10. Juli 2025

Um sechs bin ich am Berliner Hauptbahnhof. Dort esse ich erst Mal einen Döner bei Fatih Server. Es lohnt sich für mich nicht, erst zum Hotel zu gehen…

Eine Stunde später bin ich im Reichstagsgebäude und fahre mit dem Aufzug hoch zur Kuppel. Dort bleibe ich bis halb neun. Das Timing hätte nicht besser sein können, denn am Brandenburger Tor erwartet mich ein Regenbogen. Ich laufe die halbe Stunde die Straße des 17. Juni entlang zur Siegessäule.

Fuji X-T3 (Classic Chrome), f/5.6, ISO 160, 1/30w, 16mm (handheld), planned with PhotoPills, edited with CaptureOne 22 Pro (Hot Rod)

Under very challenging sky and foreground conditions, I managed to capture Comet NEOWISE in this widefield shot. F.O.V. is approximate 20h x 30w degrees. Tail length is ~16 degrees.

Tech Specs: Nikon d3500, Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 @ f/2.8, iso 2200, exp 50x10s, raw, cropped. Foreground was mostly fixed during this period as the comet slowly drifted from left to right. Taken from 11:20PM to 11:31PM MDT.

Compare a day earlier: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/50122736757/in/photost....

This photo was taken under the light of a single 30w light bulb.

More photos of my cats in this Flickr album.

In honor of spring training and longing for warmer weather.

Major League Baseball holds is its spring training from mid-February until opening day of the regular season in April. The teams go to either Florida or Arizona for spring training. It’s called the Cactus League in Arizona and the Grapefruit league in Florida. My photograph this week is of a baseball and two grapefruits in reference to the Florida Grapefruit League. (The background between the baseball and front grapefruit is also a grapefruit.) The baseball I used is one that was fouled into the stadium over the net at a Rome Braves Minor League game in Rome, GA. We were driving to Florida from Ohio on vacation a few years ago and stopped in Rome overnight. We were sitting behind home plate and the ball was fouled into the section next to us. There was no one in that section and my nephew ran over to get the ball and gave it to my son.

Lit with two 30W bulbs. One to camera left behind the baseball and the other front to camera right aimed toward the baseball. HMM!

70 mins of star trails and 3 minutes of the#HISPASAT30W6 / Satellite Hispasat​ by #SpaceX

Details: Star trail photos shot at ISO500, f8, 60-second exposure time, and the streak was shot at ISO100, f22, 180-second exposure time.

(pic: me / We Report Space​)

A beam of morning light worked good for photographing steam from a 30W iStick.

Cosmos (pale blue)

printed directly from negative film: 120 film (Kodak TRI-X 400), Shingashi-river side, Saitama, Japan (October 7, 2017), Voigtländer Superb (1933), Skopar 75mm F/3.5 with Y filter & Close-up lenses (Voigtländer W/w FOCAR 30) on vif Art (B5 H.P. surface) paper / exposed for 5hrs

Jacquard cyanotype kit (Potassium Ferricyanide & Ferric Ammonium Citrate)

Toning: none

Enlarger: Lucky II-C (Fujinar-Ｅ75mmF4.5)

Film carrier: glass plates

Light source: High power (30w) UV LED unit (SMD=surface mounted LED modules)

New group was created. If you like, please join.

[www.flickr.com/groups/cyanotype_wenlarger]

155th MMM Elephant Image Challenge

In Britain, the trade in elephants began in the Victorian age. Jumbo was the first elephant to be exhibited at the London Zoo. Later, he was sold to PT Barnum. Image Sources: Pudsey Street by Mtaylor848 on Wikimedia (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) Changes Made; Elephant from Paul Kane on Flickr; Shadow Overlay from Kelvin Designs; Male from Neostock; Greenery from pngwing; Brushes from Nucly;

The original vehicle was the Jen-Tug, it was a petrol powered vehicle with an Austin A40 engine.

The Jen Helecs was the same articulated vehicle but was battery powered. This version was distributed by Hindle Smart of Manchester.

Both vehicles were manufactured by Jensen Motors of West Bromwich and are from the 1950s

ANSH 120 #7 "Music to my ears"

This is a corner of the bedroom where I keep my pile of guitars and amps. Instruments from left to right: Fender Strat XII, 2005 edition (a 12 string Fender stratocaster); home made strat type electric, a cheap mandoline with piezo-electric pickups I found on sale and decided to try and learn to play; another homebuilt electric, this one with a pair of humbucker pickups. Amps l to r: Fender modelling amp, an amp for electro-acoustic instruments or mics I got just for the mandolin, a windsor 30w tube amp with dummy load (for high distortion without getting arrested for noise pollution), and a home built 5w tube amp that runs very clean (built for a clean sounding 12 string, for a Roger McGuin sound).

And no, I am not in a band and have never played in front of anyone else. This all started as a woodworking project to build a guitar around 2000, and went downhill from there.

CP 5875 - SD 40-2 Built by : GMD

Delivered in : 1984

Serial Number : A 4439

Class : DRF-30w

Paint Scheme : CP Rail Small Multimark

CP 5875 - SD 40-2 Built by : GMD

Delivered in : 1984

Serial Number : A 4439

Class : DRF-30w

Paint Scheme : CP Rail Small Multimark

SpaceX Falcon 9 - Hispasat 30W-6 Rocket launch March 5 12:33 am. The night launches are my favorite. They are beautiful to watch in the still of the night. This is a stack of 10 images

CP 5875 on duty in the Revelstoke Yard. Spring snow removal duties. Jordan Spreader 402889 and a string of Airdumps are positioned on the House Track to allow a frontend loader to get the heavy snowfall burden out of the yard area.

CP 5875 - SD 40-2 Built by : GMD

Delivered in : 1984

Serial Number : A 4439

Class : DRF-30w

Paint Scheme : CP Rail Small Multimark

Printed on vif Art (B5 H.P. surface) paper pre-coated with diluted soy milk (protein), dried and then cyanotype solution applied / exposed for 2hrs

Jacquard cyanotype kit (Potassium Ferricyanide & Ferric Ammonium Citrate)

Toning: Coffee (fixed using Alum & varnish applied)

Enlarger: Lucky Attache-35 photographic enlarger made in Japan (storable in an attache case) , Nikon EL-NIKKOR/1：4/f=50mm

Film carrier: Glass plates

Negative film: 120 film (Kodak TRI-X 400), Shingashi-river side, Saitama, Japan (October 7, 2017), Voigtländer Superb (1933), Skopar 75mm F/3.5 with Y filter & Close-up lenses (Voigtländer W/w FOCAR 30)

Light source: High power (30w) UV LED unit (SMD=surface mounted LED modules)

New group was created. If you like, please join.

[www.flickr.com/groups/cyanotype_wenlarger]

Tokyo subway in 1970s

Printed on vif Art (B5 H.P. surface) paper / exposed for 5hrs

Jacquard cyanotype kit (Potassium Ferricyanide & Ferric Ammonium Citrate)

Toning: none

Enlarger: Lucky II-C (Fujinar-Ｅ75mmF4.5)

Film carrier: Glass plates

Negative film: 35mm (135) film

Light source: High power (30w) UV LED unit (SMD=surface mounted LED modules)

New group was created. If you like, please join.

[www.flickr.com/groups/cyanotype_wenlarger]

Canadian Pacific SD40-2 (DRF-30W) CP 6068 (blt. GMDD, London, Ont., 01/85)

Switching east end of yard with GP38-2 CP 4508

CP Agincourt Yard, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

April 23rd, 2021

1600 x 1050

A set of older GMD/EMD power is leading westbound Canadian Pacific train 2-287 on the approach to Nashotah, Wisconsin the morning of December 10th, 2018. – The classy three unit consist on this day was the CP 5878, CP 5871 & CP 4431 – Those two battle-worn 5800 series SD40-2s (DRF-30w) may very well have been near each other on the factory floor, having both been built at the London, Ontario plant back in the Fall of 1984 – And they have never been anything but Canadian Pacific locomotives of these same road numbers. ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©