got a stack.
There's some natural light in this one, means I'll be shooting there more than I did in the last place, too tight, that last space, awesome and enveloping as it was.
More to come...
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....is the best description of Salford Central with its basic amenities. All this is set to change with the station being closed for 6 months from January 2023 for a makeover.
156423 at Salford Central with 2W11 1130 Stalybridge to Southport on 8th December 2022. A Kirkby to Blackburn service is also departing formed of 150226 and 150124.
Old Sony Mavica floppy disc camera... #old fashioned. It may be old, but it still can take some pretty impressive photos!
Taken with Sony NEX-5N and Minolta 50mm f2 lens in black and white.
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Crescent Beach has had this little bridge for years gradually drooping into the creek BUT this year Surrey fixed it, yeah!
These 'benches' are not intended to be comfortable, they are ideal for the teenage slouch adopted by those who must constantly peer at their mobile phone. If you are older a 3cm wide strip of stainless steel is best avoided. To be fair Cradley Heath has a ticket office/waiting room which does have reasonable seating.
Arriving in gentle rain 172219 leads 2S54 the 14.45 Kidderminster to Stratford-upon-Avon train.
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Patterns beneath our feet
The next four pattern photos were all taken in Perth city centre. I was heading in for coffee with a friend, so I left about 15 minutes early to look for some photo opps.
So, a challenge and a time constraint… and a lens constraint – only using my 14mm.
My first shot was the patterns in these cobbles. I think they are mesmerising.
P102-9058 Taken at: Marshall Place, Perth, Scotland
Tutorial on Instructables: www.instructables.com/id/Functional-LEGO-Nutcrackers/
With a simple pull of the lever, these decorative figures can open and close their jaws like authentic nutcrackers!
Both of these models were built in the recent weeks leading up to Christmas. The design was pretty straightforward, but two major issues were making the faces look good, and finally getting the hats right. In fact, the green nutcracker's crown took the longest to figure out, and was finally made with hinge plates.
As mentioned in the tutorial, although these can in fact function as real nutcrackers, they're somewhat rickety and best suited for holiday decorations.
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