OK, am in Northamptonshire today and tomorrow and I know they have loads of wind farms - so I packed Foxbat and kept an eye out. Saw a nice sized batch of whirly gigs, so found a place to park up.
Unfortunately, just after take off, I got set upon by a swarm of thunderflies! So I didn’t have much time to get a worldy! Bloody things were all over me, the controller and my tab!
Second one is a lucky shot, I was playing with Litchi timelapse’s and this little electric train happened to get in one of the shots. Shot at Great Heck (couple of miles from me), that bridge is the point where the driver drove off the M62 and onto the main east coast line causing the Selby rail crash in 2001 Wiki details
So - Hythe Pier is in Southampton water, and a half-hourly ferry runs to-and-fro Southampton.
The pier is 640m long, and the narrow gauge (2ft) electric train dates from 1909, powered by a 240v electric third rail.
My intention, before seagull intervention (see above), was to use a Litchi “zip wire” and track the train the full length. The vid below was a third attempt flying totally manually … until I chickened (seagulled?) out.
I did hope that starting at the far end, the seagulls mainly loitering around the town end, I’d have better luck. But nope.
So perhaps they’d not follow me to 150m?
There was a brief pause in their endeavours to send me packing (another brief vid will be posted later) but I did get a “plan view” shot.
“Reservoir” had me worried - I knew of none nearby.
Googling informed me that Hampshire has only one - Testwood Lakes - to the west of Southampton and fed from the River Test, run by Southern Water. https://www.southernwater.co.uk/testwood-lakes
Never taken a photo with the camera rotated to portrait mode, before … suited the view! Must use more often!
Too right its contentious, according to the oxford English dictionary the word building has 5 definitions;
1, A structure with a roof and walls, such as a house or factory. on a plot of land
2, The action or trade of constructing something.
3, ‘the building of motorways’
4, The creation or development of something over a period of time.
‘the building of democracy in Guatemala’
5, A flock of rooks. eg ‘a picture of her standing amongst a building of rooks’
, so I think you are going for number 2, however a ship can be built, but the end result is not a building. a good effort though, although a photo of a flock of rooks with 10 or more birds above each other would have been fine!
Also in Northampton, there is an Eleanor Cross. After his wife, Eleanor of Castile died, Edward I erected these crosses at places where her body rested overnight. Familiar places like Waltham Cross are so named because of this.
Anyway, please excuse the Heras fencing and dodgy focus (I was near a road and didn’t want to hang about). This is my Monument entry…