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“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.
I only paid about $30. The rest is free stuff and prizes.
Because of some of the comments, I feel that saying this is necessary:
None of this is for trade!
International Day of People with a Disability - handicrafts made by disabled people in Agios Nikolaos
July 24, 2021, one sunny day, my wife had took a kitten from the park near her office to our home.
We named her Maya, the name of our local sacred mountain.
Maya was a pretty kitten but so small and weak.
Three years passed.
Please look at her expression. She bacame a beautiful young lady.
Thank you, Maya!
We are so happy you're part of our family
Metra Rock Island Train 625 departs Gresham preparing to make Local stops between here and Vermont St/ Blue Island Station. Here is the back of the train slowly creeping out of the station before branching off and making its next stop at Brainerd.
I heard it, and I heard the bees, and I tried not to take the sounds of my garden for granted.
This week is Deaf Awareness week. In the UK there are almost 9 million deaf and hard of hearing adults of which nearly 7 million are severely or profoundly deaf.
1 in 1000 children are deaf at the age of 3 and currently there are around 20,000 children who are moderately to profoundly deaf covering the ages of 0-15 years old. Only 12,000 of these children were born deaf.
It is important to raise awareness, never underestimate how being Deaf can affect somebody's life. Just learning the alphabet in sign language, or learning how to speak clearly, facing the person you are speaking to, can make a huge difference. Being patient, innovative and calm also helps.
The NDCS have announced that the theme for this year's Deaf Awareness week is "Look at Me".
"This theme aims to improve understanding of deafness by highlighting the range methods of communication methods used by deaf children, such as sign language and lip reading."
The RNID provide a completely confidential "Check your hearing" test. Give it a go, it may be the best thing you did. See www.rnid.org.uk/howwehelp/hearing_check/take_online_heari...
For more information about what you can do to help Deaf people, or where to go if you're worried about your hearing, see the following links:
Much of railroading gets done under cover of darkness..it's easy to photograph trains in the daytime ..much harder to capture the action at night.
Back in the day we spent a lot of time at Sprngfield MA , where most (TV14 13 BC1 TV5 TV6 did not ) B&A trains changed crews ,allowing for time exposures .
"Beaneaters" were Boston based; "Dutchmen" from Selkirk..
In the early months of CR things operated as they had in the PC era...alas none of that remained the same.
SEBO pauses momentarily to change crews and continue its late night journey to Beacon Park as SENH backs off up onto the B&M to head south to Cedar Hill on the adjacent track
Springfield MA Main Line Boston to CP SM CR
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Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London. It comprises two individual power stations, built in two stages in the form of a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s, with Battersea B Power Station to its east in the 1950s. The two stations were built to an identical design, providing the well known four-chimney layout.
The station ceased generating electricity in 1983, but over the past 50 years it has become one of the best known landmarks in London and is Grade II* listed. The station's celebrity owes much to numerous cultural appearances, which include a shot in The Beatles' 1965 movie Help!, appearing in the video for the 1982 hit single "Another Thing Comin´" by heavy metal band Judas Priest and being used in the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals, as well as a cameo appearance in Take That's music video "The Flood."
In addition, a photograph of the plant's control room was used as cover art on Hawkwind's 1977 album Quark, Strangeness and Charm.
The station is the largest brick building in Europe and is notable for its original, lavish Art Deco interior fittings and decor. However, the building's condition has been described as "very bad" by English Heritage and is included in its Buildings at Risk Register. In 2004, while the redevelopment project was stalled, and the building remained derelict, the site was listed on the 2004 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund. The combination of an existing debt burden of some £750 million, the need to make a £200 million contribution to a proposed extension to the London Underground, requirements to fund conservation of the derelict power station shell and the presence of a waste transfer station and cement plant on the river frontage make a commercial development of the site a significant challenge. In December 2011, the latest plans to develop the site collapsed with the debt called in by the creditors. In February 2012, the site was placed on sale on the open property market
through commercial estate agent Knight Frank. It has received interest from a variety of overseas consortia, most seeking to demolish or part-demolish the structure.
Built in the early 1930s, this iconic structure, with its four distinctive chimneys, was created to meet the energy demands of the new age. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott – the man who also designed what is now Tate Modern and brought the red telephone box to London – was hired by the London Power Company to create this first of a new generation of ‘superstations’, with the building beginning to produce power for the capital in 1933.
With dimensions of 160 m x 170 m, the roof of the boiler house 50 m tall, and its four 103 m tall, tapering chimneys, it is a truly massive structure. The building in fact comprised two stations – Battersea ‘A’ and Battersea ‘B’, which were conjoined when the identical B section was completed in the 1950s, and it was the world’s most thermally efficient building when it opened.
But Battersea Power Station was – and is – so much more besides. Gilbert Scott lifted it from the prosaic into the sublime by incorporating lavish touches such as the building’s majestic bronze doors and impressive wrought-iron staircase leading to the art deco control room. Here, amongst the controls which are still in situ today, those in charge of London’s electricity supply could enjoy the marble-lined walls and polished parquet flooring. Down in the turbine hall below, meanwhile, the station’s giant walls of polished marble would later prompt observers to liken the building to a Greek temple devoted to energy.
Over the course of its life, Battersea Power Station has been instilled in the public consciousness, not least when Pink Floyd famously adopted it for its Animals album cover and launch in 1977. As a result of its popularity, a great deal of energy has been expended in protecting this landmark.
Following the decommissioning of the ‘A’ station in 1975, the whole structure was listed at Grade II in 1980 before, in 1983, the B station was also closed. Since that time, and following the listing being upgraded to a Grade II* status in 2007, Battersea Power Station has become almost as famous for plans heralding its future as for its past. Until now, that is.
The transformation of Battersea Power Station – this familiar and much-loved silhouette on the London skyline – is set to arrive, along with the regeneration and revitalisation of this forgotten corner of central London. History is about to be made once more.
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Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is one of the largest remaining municipal bus companies and is regarded as one of the best operators in the UK. In the early 1960’s City of Nottingham Transport as it was then developed a very strong corporate identity with an attractive “two tone” green livery and its own distinct standard double deck bus body specification for rear engined, front loading buses. The initial purchase of rear engined buses was a batch of forty nine Daimler Fleetliner’s in 1962/63. It then moved on to the Leyland Atlantean chassis and over the next four years would purchase ninty nine chassis fitted with either Northern Counties or Metro-Cammell bodies to the Nottingham specification. Through out this period NCT operated a dual sourcing policy and continued also to purchase Daimler Fleetline chassis and with the spread of one man operation purchased in 1966 thirty Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX chassis fitted with Metro-Cammell H45/27D bodies with one set of doors at the front for entering and one set of doors in the middle for exiting. It would be 1968 before the first dual door Leyland Atlantean arrived when a batch of twenty two (501 – 522) Leyland Atlantean PDR1A/1 chassis fitted with Northern Counties H45/29D bodies appeared. 520 (PTO 520G) is one of this batch and can be seen here on Long Row, Nottingham, 3rd June 1981.
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This is seriously this owl's third day outdoors. He was looking everywhere, taking everything in.
Canon EF100mm f/2.8 USM
cropped
1/320
f/3.5
ISO 200
A shot from the “lost” five strips of 126 instamatic black and white negatives recently found from my week long 1973 Western Region Railrover holiday in July 1973. The Western Region Railrover commenced at 00:01 on the Sunday morning and the preceding Saturday was taken up with making our way from Nottingham to London Paddington via Grantham, Peterborough, Cambridge, Stratford, Hither Green, Willesden and Old Oak Common. Between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and 1962 around 2300 diesel shunters entered service on Britain’s Railways. Around 1500 were based on the English Electric 350bhp 0-6-0 diesel electric design whilst the remaining 800 or so were 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 designs at around 204bhp. From 1967 British Rail started to reduce significantly its shunter fleet and withdraw the older, less reliable and non- standard locomotives. By the introduction of the 1973 TOPS renumbering system the 2300 locomotives from twenty or so classes had been reduced by about half and consisted of basically two classes (class 03 and the almost identical class 08/09) plus a few odds and sods. Here we see four of those shunters which were not allocated TOPS numbers and have been recently withdrawn awaiting a tow to the breakers yard at Stratford MPD, 3rd July 1973. Leading the line up are three class 11 locomotives 12134, 12109 and 12110 followed by a class 04 locomotive 2217.
Locomotive History
In 1945 the London Midland and Scottish Railway began building at Derby Works a batch of diesel electric 0-6-0 shunting engines. By the formation of British Railways on the 1st January 1948 fifteen had been completed and construction was continued by British Railways until 1952 when one hundred and six had been built. They were numbered 12033 – 12138 and were the forerunner of the class 08 design. They were later classified as class 11.They remained in service until the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. 12134 was built at Darlington works, entering traffic in December 1952 allocated to Stratford MPD, 12109 and 12110 were also built at Darlington works entering traffic in June 1952 allocated to Stratford MPD. All three were withdrawn in November 1972. 12134 was apparently (according to all the usual sources) broken up by G Cohen, Kettering in March 1973 however here it is still intact at Stratford four months later in July 1973!!. 12109 and 12110 were broken up by Marples and Gillot, Sheffield a month after this photograph in August 1973. 2217 entered traffic in July 1955 allocated to Stratford MPD, was withdrawn in May 1972 and was broken up by CF Booth, Rotherham in November 1973.
Kodak Instamatic
With the evening shadows growing longer by the minute as 66618 Railways Illustrated Annual Photographic Awards - Alan Barnes approaches Toton with an Immingham – Ratcliffe power station loaded coal duty, 3rd September 2013.
East Midlands Railways 170513 stands in platform 1 at Beeston working 2L71. 13:41 Leicester – Grimsby Town whilst on platform 2 a young lady waits for 1K67, 13:43 Newark – Crewe approaching in the distance, 3rd April 2025.
Bicol Isarog TSI S3
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Operator: Bicol Isarog Transport Service Inc.
Fleet No.: S3
Type of Service: PUB - Provincial Operation
Route: Tabaco (Albay) - Metro Manila via Sto. Domingo Diversion
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ENGINE
Maker: Hino Motors Ltd.
Model: P11C-TH
CHASSIS
Maker: Hino Motors Ltd.
Model: RM2PSS
COACH
Coachbuilder: Del Monte Motor Works Inc.
Model: DM16-S1
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captured at Tagpuan sa Villa Escudero, Tiaong, Quezon Province
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NOTE: Errors may be evident with this description. Corrections will be done once verified.
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Early summer on Woodland Fell in the South West Lake District National Park. It's a great area, quiet and full of ancient remains if you look close enough.
This was an 8 shot panoramic taken on the D800E with 50mm f1.4G attached.
D300s
85mm Micro DX
SB-600
Triggered via built-in flash (CLS)
Capture NX2
Nik Fliter
Same set-up and execution as this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/pva1964/4273493444/
But this time I used Capture NX2 to drop a control point in the waves and played with the Hue adjustment.
Got lucky on the timing.
My oldest son and his friends decided to take on myself and Sam at beach tackle football. On a unusually warm February afternoon. Took this shot as we were packing up.
He has always told me, one day he will be stronger and faster than me. It hasn't happened yet but the bruises on my arms tell me it will come sooner than I think...