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Prothonotary warblers primarily feed on insects and spiders, favoring beetles, caterpillars, and dragonflies. They glean insects from leaves and branches or catch them in flight. During migration, they may also consume berries and fruits. Their varied diet provides essential nutrients for their energetic lifestyle and breeding efforts.
Sprimocoop est copropriétaire d’un parc éolien de 5 machines.
Concrètement, la société d’exploitation des 5 machines appartient pour 3/4 au développeur (VENTIS), le quart restant se partageant en deux parties égales entre la commune de Sprimont et Sprimocoop.
Les éoliennes sont situées au Nord de l’autoroute E25, de part et d’autre de la nationale 678 qui relie Sprimont à Louveigné.
Les cinq machines sont identiques. Ce sont des Nordex N117/3600 Delta. Chacune a une puissance maximum de 3,6 mégawatts (3.600 kW) et fournit de la puissance tant que le vent a une vitesse comprise entre 10 et 75 km/h.
Chaque mât mesure une centaine de mètres de haut et supporte une nacelle qui contient un alternateur connecté à l’axe d’une énorme hélice à trois pales en composite polyester-fibre de verre d’un diamètre de 116 mètres. La surface du cercle parcouru par chaque hélice est de 10.715 m2, soit un peu plus d’un hectare. Chacun des ces mètres carrés amène une puissance de 336 watts à la machine.
Le sommet des pales montera à environ 150 mètres et descendra à un peu plus de 40 mètres du sol. La vitesse de rotation est de 14,1 tours par minute. On verra donc passer une pale au même endroit toutes les 1,4 secondes.
Sprimocoop co-owns a five-turbine wind farm.
Specifically, the operating company for the five turbines is three-quarters owned by the developer (VENTIS), with the remaining quarter being split equally between the municipality of Sprimont and Sprimocoop.
The wind turbines are located north of the E25 motorway, on either side of the Route Nationale 678, which connects Sprimont to Louveigné.
The five turbines are identical. They are Nordex N117/3600 Delta turbines. Each has a maximum output of 3.6 megawatts (3,600 kW) and provides power as long as the wind speed is between 10 and 75 km/h.
Each tower is about 100 meters high and supports a nacelle containing an alternator connected to the shaft of a huge three-bladed polyester-fiberglass composite propeller with a diameter of 116 meters. The surface area of the circle covered by each propeller is 10,715 m², or just over one hectare. Each of these square meters provides 336 watts of power to the machine.
The blade tips will rise to approximately 150 meters and descend to just over 40 meters from the ground. The rotation speed is 14.1 revolutions per minute. Therefore, a blade will pass over the same spot every 1.4 seconds.
Aloe provides a lovely splash of colour to the garden here throughout the winter months.
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Hoya carnosa, the porcelainflower or wax plant, is an asclepiad species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is one of the many species of Hoya that are native to Eastern Asia and Australia. It is a common house plant grown for its attractive waxy foliage, and sweetly scented flowers. It is grown well in pots and hanging baskets. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya_carnosa
Glasgow 22 provides an interesting example of a traditional four wheeled tramcar, of which there are several at Crich. Many of these (for example Chesterfield 7) were purchased ‘off the peg’ from established tramcar suppliers and received relatively little modification over the years. Others, however, such as Glasgow 22, were built in-house by their operators and were often extensively modified over time, thereby acquiring a distinctive local ‘character’ that set them apart from those operated by other tramway undertakings.
Coconut palms provide more shade for beach umbrellas. At Nacpan Beach, El Nido, Palawan, Philippines. This used to be an unknown beach before. Not anymore... there's an increasing number of visitors who flock to this place even if part of the ride here is bumpy and dusty.
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On this occasion today published a new version of one of my favorite shots, processed more brightness to the flamingos get a greater role.
I would love to know your opinion, because right now I have nothing clear to do.
I present a single photography this year for a worldwide competition and I would like to know your opinion, if I should file this for me, it is the best that I have of my series of flamingos, or one of my many seascapes image?
The story behind the picture:
That day we traveled to some lakes there are relatively close to home, to do some landscape photography at dawn.
When we got there, we were surprised that they had a lot of flamingos quietly along the lake and let us draw near enough to them and photograph.
The right time of the shooting, because the close passage of a plane, due to the noise got scared and started running to take flight.
The technique used is simply a neutral gradient filter three steps to compensate the lights.
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A distant shower provides a backdrop to a series of small islands, known as motu, dotting the barrier coral reef of the iconic turquoise blue lagoon of Bora Bora in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. The lagoon, very abundant in fish, is remarkable for its breadth and beauty.
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Northern Minnesota provides some very scenic places for photography. This location called Shovel Point is located in Tettegouche State Park.
The rock formation in the center frame used to be connected creating an arch which broke off sometime in August of 2010.
Per Wiki...Tettegouche State Park, in the United States, is a Minnesota state park on the north shore of Lake Superior 58 miles (93 km) northeast of Duluth in Lake County on scenic Minnesota Highway 61. The park's name stems from the Tettegouche Club, an association of local businessmen which purchased the park in 1910 from the Alger-Smith Lumber Company. The club's members protected the area until its sale in 1971 to the deLaittres family. In 1979, the state of Minnesota acquired 3,400 acres from the Nature Conservancy, including Tettegouche Camp. The land was added to Baptism River State Park, which was renamed Tettegouche State Park.
In the blue hour the Trent & Mersey Canal provides a perfect location for a long exposure night shot, with still waters and reflections of narrowboats moored up for the night at Stone in Staffordshire
Mallard (f) Note the water is reflected on the under side of the left wing. Each spring, the female mallard’s diet switches from plants to aquatic invertebrates found in wetlands. This diet provides her with the nutrition and energy she needs to lay and incubate a clutch of eggs. During breeding season (spring) they can be found from the northern United States all the way to the Alaskan coast on the Bering Sea. IMG_6734
Capture One provides excellent direct control of the luma curve. In this shot, I used it to enhance the contrast in the sand.
There are some good tutorials on this topic on Youtube. One that I particularly like, presented by Andrea Livieri, is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=BChqP9GsSgg.
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Rivers provide an important freshwater habitat. We enjoy how they look, play in them, drink from them and use them for transport.
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This set provides an exploration of a specific bay's daily transformation. A location that came into existence around three million years ago, the bay has seen numerous changes in vegetation, fauna, and human interaction. Despite our perceptions, this place is in a state of constant flux. Each day, it presents a new tableau, with variations in wave patterns, cloud formations, light reflections, and the ebb and flow of terrestrial and marine life. From the water in the sky as clouds to the water on the earth as a sea, every element forms a dynamic and harmonious landscape. Each photograph in this set captures a unique moment, illustrating the bay's ever-changing character and highlighting our natural world's profound yet often overlooked daily transformations.
Hadleigh Castle Essex UK
Hadleigh Castle is a ruined fortification in the English county of Essex, overlooking the Thames Estuary from south of the town of Hadleigh. Built after 1215 during the reign of Henry III by Hubert de Burgh, the castle was surrounded by parkland and had an important economic and defensive role. The castle was significantly expanded and remodelled by Edward III, who turned it into a grander property, designed to defend against a potential French attack, as well as to provide the King with a convenient private residence close to London. Built on a geologically unstable hill of London clay, the castle has often been subject to subsidence; this, combined with the sale of its stonework in the 16th century, has led to it now being ruined. The remains are now preserved by English Heritage and protected under UK law as a Grade I listed building and scheduled monument.
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Grey squirrel
Scientific name: Sciurus carolinensis
The grey squirrel was introduced into the UK in the 1800s. It provides an easy encounter with wildlife for many people, but can be damaging to woodlands and has contributed to the decline of the red squirrel.
A really nice sunset provides a backdrop for P97 as they leave New Bern for Chocowinity, crossing over the Neuse. NS has been obsessed with sending ET44s here lately. First we had 3653 on P97 (which I recently got the Scaletrains HO model of), then was followed up by 3652 here a few weeks later after a C6M took the reins for a bit. On top of that, New Bern's local power, another C6M, derailed on the Weyerhaeuser spur near Vanceboro on E32. This caused NS to replace it with 3654, which had just led an inbound potash train to Morehead City a few days prior and was plucked from that power set as an emergency replacement for the derailed C6M. A few more have made the rounds on P98 as well. With there only being 81 NS ET44s, it's kinda weird that so many have been going here as of recent.
Inle Lake fishermen
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The Collingwood Centre, Nelson
Conceived as two wings linked by a full height glass atrium, the Collingwood Centre is situated on the inner city fringe, straddling 105-111 Collingwood Street. This commercial development took five years in its planning, design, documentation and construction.
The brief from the clients was simple, “we don’t want a box”. What they did want was a modern, sustainable, commercial shell to allow medical and professional tenants to co-locate.
The building is orientated on the site to address the Collingwood and St Johns Street corner, to provide a visual link across the road to Buxton car park and provide an active frontage along Collingwood Street. The vehicle access is via an entry off Collingwood Street to discreet parking along the side of the site and at the rear, exiting onto St Johns Lane.
Timber battens adorn the exterior and wrap into the full height entry void serving as a wayfinding mechanism. They also act as sun and privacy screens and provide a softer skin over the precast concrete panels. Low maintenance materials have been selectively wrapped around main structural elements, some of which have been expressed on the interior and exterior of the building.
A DNA styled façade above a trickling water feature draws users to the main entry atrium where they can orientate themselves within the building. The full height structural concrete wall creates a central spine to the building and acts to passively regulate the atrium temperature in conjunction with auto opening skylights above.
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Mauna Loa provides a quite good view north toward Mauna Kea. The laser of Keck 2 is visible in the higher-resolution versions of this image. The scene is lit by a 48% moon, and a lightning storm is visible behind the left flank of the mountain. Pohakuloa Training Area, an Army training base, is the lights below the left side of the mountain. Saddle Road crosses the valley between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
Shot on a 7D2 + Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 at f/4. 19 2-minute exposures were stacked.
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This bright new airport lounge experience provides oneworld customers with vibrant and calming space to recharge, relax, and dine before their flight.
With a subtle nod to South Korean culture, mesmerising glass art and the ‘Gat’ hat in a welcoming bar, the lounge mixes traditional and contemporary design.
The lounge is a short 10-minute walk from the furthest oneworld airlines’ departure gates.
This sturdy rock provides refuge for countless marine birds.
This photo was taken by a Kowa Super 66 medium format film camera with a KOWA LENS-S 1:3.5/150 lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SL39•3C(UV) filter using Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Receding waves provide the leading lines along the golden sandy beach on Kauai. Shutter was dragged for 0.3 seconds. F/18 or so. ALOHA!
The Canadian Coast Guard provides icebreaking services for commercial ships, ferries and fishing vessels in ice-covered Canadian waters, including vessel escorts, harbour breakouts, maintaining shipping routes and providing ice information services.
These services:
- ensure safe navigation,
- prevent the formation of ice jams and flooding
- maintain open routes for maritime commerce
Thanks Government of Canada website!
This little beauty (and it's took-longer-than-you'd-think ice and water) was built to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday! Check out this and other celebratory creations on the Canada Build 150 website curated by Brickman Graeme!
My photographic travel often provide me with chance encounters with people, especially women.
(Perhaps someone will remember the cinematic shot of a Lady on horseback in a beautiful autumn avenue 2020)
On October 30 I descend from Rhemes Valley with destination Valpelline for repeat the high tour of Place Moulin Lake, where I took the photo posted yesterday.
Around 11.30 a.m. I'm already hungry and descend on a grassy trail, together with a couple of Dutch hikers, also heading to the Prarayer Refuge for lunch.
We exchange a some words in English and a friendly Italian of their own.
They linger in the coolness of the Larch forest and in a few minutes I am back on the dirt trail that circles along the lake. After a few minutes of walking here comes toward me a blond girl concentrated on a mtb bike.
I feel like I know her and it's indeed Maura, finally on vacation herself after a busy season at her hotel, where she hosted my wife and me in late August.
I chide her sympathetically for not keeping the hotel open for the Fall Foliage days, but her answer is here in this photo and the beauty around of her mountains.
We said goodbye and then she authorized me by email to publish the photo.
I miei viaggi fotografici mi regalano spesso incontri casuali con persone, soprattutto donne.
(Forse qualcuno ricorderà lo scatto cinematografico di una signora a cavallo in un scenografico viale autunnale nel 2020).
Il 30 ottobre scendo dalla Valle di Rhemes con destinazione Valpelline per ripetere il giro alto del Lago di Place Moulin, dove ho scattato la foto postata ieri.
Verso le 11.30 sono già affamato e scendo lungo un tratturo erboso, ad uso animali in alpeggio, insieme a una coppia di escursionisti olandesi, anche loro diretti al Rifugio Prarayer per il pranzo.
Scambiamo qualche parola in inglese e un loro amichevole italiano.
Loro si attardano nel fresco del bosco di larici e io in pochi minuti eccomi sullo sterrato che costeggia il lago. Dopo qualche minuto di cammino ecco che mi viene incontro una ragazza bionda concentrata su una mtb.
Mi sembra di conoscerla ed è proprio Maura, finalmente in vacanza anche lei dopo una stagione intensa nel suo albergo di Bionaz, dove ha ospitato me e mia moglie a fine agosto.
La rimprovero simpaticamente per non aver tenuto aperto l'hotel per i giorni del Foliage, ma la sua risposta è in questa foto e nella bellezza delle sue montagne.
Ci siamo salutati e poi mi ha autorizzato via e-mail a pubblicare la foto. Arrivederci !
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Alstrom Point provides one of the most memorable, scenic, and widely photographed views of Lake Powell. While the actual hiking at the point is limited, half of the enjoyment of this location is the trip to get there.
Alstrom Point is very remote. Although you can see the city of Page, it will take you between 1.5 to 3 hours to get there. There is no gas along the way. The road is primarily on the Tropic Shale, which can turn to a mud bog after rain or snow. The last mile or two into Alstrom Point is over rough slickrock and not well marked in places.
This eye catching grand view from Alstrom Point looks out over Gunsight Butte, Padre Bay and the immense Lake Powell. You may need a high clearance four wheel drive here. Reaching this viewpoint may also prove a challenge for those without directions. One possible route from Big Water, Utah, begins on Warm Creek Road to Smoky Mountain Road (Rec Road 230). South on Rec Road 264, known to some as Alstrom Point Road; but to the Google folks, its labeled as Romana Mesard Road. A good sense of direction or a bit luck maybe needed on this adventure.
This image is taken at sunset and when leaving the place it went dark very fast and a GPS was needed to find our way back to US89.
I had to de-saturate the reds, because it was all too much.
Image is part of the south-west tour.
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Technical Details;
Camera; Canon EOS 1Ds mkIII
Lens; Canon 24-70mm 2.8L USM
Exposure; 1/15 sec
Aperture; f16
Filter; polariser + Lee Hard Edge 0.6 Grad
ISO; 50 RAW
Tripod; Gitzo 3541L
Ballhead; RRS BH-55 with B2 AS II clamp
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raindrops provide some bokeh background to the flatleaf parsley sitting on the kitchen windowsill, it looks like a warm summers sunset...but its not, just some processing in lightroom
Along for the ride, and to provide motivation. (There were several other dogs in boats out on the water during the hour I was there.)
There is a "rule" (a.k.a. guideline) of composition that you should leave space in the frame ahead of a moving person or object, or in the direction a person is looking, so they have somewhere to go before hitting the edge of the image. But the man here is facing backward as he rows. Oh, what to do?!
I had cropped out a lot of empty water to enlarge my subject and didn't want to undo that, but I did not want to lose that sparkling wake, either. I decided, as you can see, that this position felt right, with not only his unseen face but also his arms and oars pointing to his beloved dog and further astern. If there is slight tension from the bow almost hitting the frame, echoed and propelled by the angled ripples in the foreground, it seems to work. And, finally, the tension of opposing diagonals seems, to me, to drive this image.
(By the way. Google Maps is weird. There is a Ten Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor--the reputed origin of the name has several competing versions---but what was historically Five Pound Island was long ago built over by the Jodrey State Fishing Pier and its adjacent marina, which is filled with mostly commercial vessels. So, if you visit Gloucester, you can see where I shot this photo, but you will search in vain for Five Pound Island.)
I thought that I wouldn't see an New Routemaster on Route 25 for a long... long time, but here it is [my 2016 self would be screaming in excitement right now] a bunch of these Bow LTs have been working weekend extras on Route 25 [25U] between Ilford and Stratford Bus Station to provide extra capacity during engineering works on the TFL Rail
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“Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully...about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily living a masterpiece.”
― Michael Kimmelman, The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
My obsession with sun stars continues. Captured this on a morning photo excursion to a park near my job. Alas, these parks are tough to photograph because they a disorganized and chaotic. The sun hitting the branches caught my attention and the sigma lens provides odd patterns of light and shadows.
Red Foxes provide such a pleasurable splash of color amid the otherwise relatively monochromatic landscape of winter. I've been watching the fox population up here for decades and it's interesting the way that every five years or so, the fox community undergoes a shift in color .... For a few years, they will all be Red, as now. In some years, you begin to see numerous foxes with coats of many colors, a sort of calico of black, red and white .... Then for a number of years you see only black foxes.
This, at first look, seems like maybe it would be simple genetic drift within the population, but it appears to be cyclical and therefore one might suspect some variable influence within the environment.
This year, fox and lynx populations are low, an effect of an extremely low ebb in the amount of snowshoe hares available for dinner.
Interestingly, and this is an established fact, albeit one which has never been adequately explained ..... The abundance of rabbits in the northland follows a regular rise and fall, more of a boom and crash, which is closely correlated with the 11 year cycle of sunspot activity. This year, along with a nearly total lack of magnetic storms on the 90 million mile distant sun, we have almost no snowshoe hares ... they are rare.
At other times, during solar maximum, they are virtually everywhere .... At those times, in the course of a drive along the Alaska Highway, you will see literally hundreds of rabbits. Now, virtually none.
Nature provides some wonderful examples of camouflage. Here is an amazing cicada from the Genus Platypleura. I found several of this species in tall montane forest above 1500m on Mt. Kitanglad, Mindanao, Philippines
Thunderstorm clouds race in front of the crescent moon from the Continental Divide Overlook in Eldorado Canyon State Park, Colorado.
Hiking to this vantage in the dark frequently provides some form of excitement or intrigue. I mentioned in a previous post that the trail to this point ascends what is apparently the very aptly-named Rattlesnake Gulch. More mundane but no less interesting, at least to me, over the past several years my friend and I first assumed we were losing our minds when we thought we observed small, bright points of phosphorescent light scattered irregularly amongst the rocks on a few of the slopes near here. The light looked distinctly like that of fireflies, though the obvious lack of flight was befuddling. I also could not figure out why it would be advantageous for a creature, that for all intents and purposes looked very much like a worm, to perch amongst the rocks at night and emit light. The probability of any other worm of similar species even seeing the light would be very low due to hill slope angles and the significant micro-topography that would obstruct views if one were worm-sized. Then, on the off-chance that another worm did see the light, what would be the chances of that individual reaching the source at worm-pace before the emitter got tired and gave up for the night? I remained confused by these questions for quite some time.
I finally relented and decided to replace idle and infrequent speculation with actual knowledge, such as it exists in the phosphorescence-studying corners of the internet. It turns out that my first incorrect assumption was that males and females of this species of insect look the same. I learned that in the State of Colorado there are records from more southern counties of a firefly called Microphotus pecosensis - sadly, I could not find a common name. I also could not find a record of individuals of this species being present in Boulder County where I live. However, internet searches are imperfect in terms of a satisfying completeness, leaving me uncertain whether our sightings are novel for Boulder County in terms of European-style record keeping, or whether this species is long-known in these parts.
For the sexually dimorphic M. pecosensis, the females are flightless and appear worm- or grub-like. When she deems the time is ripe, she moves to a visible place and emits green bursts of light from the tip of her abdomen. Males, on the other hand, do not emit light but are quite capable of flight. Her light is easy to discern from the air, and he wastes no time approaching and courting her affections. The excellent pictures on BugGuide.net show the manifestations of this dimorphism well. Mystery solved, and the night-time becomes yet more intriguing. I photographed a female M. pecosensis glowing but the photo quality is poor due to a relatively long hand-held exposure.
Technical notes: Single-exposure with low-level-lighting (LLL) pointing into the scene from the right to illuminate the foreground rock and trees.
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The evening of this years 'London 24in24' event back in June didn't provide a spectacular sunset but at least the dusk gave some good blue hour opportunities.
Taken during the recent 'London 24in24' event. Click here to see more from this event and previous Photo24 events : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157667520181380
For those anywhere near London, you can find details of the next London Flickr Group Photowalk on Saturday July 20th here : www.flickr.com/groups/londonflickrgroup/discuss/721577219...
From Wikipedia, "The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the modern area referred to as London has since grown far beyond the City of London boundary. The City is now only a small part of the metropolis of Greater London, though it remains a notable part of central London. The City of London is not one of the London boroughs, a status reserved for the other 32 districts (including Greater London's only other city, the City of Westminster). It is also a separate ceremonial county, being an enclave surrounded by Greater London, and is the smallest ceremonial county in England.
The City of London is known colloquially as the Square Mile, as it is 1.12 sq mi (716.80 acres; 2.90 km2) in area. Both the terms the City and the Square Mile are often used as metonyms for the UK's trading and financial services industries, which continue a notable history of being largely based in the City. The name London is now ordinarily used for a far wider area than just the City. London most often denotes the sprawling London metropolis, or the 32 Greater London boroughs, in addition to the City of London itself."
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Gallant Magazine is excited to share its first Fall issue! Designed to provide a stunning virtual masterpiece for Second Life, this issue features Stealthic creator Hunter Robins, Dust Bunny owner Noel, and many Fall moments, to include Halloween and Thanksgiving! The new Dufaux Akina briefs, selected by Gac Akina and created by Luca Dufaux, are also now available with the release of the latest issue!
Gallant is also excited to announce the opening of Gallant Estates, a sim that captures many of the beautiful scenes you see shown in this latest issue. The sim will be open to the public for visitors until November 6th. And if that was not enough, the new website, GallantMagazineSL.com, is now up and running to share the latest updates in Men's Fashion and Home & Garden!
Lastly, for those of you who are members of the Gallant Magazine Readers group inworld, Apple Fall SL has released the Pumpkin Harvest Wreath! Simply stop by the Gallant Estates sim to join the group and grab your copy.
Thank you to all of the amazing and talented people who made this issue possible! We hope this issue delights and inspires! Happy Reading!
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The Providence and Worcester Railroad continues to (begrudgingly) provide their passenger train and crew for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council's extremely popular Polar Express trains with trains running and 3:30 and 6:30 PM Fri-Sun for a total of 42 sold out trips in 2024.
A long telephoto view finds Providence and Worcester B40-8 4003 (GE blt. Jun. 1988 as NYSW 4006) paused on the nearly 700 ft long viaduct over the Blackstone River and downtown in this view from the south side right at MP 16. The locomotive is sitting over Clinton Street and the train is tied down for a couple hours beside the 1882 built depot awaiting its 4 PM departure to the North Pole (aka the Buma Funeral Home in Uxbridge!) and return.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Friday November 22, 2024
Crow Creek Mine provides a unique opportunity to relive the Historic Gold Rush of Alaska. Established in 1896, Crow Creek Mine is one of Alaska's most renowned hydraulic gold mining operations. The Toohey family took over ownership and management of the property in 1969 from the last true mine manager Arne Erickson. Since then, the family has worked hard to preserve the rich history and create an authentic experience
Dallas Creek provides a natural soil moisture gradient that sorts species and fall colors. Colorado blue spruce and quaking aspen crowd the creek, but do not colonize the higher, drier hillside, which is packed with Gambel oak. The clonal growth of both the aspen and oak are plainly visible here as patches of color. The hillside in the foreground faces west, and so is drier and warmer than the opposing hillside, which faces east.
Intelligent people provide ideas from their cloisters and barely put them into practice. Powerful people write the pages of history, shaping and re-shaping it through coarse-grain, monochromatic brushes. The latter use the former, depend on them. The former can't help being used, being depended on. And that, or a variation of it, is the news, anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
Someone has to provide the entertainment don’t they? It was all going on at Portreath as Kathleen thrashed the cliffs, the beach and the Monkey Hut at high tide on an exhilarating Saturday afternoon. By now we’d stood on the cliffs beside the pepperpot, and we’d watched the action from Dead Man’s Hut, where we had to queue patiently for a front row view. Finally, we headed down to the beach. Not on the beach - that wasn’t happening unless you were wearing a wetsuit, preferably with a long leash tied around an ankle with the other end tethered to a bollard in the car park. But on the small esplanade between the car park and the beach, reduced to shingle after a particularly vigorous winter season.
I don’t come to Portreath that often. It’s not even five miles away from our front door, but I have a habit of overlooking it, despite the obvious attractions. In warmer months I’ve often coasted down the cycle trail for an ice cream on the front before puffing my way back up the slope in a very low gear, sometimes stopping for coffee at the farm campsite and cafe that friends of mine run. Occasionally there will be some form of family gathering there, usually for a child’s birthday party in summer. But apart from that, I just pass on through, usually heading for Godrevy, and then only if in an idle moment I’ve decided to take the coast road. But when there’s a storm, this is the first place I always think of. Porthleven on the south coast often has the biggest waves, but I rarely drag myself over that way.
I should really come to Portreath more often. The crumbling coastal path in both directions remains largely unexplored on my part, and I suspect there are some rather good views along those cliffs that change with every passing winter as another few hundred tons of loose rock slide into the ocean. From here it’s a short but strenuous hike east to Porthtowan, or a slightly longer one to Godrevy, via North Cliffs and Hell’s Mouth. Another famous landmark where I’ve never taken a photo. What on earth have I been doing, you might ask?
As storms go, Kathleen was a tame puppy in comparison to some of the hoolies we’ve witnessed here. There’s no way some of the monstrous assaults on our coastline would have seen surfers taking to the water, but nine or ten of them were already bobbing about on the waves when we arrived, and another was about to join the party. Or was he? For fifteen or twenty minutes he edged back and forth - never coming inside or anywhere near the third in my frame I might add - watched by a crowd of day trippers who’d come to enjoy the elements in the couple of hours during which it had somehow remained dry. I’d already changed from the long lens, set up the tripod and popped a filter on, hoping to catch the sea dragging back around his ankles, and now I was just willing him to stand still, at least a teensy bit in from the edge of the frame as I clunked away at the shutter with each receding carpet of white foam. Finally he saw something that the rest of us couldn’t, and plodded off into the water. With a winter wetsuit and a pair of fins on his feet, I could only imagine how exciting it would be to nail those waves today. Not long afterwards it began to rain hard, and we raced back to the car and headed home to put the kettle on.
I love how this one turned out, with the bodyboarder gazing enigmatically out to sea, calculating the conditions as he waits. The first thing that I liked was the wake created in the surf as the water flowed back around our hero’s legs. That alone made this my instant choice from the group of shots I took here. But when I looked closer on the big screen, everything about the day was here. Another roller about to explode extravagantly over the poor maligned Monkey Hut on the end of the breakwater. A wall of white spray groping for holds on the side of the porous cliffs, on top of which sits the lonely Pepperpot. A car driving up Lighthouse Hill, seemingly oblivious to events going on around it. And if you look in, you’ll see the huddle at the Dead Man’s Hut, some of them armed with expensive camera gear, while others are just enjoying the experience. And just below them, the young man leaning over the railings with a woman near him thinking she’s safe. Just a few exposures later, the space is swamped by a wave - I’ve seen plenty of people take a soaking there on days like this. I’m sure some of them do it for kicks.
If ever you asked me to show you a picture that described the place, I’d look no further. Visceral, effervescent, bristling with white water, and always some crazy soul armed with a board, prepared to take it all on for that unforgettable ride. This is Portreath and it’s never dull.
The fun of exploring London for the upteenth time is finding new places. Some of the new buildings have public areas that provide viewing areas. Today, I had breakfast on the 35th floor of 20 Fenchurch Street (the Walkie Talkie) and saw an after dinner sunset from the rooftop garden at One New Change. Both viewpoints were free to public. At One New Change, there were quite a few people at the top for a Friday night (with Andy Murry playing on a big screen TV), but since we didn't care if we had bar access, we walked right into the elevator. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my travel photography blog at Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.