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Apologies, not uploaded anything for a few days due to illness, but kind of back with an edited image from last week.
Previous set of Pripyat here www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157643944616235/
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
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Built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873, and designed by E. Francis Baldwin, the Point of Rocks station is situated at the junction of the B&O Old Main Line (running to Baltimore) and the Metropolitan Branch (running to Washington, D.C.).
The Met Branch also opened in 1873 and became the principal route for passenger trains between Baltimore, Washington, and points west.
The station building itself is not open to the public and is used by CSX as storage and offices for maintenance of way crews.
Bishop Ranch Open Space Regional Preserve, San Ramon, CA. Leucistic acorn woodpecker. I removed the branching on the margins of the photo.
Although this appears to be just a gravel point, Sturgeon Point extends underwater for several miles and has caused many shipwrecks. It is most likely underlain by a rock reef. In 2020 when the Great Lakes were at or near record high levels the point was not visible and the shoreline was straight across this location. With the water level receding the point formed again. It is a very dynamic feature and looks different every time I visit.
It can get quite rough here with waves bringing cobbles and boulders to the beach. The point breaks the waves, lowering their energy, thus causing deposition of the coarse gravel. This is a favorite place for rockhounds looking for pretty rocks and Petoskey stones, the latter being fossil Devonian corals, Michigan's state fossil (Hexagonaria percarinata).
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The annoyingly-not-quite-vertical lighthouse!
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With reports of Southbound facing locos being on borrowed time I had a weekday up in Cumbria again and although I have done this location, it needed 37401 to make me do it again and with a dodgy morning weather wise had a 100% strike rate for a change.
2C34 14.35 Carlisle - Barrow.
Wednesday 12 August 2015.
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Il s'agit du théâtre de divers thrillers et romans d'espionnage, depuis « Octopussy » de James Bond jusqu'à « L'espion qui venait du froid » de John le Carré : le Checkpoint Charlie. A partir du 22 septembre 1961, avant de pénétrer dans Berlin-Est, les membres des forces alliées américaines, britanniques et françaises s'enregistraient à ce célèbre point de passage entre les deux Allemagnes. Les touristes étrangers pouvaient y obtenir des informations sur leur séjour. Etant un point de passage pour les ressortissants des forces alliées, ce point de passage de la Friedrichstraße fut, en octobre 1961, le théâtre de la dénommée « confrontation des blindés ». Aujourd'hui, une installation de l'artiste Frank Thiel et un panneau rappellent l'ancien poste-frontière. A proximité immédiate, on trouve le « Musée du mur - Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie » qui expose sur la bande centrale de la Friedrichstraße le premier poste de garde reconstitué des Alliés.
A panoramic view of the lighthouse off Penmon Point on the island of Anglesey at dawn in Wales.
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Start Point, South Hams, Devon.
I think this is my favourite shot from my recent trip to Start Point.
It was blowing a gale and I had to crouch over my camera to stop it being buffeted by the wind, I had to go for a low angle on the tripod to keep any movement to an absolute minimum. This was a 20 second exposure, I took about 20 shots just hoping that one would be in focus, I just about got lucky. I like the foreground interest with the wild flowers and the way the headland leads your eye to the lighthouse and the blurred skies, cant wait to go back again. Incidentally in between shots I was kept amused by a seal who seemed quite interested in what I was doing and kept coming up real close, a stunning place to be.
"Dominant Point"
Beaumont sur Vingeanne (Côte d'Or - Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
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Changeable weather in and around Souter. Loved getting out though and appreciated the views from a wider aspect.
There was a solid mass of raincloud over the arch at Lizard Point but the sun was just peaking through which added some warmth.
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good or bad but more and more my shots from Split are explored, now suddenly 15 are explored in last few weeks, none of them on the first page though.
Here are the latest entries:
I wonder how Flickr could miss this one, it should be on the front page of explore long time ago.
Journey to the edge, the rim, the point.
And when you stand
on that merging margin
you can take
your first step.
Inspiration Point overlooking Glen Lake, Michigan. You can see the Sleeping Bear Dunes and South Manitou Island from this high observation point. Happy Bench Monday
Macro Mondays: Red
Part of a poinsettia leaf, photographed over a red glitter sheet. The area shown is under 2 inches.
100mm + 25mm extension tube, tripod, window sunlight on the glitter sheet.
HMM everyone!
Juvenile Little Blue Heron (a.k.a. Blue Heron; Egretta caerulea) - Blackpoint Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
Architect: C.F. Møller
Built in: Phase 1: 2008-2011, phase 2: 2011-
Client: Annehem Fastigheter AB
Point Hyllie is an important part of the new urban space around Hyllie station square. The development consists of four tower blocks rising up from a column-supported base.
The tallest building is approximately 95 m high, the next-tallest 49 m, and the final two between 29 and 23 m high. The two tallest buildings, the twin towers, will according to the architect symbolize a gateway to Sweden.
The project is a distinctive landmark in the area.