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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
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! :)
CURIOUS ALIGNMENTS
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This evening's epic afterglow!
Technical details:
Fuji X-E1 + 10-24mm
4 seconds, f/8, ISO 100
7 shot panorama
The stars burn above this puddle of the Cottonwood Lakes to the great amusement of the cheering frogs. Three images stacked manually in photoshop.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Hotel Savage-Shefford, 871 and 883 Rue Shefford: Joseph P. Savage owned this two-storey wood hotel in 1842. His wife, Laura Lewis, widowed in 1870, rented it to John Briggs for six years and then sold it to William Harris in 1880. Four years later, the Irishman John Harris became the owner. In 1889, he moved the hotel to this site in order to free the neighbouring lot to build Shefford House. Harris’s hotel was seized, and a travelling salesman from Sherbrooke, Joseph Dubois, bought it in 1926. From 1947 until 1951, his son Donat Dubois was a prominent hotelkeeper in the region. The hotel has been demolished in 2019.
The first hotel and the tree on the adjacent lot were among the earliest features of the village. At the beginning of the 19th century, Townships settlers constructed these commercial buildings according to a master plan close to the Georgian style, which the Loyalists were fond. The moderate slope of the roof, the symmetrical openings and the alignment of the building’s longest side parallel with the street are among this style’s characteristics. In the 1880s, the Second Empire style was adopted by the French and English-speaking inhabitants. The Shefford Hotel had a slate tower with a flat peak and a roof with a drop overhang facing Shefford Street. Formerly, the main section of the building was surrounded by porches with “lean-to” roofs.
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.
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
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
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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.
There are numerous follies on the Wentworth Woodhouse estate and the Needle’s Eye is one of the best known and probably the oldest. The Needle’s Eye is a 14m high pyramid shaped obelisk topped with an urn and arch (‘the eye’) running through its base. It is located 1 km north of Wentworth Woodhouse in Lee Wood and at the highest point of an old road that ran from the Lion (Rainborough) Lodge on the northern boundary of the estate. That road no longer exists but its alignment is easily seen when looking north to the Lion Lodge. The vista to the south of Wentworth Woodhouse no longer exists because of the trees nearer the house.
Legend has it that the Needle’s Eye was built by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, to satisfy a wager that he could drive a “horse and carriage through the eye of a needle” circa 1780. A nice story but unlikely to be true though.
Charles’ father Thomas Watson-Wentworth the 1st Marquess of Rockingham listed a “building of an obelisk in Lee Wood in his summary of activity between 1722 and 1733. There is an engraving of an obelisk in Lee Wood dated 1728 and reference on a plan of the estate dated 1730. So, in all probability the Needle’s Eye was built between 1722 and 1730 and possibly before the 2nd Marquess was born.
A further curio is that there are small round holes on the eastern side of the obelisk, and these are thought to be from musket balls. There is an unsubstantiated rumour of a firing squad involving Jacobite rebels.
With no accurate record of when, why and who built it the Needles Eye remains on of the most enigmatic follies on the estate.
Blossom is starting to appear on some of the trees in our back yard. Spring should be here, but it definitely feels like winter still ... Taken with a vintage Soviet Helios 44-2 58mm lens coupled to my DSLR.
The newly opened First Light Pavilion at Jodrell Bank is designed with a meridian line to track the changing altitude of the Sun through the year. This north-south alignment also means the window lines up with the celestial north pole and so star trails form in symmetry with the building.
For more details on the building see
www.jodrellbank.net/visit/firstlightopening/
Prof. Teresa Anderson and Prof. Tim O'Brien led the project and Tim has an article on meridian lines -
There were no photo, last week. Not that I didn't take any, but I decided to test the Kodak Ektar film. So I won't have them back until I get them developped. Regarding this week, "framed" would probably be a better theme. However this will do! Also, this was the occasion to test my new camera...full frame, at last !!
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