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once again , I revisited the site of pimblotts boat yard on the weaver near northwich , as permission had been granted to turn all this into a housing estate and marina
the derelict tug proceed , built in belgium in 1955 as the hendrick 11 has been moved along the river a few yards ,near to the old manchester ship canal tug and now perhaps ominously lies next to a clear bankside , with a heavy crane behind it --perhaps scrapping is due to start--otherwise the site slowly decays as it has done for years, but there now is a good chance that it will all be swept away
Borumba Pumped Hydro Electricity Project that will be able to store 2 gigawatt of energy for the Australian electricity grid has just been given the green light to proceed to detailed engineering design. This project will be built just upstream of this location. So I guess that this well make this site "Greener" than it already is.
This started out as a mystery picture until I recalled travelling on a BR Birmingham Division 'Merrymaker' sometime in August 1974 to Edinburgh for the military tattoo. That explains the sole picture of Class 40 No. 40064 in Waverley working !M55, which I presume to be a working that will combine with a Glasgow portion at Carstairs and then proceed electrically hauled to the LMR. The display of the flags of Australia, USA, GB and Germany indicate a special occasion, and indeed there were probably more out of shot. I also recall it was very wet, except, mercifully, for the tattoo. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
This is a photograph of a sandy access point to a close-by beach. The cautionary signage prompted the title. It’s a very beautiful and very safe spot, actually!
Took these shots in the window of a RR museum in Portland, Maine. Am hoping my flickr contact will give us a bit of history on them!
"“He liked to observe emotions;
they were like red lanterns
strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,
marking vulnerable points.”
~ Ayn Rand ~
From the lower falls to the upper falls is an additional 2 km (1 mile) or 45 minutes. 6 more waterfalls – most notably Stella Falls and Marguerite Falls present themselves. At Marguerite Falls you have two options; to go the lower viewing platform of the upper falls or proceed upwards to a higher view point. You really should experience both as they both offer spectacular views of the roaring cascading thunder. Again, heavy mist and spray at both locations particularly in the spring snow melt (run off ) which reaches a peak the 2nd week in June. Soon you arrive at a junction for the Upper Falls, with the trail to the left going to a Waterfall Lookout and the trail to the right going to Johnston Canyon’s Upper Falls. Plan on going to both, as they are both impressive.
The Upper Falls drop 40 meters into a deep plunge pool, making a truly dramatic sight at the culmination of your hike through the canyon. As you emerge from the lower canyon, through the forest, you’re likely to hear the rush of water before you arrive. If you’re looking for a unique perspective on the Upper Falls, try to find the ‘hidden cave’, at the base of the Falls. This unique lookout point can be found by following a path to the right just before you arrive at the first railing that signals the Upper Falls. In winter, this part of the canyon is incredible, as the Upper Falls freeze over, creating an epic wall of ice.
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A tug and houseboat at the former Pimblotts Boatyard on the Weaver Navigation half a mile southwest of Northwhich Cheshire. The tug is named Proceed and was built for the Belgian Navy in 1954 but later working in the UK before arriving here under her own power in 2004. The other boat is a former finshing vessel named Border Star but has since sunk up to her deck, she has been a long term resident and sad to say the former owner is now deceased.
How does it last the blink of an eye? You could measure it, if you really want to, but the truth is that we are so accustomed to blink our eyes that we are almost entirely unaware of the whole thing. Our brain compensates for it. So, in a way, we could say that a blink of an eye has an infinitesimal duration. The amazing thing I was thinking of while processing this fireflies shot - while recalling the actual experience - is that a whole, huge lot of things happen in the blink of an eye. Proteins in our cells are freshly synthetised; old, worn-out proteins are digested and reduced to aminoacids to be recycled; tiny yet powerful molecules of ATP continually bind to enzymes, allowing them to perform their "unlawful" duties at amazing rates; B lymphocytes produce and refine astronomical quantities and varieties of antibodies to fight some intruding pathogen; neurons alternately fire and rest in what we could envisage as, well, an astoundingly complex network of hyperfast fireflies. In the blink of an eye whole universes are born, and whole worlds are destroyed. We are so bound to our perception of time, to our own timescale, that it is utterly difficult for us to imagine what is happening on different timescales. In a mere hour a bacterial colony can proliferate enormously and, sadly, viruses can get huge hordes of self-copies at the expense of an unwittingly complicit cell.
There are further non-human timescales though, well beyond the microscopic word of cells or molecules. It is not by chance that for centuries people have been believing that the world had truly been created in seven days (well, actually six) and that everything - from geology to animals and plants - have remained basically unchanged since then. And that fossils were either remains of antediluvian creatures or tricks of the devil to test our faith and potentially lead us astray.
Well my friends, somehow this photo has reminded me that the world - both the micro- and the macroscopic - is something unutterably complex, almost beyond our grasp (almost being the key of everything). The quest for its understanding is a collective, neverending adventure. I often feel so small that even these fireflies, with their wonders, humble the feeling of being part of the species who believe to be master of the world. My mind is a minute firefly lost in a vast expanse of darkness. Yet I cannot give up. We cannot give up, since we "were not made to live [our] lives as brutes, / but to be followers of worth and knowledge" (Divine Comedy, Inferno, 26). Maybe our lives are the blink of an eye in the unutterable spatial and temporal vastness of the universe. But they are well worth living.
It has always been one of my unfulfilled dreams to photograph fireflies, which, sadly, are becoming a rarity in our countryside; the positive effects of the lockdown for the environment have probably favoured a blooming this year, so I decided to have a try. I followed the advices of a master of fireflies photography, the Bulgarian photographer Hristo Svinarov. However I will eagerly accept hints and positive criticism from everyone who will be so kind to offer it.
In my second fireflies session I have become a little more confident in my possibilities. I have tried to lower the ISO below 1000, and this is by itself a huge step towards better photos; moreover I have somehow dared more in composition. I am forced to use my Samyang 14 mm, which is the only fast-aperture lens I have in my gear, so I ventured nearer and nearer, until I was literally surrounded by dancing fireflies.
I have stacked 15 5-second photos with the Gimp. As the basic layer I used an image I have obtained by averaging the photos with John Paul ChaCha's Chasys Draw IES Artist: the fireflies themselves were almost obliterated but the landscape were effectively denoised, while the details were improved. In this photo I have processed separately the image which would have been the basic layer, just in the same way as any other photo - luminosity masks, and so on. When I was satisfied with the landscape I faced a new problem: it was just like I wanted it to be, so the 15 layers to be blended (those actually containing the fireflies) should not alter it - they should only add the precious fireflies. After a good bit of trial and error I developed my own workflow: a) duplicate one of the fireflies layers; b) extract LAB L component; c) in the bw image so obtained play with levels to force all the dark tones to black, then lower the light tones slider to better the fireflies signal; d) manually paint out the sky and the trees, and the other unwanted parts still visible (e.g. the water in the ditch); e) use this image showing only the fireflies as the layer mask of the original photo; f) set the blending mode to Addition: at this point the fireflies appear in the scene; g) duplicate 4 times the layer and then merge down the copies to get only one layer with the fireflies signal very naturally amplified; h) proceed in this way for all the (gasp) 15 shots; i) after all this, you can inspect the contribution of every layer to the result and, if needed, you can duplicate it and blend with Addition or Dodge to amplify it.
on an appropriately gloomy day the dismantling of the tugboat proceed has finally commenced at the site of pimblotts boatyard on the river weaver near northwich cheshire
built at rupelmonde in belgium in 1955 as the hendrik 11 this boat had a varied career operating from antwerp and a number of british ports ,before arriving at it's present location in 1995 and remaining largely intact for 25 years until this week
Just recently I was showing my images of grain elevators to someone. Sadly, that individual did not know what a grain elevator is. I proceeded to provide a quick explanation and explained to that person the difference between the older, original wooden grain elevator, and the modern concrete silos.
Then I began to think, this person is one of many Canadians who aren’t even aware of the existence of these pieces of our history, heritage, and western culture.
And here I, and many others across the country, are driving around, taking photos of them, posting them to social media, websites etc., and only a select few Canadians actually know what a grain elevator is. And my guess is that a good majority of those people are from rural areas, who grew up in Small Town Wherever, Alberta, or maybe on a farm, way out in the middle of nowhere. They know because they grew up around a grain elevator in some way, but do city folks know what a grain elevator is? And for that matter, what its purpose is? How does a grain elevator work you might be asked? Plenty of questions.
So, I thought maybe I’d try to enlighten those who would like to know what a grain elevator is, and why I, like many others, take photographs of them.
Grain elevators, which have been variously referred to as prairie icons, prairie cathedrals or prairie sentinels, are a visual symbol of western Canada. Numbering as many as 5,758 in 1933, elevators have dominated the prairie landscape for more than a century with every hamlet, village and town boasting its row of them, a declaration of a community's economic viability and a region's agricultural strength. The story continues here at the Canadian Encyclopedia article on Grain Elevators.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/grain-elevators
Why do I take photographs of Grain Elevators? Well, I grew up on the Canadian Prairies in southwestern Manitoba, and grain elevators were part of the landscape. They towered over the small towns and acted like a lighthouse, or beacon to the locals, providing them a focal point on where their home was. It was also a social gathering point for the farmers and townsfolk, a place to share a cup of coffee, catch up on some gossip, or maybe play a game or two of Cribbage.
Today, there are barely 700 plus left all across the prairie provinces. I hope to document those that remain for future generations to see long after they are gone.
Canada's Historic Places - Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Elevator - Horizon
As our cruise ship proceeded along the Rhine, we stopped for a day in Heidelberg -- one of the oldest university towns in Germany, and all of Europe.
I decided to go along on the tour with the rest of the group on this particular morning -- even though it was foggy and raining, and there wasn't much opportunity to wander around. After seeing several parts of the old campus, we were taken back down to the town square and given an hour to amuse ourselves in the rain.
As usual, I wandered about and took some photos...
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During the first two weeks of September 2015, we took a river cruise down the Rhine River, and wrapped up the trip with a few days in Berlin. This Flickr album contains various photos from that trip …
We spent the first couple days recovering from jet-lag in Interlaken, Switzerland. This is the site of the Jungfrau and various other spectacular peaks in the Alps range — but it was so foggy that we could hardly see anything. I’ve included a couple of videos of a tram ride down the mountain, as well as some paraglider who floated down into the town park.
We then traveled to Bern, where we got on-board a Viking Cruise ship that headed north for the next several days — eventually arriving in Amsterdam, after making stops nearly every day to see ancient castles and fortresses, as well as various villages and small towns that have survived various wars, tyrants, and regimes for well over a thousand years.
From our final cruise destination in Amsterdam, we flew to Berlin — where we spent a few days at a very nice hotel that turned out to be in what was once East Berlin. Indeed, the separation between East and West Berlin, once so obvious and important, is now almost impossible for a visitor to spot. Except for some rubble, and a few small mementoes (like Checkpoint Charlie, a few blocks from our hotel), there is no obvious difference between East and West from pre-1989 days.
While looking for some other animals I happened across this mink that was actively hunting on the other side of the river that I was hiking along.
At first he seemed to be just wandering around, but then he quickly caught a garter snake, which he proceeded to eat... and then went swimming in the river a number of times coming up with crayfish which he also ate on the riverside,
I watched him for a good half hour before he decided to venture off into the woods.
This shot was one of a few where he had just come to the surface of the river with a crayfish.
Captain Herb is exploring a new planet.
Got bored with all the rain so I played around with some old photos in Photoshop.
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right before christmas you brought me a letter. being 3 and only knowing the letters for your name i asked you what the letter said. you then proceeded in your soft sweet voice "i love your heart mommy". hugging you until you muffled "mommy you are squishing me" i jotted your words on the front bottom right corner and placed it on my desk so that i could enjoy it. after a few weeks it is off to the memory box... it is mine forever. and you have no idea how much my heart loves yours. you have healed me in ways i cannot put into words. but, i hope you will always know and feel.
you wanted to go snuggle one day in my bed, so i grabbed the camera and decided to capture us and in my thoughts i knew i wanted these moments paired up with the letter you gave me.
the relationships we are given with our children as they age is my favorite part as mommy. some mommy's yearn for their babies to stay babies and although i don't want all of you growing up too fast. i yearn for our relations, conversations, exchanges that have formed over these years. the laughter that we have and the love we exchange. it amazes me that at 3 years new about to be 4, you chose to feel these words. to write me a letter.
i so very much love your heart too lady o.
Spring Babies -
The goose family marched up on the bank, and proceeded to forage for food in the nearby grass.
The baby geese, called goslings, take about a month to hatch. Babies are covered with soft feathers called down. They hatch with their eyes open and will leave the nest within 24 hours, following their parents. Goslings can swim right away. In less than two months, the goslings grow adult feathers and learn to fly.
Canada geese will violently attack anything that they sense as a threat to their goslings, including humans. As they become more independent of their parents, groups of goslings may join together, forming "gang broods" of up to 100 goslings.
The goose is one of the most intelligent birds. It has a good memory and does not forget people, animals or situations easily which is what makes it such a good watch animal against intruders whether human or animal.
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On the first day of Rosh Hashanah , Jews traditionally proceed to a body of running water, preferably one containing fish, and symbolically cast off their sins. The Tashlich ceremony includes reading the source passage for the practice, the last verses from the prophet Micah (7:19), “He will take us back in love; He will cover up our iniquities. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”
On 9th October morning, at around 10.00 am, we set our journey from Pangong Tso Lake and proceeded towards North-West, keeping Karakoram Range on the right and Ladakh Range on the left . We reached Hundar (Nubra Valley) via Durbuk Village, Wari la pass (one of the most treacherous Passes known), Digar La Pass, Digar Village, Khalsar and Diskit. To me, Nubra Valley has its own exclusive exotic beauty. The journey along the Shyok River was simply amazing and a lifetime experience.
( Photographed from moving car.)
Nubra Valley
Nubra is a tri-armed valley located to the north east of Ladakh valley. Diskit is the capital of Nubra. The Shyok River meets the Nubra or Siachan River to form a large valley that separates the Ladakh and Karakoram Ranges. The Shyok river is a tributary of the Indus river. The average altitude of the valley is about 10,000 ft. above the sea level. The common way to access this valley is to travel over the Khardung La pass from Leh town.
Geography
Like the rest of the Tibetan Plateau, Nubra is a high altitude cold desert with rare precipitation and scant vegetation except along river beds. The villages are irrigated and fertile, producing wheat, barley, peas, mustard and a variety of fruits and nuts, including blood apples, walnuts, apricots and even a few almond trees. The majority are Buddhists. In the Valley, along the Shyok River, the inhabitants are Balti. Who speak Balti, and are Shia and Sufia Nurbakhshia Muslims.
Siachen Glacier lies to the north of the valley. The Sasser Pass and the famous Karakoram Pass lie to the northwest of the valley and connect Nubra with Uyghur (Mandarin : Xinjiang). Previously there was much trade passing through this area with western China's Xinjiang and Central Asia.
Places in Nubra Valley
Diskit is the headquarters of the Nubra Valley. It is also connected by road with Leh. The 32 metre Maitreya Buddha statue is the landmark of Nubra Valley and is maintained by the Diskit Monastery.
Along the Nubra or Siachan River lie many villages.They are Sumur, Kyagar, Tirith, Panamik, Turtuk and many others.
Diskit, is famous for its Diskit Monastery, which was built in 1420 AD. Hundar was the capital of the erstwhile Nubra kingdom in the 17th century, and is home to the Chamba Gompa. Between Hundar and Diskit lie several kilometres of sand dunes, and (two-humped) bactrian camels graze in the neighbouring "forests" of seabuckthorn.
The beautiful village of Baigdandu is also located in this area. There is a marked presence of people with startling blue eyes, auburn hair and rosy cheeks as against the typical mongoloid features of the Ladakhis. Local lore has it that they were a Greek tribe who came in search of Jesus Christ's tomb and eventually settled here. Baigdandu is also known for the goats that give you the famous Pashmina shawls.
The main road access to the Nubra Valley is over Khardung La pass, thought to be the highest motorable road in the world. An alternative route, opened in 2008, Where the road from Sakti crosses the Wari La Pass and proceeds along the Shyok River and reaches Diskit via Khalsar (see the map). We followed this route from Pangong Tso via Durbuk. Routes from Nubra to Baltistan and Yarkand, though historically important, have been closed since 1947 and 1950 respectively.
The valley was open for tourists till Hunder (the land of sand dunes) until 2010. The region beyond Hunder gives way to a greener region of Ladakh because of its lower altitude. The village of Turtuk which was unseen by tourists till 2010 is a virgin destination for people who seek peace and an interaction with a tribal community of Ladakh. The village is stuffed with apricot trees and children like flowers. The local tribe, Balti, follows its age old customs in their lifestyle and speak a language which is just spoken and not written. Balti people, were part of Pakistan up-till 1972. For tourists Turtuk offers serene camping sites with environment friendly infrastructure.
( source: Wikipedia).
Ladakh Maps: ( www.lehladakhindia.com/ladakhmaps )
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Just as we were leaving the park, this blue gray gnatcatcher landed on a cattail right next to the trail, then proceeded to entertain us with his homemaking skills.
Its no secret that my favorite attraction at the Magic Kingdom is the Haunted Mansion. I love to photograph this ride! There are so many details that you don't have the chance to notice. I love the wallpapering, to the carpet and the bat stanchions. I hope you enjoy this shot! Have a magical day everyone!
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Southbound CSX Q143 creeps into downtown La Grange, Kentucky, as the late afternoon shadows loom over the town’s main street. In the siding, northbound Q574 waits patiently. It will be cleared momentarily, having also waited for a monster southbound Q575. It’s Palindrome Day, and 575 seems like an appropriate number for the rare occasion.
vegas
film/sooc – NEW PENTAX! :)
the cute girl employees asked me:
"do you live in vegas?"
i said no, and they were like "darn!"
they proceeded to tell me to go to the AA in north carolina so i could get a job there. apparently i fit the part. :O
it made my day.
Finally OY-KIE can proceed to gate 22
Aeroflot remains at gate 37 and Lufthansa at gate 38
A photo-session of 5 photos of this arrival to show the marginal operational conditions they had the few last years at Fornebu ariport.
no 5 of 5 After OY-KIE has passed the C-pier they could push SE-DIR from gate 30, and meanwhile SE-DBM has been pused a long way to give room for OY-KIE at the B-pier.
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Mala Mala Game Reserve
South Africa
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After eating breakfast at the Londolozi Game Reserve, we proceeded to the Mala Mala Game Reserve, and the first sight there was a herd of cape buffalo. We were fairly close to them and I mean close. I counted about two hundred head of buffalo, and the guide drove the jeep closer than I would have deemed safe, but the buffalo just lifted their heads to look and then returned to grazing.
I watched this muskrat swim up to the log and proceed to run up the length of it right towards me! It stopped and started munching on some lily pads. Hennepin County, MN 07/07/21
I paid another visit to the weaver time capsule on the site of pimblotts boatyard , near northwich Cheshire , to find that for the first time in 10 years, the wreck of the tug proceed has been moved although only
a few feet along the riverbank , and now stands higher out of the water than it has done for many years----perhaps someone is going to do something with it after all these years, or are they finally planning to dismantle it ?
who knows?
as the picture shows , the old fire engine is still in place on the riverbank and the atmosphere of decay and neglect still pervades the site
proceeding down the weaver the swan from the previous picture seems to be looking at the hulk of what was once the tug proceed
The majestic Aoraki (Mount Cook) reflected in calm waters of Hooker Lake at Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand.
It was an overcast morning when we arrived here. The Mount Cook was obscured behind a thick layer of cloud. Undaunted, we proceed to setup a time lapse and halfway through, the cloud dissipated, revealing the tallest mountain in NZ in its glory, basking in the morning's golden light.
What an awesome sight!
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The otter proceeded up the side of the stream with his prize. It was a struggle to get it uphill though the grass and rocks. The lighting here was anything but ideal, but you often have to accept what you can get.
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KUAN YIN TEMPLE *歡迎到觀音寺
CHINATOWN, OAHU
Proceed reverently to the brilliant orange Kuan Yin Temple in Chinatown. Its beautiful jade green tile roof is turned up at the edges to deflect evil spirits. Leave your shoes at the entry. Absorb the tranquility and the soothing scent of incense. Light a joss stick and add to the atmosphere.
*歡迎到觀音寺
Gaze at the gilded eyes of the ten-foot statue of Kuan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy, who presides over the prayer hall. If you’re so inclined, bring along a pomelo, a large grapefruit-like fruit, as an offering. It’s the traditional way of petitioning for the blessing of children.
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Norfolk Southern's venerable executive F9s, recently refreshed with new paint and new numbers, guide a lengthy office car special off the Terminal Railroad's Merchants Bridge and onto Missouri soil at May Street Interlocking north of downtown St. Louis. In about a mile, the train will reach its destination of Luther Yard where it will be tied down for the night.
This one caught me off guard as I was waiting to shoot TRRA's 102 job from Luther Yard pulling thorugh Grand Avenue. The Terminal job had been waiting for an extended period at May Street for what I thought to be work crews on the Merchants Bridge. Though I had heard a vague tip about the special's presence in the St. Louis area, I had little info on where precisely it was or where it was destined. Sure enough, I happened to look up as the special was dropping off the west approach to the Merchants and stepped out for a quick frame. Once the special cleared, it was business as usual and the 102 job proceeded back to TRRA's Madison Yard (www.flickr.com/photos/54360625@N08/48410734382/). A pretty wild 15 minutes!