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I took this one while sitting on a rock catching my breath after running for the in the glass photos I put up earlier.
The shadow of the partially accesible summt stretches away - note also the cloud shadows in the sky, all converging on the anti-solar point.
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More than 6500 Trig Points, or Triangulation Points, were built across Britain between 1936 and 1962, as part of a big project to re-triangulate Britain. The last observation was made in 1962 from Thornley Gale, Cumbria.
This one is at the top of Arnside Knott. It's easy to see that it isn't used any more as trees obscuring the view had grown up around it. However, trig points are still marked on OS maps, and useful landmarks for walkers.
GPS has made these markers redundant for survey purposes.
Another in my album series 'Traditional English Country Pubs', The Four Points Inn dates from the 17th century and is one of two splendid such buildings in the very small village of Aldworth, West Berkshire. The village's other pub, The Bell Inn, was built in the 15th century or even earlier. Both pubs are very friendly and definitely worth a visit.
A long exposure, seascape image of the ancient harbour walls at St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, on a rare cold but clear and still day in December.
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Sunrise over a small pebble beach next to Frazer beach on the central coast of NSW.
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There are a number of walks through the valley, with various entry, exit points and valley arms offering a range of permutations to explore. A moderate-grade day walk covering approximately 10 km in five hours starts at Perrys Lookdown and descends sharply to the valley floor.
Crossing through a corner of the Blue Gum Forest, the track goes south through the Acacia Flat camp ground, following the Govetts Creek. Passing several abandoned campgrounds, the path forks at Junction Rock; the route to Govetts Leap was closed in October 2003, following a landslide, and was reopened in December 2007. In the other direction, along Govetts Creek, the route then starts a continuous climb towards the Grand Canyon, where it forks again; one track goes to Neates Glen, while the other is a steep climb to Evans Lookout.
The general direction of travel is towards the southeast and this direction is recommended as the final climb at Evans Lookout is not as difficult as the ascent at Perrys Lookdown. Creeks in the valley are seasonal and highly polluted, and are known to cause gastrointestinal upsets. The walk is much more strenuous in summer due to the higher daily temperatures and there is also an attendant greater risk from bushfire.
Chinatown in New York City is the largest Chinatown in the United States and home to the largest population concentration of Chinese in western hemisphere. It’s located on the lower eastside of Manhattan. The population has been estimated at 150,000 in this ever expanding area. The infamous Five Points Slums is where an enclave of Chinese who were in the United States both legally and illegally settled. They were many who had been in the west originally, opportunities afforded by the gold rush and working on Central Pacific Railroad, but when the gold dried up and the railway complete, the Chinese were driven to large cities in the east, driven back by Mob violence and rampant discrimination. New York’s already diverse immigrant population made it a particularly attractive landing spot, filled with Germans and Irishmen in the Five Points Slums. Even here though there was a great deal discrimination, so the Chinese immigrants segregated. They segregated not only in living arrangements, but really became a self-supporting community, tightly knit structure with an internal groups of governing associations and businesses that provided employment, economic aid, social assistance and most important in what had become a violent part of the city, protection.
1056 on arrival at Cardiff on the 11.15 from Paddington. The driver is clearly awaiting the signal to take the ecs away. If it was the return working about to depart to London, we wouldn't have been standing around on the platform!
I am not sure what we did in the time between arrival and departure on the service hauled by 1056 - I suspect food and drink may have been the order of the day. In all honesty, I can't recall how we survived on these Rover bashes apart from a few high points.
The up overnighter was usually taken from Liskeard after a visit to The Stag next to the station. That particular venue is no longer in existence as a watering hole come nosh shop.
As for London, I can't recall any specific chomping spots. I do remember rolling into an Italian restaurant at the end of a rail rover and having a quality meal served by the staff. We must have been a bit rough after 7 days travelling but they were perfect hosts.
In recent years I was in London for a tour with 1015 and spent two nights at a Best Western hotel - unsurprisingly perhaps. I located a very busy joint which served a cracking meal and was lucky to get a seat. A measure of its quality perhaps! Sadly I can't recall where it was other than close to Paddington as well as the hotel.
Here the driver has an old style BR hat - one of which I have as a souvenir from those days.
The guy watching on is still the same slim shape now that he was back then - the lucky devil.
From the Archives. Spring in Eastern Washington State, laying on the frozen ground as the sun crests the horizon. This image is made up of about twenty Canon 5d frames, all carefully placed togeather into one composition which resembels but does not capture the actual plant. Kind of like painting in a way.