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Rain sweeps in over Coniston Water on an autumnal morning.
Another example of photography in bad weather... seems to be a specialist subject of mine!
Olympus OM-D E-M5 mkII, Olympus 75-300mm lens @ 75mm, f=7.1, 1/200th second, ISO 200. 19 frames (portrait) stitched in lightroom to create one gigantic panoramic!
Looking back up Glen Coiltie as we started walking back up the hill home after a winter wander down to the bridge today.
Sooooo I was at my girl's home, riding my stupid dead horse Dante. No, I'm not just being mean. Whilst I love him so much, I acknowledge that he's as dumb as a bag of hammers. He gets stuck in the trees, wanders off sim and gets returned, spins in circles and won't keep his nose out of Oriana's alicorn's ass.*
I was riding him today and thought HEY let me take my now-biweekly candid shot! So I initially stood him nicely on the jetty then thought - yanno, one of those horse riding waist deep along the shoreline pics would look really good. So I rode him out just a little bit more.
But.
Teegle horses swim when they go in water. I swear to Gaga I didn't know! Until, of course... glub glub. So I took advantage of the surprise bath and shot us both swimming for our - well not lives but certainly to maintain our lovely manes.
You can see more of Dante in all his undead glory here at the first version of this shoot.
#nofilter #nopose #noedit #inworldlighting
*Shut up you particular two, we do not have a lot in common.
During the beautiful last light of August 16, 1995, Montana Rail Link's LM (Laurel-Missoula Manifest) crawls up 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass at Austin, Montana, with a gleaming F45 No. 391 in the lead.
Polka dot fit and flare dress with a red patent belt and bolero cardi, Hanes stayups, and black patent pumps
Facebook just reminded me it was 3 years ago today we adopted our loopy Lina, who came from Romania originally! We saw her on a website, when we were looking for a rescue dog to adopt and although there were other cute dogs, we kept coming back to this one!
Here she is standing in front of a mirror Tim bought from a charity shop after one of his visits to the hospital!
D9516 approaches Wansford with the 13:50 service from Peterborough, 3rd May 2009.
Locomotive History
One of a class of fifty six Type 1 0-6-0 diesel hydraulic (subsequently class 14) locomotives it was built at Swindon Works in 1964 for shunting and short trip freight duties. The locomotive is powered by a six cylinder Paxman Ventura 6YJXL engine producing 650bhp, connected to a Voith L217U hydraulic transmission and Hunslet gearbox. The axles were connected by coupling rods and driven by a jackshaft located under the cab, between the second and third axles. Initially allocated to Landore MPD in South Wales it was one of thirty three that transferred in January 1967 to Hull (Dairycoates) for North Eastern Region duties and was withdrawn from there in April 1968. I first saw this engine shortly after withdrawal when all thirty three Hull class 14 engines were dumped on the shed (many round the turntable in the roundhouse) waiting sale or disposal. D9516 was sold to the Stewarts and Lloyds Minerals Ltd. (subsequently part of the British Steel Corporation) for use on its extensive rail system connecting the local ironstone quarries round Corby (Northamptonshire) with the steelworks and arrived at Corby in November 1968. It was numbered 56 in the Corby fleet. With the subsequent contraction of the British steel industry and closure of the quarries and then Corby Steelworks itself in 1980 D9516 was once again surplus to requirements and was acquired for preservation in the early 1981 moving initially to Loughborough and the Great Central Railway. It is currently (October 2013) based on the Wensleydale Railway.
I am very happy that all my contributions to the recently finished 3rd edition of Fine Art Photography Awards in Category "Landscape" and "FineArt" are nominated and published.
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I am very proud and very honored. Thanks for viewing my friends, without you I would never have gone so far.
best regards
Gerald
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This old building is I think part of Ace Hardware but I've wanted to sketch it for ages. Something cool about it.
Davis CA
The snow stopped falling for a spell so I popped the drone up to get a view up the glen towards Meal Fuar-mhonaidh, a landscape that is being threatened by industrial overdevelopment in the name of pumped hydro, a technology that is really past it's sell by date with the development of other options that can be constructed nearer the locations that the power is required. Loch Ness and it's surrounding area is being hammered by these schemes all designed to store power for the South East of England at the expense of our more wild places... and it's not just the odd development here and there... and it's not even just Loch Ness (although we bear the brunt of it), the whole Highland landscape is under threat.
Looking rather unloved is this eight cylinder diesel engine standing in the yard at the Midland Railway Centre, Swanwick, 3rd March 2016. There are no markings on the engine, however being an eight cylinder unit suggests it is an English Electric 8-SVT used to power the Class 20 fleet.
We had a meeting in Dublin with delegates from across Europe. For the evening meal we posed for the obligatory serious picture but then I asked everyone to be silly for the next one. I am only distributing it on Flickr and really hope that it does not go viral or we will have a lot of explaining to do.
"In March and April the eggs are laid on milkweed plants. They hatch into baby caterpillars, also called the larvae. It takes about four days for the eggs to hatch. Then the baby caterpillar doesn’t do much more than eat the milkweed in order to grow. After about two weeks, the caterpillar will be fully-grown and find a place to attach itself so that it can start the process of metamorphosis. It will attach itself to a stem or a leaf using silk and transform into a chrysalis. Although, from the outside, the 10 days of the chrysalis phase seems to be a time when nothing is happening, it is really a time of rapid change. Within the chrysalis the old body parts of the caterpillar are undergoing a remarkable transformation, called metamorphosis, to become the beautiful parts that make up the butterfly that will emerge. The monarch butterfly will emerge from the pupa and fly away, feeding on flowers and just enjoying the short life it has left, which is only about two to six weeks. This first generation monarch butterfly will then die after laying eggs for generation number two.
The second generation of monarch butterflies is born in May and June, and then the third generation will be born in July and August. These monarch butterflies will go through exactly the same four stage life cycle as the first generation did, dying two to six weeks after it becomes a beautiful monarch butterfly.
The fourth generation of monarch butterflies is a little bit different than the first three generations. The fourth generation is born in September and October and goes through exactly the same process as the first, second and third generations except for one part. The fourth generation of monarch butterflies does not die after two to six weeks. Instead, this generation of monarch butterflies migrates to warmer climates like Mexico and California and will live for six to eight months until it is time to start the whole process over again.
It's truly amazing how the four generations of monarch butterflies works out so that the monarch population can continue to live on throughout the years."
Post Office Sorting Van (POS) 80337 at Wansford, 3rd May 2009.
Vehicle History
80337 was built in 1969 at York to lot 30779. It has been fitted in preservation with equipment for the transfer of mail bags whilst on the move. Whilst the design of the vehicle caters for this equipment by the time 80337 was built its use had been discontinued and I doubt it was ever fitted in BR service. It is fitted with B5 bogies and is dual braked and has dual heating.
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.” - MLK Jr.
This is last week capture. It dark, gloomy and raining again after just 24 hrs of dry weather. Already... the torrential rains have washed out most of the cherry tree petals. :( So am posting this shadow of spring that was.
A little caught up with some not so interesting things. :D:D:D:D:D If I have no already visited your streams... I'll do so soon. :)
See you at your streams guys. :)
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!! :)
PS: The only PP I did... was increase the contrast by about 2%. No crop, sharpnes increase or anything.