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Breaker Bay, Kaiteriteri, Abel Tasman, South Island, New Zealand
35mm
F4
1/250s
iso 100
Canon Rebel Xt + Canon 17-40 f/4.0 L
The Old St. Nicholas coal Breaker, located just outside of Mahanoy City, was constructed in 1930 it was the largest coal breaker in the world.
The remains of a piston air compressor, which is simply the opposite of, and looks exactly like, a stationary steam engine. In a previous photo, a huge motor was driving another unit exactly like this. Here, the motor has been removed, it's shaft cut with a torch and the drive pulley left on the floor. The wide flat belt went around the flywheel and under the tension roller (sitting on the ground in front of the flywheel). There were two of these compressors still in place, with concrete stands for two more that had been removed.
I should note that the mud here was several inches thick and I had to balance the tripod legs on several small points that were out of the mud, as well as keep out of it myself!
More images in the St. Nicholas Coal Breaker set.
Narrowboat, "Code Breaker" seen on the Regents Canal. In the background is the Western Portal of the Islington Tunnel.
My record breaker from a few months ago, heavily revised.
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A little skewey from the panorama but you get the picture.
The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport,Rhode Island,USA, United States on the Atlantic Ocean. ( 41°28′11″N, 71°17′55″W). It is a National Historic Landmark, a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, and is owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County.
The Breakers was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family. Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt and with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr., the 70-room mansion boasts approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2). of living space. The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than seven million dollars (approximately $150 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation). The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates and 30-foot (9.1 m) high walkway gates are part of a twelve-foot-high limestone and iron fence that borders the property on all but the ocean side. The 150' x 120' dimensions of the five-story mansion are aligned symmetrically around a central Great Hall.
Part of a 13 acre (53,000 m²) estate on the seagirt cliffs of Newport, it sits in a commanding position that faces east overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
From wikipedia
This was taken on the beach at Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex. It is a photo of stones that were stuck between two bits of wood on a sea breaker.
I used the polar coordinates filter in photoshop to turn in into a sphere and then carefully blended the join.
The effect in all four corners of the photo was actually caused by the filter and therefore an unexpected enhancement.
As usual, best viewed large (L). This is the shot of the waves breaking on the beach at Bray during last Tuesday’s easterly gale that I was working on when Silver Lining presented itself– since I took it I have been reading Peter Cox’s article in Luminous Landscape on Planning your Photography Trips in which he discusses how planned shots don’t always work but that a “found” shot can often be just as good. Last Tuesday I was lucky enough to get a planned and a found shot - the overall message is . . . get out there!
It was taken in heavy rain from the car at Raheen Park with the Canon 100-400mm set to 250 mm and ISO200 to get 1/200th of a second at f8, and with image stabilization on. In Lightroom, I did minor cropping at both sides and played around with the exposures and tone curves to bring out the breaking waves, as well as the usual sharpening.
After the war Finland was lacking ice breakers strong enough. Voima (“The Strength”) was built.
Ice breaker
Wärtsilä, Hietalahti’s Dockyard, Helsinki
Launched 27.11.1952
Delivered 12.2.1954
Renovate begun 3.4.1978
Delivered 10.10.1979
LOA 83,52 m
Breadth 19,41 m
Draught 7,00 m
GT 4 159
NT 1 248
Crew 12 + 30 = 42
Engines in 1954:
Number of engines 6
Atlas-Diesel K 58 M, Stockholm
7 723 kW
8 cylinders
Diameter of the cyliders 340 mm
Length of the stroke 570 mm
Engines in 1979:
Wärtsilä 16V22, Vaasa
Number of engines 6
10 200 kW
16 cylinders
Diameter of the cylinders 220 mm
Length of the stroke 240 mm
Written by Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, and Bruce Beresford (based on the play Breaker Morant by Kenneth G. Ross)
Produced by Matthew Carroll
Directed by Bruce Beresford
The original 2007 Breaker SRT SS was inspired by the classic Dodge Charger. It has a supercharged 5.5 Liter V8 producing 670 Horspower to RWD. It will do 0-60 in 4.1 seconds and on to a top speed of 150 MPH!