Best of March 2006

author: Andrew Smith : Manchester, UK

Irlam - a small town on the Western edge of Manchester, England. Salford overspill territory. Houses, pubs, chip shops and not much happening. Lies on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal, which swallowed the river Irwell, the river which gave Irlam it's name. Irlam Locks used to scare me as a kid - a huge drop into pitch-black water, but nowdays, with a camera, I can be selective. A few very small stretches of the Irwell were left after the canal was built - a slice of river for posterity. The biggest one is known locally, and rather imaginatively, as 'The Old...

Spawn of the Space Needle

author: Machupicchu : Seattle, WA

There it is: Seattle's very own Space Needle. Take a good, long look. Constructed for the 1962 World's Fair, it was finished in an astonishingly short 400 days (including all of the design work). When finished, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. It also had the second revolving restaurant ever built in the world. Given that the first one was in a Hawaii shopping mall that is now closed, that means the Space Needle currently houses...

Ithaca Is Gorgeous!

author: Peter : Ithaca, NY

This weekend, I went on a roadtrip with Sally, to visit her hometown of Ithaca, NY, upstate... The saying "Ithaca is gorges" definitely proves to be the case, especially when you witness, firsthand, the countless gorges cut by glaciers into the countryside... The first falls we visited were Ithaca Falls.. It's still very wintery, overcast and cold upstate... As the icicles can attest... Next to Ithaca Falls is the abandoned Ithaca Gun Company factory. We climbed through this drainage pipe to...

Newark Penn to Manhattan's WTC Via PATH

author: Peter : Newark, NJ

Immediately after departing Newark Penn Station, the PATH train crosses the huge drawbridge that spans the Passaic river. www.passaicriver.com... Immediately on the other side of the river is the first stop, Harrison, an area that seems populated mostly by large (and often abandoned) industrial warehouses and park-and-ride lots for commuters... This shot reminded me of