Historic Downtown Pennington Gap sets the scene as U090-23’s pair of freshly repainted CW44’s shuffle 90 empties back to the Harlan Coalfields in beautiful evening light.

March 3, 2017.

This building is part of a group of offices and restaurants on the Graf Adolf street in Düsseldorf.

Don’t avoiding shadows.

hello little sunrise, fancy seeing you here

There was a brief moment this morning when it actually felt like sunrise, for a few fast minutes the sun crept out from behind the clouds and said hello.. then disappeared ... and then it rained... again.

I sat in this spot trying to get the right composition and avoid getting rained on for quite some time, finally I worked out that I needed to be in the water to get the right perspective, so I battled a river of seaweed and the shifting stands and all in all it was rather fortuitous since all that time stuffing around the sun finally came out.

Eastbound grain empties pass along Gap Lake just east of Gap, Alberta, as the calm water of Gap Lake provide a mirror image of the train and mountain backdrop

Scene from the Newfound Gap overlook in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which straddles Tennessee and North Carolina. I believe that both states are in view in this photo, with Tennessee to the left and North Carolina to the right.

Waited for this. Big sky, small gap.

Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland.

Seven Sisters cliffs and beach at Birling Gap, near Eastbourne.

Esta vista de Emigrant Gap en la Sierra Nevada fue realizada desde un area de descanso de la I-80, la carretera que une el puente Washington en Fort Lee, New Jersey, con San Francisco. Según leí en la placa commemorativa, es el sitio donde llegaron por primera vez los carros cubiertos que tanto vemos en las películas del Oeste. Los americanos aprovechan la poca historia que tienen para unirse.

After a lovely lunch at the Twice Brewed inn that filled the hunger gap, Carla and I walked along to the tree to work of the sausage and mash. I was glad I was carrying my little Olympus with me that sky was too good to miss. Talk about filling the gap was there ever a better placement of a sycamore tree.

Jones Gap is a South Carolina State park. This is a photo of the headwaters of the Saluda River.

Sycamore Gap, aka The Robin Hood Tree...

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Rhododendrons at Carvers Gap on the North Carolina-Tennessee border.

Sycamore Gap

I took a wander along to the Sycamore tree on Hadrian's Wall this morning after the forecast of a cold start to the day....it wasn't that cold.

Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

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Gap

Gap of Dunloe is is a narrow mountain pass running north-south in County Kerry, Ireland.

It was formed 25,000 years ago during Ireland's last ice age as a result of a "glacial breach" where a glacier in the Black Valley, estimated to be over 500 metres deep, broke through the Head of the Gap and moved northwards carving out a U-shaped valley.

Within the Gap there are five lakes which are connected by the River Loe. This is the view northwards to the stone bridge before Black Lough which is the uppermost lake.

These two men were sitting on a step having a friendly discussion about something of interest that was on the phone.

I have no idea who they are; whether they are related; or what was on the phone!....but their relationship was clearly bridging the generation gap!

Taken in a side street in the medina near Jemaa el-Fnaa, Marrakech, Morocco.

Clouds flow into Buffalo Gap at sunset near Swoope, Virginia

A common passing place in the mountains of Mourne, co Down

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Low tide looking west towards Beachy Head Lighthouse.

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Cokin ND4 G2 grey grad

Exposure: 6 sec

Aperture: f/22

Focal Length: 33 mm

ISO Speed: 100

Photoshop: Only sharpening

with some in-phone sliding - HSS!

I did mean Sycamore Gap but that's what I typed without thinking lol.

Having looked at this image again on Flickr it seems I have over sharpened it.

Hamiltons Gap

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. NJ/PA

Seen in Lehigh Gap Nature Center.

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Kodak Ektar pushed two stops. Pentax MZ-60.

December Morning Sunrise

Aurora dancing over Gap Lake, just outside of Canmore, Alberta

I think we should all consider 2020 as a gap year. A blip in history where we the majority did little but stay safe. It all started so well for me. In February, on route to a stag do, I stayed in Hartlepool to meet up with Lynne Berry and take a picture of this icon. A week later I was in Arctic Norway. I was hardly back before attending my friends wedding. And then the World shut.

This is Lynne's local icon and she has captured it impressively many times. She always captures it wide, end to end, but I wanted to fill the panorama with it. The one I posted last year was at the start of this sunrise whereas this one is when the intense colours are fading. Not better, just different.

Barnesmore Gap, Donegal

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Mist in the Edale Valley and the Mam Tor Gap. Figures watching the sunrise line the Great ridge.

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Series of three. Birling Gap suffers from severe erosion of the soft chalk cliffs. Walkers risk their lives standing near the edge not realising the danger, despite signs. The latest landslip occurred at New Year. An old photo form 1908 shows how much erosion has happened over the years. The coastguard cottages are now down to three and used to be eight and well away from the edge. It won't be long before another is demolished.

I was out for a walk and ran across this gap and thought it would make a good Fenced Friday shot 😊

Flickr is a great way of bridging the gap between people and distant places.

Thank you all for your continued comments and interest in my world.

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Low tide at Glyne Gap, Bexhill on Sea.

A westbound Norfolk Southern freight rattles the windows of the old hotels at Bulls Gap, Tennessee, on May 10, 2014.

The Cumberland Gap includes this gem, the Gap Cave. Many may know it by its older name Cudjo's Caverns. It was once Gap cave but was chanced to Cudjo's Caverns after a popular book came out that features a cave called Cudjos. The owners tried to capitalize on the popularity by changing the name. When the NPS took over the site they changed it back. It hard to believe the cave looks as good as it does inside when you learn the past. Loads of tourists through here at a time when preservation was not understood, and they held parties and even plays down there!

This is one of the larger features in the cave. It was a pain to shoot because you were on a tour, so you can't stop, there is no lighting, only these massive bright flashlights that EVERYONE has, and the tour guide is always in the way. Oh, and no tripods allowed. So this is the result of several images to exclude beams of light and hot spots, and people. Oh, and thank goodness for the new lightroom denoise feature. This was 10,000 ISO for goodness sake. Came out pretty good considering all that nonsense.

Let me know what you think.