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Active Assignment Weekly - Signage.
A walk in the sunshine through Attenborough Village today. Had to stop as the lights flashed and the barriers came down to indicate a train was on its way. Thought I'd take a picture of the signage for this assignment, and waited for the train to come by so I could include it in the shot. I tried another on the way back with a slower shutter speed to get the motion blur of the train, but it let in so much light that the shot was completely blown. There's only so much time one can be bothered to spend waiting for trains on a hot day, so this one will have to do.
2016 NT MAC Level 2 Championships
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Day 3 Preliminaries
Mansfield ISD Natatorium
Mansfield, Texas
July 16, 2016
USA Swimming Collection
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USA Swimming Events
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USA Swimming Compilations
An air plein painting contest along Marginal Way in Perkin's Cove, Maine, leaves one with beauty to behold along three different levels.
The beauty of the setting, the beauty of the paintings themselves, and that of the paintings as they appear in this place and time, with the shadows cascading across the canvas, the artists hand, and apron.
home in order to come away again! Being our last morning I was up early and, on looking out of the bedroom window, there was a great scene in front of me. So I got dressed quickly and got downstairs, got my camera and was out side taking pictures!!!!
We stopped at Beer Wall on the way home. The water levels were almost back to normal.
Inside the engine room
From the Behind-the-Scenes Tour around Tower Bridge: Towers, high-level Walkways and Victorian Engine Rooms down to its hidden depths, normally out of bounds to the public...views from the Glass Floor and high-level Walkway, then the original steam engines, accumulators and boilers in the Victorian Engine Rooms...the Bridge’s operational areas including the Control Cabin, Machinery Room and the immense Bascule Chambers, which house the 422-ton counterweights.
Built between 1886 and 1894, the Bridge has spent more than a century as London's defining landmark, an icon of London and the United Kingdom.
A huge challenge faced the City of London Corporation - how to build a bridge downstream from London Bridge without disrupting river traffic activities. To generate ideas, the Special Bridge or Subway Committee was formed in 1876, and a public competition was launched to find a design for the new crossing.
Over 50 designs were submitted to the Committee for consideration, some of which are on display at Tower Bridge. It wasn't until October 1884 however, that Sir Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry, offered the chosen design for Tower Bridge as a solution.
It took eight years, five major contractors and the relentless labour of 432 construction workers each day to build Tower Bridge under the watchful eye of Sir John Wolfe Barry.
Two massive piers were built on foundations sunk into the riverbed to support the construction, and over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the Towers and Walkways. This framework was clad in Cornish Granite and Portland Stone to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the Bridge a more pleasing appearance.
When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed ('bascule' comes from the French word for 'seesaw'). These bascules were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines. The energy created was stored in six massive accumulators, meaning that as soon as power was required to lift the Bridge, it was always readily available. The accumulators fed the driving engines, which drove the bascules up and down. Despite the complexity of the system, the bascules only took about a minute to raise to their maximum angle of 86 degrees. Find out more about this process.
Today, the bascules are still operated by hydraulic power, but since 1976 they have been driven by oil and electricity rather than steam. The original pumping engines, accumulators and boilers are now on display within Tower Bridge’s Engine Rooms.
[TowerBridge.org.uk]
Markings on the stone indicate the water level during pre- and post-war floods that passed through Malczyce, a small town with a shipyard on the Odra River.
The region has faced several floods, but the most devastating was the 1997 Millennium Flood. It submerged 40% of Wrocław, damaged 2,583 residential buildings, and took 56 lives. Across Poland, it left at least 7,000 people with nothing and damaged or destroyed 680,000 homes, with losses estimated at 63 billion PLN.
The 1997 flood also marked a turning point for Lower Silesia, seen as the moment when locals fully embraced the region as their own, over 50 years after it became part of Poland. The collective response – mobilizing 300,000 to 480,000 sandbags, mostly by volunteers – symbolized a deepening bond with the land.
My favourite Christmas image. I took this a few years ago on a very foggy morning. It was something of a Sherlock Holmes tale where the fog was so thick that you could only see 50 feet (yes thats imperial) in front of you. It was probably my best every morning of bird watching as I saw everything from Robins, Stonechats, Mute Swans and even Snipe on the Levels - they were all too afraid to fly too far as they couldn't see and kept flying around in circles. This little chap settled on a teasel and was polite enough to stay still for a while - perhaps he didn't see me as I was dressed in camo gear - or perhaps he was watching me... perhaps he was Santa's little messenger.
The pebbles that build up on the beach at the Stade in Hastings has to be levelled before the fishing boats are launched.
The spice levels here range from a kid-friendly -1 to an unadvised 10. I went for 3 to see what the curry actually tasted like. It was good. Spiciness doesn't really suit Japanese curry.
Summer Wine Christmas Outing
Lincoln, December 9th, 2021
Due to an unfortunate timing mix-up Steve, David and Roger had arrived an hour earlier than Terry, who was on a train from Newark. He took a pic from the train of the level crossing as it approached Lincoln Station, little knowing that they were stood at the barriers waiting to cross.
Always lovely to see Roe Deer out on the Somerset Levels. These two were disturbed by the hedge cutters currently going at nearly every hedge in the area
Flying round Ely in Cambridgeshire. Lots of railway lines, there are 3 level crossings close together here.
R761 passes through Berwick with a Transfer Train to Bairnsdale.
The train is passing over the bridge that carries the line over Clyde Road.
Steamrail Victoria - The Gippslander - October 2024.
For me it's the Willow or Withy, as they call 'em round 'yer that is truly 'the tree' of the Somerset Levels. I'ts been used for weaving into baskets and hurdles for fencing for eons and medicinally it has analgaesic properties which can relieve the pains of aching joints..quite handy when you live in such a wet area as this!
The outdoor patio section at Level Beer.
We elected to eat in the car since neither of us drink anymore and it also just seemed way safer inside being surrounded by twenty or thirty other people.
Beckley Court. New student accommodation block under construction in Plymouth, Devon. 16 April 2016.
2019-05-16: A delegate during the High Level Consultation at the AfDB headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.