Definitely seen better days. Maybe originally for fishing?
Sorry, nothing to post for myself this week - been stuck at home with covid 😒

What wonderful arcades! I especially appreciate the more abstract compositions.
Definitely a place for the 'must go' list.

Fascinating place. I love this one with its mosaic of refelctions. I might be tempted to 'correct' the verticals.

Sorry to hear that. A bad case?
I've got to decide whether or not to have a jab this week and can't make my mind up.
Wasn't going to bother any more.
Oh, and yes, fishing jetties.

Great shot, magnificent scene, especially if considering "buildings" in background. BW is here best, I guess, colour version is probably very muddy anyway.

This one street seems to be fascinating enough, lot of opportunities for photography there. I like how these buildings look almost organic, with these smooth flowing shapes.

Don't go toward light? :D

Although this rear view is interesting enough with its spare wheel frame I'd loved to see side or front more.

Ugly? Maybe, but it's purpose-built and prettyness was not considered at that time. Though there is quite lot of decorating details which are not present in modern factory buildings, such as small spires on top of oldest building's corner towers.
Last photos look indeed better as tour started from northern side and therefore I had to photograph toward sun and fight with extreme contrast, last photos are taken from southern part of area where sun was behind me. And view was better as well, nothern part was filled with trees and bushes.

Good point, unfortunately I framed too tightly here and it's not possible to correct perspective without cutting into windows, therefore I did not do it during post processing.

Birkacre and Drybones Woods in Fog

I very nearly stayed in bed this morning, but a quick peer through the curtains revealed dense fog outside around 7:30AM(ish), which is something I don't see much of around here, so I dragged myself out of bed and over to Birkacre.

On last week's visit to Birkacre I took the GFX and was kicking myself for not having a long lens on me, particularly when the opportunity of the backlit shot of the Cormorant on the post in the misty water presented itself, so this time around I took the Z8 along with the 100-400, plus the usual f/2.8 duo of 24-70 and 70-180, my plan being to take some shots around the lodge with the 100-400 and then nip back to the car to swap that out for the 70-180 and the tripod before heading off into the woods.

Unfortunately, when I reached Birkacre around 8AM(ish), the fog was exceptionally thick over the waters of the lodge, without much in the way of backlighting, plus there was nothing more exotic in the avian department than ducks and the occasional moor hen, so the 100-400's tenure on the camera was short lived before I swapped it over and headed off into the Drybones Woods.

Surprisingly, I think I spent most of my time photographing the trees surrounding the lodge rather than in the woods.

The scene looking out on the lodge. Not a lot to see there.

One of the trees lining the lodge. While the trees themselves looked pretty good, the base and roots were often difficult to include without pulling the gravel path into the shot, so, for several of these I've have to exclude that part of the tree.

This pairing were a little way past the far end of the lodge as the path branches off to head down towards the weir.

One that I think I shot last week, although the mist (as the fog had become by this point) helps to clean up the background quite a bit.

I shot this tree last week too. Unintentionally, I've ended up with very different framing this week. I have another edit of this that's a bit brighter, but I can't decide which I prefer.

The weir with the weak sunlight attempting to break through the remaining mist. Note the river is a lot calmer this week and looking a lot clearer with a lot less silt being kicked up. The fish ladder looks a bit more manageable for any trout or salmon deciding to make the journey back to their spawning ground in the foothills of the pennines.

I shot something similar to this last week too, but the lighting conditions are very different here. Disappointingly, most of the mist had gone by the time I reached Drybones Woods, so unless you were looking through the treetops, it didn't seem to be having a lot of effect.

This is the tree seen on the right of the previous shot after repositioning myself to get a closer look at it. I would have liked to be square on to the far bank, but moving to the appropriate position totally ruined the relative alignment of the main trunks.

A moor hen I spotted on my way back past the lodge giving me a very angry look as I attempt to photograph it. For once, the Z8's bird AI detection had correctly assessed that it was looking at a bird, however, it couldn't decide between focusing on the actual bird, or its reflection in the water as the tracking box flitted randomly between the two. You'd think having cracked how to detect birds in a scene in the first place, it would be easy to spot one of them is inverted and prioritise the other one, but I guess not.

Love that fog shot and the others...

I'm surviving...chills and aches, plus awful cough. Not pleasant. No voice, so will miss out on several singing days planned for the next week or so.
If you're offered a jab, take it. I didn't think they were available to under 75s, only flu. There seems to be a lot of covid about at the moment, but of course most people aren't bothering to test, so probably even more... I only did a test because we were expecting guests this weekend. 😒

Those long poles resting on the mud look like they might have belonged to some sort of contraption like these in Puglia;

Nice soft mood in this one.

...identify it. Your moorhen is a coot 😂😂

That explains why it couldn't recognise it, neither could I ;-) BTW, hope you're feeling better soon.

I like the atmosphere in the first two but the weir shot is excellent too.
Moor Hens have red hats BTW.

OK, I'll take it.
I like the Puglia shot but I think these are simply jetties for boats that have fallen into disrepair.