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Sunny but very cold wind last Friday, so I retired to a sheltered insect spot I know. Just found this one Dock Bug sunning itself on a nettle leaf apart from the usual lot of fly's
Liverpool Docks. Developed in the mid C19th and closed in 1972, the Royal Albert and Canning Docks have been re-imagined as a tourist and residential complex, much of which is grade 1 listed. New buildings have been constructed - such as the Museum of Liverpool - alongside renovation of the early Victorian warehouses and offices and the redevelopment period lasted from 1988 to 2003. It now houses flats, museums, bars, restaurants and hosts major festival events.
City of Liverpool, Merseyside, England - Docks on the River Mersey.
May 2019
I love the old brickwork at the Albert Dock and there are 23.5 million of them for me to enjoy here. They are even more beautiful on a blue sky day :)
Plaubel Makina 67 • Nikkor 1:2.8 80mm
Adox CMS II 20 ISO film in home made Caffenol CLCN 16min @ 20°C
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 2400dpi with Silverfast AI Studio
Ponto de São Lourenço • Madeira
Caffenol CLCN
500 ml Filtered Water
5gr Anhydrous Washing Soda
1gr Vitamin C
6gr Instant coffee ("Winny")
60 sec. slow agitations then 3 times every 3 minutes for 15 minutes, fixing 60 sec.
DB shed 66074 sets off from Barry No2 dock destined for Dollands Moor on the 6V10. Dow Corning's chemicals plant is seen on the right. This was a once or twice a month working carrying silica sand from France but seems to have ceased running since Freightliner took over in December 2017.
The old Clarence Graving Docks at Liverpool still in existence but possibly another candidate for filling in and built upon in the future!?. On a historical note they date from 1830 but were modernised 1928-33, to the left there was once a Clarence Dock but filled in in 1928 with a power station then built on the site, which lasted until 1994 when demolished. That site is earmarked for high rise development very soon.
I've been meaning to go back to surrey quays dock for a while, so was lucky to have relatively calm water. I went back to capture these houses and was very glad that I did!
Luke Agbaimoni
Lake Pepin is a 2-mile-wide section of the Upper Mississippi River. On the Minnesota side is the town of Lake City where this image was taken. This is a public dock for boaters to tie up and walk to local restaurants, motels, and parks.
Singh Ray 3-stop reverse ND grad
f/16
3 sec.
16mm lens
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The subjects in this series of photos are the leaves of prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum) in late autumn condition. Throughout its annual growth cycle, prairie dock is a large, distinctive plant. It has towering flower stalks often reaching upward six to eight feet that are topped off with clusters of sunflower-like yellow flowers, each three to four inches across. The leaves are huge with long petioles that can be up to foot in length, and upon which is attached an oval leaf the size and shape of a large serving platter. They are coarse, tough leaves that are uncharacteristically thick compared to those of most plants, and they feel like sandpaper and are heavily veined. Those leaves have character oozing from every pore! Once common in midwestern prairies, prairie dock became scarce due to the near-total destruction of the prairies for farmland and towns. It is also found in some rarer natural communities such as barrens, glades and fens, and those habitats were heavily persecuted, too. The plant is becoming more well known today since it is frequently used in large prairie restoration projects, small scale prairie plantings and in general landscaping situations.
I think prairie dock leaves make great photographic subject material. Their shape, form, and venation lend them well to artistic ideas and applications. The heavy venation looks great when backlit from the low rays of morning or evening sunlight. And the massive leaves can be used effectively in broader landscapes as foreground subject material in prairie settings. I particularly like the color, shape and texture of old, dry prairie dock leaves in late autumn. They take on a character not unlike the leathery, weathered skin of an old man who has spent a lifetime making a living outdoors at sea or on the farm. As the leaves turn from green to brown, they begin to contort, taking on interesting sweeps and curves of topography. By then, they are very brittle, and when walking through a dense patch of the leaves you will hear and feel their crunching protests.
I have a few prairie dock plants in my little prairie planting in the “Back 40” of my yard. Every fall I look at those leaves and think about possibilities and know there are interesting photos in there somewhere. This past fall, I decided to make a special effort at trying to tease some artsy photos from those leaves. Gosh, it turned out much harder than I expected! With all the inherent character emanating from those leaves, why was I having so much trouble finding what I was looking for? What were my eyes and my brain failing to see? I would find myself thinking of Flickr friends whose work I so admire. What would Mark do? What would Fran do?
In this series of five photographs, you see a condensed version of efforts from three different mornings of time spent with my prairie dock leaves. All the photos have some light frost in them. And you will notice they all have small white dots on the leaves. Although those dots may be somewhat enhanced by the frost, they are not just frost, but the plant material that makes prairie dock leaves so rough and sandpapery. I’m not certain what it is, but I think it is silica, the material that adds roughness to the stems of the fern relatives we call scouring rushes. Whatever the case, I think those white dots contribute to the character that makes prairie dock leaves so interesting to both photographer and camera. As for these photos, I think they turned out well enough, yet I wish for something more. There is something else there that I was unable to capture. I feel it. I know it. I will try again next fall.
The Cape Cod Central / Mass Coastal Railroad welcomed a big crowd to their second annual Railfans Day on Saturday August 17, 2024. The big draw for photographers this year was the operation of their two serviceable (they also own a third) classic original New Haven FL9s coupled back to back just as they would have operated leading the Neptune or Day Cape Codder up from New York City back in the early 1960s.
The railfan festival has wrapped up in Hyannis and this is the third train of the day headed north to Bourne to drop of visitors, and then it will return later empty under the cover of darkness. The northbound train is seeng crossing the marsh around Dock Creek south of the station at about MP 62.4 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal operated former New Haven Railroad Cape Mainline. Leading the way north is MC 2012, a rebuilt GP38-2 that began life as a straight GP40 in October 1966 as Milwaukee Road 2011. It is trailed by a pair of former Long Island Railroad C1 coaches which were built in 1990 by Mutsui/Tokyu Car Corporation. Out of sight on the rear of course are the stars of the day, New Haven 2011 and 2026 (blt. Sep. 1960 and Sep. 1957 as NH 2038 and 2007 respectively).
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Saturday August 17, 2024
I took the idea for this image from this PHOTO from my good Friend Marco Peixoto who is a master in B&W and is the one who got me his old DSLR cheap and taught me the basics about Photography.
This a Ferry docking with one of our most famous Landmark on the background, the Monument to the Discoveries (I really don't know who this landmark is know abroad). Cheers everyone.
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