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Fleet Hill Farm Special. Wednesday 20th September 2017

21/9/2017

 
Yes, a mid week special. I was on the school run, and as we crossed the culvert bridge I glanced to my left to see if anything obvious had changed on the Fleet Hill Farm part of the reserve i.e. like the removal of the conveyor machinery.

Well, I spotted far more than that. A fairly major change in that Cemex had cut a channel to the culvert.

I came back at 7.00pm, with my trusty bridge camera, to find that Cemex had been exceedingly busy.  I couldn't miss the opportunity, so nipped over the gate into the area around the culvert.

It was getting quite dark by this time.  Not only was the sun setting, a nasty black cloud was making its way toward me.

By the time I took the last dozen or so photographs, it was very gloomy. My camera did something it had never done before.  It informed that it was going to take a nighttime shot, and was going to take multiple pictures and combine them all into one.

I did my best to hold the camera as steady as possible (I didn't bring my tripod or monopod), as it proceeded to take about half a dozen photos.  I really expected the resulting photo of combined shots to be fuzzy, and so was quite amazed when they weren't.  No idea how the camera did it, but no way did I hold it dead steady.

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    A polite notice first: All photographs on this blog are owned by me and subject to copyright.

    Also, note that I have special permission to be on the Eversley quarry site of Fleet Hill farm, Manor farm and the Hampshire part, Chandlers farm. They are not open areas for general access.  Please keep to the public rights of way.

    I was quite fascinated to see how Cemex would restore their gravel extractions workings to become a nature reserve, and so started this blog.  There is an ulterior motive. It does mean that my partner and I get some well needed exercise as we stomp around the reserve every week.  Following the progress of the restorations does mean the walk is not as tedious as it might otherwise become.

    Don't worry about one of the archives being November 2025. You haven't entered a time warp! It's just that I've discovered a way to pin a post to the top of a blogger in Weebly; not straight forward apparently.  I have to set the date far far into the future.

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