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Golden Hour Light illuminates the trees along the I & M Canal towpath Morris Illinois. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Every Christmas Day I take a walk with the dog from home. I’ve been doing this for nearly 40 years and I’m now on my fourth dog. The walks are shorter now due to old age. When I first started I would walk to the neighbouring village of Long Marston, then find my way along the lanes to Marsworth and the Grand Union canal, returning home along the towpath.
This year I simply walked around the village, extending my normal routine to go along the Long Marston Road as far as the village boundary and West End Hill.
The last couple of years I’ve taken a film camera, but the conditions were just too dismal for that. The next best thing is my trusty Olympus set to “grainy film” black and white mode. It’s a bit more forgiving of poor light conditions.
I know this sounds bleak but I’ve really noticed a decline in the local environment in those 40 years so I decided to try and reflect this in my Christmas Day images. I’ve deliberately looked for the run down, neglected, overgrown and overshadowed by infrastructure. Not exclusively so don’t scratch your head wondering why I’ve included some of the images in this series, it could just be something off topic that caught my eye on my walk……
Oh and I will be copying and pasting this lengthy explanation on each of the images in this series. If you’ve lasted out to the end of this dialogue - congratulations!
The 'Straight Mile' of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, at Burnley, Lancashire, UK
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Freightliner Class 90 Nos. 90045 & 90043 pass alongside the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal at Milford with 4S44, the 12:13 Daventry – Coatbridge intermodal working on 14th June 2017.
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Seen adjoining the towpath of the Rochdale Canal, just outside Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK
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The first section of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal was opened from Bingley to Skipton in 1773.
To the disappointment of Lord Thanet, who lived in Skipton Castle, the canal did not go very close to the limestone quarries on his estate. So he obtained permission to build a short branch canal which opened later the same year. The Springs Branch, also known as the Thanet Canal, was originally about a third of a mile long to loading chutes close to Skipton castle. The chutes were quite long and tall which made the falling limestone noisy, and damaged the boats. The canal was subsequently extended and the feeder tramway altered to use shorter loading chutes further away from the castle.
The Springs Branch leaves the main line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Skipton and runs for half a mile to the remains of the loading chutes.
Victorian era road and rail bridges over the pre-Victorian (1831) Macclesfield Canal just by Congleton railway station, Cheshire
Photographed February 2017 : Canon FX with modified lens flange & Canon lens mount convertor 'A' + STAEBLE LINEXON 35mm/3.5 lens , ILFORD PAN 400 @ ASA 320 developed in ADOX ATOMAL 49 (225ml>600ml,15min@20*C).Negative scanned in a JUMBL scanner.