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Langdon Hole.
Not a lot of short-toed eagles around today so I had to make do with half a dozen stonechats and this whinchat.
Stair Hole is a small cove situated immediately to the west of Lulworth Cove. Part of the Jurassic coastline in Dorset England.
Una curiosa cavità naturale si apre, improvvisa, su una scogliera a picco sul mare, nell'isola di Mauritius.
Non vi dico con quale nome i pescatori locali dell'isola chiamano questa... fenditura nella roccia... :)
#mauritius #isle #isola #roccia #scogliera #rocks #mare #indian #ocean #cave #hole #buco #mare #mere #tourism #nostalgia
Here is a photo that fits into the topics in both Exploring Macro Photography and Exploring Photography. Holes was a Disney movie that came out in 2003 based on a children's book. I remember watching it and I thought it was pretty good.
The "Devil's Punch Bowl" or Horcum's Hole is a valley of Levisham Beck on the North York Moors between Pickering and Whitby. I see this striking view as I go to work and always fail to do it justice photographically, it is 400 feet deep and 3/4 of a mile or 1.2 km wide, very striking to see but it looks like a dimple when you try to capture its full scale! The sky was nice today, so I tried a few shots. A very contrasty scene so I admit to an HDR treatment.
Along Osage Creek near the town of Compton is a small waterfall with the amusingly odd name of Booger Hole. It's a neat waterfall, and one that you can drive right up to. But one wonders how it got its name. You'd think whoever came up with it could have just dug a little deeper and picked out something a little better.
Look up to the sky through a green ceiling of green leaves! Captured at Haraldsplass Diakonale Sykehus in Bergen, Norway.
Down In Hole
HDR 7 scatti
Fotocamera: Nikon D700
Aperture: f/11
Shutter Speed: 0.400 s
Lente: 14 mm
ISO: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Lens: Nikkor AF-S FX 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
Perhaps one of the greatest victories in railfanning is a well-timed hole in an otherwise cloudy sky revealing the sunshine.
Flurries were flying most of the day when an 86-car St Cloud local came out of Northtown.
As you can tell, the sucker hole lined up perfectly with the train's arrival. I wasn't originally going to set up in downtown Big Lake, but when I saw a hole in the clouds, I just had hope and went for it, so glad I did.
Leading the local on this day is BNSF 2240, a GP38-2R. What's fascinating about this unit is when it was repainted in the late 2000s to its current paint, the headlight was moved from the cab to the nose. Yet within the last couple of years, that was reversed when PTC was installed.
High-headlights are a weird fetish of mine when it comes to older BNSF power these days, I like it. In fact, the geep being a cab-mounted headlight is why I went out for it.
Anyway, another victory thanks to the sucker-hole magic I apparently possess. They call me sucker-hole king now, not sure I'd go that far, but I have been really blessed with good luck lately.
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BNSF 2240 - GP38-2R
BNSF 2649 - GP39-3
The sun was hiding behind the leaf, making the spider and the mitten shaped hole glow, while reflecting a sunburst off the lake
Macro Mondays: Holes (in a grater)
Flickr Lounge: Interesting....perspective and light...maybe? Not sure if this works for the them. Macro photo of a grater with lighting from LED flashlight.
..and that's the group's theme..'There is a hole in..'
Worked with two bottles. This one is more interesting.
If you have nothing to smile about this Saturday, make one :)
This formation was crafted over thousands of years due to a unique weathering process known as tafoni. It has created a honeycomb pattern and smooth holes in the sandstone.
Sandstone wall in Mud Wash. Mojave Desert, Clark County, Nevada
The kitchen is often a good place to find a shot for MM and it's where I spotted the spout on an olive oil pot. I lit the edge of the spout and used maximum aperture so only the hole (8mm diameter) is in focus. The result is almost three dimensional.
Mon recipient emaille de bureau aurait bien voulu prendre le temps de poser pour une grosse boite de pub afin de vanter les merites de ses nombreux trous teintes de jaune or.
Langdon Hole.
Mostly flitting through the tree tops but this one came down to an elderberry and into camera range.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
The Ladybower Reservoir is famous for being the location where Barnes Wallis developed the famous bouncing bomb, used during World War II to destroy the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in the Ruhr area of The Netherlands.
We were hoping to see the reservoir at a higher level and overflowing into the plug hole for a long exposure, but unfortunately, it was not to be.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.