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As we approach the Jupiter/Venus conjunction on 2 March, the Moon and the two planets align as they slip down to the south west soon after sunset.
It's not often that I manage to capture an image that exceeds my expectations.
I noticed this alignment of pine trees a couple of months ago, and wondered how it might look with the sun setting perfectly within the gap.
There are only a few days in any year where it would be possible to capture a photo exactly like this. Would the weather play along with my plans?
I've been returning to this exact spot most evenings this past week... hoping to capture my pre-visualised shot. Every previous attempt was a failure, with the sun disappearing behind the clouds before it appeared in my frame.
But then yesterday evening I got everything that I was hoping for... and more. I'm stoked! :)
Shinagawa for tourists is nothing more than a transfer point for shinkansen services and maybe a cheap hotel. For railfans, it is train heaven.
Perched above the busy JR Tokaido Line and Shinkansen is Keikyu's Main Line. The green steel through truss bridge and S curve make it a decades long railway landmark in Tokyo. Train traffic is heavy, with a train crossing over the bridge every minute or two during rush hour. However, the remodeling and track realignment of Shinagawa Station to improve grade separation will mean this view will be gone in a few years, roughly 2030.
Here during a cool autumn morning, an outbound Keikyu 600 Series exits Shinagawa bound for a rolling stock depot, while an inbound Toei Subway service from Haneda International Airport approaches Shinagawa.
Keikyu Main Line
Keikyu 600 and Toei 5500 Series
Shinagawa, Tokyo Pref, Japan
The stars burn above this puddle of the Cottonwood Lakes to the great amusement of the cheering frogs. Three images stacked manually in photoshop.
M357 works up the 2% grade of Steelton Hill on the new double track alignment. At the bottom of the photo is the old single track route that curved much more than the new line.
Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites around the village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre/proto-Celtic people of Brittany, and are the largest such collection in the world. Most of the stones are within the Breton village of Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as old as 4500 BC.
2015 07 27 151700 France Brittany Carnac 1HDR
This evening's epic afterglow!
Technical details:
Fuji X-E1 + 10-24mm
4 seconds, f/8, ISO 100
7 shot panorama
A rare daylight NYS&W HAN-1 heads west through Franklin Lakes, NJ. The "missing link" of I-287 between Montville, NJ and Suffern, NY was still under construction in this March 1993 view. The Susquehanna main had recently been relocated to the alignment seen here due to this construction project. The original alignment roughly paralleled the far side of I-287 where the distant buildings are located and would have crossed I-287 near the head end of HAN-1. This view is not possible today due to tree growth along the right of way.
NYS&W HAN-1:
SOO 778 SD40-2
GATX 2003 SD40-2
Venus, Mars and Jupiter glow brightly in the early morning sky, while the moon plays hide and seek with the clouds just to the right of the Mittens, Monument Valley.
Hope your week goes well. Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- they mean a lot to me.
© Melissa Post 2015.
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Liencres - Bay of Biscay - Spain
Another shot from the great adventure in the company of the usual suspects Paulo Dias , Rolhas e Sergio Luis Silva .
This time in search of the North with the precious help and total collaboration of Joserra Irusta's from the North Photo Tours team.
For him, his wife Raquel Castro a huge thank you !
And for those wishing to explore the North of Spain, the answer is North Photo Tours !
Canon EOS 5D MKII + Canon EF 17-40 f/4 L @ 17 mm
ISO 100 - f/16- 129s
Lee ProGlass ND 0.9 + Lee GND 0.9 HE + Lee GND 0.3 SE
Press L & F11 for best Lightbox View
As 2011 winds down, I want to thank all of you who have supported me and my photography. I couldn't have done it without you!
This year saw fellow photographer Joshua Cripps and I teach many full workshops to groups of great and enthusiastic photographers. What a blast! Another sold out workshop this past Saturday was our last outing of the year, but hopefully soon, we will have some new dates and new locations for 2012.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 12mm
0.8 sec, f13, ISO 100
Lee .9 and .75 Soft GND filters
This is another take on the same Cuban Lily that I posted a few weeks back. Taken at Longwood Gardens with the Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS Lens.
Corbin, KY
I love these old "Bear" signs -- they're cute and fun. The typo on the one sign ("alinement") does irk me. I worked for years as an editor so it's just natural that typos bug the heck out of me lol
UPDATE: So "alinement" is an alternative spelling. Perhaps it's regional, as I've never seen it spelled that way here in Canada.
More than 10 years in Ghent and the city still keeps surprising us… As some of you may know Ghent used to have its own zoo. Regrettably, the zoo had to make way for the fast-growing city and was replaced by working class housing in the 19th century. The architect Charles Van Rysselberghe built the houses around an elliptical inner courtyard that became the playground of at least three generations of working-class children. Unfortunately, not much was invested in the site and after 100 years it was completely dilapidated. In 2001 this architectural gem was saved from destruction and the site was completely renovated in 2006 and converted into the Zebrastraat project: a place to be for events and meetings, in a vibrant setting of cultural activities, contemporary living surrounded by an impressive art collection – Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium.