Technically known as shaft spillways but affectionately known as plug holes, the drains were designed to regulate water levels in the reservoir by letting out water when the reservoir became full after prolonged wet spells.

The water is carried away down tunnels through the dam to the River Derwent downstream.

Each plug hole has a diameter of 24m (78ft) and the drop from the exit point to the floor of the tunnel below is 20m (66ft).

These shaft spillways have been nicknamed bellmouth or morning glory - after the flower - spillways.

Meyer Optik Trioplan 50mm f2,9 MF

Sony α6000

I appreciate that dandelion seed heads are uploaded rather frequently on Flickr so I hope I've done mine a little bit different than the usual. The yellow on the right side of the photo is a dandelion in full bloom growing beneath this seed head so I wanted to capture that as part of the background. I took the photo in differing f stops to see what suited the best (and also to try and get away from f/2.8 which is something I use a lot) but despite the others having merits I liked the effect f/2.8 gave this particular photo. I'll no doubt upload one of the others in the next week or two so you can decide yourself. I used the new(ish) feature of Denoise on Lightroom Classic and I think it's a great feature to have there. Anyroad, I hope you like my little seed head. I'm rather fond of it I must say. 😊

Enjoy the rest of your day and great Fridays all round! 😃

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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

Previously unpublished shot from May 2019. Enjoy!

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Song

Ladybower reservoir overflow `plug holes`

mixing table Allen & Heath Xone 1

One of the plug holes at Ladybower Reservoir, Peak District. Derbyshire.

I've exposed your lies, baby

The underneath's no big surprise

Now it's time for changing

And cleansing everything

To forget your love

My plug in baby

Crucifies my enemies

When I'm tired of giving

My plug in baby

In unbroken virgin realities

Is tired of living

Don't confuse

Baby you're gonna lose

Your own game

Change me

Replace the envying

To forget your love

My plug in baby

Crucifies my enemies

When I'm tired of giving

My plug in baby

In unbroken virgin realities

Is tired of living

And I've seen your loving

Mine is gone

And I've been in trouble

MUSE

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This is a less than 1/2" width trout fishing lure #MacroMondays #Plastic

© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved

Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

Thank you for your comments, favourites and support. Take care and take photos.

thanks again, michael!

san francisco, california

HWW!

contribution to MM challenge for 14/10/19, theme: "wire"

strangely difficult to find a piece of electrical wire without buying a a whole reel from B&Q!

wasn't my first choice and seeing some of today's contributions it shows how narrow minded I was about this challenge, and what I could have done...

Just one note about this image - the background is part of the image and was created in camera, rather than in post prod.

The Pontsticill reservoir 'Plug hole' with water just about overflowing on a grey and misty morning a couple of days ago. Ponsticill is a large reservoir on the river Taf Fechan lying partly in the county of Powys and partly within the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales. It lies within the Brecon Beacons National Park and Fforest Fawr Geopark. For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing the reservoir dam is a 110 ft high embankment has, since its completion in 1927, been holding back 15,400 megalitres of water for supply to industry and population of south Wales.

A good way I know

to find happiness, is to

not bore a hole to fit the plug.

(Josh Billings)

For #MacroMondays #PlugsAndJacks

- Satellite F-Plug

- TV Coax Plug

- 3.5 – 6.35 mm Headphone Jack (gold plated Adapter)

- 3.5 mm to Phone Plug Adapter

Macro: Plugs&Jacks in a row incl. negative Space: < 3” x 3”

Happy MM Everyone !

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200

ƒ/2.8

4.5 mm

1/4 Sec

ISO 1000

Dedicated to C.F. (ILYWAMHASAM)

HMM

Macro Mondays Theme. “Plugs and Jacks”

La prise d'une télécommande filaire

Plug of wired remote control (socket N3)

diamètre du boitier gris : 12mm

Ma proposition pour Macro Mondays - thème “Photographic equipment”

EF100mm f/2.8 L IS USM + tubes allonges 68mm

Stack de 120 images capturées avec Helicon Remote et assemblées avec Helicon Focus

"Macro Mondays"

“Photographic equipment”

Digital Art - Fractals

with image manipulation and textures

My Textures; Mandelbulb3D fractals

Macro Mondays 10/12/18 theme Vowel.

Electric bolts coming off the pins of a Electric plug into a two pin Electric Adaptor socket.The electric was created using a Electric gas Igniter but what you can't see is the Ozone gas given of by the spark.It a shame I couldn't create the shot Underwater 😂

Macro Monday's Planes, Trains and Automobiles theme Sep 2016.

M42 macro lens. Extension tube.

Macro Mondays. Staying connected...:)

A close-up of a very old bath drain plug sitting on a tile shelf, stylized with an aged film effect.

Developed with Darktable 3.6.0. I used GIMP's G'MIC "Stylize" filter to embed the film emulsion layer into the photo.

come all undone

Ethernet RJ45.

Song by Muse.

This is the drain in the centre of Shancastle Loch - I presume it has a drain because it is one of the few lochs in Scotland that is man made! A lake in Scotland is known as a Loch

Castillo de Pedraza ES

Two more photographs from the floor taken in early morning light.

Macro mondays/plugs and jacks

Macro Mondays theme 'multicolour'.

Mud plugging, or

sporting trials, is an off-road motor-sport that involves driving a specialised vehicle through steep, muddy courses, prioritising skill and control over speed.

In this case speed is far less important than staying upright.

I bet he wished he had stayed on the roadway.

Mid Devon Show, Knightshayes Court, Tiverton, Devon, UK.

Can't there be just one plug?

Shot for Our Daily Challenge :”Technology”