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Un grand merci à toutes et tous pour votre attention et regard à cette capture photographique.
A big thank you to everyone for your attention and look at this photographic capture.
Taken between the Woodlesford Lock and Fishponds Lock on the Leeds branch near the village of Woodlesford in West Yorkshire
The Aire and Calder is a canalisation of the River Calder from Wakefield to Castleford, where it joins the branch from Leeds, which follows the River Aire
Focal Length (35mm format) - 360 mm
Willst du mich größer sehen klicke in das Bild
If you want to see me bigger click into the picture
To get from Renodde, our overnight anchorage, across Rodefjord to the geologically fascinating red island (Rode O) off Milne Land, we had to pass through the thick ice slabs coming out of Vestfjord from the Vestfjord Gletscher, Scoresby Sund, East Greenland.
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Soundtrack // Bande-son: ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK ("NAVIGATION"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dSF9Ls2H04
"J'aime beaucoup cette composition et la lumière sur la dune est vraiment jolie..!! (Georges LISSILOUR / www.flickr.com/photos/geolis06/)
"Entre ciel cuivré et lumière radiante, superbe travail !" (VINCENT / www.flickr.com/photos/58769600@N07/)
own texture
Convair T-29B navigation trainer on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum. Shorter exposure than I wanted because a battery change slightly moved the camera, misaligning the startrails, and with nowhere near the stars I would have liked due to light pollution.
Merged in Startrails.de, think I might take another stab through Photoshop at some point.
Position: Navigation to the port of Volos, Greece. Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 kilometres (203 miles) north of Athens and 215 kilometres (134 miles) south of Thessaloniki. Volos is one of the largest and most attractive cities in Greece as well as one of the country’s most prominent ports.
The microprocessor-based contraption claims this part of the road network is the fastest route to the freeway. It was about 33 miles of dirt road and I discovered a community that was new to me. Good thing I don't drive a Bentley...
Journalism grade photo
Please do not copy this for any reason.
Ghosts of Jericho at The Sim Quarterly - u.nu/d-k99
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Again my sister ship. This time my counter part on there Captain Igor Abramov watches us go by. For interest the 3 portholes below the bridge from left to right The Chief Officers bedroom, My bedroom (well not exactly mine but I think you understand what I mean) in the middle and my dayroom (where I am at the moment)
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad
My Second Officer Julie keeping a close eye on our way up the St Lawrence River.
Sorry for poor quality I took this with my phone
The Birmingham Main Line Canal in Smethwick, Sandwell, West Midlands.
On 24 January 1767 a number of prominent Birmingham businessmen, including Matthew Boulton and others from the Lunar Society, held a public meeting in the White Swan, High Street, Birmingham to consider the possibility of building a canal from Birmingham to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Wolverhampton, taking in the coalfields of the Black Country. They commissioned the canal engineer James Brindley to propose a route. Brindley came back with a largely level route via Smethwick, Oldbury, Tipton, Bilston and Wolverhampton to Aldersley.
On 24 February 1768 an Act of Parliament was passed to allow the building of the canal, with branches at Ocker Hill and Wednesbury where there were coal mines. The first phase of building was to Wednesbury whereupon the price of coal sold to domestic households in Birmingham halved overnight. Vested interests of the sponsors caused the creation of two terminal wharves in Birmingham. The 1772 Newhall Branch and wharf (now built upon) originally extended north of, and parallel to Great Charles Street. The 1773 Paradise Street Branch split off at Old Turn Junction and headed through Broad Street Tunnel, turned left at what is now Gas Street Basin and under Bridge Street to wharves on a tuning fork-shaped pair of long basins: Paradise Wharf, also called Old Wharf. The Birmingham Canal Company head office was finally built there, opposite the western end of Paradise Street.
By 6 November 1769, 10 miles (16 km) had been completed to Hill Top collieries in West Bromwich, with a one mile summit pound at Smethwick. Brindley had tried to dig a cutting through the hill at Smethwick but had encountered ground too soft to cope with. The canal rose through six narrow (7 ft) locks to the summit level and descended through another six at Spon Lane.
In 1770 work started towards Wolverhampton. On 21 September 1772 the canal was joined with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Aldersley Junction via another 20 locks (increased to 21 in 1784 to save water). Brindley died a few days later. The canal measured 22 miles and 5 fur-longs (22⅝ miles), mostly following the contour of the land but with deviations to factories and mines in the Black Country and Birmingham.
Over the next thirty years, as more canals and branches were built or connected it became necessary to review the long, winding, narrow Old Main Line. With a single towpath boats passing in opposite directions had to negotiate their horses and ropes. In 1824 Thomas Telford was commissioned to examine alternatives.
Telford proposed major changes to the section between Birmingham and Smethwick, widening and straightening the canal, providing towpaths on each side, and cutting through Smethwick Summit to bypass the locks, allowing lock-free passage from Birmingham to Tipton.
By 1827 the New Main Line passed straight through, and linked to, the loops of the Old Main Line, creating Oozells Loop, Icknield Port Loop, Soho Loop, Cape Loop and Soho Foundry Loop, allowing continued access to the existing factories and wharves.
A year earlier he had built an improved Rotton Park Reservoir (Edgbaston Reservoir) on the site of an existing fish pool, bringing its capacity to 300 million imperial gallons (1,400,000 m3). A canal feeder took water to, and along, a raised embankment on the south side of the New Main Line to his new Engine Arm branch canal and across an elegant cast iron aqueduct to top up the higher Wolverhampton Level at Smethwick Summit. The reservoir also fed water to the Birmingham Level at the adjacent Icknield Port Loop.
The Smethwick Summit was bypassed by 71 ft cutting through Lunar Society member, Samuel Galton's land, creating the Galton Valley, 70 feet deep and 150 feet wide, running parallel to the Old Main Line. Telford's changes here were completed in 1829.
By 1838 the New Main Line was complete: 22⅝ miles of slow canal reduced to 15⅝; between Birmingham and Tipton, a lock-free dual carriageway. It was also called the Island Line as it was cut straight through the hill at Smethwick known as the Island.
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This is Burnham On Sea low lighthouse, I shot this away from the sunset skies such as they were but there was a little colour in the clouds from the sun which was over my left shoulder. Shot with the 16-35 I did have to correct the perspective of the lighthouse as I was quite close.This is the seaward side of the lighthouse with the red stripe navigation aid, sadly I did not think to stay and see if I could get a shot of the light.