Along The Towpath by gillbrooks

Vue • Scenic • posted on Jan 25, 2010

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Excerpt from Wiki : "The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution at a time when roads were only just emerging from the medieval mud and long trains of pack horses were the only means of "mass" transit by road of raw materials and finished products (it was no accident that amongst the first canal promoters were the pottery manufacturers of Staffordshire). The UK was the first country to acquire a nationwide canal network The 20th century brought competition from road-haulage, and only the strongest canals survived until the Second World War. After the war decline of trade on all remaining canals was rapid, and by the mid 1960s only a token traffic was left, even on the widest and most industrial waterways. In the 1960s the infant canal leisure industry was only just sufficient to prevent the closure of the still-open canals, but then the pressure to maintain canals for leisure purposes increased. From the 1970s onwards, increasing numbers of closed canals were restored by enthusiast volunteers, and this continues today" -------------------------------- Thanks to Armitage Shanks and Mr. Spode's residence in the neighbouring village, the Trent & Mersey Canal runs near to us. Lovely place to walk the dog (when we're not up on Cannock Chase) Rendered 4 times till I was happy with this. I like the final result though :) Thanx 4 peekin'

Comments (44)

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thefixer

2:06PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Nice work Gill.

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lwperkins

2:10PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Hehe, Spode china! My uncle went on a canal tour in the UK and the normally sourpuss man loved every minute of it..and I can see why, if it was as lovely as this!

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raikki

2:18PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Fantastic image!

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kftate

2:28PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Beautiful!!

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Badsue

2:36PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

What a wonderful place. I'd like to walk my dog there too! Great work.

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MRX3010

2:51PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Looks great, nice and green.

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dfsmetsfan

2:54PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Lovely Gill

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Petra-S

2:55PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

sehr realistisch..sehr schön..super images!

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magnus073

2:57PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Lovely image Gill, can't get over all the details here and superb job on the background info from Wiki

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kjer_99

3:34PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Sadly, most of our canal heritage in the States IS history; although there are sections of the most historic ones still being maintained as national historic landmarks.

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dorkati

3:42PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Great work dear :)

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Svarg

3:45PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

We have such canals around here, used long ago. Beautiful image!

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jclP

5:02PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Beautiful!!

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Cosme..D..Churruca

5:06PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

bravisimo... a very fine scene!

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Brian S.

5:06PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Excellent foliage, really beautiful render.

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SIGMAWORLD

6:33PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Very nice image!

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Miska7

6:44PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Very nice scene. Great pathway, lighting and Vegetation! Really nice render.

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DOM1

7:31PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Lovely work.

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wybob

8:33PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

This is really fantastic work and image.

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psyoshida

8:34PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Exceptional scene!! I really enjoyed learning the history as well. Glad they are restoring the canals.

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Lunastar

9:42PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

Beautiful work and thank you for the education.

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sittingblue

11:21PM | Mon, 25 January 2010

great stuff... superb.

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STEVIEUKWONDER

2:00AM | Tue, 26 January 2010

This is gorgeous Gill! When are you going to release them as a background set? Well done! Steve :o)

BernieS

2:25AM | Tue, 26 January 2010

Great image! Did you know that there are actually more narrow boats on the canal system now than at the height of the Industrial Revolution!!! :-)

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FrenchKiss

4:24AM | Tue, 26 January 2010

This is lovely. I like the canal and the way your terrain is formed. Wonderful textures, too!

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wabe

4:38AM | Tue, 26 January 2010

The path is brilliant, the vegetation too. The canal I find a bit too similar as the surrounding, a bit hard to see for my old eyes. Maybe a naked V4 would help!? :-))))

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Mannie

4:53AM | Tue, 26 January 2010

Excellent, very nice path there

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Daniel1705

5:01AM | Tue, 26 January 2010

Oh my god, you live in the UK? I absolutely adore this country, for its beautiful countryside, its language, mentality and heartwarming people. I envy you :-) Oh yes, the image is fantastic, by the way ;-). I really like the lighting in this one, and although it is a dry scene it remindes me of the lush green after a heavy rain. Beautiful.

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