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I live in a camper van with a West Highland Terrier for company.
My passion is creating images but it is a work in progress.
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

OLD AND NEW (21/03/12).

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA It’s been a dry but dull couple of days. Not as dull as the image above but not really conducive to photography.

I am leaving Ravenglass tomorrow so there follows a quick round up of bits of the place.

P3202071_2_3_4_5_tonemapped_edited-1    One span of the railway viaduct.

P3212111_2_3_4_5_tonemapped_edited-1   The seafront.

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P3202031_2_3_4_5_tonemapped_edited-1 This is The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. Known colloquially as L’all Ratty. Originally built to three foot gauge for mineral hauling. The track was re-laid to fifteen inches and is now used for passenger carrying. This locomotive is the River Irt and was built in 1894.

P3212096_097_098_099_100_tonemapped_edited-1 Northern Rock built here in Ravenglass in1976. She has two sisters which were built and sold to a theme park in Japan.

These images are HDR with the steam reintroduced as a single exposure as are the people.

Today is the first day of spring so lets hope for some warm sunny weather in the north and continuous gentle rain in the south. It will do little good as the idiots in charge of planning keep building and concreting over the countryside.  Were there any ponds left there would be more intelligent life lying under stones at the bottom of them. The rain just runs off into drains thence to rivers and out to the sea, fat lot of good it does there.

The good news today is that the Badger cull in Wales has been rejected in favour of a vaccination programme.

All the best and have fun.

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44 comments:

  1. Red21 March 2012 at 17:11

    Interesting little trains.
    Now keeping natural habitat is one of my passions. Even here the natural habitat is badly fragmented.

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  2. Travel France Online21 March 2012 at 18:40

    Like the train, it is beautifully well maintained!

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    1. ADRIAN22 March 2012 at 05:21

      DeeBee, They have four in service plus a couple of diesels. It's a grand train trip.

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  3. Scrappy Grams21 March 2012 at 19:12

    I thought you in the UK would have more sense. I'd hate to think that events in the old movie "Soylent Green" will happen because of all the concrete lovers. :(

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    1. ADRIAN22 March 2012 at 05:22

      Norma, life is not that depressing....YET!

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  4. theconstantwalker21 March 2012 at 19:18

    Wonderful images Adrian...
    I have stayed in the lovely little village of Boot at the other end of the line..

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    1. ADRIAN22 March 2012 at 05:23

      Andrew, it's a Job wants doing properly, Next time I'm here I'll go out without the dogs.

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  5. Magic Moments21 March 2012 at 19:36

    Lovely shots Adrian

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  6. GB21 March 2012 at 20:13

    An edificating post with pretty pics to boot.

    Problem is Adrian that you have to put all these people who keep multiplying like, well, people, somewhere. We can't all wander round the countryside on four wheels. Mind you as someone who occupies two homes in two hemispheres I suppose I should keep my mouth closed (or my keyboard untouched).

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    1. ADRIAN22 March 2012 at 05:26

      Graham, I agree but we could make better use of the rain and infrastructure we have. That takes imagination and brains.

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  7. holdingmoments21 March 2012 at 21:02

    Rather like that second shot Adrian.

    Good news from Wales, re the non cull. I hope the English mob decide the same thing.
    If people stopped breeding like mad, we wouldn't need to keep concreting over the countryside. Perhaps a human cull?

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    1. ADRIAN22 March 2012 at 05:27

      Keith, ta. Human cull....brilliant. Lets start in Westminster.

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  8. Gillian Olson21 March 2012 at 22:52

    Great images, that second one is beautifully framed by the bridge.

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    1. ADRIAN22 March 2012 at 05:28

      Gillian, I stood in the water, there's a ford here at low water.

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  9. Friko21 March 2012 at 23:25

    I hope all the Shropshire badgers will emigrate pronto.

    I wish we had a bit more rain here, the river is very low already and the garden is fairly dry. And this is in the very depths of the countryside, no concrete anywhere.

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    1. ADRIAN22 March 2012 at 05:30

      Friko, be careful what you wish for. I can envisage the country being inundated this summer.

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  10. CameraCruise22 March 2012 at 08:45

    Great shots!
    I especially like the second.
    Have a great day.
    Mette

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  11. ADRIAN22 March 2012 at 09:28

    Mette, thank you. You have a good day too.

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  12. Bob Bushell22 March 2012 at 10:09

    Lovely little steam engine, and all of them photos.

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  13. Midmarsh John23 March 2012 at 08:29

    I wonder how much of Virgin's rolling stock will still be working in a hundred years time. Lovely to see the engines, built at a time when working efficiency and a certain amount of beauty both counted equally.

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  14. Dave23 March 2012 at 10:04

    I enjoyed this blog Adrian. The engines look great - Dave

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  15. Lynne with an e23 March 2012 at 13:07

    I'm very pleased to have discovered your blog and look forward to tootling around the countryside with you through your postings. By the way, I don't consider 62 as being "old age." I have my reasons.

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  16. Linda23 March 2012 at 18:31

    Hi Adrian,

    Greetings from Montreal, Canada. It must be fascinating and wonderful to travel like that. I wish you many more great adventures. Thanks so much for sharing, your photos are just gorgeous and sharp!

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  17. J24 March 2012 at 15:29

    Lovely pictures, and I do enjoy your HDR processing, which I haven't really got the patience to master. Agree with you re: the badger cull in Wales, but not sure you can complain about the concreting-over of the countryside, when you are contributing to it by racing around it in your camper van, and thus contributing to road traffic clogging existing roads, and thence the need for new road-building. You should be using public transport like I do! (Sounding a bit holier-than-thou there, perhaps, but there you go!)

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    1. ADRIAN26 March 2012 at 08:03

      Jeremy, thanks. I do about four thousand miles per year. Were I to sit in solitary splendour on a bus then my carbon footprint would be far higher. I am really holy. All the best.

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  18. Ruby24 March 2012 at 18:00

    I love the train shots, have to say it does look like the theme park train I went in as a kid :) I like the first shot. Good to see you back Adrian!

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  19. DawnTreader28 March 2012 at 18:03

    Sounds complicated but looks great. Not that I'm the best judge at the moment (some eye trouble).

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  20. Rohrerbot29 March 2012 at 03:07

    Love your trains. Wish I could fit on them:)

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  21. Lucy Corrander : Photos29 March 2012 at 06:34

    I enormously like the story book quality of the top photo. It keeps drawing me back up the page. Agree about the daftness of letting rain run off then complaining we don't have enough water. Don't know what the answer will be about badgers and TB (suspect, in my ignorance,the answer will be with the way cattle are looked after). But eradicating badgers from the UK (the logic of culling) would be . . . can't think of word which expresses the grossness of wanting rid of a species like this.

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  22. Horst in Edmonton11 April 2012 at 21:33

    Hey Adrian, haven't heard from you for a while, is everything OK? I miss your blogs.

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  23. Anonymous12 April 2012 at 17:33

    Hellooooo....

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  24. Linda13 April 2012 at 07:31

    Hi Adrian, yes it's me Linda...lol....I have a new blog now! I have missed your wonderful journey of stories and images....I love your processing techniques...excellent hdr ..lovely crisp colors on the train! I hope you have been well...greetings from United States! Linda :))

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  25. Caroline Gill16 April 2012 at 18:08

    What superb photos ... it's ages since I was in that corner of the UK. I don't recall that kind of sunshine, though! I'm grateful to Ruby for pointing me in this direction (though she may not know it!).

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  26. Laura~Pretty Pix21 April 2012 at 09:47

    We miss you, Adrian. I hope all is well with you.

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  27. Hilary29 April 2012 at 06:54

    Tap, tap, tap. I hope all is okay, with you, Adrian.

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  28. matron30 April 2012 at 10:13

    Adrian,where are you,miss your photos and your wit,Hope you are well,
    Best wishes,Carolyn.

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  29. Fernando Santos (Chana)3 May 2012 at 12:49

    Excelente trabalho....
    Cumprimentos

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  30. Dan5 May 2012 at 17:12

    Rich, vibrant and bold except the first.

    Hope you're up and at it... and keeping well.

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  31. Diana11 May 2012 at 22:04

    Wonderful blog with great pictures! I joined your blog and look forward to seeing more :)

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  32. Avtoprokat5 June 2012 at 07:54

    Great article, great pictures.

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  33. Jenny Woolf11 June 2012 at 10:43

    I've wanted to visit Ravenglass and Eskdale railway for years. I don't know why those miniature locos appeal so much. Thanks for the photos!

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  34. DawnTreader14 June 2012 at 15:32

    Have been returning to this post every now and then, wondering about your sudden disappearance? Hope you are okay.

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