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« Reply #495 on: 16:28:00, 08-04-2008 » |
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spectacular pic, Ron - one of your very own, I take it?  |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #496 on: 16:44:51, 08-04-2008 » |
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spectacular pic, Ron - one of your very own, I take it? No, he took it. (Sorry!) |
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« Reply #497 on: 17:27:08, 08-04-2008 » |
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Yes, it's a Ron shot: the "High Girders' ( pr. "Heh Gu rrude rrs") are a favourite subject. Not as stunning as the 'Scarlet Lady" (a.k.a. the Forth Bridge) I grant you, but it's as good a setting and there are far more viewpoints, and the light is often rather more interesting: |
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« Reply #498 on: 18:36:34, 08-04-2008 » |
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Here's a day when the Tay looked milky rather than silvery: March 14th, 2006, a snowy, misty day. It's taken from the Law Hill, the plug of an extinct volcano which dominates Dundee. From here you can see just what a job they had crossing the Tay, a distance of well over two miles. A northbound GNER 125 is just rounding the steep curve at the Dundee end of the bridge before coasting down the incline to the station. |
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« Reply #499 on: 22:26:03, 08-04-2008 » |
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That's more Ron pics snaffled for the Mort album. I particularly like that last one, Ron.
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« Reply #500 on: 00:29:14, 09-04-2008 » |
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Incredible colours in msg #497!
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« Reply #501 on: 01:34:00, 09-04-2008 » |
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Here's one from the Fife (south) side. The stumps of the pillars of the original bridge are even clearer here: |
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« Reply #502 on: 09:17:18, 09-04-2008 » |
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These bridge pix are great, Ron, although I'm having to 'skim view' them thanks to a certain, er, indisposition of mine...  |
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« Reply #503 on: 10:07:33, 09-04-2008 » |
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Incredible colours in msg #497!
Absolutely. Would you perhaps agree, Ron, that one very fine thing that digital encourages is the practice of pointing the thing at the light and thinking 'damn it, I know you're not supposed to do this but let's see what happens'? |
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« Reply #504 on: 10:58:33, 09-04-2008 » |
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Here's one from the Fife (south) side. The stumps of the pillars of the original bridge are even clearer here:  Your picture shows how narrow the original was Ron - no wonder it collapsed. I've found this photo of it being built:  It looks as though the slightest puff of wind would knock it over - though in fact it was a large man who did so.  |
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« Reply #505 on: 11:06:45, 09-04-2008 » |
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Absolutely, Ollie: the light on the day of the second picture was really apocalyptic, and the river as rough as I've ever seen it, but because the light was fading, the only hope I had of capturing anything was to shoot into the light: providing that I can avoid flare on the lens, it's something that I do quite regularly. Here it is from the other side, about ten minutes earlier: the roughness of the waves is clearer: whilst ten minutes after the first photo, walking back towards the city centre, there's only really light in the sky, and the camera is struggling to compensate; Andy,  |
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« Reply #506 on: 11:20:43, 09-04-2008 » |
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Another shot straight into the sun, though with the Girders yielding precedence for once. The big camera had arrived by this time, with clearly better resolution. |
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« Reply #507 on: 11:35:25, 09-04-2008 » |
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Glorious colours, Ron. And the clarity of those branches against the sky ... Another Dough triumph!
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« Reply #508 on: 12:01:28, 09-04-2008 » |
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And it's goodnight from me as welll 'Ang On Guv, whas the time? Sarf of the River? You got to be joking this time of night Me lost in the mist  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #509 on: 21:28:36, 10-04-2008 » |
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Here's one from the Fife (south) side. The stumps of the pillars of the original bridge are even clearer here: Those stumps have a ghostly quality. Some great pix posted of this bridge. I find it quite amazing that the engine was retrieved from the river bed and repaired!  'The Diver': Engine number 224.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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