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Photo André Knoerr, Genève. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
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Dans le cadre de la semaine du jubilé des 150 ans des tramways bruxellois Gent a fait circuler ses deux PCC historiques sur un circuit en boucle St. Pieters Station - Korenmarkt - Rabot - St. Pieters Station ouvert au public et exploité toutes les 30 minutes, l'après-midi du 28 avril 2019.
Les deux PCC 01 et 25 quittent le dépôt de concert.
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"Bagnoles sur Cèze Town Hall"
Bagnoles sur Cèze (Gard)
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"Surfers territory"
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"Balcony without barrier"
Le Creux du Van est un cirque rocheux d'environ 1 400 mètres de large pour 200 mètres de hauteur. Il se situe dans le Val-de-Travers, dans le massif du Jura. (Wikipédia)
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This was the male of a pair that was found in early fall in Cave Creek Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona. A rare visitor from the south. This bird along with another were present exploiting fruiting hackberry trees not far from the Southwest Research Station. I had seen one briefly and in poor conditions in the 1980s, so this bird was like seeing a US Lifer. It put on quite a show actively calling and plucking fruits. Trans USA 2020 trip.
Phare de l'Armandèche - Les Sables d'Olonne (VENDEE 2017)
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"Oriental Autumn"
Parc Oriental de Maulévrier (Pays de la Loire - Maine et Loire)
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Exploitant : Transdev Montesson les Rabaux
Réseau : Entre Seine et Forêt
Ligne : 21
Lieu : Ermitage Pont (Le Port-Marly, F-78)
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Continuing with some light painting exploits, combining some flash at the end on my subjects to make for hopefully and interesting portrait shot.
Pixelstick was used for the light painting and SB900 on 1/4 power was used to illuminate my son.
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"Motorcyclist Platoon"
Train journey to Hanoï (Gia Lam station)
Voyage en train en direction de Hanoï - Gare de Gia Lam (Vietnam)
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My wife brought home a couple of poinsettia plants today as holiday decorations, and I immediately set out to exploit them.
Lighting: I set this on a mirror and then lit it from the side using a Yongnuo manual flash, hand held just out of the frame at camera left. I used side lighting because that creates the shadows that reveal shapes and textures. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N
I find leaves to be beautiful objects from nature and have an album creatively titled Leaves with over 60 images in it.
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Other plants, flowers, fruit or stuff that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1500 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Douchanbé (Asie Centrale - Tadjikistan)
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Cincinnati (/ˌsɪnsɪˈnæti/ SIN-sih-NAT-ee) is a major city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the government seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers. The city drives the Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area, which had a population of 2,172,191 in the 2010 census making it Ohio's largest metropolitan area. With a population of 301,301, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and 65th in the United States. Its metropolitan area is the fastest growing economic power in the Midwestern United States based on increase of economic output and it is the 28th-biggest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. Cincinnati is also within a half day's drive of sixty percent of the United States populace.
In the nineteenth century, Cincinnati was an American boomtown in the heart of the country. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was listed among the top 10 U.S. cities by population, surpassed only by New Orleans and the older, established settlements of the United States eastern seaboard, as well as being the sixth-biggest city for a period spanning 1840 until 1860. As Cincinnati was the first city founded after the American Revolution, as well as the first major inland city in the country, it is regarded as the first purely "American" city.
Cincinnati developed with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than east coast cities in the same period. However, it received a significant number of German immigrants, who founded many of the city's cultural institutions. By the end of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads drawing off freight shipping, trade patterns had altered and Cincinnati's growth slowed considerably. The city was surpassed in population by other inland cities, particularly Chicago, which developed based on strong commodity exploitation, economics, and the railroads, and St. Louis, which for decades after the Civil War served as the gateway to westward migration.
Cincinnati is home to three major sports teams: the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball; the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League; and FC Cincinnati, currently playing in the second division United Soccer League but moving to Major League Soccer (Division 1) in 2019. The city's largest institution of higher education, the University of Cincinnati, was founded in 1819 as a municipal college and is now ranked as one of the 50 largest in the United States. Cincinnati is home to historic architecture with many structures in the urban core having remained intact for 200 years. In the late 1800s, Cincinnati was commonly referred to as the "Paris of America", due mainly to such ambitious architectural projects as the Music Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel, and Shillito Department Store. Cincinnati is the birthplace of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States.
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"The Draft"
Ville portuaire de Tomonoura, Fukuyama (Préfecture de Hiroshima).
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(Published in Advanced Photographer, December 2012)
(Explore #15)
Landscape photography is an often unforgiving and frustratingly unyielding pursuit. I love it despite this (of course), because there's no sweeter feeling than that when everything comes to fruition - occasionally with such a palpable rush it's as if the planets have come in to allignment! Only a few images earlier in my photostream I was singing praises for the advent of autumn - mentally calculating on fingers and toes the wealth of opportunities I could exploit and harness with subdued light, malignant cloud and encroaching fog lining up before me like debutantés on the stage.
I naievely expected my output to gain rapid momentum compared to the traditionally stagnant summer months, of each camera outing rewarding me with fresh little RAW gems, awaiting careful crafting and coaxing before they would leap forth full of brilliant promise... How wrong I was, or at least how wrong I've been so far! Oh, I've put in the effort for sure - I've been up and out well before dawn on many occasions. I've sought promising scenes and subjects and waited for conditions to be just so. I've driven hundreds of miles - Dorset being my favoured location of late - only to hit the same spots again and again and go home with next to nothing again and again. Did you think I'd left flickr I wonder? Did you miss me (just a little!) I wonder? The truth is I've shot lots of images of late and have on my hard drive several that are... ok. But 'ok' is not nearly as satisfying as that rush I described - that feeling you get when a photograph you've taken somehow effortlessly takes on a life of it's own.
Ah, but then I felt the lure of flickr - that creeping, inescapable drive to post something. I don't have to describe it - you know what I'm referring to I'm sure. So I selected perhaps my best 'ok' shot of late and started working on it. Is it any good? I don't know anymore, I've spent far too long looking at it and twiddling knobs and pulleys in Photoshop to accurately retain true subjectivity. I can tell you it actually started life as an intended colour edit. The hues of the boat on the early version I have hold a wonderful vibrancy and richness, yet there was a problem area elsewhere that try as I might I just couldn't overcome. So, here for your perusal is a (surprise, surprise!) black and white revised version awaiting your commendation or damnation. Go easy on me - if nothing else I should earn points for eradicating most of the effects from pervasive, clinging seamist which coated my filters during the lengthy exposure courtesy of a strong, southerly wind blowing fresh off the ocean. The RAW file held about as much clarity as one of my descriptions!
Seeking solace.
Hot weather comes with its own challenges for the homeless.
As always, these images are not intended to exploit but rather to remind us all to be aware and help if and when we can.
From time to time, I like to exploit my food, in addition to eating it. I like the shapes and textures of this garlic and decided to emphasize those qualities using side lighting.
Lighting stuff: I placed the garlic on a piece of black perspex, and then lit it from the side with a YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. Fill light came from a small hand held mirror at camera left. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I converted the image to black and white using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2.
Other black and white images that I've attempted can be seen in my Black And White Album.
Exploitant : Transdev Les Cars Rose
Réseau : ValParisis
Ligne : 38-01
Lieu : Mairie de Montlignon (Montlignon, F-95)
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Questa foto partecipa al Concorso Comuni Italiani 2009 ed e' stata pubblicata da La Stampa multimedia.
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Questa e' l'unica isola del Lago d'Orta, ospita un monastero di clausura, e fin dal Medioevo i religiosi di quest'isola avevano ampissimi possedimenti anche sulle zone montuose dalla Valsesia, tante' che per farli rendere, favorirono intorno al 1200 l'insediamento delle popolazioni Walser; tuttora in queste vallate si parla il loro dialetto tedesco. - This is Orta Island, the only one in the Orta lake; actually there still is a monastery; in the middle age the property of the monastery include also some area in the middle mountains of Valsesia; in order to exploit these properties, the monks encouraged the immigration of the Walser, a German origin population; still now in Valsesia the inhabitants speak a dialect of german origin.
After the Brotherhood of Makuta exploited the Nynrah Ghosts to acquire enough armor and weaponry, Kuperix was sent by Teridax on the island of Nynrah in order to ensure no one could acquire valuable information on the equipment they came into possession of. Unbeknown to the Brotherhood, a lone, surviving Toa of Iron was waiting for them.
Kuperix is an unjustifyibly sadistic and brutal beyond reason Makuta who takes pleasure in instilling dread and helplessness in his enemies. Even when practicing the most unspeakable acts of torture he remains unperturbed, his eerie collectedness alone enough of a reason to be feared even among his brothers. His Kanohi Hamene, Mask of Redirection, allows him to redirect melee attacks and curve the trajectories of projectiles aimed at him, making him virtually impervious to physical means of harm.
Great Mask of Elemental Energy by the amazing KhingK
Au début étaient de grands bois sombres couvrant les collines.Les hommes à force d'exploiter les forêts firent de cette région un désert. Aujourd'hui, grâce à l'eau amenée des Pyrénées par un réseau de canaux, des cultures sont possibles dans certaines zones.
Now, it is time for the horse-drawn carriages of Victoria to be banned for the inhumane practice of forcing horses to wade through city streets and endangering public safety.
This is animal exploitation, plain and simple. Every time we go out into the community to raise awareness and challenge this industry we meet concerned citizens who agree, horse-drawn carriages in Victoria need to end. For the horses and for all of us.
Congoville exhibition at the Middelheim open air musem.
By artist Maurice Mbikayi. He was born in 1974 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, and currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
In this figure’s clothing we recognize keys recuperated from old computer keyboards, a reference to the raw materials needed in today’s technology: it is still exploited workers who extract the ores from the ground in Congo, thus enabling the Western way of life. And afterwards, the West often dumps the materials back in Africa as toxic waste. Mbikayi collects the remains and uses them in his art. In this way, he not only denounces this skewed situation but also pays tribute to the resilience of the African people, who have found endless ways to make the most of limited resources. The ‘aesthetic observer’ is a flâneur and a dandy, an imagined cousin to the famous Congolese sapeurs. The dandy pays close attention to his appearance, as a sign of resistance and independence.
Sur le vêtement de ce personnage, on reconnaît des touches d’anciens claviers d’ordinateurs, une référence aux matières premières que nécessite la technologie contemporaine: ce sont encore et toujours des travailleurs exploités qui extraient du sol congolais les minerais indispensables au mode de vie occidental. Ensuite, l’Occident renvoie souvent les déchets toxiques de ces matériaux en Afrique. Mbikayi en réunit des restes qu’il intègre à ses œuvres. Il dénonce de la sorte non seulement la situation biaisée, mais rend également hommage à la résilience des Africains qui trouvent une infinité de méthodes pour maximaliser leurs moyens limités. « L’observateur esthétique » est un flâneur et un dandy, à l’image des célèbres « sapeurs » congolais. Le dandy accorde beaucoup d’attention à son apparence, un signe de résistance et d’indépendance.
The MAS 96 arrived at the Vittoriale in 1923 and was first anchored in Torre San Marco, then placed in the gardens of the Vittoriale, where it can still be admired today. The acronym MAS stands for anti-submarine motorboat, but d’Annunzio added Memento Audere Semper, meaning “always remember to dare”. In fact, with the MAS 96 the poet-soldier had “dared the unthinkable” being the protagonist, together with Costanzo Ciano and Rizzo, of the exploit remembered as the “Bukar mockery”, a military raid carried out during the night between the 10th and the 11th February 1918.
"Inspiring Place"
Parc Oriental de Maulévrier (Pays de la Loire - Maine et Loire)
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extreme fest - Paris
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Exploitant : Transdev Conflans
Réseau : Conflans – Achères
Ligne : 5S
Lieu : Gaudines (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, F-78)
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Statue de l'empereur Ly Thai dans le parc Indira Ghandi - Hanoi (Vietnam)
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Parque Natural del Señorío de Bértiz, Navarra, España.
El Parque Natural del Señorío de Bértiz, de 2.040 ha, está localizado al noroeste de la Comunidad Foral de Navarra, España. En el municipio de Bértiz-Arana, accediéndose desde la localidad de Oyeregui y Oronoz-Mugaire.
El territorio del parque natural perteneció a la familia Bértiz desde el siglo XIV. El titular del predio, Pedro Miguel Bértiz, fue nombrado Merino de las Montañas (o sea, juez de amplia jurisdicción), en el año 1392, por el rey Carlos III el Noble.2
La casa solariega fue levantada en 1847 por la antigua familia Bértiz, que continuó con la propiedad hasta el siglo XIX y ampliada en 1905 por sus últimos propietarios Don Pedro Ciga y su esposa Dª Dorotea Fernandez.
A la muerte sin descendencia de Francisco de Bértiz, en el año 1657 tomo posesión del Senorío Antonio Barragán. La Real Corte de Navarra, mediante sentencia de 1672, declaró la propiedad del palacio y mayorazgo de Bértiz a favor de Juan Francisco de Alduncin. El matrimonio de María Josefa de Alduncin, heredera del Senorío, con Francisco Javier de Elío, hizo que la propiedad pasara a esa familia (1741). Los Elío vendieron el Senorío a Pedro Andrés Oteiza, maderista y vecino de Narvarte (1881). El 20 de octubre de 1900 Oteiza vendió la finca a Pedro Ciga por la cantidad de seiscientas cincuenta mil pesetas. Los Ciga lo remodelaron a su estado actual y en el año 1949 lo donaron a la Comunidad Foral de Navarra, con la condición de que se conservara tal cual y de que fuera utilizado exclusivamente para fines recreativos, educativos y científicos.
Al sur, en la zona más baja a orillas del río Bidasoa en la localidad de Oyeregui, se encuentran el palacio y los jardines, en 3,4 ha que acogen una abundante colección botánica, con especies traídas de todos los lugares del mundo.
El resto del territorio al norte es una sucesión de valles y montes cubiertos de bosque atlántico autóctono, muy bien conservados dada la escasa explotación que de ellos se ha venido haciendo, abundando las hayas, los robles y las alisedas. En estos bosques hay numerosos ciervos, corzos y jabalíes, así como las típicas aves del bosque atlántico de pequeño y mediano tamaño.
En la cima del monte Aizkolegi se encuentra un chalet modernista, hoy abandonado, desde el que se disfrutan unas magníficas vistas del Parque y al que se llega mediante una pista forestal.
The Señorío de Bértiz Natural Park, covering 2,040 ha, is located in the northwest of the Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain. In the municipality of Bértiz-Arana, accessed from the town of Oyeregui and Oronoz-Mugaire.
The territory of the natural park belonged to the Bértiz family since the 14th century. The owner of the property, Pedro Miguel Bértiz, was named Merino de las Montañas (that is, judge of wide jurisdiction), in the year 1392, by King Carlos III the Noble.2
The manor house was built in 1847 by the old Bértiz family, who continued to own the property until the 19th century and enlarged it in 1905 by its last owners, Mr. Pedro Ciga and his wife, Ms. Dorotea Fernandez.
On the death without issue of Francisco de Bértiz, in 1657 he took possession of the Senorío Antonio Barragán. The Royal Court of Navarra, through a ruling of 1672, declared the ownership of the palace and mayorazgo of Bértiz in favor of Juan Francisco de Alduncin. The marriage of María Josefa de Alduncin, heir to the Senorío, with Francisco Javier de Elío, made the property pass to that family (1741). The Elíos sold the Senorío to Pedro Andrés Oteiza, a Maderista and resident of Narvarte (1881). On October 20, 1900, Oteiza sold the farm to Pedro Ciga for six hundred and fifty thousand pesetas. The Ciga family remodeled it to its current state and in 1949 they donated it to the Comunidad Foral de Navarra, with the condition that it be kept as is and that it be used exclusively for recreational, educational and scientific purposes.
To the south, in the lower area on the banks of the Bidasoa River in the town of Oyeregui, are the palace and gardens, covering 3.4 ha that house an abundant botanical collection, with species brought from all over the world.
The rest of the territory to the north is a succession of valleys and mountains covered with native Atlantic forest, very well preserved given the little exploitation that has been done of them, abounding with beeches, oaks and alder groves. In these forests there are numerous deer, roe deer and wild boar, as well as the typical small and medium-sized birds of the Atlantic forest.
At the top of Mount Aizkolegi there is a modernist chalet, now abandoned, from which magnificent views of the Park can be enjoyed and which is reached via a forest track.
"Under the umbrella"
Temples d'Angkor (Siem Reap - Cambodge)
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With this mission, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the Jason-3 satellite to low-Earth orbit for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
Château de la Belle au bois dormant, Ussé (Indre et Loir)
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Paysage, All rights reserved, El Golfo, Espagne, Europe, Fusion, Iles Canaries, Lanzarote, Minéral, Naturel, Panoramique, Salin, Salinas De Janubia, Extérieur, Rayon, Soleil, Marai, Microbe, Bactérie, Caillou, Pierre, Gravier, Volcannique, Nuage, Sel, Exploitation, Océan Atlantique, MAritime, Agricole, Agriculture,
Maison des Anten - Glanum est une cité grecque vouée à un dieu guérisseur, avant d'être le Glanum cité antique de l'empire romain, sur la commune de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence dans les Bouches-du-Rhône (Juin 2019)
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C’est l’arrivée de Mathieu Van Roggen, venu de Hollande, qui a dynamisé vers 1880 les CARRIÈRES DE SPRIMONT. Il les a rendues pleinement performantes par la rationalisation de l’exploitation et la modernisation de l’outil. La grande centrale électrique de 1904, devenue “Musée de la pierre”, en est le remarquable témoin. Par la suite, le groupe Merbes-Sprimont gère les propriétés jusqu’à la reprise en 1984 par la famille Brancaleoni.
Plusieurs sites sont actuellement en exploitation. La réputation de qualité de ces gisements est depuis longtemps établie et
les références de prestige en sont fort nombreuses, depuis la Grand’ Poste de Liège et le pont de Fragnée vers 1900, jusqu’au
nouveau pont haubané du Val-Benoît en 2000.
Importante capacité de production et souplesse de gestion sont les atouts premiers de l’entreprise sprimontoise.
Cette carrière de petit granit consiste en une excavation allongée, partiellement occupée par la 'décharge de classe III du Fond de Correux'. L'activité extractive a encore lieu dans la partie médiane et un grand atelier de taille est installé vers la route. Le secteur occidental, actuellement désaffecté, et les abords supérieurs de la fosse présentent toutefois un intérêt biologique: reproduction du crapaud accoucheur et du lézard des murailles; flanc nord incliné colonisé par une végétation des substrats calcaires (e.a. Catapodium rigidum, Crepis foetida, Teucrium botrys); présence de la fougère Gymnocarpium robertianum.
It was the arrival of Mathieu Van Roggen, from Holland, who revitalised the CARRIÈRES DE SPRIMONT around 1880. He made them fully efficient by rationalising the operation and modernising the tool. The large power station of 1904, which became the “Stone Museum”, is a remarkable example of this. Subsequently, the Merbes-Sprimont group managed the properties until the Brancaleoni family took them over in 1984.
Several sites are currently in operation. The reputation for quality of these deposits has long been established and
their prestigious references are numerous, from the Grand’ Poste in Liège and the Fragnée bridge around 1900, to the
new cable-stayed bridge at Val-Benoît in 2000.
Significant production capacity and management flexibility are the primary assets of the Sprimont company.
This small granite quarry consists of an elongated excavation, partially occupied by the 'class III dump of Fond de Correux'. Extractive activity still takes place in the middle part and a large cutting workshop is installed towards the road. The western sector, currently disused, and the upper edges of the pit are nevertheless of biological interest: reproduction of the midwife toad and the wall lizard; inclined northern flank colonized by vegetation of calcareous substrates (e.g. Catapodium rigidum, Crepis foetida, Teucrium botrys); presence of the fern Gymnocarpium robertianum.
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In a year all together different than this one, the San Andreas Fault and the Temblor Range of mountains are covered in an incredible display of wildflowers. The middle range of hills here marks that iconic fault, as the friction from its strike slip action causes the crust to buckle. It makes the landscape interesting, and then when conditions are just right that already interesting landscape explodes with color. I can only guess at the number of yellow hillside daisies that sprung up in 2023. And little accents of purple phacelia dot here and there. Whenever I’ve been fortunate enough to witness such super blooms, I have been ever fascinated by where the flowers grow and where they don’t, for instance favoring northern slopes as opposed to southern slopes of the same ridges. Carrizo Plain National Monument is a treasure, and I sure hope the hostile new administration doesn’t try to sell it off. Our public lands are one of the most unique and treasured things we have ever invented in this country, and they must be protected for benefit of all and not exploited for the benefit of a few.
Dans le bois de Boulogne. Le contraste m’a frappé entre la beauté poétique face à moi et ce symbole du libéralisme pur et sans âme en toile de fond.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente_d%27eau_de_Montech
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montech_water_slope
La pente d'eau de Montech est une pente d'eau établie sur le canal latéral à la Garonne, sur la commune de Montech en Tarn-et-Garonne dans le sud-ouest de la France. Elle fonctionna de 1974 à 2009. Après des travaux de réhabilitation en configuration non fonctionnelle, la pente d’eau devient un site touristique qui accueille depuis 2021 les visiteurs venant découvrir le patrimoine fluvial et industriel de la région.
La pente d’eau a été construite au début des années 1970, entrant en service en 1974. C’est une pente pour bateaux où une machine vient pousser un coin d’eau où flotte le bateau. Elle est mise définitivement hors service en 2009.
Exemplaire unique et prototype à sa construction, témoin de l’ingénierie française et exploit technique, la pente d’eau apporte à Montech une visibilité internationale. Venue d’Europe, des États-Unis, du Nicaragua, du Mexique ou encore de Chine, des délégations du monde entier se sont déplacées à Montech pour voir cette curiosité technologique unique, qu’est la pente d’eau. Les journaux locaux s’enthousiasment pour le projet et la pente d’eau est à son apogée entre 1974 et 1978.
Néanmoins, après la grave crise économique provoquée par le choc pétrolier de 1973, le volume des marchandises à transporter par le canal diminue sensiblement. Concurrencés par la route et le rail, les bateliers ont de plus en plus de difficultés à remplir les cales des péniches. La navigation est en baisse constante et le transport fluvial diminue inexorablement au point de disparaître. La navigation sur le canal évolue vers le tourisme fluvial.
L’ouvrage s’avère également coûteux en entretien et représente une technologie dépassée, très consommatrice en énergie et très polluante. Après 36 ans de services et un incident technique, la pente d’eau est fermée à la navigation en 2009. En 36 ans d’activité, elle a enregistré 11 000 passages de bateaux.