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Taken on my Olympus OM10, 35mm film.
Week 12!
What a busy week it has been for me mixed full of different emotions.
First off my Southampton uni interview went well. got offered a place :) Im so happy with this :D
I also won a total of £116 on scratch cards plus a £9 win at the casino hahaha! Lucky day that was.
What i would like to talk about is:
Me and a friend have signed up to run a 6 mile run for sports relief on the 25th March at 12:00am.
Our Official donation page has been set up by sports relief, and all donations are accepted big or small, its going to a good cause, heres a link to our donation page:
About a year ago this time I posted some photos of the dried-up leaves of prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum) dressed up with touches of frost. I couldn’t resist taking the camera for a workout on a recent frosty morning and attempting a few more lacey-looking images. Prairie dock leaves are so interesting to me. They are large and thick as well as coarse, gritty and brittle. At this time of the year the dried leaves curl and contort into such interesting shapes with the added attraction of obvious topography. Especially when wearing patches of frost, the twisted leaves with their clearly visible networks of venation remind me of some aerial views of the earth taken by satellite photography. You see patterns of mountains and valleys with little streams flowing into bigger streams and eventually into rivers. The frost accentuates the topography and makes those tiny mountains and rivers even more evident. It’s a bit like looking at a topographic map and yearning to explore some newfound territory. But alas, it’s just a dried up, crumpled leaf poised to take on its next journey into the nutrient cycle. But for now, it’s worth a pause and a photograph because that’s what we do.
Photo taken in my yard. Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.
Canning Dock is a dock, on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Salthouse Dock to the south and Canning Half Tide Dock to the west. The Canning Graving Docks are accessed from the dock.
The dock was opened in 1737 as a protected tidal basin providing an entrance to Old Dock. Having been subsequently enclosed as a wet dock three years earlier, in 1832 it was officially named after the Liverpool MP, George Canning. To the east is the site of Old Dock, built in 1709, this was the world first enclosed dock. Canning Dock would have initially served ships involved in the trans Atlantic slave trade.
Access to the northern half of the dock system was via Georges Dock, George's Basin and into Princes Dock. In 1899, both Georges Basin and George's Dock were filled in and the site is now the Pier Head.
Along with the Albert Dock and others in the immediate vicinity, Canning Dock was abandoned as a commercial shipping facility in 1972 due to the rising cost of dredging and falling numbers in traffic. It was restored in the 1980s and provides access to the Canning Graving Docks, which are part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
By March 2009 work was completed on a £22 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, providing a further 1.4 miles of navigable waterway.
From Princes Dock, the extension passes the Pier Head and terminates at Canning Dock. The extension includes a small basin at Mann Island, in the vicinity of the Pier Head, and a new lock providing access to Canning Dock.
NOVEMBER 2011
... with the Britannia Warehouse in the foreground.
Brief History of the Docks
Main Basin
The Main Basin at Gloucester was constructed as the terminus of the (12 mile) Sharpness Ship Canal with an entrance from the Severn estuary at Sharpness. As the work was nearing completion, there was concern that the basin would not be large enough for the trade expected, and so an additional Barge Arm was constructed to ensure that the Main Basin could be kept free for sea-going ships. In addition, the Canal Company built a warehouse at the north end of the basin. The canal was formally opened on the 26 April 1827, and a huge crowd gathered to watch the first two vessels enter the basin amid the firing of guns and the ringing of church bells.
Early Traffic
Once the canal was fully operational, local merchants were soon taking advantage of the new facilities. Importing through Gloucester cut out the former need for transshipment at Bristol, where there were high port charges. Cargoes could be transferred direct to narrow canal boats which could carry the goods up the river and through the inland canals to supply the growing industrial towns of the Midlands.
The geographical position of Gloucester so far inland was a tremendous advantage, and traffic was soon exceeding all expectations. As well as the trows and barges employed in the existing river and coastal trade, there were increasing numbers of two-masted brigs and schooners and some three-masted barques. Early imports included corn from Ireland and the Continent, timber from the Baltic and North America, and wines and spirits from Portugal and France. The main export was salt which was brought down the river from Worcestershire.
More Facilities
To cope with all this activity, warehouses were built around the Main Basin, an earlier dry dock was enlarged, and an engine house was built to augment the canal's water supply by pumping from the River Severn ...
Petroleum Tankers
During the 1920s, new traffic was generated by the demand for petroleum products for the growing number of road vehicles with internal combustion engines. This became very important in the years following, and a fleet of tanker barges was used to bring the petroleum from Avonmouth. Some of the barges continued up the river to depots at Worcester and Stourport.
Nationalisation
The old Canal Company was nationalised in 1947, and the new management set about encouraging more sea-going ships to come up to Gloucester. The docks also remained busy with barge traffic well into the 1960s. The petroleum traffic then declined rapidly following the construction of underground pipelines and the establishment of a depot at Quedgeley, and the other barge traffic came to an end in the face of competition from road transport. By 1980, virtually the only remaining commercial vessels were the coasters coming to the quays south of Llanthony Bridge.
Renaissance
As the commercial traffic died away, it was partly replaced by an increase in pleasure craft, and the docks became a popular place for moorings. The survival of the old warehouses made the Main Basin an ideal location for filming historical drama, and many scenes for the popular television series The Onedin Line were filmed in front of Biddle Warehouse. In recent years, new uses have been found for the warehouses, and the docks are developing as a popular leisure and residential area.
Standing on a dock at the Bluffer’s Park Yacht Club at sunrise. Most of the yachts are still on shore, wrapped against the winter snow. In the distance you can see ice, covered with birds.
This 360° High Dynamic Range panorama was stitched from 68 bracketed photograph with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed in Color Efex, then touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 20000 × 10000 (200.0 MP; 974.33 MB).
Location: Bluffers Park Yacht Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This massive oil tanker "Burmah Endeavour ", Gross Tonnage: 218,593, DeadWeight: 457,841 t, was laid up at the Test Quays for years.
Picture taken from Mayflower Park.
These are all the icons in my MacPro's Dock.
Here's how you play ... using the "Add Note" button add descriptions for every application that you can name.
Yep it's a silly game, but what the hell.
This dock used to be a loading dock for frozen meat that was processed and frozen at this plant. The meat was loaded on a ship that came every 25 days from England.
The Singular
Puerto Natales, Chile
(October 24, 2013)
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Postcard showing the docks at Port Arthur harbour, with steamships and a tugboat.
Circa 1910-1920?
Valentine & Sons
Accession 2013-01 #2
This image is believed to be in the public domain as all copyright has expired.
For more information about Thunder Bay's history, visit www.thunderbay.ca/archives
Dock near Frances K. Mennone & Bruce H. Smith Boathouse.
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: AF-S DX Nikkor 18-105mm 1:3.5-5.6G ED VR
This beautifully refurbished but somewhat elderly boat is moored at Cotehele Quay on the side of the River Tamar. This is part of the National Trust-owned Cotehele Estate. The ketch-rigged boat looks as though it might once have been a fishing boat, but it now appears to have been converted into a private yacht. Where once was the hold now appears to be accommodation. Next time I visit Cotehele I must find out more.
Reflections of the "Floating" Chinese Restaurant permanently moored in Millwall Inner Dock.
The Millwall Dock was constructed by John Aird & Co. to a design by Sir John Fowler and opened in 1868.[
The dock is L-shaped, with an 'Outer Dock' running east-west, and an 'Inner Dock' running north from the eastern end. It originally contained around 36 acres (14 hectares) of water and had a 200 acre (81 hectare) estate. The western end of the Outer Dock was originally connected to the Thames at Millwall by an 80 ft (24 m) wide channel. The spoil from the docks formed the area of wasteland known as the Mudchute. A graving dock for ship repairs was constructed at the SE corner of the Outer Dock (one of 6 originally planned), and later lengthened to 555 ft (169 m).
With reorganisation by the Port of London Authority in the 1920s, the northern end of the Inner Dock was connected to the West India Docks by the Millwall Passage, and the direct connection to the Thames was filled.
The dock was used mainly for timber and grain, a trade which eventually moved down river to the Port of Tilbury with the construction of a major grain terminal in the 1960s. A McDougall's flour mill on the south side of the Outer Dock was demolished in about 1980.
Texture
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Dock at our cabin on Six Mile Lake, East Jordan, MI
66509 passes Catholme at 18.26 on the 11th July 2013 hauling 6M51 from Hull Docks to Rugeley PS with imported coal.
Docking Church in Norfolk was another which I encountered while house-hunting last weekend. The church is dedicated to St Mary The Virgin. It mostly dates from the 14th and 15th century with Victorian restorations.
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157634462340597/ to see the full set.
While in the village I was told that there is an archaeological project locally to try and find a lost 12th to 14th century priory. One theory is that this failed priory made be under the present parish church but test digs have been held around the village to play 'hunt the thimble' or - in this case - "hunt the priory', so far without success.
In his three-volume guide to Norfolk churches author Adrian S. Pye suggests that the tombstone of John Houton (d. 1428) near the south porch of Docking Church is the oldest surviving tombstone in Norfolk.
English Jesuit martyr Henry Walpole (executed 1595) was baptised here in 1558. He was later canonized as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
SImon_Knott tells me that Docking is the highest town in Norfolk so that makes the top of Docking Church probably the highest building in the county, at least pre-1900.