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The sunlight briefly illuminates Kirkby Stephen town and Brough Castle beyond, but sadly not the main subject, 45690 'Leander' and 34067 'Tangmere' as they pass Wharton Dikes heading the 1Z87 14:22 Carlisle to London Euston 'Cumbrian Mountain Express', with Storm Malik whipping both locomotive's exhausts rapidly away to the east.
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Legend has it that lifetime laborer of the Collins Axe Company, Archibald Brunella, absconded with the day's fruit-of-his-labor, and found egress in a little-used hatchway. He then wildly brandished the implement as he crossed the road, slaying innocent dam-operator, Stashik Grenpier, absent rhyme or reason.
Those of you who have been following me, know I love dikes! That's what really attracted me here. I parked and went over to shoot many perspectives of the spheroidally weathered granite with that dike in the middle. I thought I was only taking geology shots, but when I got home, I decided that this one was appealing to me in the art sense, too.
Edit: A geologist friend of mine blogged my photo!
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Three Dike Hill, Big Bend Ranch State Park
Have you all learned about dikes enough to recognize them here?
With a viaduct on the long disused Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway line between Royston Junction and Dewsbury Savile Town forming a fine backdrop, Lawns Dike is seen in spate and therefore blocking my path. Having set off rather foolishly in trainers I had a choice, a return route over the viaduct, getting very wet feet or to take a run and jump. The latter prevailed.
Noordpolderzijl (Groningen: Polderziel) is a hamlet in the municipality of Het Hogeland, north of Usquert in the province of Groningen. Noordpolderzijl has the smallest seaport in the Netherlands and is located on the Wadden Sea, south of Rottumeroog. The name of the hamlet refers to the side of the Noordpolder. |||"|| Noordpolderzijl (Gronings: Polderziel) is een buurtschap in de gemeente Het Hogeland, ten noorden van Usquert in de provincie Groningen. Noordpolderzijl heeft de kleinste zeehaven van Nederland en is gelegen aan de Waddenzee, ten zuiden van Rottumeroog. De naam van de buurtschap verwijst naar de zijl van de Noordpolder. WWikipedia)
Back in the day this cabin was built a safe distance from the edge. It had a great view of the Spanish Peaks to the right. Today, what's left is precariously close to the edge of the arroyo. Nature will win this contest. The Arroyo is approx. 100 ft wide and 60 ft deep and goes on for miles. In the BG a Grand Dike towers over the landscape and radiates outward from the mountains like spokes in a wheel.
Our home is just beyond the hill on the left; we hike this area all the time.
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In 1986, the Netherlands proclaimed the new 12th province of Flevoland but they didn't carve out the province from already existing land nor did they annex the territory of their neighbors - Germany and Belgium. The Netherlands actually grew.
The Dutch and their ancestors have been working to hold back and reclaim land from the North Sea for over 2000 years. Over 2000 years ago, the Frisians who first settled the Netherlands began to build terpen, the first dikes to hold back the water.
In 1287 the terpen and dikes that held back the North Sea failed, and water flooded the country. A new bay, called Zuiderzee (South Sea) was created over former farmland. For the next few centuries, the Dutch worked to slowly push back the water of the Zuiderzee, building dikes and creating polders (the term used to described any piece of land reclaimed from water). Once dikes are built, canals and pumps are used to drain the land and to keep it dry. From the 1200s, windmills had been used to pump excess water off the fertile soil; today most of the windmills have been replaced with electricity- and diesel-driven pumps.
Then, storms and floods of 1916 provided the impetus for the Dutch to start a major project to reclaim the Zuiderzee. From 1927 to 1932, a 30.5 km (19 mile) long dike called Afsluitdijk (the Closing Dike) was built, turning the Zuiderzee into the IJsselmeer, a freshwater lake. (Much of the Netherlands is essentially a delta for the Rhine and other rivers.)
Further protective dikes and works were built, reclaiming the land of the IJsselmeer. The new land led to the creation of a the new province of Flevoland from what had been sea and water for centuries. The collective North Sea Protective Works is one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Today, approximately 27 percent of the Netherlands is actually below sea level. This area is home to over 60 percent of the country's population of 15.8 million people. The Netherlands, which is approximately the size of the U.S. states Connecticut and Massachusetts combined, has an approximate average elevation of 11 meters (36 feet). The Netherlands ties Lemmefjord, Denmark for claim to the lowest point in Western Europe - Prince Alexander Polder lies at 23 feet (7 meters) below sea level.
A pair of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) block my entry on Dike Road in Horicon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge on a foggy September the 3rd, 2013. This was the first of seven pairs that I encountered along the gravel road Tuesday morning. I loved the mix of fog and light as the day advanced. I also like the way the shadow of the Crane in front fell on the body of its mate.
Chamonix 4x5" on DaYi roll film back on Fuji Velvia, cropped to 6x7 because I have a 6x7 projector
Replicated with a Canon M6ii camera and macro lens
This year i decided to set myself a photography challenge.
I live near 4 reservoirs, Ingbirchworth, Scout dike, Royd moor and Broadstones, about a mile an half radius between them, so very close together.
I walk them often with Honey and I've photographed them often with varying degrees of success.
My challenge to myself is to get 12 photos for a 2020 calendar, the photos must contain one sunset and one sunrise from each reservoir and one general shot from each reservoir, all photos taken this year 2019, so no older photos from previous years.
Ive set up an album to put the photos in to, but photos can be removed if i take a better one, as long as at end of year the album as the 12 photos as described above.
The above photo is the first to enter album, though i very much hope it doesn't stay there, far too many faults to it. It was taken at Scout dike reservoir.
The reservoirs are quite different and it will be a challenge to get 12 images I'm happy with, I've put a link below with a map showing the four reservoirs, if you click it you can see it larger.