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A supporter holds up a boot while the crowd chants “USA USA USA” before a Donald Trump event, July 28 in Cedar Rapids.
One of my very first attempts at HDR. Downtown Tampere and the Tammerkoski rapids. Oloneo HDReninge used for editing.
Remic Rapids Park was once a popular trading and rest area for indigenous populations and early explorers to Canada. This site provides incredible views of the river, with countless species of flora and fauna in its immediate surroundings.
To complement the park’s beauty, artist John Felice Ceprano has created balanced rock sculptures by hand on the river’s edge since 1986. The artist uses fossilized and colourful rocks found on the shore to build these sculptures. They provide the public with a free and exploratory art experience that compliments its natural setting. Over the course of the season, Mr. Ceprano creates dozens of gravity-defying sculptures that will amaze visitors to the park.
The National Capital Commission has supported this program since 2000.
April 9, 2023
A walk along the Winooski River.
Winooski River
Winooski, Vermont
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Governor Terry Branstad speaks to a crowd of more than two thousand during a Donald Trump event, July 28 in Cedar Rapids. Branstad, a supporter of Trump, was confident that Trump would win Iowa, based on the number of working class citizens in the state.
Niagara River Rapids before the Whirlpool, viewed from the Spanish AeroCar, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
The collection at the Oregon Maritime Museum www.oregonmaritimemuseum.org includes a photo of the sternwheeler Hassalo running the rapids at Cascades on the Columbia River on May 26, 1888.
Wikipedia describes the scene thusly:
As railways began to be completed along the banks of the Columbia, the steamboats, tied to the river which required too much loading and unloading of passengers and cargo, proved to be unable to compete, and one by one they were taken off the Middle River.
The turn of the Hassalo came on Saturday, May 26, 1888, under the command of Captain James W. Troup.
The event had been announced well in advance, and three thousand people gathered along the banks of the Columbia to watch. The channel through the Cascades was six miles (10 km) long.
The Northwest Masters and Pilots Association organized two steamers, the R.R. Thompson and the Lurline to bring crowds up from Portland and Vancouver to witness the event.
Describing the excursion up river, the Sunday Oregonian wrote:
“Fully 1500 persons were on the ride up the noble majestic stream was an enchanting one. The day was perfect as to temperature, and the scenery was grand; every bend and turn of the river disclosed superb views of mountain, forest and water scenery not surpassed on the entire American continent. Field and marine glasses were in ready demand, and hundreds crowded the decks and admired the grand panorama as it passed swiftly by.”
The excursion boats arrived at the Cascades, and the excursionists disembarked on the north, Washington Territory side. There was a scramble up the bank to board the portage train which was to take the crowd to the Upper Cascades where the run was to start. There weren’t enough seats on the train, so a part of the crowd had to wait for the train to run up to the Upper Cascades and return.
People had also come down from The Dalles on the Harvest Queen, which ran down to the Cascades with the Hassalo. Other people came up on a train from Bonneville so that there were about 3,000 excursionists overall.
As the crowds assembled, both Hassalo and Harvest Queen were at the Upper Cascades wharf with all flags flying. When everything was finally ready, the scene was described by the Sunday Oregonian’s correspondent:
“Six loud whistles were given by the locomotive as a signal to the Hassalo that all was ready. ... A moment later the Hassalo’s wheel was seen beating the water into foam. She moved gracefully from the wharf, swung round deliberately [.] ... [W]ith her sharp glistening prow aimed at the great roaring breach, she shot toward the green rolling masses. From shore to shore the first line of the rapids stretched like a cordon of breakers, and thundering like the tumultuous surf. With a full head of steam, the Hassalo entered the upper break in the waters, and here receiving the first impulse of the mighty current, made a plunge that thrilled the crowd as if touched by an electric shock. 'There she goes', exclaimed a thousand voices in low, subdued tones. Crossing the break the steamer rose pointing her bow upward at a sharp angle, and then blindly plunged downward as if going to the bottom; but she came up with the buoyancy of a cork, and now having committed herself to the mercy of the rapids, flew with the speed of an arrow through and over the surging, boiling waters.”
Hassalo with just 15 people on board, passed by the people on the bank in just 30 seconds and disappeared from sight around a bend in the river. As she ran down the rest of the six mile (10 km) run, she exchanged whistle blasts with locomotives on the railway tracks besides the river.
Once at the end of the rapids, which she ran in seven minutes, Captain Troup took Hassalo down the Columbia and up the Willamette River to Portland.
Remarkable as this was, even the run of Hassalo was not the fastest through the Cascades. On June 3, 1881, captain Troup had taken R.R. Thompson (sternwheeler), one of the same boats that was to run on the Hassalo excursion seven years later, through the Cascades, completing the run twenty seconds faster, and this speed was bested exactly one year later by the R.R. Thompson, itself, when, then, under the mastery of the earlier mentioned and unrivaled riverboatman, Captain John McNulty (steamboat captain). For those times there were not 3,000 people to watch, nor was a famous photograph taken, so the R.R. Thompson runs are largely forgotten by history.
View of the Jericoá Rapids at the Big Bend of the Xingu River, an area threatened by the proposed Belo Monte Dam. Photo by Monti Aguirre/International Rivers.
Find out more about the campaign to stop Belo Monte Dam:
Water rushes past a rocky island on the Kawishiwi River in a long exposure. 110507-5
I was in the Ely area over the last few days doing a 3-day recertification class for my Wilderness First Responder certification. Outward Bound sponsored the class, and during the class, I stayed on their campus. The Kawishiwi River flows past the OB campus and just downstream from a cool little rapids is this island. During this 57 second exposure, I captured the water rushing by. The wind was out, so on many of my attempts, the rock actually ended up blurry from the wind moving my tripod and camera. I was hoping for more movement in the trees, but I got what I got. I cropped this down from 3:2 to 4:3, because I thought it framed the island better. In the 3:2 image, there's more stream to the right of this crop.
Near this location, a mining company wants to try sulfide mining, which has a 100% track record of pollution. The river here runs out of the BWCA and then back into the Boundary Waters. Assuming that sulfide mining continues their flawless record of polluting wherever they mine, the pollution will probably leak into the Kawishiwi River system and into the BWCA. Seems like a bad trade to me.
Read my essay about the sulfide mining near the BWCA. And watch this video: Precious Waters
Sunday morning at Kapeenkoski Rapids, Laukaa - Aanekoski, Finland.
Air temperature -20*C, water temperature "ice cold".
This is a Rapids area about 3/4 mile downstream of Brandywine Falls.
Lots of Interesting minitureFalls and Rapids in this stretch.
I hope to return here with more light and time, before the leaves fade.
So many beautiful areas and so lil time!
AKA State, Cinema
205 River St
Elk Rapids, MI 49629
1940-
Architect: Louis C. Kingscott
Screens: Single
Seating capacity: 414
A member of a very rare generation of post WWII passenger stations built in North America, this former Grand Trunk Western station in Grand Rapids, MI was built in 1949. It now appears to be abandoned or used for storage.
At the Cedar Rapids Kernels game. Went to 13 innings (till 11:00pm) with some very tired kids... Kernels lost 6-4.