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A dock stands alone long after the busy day of visits from boats to fill with gasoline. It lies both lonely and yet prominent reaching into the lake like fly paper waiting for it's next catch. The sun has already set and the muted colors are now more gentle to the eye.
It was the simplicity of the elements that made me seek out this image. I had spent a marvelous day on my own looking for landscape scenes. When I returned, tired from a fruitful day, it was rest that I wanted. But instead, one more image became the goal.
I went to the coast near Pismo Beach this weekend and drove north to look for photo opportunities. This photo was taken from the Port San Luis Pier. If you look closely, this is a work dock for boats that come into the bay. I think these guys forgot to read the sign or maybe they think that since it is the weekend they can take a break.
The West India Docks once formed part of the busiest port in the world. They comprise a series of three docks on the Isle of Dogs (a former island that is bounded on three sides by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames) the first of which opened in 1802. The Docks' design allowed a ship arriving from the West Indies to unload in the northern dock, sail round to the southern dock and load up with export cargo in a fraction of the time it had previously taken in the heavily congested and dangerous upper reaches of the Thames.
After the docks were closed in 1980 the British Government adopted various policies to stimulate the redevelopment of the area. In 1987 the Canadian company Olympia and York agreed to construct a major office development on the site; works commenced in 1988.
Canary Wharf is now one of London's two main financial centres, along with the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings. It takes its name from No. 32 berth of the West Wood Quay.
This shot was taken at blue hour from the aptly named Blue Bridge close to the exit of the southern dock. A couple of redundant cranes sit next to the lock gates as if paying homage to the rebirth of docklands.
7 exp, tripod mounted, hdr with pp in acr, photomatix, photoshop and topaz clarity/de-noise. Nikon D700 and 24-70 at 24mm. ISO 800, 1/6 to 10 sec, f16
Salthouse 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 Canning Dock to the north, Wapping Dock via Wapping Basin to the south and Albert Dock to the west. After the closure of Salthouse Dock in 1972, the dock silted up during the following decades and the quayside was in a state of considerable dereliction by the early 1980s. At this point, transit sheds still remained on the east and west sides of the dock, with a former lifeboat training school also present at the north end of the western quay. In 1981, the Merseyside Development Corporation was established to rejuvenate the South Docks, and the dock was dredged in the mid 1980s. At the same time direct access from Canning Dock was removed with the entrance being filled in, and a permanent roadway and slipway installed. Swing bridges, which were across the Albert Dock and Wapping Basin entrances, were also replaced with fixed structures.
Gondole ormeggiate.
La gondola è stato il miglior mezzo per muoversi a Venezia prima dell’avvento dei mezzi a motore. Essa è composta da ben 280 elementi e costruita usando diverse tipologie di legno in oltre un anno di lavoro. La forma asimmetrica agevola la conduzione ad un solo remo, anche se fu introdotta nell’ottocento. Nel tipico ferro di prua, chiamato dolfin in veneziano, sono riconoscibili nei rebbi i sei sestieri di Venezia attaccati alla rappresentazione del Canal grande e l’isola della Giudecca, oltre al Ponte di Rialto ed in alcuni casi tre rifiniture che rappresentano le isole di Murano, Burano e Torcello.
Docked gondole.
The gondola was the best mean of transportation in Venice before the motorized boats. It is made with 280 elements e built by using several kinds of woods. The building process takes over a year. The asymmetrical shape helps the conduction with just one oar, even if it was introduced during the 1800’s. In the typical prow-head, called dolfin in Venetian, the six prongs represents each a “sestiere” of Venice, with the backward one the island of Giudecca, all attached to the representation of the Grand Canal and that of the Rialto Bridge. In some modern built heads there can be three friezes that indicate the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello.
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St Katherine Docks, London
Quite the hidden gem in London, bit of a wow moment when you first stumble across it.
Again, as with most of the best spots in London, I was asked to move on when I set my tripod up, I managed this 13sec exposure before I did though.
Thanks for taking the time to look, your comments are appreciated
All photos ©NickRichards 2014
I darkened the image. there is condensation building whilst the dock and paper are exposed to sunlight
The early morning sun is just coming up over the trees, and illuminates this Catawba River dock in Mt Holly NC.
As we were docking in Victoria I snapped a shot of the Ogden Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse sits at the end of the Ogden Point Breakwater a 762 metre (2500 ft) long breakwater on the east side of Victoria Harbour. The light is a 7 metre (23 ft) tall concrete tower with a quick flashing red light. The light is active. Victoria, B.C.
One from the archives, a dock in Rockport. Processed with the private group "Dock on the Lake" in mind...
Making up for my failure last week, Colas Rail liveried 70817 heads north over Docker Viaduct with the 03.57 Chirk Kronospan Colas Rail to Carlisle Yard Colas Rail empty logs.
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'Borr', seen here in Liverpool Docks, is a water injection dredger that was built in 2015 at the Dutch Technical & Maritime Services yard, Werkendam. It is transportable by Road. and can be equipped with a multi-purpose unit for a cutter system, various grabs or pile drivers and is capabile of dredging to a depth of 14m. The name comes from Nordic mythology and means ‘son’.
Photographed July 2016 : FED 'zarya' + pyccap (Russar) 20mm/5.6 lens.Rollei RPX 100 rated EI=64 developed in a pyrogallol/4-aminophenol/potassium borate system (16-3-pyro).Bute a East Dock,CARDIFF.
Bernard's Landing, Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia - at night, obviously.
This one is tricky. It was difficult to deal with the dock which was overlit by nearby parking lot lights. Those lights also cast my shadow, and the camera shadow on either side of the dock (did you notice?)
This is a three-shot vertorama. See the "settings" for details.
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I vividly remember my first true encounter with dark skies... it was near here returning from a late afternoon of water skiing and swimming. Darkness had fallen and as we traveled back to our "home dock" I saw a sky so full of stars I almost couldn't imagine it. I was raised in a suburb of Washington, DC where the darkest sky I saw would NEVER have revealed the Milky Way.
The rest of that boating story is amusing... We ran aground on a sandy little island and were rescued by other boaters sailing under the beautiful night sky. My father was bestowed with the nickname "Captain Beach'em" as a result. That was an homage to one of the other local skippers who had earned the name "Captain Crunch" after running his boat into pilings.
The surrounding area has blossomed, and there are houses and light pollution nearly every where around the lake... but you can STILL see the Milky Way from a dark spot.
I know the arc of my life would have been quite different if not for the starry skies of Smith Mountain Lake. I wonder with sadness how many childhood dreams go unlaunched because they've never seen the wonder of the night sky.
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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, which was the world first enclosed commercial 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.
Liverpool City Centre 2015
Lake Te Anau, South Island, New Zealand
Lake Te Anau is in the southwestern corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Its name was originally Te Ana-au, Maori for 'The cave of swirling water'. The lake covers an area of 344 km², making it the second-largest lake by surface area in New Zealand (after Lake Taupo) and the largest in the South Island. Lake Te Anau is however the largest lake in Australasia by fresh water volume[1].
The main body of the lake runs north-south, and is 65 km in length. Three large fiords form arms to the lake on its western flank: North Fiord, Middle Fiord and South Fiord. Several small islands lie in the entrance to Middle Fiord, which forks partway along its length into northwest and southwest arms. The lake lies at an altitude of 210 m, and since its maximum depth is 417 m[2] much of its bed lies below sea level.
Several rivers feed the lake, of which the most important is the Eglinton River, which joins the lake from the east, opposite the entrance to North Fiord. The outflow is the Waiau River, which flows south for several kilometres into Lake Manapouri. The town of Te Anau lies at the south-eastern corner of the lake, close to the outflow.
Most of the lake is within Fiordland National Park and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. Other than the Te Anau township, the only human habitation close to the lake is the farming settlement of Te Anau Downs, close to the mouth of the Eglinton River. Between these two settlements the land is rolling hill country, but elsewhere the land is mountainous, especially along its western shore, where the Kepler and Murchison Mountains rise 1,400 m above the surface of the lake.