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An image from a past visit to the west coast of Scotland during one of the recent storms. This image captures the coming rain and hail storm which soaked both my wife and I as we were both stupid enough to venture out without appropriate waterproofs!!!
Kiwirail’s DC4012 & DXB5137 approach Ferrymead with a loaded coal shuttle from Christchurch To Lyttelton, as train W4C
Monday 2nd February, 2026
260202 W4C DC4012-DXB5137 Ferrymead, NZ
The shot was taken at Ban Amphur, a small fishing village south of Pattaya. The sunset was indeed "stormy and stunning", with dark clouds approaching Jiomtien outside Pattaya.
Impatience has got the better of me and I am jumping the queue uploading these today because I was so thrilled by my visit.
I had been 8 days earlier to the reserve and not managed a single photo while many others had been there.
On this visit there was more sun. At least 10 of these were seen low down and posing over my shortish stay and no one else was there. I left when I saw 2 others approaching as by then I had taken so many photos with no one else to disturb them or for me to hinder.
This is probably my best ever photo of this rare butterfly. At this one place they are known to settle low but in their limited other locations they rarely come down low at all.
Approaching the crossing at sunrise, with just a few modern giveaways. Can you spot them? A Lerro Productions charter.
This long exposure image was captured at Lunker Landing on Antelope Lake in Plumas County, California, USA. This was my first time back to the lake after the evil beast known as the Dixie Fire ravaged nearly a million acres, many of them very close to my beloved little lake. I was very glad to see that much of the forest directly adjacent to the lake was saved from the ravages of the blaze. On this evening there was a small storm system approaching so I opted to shoot a long exposure to capture the motion of the approaching clouds along with the warm tones of the evening sun that was still filtering through.
I captured this young bald eagle in a tree near Portage Alaska. It looks like dirty feathers but I believe this to be a young bird as it doesn't have the clean white of a fully mature eagle. It takes several years for an eagle to fully mature. It was eating some food - what I couldn't tell - in its claws on the branch.
Taken 30 September 2017 near Portage, Alaska.
A long CN 527 (588 axles) is passing parked cars and the rear end of potash train CN B730 as it approaches Turcot Ouest with CN 8894 leading.
On the morning of February 1, while a powerful Nor'easter was slamming the NYC area, an inbound LIRR train arrives at Nostrand Avenue, splitting the two position light signals on the elevated structure. By 3 pm all LIRR, Metro-North, and above-ground subway service would be suspended due to the storm.
M7 (Bombardier, 1999-2006)
Nostrand Avenue station
Atlantic Branch - LIRR
Lancaster Falls on the Mt. Defiance Trail, Columbia River Gorge. Another Autumn shot that I recently rediscovered.
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My goal with this series is to explore every day scenes under the cover of darkness. A street corner, a lamp post, a doorway. Big city, small town, urban, rural. Man-made light versus nature’s darkness–––light and shadow interpreting minimalist settings in black and white. To see more in this series, check out Cover Of Darkness.
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DBS "Red Shed" 66115 approaches Pantyffynnon signal box along the single track on its journey to Gwaen -Cae - Gurwen open cast coal mine on the 6B15, having originated at Swansea Burrows. The train will return to Swansea Burrows loaded with anthracite and will be despatched by another train journey to Onllwyn for processing.
I very rarely get the opportunity to catch a shot with the raindrops falling in the photo, usually because when it rains I'm either trying to get back home before I get too wet, protecting my camera or it's way to heavy rain to see and compose a photo, so I think this is a rare photo : )
Poznan, Poland
Autumn 17
Recently, I find myself looking back into my massive catalog of unseen images and thought I would begin to share them. Enjoy the memories.
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A storm approaches Belfort, France, at night. Occasional lightning reveals the features of the cumulonimbus, and in particular, a nice shelf cloud.
The dirty one on the left is Valerie and the one on the right is Hubbard. The keener folk are out in the wind and mist on the 5th deck , the smart ones are in the Celebrations' Lounge on the 11th deck. The outside temperature falls to 0 degrees C as you get closer.
The view on approaching Vancouver - the mountains to the east of the city. The aircraft is an Air Canada Airbus A-220.
One member of the Aeroshell Stunt Team makes his landing approach at an airshow in Vero Beach, Florida. See this, and more, on my website at tom-claud.pixels.com.
A lengthy SP manifest is rolling along through Cable and is fast approaching the summit. In Tehachapi they will cut out their helper set and begin the descent into Mojave. So many good memories wrapped up in this shot from the four elephant style tunnel motors to the variety of freight cars. I sure miss the SP. 7.86
The standard three pack of ex CNW C40-8s have a U789 train of modern CN era ore cars (over 1000 of which were acquired between 2009 and 2018) loaded with taconite from US Steel's Minntac Plant destined for the docks in Two Harbors by way of the Minntac Sub to Wolf, the Missabe Sub to Iron Jct., and finally the Iron Range Sub east and south to Lake Superior. The train is at about MP 1 on the eight mile long Minntac Subdivision just north of the Kane Road crossing as the train approaches Nomi Junction.
This is a region that should need no introduction to even the most casual fan as the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway is in a word legendary. I won't bore you with pages of history as I couldn't do the road or region justice anyway. It simply needs to be experienced for oneself. But I will direct you to two resources. Absolutely check out the fabulous historical information here: www.missabe.com/
And for a fabulously well written overview of modern CN operations find yourself a copy of the April 2023 edition of Railfan and Railroad right now! shop.whiteriverproductions.com/products/rfr-202304
Mountain Iron, Minnesota
Tuesday May 9, 2023
An aircraft on final approach to Detroit Metro, shot from a phone in a car moving at 70 mph (no, I was not driving) through a closed window...
All things considered, it came out pretty well. The clouds made for an interesting sunset. This wasn't the only shot I took, but it came out much better than most.