Amelia's photos

The thin ice forming in the harbour seemed to be forming plates with melted sections in between. The colours come from the sky and the reflections of the nearby Hummeren Hotel.

Construction video can be found here: www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Queensferr+crossing+you+tube&&view=detail&mid=45F9F5CB7A627992AFFB45F9F5CB7A627992AFFB&rvsmid=2F42583FFBA41DFA90A72F42583FFBA41DFA90A7&fsscr=-1650&FORM=VDMCNR Those with keen eyesight may be able to spot HMS Queen Elizabeth in Rosyth on the left hand edge of the photo.

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These pipes are used for the drilling in the oil industry. They are coded for size, and the markings remind me of old variable resistors. :)

Felice Varini's 'anamorphic illusion' at the Cardiff Bay Barrage. To find out more about it, here is the link: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6530989.stm

Chollerford Bridge is a stone bridge that replaced an earlier medieval bridge crossing the River North Tyne[1] at Chollerford, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II listed building. It was built in 1785 by Robert Mylne after the previous bridge had been swept away in the great floods of 1771.

This morning we had 2 degrees of frost and the water in 2 buckets outside the back door had frozen. By the afternoon it was thawing quite quickly so it was easy to get 2 discs of ice out. When they were propped against a flower pot the results looked interesting. In the evening I placed a torch behind the 2 ice circles and this was the effect.

Lake Vyrnwy is a reservoir in Powys, Wales. Its stone-built dam, built in the 1880s, was the first of its kind in the world. It was built for the purpose of supplying Liverpool and the districts later designated as Merseyside with fresh water. It flooded the head of the Vyrnwy valley and submerged the small village of Llanwddyn. The reservoir is Severn Trent Water's largest. When full, it is 26 metres (84 ft) deep, contains 59.7 gigalitres (13.125×109 imp gal), and covers an area of 4.54 square kilometres (1,121 acres), the equivalent of around 600 football pitches. The lake has a circumference of 19 kilometres (12 mi) with a road that goes all the way around it. Its length is 7.64 kilometres (4.75 mi). On a clear day the lake, along with many others in North Wales, can be seen from space.