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Denton's Pictures
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I did try and take a picture of this memorial in Victoria Park two weeks ago but the TYTN II was rubbish. At this time of year and this time of day the sun is behind the memorial making it impossible to take anything but a silhouette of it, the Pentax however allows you to choose the where to take an exposure reading from an then shift the focus. I still reckon that a simple film camera would produce better results.
With my arms and as my Wife reports my face coated in bike oil this Saturday this is the best you're getting I am afraid. The house now smells of citrus degreaser and bike oil from putting the bike back together. There is the usual trail of black oil around the house which as you can imagine gets me no brownie points. With more work to go tomorrow setting the bike up for the morning commute on Monday I'm sure the doghouse is getting nearer.
Going back to the picture, the poppies at the bottom of the memorial are to do with a service that happened last weekend which is connected to the fact that the Air Cadets were in Manchester last weekend but I still don't know what that was for. Any ideas?
| 0 comments have been left | 23:02 31 Jan 2009 | Tags: memorial poppies denton park |
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There two weird things about this picture from Debdale park. The first is that to the left of the picture on the corner of the house are some strange oblong shapes, each one appears to be a piece of cement with a lump of glass embedded, each one marked with a date ending in a year with a three at the end, I think the earliest was 1933. This happens to be a building that looks like a hallish thing, or something like that. Don't know what the glass is there for though.
Just after the slight amazement of this, my Wife said "Is that a... is it alive that squirrel?" and sure enough in the picture slap bang in the middle is the tail of en ex-squirrel which looked like it might have found out that electric cables are not there as tasty snacks.
| 0 comments have been left | 13:36 5 Nov 2006 | Tags: squirrel denton |
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This is a very bad picture of the steam train that went through Denton a while back. This is the Rollei version, unfortunately when I scanned it, it clipped the top third off as the scanner didn't "see" any important detail in it. Of course the main problem with that is it’s unbalanced the picture and I haven’t had the time to fix this. Perhaps one day.
| 0 comments have been left | 17:42 8 Jan 2006 | Tags: steam train transport denton |
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Further down towards Stockport it looked a little grim. Mind you this is partly to do with the fact that I didn't turn the contrast on the camera up, so it looks a little more like some disaster movie than it should.
| 0 comments have been left | 17:29 25 Dec 2005 | Tags: fog denton |
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Whilst last night was foggy, it cleared, but driving off on Christmas Day fog loomed at the end of our street. In fact I think our street seemed the clearest for miles, however we only drove into Stockport, so the East side of Manchester could have clear as day.
| 0 comments have been left | 17:27 25 Dec 2005 | Tags: christmas denton |
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Oh blimey it’s the foggiest Christmas eve that I’ve ever seen. It came down all of a sudden and like a blanket we can’t see anything. Not like last year which was white, the famous white Christmas In Denton.
Next year I hope for a the rainiest… at least we don’t live in a valley.
Happy Christmas.
| 0 comments have been left | 21:19 24 Dec 2005 | Tags: fog christmas denton |
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Ah the wonder of the still camera, or is it my lack of skill. Whilst this looks like a train stopped at a station it isn't. I missed the most important part. I think the Rollei got a good picture but that will take time to process.
No this is a steam train going through Denton train station. Not only is it rare for Denton station to see trains (only one stops here a day and you have to flag it down... it's true honest) but this is a steam train.
On the way home from B&Q we spotted this train stopped on a bridge, thinking it may go through Denton we rush to get this picture. Just as this train got to Denton a freight train passed us this side of the track hence the delay in taking the picture missing the engine. Denton truly was blessed with not one but two trains all at once.
As you can see my skills shone out at this moment, struggling to take a picture with my phone and taking several with the Rollei, the one decent one I got with the phone has my finger in shot at the bottom. Nice work.
| 0 comments have been left | 14:20 22 Oct 2005 | Tags: denton station transport steam |
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Picture 2 of the reservoir a nice little picture of symmetry I think and a with a gate that is specially designed for small people. This means that the council needs to employ people of around 2-3 feet high for working on this part of the reservoir.
| 0 comments have been left | 14:10 2 Oct 2005 | Tags: reservoir denton symmetry |
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After finding how to adjust the contrast on the phone camera it took a reasonable shot of this rather ornate bit of a reservoir that I didn't know existed just about a half a mile away from my house.
| 0 comments have been left | 14:08 2 Oct 2005 | Tags: reservoir denton |
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Manchester Road after heavy rain. The sun somes out and it looks quite nice... well I think so.
| 0 comments have been left | 19:59 13 Aug 2005 | Tags: manchester denton road |
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