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BuIlt in 1877, she is believed to be the oldest passenger ferry in the world.
From Wikipedia:-
"The M.Y. Lady of the Lake was ordered by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Company, a predecessor of the current owners, to a design by Douglas Henson of Penrith. She was built by T.B. Seath & Co. at Rutherglen near Glasgow, transported in three sections by rail to Penrith, and thence by horse drays to Waterside near Pooley Bridge. She was assembled on the slipway at Waterside and launched on 26 June 1877.
In 1881 the Lady of the Lake sank at her moorings but was re-floated by a team of divers. In 1936 she was converted from steam to diesel power. The vessel sank again in 1950 in a severe storm, but was again re-floated. In 1965 the vessel was badly damaged by fire and was out of service for 14 years, before being restored and reengined. She was re-launched on 19 May 1979"
The stage is set, and through the parted foliage curtains, beneath the cloud is the Welsh mountain of Llyn y fan fach, meaning little lake, which gave rise to the fairy legend of the local boy who married a fairy girl who arose out of the lake.
It is situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Carmarthenshire, Wales, on the Black mountain ridge. The lake sits at the base of the mountain at a height of just over 500m.
Turned to stone, the sunlight emphasises the beautiful sculptured face of the statute,as she stands poised in the grasses of the lake ........
Jasper had no problem pulling Excalibur from the stone and securing his rightful position as King. Long live King Jasper!
Turns out I'm married to the Lady of the Lake (aka: Jean). That's her descending back into the lake after having put Excalibur in the stone. How an average-Joe businessman (me) came to be hooked up with both the Lady of the Lake AND the King, we may never know ;-)
The lady of the lake calls me to the edge of the frozen lake and tempts me to dance with her in the misty morn…Best viewed large.
Vierge du Lac, Port d'Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland 2015
Lady of the Lake statue on the shores of Lake Geneva with the Swiss Alps in the background at Port d'Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Sculpted in white marble by Vincent Adrien Robert Kesserling, "Vincenzo", this was completed in 1989.
Going to and from Lake Chelan is this steep climb up through a tunnel. The glacial lake resides far above the river.
Lady of the Lake
Rainbow
‘There’s a magical sound sliding over the ground
Making it shiver and shake.’
Anyone who has ever watched a Class 37 setting off will know how fitting the lyrics are!
A very aptly named 37423 ‘Spirit of the Lakes’ sets out from Carlisle with the 14:33 to Barrow of Saturday 10th March 2018.
Active Assignment Weekly - Taken From Behind
AAW - Apr. 24-May 1, 2023.
On display in Lady Of The Lake's parking lot.
What I wanted to do with this image captured was have that look across the blue waters of Lake Chelan to the hillsides and then mountains far off in the distance. I liked how the different hues added a nice color contrast that seem to complement the other for this setting in the North Cascades of Washington.
This was captured on a boat ride across Lake Chelan while in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.
It is said that after the Battle of Camlann (King Arthur's final battle), Sir Bedivere (Bedwyr) cast the sword Excalibur into Llyn Ogwen, where it was caught by the Lady of the Lake. Tryfan is said to be Sir Bedivere's final resting-place
A view looking to the southeast while on a boat ride on Lake Chelan while in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.
Built for summer joust 2022 12x12 contest. I've been thinking about King Arthur a lot recently.
I was also inspired by Love, Death and Robots: Jibaro. Fantastic episode, and I'd love to see more builds inspired by it for this SJ2022.
Thought this theme might work best for this category. Hope you guys like it.
Now that I've posted it, I'm a little worried that it's a bit derivative of EKJohnson's Passage of Valyria (flic.kr/p/2i3xkq2).
My favourite local dawn and sunrise location, the lake at Petersfield Heath. The Heath area, to the East of the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, is an ancient 3000 year old Bronze Age burial site, with the type of burial patterns seen at Stonehenge and Avebury, but without evidence of the attendant henge structures.
Eilean Molach, or Ellen's Isle, is one of many small Islands on Loch Katrine.
Highly romantic in appearance, craggy and wooded, it is the centre of the action of Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake; and it contained, for some time, a modern sylvan lodge like that described in the poem, decorated with trophies of the chase and fray, but destroyed by accidental fire in 1837.
Who was that mysterious Lady who gave the Excalibur to King Arthur?
For some reason the most iconic depictions of Lady of the Lakes for me are those, in which she has never be seen, only her hand was. Who is she? Why she helps Arthur? Who knows! It's a mystery! :)
From the other hand, it really reduces her role in the legend, which was more important, to nothing more than MacGaffin's caretaker, and this is sad. Her story in the legend is also different depending on the source, because there are three Ladies of the Lakes, some of whom sometimes considered a one character or the same character as other well-known fairies from the legend. But if we consider Nimue the Lady of the Lake, then I still can't get over the fact that the version of the story I read first was told from Merlin's perspective and it was about the evil apprentice who betrayed him for power (excuse me, how exactly turning Merlin into a tree will make her more powerful?!), and not the actual version, in which she had to get rid of old pervert who "fell in love" with her (and how young she was, by the way?). So, Merlin was lying in the first story... she was never a villain! Damn, I had no idea, and I'm still angry that the first version I heard omitted such an important detail.
Anyway, back to the iconic Excalibur scene. I can't remember which depiction showed the magically glowing lake, but I liked the effect, so I wanted to recreate something like this. I was quite short on time because the "lake" wasn't very stable, so I didn't have time to search for parts to build a more realistically looking shore.
A portion of Bible verse I remember and often seem to quote to myself during trips to mountains. With this view to the south looking across the side of Lucerne Mountain to Pinnacle Mountain, it just seemed to capture that feel and setting.
A conversion to black & white using Capture NX2 where I used some color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image.
With the angle and the view across the mountains, it seemed to bring out more of the nestled look. As a friend mentioned to me and in many ways, this setting reminded me of the mountains all around that I'd seen while on a boat ride in Waterton Lakes National Park up in Alberta.
Where I would later pull back on the focal Lane to capture a wider angle view of this location, for this image I decided to zoom in and raise the focus of the image captured to be above the area of the campgrounds to the surrounding hillsides and mountain peaks that towered above. This is a look to the west to Lucerne Mountain. What I liked about this was the seeming step like view that it held. Nearby was a hillside with the road going up followed by another hillside slightly back in the distance and then finally spurs, draws and ridgelines and leading up to the snowcapped peaks above.
A view looking to the northwest while on the Lady of the Lake ferry ride. What I wanted to capture with this view was the look of mountain ridgelines that seemed to crisscross one after another leading off into the distance to snowcapped mountain peaks. In many of the images I captured that day, I decided to crop out the lake in the foreground as I felt the mountain peaks were the main focus of what I wanted to capture that day. Here though I did minimal cropping of the lake, deciding that the lake added a complementary color contrast with the blue-greens of the water to the browns and greens and even slight purples of the mountainsides above.
Modèle et costume : Anaïs
Epée prêtée par Elie
Photo prise au château de Comper, avec l'aimable autorisation des propriétaires
Owned by Ullswater Steamers the 'Lady Of The Lake' was built by Seath & Co of Rutherglen, Glasgow and launched in 1877. Ullswater Steamers is a boat company which provides leisure trips on Ullswater in the north-eastern part of the English Lake District.
I definitely wasn't tiring of the mountain views that day on Lake Chelan! Here I was looking to the south across the mountainside of Lucerne Mountain to some snowcapped peaks of Pinnacle Mountain. After some initial processing in Capture NX2, I later converted the image to black & white using Silver Efex Pro 2 where I used some color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image.
Here's a little different shot from what I normally do. We were paddling around the swamps in Louisiana and thought it would be fun to get a shot of Evelyn in her dress. She was able to get up on this stump and used the kayak paddle for balance. I then took the shot from the boat, trying not to create many ripples. The soft morning light in the fog was very mysterious.
I thought I would carry on with yesterday's colour theme!
Taken on a fabulous walk yesterday around Llyn y Fan Fach
Yesterday Mags and I had the pleasure of the company of Blue Passacaglia, one of my Flickr contacts from Germany. We drove her through scenic Glendevon, enjoyed Monty Python's Castle Swamp/Anthrax (Castle Doune), and visited the Scottish Antiques Centre at Burn of Cambus. We then made friends with Hamish, the giant highland cow at Kilmahog. In the beautiful Trossachs mountain region, we saw Lochs Vennachar, Katrine and Achray. We then photographed birds of prey at Aberfoyle, had a sandwich on the banks of the river at Callander, watching the gulls and ducks. On the way home we saw and patted Clydesdale and Shetland Pony foals at Dunning. Apart from that we didn't do much, just talked and took photos. :0)) Thanks for a nice day out my friend.
Captured looking to the northwest while on a boatride leaving Stehekin and the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area.
A view looking to the northwest while on a ferry boat ride before pulling into the Lucerne Campground in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. What I loved about this view wasn't just a look across the blue waters to the ridgelines and mountain peaks. It was also that far off view with the clouds seemingly hugging and just above the snowcapped peaks of McGregor Mountain off in the distance. It was as if there were two sets of color contrast between the blues of the lake waters and skies above and then the green, browns, yellows of the mountains and ridgelines in the middle.
This was from the stern of the ferry boat as it headed away from the campground we'd just stopped. So as the view pulled back, I could see more and more of the towering mountains all around. One mountainside after another seemed to come out to add that magnificent backdrop for this part of Lake Chelan and the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. The idea I wanted to capture with this image was to have the campground area towards the bottom of the image with minimal water foreground. The rest of the image was about mountains...big mountains towering above. I wanted anyone seeing this image to appreciate and enjoy that early "summer" day in the Washington Cascades while staying at that campground. I later used some CEP filters (Low Key, Polarization and Graduated Neutral Density) in Capture NX2 which seemed to best bring out look I wanted in a final image, even with the bright sunlight from the early afternoon.
It is said that when storm clouds gather over England and dark days lay ahead then the Lady of the Lake will rise from her watery resting place bearing Excalibur – to be taken by a pure-hearted champion for the people (or perhaps it’ll just be taken by the council).
Well, with Greece on the blink, Portugal up the swanny and Italy on the ropes it would appear that the time is upon us…Good people of England take cheer for now Excalibur is here it will all be sorted post haste!
Even now I’m proud of all the work I had to go through to get this done. No one will ever know that there were fake jewels stuck to the handle or that I’d made a special concrete filled bucket so the sword would stay upright. Not to mention how cold that water was and the rather strange look I got from the one man watching who was sitting on a bench quietly drinking a can of Special Brew.
Cheers
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The Lady of the Lake takes people 51 miles up lake to Stehekin, Washington, a small community in the North Cascades National Recreation Complex. The boat is the only way to get to Stehekin, except for a very long hiking trail.
A stop while on the ferry boat ride across Lake Chelan with a view looking to the north to Red Butte and other peaks of the South Methow Mountains. What I was attempting to capture in this setting was a number of different things. One was the crisscrossing of hillsides to the mountains off in the distance. Another was what I felt a color contrast between the deep blue color of Lake Chelan and the green, yellows and even some browns on the hillsides and mountains. While pulling back on the focal length might have included more of the surrounding hillsides and mountains and even added to an awe inspiring look for this image, I decided to zoom in and have only a focus on those two things that I noted for this image. I also liked how zooming in seemed to fill in more of the image, almost creating a sense of scale.