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The Nant Ffrancon Pass in Snowdonia, North Wales, is the long steady climb of the A5 road between Bethesda, Gwynedd, and Llyn Ogwen in Conwy. The summit at 312 metres (1,024 ft) is at Pont Wern-gof, about one-third of a mile beyond the eastern end of Llyn Ogwen. From here the road descends through Nant y Benglog to Capel Curig and through to Betws-y-Coed. The A5 is the Holyhead to London trunk road, which was re-engineered by Thomas Telford between 1810 and 1826. The original road through the Nant Ffrancon was constructed by Lord Penrhyn in the late 18th century, and at Capel Curig in 1801 he built a coaching inn, which is now Plas y Brenin, the UK National Mountaineering Centre.
Nant Ffrancon itself is a steep-sided glacial valley dropping to Bethesda between the Glyderau and the Carneddau. The valley starts in Cwm Idwal, carrying water from Llyn-y-Cwn through Twll Du and Llyn Idwal to join the Ogwen Valley below the Ogwen Falls on Afon Ogwen. Unlike Lord Penrhyn's road, which largely followed the valley floor, Telford carved much of his road out of the north-eastern slopes of the Nant Ffrancon, thereby encountering difficulties in construction and future maintenance. But this enabled Telford to observe a maximum grade of 1 in 14 along the whole route from London to Holyhead in order to facilitate the operation of horse drawn mail coaches throughout.
It has been frequently used as a filming location for British film-makers, including doubling for the Khyber Pass in the Carry On film Carry On up the Khyber, and doubling for the Himalayas in the Doctor Who serial The Abominable Snowmen. The Pass was also used as a location in the 1950s film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
Nant Ffrancon Golf Club (now defunct) appeared in the late 1920s/30s. The club was wound up in 1936.
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In February we went to the NASA Ames Research Center to attend the GoFly event, where teams from around the world displayed their flying motorcycles, hoverboards, human drones, and more.
The vehicles were on display just next to Hangar One, one of the world's largest freestanding structures, built in 1933 to house large airships. A few years back the exterior panels were removed due to toxic materials, including lead paint and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The hangar is a well known landmark in the Silicon Valley; personally I prefer the "naked look."
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-- ƒ/4.0, 12 mm, 1/3000 sec, ISO 160, Sony A7 II, Rokinon 12mm F2.8, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC5773_4_5_hdr3pai5bal1pho1i.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Yesterday on Leap Day we went to the NASA Ames Research Center to attend the GoFly event, where teams from around the world displayed their flying motorcycles, hoverboards, human drones and more, with the chance to win $2 million in prizes. Think Marty McFly in his DeLorean "back to the future," and Falcon with his Wingsuit in "The Avengers". Stay tuned for photos of selected flying machines. This drone motorcycle was on display, not sure it flew. The Aviabike is a battery powered all-electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) hoverbike, its maker Aeroxo is located in Latvia and Russia, bit.ly/2TfXV5X
I processed a balanced, a paintery, and a photographic HDR photo from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/5.6, 38 mm, 1/750 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC5672_3_4_hdr3bal1pai5pho1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography