Here at the Yeoman Hey Reservoir we can see the water outlet tower more clearer because of the low water levels, Built in 1880 it controls the flow of water out of the reservoir by the use of opening and closing valves within the tower.

Crazy Tuesday.

Early 1960's VW Beetle ~ Cape May, NJ

Macro Mondays - Music

Rusting equipment and peeling paint on an old building in Philadelphia Navy Yard

a brass valve on the side of an old steam locomotive in the DB Museum in Nuremberg

Something simple, yet elegant in presentation.

The early pioneers in radio and audio quality.

HMM

The small outlet valve on the copper pipe of the outside tap n the garden. Covered in cobwebs and well weathered after many seasons through the Scottish climate.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Macro Mondays theme: Closed

www.llmayll.com/#!victorian-valve-tower/vfrf8

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a tamron 80-210mm (103A) telephoto lens.

Water Valve from the original Lake Manchester Dam in Queensland (Dates to around 1912)

Camera: Pentax K1000

Lens: Pentax 50mm F2.8

Film: Ilford XP2 Super 400 (Exp: Nov 2017)

Settings: F2.8 1/1000th

Development: HC-110, Dilution E (1+47) @10 minutes

Draycote Water valve tower.

Looking through metal scrolls on the end of bench armrests at the Botanic Gardens, at water supply valves and the fence.

A view through the mist of the valve house which is usually submerged under the waters of Ladybower Reservoir. The level of the water is once again rising, because less than two weeks ago this was above the water.

It can just be seen on the left near the waters edge in the photograph below.

In which order do you turn them to get your prize

Pipes and Valves in the now demolished powerhouse of the steelplant Maxhütte.

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a venus optics laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro lens

At the second boiler of the abandoned power plant for a former paper mill - Germany

The old "vintage" way of heating the house with radiators..

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a tamron 80-210mm (103A) telephoto lens.

Alpine Lake Reservoir in Marin County.

On the ferry to Santander

I have just returned from a trip to northern Spain, so my photostream will be taking a break from London for a while and shifting focus to Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country for quite a while. In fact the ferry journeys to and from Spain had a surprising number of interesting photo opportunities, so I'll start there.

This photo was created for the weekly theme "Handles" in The Flickr Lounge .

It was overcast and light were poor. I took this photo just before it started to rain.

Photo taken at Randfontein in South Africa.

Using the Tamron SP AF 60mm f/2 Di II MACRO 1:1 LD (IF) (model G005N II) lens.

I Shoot Raw and edit in GIMP.

Critique is welcomed.

Thank you all very much for your visits, favs and comments.

Fill her up. I took the N2 cap off because I thought this would look better. I am thankful that the stem was at the top and not the bottom. I had to work on brakes this weekend and did not need anymore ground time.

Happy Macro Mondays

This tower sits on the dam that forms the Llwyn-onn reservoir.

Completed in 1926, Llwyn-onn is the last - and largest - of 3 reservoirs built in the Taf Fawr valley in the southern Brecon Beacons National Park to provide water to the Welsh valley towns and the city of Cardiff. Llwyn-onn has a capacity of over 5 billion litres of water.

The towers' valves regulate the level of water in the reservoir as well as release enough water to maintain flow in the river Taff.

With the very dry summer the UK has experienced, water levels in the reservoir are much lower than normal - the official figure states that Llwyn-onn is currently at 54% capacity.