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The old loading jetties for Greenwich Power Station. That has now been converted to gas and, apart from supplying the grid, provides an emergency backup to power the London Underground in case of any disruption.
A panoramic view across the Owens Valley to Crowley Lake, the mountains of the Long Valley Caldera, and the White Mountains, with the aspens along McGee Creek in the foreground. You can see Highway 395 in the lower left hand portion of the image.
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A rewarding sky burn at sunset over Crowley Lake, CA. Here's a previously unprocessed image from the May 2021 east side trip with Miguel D.
This is a single frame, single exposure image using the D-FA 35mm f/3.5 lens on the 645Z, cropped to 16:9 aspect ratio.
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I spent 13 years without electricity,
staring at this view. We used to say
that the shape of the valley on the
left hand side was just like Edward
Lear's painting of Jerusalem...
Photographer: Andrew Crowley
This is a much larger lake than this photo shows. It is in the Mammoth Lakes, CA area.This photo was taken on the Northeastern side of the lake. It is hard to imagine this peaceful scene is part of a seismically active volcanic caldera, a large one (Long Valley Caldera).We all need to be careful about news sources pretty much everywhere these days, but I read a number of articles on the internet about USGS concerns about this area.
With a Temple crew on board and the light on the west side of the train, a stack train pulls hard through Crowley on its way south.
Its a beautiful place between two mountain ranges (the Arroyo Seco and the Sierra Nevada ranges), especially at sunset with its riot of birds and ordered collection of well behaved cows. The fishing is good too. The site is one edge of a huge, massive, prehistoric caldera that covered much of the Midwest with thick, deep ash in the time of the dinosaurs. I re-cropped an earlier version of this shot.
(Explored) There is nothing like the peace of a sunrise on a lake in the Sierras!
This picture will not be able to be replicated for a while as Opening Day is next week and for the rest of the sumer/fall there will be fishing boats swarming everywhere!
Here's another treatment of the Crowley columns from my visit in May 2016. It's hard to believe these unique pillars of volcanic tuff are natural, but they are the result of heat, fluids and pressure within volcanic material from the Long Valley caldera.
They are found at just one place I know of along the east short of Crowley Lake. As you walk along the cliff, you can see columns in various stages of erosion, some just emerging from the tuff and others free-standing and tall, like these. Many of the columns stick out above the top of the cliff as well.
From what I've read, I'm not sure scientists have a complete theory of how they formed. It may have something to do with fluid escape in the columns that hardened them from erosion. One unusual aspect, though, is the horizontal sectioning. The columns look like stacked disks several inches thick. You can see them lying on the ground from previous columns that collapsed.
A pair of GP40-3s shove a pair of oldschool 50' boxcars loaded with beans down the spur to Crowley Liner Services past the CSX scale operations spur. Crowley is one of only four customers left out of Export yard; when I first started documenting industries around here more than ten years ago now, there were seven active customers, with an eight and ninth that received brief temporary service at different times. I believe Crowley transloads what are mainly shipments of beans, but probably some other goods as well, from boxcars to containers on this track, which are then loaded onto a barge likely going to Puerto Rico (the second part of that is just an educated guess). They get cars here rather regularly, typically once or twice a week, sometimes less, sometimes more. I almost exclusively see high cubes however, so catching a pair of standard height cars was very nice. The extra unit also made for a nice touch; MP15s and even regular GP38s and 40s nowhere to be found around Jax these days.
The scale track used to see equipment move in and out here and there, this bunch however looks to have been sitting here for years at this point. Knowing nothing about scale cars, I did find the B&O car with handbrake on the top quite neat. Export yard, Jacksonville, FL.
Crowley Lake, CA
A trip to the Crowley Lake columns involves a rough 4-wheel ascent to the trailhead, and then a steep hike down to the columns. However, it is well worth the effort!
Geological History: "The columns were created by cold water percolating down into — and steam rising up out of — hot volcanic ash spewed by a cataclysmic explosion 760,000 years ago."
Body count's risin' xD Shot of Victor - overall pose, and closeup of his face since it came out pretty cool in this shot.
My crazy and quirky little family. We may be small, but it's truly about quality over quantity. Both of these ladies have proven themselves, over and over again to be the the most loyal and caring friends anyone could ask for. My wonderful sister Katyface, and daughter Glowbear, I hope you both know I love you dearly, and would do anything for either of you. ♥♥♥
We drove up a canyon above Lake Crowley today and were treated with this view on the way down the mountain. I was hoping for some lightning, but didn't get so lucky.
This canyon had a stream running through it with beautiful aspens covering both banks. This is going on my bucket list for a fall trip.