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The single storey warehouse on the left is the Great Western Warehouse of 1863. Originally a tall warehouse of several storeys, it was gutted by fire in 1945 and only the ground floor was salvagable. No. 4 Warehouse (centre) probably dates from the 1940s. Behind it is the roof of Fox's Malthouse of 1888. On the right is part of the Alexandra Warehouse of 1870. 16th April 1991.
This is the iPhone dock I posted a while ago from my iPhone, this time in better quality. It's a simple little tool that not only holds the cable in the proper position, but also routes the cable neatly out the back
Preston Docks as it was and how it should be, the ship Geeststar was a common sight to this inland port, I'm talking a good thirty years ago now, when you could wander the docks and enjoy seeing the different vessels loading and unloading their wares. The ship was one of several vessels that brought bananas over from the Carribean, and obviously Geest was one of the well known importers of bananas. The ship also had accommodation for several passengers.
Now to the film and picture itself, Agfa CT18 was what I was using at the time, I'd love to try Agfa films in my Leicas, sadly they've gone bust, never mind. The transparency hasn't aged well, as they were bound in glass, standard practise at the time, and has suffered quite a lot of fungus, had to nearly airbrush the sky after scanning, it was so badly affected.
When mounting slides you stuck the perforations to the glued inside of the mount, placed it between two clean two inch square glass plates, one was pregla glass that had a slightly mottled surface, which went on the shiny non emulsion side of the transparency, this helped to prevent Newtons rings from forming, rainbow coloured contours like you have on ordnance maps. Then when you were quite happy, wou then sealed the whole lot up with mitered gummed tape called passe par tout, remember Around The World In Forty Days? That's what you did when you were exibiting slides.
April 25, 2022 - The Ohio State University flag flying on Amadeus Princess. We are docked in Veere, Netherlands.
GI dock workers of the Port companies created order out of cahos at Calcutta's great docks and thousands of tons of vital war supplies flowed through to china, Burma and India. The MP is on hand to see that the coolies do not pilfer from the rations they are carrying.
Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Sinsheim, Technik museum Sinsheim, Concorde.
Some info about this supersonic passenger plane is here.
Best viewed: LARGE.
Through the Aberdeen Tunnel (a two-tube tunnel linking Happy Valley and Wong Chuk Hang near Aberdeen on the Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong) and onto Aberdeen. The tunnel shortens the travel time between the north and the south of the Hong Kong Island. It connects the Wong Chuk Hang Road in the south, and Canal Road Flyover in the north.
The tunnel is 1.9 kilometres long.
Aberdeen is an area and town on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Southern District. Aberdeen Harbour is a harbour between Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau. The name 'Aberdeen' can refer to the areas of Aberdeen, Wong Chuk Hang and Ap Lei Chau, but it is more often used to refer to the town only.
Aberdeen is famous to tourists for its floating village and floating seafood restaurants located within the Aberdeen Typhoon Shelters. The Tanka people are generally associated with the fishing industry, and there are also several dozen expatriates living on boats in the harbour.
Ocean Park is in this area.
Starting during the Ming Dynasty, "Hong Kong" became the original name for the presently-named Aberdeen village. In the early 19th century, foreigners who landed near Aberdeen Village mistook the name of the village "Hong Kong" for the whole island. When the foreigners eventually realized their mistake, the name "Hong Kong" was already commonly used to refer to the entire island.Thus in 1845, Aberdeen was named after the British Foreign Secretary, the Earl of Aberdeen.
Aberdeen is known indigenously as Heung Kong Tsai or Hong Kong Tsai, which means Hong Kong Minor. It is believed that Aberdeen is where the name of Hong Kong (more accurate transcription, Heung Kong) originates.
From here you can get SanPan rides, eat a mean in the Jumbo floating Resturant and expeariance the life of the Tanka (Boat People).
The Jumbo Kingdom consists of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant and the adjacent Tai Pak Floating Restaurant.
The Jumbo Kingdom was established in October 1976 by Dr. Stanley Ho after four years and over HK$30 million were spent to design and build it. It was originally decorated in the style of an ancient Chinese imperial palace.
In 2000, two tugboats brought one of the floating barges (Palace) from the Aberdeen Harbour to the mouth of the Manila Bay, and it was rebranded as the "Jumbo Kingdom Manila". Much of the original ancient Chinese imperial palace style renovation has been retained.
Aberdeen is a wonderful place to visit. More tall buildings mixed in with traditional Junks, Sanpans, Fishermen and food.
I took many random photos of the buildings. I have no idea what they are but they made an impression on me. I also discovered just how wide 24 mm on my lens was as the perspective of buildings was interesting, they were all leaning into the pictures.
Canon EOS 5D, 24-70L
2013
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The number 9, well if you look from the other direction! This where the number 9 gock used to be when the quays used to be a busy working port. Media city can be seen behind.
iPad Accessories
iPad Keyboard Dock : The Keyboard Dock combines a dock for charging your iPad with a full-size keyboard. The dock has a rear 30-pin connector, which lets you connect to an electrical outlet using the USB Power Adapter, sync to your computer, and use accessories like the Camera Connection Kit. An audio jack lets you connect to a stereo or powered speakers.
This is the iPhone dock I posted a while ago from my iPhone, this time in better quality. It's a simple little tool that not only holds the cable in the proper position, but also routes the cable neatly out the back.
Another side shot. Most of the posts are there for added support and don't need to be. To make this set, most of the pieces are from the Lego Star Wars The Force Unleashed set. In the background, you can see the ATST set from the new Clone Wars Lego Star Wars stream.
The iPhone case I'm using is a Griffin hard shell case.
Great Lakes freighter Federal Leda is docked at the Port of Cleveland on Lake Erie. In the background is First Energy Stadium.
Welcome to Finn Slough and the Finn Slough Heritage & Wetland Society. The residents and fishers who live and work in this unique community invite you to explore the pages of this website and uncover the many delightful aspects of the "Slough"; its Finnish roots, the who's who of wildlife and plants, current events related to our community and its role in the rich heritage of the Fraser River.
Discover Finn Slough! Click on the buttons to the left and be sure to visit our Gallery to view images collected from today's artists.
Finn Slough (or sometimes Gilmore or Tiffin Slough) can be found on the south arm of the mighty Fraser River in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The Slough is bounded on the Fraser River side by Gilmour Island and on the north by a dyke built to protect Richmond. Access to homes on the Gilmour Island side of the Slough is by a wooden draw-bridge, creating a definite sense of isolation from the nearby urban areas of Richmond and Vancouver.
It is pronounced "slew".
Small is Beautiful and Other Slough Considerations
Part of a talk given by Nadeane Trowse at the 13th Annual Art About Finn Slough Show.
So. Small is beautiful. Maybe we should say significant or necessary. E M Forster said something in Howard’s End about how we forget this. Forester was complaining about a sort of jingoist enthusiasm for growth including urban sprawl in England after the railways were expanded: “…people think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven”. In other words, small is beautiful and maybe assessments of absolute value are beyond the grid of size. Bigger isn’t better. We might reframe this and say that a very small number of acres of tidal wetlands at Finn Slough are very important, significant and I will explain.
Finn Slough is a back water, a by water (as Daphne Marlatt noted in her poem of the same name) a channel of tidal water between Tiffin Island and what amounts to Dyke Road, Richmond. On the other side of Tiffin Island (mostly a sand bar like feature) is the turbulent, powerful, unpredictable Fraser River. In the Slough is protected water, safe for young fish, fingerlings, and many species that need this highly specialized environment where the salt and fresh waters mingle and where the tide goes in and out twice a day.
I want to talk about the value of such an environment, and a few problems of losing the kinds of environments that are what used to be called “wastelands” and now are recognized as both essential and irreplaceable.
Let’s look again at the idea of “wasteland” and think about history and about the processes of life. Here are some questions rather than answers that come up. Why do we find it questionable for people to choose to live close to nature, in very small spaces, that do not aspire to current notions of architectural elegance? Why do we find the process of oxidation (the thing that happens to living things as they age…slow fire) unsightly? Why does the visible signs of aging offend? Why do people like to see the tide IN at Finn Slough, instead of seeing the living, rich, fertile, productive mud that Finn Slough rejoices in? Why do gently oxidizing pieces of wood suggest a lack … of uncaring, of inappropriate aesthetics, of slovenliness?
Just a quick example. Trees are beautiful. We all love to see a mature “specimen tree”… that means a tree that has exactly the right conditions and space available to achieve maximum typical growth. That mature perfect tree (rarely achieved) is not what every species needs to support its life though. Woodpeckers (which are plentiful at Finn Slough) need imperfect trees, branches sustaining insects to live. Towhees need a rubble of leaves and fallen branches on the ground to thrive. Very dead snags provide perches for raptors like eagles to hunt from. Open sheds, barn-like structures in imperfect states are the best for nesting swallows and even barn owls. Gilbert White in The Natural History of Selbourne says that “we would be choked with insects was it not for the friendly interposition of the swallow tribe”. How do we benefit from swallows if their nesting preferences are disregarded?
It is interesting to think about the often expressed wish to live with nature and Finn Slough certainly offers that. Nature is many things, however. Remember the biggest neighbour at Finn Slough is the Fraser River. Nature is not always sunny and smiling, green and picturesque… or rather, picturesque includes high winds, high waters, having that neighbour come to the doorstep, and then leave an interesting mess behind after the visit. The path gets tossed around a bit by the river and severe storms. And then put back. As they say in some computer work, that is not a problem it is a feature, if you can see it that way. And the circle of life relies on that feature… remember, that is how the Fraser built Richmond. Child of the mighty Fraser means that, too: mud, water, process, movement.
So we need to think outside of perfect or imperfect. Chopping off the parts of the circle we don’t appreciate aesthetically means the circle of life isn’t one after all. Circles are ideas; the recycling performed by natural processes is real and essential.
Small is beautiful because it keeps space for the circle to keep rolling.
Nadeane Trowse