Weather Today - In Your Vicinity (2012)

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Re: Weather Today - In Your Vicinity (2012)

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Those towers certainly are monsters caporip, interesting they have a guard for something that’s going to be knocked down anyway.
It’s been overcast and drizzling for two days and nights here, nothing but dull grey kludge wall to wall.
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Ps I think they will probably finish the bridge this year DA, apparently they have had problems according to someone I know who lives close to the bridge. I didn’t have time to find out what the problems were.

KM5D KM18-200 (Evening, still grey and drizzling, the quandong tree across the road is starting to recover now after the cyclone stripped it almost bare and smashed many branches off last year)
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Very impressive shots of the towers Caporip - it will make quite a difference to the skyline around there when they come down.

Glad to see the flora is getting back to normal Greg after the cyclone. (The English Civil War as it is typically known was a big falling out between the King, Charles I, and his parliament. A rather nasty little war ensued which was actually fought across the whole British Isles, and lost Charles his head in 1649. The end result was the restoration of Charles' son, Charles II, as a constitutional monarch in 1660 after England's brief dabble as a republic under Oliver Cromwell.)
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Greg

Thanks. The site is well protected by security as you'd have hordes of people like me getting up close and personal. Its the same with a lot of derelict sites (especially some old coal mine sites in Kent) where I suspect its a combination of squatters and injury claims they are worried about. Theres quite a movement to get shots of these places before they go completely - sometimes risking the law but so far I've been a good boy and just taken shots wheres its permissable to do so.

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Thanks, love that castle shot btw made a mental note to see where it is. Yes in some ways it will be a shame to see them go as they are such an iconic feature. I'm trying to find out the due date of the demolition which is going to be by explosives but no one (not even English Heritage who run the roman site nearby) knows when exactly. I'm keeping an eye out as there are one or two spots I'd like to shoot it from!

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Something should be done to protect at least one full-size cooling tower. What is not so generally understood is the subterranean works below most towers. I was lucky enough photograph Drax B for the CEGB in the 1980s during construction, my job was to show the quality of the highly durable pozzolanic concrete used (ash from power stations as a valuable by-product used in cement formulation). This involved going underground into the sluices and water tunnels - you can't call them pipes, you could drive a truck down them, same as the huge tunnels under reservoirs. Apart from being dark and confusing like a maze, there were huge butterfly-valve steel gates set in the tunnel sides and behind these millions of gallons of water.

Another scary thing was a volute - this is like a huge concrete casting in ammonite/snail shape, and it's the principle which made James Dyson one of the richest men in the world. He nicked the concept for the Dyson vacuum cleaner from the precipitators used in the power station flue system. The volute accelerates the gas flow and (not sure how) spins out the particles like fly ash and cenospheres (tiny perfect silicate hollow spheres, sold to the plastics industry and used as 'filler' in those classic 1980s computer casings). So I crawled into a volute unit to see whether I could get a shot, but entering an ever-narrowing spiral tube is not a good experience even going in backwards - and photographs were just meaningless, you could not tell the shape of the thing.

I'm sure though that a cooling tower conserved, with some of the other power station bits and lagoons and water channels and underground stuff, would make a visitor attraction in the future.

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Weather In Istanbul:
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2°C: Feels Like -4°C
Wind: From North at 37 kmph

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Snowing in Istanbul. The cold must have been the penetrating kind yesterday, so much that I was sick by this morning. After some urgent remedies I was able and up on my two feet once again with a silly dizziness still lingering. After a couple of nice hot energizing cups of soup I should be much better. : )

While it's blazing cold outside with the wind throwing about snow flakes, it's great to see some bright shots from Birma and all.

:D Birma, nice historical story-telling and photos of the medivial castle as well as great shot of the meadow with a nice curve.

Mike, nice shots of the planes. You must have a good set of the visiting planes and you appear to have a good memory of names and plane types. : )

Caporip, a good 'climate-awareness' shot. Those towers look intimidating.
Thanks to David for the information behind these towers and the substructure.

Greg, good to see the trees back in their good health. : ) They do seem to compete with power wires in height and appear to be touching from this angle but I guess they actually aren't.

Thanks to all for sharing,


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I have been having a read about King Charles 1, people back then lived quite a complex life in their own way with their interwoven web of social mores and the religious aspect mixed into everything they did. I can see why he fell out with the Parliament, he did just about everything that they didn’t want an English King to do; actually I think he might have covered every single base, and a couple of extra ones for good measure.
I doubt that those cooling towers would make the national trust list, that might be the only way of saving one perhaps, but I bet there is some development bigshot somewhere who has bought the land for peanuts, because getting it back to usability is not going to be cheap especially with all that huge network underneath. I suppose it’ll all end up building a new breakwater wall somewhere.
Hi Yildiz, I hope you are looking after yourself in that freeze you’ve got happening there, you should nip down here for a month too thaw out, but I think you would dislike the heat and humidity (and insects) more than the cold. Actually talking about those big power wires, one of the palm tree fronds was contacting the wires in the cyclone and every time it did there was a sizzling flash, that tree died from the electrocution (it turned brown, I didn’t think a tree would be affected by electricity that much) and has been chopped down, the one that is still there has now grown to a size where it might do the same thing in a big storm.
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Hi Greg, : )

Yes, from your photo it's obvious that you're having a very wet weather in Townsville.. The palm-like leaves are loaded with dripping raindrops. :D

Sorry to hear of the electrocution of the tall plants when in contact with a power line. I suppose it's no different than being hit by lightning. Trees turn to charcoal and become lifeless when hit by lightning. I remember some such trees photographed by forum members and submitted to the forum in the past years.

I'm better now, thank you. :D The cold weather is kind of surprising here and you never know how you might wake up. It sneaks into your bones and muscles without you knowing it.

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aster wrote:Weather In Istanbul:

Mike, nice shots of the planes. You must have a good set of the visiting planes and you appear to have a good memory of names and plane types. : )

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Yildiz,

Sad to say that I am a keen aviation enthusiast preferring the military side of things. I will however regularly photograph civil planes to keep my eye in and enjoy the colours. Luckily my home is 10 minutes from Aberdeen airport and my work office overlooks part of the runway.

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Thank you Richard and Yildiz :D

Hope you are fully recovered soon Yildiz!
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Weather In Istanbul:
-1°C: Feels Like -5°C
Wind: From Northwest at 11 kmph
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Birma;

Thanks, I'm better indeed. : )

It's freezing cold outside still but I liked the sunlight for the beginning of the day and took a couple of shots. I even have a ferry in one shot but hardly qualifies for the 'Ferries' thread unfortunately.... :)


Yildiz

ps. Views you're all used to by now. : ))
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That’s quite ok if we have seen those views before Yildiz, you never post the same shot twice as there’s always something different happening in the strait or with the weather. Those are great views, I think the sun photo is special; it does look as though it’s trying too warm you up. Is/was your hand shaking from the cold in the second, it looks a little softer than your usual sharpness. Actually I think you might have more ferries in that shot than any shot so far in the Ferry thread. The poor Seagull looks cold too.
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Hi Greg, :)

Thanks for not tiring of the views. The happenings change by each moment around the clock indeed, as far as the strait is concerned. Even a slight light change makes a whole different effect. : )

You have a good eye. You're right about the soft image. I'm still a bit shaken from yesterday and there are momentary sways that I feel myself doing when standing up in one place for long. My brain still feels like I'm travelling on a boat on shaky waters, hence the soft image.
But I did take sequential shots in bursts so I replaced the soft photo with one of the sharper outcomes of the Historical Peninsula.

I hope this one is sharper or I'll start doubting my eyesight quality for a while too. :D

Thanks for noticing,

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Lovely views Yildiz, and, as Greg says, great to see those ferries :) I will never tire of the views you bring us of Istanbul and the Bosphorus; not only a placed steeped in the very fabric of our history, but also somewhere that has such amazing light :D . Glad you're on the mend - more soup!
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Tsawwassen. Rain & Snow 2ºc

Magnificent Towers Richard, I like all of them.

Good to see things recovering from the Cyclone Greg. The rain won't do the plants much harm. ;^)

Never tire of those shots Yildiz. Golden start to the day & big ferry with a couple of escorts. Always something different going on as Greg says. That gull has a warm spot atop the stack, with the best view of all.. ;^)
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Weather In Istanbul:
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3°C: Feels Like -3°C
Wind: From North at 40 kmph
Mostly Cloudy / Windy
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Thank you, Birma. :)

I feel better though I haven't tested the outdoors yet...and it's snowing right now in Istanbul. The scenery is looking very nice actually. : ) I can't complain personally because Istanbul's water reservoirs are doing better for the precipitation we were lucky to get lately. Drinking water supply increased which means no risk of drought or water shortage.

Thank you, David Antony. :)

You're very kind. : ) The seagulls I envy, they always get the best of Istanbul but I'm not sure if they appreciate what they see with their bird-eye viewing priviledges. :D

Thanks,

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