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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axolotl2

10:01AM | Tue, 26 January 2010

Great mood and realism .... cheers !

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Seahorse

12:32PM | Tue, 26 January 2010

Beautiful - the lighting is capivating!!!

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Umbetro38

2:12PM | Tue, 26 January 2010

I agree with FrenchKiss - perfect

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lior

2:38PM | Tue, 26 January 2010

A real Master Piece!

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London224

3:24AM | Wed, 27 January 2010

OK it's late and I just about breezed by this thinking it was a photograph... A Must zoom in image, what can I say about the wonderful texture created by the leaves which look so well handled in their bent positions.. definitely not a place them on and forget... just to much care in their appearance which works so well. All of this would be lost if also not for the great handling of light. Gill always does lovely work... but this is one of the best!!

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