Friday 24 January 2014
The Orange Goyt
On Tuesday morning someone tweeted "Why is the Goyt orange this morning?"
A few hours later I took this photo of the river looking upstream from Howard Street bridge. I haven't discovered the reason for the colouration, but it looks like a seepage of iron-ore into the river.
Downstream of the bridge the Goyt flows over a weir and the river Tame joins it from underneath the M60 motorway to form the river Mersey. Note the darker colour of the emerging, converging Tame.
This is a closer view of the water flower over the weir from the other direction. I'll post some more photographs from this point tomorrow.
A contribution to Orange You Glad It's Friday and Weekend Reflections.
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The sepia tone on the first picture look amazing ! I first thought it was photoshopped : it looks so unreal... Nice serie.
ReplyDeleteQuite peculiar. A good subject to photograph.
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