Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, FWIW, have you come across a book called "Liquid History - The Thames through Time" by Stephen Croad? It's a collection of photographs of the Thames going back to the mid 1800s and is well worth a look if you are at all intersted in the history of the river in photographs. There is a picture from 1993 of the generating station and pier. The Pier was designed by Sir Maurice FitzMaurice in 1903-5 and featured a systetm of railway trucks that ran to the external coal bunkers. Peter Dzwig >>> This is the coaling pier at Greenwich Power Station. > > Colliers used to dock >>> > >> alongside and offload coal to fire the electricity generators. >>> > >> >>> > >> http://www.web-options.com/Top12/content/L1030230_large.html >>> > >> >>> > >> The power station is a back-up for the London Underground. > > It's still >>> > >> operational, but is now gas-fired. The pillars of the pier > > are Doric in >>> > >> style. >>> > >> >>> > >> The beach beneath the pier was the setting for a murder > > mystery written byst two, and >>> > >> local resident and former Poet Laureate C. Day-Lewis, > > writing as Nichola >>> > >> Blake. > > > > Bob this is a nice shot; but sunsets/sunrises, are easy. Thanks. Can't argue with that analysis. > > You need to > > offer thanks to God for giving us yet another lovely sunset. The > > hardest pictures to make your own are fire, sunsets and fireworks. > > > > Given all the stuff you wrote about it, I'd love to see more > > exploration of the place. There's another shot here, from a different angle, among a bunch of other photos from Greenwich: http://www.web-options.com/Greenwich/content/_7036150_large.html > > I'd even like to shoot there, but seeing I > > will not be back to the UK for awhile, I'll have to depend on you to > > get me some better shots. > > Not really my kind of subject, to be honest, but if there's an easy shot I'm not above grabbing it. Bob _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig