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Seen from the more traditional angle across from Lake Pukaki. Mount Cook / Aoraki lies in the Southern Alps in the South Island of New Zealand. Mt Cook / Aoraki is the tallest mountain in New Zealand at a height of 3,724 m. Unfortunately the weather gods kept the sun at bay and caused a light breeze. However, I'd like to think that I still managed a respectable image. Hope you will enjoy this one!
Rather than using the traditional landscape lens I used my 85mm portrait lens which brings the distant mountains in a bit closer.
A BNSF eastbound manifest blasts out of a tunnel in the Columbia River Gorge east of Cooks, Washington. A 2013-built CREX ES44AC leads the train.
The setting sun catches the side of the vertical retort building (1932) at the site of the old Launceston Gas Company. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launceston_Gasworks
In 1826 Launceston, like most cities was running on sperm whale oil for their lamps. But in 1844, Dr William Pugh (a pioneer of anesthetic medicine) produced a means by which he could convert coal into methane gas to light his house. This was an idea that took off quickly around the world and gas companies were formed to mass produce methane gas from coal.
In 1858 the Launceston Gas Company was formed and on 5 April 1860 the city turned on its gas powered street lights for the first time. In 1932 the vertical retort building we see here (where the actual conversion process was carried out) was built. It was a far more efficient and larger means of producing more gas. Most of the coal was actually shipped in from the Hunter Valley and down the Tamar to the wharf directly outside the main entrance to the gasworks.
By the 1970s LPG had become more convenient and a cheaper form of gas and so the conversion processing plant was shut down.
So this is my tribute to yesteryear. Enjoy it while it lasts. It was also part of my personal challenge to only use a 50mm lens.
Portable kitchens are very popular everywhere in Thailand. I found the most delicious soups, barbecues, and salads at such food stalls. All is very fresh prepared and cooked. This one I have seen and captured in Nathon, Koh Samui.
Dear. Flickr friends who ever. is able to see this:
This. upload did nit appear in Activity Feeds of my followers and frowns, as I found out. It happens the second time. since less than one year! I reported it already to Flickr. I will make a break of posting until this. is fixed.
See you. as soon as this is solved!
The sun sets above with the clouds over Mammoth Hot Springs there in Yellowstone. It was incredible view to behold. Tried to do it some justice with this handheld capture.
October 10, 1999 finds GBSOA thundering down the hill near Cooks with 6593, 1762, 1761, 1756 and 2054. The WC had done a lot of track work in the area and the hogger was putting that to good use on this fine fall afternoon.
Ranunculus lyallii (Mountain buttercup, Mount Cook buttercup, or, although not a lily, Mount Cook lily), is a species of Ranunculus (buttercup), endemic to New Zealand, where it occurs in the South Island and on Stewart Island at altitudes of 700–1,500 m
Mount Cook, New Zealand.
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Half way between Mount Cook village and the Hooker Glacier we came across this old hut. As can be seen all the way up the valley New Zealand's high point dominated the approach.
Taken from SH 8 on the golden hour at about a 60 km distance away (as the crow flies) on the shore of Lake Pukaki. Due to the use of the 105 mm prime this is a heavy crop in pp. My initial plan was to shoot a wider view but decided during pp it looked a lot better cropped as the foreground was just too much water.
The Hooker Valley Track leads you through the Hooker Valley to here - the beautiful Hooker Lake in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand.
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