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Judging by the lifebuoys, this ship is a very tired old Foxy Lady of Strathspey. For now she's at rest on the old Exeter Ship Canal, apparently pending restoration work. Devon, UK, 13-Nov-2020.
I went to Peggy's Cove for a sunset shot with a friend. We ate at the restaurant there and then took images as the sun set. It felt like "normal", or almost normal. This is an HDR image. I stopped down to f/22 to capture the star burst.
I took this photograph about 30 years ago on 35mm film. It shows part of a tunnel inside the Journey Into Imagination exhibit at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
To get this shot in to Flickr I scanned the original 4" x 6" print. No changes were made to the image after it was scanned from the print.
Pylons from Richborough to Canterbury
The original Richborough power station operated from 1962 to 1996, with final demolition being undertaken in 2012. It originally burnt coal, but later converted to oil and that to the burning of Orimulsion. The station was also the site of an experimental wind turbine in 1989, which at 1MW was the biggest then installed anywhere in the United Kingdom. The national grid interconnector from the original power station is still in place, and is now the grid link for the offshore Thanet Wind Farm, The Thanet Wind Farm (also sometimes called Thanet Offshore Wind Farm) is an offshore wind farm 7 miles (11 km) off the coast of Thanet district in Kent, England. On commissioning it was the world's largest offshore wind farm. It has a nameplate capacity (maximum output) of 300 MW and it cost £780 million. Thanet is one of fifteen Round 2 wind projects announced by the Crown Estate in January 2004 but the first to be developed. It was officially opened on 23 September 2010, when it overtook Horns Rev 2 as the biggest offshore wind farm in the world. It has since been overtaken by many others and is now the 14th biggest,
The site is also the landing site for the ±400 kV 1,000 MW HVDC power cable from Belgium called Nemo Link, built by Siemens, which entered commercial service on 31 January 2019. All this power is carried under the sea to Richborough
Link to picture of the power station going,going, gone!!
www.flickr.com/photos/jonboy2433/37178154776
This photo is one of the many pylons snaking to keep the lights on in Canterbury, the rest were in haze, but I caught this in blue sky.
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The whole village of St. Kilda consists of one main 'street' of houses with a chapel/school building and manse below the main dwellings.
The village as seen today was laid out by St Kilda's minister, Rev. Neil Mackenzie, in the 1830's. The houses built then were traditional 'black houses' - a single room which the family shared with the cattle in winter (Apparently the houses got their name because of the lack of ventilation. When the fire was lit everything in the building was blackened with smoke and soot)
In the 1860's sixteen new houses were built with a zinc roof rather than thatch. These had an entrance, closet and two rooms. These houses were in use until St. Kilda was abandoned in 1930. Six of these houses have been restored, and are now used by the National Trust for Scotland.
The cemetery (circular structure on the photo) is still occasionally used for the burial of former residents.
Other buildings include cleits used by the islanders for storage and preserving meat for winter use. These are the small buildings with a grass/moss roof.
The photo shows the village looking from the cemetery to the first of the cottages. The 'black houses' can be seen between some of the cottages (e.g. between cottage 3-4)
For more information on St. Kilda and its fascinating history go to the National Trust for Scotland site at:
White wine in the moonlight.
Yet another night of quarantine, howling at the moon and longing for freedom of travel.
At my parents 60th anniversary we did a tour of ancestry homesteads. In an old tobacco dry barn I saw these antique nails on a wooden beam. The farm was from the late 1800's. Unsure about the age of the barn.
Only had my call with me for the image, and only edited with the little Google Photos had to offer.
March 22 - A well orchestrated trip, except for the temperature! The photo shoot was planned for 9:00 p.m. to insure the blue lights were on. It was 27 degrees with a wind speed of 15mph. That's cold.
Our mission was a senior photo shoot. We walked almost a mile on the High Trestle Trail between Madrid and Woodward, Iowa! There was a mom, the senior boy, and me! To my Cannon, I said......"Please, don't let me down!" Without tripod, I had to keep a steady hand. When I took my gloves off, I couldn't feel the button to snap the pictures! We had a fun time even though we nearly froze! Right as the photo shoot began, he shed his outer coat, gloves, and cap - down to a white shirt and jeans, perfect for the neon glow! Though the chill quickly set in, he kept smiling for the camera! He was polite as my camera often took too long to click!
We made a good couple dozen pictures. He definitely looked "cool" blue and was happy with the results!!! Mission accomplished!!! We agreed this was a photo shoot best meant for summer.
Oh, by the way, there's a part one to this story! These lights go out shortly after 10 p.m. How do we know? We learned it the hard way, two nights earlier, on photo shoot attempt number one. At sunset we walked to the bridge, took some great sunset pictures, and decided to return to the bridge at dark for a blue lights' photo shoot. We left the bridge and proceeded to have dinner in the local town! Just before 10 pm, we came back, trek number two! At exactly 10:11, we did a test shot! All systems, "GO!" The picture was perfect! As we began his senior photo shoot, the lights went out! Bummer! And so, determined to get this done, we planned the THIRD trek to the bridge in two nights -- no matter how cold!! And that it was!
Hummm, three round-trip walks for this one senior photo shoot equalled about 4 1/2 miles!