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About LinkBacksI dunno - with phase detect I agree it's tricky, but contrast detect seems to get webs really easily.
I dunno - with phase detect I agree it's tricky, but contrast detect seems to get webs really easily.
From Leeds today
Bridgewater Place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Place - and I can attest to the wind tunnel effect around this building, I was almost knocked off my feet and I'm not a small chap!
1 Park Row
1 City Square
Took this the other day, it looks a lot better irl.
Sand Point near Weston-super-Mare, horizon looks slightly out though doh!
still a bloody good pic Sk!mD4Rk.
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Sk!mD4Rk (05-10-2009)
Beautiful!Originally Posted by Sk!mD4Rk
Went out to Snake Pass this weekend to take some pics:
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Sk!mD4Rk (05-10-2009)
Heh, I drove through it this weekend too
Well, some pics from Brands yesterday.
The last one
The ones with the wheel locks are ace
Afraid I'm going to have to up the cute factor...
awwww...
Right, back to manly things like steam and coal and engines!
I'm also going two photos over, so if you're not a geek then enjoy the first pic and skip the rest
This is Leawood pumping station. It was built between 1845 and 1849 to top up the Cromford Canal with water from the River Derwent (Arkwright, mills & stuff). It still runs, but since boats don't use the canal as much they only fire it up a few times a year. The distance it's pumping the water is quite impressive really, but I didn't get a good photo that represented it.
Anyway, there are two coal fired boilers, capable of generating 40 PSI apparently:
These push down a piston in a 50" diameter cylinder with a 9 ft stroke (black thing in the background of the following pic)
.. which in turn pulls down one side of a 27 ton beam
Attached to the other end is a 15 ton plunger which obviously rises, sucking in water.
Then the valves switch (foreground of the cylinder picture) and the plunger falls under it's own weight, driving the water up to the canal and out at a spot near the white posts in the first picture.
You know those thumpers in HL2? It was just like one of them - same kind of period, sound, and ground shaking vibration! If you're ever in Derbyshire on one of the firing dates then I highly recommend a visit (http://www.middleton-leawood.org.uk/)
Wow! That's a future trip for meBeautiful location and heavy machinery!
I love the first pick, but am I right in thinking that there's a bit of perspective distortion there.
There is - I must have lent back a bit! It's at 9mm (18 equivalent) so fairly easy to hit when you can't see the horizon. A spirit level is on the christmas wish list!Wow! That's a future trip for me
I love the first pick, but am I right in thinking that there's a bit of perspective distortion there.
that your baby? cute! nice oneThe ones with the wheel locks are ace
Afraid I'm going to have to up the cute factor...
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