On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:50:02 +0100, Nils Frohberg <nilsf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.skelpitheid.com/wheel.html
wow! great picture!
what IS that?
--nils
Ah, the famous Falkirk Wheel. It's a boat lift.
Two canals meet in our neighbourhood, the Union Canal and the Forth and
Clyde Canal. They fell into disuse during the 20th century, and with the
rise of the car they became disjointed as bits were filled in, or bridges
lowered, to make way for roads.
As part of the Millenium celebrations the canals have been restored to
leisure use, allowing navigation along their full lengths.
Problem at Falkirk was the lack of locks, which had carried boats from the
lower Forth and Clyde up to the higher Union. The Falkirk Wheel is the
answer. Each trip uses only the equivalent electricity of boiling two
kettles, and almost no water is lost.
Boats enter the wheel (top or bottom), which is then rotated (takes about
seven minutes), carrying the boat, still afloat, to the other canal, via
the basin visible beyond the wheel. In a sense it operates exactly like a
system of locks, but more spectacularly. It's actually quite beautiful.
Photo was taken, hand-held, on a 35RD. Ilford Delta 100 @ ISO 100, 1/250
on Auto. Red Hoya filter. Scanned on an Acer Scanwit 2720S at 2700/48-bit
high quality. In Photoshop I made a levels layer, darkened the sky to
match the negative, then restored the rest of the detail with dodging.
www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/
Thanks for the comments!
D.
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Donald Neil MacDonald BA DipLIS
www.skelpitheid.com
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