Re: High tide
Late comment: Very nice set. I especially like the red headed lad - looks like he's just realized that "there's no way out". One way or t'other he's getting wet feet. Cheers, frank On October 29, 2015 4:15:52 PM EDT, Bob W wrote: >Not sure if this link will work, but I'll give it a try. > >High tide in Greenwich earlier today, taken with my phone. > >https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=439D213A93634DD4!105870&authkey=!AEJ73VLiIcHsff8&ithint=album%2c > >B -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Nice set of photos, effectively demonstrating the subject. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Bob W wrote: > Not sure if this link will work, but I'll give it a try. > > High tide in Greenwich earlier today, taken with my phone. > > https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=439D213A93634DD4!105870&authkey=!AEJ73VLiIcHsff8&ithint=album%2c > > B > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: High tide
Bob W wrote: > Not sure if this link will work, but I'll give it a try. > > High tide in Greenwich earlier today, taken with my phone. > > https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=439D213A93634DD4!105870&authkey=! > AEJ73VLiIcHsff8&ithint=album%2c Always amazed at what a phone camera can produce with the right person taking the image. I like these a lot. For the first time, I now have a phone with a camera. I've yet to take a picture with it, because I feel more self conscious about using it than I would a DSLR. I must be missing out, as I don't always go out with a camera, but I do a phone, so it is worth overcoming this. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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We fairly regularly get higher tides than that, and historically it has been several feet higher on a couple of occasions. As you can see from the right hand side, there are steps, and the large railings are embedded in a raised wall, which is defence-in-depth (so to speak) for the Royal Naval College. That was built in 1690-something, so they've been expecting occasional high tides for a long time. It may be that we get them a little more often at the level shown in these pictures. If so I'd speculate that it's a result of urbanisation and narrowing of the river upstream in Central London, as well as more river walls. My house is built on what used to be a Greenwich Marsh, so the water had more places to flood than it does now. In this Victorian map the Naval College is in the lower left - the pictures were taken just by the leftmost crease. My house is on a street that didn't exist then (built 1896), on the site in the top right corner roughly parallel where the horizontal crease is. The riverside there would have been mainly beach and mud at that time, and everything east was marshland which would have flooded. http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/__data/assets/image/0017/301490/map-east-greenwich-01279-640.jpg The telegraph cable works just north of the crease built and laid the first transatlantic cable. It's only recently closed. It's the site of a former whaling station and gets a mention in Moby Dick. It used to look like this: http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/greenwich/assets/galleries/greenwich-peninsula/cottage-1840 B > On 29 Oct 2015, at 20:21, Darren Addy wrote: > > Link works for me, Bob! > I'm curious: Is high tide higher these days than it has been > historically? That seems to be what your photos suggest. Can you > provide any context? > >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Bob W wrote: >> Not sure if this link will work, but I'll give it a try. >> >> High tide in Greenwich earlier today, taken with my phone. >> >> https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=439D213A93634DD4!105870&authkey=!AEJ73VLiIcHsff8&ithint=album%2c >> >> B >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: High tide
Link works for me, Bob! I'm curious: Is high tide higher these days than it has been historically? That seems to be what your photos suggest. Can you provide any context? On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Bob W wrote: > Not sure if this link will work, but I'll give it a try. > > High tide in Greenwich earlier today, taken with my phone. > > https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=439D213A93634DD4!105870&authkey=!AEJ73VLiIcHsff8&ithint=album%2c > > B > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On the anniversary of our nasty flooding thanks to Hurricane Sandy... been thre, seen that :-) the link worked ann On 10/29/2015 4:15 PM, Bob W wrote: Not sure if this link will work, but I'll give it a try. High tide in Greenwich earlier today, taken with my phone. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=439D213A93634DD4!105870&authkey=!AEJ73VLiIcHsff8&ithint=album%2c B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
High tide
Not sure if this link will work, but I'll give it a try. High tide in Greenwich earlier today, taken with my phone. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=439D213A93634DD4!105870&authkey=!AEJ73VLiIcHsff8&ithint=album%2c B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Cool phone you have, Bob. Interesting. It is good though that two years ago the water level was normal ;-). Boris Bob W wrote: > We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took some photos > with my mobile phone: > > http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ > > Bob > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Wow! I've never seen the Thames like that. Evan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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There have been much higher tides. One of the sea walls near my house records several floods in the last century which would have been up to my shoulders. This all used to be marshland. I looked up the sea-level changes in a book that was to hand - Out of Eden, by Stephen Oppenheimer. I quote "measurements made on the Greenland ice cap show that the second coldest time of the last 100,000 years was between 60,000 and 80,000 years ago. At its coldest, 70,000 years ago, this glaciation took the world's sea levels 80 metres (260 feet) below today's levels." During that time Europe has been joined to and separated from Britain several times by the rising and falling waters of the North Sea. It is their present misfortune to live in an interglacial. -- Bob > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of graywolf > Sent: 30 September 2007 17:36 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: High Tide > > Must be global warming. > > BTW, I recently came across a reference that claimed the rise > in sea level from > the ice age was in the order of 300-400 feet. > > > Bob W wrote: > >>> We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took > >> some photos > >>> with my mobile phone: > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Must be global warming. BTW, I recently came across a reference that claimed the rise in sea level from the ice age was in the order of 300-400 feet. Bob W wrote: >>> We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took >> some photos >>> with my mobile phone: -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Bob W wrote: >>> We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took >> some photos >>> with my mobile phone: >>> >>> http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ >> Was it not high enough to justify raising the barrier? >> >> - Dave > > I guess not. I don't know what their criteria are for raising it for > real, rather than just a test. This tide was high, but not dangerously > so. The pictures were taken in the 10-15 minutes around the high tide, > according to the tide tables, so it wasn't going to get any higher. > > I have often seen it washing over the riverside path - that's not > particularly unusual, and at its deepest it will lap around your > ankles. Yesterday though it was knee deep at its deepest - the highest > I've seen it in the 13 years I've lived in this area. That's quite a > volume of water. > > -- > Bob > From the documentaries I have seen,I gather the risk comes when these high tides coincide with a storm surge from the north sea. I live in Peacehaven, a few miles due south (literally) from Greenwich, driving through Newhaven I too noticed it was a really high tide, but sadly my 320x240 camera phone is not worth taking pictures with. Nice shots btw... Drew. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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> > > We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took > some photos > > with my mobile phone: > > > > http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ > > Was it not high enough to justify raising the barrier? > > - Dave I guess not. I don't know what their criteria are for raising it for real, rather than just a test. This tide was high, but not dangerously so. The pictures were taken in the 10-15 minutes around the high tide, according to the tide tables, so it wasn't going to get any higher. I have often seen it washing over the riverside path - that's not particularly unusual, and at its deepest it will lap around your ankles. Yesterday though it was knee deep at its deepest - the highest I've seen it in the 13 years I've lived in this area. That's quite a volume of water. -- Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Sep 30, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Bob W wrote: > We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took some photos > with my mobile phone: > > http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ Was it not high enough to justify raising the barrier? - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Bob W wrote: >We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took some photos >with my mobile phone: > >http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ > >Bob > > > > pretty fancy mobile phone if you could get those - nice little essay, Bob Kinda scary high tide. ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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In a message dated 9/29/2007 12:13:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took some photos with my mobile phone: http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ Bob === Interesting -- doesn't look like high tide to me, I think here we'd call it "flooding." Marnie aka Doe :-) - Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Thanks Bob, > > The meridian is about 3-400 metres left of the memorial > > I mean right. East. Downstream. Damn watch on the wrong wrist > confusing me again. One for me to look at...wherever it decides to be in relation to the meridian :-) Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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> The meridian is about 3-400 metres left of the memorial I mean right. East. Downstream. Damn watch on the wrong wrist confusing me again. -- Bob > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bob W > Sent: 29 September 2007 20:58 > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: High Tide > > Thanks. It's only 2 megapixels. > > The obelisk is a memorial to the French explorer Bellot, who tried to > rescue Franklin and died in the attempt. > > http://www.greenwich.gov.uk/Greenwich/YourEnvironment/GreenSpace/Monum > ents/BellotMemorial.htm > > The meridian is about 3-400 metres left of the memorial > > -- > Bob > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Malcolm Smith > > Sent: 29 September 2007 20:30 > > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > > Subject: RE: High Tide > > > > Bob W wrote: > > > > > We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took > > > some photos with my mobile phone: > > > > > > http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ > > > > Excellent pictures; I'm amazed at the quality from a 'phone! > > Is the obelisk > > a meridian marker? > > > > Malcolm > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > > above and follow the directions. > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Thanks. It's only 2 megapixels. The obelisk is a memorial to the French explorer Bellot, who tried to rescue Franklin and died in the attempt. http://www.greenwich.gov.uk/Greenwich/YourEnvironment/GreenSpace/Monum ents/BellotMemorial.htm The meridian is about 3-400 metres left of the memorial -- Bob > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Malcolm Smith > Sent: 29 September 2007 20:30 > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: High Tide > > Bob W wrote: > > > We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took > > some photos with my mobile phone: > > > > http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ > > Excellent pictures; I'm amazed at the quality from a 'phone! > Is the obelisk > a meridian marker? > > Malcolm > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: High Tide
On Sep 29, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Bob W wrote: > We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took some photos > with my mobile phone: > > http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ Wow, that's a high tide! Your phone does very well indeed. :-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Bob W wrote: > We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took > some photos with my mobile phone: > > http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ Excellent pictures; I'm amazed at the quality from a 'phone! Is the obelisk a meridian marker? Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
High Tide
We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took some photos with my mobile phone: http://www.web-options.com/Tide/ Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.