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A very exciting find for me this evening at Dunlop Millennium Woodland Nature Park was the biggest sawfly larva I've even seen. This `monster' was about 4.5cm long, very cute, and very pretty. It was wandering about on a silver birch tree trunk. See previous uploads for other views.
I'm was fairly sure I had the ID correct, but was happily corrected (on my previous upload) by JJ. Thank you, JJ. It does indeed seem to be a birch sawfly larva (not a large alder sawfly larva as I had originally IDd it as).
See my previous upload for alternative views---I was quite fascinated by the `extra dangly leg' structures down the sides, like sleeves with no legs in them :D
66741 heads a diverted 6S45 North Blyth to Fort William loaded Alumina working through a deserted Wylam station, on the 23rd October 2021. Although the ECML was shut for several weekends in September and October I believe this was the only occasion that the Fort William 'Alcans' Saturday working operated via the Tyne Valley line during this period.
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This is in the May issue. I shoot these three photos for a feature.
Left to Right:
Nick - Hit The Lights
Mike - The Devil Wears Prada
Dave - Every Avenue
This was an amazing adventure of these shots. AP approached me to set up the shoots with Nick (HTL) and Dave (EA), I was given a 1 week deadline and could plan them whenever. I then got thrown in the TDWP shoot with the same deadline. I decided to do them all within 24 hours.
Here's how I did it. Emily and I left Akron, Ohio and drove straight to Lima, Ohio - this is where Nick lives, I've known him for sometime now and he said we could come shoot and then stay there tonight. Dave gave me a hand out there. We shot that night and just hung out. 7:00am the next morning, we woke up and traveled to Detroit, Michigan to begin the shoot with Dave of EA, I gotta' give out a bit shoutout to Jesse Speelman for letting me use his studio space. After that shoot, I drove to Cleveland to shoot TDWP at the House of Blues.
It took about 19 hours from start to finish and was one of the best weekends ever. I want to thank Emily, Dave and Jesse for all of the help!
I saw a shot of this from another of my contacts, Simon, and it is what drew me to the location. I just thought it was such an unusual angle on a bridge.
My Macro Mondays alternative shots, taken whilst working on this week's theme of 'The Space In Between'.
Experimenting with Cyanotyoe printing process. Still a long way to go yet but I am really enjoying the journey
Taken at the Curved Mirrors on the outside of the Riverside Museum at Pointhouse Quay, Glasgow..My left arm is in shot at the Division of the two Mirrors.
The calmly flowing waters of a swollen Kickapoo Creek gently touch the concrete footings currently supporting the passage of this heavy, 131-car, southbound Union Pacific coal drag as its two, lead, AC six-axles ride their dynamic brakes, coasting downhill across a combination deck plate and lattice through truss bridge along the former C&NW "SI Line" outside Bartonville on a gloomy July morning. This train of loaded aluminum BethGons -- symbol CNAPW 14 -- are topped out with over 18,000 tons Wyoming's finest black diamonds; Filled at Peabody's North Antelope Mine in the state's rich Powder River Basin, these hoppers have only a few short miles left to travel before reaching their destination at NRG Energy's Powerton Generating Station near Pekin. The train will soon cross the Illinois River drawbridge and immediately make a right turn onto the IMRR and down into Crescent Yard for interchange where they'll tie down and the loads will wait for an Illinois & Midland crew to spot the cars at the plant for final dumping. Slated for decommission come the end of 2028 due to the country's relentless insistence on "cleaner" energy alternatives, Powerton is the sole remaining, actively burning coal-fired power plant to still remain standing in the greater Peoria area, outliving the facilities at Havana, Hennepin and Canton's Duck Creek (2019), and eventually the E.D. Edwards Station at Bartonville (2022). Once closed, it'll be another major hit in activity levels for a route that is already down in traffic. Twice weekly scheduled manifest service between Peoria and Clinton, IA, as needed coal, grain and ethanol unit traffic, and seasonal ballast trains are pretty much the bulk of what traverses this line.
For southbounds, this is the final, and most dramatic, crossing atop a snaky Kickapoo Creek which twists and turns beneath the rails of the Peoria Subdivision in six different locations within just about a short, two mile stretch of track. Just about a half mile back from this bridge, the train is still working through the CTC controlled interlocking at "Peoria JCT" where the Peoria Sub main to South Pekin splits from UP's "Low Line," which routes trains for Peoria area interchange into and out of their small Adams St. Yard just a short distance away on the city's southwest side. The single-tracked Peoria Subdivision, which runs south out of Nelson away from the busy Geneva Sub, uses a combination of CTC, TWC and ABS infrastructure to route what little traffic runs down this line and is also the only class 1 of four that has a "through route" through the city. A line that does not get much attention from photographers, an older "winged" EMD SD70ACe on the point of a well timed coal load just was enough for me to grab the camera and quickly pick it off at this very seldom shot location.
I sure could do without that walkway.
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