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Lifer #11 2021
This one took a while to find. Once it showed up, it stuck around for about 15 minutes. Only a handful of birds to find yet. Might have to go for the gulls.
Schuylkill River Trail
Montgomery County, PA
The Fairmount Water Works was constructed in 1812 to pump water out of the Schuylkill River to serve the bustling City of Philadelphia. As Philadelphia rose into an industrial powerhouse, it was the first large American city to regard the delivery of safe water as a municipal responsibility. Powered by the river, pumps raised water into reservoirs high atop a nearby hill, Faire Mount. Almost from the day the waterwheels began turning, the graceful neoclassical buildings and beautiful grounds made the place an international tourist attraction renowned for melding nature and technology.
Today the Water Works is an Interpretive Center that offers visitors information about the impact of water on their daily lives, and how they in turn impact their water supplies. The Interpretive Center features a variety of hands on, highly interactive exhibits including a live view of the the Fairmount Dam fish ladder and a flyover of the Schuylkill River watershed.
Located along the Schuylkill River Trail are the Playing Angels sculptures (1950) by Carl Milles
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Photograph was originally taken on October 2019
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Philadelphia, PA
I went out with a super-zoom with the intention of shooting the full moon. The cloud coverage put an end to that. Once the colors started to appear, I scrambled and shot a panoramic cityscape of Philadelphia. This panorama is comprised of 31 photographs. My computer hates me.
Things are moving along at the final leg of the Schuylkill River Trail in Philadelphia, which not only has become a great place to jog, bike and walk, but has also spurred an enormous amount of condo and redevelopment work in the adjacent streets. One part of why Philly actually is growing these days, rather than shrinking. Give us a reason to be there, and we're there. Processed with a red bleach split tone.