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This was the very first colour film (Kodacolor ll 100 ASA) I took with my new Zenith-E.
Participants of the L.C.G.B Merseyside ll Tour, which originated from Liverpool, can be seen here walking amongst the loco's. The stock of which can be seen in the background.
Not a Hi-Vis vest in sight.
20072 and 44002 'Helvellyn' are the main points of interest.
All remaining Class 44 Peaks were see here that day 44002,4,7,8 were out in the open, whilst no's 5,9 & 10 were inside. I recorded a total of 88 loco's on shed that day. Among them a new 56031
This was part one one of the days itinerary. Derby Works was next... Even less daylight there.
A few from flock of robins visiting us this week....very calm and collected personalities they have...
Thanks for stopping by....x...
Film location of the classic mini-series adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel, with Jeremy Irons, Laurence Olivier, and Claire Bloom.
Shadowtrooper: "You can take a jetpack to visit the fields but don't get lost!"
Shadowtrooper: "Tu peux prendre un réacteur dorsal pour visiter les champs mais ne te perds pas!"
My little Stormie and his friend went to visit the lavender fields located in the beautiful village of Fitch Bay in Quebec on this lovely summer day! :o)
Mon petit Stormie et son ami sont allé visiter les champs de lavande situés dans le beau petit village de Fitch Bay au Québec en cette magnifique journée d'été! :o)
Here's the Bleu Lavande web site. Voici le site de Bleu Lavande.
We decided to visit Cowes today and after striking lucky with 1587 on the 2 we caught one of the frequent (every 7/8 minutes) Enviro 200s on Route 1.
The reason for the provision of the small buses became obvious when we got near the Cowes 'Red Jet Terminal' which 2713 has just squeezed into in this shot. 6/4/17.
This past weekend when down visiting familiy, got to play around on the beach and under the pier. In January under cold and windy conditions, I took my first images under there closer to sunset.
Currently under warmer temps and less wind, this similar image taken with the sun higher in the sky really works well I think as the reflection of light on the water and river bottom gives a nice golden hue and lighting to the underside of the pier. While the shadows are not directly down (may have to try this when the sun is directly overhead at noon), I like the slight offset to the shadows and lighting as it takes away from the total symmetry. Would be curious to compare this with the sun at the 12 o'clock position. Something to try for another day :)
[Having returned home and as we inch into late Fall and Winter with no plans for extended photo trips until next year, I resume uploading the rest of my selected photos from 2020 (10 per day, usually in the morning CET), as well as a selection of my current, 2021 photos (usually 3 or 4 per day, in the evening CET).]
The Gers is a small part of the region of Aquitaine, which covers most of southwestern France. On July 2020, we rented a house for three weeks in the Gers area, and commencing today, I will upload a selection of the photographs I took while we were there. I hope you will enjoy them!
As usual, I will caption more specifically in bold type below whenever necessary.
Morning light at our rented house.
A short train ride from Tours Gare brought us to the beautiful town of Saumur, which is located next to the Loire River.Saumur is well known for its chateau, and you can see it from the photos. Saumur forms part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This was the only U.S. Park Ranger available to respond today when someone jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. All available patrol units from the immediate area always rush to Coast Guard Golden Gate. The California Highway Patrol and Marin Sheriff have yet to respond.
-Take 2.
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After visiting Auschwitz I in March 1941, it appears that Himmler ordered that the camp be expanded, although Peter Hayes notes that, on 10 January 1941, the Polish underground told the Polish government-in-exile in London: "the Auschwitz concentration camp ...can accommodate approximately 7,000 prisoners at present, and is to be rebuilt to hold approximately 30,000." Construction of Auschwitz II-Birkenau—called a Kriegsgefangenenlager (prisoner-of-war camp) on blueprints—began in October 1941 in Brzezinka, about three kilometers from Auschwitz I. The initial plan was that Auschwitz II would consist of four sectors (Bauabschnitte I–IV), each consisting of six subcamps (BIIa–BIIf) with their own gates and fences. The first two sectors were completed (sector BI was initially a quarantine camp), but the construction of BIII began in 1943 and stopped in April 1944, and the plan for BIV was abandoned.
SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Bischoff, an architect, was the chief of construction. Based on an initial budget of RM 8.9 million, his plans called for each barracks to hold 550 prisoners, but he later changed this to 744 per barracks, which meant the camp could hold 125,000, rather than 97,000. There were 174 barracks, each measuring 35.4 by 11.0 metres (116 by 36 ft), divided into 62 bays of 4 square metres (43 sq ft). The bays were divided into "roosts", initially for three inmates and later for four. With personal space of 1 square metre (11 sq ft) to sleep and place whatever belongings they had, inmates were deprived, Robert-Jan van Pelt wrote, "of the minimum space needed to exist".
The prisoners were forced to live in the barracks as they were building them; in addition to working, they faced long roll calls at night. As a result, most prisoners in BIb (the men's camp) in the early months died of hypothermia, starvation or exhaustion within a few weeks. Some 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war arrived at Auschwitz I between 7 and 25 October 1941, but by 1 March 1942 only 945 were still registered; they were transferred to Auschwitz II, where most of them had died by May.
The first gas chamber at Auschwitz II was operational by March 1942. On or around 20 March, a transport of Polish Jews sent by the Gestapo from Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie was taken straight from the Oświęcim freight station to the Auschwitz II gas chamber, then buried in a nearby meadow. The gas chamber was located in what prisoners called the "little red house" (known as bunker 1 by the SS), a brick cottage that had been turned into a gassing facility; the windows had been bricked up and its four rooms converted into two insulated rooms, the doors of which said "Zur Desinfektion" ("to disinfection"). A second brick cottage, the "little white house" or bunker 2, was converted and operational by June 1942. When Himmler visited the camp on 17 and 18 July 1942, he was given a demonstration of a selection of Dutch Jews, a mass killing in a gas chamber in bunker 2, and a tour of the building site of Auschwitz III, the new IG Farben plant being constructed at Monowitz.
Use of bunkers I and 2 stopped in spring 1943 when the new crematoria were built, although bunker 2 became operational again in May 1944 for the murder of the Hungarian Jews. Bunker I was demolished in 1943 and bunker 2 in November 1944. Piper writes that plans for crematoria II and III show that both had an oven room 30 by 11.24 metres (98.4 by 36.9 ft) on the ground floor, and an underground dressing room 49.43 by 7.93 metres (162.2 by 26.0 ft) and gas chamber 30 by 7 metres (98 by 23 ft). The dressing rooms had wooden benches along the walls and numbered pegs for clothing. Victims would be led from these rooms to a five-yard-long narrow corridor, which in turn led to a space from which the gas chamber door opened. The chambers were white inside, and nozzles were fixed to the ceiling to resemble showerheads. The daily capacity of the crematoria (how many bodies could be burned in a 24-hour period) was 340 corpses in crematorium I; 1,440 each in crematoria II and III; and 768 each in IV and V. By June 1943 all four crematoria were operational, but crematorium I was not used after July 1943. This made the total daily capacity 4,416, although by loading three to five corpses at a time, the Sonderkommando were able to burn some 8,000 bodies a day. This maximum capacity was rarely needed; the average between 1942 and 1944 was 1,000 bodies burned every day.