Bubbles and Seahorses on a beach hut in New Romey, Kent, England
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Monday, 27 August 2012
Bubble away your Monday blues ....
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Fuel rods and Dungeness
LR-7485_PS_shopped - Bit of a play on terms but severing a similar purpose. Dungeness Power Station is a pair of nuclear reactors, always seemed to me to be a barren waste lands associated with these things. First time I have been this close to one, a building or two that inspires very little in the artistic appeal area, for me any ways.
May be it was living quite a bit of my life with the media pumping the Cold War down my throat and the three minute warning and films like when the wind blows etc.
So this is my humour at all those thoughts and miss sold concepts from many years ago.
The stations are built on the largest area of open shingle in Europe, measuring 12 km by 6 km, which has been deposited by the sea and built up over thousands of years. The entire area is moving slowly north and east as the sea moves the shingle from one side of the ness to the other. It is surrounded by a nature reserve Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). A fleet of lorries is used to continuously maintain shingle sea defences for the plant as coastal erosion would otherwise move shingle away at an estimated rate of 6 m per year. Around 30,000 cubic metres of shingle are moved each year. It seems that deposition on the north shore of the ness does not keep pace with demand. In all 90,000 cubic metres are moved each year along parts of the coast between Pett Level and Hythe. This is necessary for the safety of the entire area including the power stations. Approximately 100 million litres of cooling water are extracted and returned to the sea each hour, after being heated 12° Celsius (22 °F). Citation
I have been shooting in RAW recently and you will notice LR prefixing the image numbers, this one is probably my first bit of post processing to enhance an image. Normally in Lightroom I crop and use a predefined settings to deliver what I thought was in the viewer at the time of the shot, mainly because I haven't read the manual to put some settings in the camera. Hence the removal of the SOOC statements
Friday Tripping - It's coffee time ...
LR-7606_PSwords - So I attempted to omit all branding from the shot and realised on posting there is just a little bit left!
Coffee a double Expresso to wake me up after driving for 4 hours to get to the ferry terminal on a Bank Holiday Friday from Dungeness
Expresso
Sun Light House
LR-7426 - Probably one of the reasons the journey home took a little bit longer than expected!
There have been five lighthouses at Dungeness. At first only a beacon was used to give warning to sailors, but this gave way to a proper lighthouse during the reign of James I in 1615. As the sea retreated, this had to be replaced in 1635 by a new lighthouse nearer to the water’s edge known as Lamplough's Tower.
As more shingle was thrown up, a new and more up-to-date lighthouse was built near the sea in 1792 by Samuel Wyatt. This lighthouse was about 35 m (115 ft) high and of the same design as the third Eddystone Lighthouse. From the mid-nineteenth century, it was painted black with a white band to make it more visible in daylight; similar colours have featured on the subsequent lighthouses here. Though this lighthouse was demolished in 1904, the lighthouse keepers' accommodation built in a circular form around the base of the tower remain in existence.
In 1901 construction commenced on the fourth lighthouse, known as the High Light Tower. It was first lit on 31 March 1904 and still stands today, though no longer in use as a lighthouse but open as a visitor attraction. It is a circular brick structure, 41 m (135 ft) high and 11 m (36 ft) in diameter at ground level. Its 169 steps give visitors a bird’s eye view of the shingle beach.
As the sea receded further, and following the construction of the nuclear power station which obscured the light of the 1904 lighthouse, it proved necessary to build a fifth lighthouse. This was brought into operation on 20 November 1961 and is constructed of precast concrete rings. Its colour of black and white bands is impregnated into the concrete. It remains in use today, monitored and controlled from the Trinity House Operations and Planning Centre at Harwich, Essex.[1]
citiation
Your Not Going to Fence me in with that
LR-7383 - Bit late Bank Holiday traffic in the UK was a bit rough. If you think your going to keep me fenced in think again, no matter the weather this weekend.
Have a great weekend, enjoy HFF
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