Go North East: Roadway Stripe Livery
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My photographic creativity has not been flowing too much lately. I've been looking through some old photos that did not make it to my Flickr stream, for whatever reason. This one was taken in the Northern Adirondacks last summer. We were traveling Eastward, and I caught the fire in the sky in my rear view mirror, and pulled over to catch the sun as it began to sink behind the mountain.
What would you guess? Probably a decade ago as a bird was sitting up on those wires it dropped a Malus Lollipop Crabapple tree seed into the ditch at the side of the road. In her not so quiet solitude she grew to be the Queen of the road.
Maybe for people who in live in the more quieter parts of the world may not understand but for someone who lives in one of the most congested parts of North America the concept of walking into the middle a quiet road for minutes at a time and not worry about getting run over and taking in the blessed silence is a simple pleasure.
Market Street is an important thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, passing the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Corbett Avenue in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. Beyond this point, the roadway continues as Portola Drive into the southwestern quadrant of San Francisco. Portola Drive extends south to the intersection of St. Francis Boulevard and Sloat Boulevard, where it continues as Junipero Serra Boulevard.
Market Street is the boundary of two street grids. Streets on its southeast side are parallel or perpendicular to Market Street, while those on the northwest are nine degrees off from the cardinal directions.
Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses, and diesel buses. Today Muni's buses, trolleybuses, and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street the two-level Market Street Subway carries Muni Metro and BART. While cable cars no longer operate on Market Street, the surviving cable car lines terminate to the side of the street at its intersections with California Street and Powell Street.
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Market Street cuts across the city for three miles (5 km) from the waterfront to the hills of Twin Peaks. It was laid out originally by Jasper O'Farrell, a 26-year old trained civil engineer who emigrated to Yerba Buena, as the town was then known. The town was renamed San Francisco in 1847 after it was captured by Americans during the Mexican-American War. O'Farrell first repaired the original layout of the settlement around Portsmouth Square and then established Market Street as the widest street in town, 120 feet between property lines. (Van Ness now beats it with 125 feet.) It was described at the time as an arrow aimed straight at "Los Pechos de la Chola" (the Breasts of the Maiden), now called Twin Peaks. Writing in Forgotten Pioneers.
I was having a tour about Orkney New Years Day and came across this view, which took my eye. The stormy clouds were the back end of the stormy New Years eve night that we had on Orkney blowing 50-60 mph.
Kinderland Bridge in Houston, Texas, featuring a roadway with two tunnels and grassy surroundings under a cloudy sky.
The road by High Newton Reservoir stretching out into the distance. The reservior was created in the 1870s to provide Grange-over-Sands with it's first proper water supply. It's mainly for fishermen now.
(Please return to your seats and fasten seatbelt....)
Aftermath of a water-ambulance racing along the Grand Canal.
I captured this image at Wolf Creek Dam on Lake Cumberland. It was an early morning but I am glad I got up for this Sunrise.
This is a four vertical image Pano captured using a Really Right Stuff Nodal Slide.
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But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.
- Richard Serra
I found this one lane road over a small dam on a lake. The fog was very thick. The Sun had already rose, but the fog diffused the light.
This is a three-image focus stack
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roadway leading into an overlook area in the Wichita
Mountains Wildlife Refuge - Oklahoma
Bathed in the last warm light of the day, the road winds its way westward from Dirdal toward Oltedal through the dramatic landscape of Røyrdalen in Rogaland, Norway. Dark mountains rise steeply on both sides while breaks in the clouds allow golden rays to illuminate the valley floor. The gently curving roadway becomes a visual guide through a landscape shaped by ice, water, and time, creating a scene that feels both timeless and inviting.
Fun fact: Rogaland is home to some of Norway's most spectacular glacial valleys, many of which were carved during the last Ice Age more than 10,000 years ago, leaving behind the steep mountainsides and dramatic terrain seen today.
Beautiful Tulips and Daffodils on Middle island of N11 Dublin-Wexford Road at Cornelscourt, Dublin, Ireland
An aerial view of a hillside with roadways in Abbotsford, BC., Canada, on a snowy day. The image appears two dimensional and does not reveal the steep hills, the homes and roadways are built on. The curving four lane road is following the contour of the hillside. The white trail in the lower half is Discovery Trail and the four lane roadway with yellow lines is Whatcom Road. A major power grid is faintly visible in the lower third of the landscape.