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I've seen this driftwood sculpture by Cheryl Moore a few times at the Kitty Coleman Woodland Garden, and I kept on thinking that I wanted to take a picture but wasn't sure how to approach it. I had my speedlights with me this time around and so I gave it a bit of light.
Collect them all. My Drifter with all sorts of rear bike packing solutions on my go-to bike portrait loading ramp. Introducing: the humble, no-fuss and lightweight seat pack. Here in the guise of the @apidura Expedition Saddle Pack 14L.
Oct. 3, 2017
canon F-1
NFD 50mm F1.4
Kodak E100VS
Memoryhouse MIKI (Noritz QSS)
A walk to the destination
A seagull watches the world go by, whilst resting on a small rowing boat in Solva harbour, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
The gull looks completely at peace, without a care in the world!! Oh, if only we could be like the gull! :-)
(Srinagar, Kashmir, India)
The end nears for the morning floating vegetable market.
Minutes after this photo was captured, the vegetable mongers floated away leaving an eery sea of calm after a chaotic pre-sunrise spectacle of vegetable hawking.
It's another round of archive photos (on the weekends). I'm in frantic scrambling mode at the moment as I've just arrived in Belgium after an arduous 3 days of journeying that included an overnight train, bus, plane, airport sleepover, plane then train to finally arrive in Antwerp (via London). My apologies for the sparse photo showing today. I'm trying to get my bearings in this new city and find food, internet, and other daily necessities while nursing some travel-related illnesses. I have only enough energy to publish one photo due to my jet-lag, flu and general fatigue from traveling such a long duration. On a positive note, it feels amazing to be back in Europe and finally begin inserting delicious fresh baguettes into my gaping maw. Health permitting, photos of Antwerp to begin publishing within a few days, enshallah!
1 photo total at Daily Travel Photo for March 20, 2010.
Old and new masonry of the Lyonel Feininger Galery in Quedlinburg. And a venerable tree. With some nice titanium in front.
From my Harz holiday by bike.
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Altes und neues Mauerwerk der Lyonel Feininger Gallerie in Quedlinburg. Und ein ehrwürdiger Baum. Mit sehr schönem Titan davor.
Von meinem Radurlaub im Harz.
From The Modern World Book of Ships. Cover illustration by Harold Hofton of a steam drifter.Slightly tidied up in Photoshop. This picture portrays a rather romantic view of the steam drifter but fishing was of course a very hard and dangerous life.
Hofton was a commercial artist undertaking a variety of commercial art including motoring work. Following service with the Royal Air Force in WWII he worked as a freelance artist for the rest of his working life, retiring from commercial art at the age of 65. His work included book illustrations and also box designs for Dinky and Matchbox cars. In the early days he used a variety of techniques including scraperboard, line work, watercolour and gouache. In later life without the pressures of commercial work he also used oils. www.motoringart.info/motoring-artist-listings/motoring-ar...
My pen & ink drawing of the sale of the freshly unloaded herring catch at South Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk circa 1912.
Silver Darlings
The town of Great Yarmouth began as a herring (silver darling) fishing settlement in the 10th Century. The herring fishing industry developed rapidly after the Norman Conquest in 1066 and soon became the mainstay of industry in Great Yarmouth while the fish became a favourite food for both rich and poor people. A free Herring Fair was held every year, attracting merchants from all parts of Europe.
Special boats called Drifters were used to catch the herring which swim and feed close to the surface so, to catch them, nets were hung vertically in the water, like a string of huge tennis nets. At night time, the fish would blunder into the nets and be caught by their gills.
The size of the fishing fleets grew over the centuries and so did the catches. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, fish girls from around the country, but in particular from Scotland would descend upon the town from October onwards to carry out gutting and processing of the catch which had to be done immediately once the boat had landed. The average catch in the early years of the 20th Century was about 530 million fish! It is said that at times there were so many fishing boats in the harbour, it was possible to cross from one side of the river to the other by walking from deck to deck.
Great Yarmouth's last Steam Drifter was built in King's Lynn boat yard and had all mod-cons, electric light and wireless. However, the herring industry declined rapidly in the 1930s and the Lydia Eva landed her last catch in 1938.
LT 495 Lizzie West - Last Steam Drifter in the Broch.
Pictured in 1966 in the Balaclava basin in Fraserburgh harbour. My father owned this and it "barked" (preserved) nets prior to the introduction of nylon ones.
It was built at Herd and McKenzie's yard at Buckie in 1934 and was fitted with an 18 inch Lewis Triple Engine.
It was eventually scrapped at the start of the 1970's.
I used to have great fun playing on this as a kid!
This is the bike I rode and how it got rigged up before the Transcontinental Race No 8. You know my No. 22 Drifter. With it’s normal full Sram red etap AXS 2x drivetrain I just recently swapped the 10-33 red cassette for a force wide 10-36. Works like a charm w/o exchanging the normal red RD. This brings my lowest gear ratio down to 33 front and 36 back. Nifty especially for my shape of this year. Profile Design Aerobars on a handle bar mounted on a redshift sports shockstop stem form my tried and tested comfy cockpit where this year the navigation is provided by Garmin. I’ll use my usual DT Swiss Wheels with a SONdelux Dynamo hub. Initially I was going to mount Conti GP 5000 in 30 mm width but reconsidered and will go with Panaracer Gravelking Slick TLC 700 x 35c tires. That’s a nod to long and probably gnarly CP 4 parcours where we also have to cope with quite a bit of altitude difference. As well as to the #TPRNo1 where these tires were quite fit for the task.
Main bag volume will be provided by my Tailfin Aeropack in the rear. Out front I use the cyclite Handle Bar Aero Bag. I aerotested this configuration and it is really fast. Unlike the rider ;-)
On top and below the top tube I run prototype Tailfin bags.
I’ll use the kLite Bikepacker Ultra as my main light. It too, is already tested in actual bikepacking racing by me and this is a revelation in dynamo lighting. Together with my Forumslader charger it provides much needed peace of mind that whereever I go and regardless whether there will be a hotel or a bivy up ahead I’ll have light and means to power my devices.
This is the bike I rode and how it got rigged up before the Transcontinental Race No 8. You know my No. 22 Drifter. With it’s normal full Sram red etap AXS 2x drivetrain I just recently swapped the 10-33 red cassette for a force wide 10-36. Works like a charm w/o exchanging the normal red RD. This brings my lowest gear ratio down to 33 front and 36 back. Nifty especially for my shape of this year. Profile Design Aerobars on a handle bar mounted on a redshift sports shockstop stem form my tried and tested comfy cockpit where this year the navigation is provided by Garmin. I’ll use my usual DT Swiss Wheels with a SONdelux Dynamo hub. Initially I was going to mount Conti GP 5000 in 30 mm width but reconsidered and will go with Panaracer Gravelking Slick TLC 700 x 35c tires. That’s a nod to long and probably gnarly CP 4 parcours where we also have to cope with quite a bit of altitude difference. As well as to the #TPRNo1 where these tires were quite fit for the task.
Main bag volume will be provided by my Tailfin Aeropack in the rear. Out front I use the cyclite Handle Bar Aero Bag. I aerotested this configuration and it is really fast. Unlike the rider ;-)
On top and below the top tube I run prototype Tailfin bags.
I’ll use the kLite Bikepacker Ultra as my main light. It too, is already tested in actual bikepacking racing by me and this is a revelation in dynamo lighting. Together with my Forumslader charger it provides much needed peace of mind that whereever I go and regardless whether there will be a hotel or a bivy up ahead I’ll have light and means to power my devices.
Driftwood on Dallas Rd., Victoria, BC, Canada.
Pentax Spotmatic SP2;
Tokina MF 17mm f3.5;
Hoya Orange filter;
Ilford Delta 400
Never let it be said that Arbroath has not been capable of attracting top names in entertainment. In June, 1985 The Drifters visited Smokeys night club with the great Ben E King making a return to the group he left to go solo in 1961. The line-up was, from left - Joe Blunt, Ben E King, Johnny Moore and Clyde Brown. The late Johnny Moore was lead when The Drifters made later visits to Arbroath, to the Webster Memorial Theatre.