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in the soft shuffle of city streets, he sits steady as a metronome, a cigar fixed between his teeth, eyes hidden behind the dark certainty of his shades. the hat shades his stories, the leather holds his history, and somewhere in the air between us lingers the faint scent of unspoken decades.
Bean Station is a town in Grainger and Hawkins counties established in 1776 as a frontier outpost by William Bean and is considered one of the earliest permanently settled communities in Tennessee. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) flooded much of this area in the 1940's to create the Cherokee Reservoir. The Veterans Overlook Memorial is dedicated to the Grainger County veterans and all veterans who served. Print Size 13x19 inches.
Thank you all who served.
Last weekend we had a short stay (= a mini holiday) in Antwerpen. For me a visit at the blue hour to this impressive building was one of the things I really wanted to do. This Port Authority Building is designed by the late Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid and opened in 2016. The final results of her design incorporate two very different architectural era's.
I choose for the "in-your-face" look of this image. The "boat"-like/diamond segmented top part looks huge. I'm satisfied with the result. If there would be one thing I would like to add to it, it would be some artificial lights from the building itself. But I think I have to come back during a weekday (in stead of the weekend; when we were there).
Enjoy!
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COMOX HARBOUR (or PORT AUGUSTA) has provided shelter for ocean travellers and marine explorers for centuries.
It has been known by many names, but it was best known as “The Land of Plenty” by the local K’ómoks First Nation, who lived here for centuries before European explorers arrived. The well-known “Beaver” was one of the early exploration ships that made marine history.
The boats and ships came to the Comox Valley for many reasons; to explore, to trade, to survey, to work, and like many today, to rest and enjoy the beauty of the area.
Reference: comoxharbour.com
Image best viewed in large screen.
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Excerpt from hcry.org/portfolio-items/chicago-transit-authority-48/:
Chicago Transit Authority 48
Fleet Number: 48 Built: 1961
System: Chicago Transit Authority Retired: 1999
Builder: St. Louis Car Co.Acquired: 1999
Type: DE-DT Rapid Transit Status: Unrestored – Operational
Multiple Unit Elevated Railway car.
Example of original equipment proposed for Toronto Subway. Regauged by TTC.
The Falkirk Wheel, a rotating boat lift in Scotland, which connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.
The boat lift is named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland. It opened in 2002, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s as part of the Millennium Link project.
The plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburgh was led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish Enterprise Network, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Millennium Commission. Planners decided early on to create a dramatic 21st-century landmark structure to reconnect the canals, instead of simply recreating the historic lock flight.
The wheel raises boats by 24 metres (79 ft), but the Union Canal is still 11 metres (36 ft) higher than the aqueduct which meets the wheel. Boats must also pass through a pair of locks between the top of the wheel and the Union Canal. The Falkirk Wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and one of two working boat lifts in the United Kingdom, the other being the Anderton boat lift.
From Wikipedia, an animation gif showing how the Falkirk Wheel ship lift works:
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Construction of Norris Dam began in 1933, just a few months after the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and was completed in 1936. It has two generating units with a summer net dependable capacity of 126 megawatts. The reservoir area (seen on the left side of the dam in the photograph above) also helped form the backbone for the Tennessee State Park system. Norris Reservoir in extends 73 miles up the Clinch River and 56 miles up the Powell from Norris Dam creating the entire reservoir area. It was the first dam TVA built, and is named for Senator George Norris of Nebraska, author of the legislation that created TVA.
-- Norris Dam Facts & Figures --
‧ The dam is 265 feet high and stretches 1,860 feet across the Clinch River.
‧ Norris Lake of Reservoir, the largest reservoir on a tributary of the Tennessee River, has 33,840 acres of water surface and 809 miles of shoreline.
‧ Norris Dam is a hydroelectric facility. It has two generating units with a summer net dependable capacity of 126 megawatts. Net dependable capacity is the amount of power a dam can produce on an average day, minus the electricity used by the dam itself.
‧ The town of Norris was built to house construction workers on the dam. It was a planned community that became a model for others throughout the nation. The town was sold to private owners in 1948.
‧ In a year with normal rainfall, the water level in Norris Reservoir varies about 29 feet from summer to winter to provide seasonal flood storage.
‧ The reservoir has a flood-storage capacity of 1,113,000 acre-feet.
‧ You can find Norris Dam off Hwy. 441 at 30 Powerhouse Way, Norris, Tennessee.
Because of it's historical significance in the area of Civil Engineering and in the creation of the town of Norris, Norris Dam was added to the ASCE List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks in 1986 and the Norris District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1975.
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/d5c187f2-b957-4cd2-9d5...
www.asce.org/about-civil-engineering/history-and-heritage...
www.tva.com/energy/our-power-system/hydroelectric/norris
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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View looking south from the Blues Point Reserve, near Lavender Bay and McMahon's Point, Sydney.
In the distance you can see Sydney Observatory, built in 1857, as well as the historic rotunda on Observatory Hill. When my daughters were little we would go to the Observatory for amazing astronomy workshops, and then have a picnic in this rotunda.
To the right, in this image, is the controversial new Crown Casino building. It overlooks Barangaroo and Darling Harbour.
In the foreground, on the harbour, you can see a tugboat owned by the Sydney 'Port Authority' - one of two fire-fighting tugboats that each have a capacity for delivering 16,000 litres of water per minute, part of a number of emergency response vessels and specialised equipment used for fire-fighting, oil spill response, salvage and providing assistance to stricken vessels on Sydney harbour.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 24-105mm lens.
Now this is definitely a shot that would have been better with the Canon 70-200mm lens, which, as yet, I do not have.
Waterfront trail in Squires beach, Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , August 4. 2021
Staghorn Sumac trees
American Larch tree
Cropped photograph
Teasels
Pickering
Squires beach
Rotary park
Duffins Marsh
Duffins trail
Duffins creek
Wild Carrot
Queen Anne’s Lace
Lake Ontario
August 2021
Discovery Bay
Linden tree
American Basswood tree
Red berries
Wild red berries
Tamarack trees
IPhone XR
Favourites
Clouds
Duck weed in wetlands
Water lilies
Water lily
Goldenrod
Wild grapes
Duck weed
A fallen tree
smaller trees
Shadows
Reflections
Horsetails
Discovery bay
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Solomon’s seal and
white Dead nettles
River
Dogwood
Unique shaped tree
Ferns
The Port Terminal Railroad Authority exists to serve the Port of Houston. It's land & assets are owned by the port itself, and the railroad is composed of three "member lines" that split operating costs: UP, BNSF, & CPKC.
While the PTRA was founded in 1924, the Port of Houston itself dates back 10 years earlier to 1914. To celebrate the PTRA's 100th anniversary, the railroad has painted 4 locomotives in commemorative paint schemes. Two in a Texas flag scheme to honor the railroad, and two in this white & gray scheme to honor the Port of Houston.
PTRA GP38-2 #1914
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024
Toured the CTA warehouse where they work in trains today. Open House Chicago continues to rock every year.
This stamp is on one corner of my UK CAA pilot's License.
Without it, it is just a bit of paper, with it and I am allowed to make a wonderful moving hole in the sky.
Stamp for Macro Mondays
Airline: Czech Republic - Civil Aviation Authority
Aircraft: Cessna 560XL Citation XLS
Registration: OK-CAA CN: 560-5183
Historical reenactment of a battle between Ancient Romans and Gauls.
(conceived, organized and played by Gruppo Storico Romano: www.gsr-roma.com/)
This is the second one of a series of captures related to a reeactment, which took place yesterday in Rome (at Circus Maximus). Once in a while, I will post some of them.
Circus Maximus, Rome
October 2010
Chattanooga,Tennessee-- A tribute located in downtown Chattanooga for the TVA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority
Victorian Romanesque Revival - built for Manchester Metropolitan Authority
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historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1200853
PB181123 Anx2 Q90 1400h Ap Q11 0.5k-1.5k
New Jersey State Association of Chief's of Police Expo 2011, Atlantic City Expo Center, June 21 & 22, 2011
The Fremantle Port Authority building in the port city of Fremantle in Western Australia. I fell in love with this building the moment I saw it. Absolutely beautiful.
School: The Art Institute of California - Sunnyvale. Program: Fashion Marketing & Management. Class: 3DVM. Solute to the consumer fashion magazines.
Seems to be occupied by a hotel
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Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
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