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Zhangye National Geopark - Gansu Province - China
This scenery is composed of amaranth hillocks, formed by water erosion. Colourful hills formed by red-and-white rock layers.
The landforms in Zhangye were formed from red beds in the Mesozoic era from 135 to 65 million years ago.
The Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park (Chinese: å¼ æŽ–ä¸¹éœžå›½å®¶åœ°è´¨å…¬å›), also known as Zhangye Danxia (Landform) Geopark, is located near the city of Zhangye in China's northwestern Gansu province. Known for its colorful rock formations, it has been voted by Chinese media outlets as one of the most beautiful landforms in China
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15F no 3153 almost at the top of the 1:40 climb from Battery as she heads towards Krugersdorp with a Magaliesburg day trip on the return run to Joburg.
13 October 1996, Gauteng, South Africa.
It's funny to see what is left behind when a place is vacated. This was an office inside the Manufactures' Junction Roundhouse, built in 1904. No desk, filing cabinet, stapler, or fax machine left as souvenirs. Just some blinds.
Edited Hubble Space telescope image of Saturn in October of 2023.
Original caption: This photo of Saturn was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 22 October 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 1365 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a phenomenon called ring spokes. Saturn's spokes are transient features that rotate along with the rings. Their ghostly appearance only persists for two or three rotations around Saturn. During active periods, freshly-formed spokes continuously add to the pattern. In 1981, NASA's Voyager 2 first photographed the ring spokes. Hubble continues observing Saturn annually as the spokes come and go. This cycle has been captured by Hubble's Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program that began nearly a decade ago to annually monitor weather changes on all four gas-giant outer planets. Hubble's crisp images show that the frequency of spoke apparitions is seasonally driven, first appearing in OPAL data in 2021 but only on the morning (left) side of the rings. Long-term monitoring shows that both the number and contrast of the spokes vary with Saturn's seasons. Saturn is tilted on its axis like Earth and has seasons lasting approximately seven years. This year, these ephemeral structures appear on both sides of the planet simultaneously as they spin around the giant world. Although they look small compared with Saturn, their length and width can stretch longer than Earth's diameter! The OPAL team notes that the leading theory is that spokes are tied to interactions between Saturn's powerful magnetic field and the sun. Planetary scientists think that electrostatic forces generated from this interaction levitate dust or ice above the ring to form the spokes, though after several decades no theory perfectly predicts the spokes. Continued Hubble observations may eventually help solve the mystery. [Image description: Planet Saturn with bright white rings, multi-colored main sphere, and moons Mimas, Dione, and Enceladus. Spoke features on the left and right sides of the rings appear like faint grey smudges against the rings’ bright backdrop, about midway from the planet to the rings’ outer edge. Above the rings plane, the planet’s bands are shades of red, orange and yellow, with bright white nearer the equator.]
Three VIVID Mouseketeers at the run-into the Cathedral of Lights making a portrait with the Sydney Opera House as a backdrop at night.
Fujifilm X-T1
XF18mmF2 R
Æ’/4.5 18.0 mm 1/60 1250iso
EF-X20 Flash (on, fired)
Three wood-and-glass urnas to store and display santo images.
Made of old narra wood and offered for sale by the Bloomquist Workshop.
Full length of the three fairies tile, a bit of bronze paint, and purple pearl-ex to add more colour
Three Amigos in San Rafael main square
SAN RAFAEL, ANTIOQUIA:
Altitude: 1000 meters above sea level.
Demography: 13.000 inhabitants (2015)
Economy: Agriculture (coffee, sugar cane, beans, corn, fruits and gold mining.
Another battered EWS class 37 - this time 37417 'Richard Trevithick', passing the site of Three Spires Goods yard in Coventry.
the 37/4 was traversing the Prologis branch from Kerseley back onto the Coventry to Nuneaton line, gaining access at Three Spires Junction, which by then was merely a single line and a crossover.
A far cry from the 1980's when the junction was busy with coal traffic from Kerseley Colliery, via Three Spires Yard. The junction featured several crossovers, including a single slip, all controlled via the charming ex L & NWR signalbox. (demolished in the 1999 after an arson attack).
For anyone interested, here is a link to the awesome "Derby Sulzers" website with some equally brilliant images showing trains at and around Three Spires Jn:
www.derbysulzers.com/threespires.html
well worth a look.
My mate Rog Manton (weathering supremo) was on duty as signalman at the Portacabin that replaced the signalbox mentioned above that day. I didn't know Rog then, but its funny how people can be linked by places or events and not know each other, and you find out later that you were both there!
This loco has had a really varied life, and has carried several numbers, names and paint schemes:
Numbers:
1. D6969 - released into traffic on 22nd Feb 1965 to Canton
2. 37269 - renumbered in 1974 for TOPS
3. 37417 - refurbished at Crewe in May 1985
Names:
1. Highland Region
2. RAIL magazine
3. Richard Trevithick
Liveries:
1. BR Green
2. BR Blue
3. Large Logo Blue
4. Intercity
5. EWS