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Christchurch, Latchingdon, Essex
Locked, no keyholder. Latchingdon is the largest and least attractive place on the western part of the peninsula, an ugly mile or so of kebab shops, off-licences, petrol stations. The church is from the 1860s by JP St Aubyn, but is big and characterless, and apparently of little interest. It is always locked - I had actually tried the door once before on my way to Bradwell last summer. Not really sure why I bothered this time. However, photographing it meant I could count it as a visited church.
The next church was the real goal of my journey. Knowing how horrible Latchingdon was I was a bit uncertain about the setting of the next, but I needn't have worried.
LOCK SERIES
Was up early today and felt the urge to knock out a couple images.
Took 5 shots in Auto Bracket mode and then tone mapped in Photomatix.
Photoshop CS2 was used for adjustment layers and minor tweaking.
Wiesbaden, Germany
Whitby Lock, Ellesmere Port.
This is a Leading Light marking the point where the River Mersey and the Shropshire Union Canal meet. Now no longer used, the building is home to the Fire Brigade Union.
Dug out my old Nikon D70s. Nikon 18-70mm Lens at 31mm. F/11, 1/100sec. Kood Polariser
Camera: Nikkormat FTn
Lens: Nikkor-H 50mm f/2
Film: Kentmere 400 (EI 1600)
Developer: Kodak HC-110 Dilution B @ 20.4C for 11:37 minutes.
Scanner: Epson V850
Catalog ID: 2018-015
Herrett_060906_0027
Clothes shops and painted buildings on Chalk Farm Road near Camden Markets and lock London UK
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23 mtr (75 ft) deep lock on the River Rhone near Avignon in Provenec-Alpes-Cote d`Azur, France.
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A lock is a device for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The distinguishing feature of a lock is a fixed chamber in which the water level can be varied; whereas in a caisson lock, a boat lift, or on a canal inclined plane, it is the chamber itself (usually then called a caisson) that rises and falls.
Locks are used to make a river more easily navigable, or to allow a canal to take a reasonably direct line across land that is not level.
Lock and Dam 5 on the Upper Mississippi River in Minnesota City, Minn., has been dewatered this winter to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, to complete major maintenance work on it. Each St. Paul District lock chamber is dewatered every 15 to 20 years for this major maintenance. Lock and Dam 5 was last dewatered in 1990. --Photo by Shannon Bauer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers