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Commentary.
Steyning is a town at the northern end of the Adur Gap through the South Downs.
The town dates back to Saxon times over 1,000 years ago.
The Parish Church, originally dedicated to St. Cuthman,
eventually became jointly dedicated to St. Andrew.
Nearby Bramber Castle was built following the Norman invasion and acted as a defence against invasion from
south or north through the Adur valley.
Trade and religious disputes soured the relationship between
Bramber and Steyning for several centuries.
In the 14th. Century the River Adur began to silt up causing
the loss of trade and population to both places.
In 1614, the Alderman of Chichester founded Steyning
Grammar School, in Church Street, just off the High Street.
This Jacobean building still stands today, but the main school
is now sited at the northern end of the town.
The railway linking Guildford to Shoreham via Steyning
opened in 1861, but fell foul to the infamous Beeching cuts of the 1960’s.
The rail route has been preserved as a foot, bridle and cycle way, known as the Downs Link.
The Old Town Hall built in 1886 is now an Estate Agents.
Agriculture, brewing, tanning and brickmaking formed
the core of the economy in the late 19th. Century.
Today the town has three pubs, a good variety of shops,
a Health Centre, Public Library and Museum.
The Leisure Centre, including a swimming pool, was funded by the National Lottery.
Steyning Grammar School is now a comprehensive
serving 2,500 pupils from a wide area.
There is also a Primary School and Pre-School.
The town has cricket, football and athletic clubs.
Its prized architecture includes Tudor, Stuart, Georgian and Victorian buildings as well as 20th. and 21st. century developments.
The High Street’s main landmark is the tile-hung Clock-Tower.
The town hosts many walkers on the nearby South Downs
and day-trippers making for the coast, a few miles to the south.
Bridging the gap - The bridge carries (B767) Glasgow Road, near Waterfoot over the Earn Water just at the confluence with White Cart Water.
Alpine tarns on the slopes of Mt. Rainier, just below Panhandle Gap. The V-22 in the next photo came over us from just to the right of the peak on the left.
*One of my favourite views, looking northwards through the Tebay Gap.
The M6 motorway can be seen bottom left and again in the cutting on the fellside middle left. Below the M6 is the older form of transport, the mainline railway line, which dates from the 1840s.
Below the M6 and the railway line is the lovely river Lune, here still in its infancy and just before it enters the Lune Gorge.
The day this photo was taken the clouds were moving rapidly overhead and their shadows played across the landscape, highlighting the meadow of buttercups and daisies, the fields where the hay had been gathered in, the pastures, and the wooded slopes of the Howgills on the right of the scene.
Northwards there are the Shap fells, Carlisle and Scotland.
*Apologies to Mert for deleting the first shot I placed & upon which he commented. I chose the wrong photo!!
Not uploaded anything for some time as not shot anything for sometime!
This is the scene at sunrise at Bawdsley in Suffolk a few weeks ago when we were down there on holiday. Took the camera and took a few shots to see if I could still make the thing work!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Find the Gap
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The old tobacco barn: it has been attended to, propped up in places. I think it will stay standing a while.
Really hated the colors in this one and it probably should have been a B&W photo in the first place.
SU-GAP seen taxiing in Zurich for departure 1999 sadly the aircraft and everyone was sadly lost over the Atlantic soon after the pic was taken ....
Taken with my old Olympus E-420 a long time ago when I only shot in JPG. Since discovering Lightroom, I've been able to go back and fix shots I had given up for dead. I've only ever been here once, I need to go back now I almost know what I'm doing with a camera!
The Seven Sisters from Birling Gap, East Sussex.
Photograph made with Mamiya C220 + 80mm lens, using Ilford HP5+. Film rated at 200ASA and developed in Moersch Tanol for 11 minutes @ 24c.
After running to Portland, PT98 gets underwater through the Water Gap for a run back to Scranton but would only make it to Mount Pocono before tying down.
"In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages." - Swami Brahmanada
It was "just another sunrise at 2nd Beach Port St Johns". A few late night party chaps stopped for a while in their car to shoot selfies, two crayfish salesmen walked past, the receding tide crashed medium waves into the rocks where I was and at The Gap; otherwise the beach was empty and still. Nearby, across the road behind me, Amapondo Backpackers / Amapondo IBackpackers was still asleep.
Canon South Africa 6D, 17-40mm, F11, 2.5, ISO 320
At Port St John's South Africa.
Natural HDR via Jimmy Mcintyre LM's
A friend and I took a quick weekend away in upstate NY to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It was a perfect weekend - great food, great company, and of course, some basking in nature. It was like a salve applied to aching muscles. This was a photo taken right by the river. The choppy chunks of white are actually frozen pieces of the river that have been pushed up onto the shores.
“Mind” is not used quite the same way in the United States. For most Americans “the gap” is a retail store. I guess why that is why Americans are so tickled to death about hearing this phrase. I’ve come to realize that words and customs differ so greatly.
Because I only had one full day in New York I took back to back Hop On Hop Off Buses. Some of the images are not very good as the bus would go over bumps etc,.I have kept them in as memorises of the day. I only got off the bus once so most of the photos were taken as we were travelling along. Sadly I just didn't have time to have a good walk around.
I woke to a lovely sunny day and not too cold with around 16c. As the day went on it clouded over a bit and cooled down. November 7, 2018 USA.
Having a keen interest in astro photography I knew that there was going to be International Space Station passes over our region this week so after arranging to meet up with a good friend Mike Ridley we headed up to Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland which we guessed would be a great location to capture its Eastern fly by from a Western Azimuth at 21.49 on Monday night.
We trekked to the tree made famous by the Robin Hood movie and after a comedic scramble through the bog on the Northern side of the wall managed to capture the I.S.S in all its glory! I was amazed at how bright it was even in a full moonlit sky and it really shifts!
Soon after we decided to head back to the tree which meant an even funnier scramble through the same bog which left Mike up to his knees at one point! I thought I was going to have to rescue him with my tripod!
In the past i've took a daytime shot from this exact position so thought i'd try and recreate it at night. The tree looked great lit from the East by the full moon which was very bright!
I gave some additional lighting to the tree with my LED Lenser head torch while Mike lit the path briefly with his LED torch.
After previewing the shot in camera it appeared that as a bonus we had captured an Iridium Flare from a passing satellite but I would like some feedback on this.
Tech Info...
Canon 5D Mk3
Samyang 14mm f2.8
30 seconds
14mm
ISO 800
f5.6
LED Lenser to add additional lighting to the tree.
LED torch to light the foreground which was heavily shadowed.
Other equipment used...
Kirk L Bracket
3 Legged Thing Eric Tripod
Shoot Intervalometer/Shutter Release
Processing Info...
The RAW file was opened in Adobe Camera Raw where I used a lens profile to remove distortion and light Chromatic Aberations from the stars.
Various other slight adjustments were made such as lifting the shadows before I opened in Photoshop CS6.
Finally I removed some light noise in the sky using Topaz Denoise.
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