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In 1959 Derek Chaplin accompanied BBC broadcaster Wynford Vaughan Thomas making a radio broadcast catching trains only from Cardiff to North Wales and calling in on both the embryonic Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. Subsequently, Derek made up a 35mm slide show called " Trains of Wales 1959" which he showed at railway societies. These 137 mainly Kodachrome slides have been found by his family preserved in a dry wooden storage box and I am privileged to scan them for people to see again. The notes on each slide are minimalist and with no actual dates so anybody who can add interesting information is appreciated.
5541 is happily now a working preserved locomotive on the Dean Forest Railway.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
This image is packed full of galaxies! A keen eye can spot exquisite elliptical galaxies and spectacular spirals, seen at various orientations: edge-on with the plane of the galaxy visible, face-on to show off magnificent spiral arms, and everything in between.
With the charming name of SDSS J0146-0929, this is a galaxy cluster — a monstrous collection of hundreds of galaxies all shackled together in the unyielding grip of gravity. The mass of this galaxy cluster is large enough to severely distort the space-time around it, creating the odd, looping curves that almost encircle the center of the cluster.
These graceful arcs are examples of a cosmic phenomenon known as an Einstein ring. The ring is created as the light from a distant objects, like galaxies, pass by an extremely large mass, like this galaxy cluster. In this image, the light from a background galaxy is diverted and distorted around the massive intervening cluster and forced to travel along many different light paths toward Earth, making it seem as though the galaxy is in several places at once.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt
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Due acknowledgments to image contributors-Pixabay, Pexel and Freeimages :)
Discovered on 5 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel, the Veil Nebula was once a star. Now it is a twisted mass of shock waves that appears six times larger than the full Moon in the sky.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows just a small part of the nebula, a region known as the ‘south-eastern knot’. The entire nebula is about 50 light years in radius, and is located almost 1500 light years away.
Ten thousand years ago, the Veil Nebula did not exist. Back then, it was a star, much brighter and larger than our own Sun, burning furiously thanks to the nuclear furnace in its centre. As those reactions faltered when its fuel was exhausted, the star collapsed and exploded.
This is estimated to have happened some 5000–10 000 years ago. Sky watchers would have seen the star brighten enormously over the course of a day or two. It would have become brighter than a crescent moon.
Such a titanically destructive event is called a supernova. Modern measurements show that a supernova can outshine the combined light of 100 billion normal stars. Over the course of a week or so, our ancestors would have watched the fireball fade back into obscurity, only to be rediscovered millennia later by William Herschel as an expanding ball of gases in space.
During the star’s final detonation, it flung its outer layers into space at more than 600 000 km/h. What we see now is these layers colliding with the surrounding gases of interstellar space.
The energy imparted in the collision heated the gas to millions of degrees, causing it to emit light. The wavelength of this light depends upon the atoms present in the excited gas. In this image, blue shows oxygen, green shows sulphur, and red shows hydrogen.
Supernova explosions are important because they seed the Universe with heavy chemicals, building all the elements heavier than iron. They are rare in our galaxy, with only one or two stars exploding over the course of a century.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA. This image was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, and was first published in July 2007.
Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgment: J. Hester (Arizona State Univ.)
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You would be gridlocked on Mumbles Road today in the summer not much traffic in 1960. When you look at this photo you realize what a terrible decision it was to scrap the Mumbles trams for a bus service. It was not exactly an impartial vote with bus company interests ignoring local protests. Even more tragic that no complete tram exists today. What a tourist attraction this would be for traffic gridlocked Swansea today.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham or © Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit-making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
Looks like this guy is about to become a jailbird
With acknowledgments to my fellow flickrerite Fred SanFilipo for his inspirational wildlife images and superb portraiture :)
In 1959 Derek Chaplin accompanied BBC broadcaster Wynford Vaughan Thomas making a radio broadcast catching trains only from Cardiff to North Wales and calling in on both the embryonic Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. Subsequently, Derek made up a 35mm slide show called " Trains of Wales 1959" which he showed at railway societies. These 137 mainly Kodachrome slides have been found by his family preserved in a dry wooden storage box and I am privileged to scan them for people to see again. The notes on each slide are minimalist and with no actual dates so anybody who can add interesting information is appreciated.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
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One for the modellers to make a snow plough attachment.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham or © Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit-making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
Finally I received a Parcel from the Music Company who have used my pic for the CD cover. Here are the CDs, alongwith the letter of acknowledgment plus the credits of the work.
The bigger version of the original image is
NGC 3109
Credit: DESI LIS, Giuseppe Donatiello
NGC 3109 is an irregular dwarf galaxy at 1.33 Mpc (4.3 milion light years) in Hydra. This puts it at the very outskirts of the Local Group.
Acknowledgment
Data from DECam Legacy Survey (g, r, z filters) obtained at the Blanco Telescope, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NSF’s NOIRLab.
Acknowledgments: Legacy Surveys / D. Lang (Perimeter Institute)
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Classic Ogmore Vale shot with the mighty Bwlch mountain road to Treorchy in the background. Bus enthusiasts can tell me about the bus waiting.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham or © Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit-making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
Day 270 Year 3 After 1000 days of this project, I have been a tank girl, a pirate, a zombie, a woodland queen, a nerd, a geek, a boxer, played with fire, played with monkeys, jumped, wore my chucks, wore hardly anything at all,
wore nothing at all, recreated paintings, painted myself, painted my face, wore a top hat , wore wigs, dressed up, dressed down, played in the rain, danced to music, was inspired by lyrics, cloned myself, wore my own creations, wore the creations of others, paid tribute to movies,
recreated musicals, ate cupcakes, had one , two, three, birthdays, acted like a duck,
I've been sick, I've cried, I've lost loved ones, had loved ones sick, I've met flickr folks, I've stood on benches, sat on logs, cruised on boats, rode in cars, drifted out to sea in a box,
I've eaten out, eaten at home, made cookies, enchanted a lady bug, won an Ocsar (?), had a flood, had a fire, watched my Yankees lose, watched my Yankees win, played with deadly sins, been hugged by a polar bear, squeeze a hippo, paid tribute to others,
done cartwheels, done back bends, blown bubbles, taken showers, been touched by the kindness of others, wrapped myself in caution tape, made an outfit out of duct tape, drank coffee,
I've been Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, Humphrey Bogart, Siouxsie Sioux, and even Jacques Tati.
Oh and people, that's just a fraction of it all because for every picture I've taken over the last 1000 days, I've got at least one outtake posted as well.
However, in the end, the picture you see above this rather long description is me, M-C, a girl that's just happy to be alive and well through it all.
YET....it hasn't all been happy....
On the negative side of flickr, I've been shunned, ostracized, left out, ignored, lied to, lied about, watched friends go without a word, had my photos stolen, been stalked, and been put into the middle of battles that have nothing to do with me.
All have hurt in ways I can't even begin to describe yet I've NEVER spent my time taking it out on others here.
I've tried to be nice to everyone.
On the weird side of flickr, I've been asked to post pictures of my feet, post pictures of me crying. I've been asked to sell my hair, my shoes, my little plastic monkey.
I've received 6 marriage proposals, and blocked creepy fetishist that want to see things I'm even too embarrassed to describe.
On the best part part of flickr, I've met some wonderful people that seem to genuinely think me and my photos are interesting. For all those that have supported me and my work, I thank you so sincerely. You have made this journey worth continuing.
And whether I stop today or continue on I want to thank those that have stuck by me and have publicly supported me along the way. That acknowledgment has made this worthwhile and validated further my reason for doing this project in the first place.
See, I started this project to remind myself that I was still alive and well.
Not long before starting 365 in '07, I wasn't sure I'd still be here.
We are all fragile beings and life can take you places you never expected.
This is a daily reminder that not only is that alright to enjoy life and to embraced its wonder.
So I embrace each day and continue to find the good in my life through photos.
After all, its brought all of you wonderful people into my world too. :)
xoxoxoxoxoxo
Happy New Year to all of you!!
" ...As we go about our daily lives, we take so many wonderful things for granted. It's now time to notice. Strangely, this is hard to do, especially when we have our eyes focused on the bad. It sounds ridiculous, but we actually have to train ourselves to notice all the beauty in our lives. And train ourselves, we must…because focusing on the blessings is an absolute necessity for diffusing our fears about the future.
A suggestion: As you go about your day, stop for a moment and notice when something wonderful happens. Then say to yourself while still in the glory of the moment, "I have had this." This is the acknowledgment that "No matter what happens tomorrow, I have had this today." It is in the noticing of the little things that you truly get the feeling of a life well-lived … that wonderful hot shower, that kiss from a loved one, the fact that your car started, that great dinner you are eating, the warm rays of the sun, a candy bar, a wonderful television show …."
~ 'Embracing Uncertainty: Breakthrough Methods for Achieving Peace of Mind When Facing the Unknown ' by Dr. Susan Jeffers
The Reverend Robert Walker skating at Welney, with acknowledgment to Sir Henry Raeburn. Pencil. 5.5” x 7.5”
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She pushes the salad over to the other placemat. "Not today, darlin..." she says, after she places her newest dish in front of you. "Try this...on the house. Don't worry about the salad...I'll take care of that for ya," she continues, giving him a wink.
"Oh, the extra milkshake? How about you hold onto that for me. I have a break in a few minutes if you'd like a little company," she says flirtatiously, winking subtly as she nods toward the empty seat with the salad.
He gives a minor nod and subtle waving motion to the empty seat in agreement.
Smirking semi-coyly, she nods in acknowledgment. "I'll be back in a sec, darlin'. Just gonna clear these dishes..." She confidently strolls away, humming that old familiar Alicia Keys joint, glad she didn't have to fish his card out of a bowl to shoot her shot...
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Haagen-Dazs was invented in The Bronx by Jewish Polish-American immigrants, Rose and Rueben Mattus. The couple opened their first store in Brooklyn on November 15, 1976
The name "Haagen-Dazs" is a made-up word meant to sound Danish as an acknowledgment of Denmark's exemplary treatment of Jews during WWII. The luxury ice cream brand was sold to Pillsbury in 1983 for $70M.
Taken from Humans Of Judaism on Instagram.
those sand workers work dawn till midnight at rayerbazar area at a minimum wages, moving our nation forward without proper acknowledgment.
Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long, flowing veils of gas and dust. One striking example is "the Ghost of Cassiopeia," officially known as IC 63, located 550 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.
The nebula’s ethereal glow might remind people of apparitions such as those reported by paranormal investigators. In reality, it's simply hydrogen that is being bombarded with ultraviolet radiation from the nearby, blue-giant star Gamma Cassiopeiae (not seen here), causing it to glow in red light. The blue color is from light reflected off of the nebula’s dust.
The IC 63 nebula is not the only object under the influence of the blinding star, which unleashes as much energy as 34,000 suns. The Ghost Nebula is part of a much larger nebulous region surrounding Gamma Cassiopeiae that measures approximately two degrees on the sky — roughly four times as wide as the full Moon.
Cassiopeia is visible every clear night from mid-northern and higher latitudes. Its distinctive "W" asterism, which forms the queen's throne, is best seen high in the sky on autumn and winter evenings. Gamma Cassiopeiae, the middle star in the W, is visible to the unaided eye, but a large telescope is needed to see IC 63.
Image Credits: NASA, ESA and STScI; Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed IC 63 in August 2016.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI; acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg)
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The branch to Amlwch has been the focus for a preserved line for a long time. The passenger service to Amlwch closed in 1964.
In 1959 Derek Chaplin accompanied BBC broadcaster Wynford Vaughan Thomas making a radio broadcast catching trains only from Cardiff to North Wales and calling in on both the embryonic Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. Subsequently, Derek made up a 35mm slide show called " Trains of Wales 1959" which he showed at railway societies. These 137 mainly Kodachrome slides have been found by his family preserved in a dry wooden storage box and I am privileged to scan them for people to see again. The notes on each slide are minimalist and with no actual dates so anybody who can add interesting information is appreciated.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
This I believe is a small spur line leaving the Barry line to join the GW mainline at Peterstone Super Ely ? Not much trace of this link line exists today.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham or © Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit-making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
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Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham or © Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit-making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
In the blink of an eye, well nearly, as 'Castle' No. 7029 'Clun Castle' crosses Bridge Street in Oakengates while working Vintage Trains 5Z87 1647 Wellington - Cosford ECS on 9th June 2019. It had been a busy day for the 'Castle', having first hauled a charter from Tyseley Steam Trust to Cosford, for the annual air show, and then continuing to Shrewsbury. This was followed by two return trips from Wellington to Coalbrookdale along the Ironbridge branch, before returning to Cosford to pick up the air show passengers for the return to Tyseley. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved (with acknowledgment to Bob & Joan Green for highlighting this location)
Mani.Deux Rehearsal by Northfoot Movement / Cody Berry
Fall for Dance North Festival
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In honour of two-spirited people, Mani.Deux offers an abstract acknowledgment of the history
and revived acceptance of this ultimately non-translatable, non-binary Indigenous identity.
The term is connected to the Anishinaabemowin term niizh manidoowag or “two spirits”.
Berry draws on these linguistic and cultural resonances in this work.
The choreography develops through a sensual exploration of water/female and thunder/male, inspired by the quote: “The acceptance that I was looking for was in the culture I tried to run from.”
Raised in Lac La Croix First Nation and based in Toronto, Cody Berry identifies as a two-spirited Ojibway contemporary dance artist.
His work combines traditional knowledge (protocol) with conventional movement methods.
Choreography: Cody Berry
Performer: Tavia Christina / Mio Sakamoto
#ffdnorth #uniondance #bringingtheartstolife #lartaucoeurdenosvies
This image shows a patch of the southern sky and is based on observations performed by ESA’s Planck satellite at microwave and sub-millimetre wavelengths.
The colour scale represents the emission from dust, a minor but crucial component of the interstellar medium that pervades our Milky Way galaxy. The texture, instead, indicates the orientation of the Galactic magnetic field. It is based on measurements of the direction of the polarised light emitted by the dust.
The highlighted region shows the position of a small patch of the sky that was observed with two ground-based experiments at the South Pole, BICEP2 and the Keck Array, and yielding a possible detection of curly B-modes in the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the most ancient light in the history of the Universe.
However, a joint analysis of data from BICEP2, the Keck Array, and Planck has later shown that this signal is likely not cosmological in nature, but caused by dust in our Galaxy.
The image shows that dust emission is strongest along the plane of the Galaxy, in the upper part of the image, but that it cannot be neglected even in other regions of the sky. The small cloud visible in red, to the upper right of the BICEP2 field, shows dust emission from the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
The image spans 60º on each side.
Credit: ESA/Planck Collaboration. Acknowledgment: M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, CNRS – Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-XI, Orsay, France
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Obtained for a research program on star formation in old and distant galaxies, this NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope image taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) demonstrates the immense effects of gravity; more specifically, it shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by a galaxy cluster called SDSS J1152+3313.
Gravitational lenses — such as this galaxy cluster — possess immense masses that warp their surroundings and bend the light from faraway objects into rings, arcs, streaks, blurs and other odd shapes. This lens is bending the light from a more distant galaxy into a grand arc, which is blue because of the energetic star formation activity in the galaxy. The lens, however, is not only warping the appearance of the distant galaxy — it is also amplifying its light, making it appear much brighter than it would be without the lens. Combined with the high image quality obtainable with Hubble, this gives valuable clues into how stars formed in the early universe.
Star formation is a key process in astronomy. Everything that emits light is somehow connected to stars, so understanding how stars form is key to understanding countless objects lying across the cosmos. Astronomers can probe these early star-forming regions to learn about the sizes, luminosities, formation rates and generations of different types of stars.
Image credit: Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
Here is the end of the BBC radio broadcast story at the buffer stops at Amlwch on Ynys Mon. Looks like a Welsh version of the "Railway Children" scene with full bunting and probably a brass band. As I have worked professionally at Amlwch many times over the years its quite a lovely scene. The branch to Amlwch has been the focus for a preserved line for a long time. The passenger service to Amlwch closed in 1964.
In 1959 Derek Chaplin accompanied BBC broadcaster Wynford Vaughan Thomas making a radio broadcast catching trains only from Cardiff to North Wales and calling in on both the embryonic Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. Subsequently, Derek made up a 35mm slide show called " Trains of Wales 1959" which he showed at railway societies. These 137 mainly Kodachrome slides have been found by his family preserved in a dry wooden storage box and I am privileged to scan them for people to see again. The notes on each slide are minimalist and with no actual dates so anybody who can add interesting information is appreciated.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
Another it was one year ago today shot from France. It was incredibly hot in Paris but Mary wanted to do some shopping and we wandered round the Grands Boulevards quarter of the city . Cannot remember if we bought anything . We did pass the Palais Garnier the home of the Paris Opera to find an excellent cafe .I thought the opera house was worth a shot though the bottom of the building had to be cropped out as there was so much traffic . I would love to see a performance at the Palais Garnier the interior looks amazing and the ceiling was painted by Marc Chagall
A little info
The Palais Garnier is a 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. Initially referred to as "le nouvel Opéra de Paris" (the new Paris Opera), it soon became known as the Palais Garnier, "in acknowledgment of its extraordinary opulence" and the architect Charles Garnier's plans and designs, which are representative of the Napoleon III style. It was the primary theatre of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when a new opera house, the Opéra Bastille, opened at the Place de la Bastille.The company now uses the Palais Garnier mainly for ballet. The theatre has been a monument historique of France since 1923.
The Palais Garnier has been called "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre. This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and, especially, the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and the popular 1986 musical
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH. ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED
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Notes say LSWR Class 700 on Freight. 1959 British Railways era, before line closed in 1972 and was then re-opened in 1982 as a heritage steam railway,
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham or © Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit-making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
With pleasure I am in Frankfurt downtown. Here especially at the “Römerberg”, a central hot spot in Frankfurt, where the townhall is located. It is Wednesday afternoon. Some nice people I met here already. Who I will meet today, always is the interesting question.
But today something was a little different than usual. Besides it was almost unbearably hot, I observed countless mostly young people who were running through Frankfurt staring on their smartphones. Unusually it was not about Facebook & Co .
A kind of epidemic goes around. The hunt for Pokémons. The new game is called Pokémon GO. Although it brings people from a home PersonalComputer on the road, but in my eyes, it does not help to perceive the environment consciously. But that's my humble opinion.
So I saw many tourist groups, wedding couples here at the registry office at the town hall and hunter of Pokémons, all were the wrong group for the Human Family project for me. As I spotted a young couple sitting on the stairs of town hall without any smartphone, but relaxed and sympathic. I grabbed the opportunity, approached them and talked to both.
As always, I explained my concerns, the project and the idea behind "The Human Family". The project took the interest of the two people. The thought, that I wanted to take pictures, amused a little. An argument, which certainly many other photographers hear at this point, was (she): "But I'm not photogenic!" With a little persuasion I could dispel the argument.
At 36 degrees Celsius in the shade here in front of the town hall I made the acquaintance of Jennifer and Matthias. But first we took the pictures.
Jennifer was very patient and I could move her to where the best conditions were. Jennifer suggested that I could photograph her sitting on the ground in front of the town hall. I took a few shots and we changed the background and the pose. Jennifer was lovely, patient and very open. We tried not only different poses, but also different facial expressions. Sometimes laughing, sometimes serious, sometimes "evil". Then we had a look at the results on the screen of my camera. Jennifer was very impressed by the pictures. She, but also me, liked the serious images most. Who would have thought in this direction, because Jennifer is a lively, friendly young lady, as it turned out later in our conversation. Then I photographed Matthias, her boyfriend. Have a look on to our conversation and on to his own image (a bit later).
Back to Jennifer. Jennifer is 23 years old, born in Freiburg and now lives in Frankfurt. With her boyfriend Matthias she is happy together for one year (this happiness I could feel when finally I made the couple photo). As Matthias was sitting next to us, I asked him how he would describe Jennifer: “Jennifer is attractive (that's enough, now you need no more to say, joked Jennifer), Matthias continued: “she is loving and caring”.
I asked Jennifer what the biggest challenge is or was in her still so young life. Jennifer had to think a moment, then she answered: The biggest challenge is for me, to meet my own requirements and to accept my own weaknesses.
Jennifer studies political science in Frankfurt. Currently makes Jennifer an internship at the Journal Frankfurt (a magazine with event tips, stories about and around Frankfurt, reviews and views of music and movies, restaurants and local concerts...)
After graduating Jennifer would work as a journalist at a newspaper, because writing is her passion. But in this regard direct precedents Jennifer did not have.
What are your favorite writers, I asked. "Hermann Hesse and Franz Kafka, I love the way both write". If Jennifer once would like to win the Pulitzer Prize, I asked. Of course, such a prize is recognition, acknowledgment and high praise for any journalist. But at the moment Jennifer's lifelong dream is to write a book.
At all Jennifer loves books, especially second-hand books. The feeling of having a book in hand, to touch and sense, that is unbeatable. Not to compare with the electronic media, while offering the ability to carry hundreds of books around with you, but the real sense of a book comes here too short.
(Note from me at this point while writing these lines: I hope my little story withstands here infront of the critical eyes of an aspiring journalist and author. I hope Jennifer will read this lines and told me, if she like the picture and my description of her.)
Back from my feelings to Jennifer. “Who do you want to meet once in your life? It can be a living or already a dead person?” "I am a confessing Christian”, said Jennifer, “I'd love to meet a person, who lived at the time of Jesus. I want to learn from this person firsthand, under what conditions Jesus had to struggle with difficulties and challenges; and how Jesus could go his way. I just want to comprehend his time."
I think I would have been even able to talk for another hour with Jennifer, I would still have some more question, but of course Matthias, sitting alongside, I did not want to let wait him any longer.
Thank you, Jennifer, for your willingness and patience. I'm glad to have won you for the project. It was a very interesting, yet relaxed conversation and a funny photo shoot.
I wish you much success in your studies you and your goal of working as a journalist at a newspaper. I also hope that one day you can realize your life dream to write a "real" book. Perhaps it is indeed a novel set in the time of Jesus. I wish you all the best, Jennifer.
This is my 27th post to the group "The Human Family". Visit "The Human Family" here and have a look on the photos of the other photographers:
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Gerne bin ich in Frankfurt in der Innenstadt. Besonders gerne am Römerberg, einem zentralen Hotspot in Frankfurt. So auch an diesem Mittwochnachmittag. Einige nette Menschen habe ich schon hier getroffen. Wem werden ich heute begegnen, es ist immer eine spannende Frage.
Heute war aber etwas anders als sonst. Abgesehen davon, dass es fast unerträglich heiß war, beobachtet ich unzählige überwiegend junge Menschen, die auf ihr Smartphone starrend durch Frankfurt liefen. Anders als sonst ging es nicht um Facebook & Co.. Eine Art Epidemie macht sich bei uns gerade breit. Die Jagd auf Pokémons. Das neue Spiel nennt sich Pokémon GO, dass zwar die Menschen vom heimischen PC auf die Straße bringt, aber in meinen Augen nicht dazu beiträgt, die Umgebung bewußt wahr zu nehmen. Aber das ist meine bescheidene Meinung.
Ich sah also Touristengruppen, heiratswillige Menschen hier vor dem Standesamt am Römerberg und Pocemonjäger, die alle für mich die falsche Zielgruppe für das Human Family Projekt waren. Nur ein junges Paar saß auf den Treppen des Rathauses, ohne Smartphone, aber entspannt und sympathisch. Ich fasste die Gelegenheit beim Schopf, näherte mich und sprach beide an.
Wie immer erklärte ich mein Anliegen und das Projekt bzw. die Idee, die hinter dem Projekt „The Human Family“ steckt. Das Projekt fand das Interesse der beiden. Der Gedanke, dass ich Fotos machen wollte, amüsierte etwas. Ein Argument, dass bestimmt schon viele andere Fotografen an dieser Stelle gehört haben, war (Sie): „Ich bin doch aber gar nicht fotogen!“ Mit ein wenig Überzeugungsarbeit konnte ich das Argument zerstreuen.
Bei 36 Grad Celsius im Schatten machte ich hier am Römer die Bekanntschaft von Jennifer und Matthias. Zuerst machten wir die Fotos.
Jennifer war sehr geduldig und ließ sich von mir dorthin dirigieren, wo in meinen Augen die besten Voraussetzungen vorlagen. Jennifer schlug vor, dass ich sie sitzend auf der Erde vor dem Rathaus fotografieren könnte. Ich machte ein paar Aufnahmen und wir wechselten den Hintergrund und die Pose. Jennifer war reizend, geduldig und sehr aufgeschlossen. Wir probierten nicht nur verschiedene Posen aus, sondern auch verschiedene Gesichtsausdrücke. Mal lachend, mal ernst, mal „böse“. Anschließend begutachteten wir gemeinsam das Ergebnis auf dem Display meiner Kamera. Jennifer war sehr angetan von den Bildern. Ihr, aber auch mir, gefielen die ernsten Bilder am besten. Wer hätte das gedacht, wo doch Jennifer eine lebensfrohe, freundliche junge Dame ist, wie sich in unserem späteren Gespräch herausstellte. Dann fotografierte ich Matthias, ihren Freund. Dazu und seine Geschichte dann bei seinem Bild.
Zurück zu Jennifer. Jennifer ist 23 Jahre jung, in Freiburg geboren und wohnt jetzt in Frankfurt. Mit ihrem Freund Matthias ist sie seit einem Jahr glücklich zusammen (das habe ich gespürt, als ich von beiden das Pärchenfoto zum Schluss machte). Da Matthias neben uns saß, fragte ich ihn, wie er Jennifer beschreiben würde: Jennifer ist attraktiv (das reicht schon, jetzt brauchst du nicht mehr zu sagen, flachste Jennifer), sie ist liebevoll und fürsorglich.
Ich fragte Jennifer nach der größten Herausforderung in ihrem noch so jungen Leben. Jennifer musste überlegen, dann antwortete sie: Die größte Herausforderung ist für mich, meinen eigenen Erwartungen gerecht zu werden und meine eigenen Schwächen zu akzeptieren.
Jennifer studiert Politikwissenschaften in Frankfurt. Zur Zeit macht Jennifer ein Praktikum beim Journal Frankfurt (ein regional verortetes Magazin, dass sich mit Veranstaltungstipps, Geschichten in und rund um Frankfurt, Rezessionen, Restauranttipps etc. beschäftigt.)
Nach Abschluss ihres Studiums möchte Jennifer Journalistin bei einer Zeitung werden, weil das Schreiben ihre Leidenschaft ist. Aber direkte Vorbilder hat Jennifer diesbezüglich nicht.
Welches sind denn Deine Lieblingsschriftsteller, fragte ich. „Hermann Hesse und Franz Kafka, ich liebe die Art, wie beide schreiben“. Ob Jennifer mal den Pulitzer-Preis gewinnen möchte, fragte ich weiter. Natürlich ist solch ein Preis Anerkennung, Bestätigung und höchstes Lob für jeden Journalisten. Aber Jennifers Lebenstraum ist, ein Buch zu schreiben.
Überhaupt liebt Jennifer Bücher, besonders Second-Hand Bücher. Das Feeling, ein Buch in der Hand zu haben, anzufassen und zu spüren ist das unschlagbar. Nicht zu vergleichen mit den elektronischen Medien, die zwar die Möglichkeit bieten, hunderte von Büchern mit sich herum zu tragen, aber das echte Gefühl für ein Buch kommt dabei zu kurz.
(Anmerkung von mir an dieser Stelle beim Schreiben dieser Zeilen: Ich hoffe, dass meine kleine Geschichte hier vor den kritischen Augen einer angehenden Journalistin und Autorin standhält. Ich hoffe, dass Jennifer sich meldet und mir erzählt, wie ihr das Foto und meine Beschreibung unseres Zusammentreffens gefallen hat.)
Zurück von meinen Befindlichkeiten zu Jennifer. Wen möchtest Du einmal treffen in Deinem Leben, es können lebende als auch schon verstorbene Personen sein? „Ich bin bekennende Christin, antwortete Jennifers, gerne würde ich einen Menschen treffen (können), der zu der Zeit von Jesus gelebt hat. Ich möchte von diesem Menschen aus erster Hand erfahren, quasi miterleben , unter welchen Bedingungen Jesus gewirkt hat, mit welchen Schwierigkeiten und Herausforderungen Jesus zu kämpfen hatte und wie er seinen Weg gehen konnte. Die Zeit möchte ich einfach „begreifen“ und mich hineinversetzen.“
Ich glaube, ich hätte mich auch noch eine weitere Stunde mit Jennifer unterhalten können, mir wären noch einige Frage eingefallen, aber Matthias wollte ich natürlich nicht zu lange warten lassen.
Vielen Dank, Jennifer, für die Bereitschaft und die Geduld. Ich bin froh, dich für das Projekt gewonnen zu haben. Es war ein sehr interessantes, aber trotzdem entspanntes Gespräch und ein fröhliches Fotoshooting. Viel Erfolg wünsche ich dir bei deinem Studium und deinem Ziel, als Journalistin bei einer Zeitung zu arbeiten. Ich hoffe auch, dass du irgendwann dein Lebenstraum, ein „richtiges“ Buch zu schreiben verwirklichen kannst. Vielleicht wird es ja ein Roman, der zu Zeiten von Jesus spielt. Alles Gute, Jennifer.
Dies ist mein 27. Beitrag zu der Gruppe "The Human Family". Mehr Fotos von anderen Fotografen der Gruppe findest Du hier:
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a cluster of hundreds of galaxies located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The brightest galaxy within this cluster, named SDSS J1156+1911, is visible in the lower middle of the frame. It was discovered by the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey, which studied data maps covering huge parts of the sky from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey found more than 70 galaxies that look to be significantly affected by a cosmic phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
Gravitational lensing is one of the predictions of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The mass contained within a galaxy is so immense that it can actually warp and bend the very fabric of its surroundings (known as space-time), forcing light to travel along curved paths. As a result, the image of a more distant galaxy appears distorted and amplified to an observer, as the light from it has been bent around the intervening galaxy. This effect can be very useful in astronomy, allowing astronomers to see galaxies that are either obscured or too distant to be otherwise detected by our current instruments.
Galaxy clusters are giant structures containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies, some with masses over one million billion times the mass of the Sun! SDSS J1156+1911 is only roughly 600 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it less massive than the average galaxy. However, it is massive enough to produce the fuzzy, greenish streak seen just below the brightest galaxy — the lensed image of a more distant galaxy.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
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In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe. This object lies inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It's inside a turbulent birthing ground for new stars known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away.
When stars form within giant clouds of cool molecular hydrogen, some of the surrounding material collapses under gravity to form a rotating, flattened disk encircling the newborn star.
Though planets will later congeal in the disk, at this early stage the protostar is feeding on the disk. Gas from the disk rains down onto the protostar and engorges it. Superheated material spills away and is shot outward from the star in opposite directions along an uncluttered escape route — the star's rotation axis.
Shock fronts develop along the jets and heat the surrounding gas to thousands of degrees Fahrenheit. The jets collide with the surrounding gas and dust and clear vast spaces, like a stream of water plowing into a hill of sand. The shock fronts form tangled, knotted clumps of nebulosity and are collectively known as Herbig-Haro (HH) objects. The prominent HH object shown in this image is HH 24.
Just to the right of the cloaked star, a couple of bright points are young stars peeking through and showing off their own fainter jets — including one that has bored a tunnel through the cloud towards the upper-right side of the picture.
Overall, just a handful of HH jets have been spotted in this region in visible light, and about the same number in the infrared. Hubble's observations for this image were performed in infrared light, which enabled the telescope to peer through the gas and dust cocooning the newly forming stars and capture a clear view of the HH objects.
These young stellar jets are ideal targets for NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, which will have even greater infrared wavelength vision to see deeper into the dust surrounding newly forming stars.
Credit: NASA and ESA
Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)/Hubble-Europe (ESA) Collaboration, D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii)
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Notes say LSWR M& on Auto train. 1959 British Railways era, before line closed in 1972 and was then re-opened in 1982 as a heritage steam railway,
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of copyright Peter Brabham or copyright Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit-making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
National Museum, Oslo – Cast Hall
Visitors to the new National Museum in Oslo may be surprised—and perhaps moved—to find a dedicated hall of plaster casts among the sleek, modern galleries. The presence of these replicas pays homage to a formative chapter in art education and museum history: a time before commercial travel, digital media, and visual saturation, when even well-educated Europeans could rarely, if ever, encounter the originals of world art.
In 1904, when painter Ivar Lund depicted the Interior of the National Gallery, cast halls served both pedagogical and cultural missions. They democratized access to Greco-Roman antiquity and Renaissance masterworks, offering a surrogate form of aesthetic communion. These casts were not dismissed as mere imitations; rather, they were prized as tools of knowledge—objects to be studied, copied, and internalized.
Importantly, many casts were made using molds taken directly from the originals. Classical sculptures in major European collections—such as the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, and the British Museum—were at times permitted to serve as sources for plaster molds, particularly in the 19th century. If viewers knew or believed that a cast had been taken from such a mold, that knowledge was often sufficient to establish the object’s authenticity in their eyes. Few would have fixated on the missing aura of the original.
Even today, in an era obsessed with provenance, attribution, and originality, the authenticity of so-called “originals” is far from guaranteed. In the murky world of dealers, restorers, and curators, forgeries and misattributions remain a known hazard. A museum label, even in the British Museum or the Met, is not a metaphysical guarantee of truth. What casts offer—paradoxically—is clarity: a frank acknowledgment of derivation and replication that frees the viewer to engage directly with the sculpture’s visual and formal language.
As Jeannine’s pencil drawing of the Nike of Samothrace (a cast of the Louvre original) reminds us, to draw is still to see. The museum provides paper and pencils and invites the public to try their hand at sketching under the motto "to draw is to see." The replication of the ancient masterpiece, no less than the act of sketching it, forms a bridge between observer and observed. It demands attention, patience, and fidelity—not to provenance, but to form.
The very presence of casts in a 21st-century museum affirms a deeper philosophy: that art’s value lies not only in originality but in transmission. That touchstones of cultural memory must remain physically accessible, even in duplicate. That learning still begins with looking—long and hard—and that beauty survives translation.
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A couple of years ago I was approached by someone who was writing a book and asked if they could use one of my Flickr photos. I said yes and I finally have a copy of the book with my picture, my name is even in the acknowledgments. Very excited that I have now been published
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a dwarf galaxy named UGC 685. Such galaxies are small and contain just a tiny fraction of the number of stars in a galaxy like the Milky Way. Dwarf galaxies often show a hazy structure, an ill-defined shape, and an appearance somewhat akin to a swarm or cloud of stars — and UGC 685 is no exception to this. Classified as an SAm galaxy — a type of unbarred spiral galaxy — it is located about 15 million light-years from Earth.
These data were gathered under Hubble’s LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey) program, the sharpest and most comprehensive ultraviolet survey of star-forming galaxies in the nearby universe.
LEGUS is imaging 50 spiral and dwarf galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood in multiple colors using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. The survey is picking apart the structures of these galaxies and resolving their constituent stars, clusters, groups and other stellar associations. Star formation plays a huge role in shaping its host galaxy. By exploring these targets in detail via both new observations and archival Hubble data, LEGUS will shed light on how stars form and cluster together, how these clusters evolve, how a star’s formation affects its surroundings, and how stars explode at the end of their lives.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; the LEGUS team, B. Tully, D. Calzetti; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
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Next time you go shopping at Morrisons Brecon close your eyes and remember what used to be on that site.
In 1959 Derek Chaplin accompanied BBC broadcaster Wynford Vaughan Thomas making a radio broadcast catching trains only from Cardiff to North Wales and calling in on both the embryonic Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. Subsequently, Derek made up a 35mm slide show called " Trains of Wales 1959" which he showed at railway societies. These 137 mainly Kodachrome slides have been found by his family preserved in a dry wooden storage box and I am privileged to scan them for people to see again. The notes on each slide are minimalist and with no actual dates so anybody who can add interesting information is appreciated.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
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My local station was far more interesting in 1960 than it is today. Looking at other photos 6438 seemed to be the regular loco on this service. Nothing left except the far roof is the Railway pub. The little girl with her mother would be around 65 now.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham or © Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit-making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. The super star is ten times more massive than our sun and 200 times larger.
RS Puppis rhythmically brightens and dims over a six-week cycle. It is one of the most luminous in the class of so-called Cepheid variable stars. Its average intrinsic brightness is 15,000 times greater than our sun’s luminosity.
The nebula flickers in brightness as pulses of light from the Cepheid propagate outwards. Hubble took a series of photos of light flashes rippling across the nebula in a phenomenon known as a "light echo." Even though light travels through space fast enough to span the gap between Earth and the moon in a little over a second, the nebula is so large that reflected light can actually be photographed traversing the nebula.
By observing the fluctuation of light in RS Puppis itself, as well as recording the faint reflections of light pulses moving across the nebula, astronomers are able to measure these light echoes and pin down a very accurate distance. The distance to RS Puppis has been narrowed down to 6,500 light-years (with a margin of error of only one percent).
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington, D.C.
Acknowledgment: H. Bond (STScI and Pennsylvania State University)
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Chocolate box GWR photos don't come much better than this.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer or the fact they have just stolen them off my FLICKR site. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham or © Derek Chaplin family ; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
Have you ever been looking for one thing – at home or while browsing the web for example – and accidentally stumbled upon something else, but that is just as interesting? Something similar happened to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a couple of years ago. While observing distant galaxies lying billions of light-years away, the telescope serendipitously spotted several asteroids, small Solar System objects that reside ‘only’ a few tens to hundreds of millions of kilometres from Earth.
Asteroids are mainly found in an area called the ‘main belt’, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. More than 700 000 asteroids have been identified to date, and predictions indicate that many more might be out there, each left over from the early days when planets were taking shape around the Sun.
The curved or S-shaped streaks in this image are trails created by asteroids as they move along their orbits. Rather than leaving one long trail, the asteroids appear in multiple Hubble exposures that have been combined into one image. The image shows a total of twenty asteroid trails, belonging to seven unique objects; five of these were new discoveries – too faint to be seen previously.
This week, a team of astronomers, planetary scientists and software engineers based at ESA and other research institutes has launched a new citizen science project: the Hubble Asteroid Hunter. The project was developed as part of the Zooniverse – the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
The new project features a collection of archival Hubble images where calculations indicate that an asteroid might have been crossing the field of view at the time of the observation. Everyone can participate! By identifying the asteroids potentially present in these images and marking the exact position of their trails, you too can help the team improve the asteroid orbit determination and better characterise these objects. Precise knowledge of the orbit is particularly important for so-called near-Earth asteroids, those potentially flying close to our planet.
This image was taken as part of the Frontier Fields program, a Hubble initiative to push the telescope’s limits, observing six massive galaxy clusters – huge cosmic objects comprising hundreds of galaxies along with hot gas and dark matter – and exploiting their effect as a gravitational ‘lens’ on background sources to capture light from extremely distant galaxies.
While observing each cluster with one of the cameras on Hubble, the team also used a different camera, pointing in a slightly different direction, to photograph six so-called ‘parallel fields’. This maximised Hubble’s observational efficiency in doing deep space exposures, imaging a myriad of far away galaxies.
This picture, first published in 2017, shows the parallel field for the galaxy cluster Abell 370. It was assembled from images taken in visible and infrared light and contains thousands of galaxies, including massive yellowish ellipticals and majestic blue spirals. Much smaller, fragmentary blue galaxies are sprinkled throughout the field. The reddest objects are most likely the farthest galaxies, whose light has been stretched into the red part of the spectrum by the expansion of space.
The position of this field on the sky is near the ecliptic, the plane of our Solar System. This is the region in which most asteroids orbit the Sun, which is why Hubble astronomers saw so many crossings. Hubble deep-sky observations taken along a line-of-sight near the plane of our Solar System commonly record asteroid trails.
Credits: NASA, ESA, and B. Sunnquist and J. Mack (STScI); CC BY 4.0; Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI) and the HFF Team
This temple was once situated in the vicinity of the Roman fortress of Taphis (Taffeh) in Nubia. Nowadays it has a place in the central hall of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) in Leiden. It was a gift from the Egyptian authorities in acknowledgment of the Dutch participation in the campaign to save the Nubian monuments near Abu Simbel, which were under threat because of the building of the Aswan High Dam in the Nile. The temple was built during the reign of Roman emperor Augustus.
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Stars of all ages are on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling spiral galaxy called NGC 6000, located 102 million light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
NGC 6000 has a glowing yellow center and glittering blue outskirts. These colors reflect differences in the average ages, masses, and temperatures of the galaxy’s stars. At the heart of the galaxy, the stars tend to be older and smaller. Less massive stars are cooler than more massive stars, and somewhat counterintuitively, cooler stars are redder, while hotter stars are bluer. Farther out along NGC 6000’s spiral arms, brilliant star clusters host young, massive stars that appear distinctly blue.
Hubble collected the data for this image while surveying the sites of recent supernova explosions in nearby galaxies. NGC 6000 hosted two recent supernovae: SN 2007ch in 2007 and SN 2010as in 2010. Using Hubble’s sensitive detectors, researchers can discern the faint glow of supernovae years after the initial explosion. These observations help constrain the masses of supernovae progenitor stars and can indicate if they had any stellar companions.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko; Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç
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In 1959 Derek Chaplin accompanied BBC broadcaster Wynford Vaughan Thomas making a radio broadcast catching trains only from Cardiff to North Wales and calling in on both the embryonic Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. Subsequently, Derek made up a 35mm slide show called " Trains of Wales 1959" which he showed at railway societies. These 137 mainly Kodachrome slides have been found by his family preserved in a dry wooden storage box and I am privileged to scan them for people to see again. The notes on each slide are minimalist and with no actual dates so anybody who can add interesting information is appreciated.
Due to the recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without any acknowledgment of the photographer. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
This image is the copyright of © Peter Brabham; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. I will retrospectively claim £50 per print image if prior written authorization for publication has not been sought. Please contact me at pete.brabham@ntlworld.com for permission to use any of my FLICKR photographs in hard copy publication. I will usually give permission free of charge to Heritage Railways and steam loco restoration project advertising, but profit making magazines and book authors must pay a reproduction fee. Authors should know the provenance of high quality digital images that they use.
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NGC 2841
Star formation is one of the most important processes in shaping the Universe; it plays a pivotal role in the evolution of galaxies and it is also in the earliest stages of star formation that planetary systems first appear.
Credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA / Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: M. Crockett and S. Kaviraj (Oxford University, UK) / R. O'Connell (University of Virginia) / B. Whitmore (STScI) / WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee
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Pismis 24, the star cluster seen here in an image released on Dec. 11, 2006, lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The brightest object in the picture was once thought to be a single star with an incredibly large mass of 200 to 300 solar masses. That would have made it by far the most massive known star in the galaxy and would have put it considerably above the currently believed upper mass limit of about 150 solar masses for individual stars. Measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, however, discovered that Pismis 24-1 is actually two separate stars, and, in doing so, “halved” their mass to around 100-150 solar masses each.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
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The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy
Credit: DESI LIS, Giuseppe Donatiello
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy (also Sculptor System) is a satellite of the Milky Way at about 90 kpc. It was discovered in 1937 by Harlow Shapley.
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This image used data obtained with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI construction and operations is managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High-Energy Physics, under Contract No. DE–AC02–05CH11231, and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract. Additional support for DESI was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Astronomical Sciences under Contract No. AST-0950945 to the NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT); the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN), and by the DESI Member Institutions: www.desi.lbl.gov/collaborating-institutions. The DESI collaboration is honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on Iolkam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, or any of the listed funding agencies.
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NASA image release August 5, 2010
A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red). The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like "arms," seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced by tidal forces generated in the collision.
The collision, which began more than 100 million years ago and is still occurring, has triggered the formation of millions of stars in clouds of dusts and gas in the galaxies. The most massive of these young stars have already sped through their evolution in a few million years and exploded as supernovas.
The X-ray image from Chandra shows huge clouds of hot, interstellar gas that have been injected with rich deposits of elements from supernova explosions. This enriched gas, which includes elements such as oxygen, iron, magnesium, and silicon, will be incorporated into new generations of stars and planets. The bright, point-like sources in the image are produced by material falling onto black holes and neutron stars that are remnants of the massive stars. Some of these black holes may have masses that are almost one hundred times that of the Sun.
The Spitzer data show infrared light from warm dust clouds that have been heated by newborn stars, with the brightest clouds lying in the overlapping region between the two galaxies.
The Hubble data reveal old stars and star-forming regions in gold and white, while filaments of dust appear in brown. Many of the fainter objects in the optical image are clusters containing thousands of stars.
The Chandra image was taken in December 1999. The Spitzer image was taken in December 2003. The Hubble image was taken in July 2004, and February 2005.
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/antennae.html
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Credit: NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
Acknowledgment: G. Fabbiano and Z. Wang (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), and B. Whitmore (STScI)
Nanda Devi (Hindi: नन्दा देवी) is the second highest mountain in India after Kangchenjunga and the highest located entirely within the country. (Kangchenjunga, which is higher, is on the border of India and Nepal.) It is the 23rd-highest peak in the world. It was considered the highest mountain in the world before computations in 1808 proved Dhaulagiri to be higher. It was also the highest mountain in India until 1975 when Sikkim, the state in which Kangchenjunga is located, joined the Republic of India. It is part of the Garhwal Himalayas, and is located in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, between the Rishiganga valley on the west and the Goriganga valley on the east. The peak, whose name means "Bliss-Giving Goddess",is regarded as the patron-goddess of the Uttarakhand Himalaya. In acknowledgment of its religious significance and for the protection of its fragile ecosystem, the peak as well as the circle of high mountains surrounding it—the Nanda Devi sanctuary.