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This is a photo my son in Utah, USA, sent me yesterday. They're on their 5th day of snow. He's a Californian
by birth and doesn't take kindly to shoveling snow.
We're rejoicing here because we got our first measurable rain since last Feb. over the last three days. Several inches which is how we measure. Oh happy day! I've loved being a couch potato with no guilt for not getting Benni out. It's sunny now so I'd better get going.
Just digging back into the archives and I came across this one from a memorable weekend in the Lakes with some great guys. I overlooked it for processing at the time in preference for the more dramatic. But this image has something that it didn’t when I made it, a future me. ‘I have changed’. I have grown into it! That is the marvellous thing about photography; you can enjoy work you started years previously and keep relieving and nurturing the small sparks of yet to be realised ideas. Anyway, I get the feeling that some of the people who were there at the time already had a head start on me, but life is a journey right, and creatively a very enjoyable one at that.
Taken on 14 August 2017 and uploaded 4 January 2024.
Possibly the 'upside' of the never-ending 'development' of London - the dredgers and other carriers taking building material up river - is the removal and disposal of 'spoil' from any digging involved. Over the time my photographs have been taken there have been at least 2 major projects underway, "CrossRail" (now the Elizabeth Line) and the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a sewer tunnel, complete, apparently and due to become operation this new year. Both involved digging and tunneling so a lot of dirt and chalk to be put somewhere else, which is what the tug GPS India is doing, pushing a barge down river to where it can be emptied and used for something else.
GPS India is rounding a 'bend' in the River Thames, named Tilbury Ness: its exiting the short stretch of the River Thames called Norhtfleet Hope which hosts the entrance to Tilbury Docks - called Tilbury Lock, what else ? - and a series of cranes and silos (containers and dry cargoes) on one bank, smaller industrial sites on the other - and entering Gravesend Reach, a longer stretch which is either part of the Thames Estuary or part of it...
Greater London, on the south bank, begins beyond the boundaries of the Borough of Dartford, 'east of London' on the other side of the border. East of London still 'serves' London to a great extent and heading down Gravesend Reach is no exception - east of Gravesend is agricultural and marsh land, flood plains, while across the river there are endless landfill sites (and these begin in east London) being covered over and made into things like nature parks or, more ambitiously, attempts at restoring marsh land and the wildlife habitats associated with marshes...
I don't know exactly where the load GPS India is taking down river is going, but most likely to one of these 'renewal' sites.
GPS India was launched in 1958 and rebuilt in 2012; I don't know if it's worked anywhere other than the Thames but it's a regular sight, along with other GPS vessels, in its orange livery, in all weathers. Here, it's in high summer, today (4 January 2025) the weather is cloudy, near freezing but dry, with heavy rain due...it's at Woolwich.
(I photographed it again, later the same day, heading back up river, pulling two empty barges.)
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Remastered 11.18.19 images from the La Jolla Beach project. Please see the essay in that album for details
The Dredger at Wells Next the sea digging the channel but not looking for gold. The Sheringham Shoal Windfarm can be seen in the distance.
Even though the tree had blown down over the winter, this Great Spotted Woodpecker was still going to create a nest hole. One to keep an eye on, if this is a nest site.
I am still recuperating from flu so I had no chance of going out to shoot. Instead, I was once again digging in my archives to check whether there’s something worth posting. So here it is, The Arts Science Museum shot with my old & not so wide 17-40mm f/4L USM lens. I hope you enjoyed your weekend Flickr friends!
***Canon EOS 7D ӏ Canon EF17-40mm f/4L USM, 17mm ӏ Manual exposure at f/22, 30s, ISO 100 ӏ Tripod mounted with remote cable release
A gray afternoon finds CSXT Selkirk to West Springfield mainifest M42409 arriving in Pittsfield with a healthy train of 48L/71E totalling 8163 ft and 8446 tons trailing a trio of big GEs. They are pulling in on Main 1 of CSXT's Berkshire Sub main (the former Boston and Albany Railroad) at MP QB 149.3 in this view looking west off Woodlawn Ave. They will pause and make a set out in west yard for the waiting Housatonic Railroad crew meanwhile all the cars at right on track three will be picked up later by counterpart M425 and taken west to Selkirk for forwarding.
The four story brick structure in the background harkens back to Pittsfield of old having been built in 1850 and known as the Kellogg Steam Power Comoang building. This was not a traditional mill but was rather a 19th century version of an 'enterprise zone's to help seed start up businesses with space and steam power. Shoes, tack, silk, clocks and other goods were manufactured in it over the years and today the building which was renovated in 2001 houses a furniture dealer. After a bit of digging I found this cool article about it if you care to learn more: milltour.org/2014/07/19/kellogg-steam-power-company/
Also seen poking above the treetops to the left of the old brick building can be seen the steeple of the 1866 St. Joseph's Catholic Church that rrises 176 ft and is topped by a 9 ft gold cross. The largest church in Berkshire County it is known as the Mother Church of the Berkshires.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Sunday November 9, 2025
7824 Iford Manor climbs past Bells Bridge on Talerddig with the 12.35p.m. Aberystwyth-Birmingham Snow hill on 7th August 1964
Working on the road along side the fjord near Utvik,Norway.
HDR of a single RAW file and processed in PS CS6cc
American robin at the park thrashing leaves in the heavy shade next to a large rock and throwing them everywhere. It kept doing this over and over, assume trying to find a worm or grub. Missed getting the flying leaves and dirt.
I know, it's cheap ..... it is a lazy sunday and it's raining outside. While i was going trough the archives i came across this and i couldn't resist. So here is my husband wearing his wooden shoes...
The texture is made by www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/
At that time I wrote down this "Digging for gold" idea here and kept my eyes open for an excavator and at some point I stumbled upon this one by chance and could not believe I finally found one.
With only one single flashlight and a telescopic pole, I painted this 10 meter rainbow in front of the excavator.
Unfortunately, I did not find any gold here, but the joy over the excavator was the same!
One of my little Greenie buddies digs deep in the water in a vain attempt to secure his next meal but comes up empty!! He was not having much luck and came up with every little twig and piece of debris in the area!!! He was persistent!! Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou!
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Out of a string of roughly 30 storage tanks on the siding directly south of Walkerton, 8 needed to be fished out. So, sulking in the shadows with a perfect sucker hole of light through the heavily wooded area behind me, we get a closer look of PREX 1600, an ex. Seaboard GP16 smoking up quite a bit. Fear not, the crew was shoving when I shot this, not that safety is a concern at a 5mph track speed or anything though!
This should have been uploaded three days ago, but thanks to a massive storm and not the best public service company, I've been out of power since Monday afternoon. Nearly 72 hours later, my power has just flickered back on, so I had to mark the occasion somehow. Here you go!
Black banded spider wasp - Anoplius viaticus, female digging
grabendes Weibchen der Frühlings-Wegwespe - Anoplius viaticus :
Brandenburg (LDS) - Germany
f5.6 - 1/600 sec - ISO 400
Lower Saxony - Göhrde
The Göhrde is the largest contiguous mixed forest area in northern Germany. Here you can get to know a natural area that is unique in its own special way. The Göhrde state forest is an impressive woodland area and its core areas are covered with very old trees.
Also known for the Göhrde murders.
It used to be the hunting ground of the Dukes of Brunswick and Lüneberg and later, the Kings of Hanover and the German Emperor. At the time of the murders the forest stood close to West Germany's border with East Germany.
Also the E6 is on the route.
The E6 European long-distance hiking trail is part of the European hiking trail network and runs from Kilpisjärvi in north-western Finland to the Dardanelles in Turkey. The total length is 6030 kilometers.
This image was inspired by the Weekly Theme Challenge "Spade". It will serve double duty in Slider Sunday. HSS!