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Falkirk Wheel 017

            While I was taking some shots of the Wheel, I could hear sounds from some maintenance work going on, I realised this huge, elegant structure was starting to move. It's pretty quiet, took me a few seconds to notice it starting to rotate as the engineers were testing their work. 

It's quiet something to watch this piece of engineering in operation - it is so well balanced and counterweighted that it requires very little power to rotate it, as it connects the Union Canal (up top) to the Forth & Clyde Canal (below), which replaces a long-ago set of locks that allowed boats to ascend and descend between the two canals, which effectively allowed transport right across the central belt of Scotland.

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Taken in: UK / Scotland / Camelon (show map)

Taken on: March 8, 2025

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Camera: Panasonic DC-FZ82D, f/5.6, 1/400 sec, 101.4mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DC-FZ82D
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	101.4mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	-0.33 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Ver.1.0
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