Walking the shoreline

Ambient light

Augmentation

This section of the canal is between Renton's Bridge and Nicholson's Bridge. On the left you can see Ripon Racecourse and to the right the tops of motor boats moored at the Ripon Motor Boat Club.

Ripon Motor Boat Club was established in 1931, having celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2016 the club is now one of the largest inland waterway boat clubs in the country.

The Ripon Canal is located in North Yorkshire, England. It was built by the canal engineer William Jessop to link the city of Ripon with the navigable section of the River Ure at Oxclose Lock, from where boats could reach York and Hull. First used in 1773 and closed in 1956 consising of 3 locks over its 2.3 miles

In 1961, members of the Ripon Motor Boat Club formed the Ripon Canal Company Ltd, and gradually restored the canal up to Littlethorpe. Subsequently, the Ripon Canal Society spearheaded restoration, which was completed in 1996. It is now managed by the Canal & River Trust

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We are looking at the south face of Tofana di Rozes, a peak in the Dolomites of northern Italy. You can see some hikers coming down a steep zigzag trail in the left midground. They are walking on the Alta Via 1, also known as the Dolomite High Route 1, a 120-kilometre-long high-level trail that runs through the eastern Dolomites in Italy.

101 Warren Street (left-aka Warren Street Condominium) and 89 Murray Luxury Apartments (right) NYC - 2008 - Designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be ....

Baseball fans entering the stadium at a Texas Rangers game….let’s play ball.

Press "L" to play ball.

Olympiastadion München.

A section of a large sculpture by Henry Moore, temporarily, I would think, deposited next to Moore's Maquette Studio (Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire). I have not yet found out the title of the sculpture and when it was made. Perhaps you can help? Fuji X-E2.

An unusual subject that caught my eye whilst out wandering on a wet afternoon - the remains of an old punga tree fern stump that has been sawn through, wet with rainwater and with new life springing from within! Worth an image I thought.

© Dominic Scott 2022

Sliders Sunday

The Bass Section of the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra. The Original photo I used is below.

The Long Corridor is a covered walkway in the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. The total length of the Long Corridor is 728 metres and it is decorated with more than 14,000 paintings, especially on the ceiling and its beams, which divide it into 273 sections. Along the corridor there are four octagonal pavilions. Each of these pavilions symbolises the four climatic seasons of the year. The more than 14,000 paintings have a wide variety of subjects: historical figures, famous buildings, landscapes, flowers, birds, fish, insects... Of particular importance are those depicting folk and traditional tales, fables and episodes from classical Chinese literature. As a part of the Summer Palace, the Long Corridor was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in December, 1998.

There is no doubt that the Long Corridor is a beautiful place during the day. But it is at night, with the arrival of darkness and the lighting of the chinese lanterns, that it reaches its true splendour, creating a special atmosphere and transforming into a long, luminous and sinuous thread in the midst of the darkness. It is at night when it becomes a magical place, where stories, tales, fables, imagination... come to life and arise. Dreams and tales, in the middle of the night and darkness.

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LateNightTales

Orleans - David Crosby (LNT: David Holmes)

Three Hours - Nick Drake (LNT: The Cinematic Orchestra)

Flim - Aphex Twin (LNT: The Flaming Lips)

Blade Runner Blues - Vangelis (LNT: Röyksopp)

Man Next Door - Massive Attack (LNT: Django Django)

Be Nice To Me - Todd Rundgren (LNT: Music For Pleasure)

Magnolia - J.J. Cale (LNT: Turin Brakes)

Let's Get Lost - Elliott Smith (LNT: Air)

Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath (LNT: Air)

Unravel - Björk (LNT: Midlake)

Budapest by Blimp - Thomas Dolby (LNT: Röyksopp)

Lover, You Should've Come Over -Jordan Rakei (LNT: Jordan Rakei)

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En el silencio sin aliento de las 4 a.m., en la oscuridad se encuentra un triste cliché envuelto en el azul marino de las estrellas que se desvanecen lentamente. Dime cómo llegó ésto a ser.

Háblame... insomnio.

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Duérmete y cállate, cariño. Es hora de dormir, hora de apagar la luz. Dulces sueños te esperan tras tus ojos cerrados y una manta de noche, donde las chinches no pican. Duérmete y calla hasta la mañana. Has dicho todas tus oraciones, és hora de hacerlas realidad. No te preocupes, tu papi está aquí, si lo necesitas esta noche. Tranquiliza tu mente. Descansa tus ojos y duerme bien.

Goodnight.

backside of the Opera House in Cologne.

SECTION or SEGMENT is the theme for Thursday 20th August - 26th August 2020, Group Our Daily Challenge

Brownwood, Texas

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viewed in Lebo, KS

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Spiral staircase, Berlin, Hackesche Höfe - UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Hackesches Quartier

Unesco World Cultural Heritage "Hackesches Quartier", Berlin

The smoking section of a barber shop in the old town portion of Paço d'Arcos

OLYMPUS EM-1 Mark II

This section along the shoreline south of Lost Villages Museum, Long Sault, Ontario. Open water on the St. Lawrence River that can be accessible for our canoe. Unfortunately snow falling the next 4 days making it difficult to paddle. Soon ice will form here too soon.

Below, where I scootered to view this. There is a long walk to the shoreline from Lost Villages, where my scooter is viewed below…

A nice cross section of a cut tree trunk.

A section of my village has been cut off by a major road built in the 1950s. This is one of the houses beyond that road, sitting much deeper in the flood plain of the River Ver. It is actually a gatehouse, guarding one of the entrances to Markyate Cell (Hertfordshire), an Elizabethan mansion - also cut off from the village. Samyang mirror-reflex lens fixed at F6.3.

A view of the lower section of the falls flowing under that well-placed bridge.

"Multnomah Falls is the most visited natural recreation site in the Pacific Northwest with more than 2 million stopping by each year to take in the views. Fed by underground springs from Larch Mountain, the flow over the falls varies, but is usually highest during winter and spring. This is also one of the best places in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area to study geology exposed by floods." fs.usda.gov

"The Multnomah people received their name from their chief. Yet, the existence of their great chief named Multnomah has been up for debate. Other Native American tribes in the Columbia River Valley area spoke of him in their oral history, while Oregon historians dismissed him as just a myth. Therefore, there is conflicting evidence of whether or not he was real. However, on top of the oral descriptions of him there were writings including newspapers and journals, which indicate he was indeed real.

Multnomah was chief of tribes ranging much of the Pacific Northwest from Oregon to Canada, and during his 40 years of power he was chief of the Willamettes, as well as war chief of the tribes, ruling from his station on what is known today as Sauvie Island.

Ann Fulton, a history professor at Portland State University, found and collected much of what is known of Chief Multnomah from many written stories. She documented this in her paper The Restoration of an Iłkák'mana: A Chief Called Multnomah. She hoped to bring more awareness to his existence. Particular accounts came from people such as William Tappan and Dr. Elijah White, both agents of Indian tribes. The many verbal and written accounts of Chief Multnomah were similar. He was regarded highly, and many stated that while he was a warrior chief, he was very respected among his people.

It is believed that the end of Chief Multnomah's reign occurred with the eruption of Mount Hood during the 1780s. Later in 1805 when Lewis and Clark reached Sauvie Island they wrote of the “mulknomah” people. This referenced Chief Multnomah, as well as the group of tribes that made up his people." Wikipedia

Enjoy this last Sunday of October!

Getting spooky tomorrow.

Well that's a wrap on another week and a very welcome beginning to a long weekend.

Three final images from the last week of September 2020.

Veduta del paesaggio e delle bellissime colline attorno a Volterra.

View of the landscape and the beautiful hills of Volterra.

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Nikonisti Lombardi

Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,

reading Ezra Pound,

and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right through

the Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Canto

and demolish the barbarian invaders

--Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ever wonder what an artichoke looks like in cross section? I pretty well know because I like eating them but here you go.

From Vine Street in West Los Angeles, California.

Another one from the archives.

Deutsches Bank, Moor Place, London

I was taking a cool focus stack of this peony when it fell from its clasp onto the floor. It was missing half of its petals when I picked it up. That allowed this cross-section photo though. I set the camera for 110 frames, and blended them with Helicon Focus to create this image.

The section between Drew (where we ran around the train and changed direction to go back to Ashton) and Bonnievale on the Swellendam-Ashton line is extremely scenic, especially when the weather is right.

On July 2, 2023, 24 3655 from Ceres Rail, hauling a short mixed on this serction heading for Ashton.

Section 2:

Cassiar Hwy 37 to Kitwanga, Yellowhead Hwy 16.

Section of a cut and dried Saguaro Cactus which fell, showing the internal ribs; San Pedro River Valley, SE of San Manuel, AZ

After showing the power section I felt that I owed you a look at the payload delivery section.