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This would be Lock 44 on the C&O Canal in Williamsport, MD. It's amazing to think how much commerce this lock must have seen back in the day. Of course rail lines got laid next to the Canal line, and eventually put the Canal out of business. I think it's great that pieces like this lock are kept around so that we know how things started out back in the day.
Another photo taken with my Canon camera that has it's EXIF but has lost the actual camera details when downsized! I think that I have a good eye for photos but my tech skills are useless.
Camden Lock on the Regents Canal almost in central London. Camden Town is a lovely area to visit with it's markets and you can walk along miles of London's canals from here. Photo taken early in the morning on a beautiful day in London
Taken in Beverley, East Yorkshire using a Chinon CE-5, Takumar 135mm f2.8 lens on Ilford FP4+ pushed to 400iso and developed in 510 Pyro.
47 279 heads a northbound Intermodal past Lock Wood north of Culham
A view here is still possible, but only with a pole or drone such is the state of the lineside vegetation
Looking eastward towards lock 9 of the I & M Canal. Located in Marseilles Illinois, both lock 9 and 10 are filled in with grass. Three exposure HDR processed with Photomatix
This shot was put together by dangling a key from my ceiling using a bit of cotton and then using a 50mm 1.8 lens and a lock shape cut out to create the bokeh while shining a torch on the key. All in camera no photoshop (apart from a slight crop).
No sense at all, do what you want for I will hunt you Untill you will be Locked away
just so what you'll be scred of me, Behind my power I will hide all my fears
Right now you are punished for absolutely nothing. And I feel so good Because once more I don't have to be honest
With myself While you're locked away Just so you'll be scared of me behind my power
I will hide all my fears
(The Gathering)
This scene was taken somewhere in the Birmingham area in Circa 1959
It shows a narrow boat exiting a lock with the crew working hard on the balance beams, the day is a misty winter's morning with the weak sun penetrating the gloom The towpath is formed of cinders, pock-marked with oily puddles, to the right an engineering firm occupies the iron clad building, it's walls covered in many coats of tar.
Today the walls would be covered in spray paint, the towpath hard surfaced lest the cinders should damage a Nike trainer, working boats have long gone, the factory
flattened.
Peter Shoesmith
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved
The unusual diamond-shaped Aynho Weir Lock on the Oxford Canal. The odd shape is to allow a larger amount of water to pass through the lock with each working, as its shallow drop was not allowing sufficient water to pass on to the next section of canal. 3rd September 1996.
The lower of the two wooden gates of this canal lock on the Leeds Liverpool Canal near Wigan, showing the water flowing out of the bypass which keeps the water levels stable.
Locked up to be left behind in hell...
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"For the angels who inhabit this town,
although their shape constantly changes,
each night we leave some cold potatoes
and a bowl of milk on the windowsill.
Usually they inhabit heaven where,
by the way, no tears are allowed.
They push the moon around like
a boiled yam.
The Milky Way is their hen
with her many children.
When it is night the cows lie down
but the moon, that big bull,
stands up.
However, there is a locked room up there
with an iron door that can't be opened.
It has all your bad dreams in it.
It is hell.
Some say the devil locks the door
from the inside.
Some say the angels lock it from the outside.
The people inside have no water
and are never allowed to touch.
They crack like macadam.
They are mute.
They do not cry help
except inside
where their hearts are covered with grubs.
I would like to unlock that door,
turn the rusty key
and hold each fallen one in my arms
but I cannot, I cannot.
I can only sit here on earth
at my place at the table."
~ Anne Sexton, 1928-1974 ~
This beautiful building, now part of the Government Museum, Chennai, India, had a notice hung on the door to tell people not to enter or to sit near it. Families were picnicking on the grass at the side - possibly unaware of the notice.