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East Yorkshire at High Hunsley and the beautiful countryside and miles away into the distance, 24 August 2020.
strange light day, no sun got through the thin cloud , so high key suited this
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High Roller is a 550-foot tall, 520-foot diameter giant Ferris wheel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. Owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment, it opened to the public on March 31, 2014 as the world's tallest Ferris wheel.
Did the drive to High Force, Co Durham today, to meet up with Anita for a day of practice and technique learning. Had a brill time, spent three hours just plotting, shooting and practising long exposure!
Oh yes, and enjoyed some homebaked chocolate cake at the end of the day!
BTW, I once read that this was the highest fall in England, but NO, despite popular belief, it is not, at 21.5 metres (70 ft), the highest waterfall in England: Cautley Spout, in Cumbria's Howgill Fells, is almost 180 metres (600 ft) high; and Hardraw Force, in North Yorkshire, has an unbroken drop of 30 metres (100 ft). - That's where I'm heading soon!!!
High Force was formed where the River Tees crosses the Whin Sill - the hard layer of igneous rock followed by Hadrian's Wall. The waterfall itself consists of three different types of rock. The upper band is made up of whinstone, or dolerite, a hard igneous rock which the waterfall takes a lot of time to erode. The lower section is made up of Carboniferous Limestone, a softer rock which is more easily worn away by the waterfall. Between these two layers is a thinner layer of Carboniferous sandstone, which was baked hard when the Whin Sill was molton 295 million years ago. The wearing away of rock means that the waterfall is slowly moving upstream, leaving a narrow, deep gorge in front of it. The length of the gorge is currently about 700 metres. The bedload (rocks that the river is carrying) is mainly composed of large boulders, which are rolled along the river bed. Upstream of the waterfall, the river is narrow; downstream, it widens and meanders.
The International Space Station passed over at 89 degrees elevation this evening. I grabbed a quick hand-held shot when I stepped outside by chance and noticed it approaching. I had my 600mm lens on the camera already, luckily.
The mixture of building styles is always an attractive feature to me in a shopping centre. These shopping road photos were taken while Lina and I were waiting outside shops for Tim and JJ to return. I took these just as the mist was starting to clear.
Video from 4/1/22 High tide from a cold Askam Pier Cumbria. Little Egret, Reed Bunting, Curlew, Oystercatches, Ringed Plover, Redshank and I think a few Dunlin amongst them.
PENTAX K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax HD DA* 11-18 mm F2.8 ED DC AW
Murbach • Haut-Rhin • Alsace • France
Day two of my weekend sojourn to Reading and Northern country yielded three decidedly different trains and a chance to photograph in some new locations and some I'd visited before. Tops on the list for the day was this spot, one of the signature locations on the modern day RBMN mainline. This is the famous Hometown High Bridge, a more than 1000 ft long steel trestle that stands 168 (or 161 or 157 depending on where you look!) feet above the Little Schuylkill River at its highest point. This is MP 107.3 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline, though historically this was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Nesquehoning Branch.
A little history of the line courtesy of Rush Township's home page:
The Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company, part of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, built a 17-mile rail spur from Mauch Chunk (modern-day Jim Thorpe) to Tamanend that was finished in 1870. It connected with rail lines that were leased and operated by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company near Tamanend. This major freight and passenger rail interchange was at the small village of Haucks, which no longer exists today but was near the current Air Products facility near Quakake. Throughout the late 1800s, there were railroad interchanges in Haucks, Tamanend, and Quakake.
On March 23, 1871, the Nesquehoning-Tamanend line became part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), which leased many LC&N assets on that date.
Millions of tons of anthracite coal and freight would pass over that rail line in the early 1870s, and the demand for anthracite coal reached historic heights. In 1874, a financial panic led to a downturn in anthracite demand that would last several years. The CNJ, which had continued to rack up debts as it leased other anthracite assets across Eastern Pennsylvania, could not meet its financial obligations. The company continued to operate until the 1920s, at which point the United States Supreme Court ordered CNJ and other railroads that owned coal companies to divest (that is, to separate the coal companies from the railroad companies) because their joint operations violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Hepburn Act. By 1921, the Central Railroad of New Jersey was out of the coal business – and railroad traffic on Rush Township railbeds continued to decline.
The Nesquehoning-Tamanend line features the railroad “High Bridge,” which spans the Little Schuylkill River at a height of 157 feet. The bridge is cited in historical documents dating back to at least the early 1880s. The bridge, formally called the Hometown Trestle, is 981 feet long. The original bridge was a massive wooden structure, but it was rebuilt out of steel in 1931.
About an hour after the RDCs passed on their way to Jim Thorpe, another passenger train appeared. This time it was the 11 AM excursion out of Tamaqua, the first of three of the day running as part of the community's Tamaqua Summer Fest events. Leading the way is RBM 425, a high-drivered 4-6-2 light Pacific built by Baldwin in 1928 for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern that has been a staple of passenger trains on and off for nearly four decades. The excursion would end here at the bridge and GP38-2 2011on the south end would tow them back south.
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Sunday June 20, 2021
150 216 is on the viaduct overlooking Porthminster beach as it arrives at St Ives, the train was the 16.48 service from St Erth.
After a glorious day it is becoming cooler and the families who enjoyed the beach during the day have now scuttled back to their accomodation for an evening meal.
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The local time was 0409. Add in about an hour's drive from my house to this iconic spot on the Tokaido Main Line, and I was basically pulling an all nighter. Looking back, it was worth it in the end.
The 1960's built EF65's days were numbered, and I made it my mission to capture them in operation on the famed Tokaido Main Line as often as I could. Down below during the middle of the early morning freight rush, an Osaka bound intermodal train crosses over the bridge at Ishibashi while the sky lights up with orange. Land of the Rising Sun indeed.
I honestly can't believe the camera handled ISO 10000 this well.
JR Tokaido Main Line
JRF EF65 (Train 1055?)
Ishibashi, Kanagawa Pref., Japan