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Leeds Liverpool Canal Apperley Bridge Bradford.
Dobson Locks (14 & 15):
These 2 rise locks were built c .1777 and are Grade II Listed for their architectural and historic interest. The locks raise the level of the canal a total of 20 feet. Each lock is of wrought sandstone construction with large block
copings which are frequently held together by iron staples.
Shaped iron mooring posts are attached to some of the copings. The lower lock (14) has vertical masonry to which the sides of the canal are linked via coped sloped walls which are topped with setted surfaces. The upper lock (15) has curved masonry walls. Set against the masonry to either side of each lock are stone stairways with painted timber diamond railings attached to square posts with iron ‘feet’. The same railings can be found along the top of the masonry to either side of the gates. The painted timber and iron gates and balance beams have iron gears attached to them. Below each balance beam is a quadrant of stone setts with heel grips to allow a better purchase. Over the tail of each lock is a timber plank bridge with painted timber railings, uprights and guardrails. To the west of the locks is a stone lined overflow channel which drains the pound above and between the locks.
Cormorant emerged after the fishing dive with a tiny topsmelt tightly held by the top of her beak ... @ Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
Walking along a river bank and seeing how rushing waters eroded the shoreline - exposing a tree's impressive and unrelenting grip on the earth.
Trattenere 6,8,,12,17 anni di crescita, artwork by Italian artist and sculptor Giuseppe Penone, known for his large-scale sculptures of trees that are interested in the link between man and the natural world.
More of Giuseppe Penone at my Blog:
“Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth’s orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”
- Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes
Inspired by Zack's amazingness.
Most painful shoot to date, all that melted wax is real. But quite fun to go out of your comfort zone. And I still don't use a remote. I am back from my flickr hiatus and will visit your streams today. :)
In memory of Lola Sayong who lived and loved until the ripe age of 86, and will continue to be remembered and cherished far longer.
For this week's theme on Macro mondays a picture of my favourite longboard. For grip It has ground glas over Koa wood. HMM
Does smoking have a vice-like grip on people? Just a candid shot in Zagreb old town. It was nice being a tourist on holiday with people expecting you to photograph anything, and so I did :)
Anhinga (anhinga anhinga) with bluegill sunfish - Zephyrhills, Florida
An Anhinga surfaces with a bluegill sunfish. The predator and prey are eye-to-eye. The anhinga typically spears its prey with that long sharp beak. However, In this photo, you can see that the anhinga did not have a good hold on the fish and it actually shook itself free to swim for another day. As the fish fell back in to the water, it reminded me of my chopstick misadventures.
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I keep gravitating back toward this monument at the local cemetery. I've photographed it before but every time its a different experience for me.
Back to Fort Whyte for this shot of a female Redpoll. She was the only one who seemed to have a system for hanging on to the moving bird feeders, by using a leg to grip the opening. While the others were fluttering quickly back and forth from the feeders to the trees, she was taking her time and enjoying lunch! :)
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Location : ptn johor Malaysia
shot from my Olympus e500 wt 40 - 150mm zuiko
terima kasih - thank you - syukran - for your kind interest & support...really appreciate & take good care always ...rgds tank/sulaiman
After considering what I would photograph for this weeks Macro Mondays theme of "Double Exposure" I knew that I wanted both of my exposures to be connected in some way and therefore I decided to photographs two items that can grip.
The first item, and after thinking of the previous "Fingertips" theme, was probably obviously going to be my fingers. A little more thinking and I decided to use these small bulldog or binder clips.
I photographed my fingers against the bedroom window knowing that the area around them would blow out to white. This would confine the second exposure to cover my fingers.
I also took separate exposures of my fingers and the clips in case I wasn't happy with the result of my camera's Multiple Exposure mode but this was one of the double exposures I caught in camera.
Tightly she held my hand,
Her mind a foreign land,
No words were spoken,
Her tongue was broken,
But deep down inside,
Her love did still abide.
(and get lucky).
Didn't have a tripod with me for this as it was just a casual walkabout Edinburgh city centre. But I wanted traffic trails dammit :). I'd been dropping the shutter speed to get a bit more light into the camera and then just decided to go for some really long exposures to get a lot more light in (and so increase the signal to noise ratio) and get some trails.
Found a nice lamp post with a metal box of some kind next to it, and I put my left elbow on the box with my arm upright under the camera. Using my right hand to push the camera against the lamp post and my head as a third point of contact made for a pretty secure camera. It still took a few goes to get this sharp frame however it is possible to hand-hold a 2 second shot like this - as long as you grip the camera effectively. In general: eliminate arm joints from your grip - if there's nothing to lean on, jam your elbows in against your chest, and jam the camera into your left shoulder and press it up against your face. Watch this video from Joe McNally for the details:
unfortunately i didn't have a spare buck for the challenge....not that it would prove much. found at macarthur square, greater sydney.
It always amazes me how nature gives creatures the ability to climb vertically. Birds, Squirrels, even cats to a lesser extent, seem to be able to get a grip on this such as tree trunks. This is in our yard outside Beaverton, Oregon.
I hurt my wrists a while back and sometimes struggle with opening jars.
A kind Flickr friend suggested cutting up an old pair of rubber gloves and using them to grip a recalcitrant jar.
Brilliant. Problem solved!