Chatham Dockyard Architecture

The heavy overcast conditions were not the best to record inside the amazing Rope Walk Building.
The ropewalk at Chatham Dockyard is still producing rope commercially and has an internal length of 1,135 ft (346 m). When it was constructed in 1790, it was the longest brick building in Europe. Before steam power was introduced in 1836, it took over 200 men to form and close a 20-inch (circumference) cable laid rope. The rope walk is used to form and close the rope, these being the final stages in rope making. Before this the raw hemp, manila hemp or sisal has to be hatchelled, spun into yarn, and tarred.

 The Royal Dockyard Church, dating from the early 19th Century, was designed by Edward Holl and built largely by the dockyard's own workforce. The last service took place in December 1981.

The large building near the entrance is one of Britain’s architectural gems with its impressive wooden ceiling. When built in 1838 this immense covered slip was Europe’s largest wide span timber structure. 

Iceland Revisited

 I have had a week processing photos rather than taking them as I needed to produce some prints for the Permajet Lecturers' Exibition at Smethwick. I can't, unfortunately, make the Lecture day itself (Sunday 5th October) as I am judging Kingston Camera Club Annual Exhibition that weekend. 

Flies etc at National Botanic Gardens of Wales

 A variety of Hoverflies and one Bee (on the pink flower) taken at National Botanic Garden of Wales last Friday using 300mm f4 lens with 12.5 or 25mm extension tube. I was testing what aperture would give sufficient depth of field. At the largest magnification (25mm ring), it required f22 to get sufficient depth. Shooting with the 12.5 ring or without rings and then cropping in much tighter in Lightroom resulted in more depth of field so some here are shot at f11.

Cardiff Bay Barrage and Penarth

I wasn't aware that there was a concrete society award - I presume the award applies to the concrete rather than society!. The pink elephant looks down on the extensive concrete jetty and the metal louvre structures over the sluice gates of the Cardiff Bay barrage. Even early in the morning when I took the shots, the bridges were constantly lifting to let boats through the locks. Penarth esplanade and pier have undergone a lot of modernisation in recent years enjoyed on Saturday by fisherman and the occasional tourist.

Light and Shade in Bath

A few images taken in beautiful evening light in Bath.

'Super moon'

Taken as the moon rose on Tuesday evening around 7.30pm. By 7.45pm it was too bright to get all the detail easily.

Up and Down in Greenwich

This image looking down to the Thames from the steps of the Naval college had the feel of an old oil painting due to the architecture and the old ships.When you look more closely at the clothing and the distance and it brings it back to the 21st century. If I had thought it would have been good to get the ships from the north bank as then the scene would have differed little from Canaletto's famous 1750's image 

The following images look up and down and also in the first 6 images compare a fisheye 15mm with a 24mm lens. The last two are also fisheye images.