Railway activity around the world
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Gnadental / Neuss / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
Album of Germany: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/sets/7215762606822...
Album of Neuss: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157625997...
Ziva David, NCIS Special Agent is very busy doing spring activities (bug searching) in the lower field with wheat plantation.
I took some nicer photos of her, but she liked this one. We were out on the Pacific with the Sail Maui group, enjoying a sunset cruise. Funny enough, the candy clouds coming in from the east took all the attention away from the sunset, even the crew was excited to see them.
Until next time, try to make someone smile. B
After catching the UP MNPRVX at Doyle, my friend and I made our way out to Sand Pass, Nevada, to begin our chase of the MGRRV.
Earlier in the day, we had caught the INPOA descending into the foothills around James, California, alongside a BNSF HBARPAS/HFRSPAS. We'd catch the BNSF a handful of miles east of Belden, followed up by a shot at Keddie. We were pretty hungry and decided to get some breakfast after our shot at Keddie.
Currently, the Bug Fire is running rampant, burning hundreds of thousands of acres just east of Scotts/Reno Junction. Many have been evacuated, and firefighters are working hard to contain the fire. My friend has posted his shot of this train on his page, and the fire is clearly visible. Go check it out: flic.kr/p/2suCgbL
As for the MGRRV, we'd grab our first shot at Sand Pass (seen here), followed by Omira, Reno Junction, and Portola. Of the 4-5 trains on the lineup for Portola (that we would've seen in light), we photographed only 2. It sucks, but that's what happens when you shoot the former WP!
Not the name of the Falls, just the position. Leaving both the top and the bottom of the falls seems to have focused attention on the mid ground. This area is typically part of the narrative and not the story itself. So, I placed it front and center, making it the story.
After all, this is the area of activity. While the top will feed the falls, and the bottom will exit the falls, the mid area is a concentration of activity.
A male Greater Flame-back (Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) woodpecker was knocking beneath the old barks for the taking of caterpillars hiding there. In spite of the great Sun, I found all the activity in deep shades of tall and dense vegetation and finished with a limited shutter setting. But even with the higher ISO I managed to frame their behavioral shots with joy. Pics was taken from a garden in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
A fantastic day spent in Paul Fowlie's Red Squirrel Hides in the Yorkshire dales. These cheeky little characters certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves also.
On January 22, solar reports warned of high solar activity with the presence of two important active regions associated with class M solar flares (www.spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html). In the image on the left you can see the configuration of the active regions on the Sun's disk. Active region 3559 (detail on the right, left in the complete image of the Sun), had rapid growth and crossed the solar disk in the course of the week. On January 23, this active region and 3561 (on the right in the image of the solar disk separated by around 500,000 km), erupted simultaneously, generating a "sympathetic solar flare", produced by a physical connection between both active regions, which caused shortwave radio blackouts in Australia and Indonesia (www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=23&mo...). The large active region 3559 had a "beta-gamma" class magnetic field and more than thirty sunspots, while 3561 evolved over the course of the week reaching about 100,000 km wide and twenty dark cores.
Details associated with the day of capture: www.spaceweatherlive.com/es/archivo/2024/01/22/dayobs.html
The image of the entire disk on the left was taken with a "Meade" 80/400 refractor telescope and the detail on the right, with an "Explore Scientific" 127, f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. In both cases a "Meade" 575 white light filter was used (remember not to expose your eyes to the Sun or photographic equipment without the appropriate filters), a Player One Neptune-M camera and a Player One IR685 filter.
January 22, 2024, 20:40 UT. Zona rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.