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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
Virginia Woolf
This would be Lock 44 on the C&O Canal in Williamsport, MD. It's amazing to think how much commerce this lock must have seen back in the day. Of course rail lines got laid next to the Canal line, and eventually put the Canal out of business. I think it's great that pieces like this lock are kept around so that we know how things started out back in the day.
47 279 heads a northbound Intermodal past Lock Wood north of Culham
A view here is still possible, but only with a pole or drone such is the state of the lineside vegetation
This shot was put together by dangling a key from my ceiling using a bit of cotton and then using a 50mm 1.8 lens and a lock shape cut out to create the bokeh while shining a torch on the key. All in camera no photoshop (apart from a slight crop).
OK. It's an early september saturday morning at Notre-Dame. I was preparing for an engagement session. It had been a long time since I last had walked on that bridge behind the cathedral. Maybe even a few years. I knew the lock thing on the Pont des Arts. But this ? come on, just because it's a bridge with a fence, it does not mean that you have to BYOL (bring your own lock - or rather BUY your own lock from the local guy (usually from Sri Lanka)) and place it here. At 6:50. IN THE MORNING.
Nikon FE2
kodak gold 200
nikkor AF-D 70-210mm f/4-5.6 lens
processed and scanned at Nation Photo, Paris.
À qui profite le biz des cadenas ?
This lock is just outside of Reading on the River Thames - a place I walk often with Spike. It is typical of the many locks on the Thames as it makes its way through Oxfordshire into Berkshire and on to it's more familiar manifestation as it runs through the City of London. This shot is taken with a telephoto lens from the top of the hill opposite (where I have taken many of my "cloud" shots). It's for a special Flickr friend in Southern California where the landscape is somewhat different from this lush and lazy green English countryside!
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This scene was taken somewhere in the Birmingham area in Circa 1959
It shows a narrow boat exiting a lock with the crew working hard on the balance beams, the day is a misty winter's morning with the weak sun penetrating the gloom The towpath is formed of cinders, pock-marked with oily puddles, to the right an engineering firm occupies the iron clad building, it's walls covered in many coats of tar.
Today the walls would be covered in spray paint, the towpath hard surfaced lest the cinders should damage a Nike trainer, working boats have long gone, the factory
flattened.
Peter Shoesmith
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved
Looking along the old canal towards Lock Six, one of the few remains of the first Welland Canal.
Minolta Maxxum 9 - Minolta AF Zoom 35-70mm 1:4 - Kosmo Mono 100 @ ASA-100
Blazinal (1+50) 7:30 @ 20C
Scanner: Nikon Coolscan V ED
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
On the Rochdale Canal approaching the summit pound from Littleborough.
The rear bag is a zipped pencil case (21cms x 9cms) containing spare tubes and tyre levers. Best to keep these essentials in one place to save rooting around in the front bag and tool bottle. A reflective slap band provides an aid to conspicuity.
saw this beautiful lock from pre-partition times on an old Haveli (mansion) owned by a Hindu family in Old Lahore. The house was abandoned by them after partition, it is converted into a gallery by an artist Iqbal Ahmed - the proceeds go to the upliftment of the area and poor sex workers of the same area (also called Red Light Area).
Very impressive and noble effort i think to rehabilitate and improve their lives.
The engravings on the lock are of a Hindu Goddess, dont know if the artist who created this thought of it but the key hole to me signifies the womb. May be I am reading too much here.