View allAll Photos Tagged Approach
On This Date: Photo taken 3/7/2012.
Hoytville's a collection of houses--a hamlet, if you would--a mile south of my town, Mulliken. I discussed its history on 3/7/2013, if you're interested.
==========
This farmyard's a bit over a mile from our house, and is visible (after a fashion) from our yard. The house is quite striking, especially in the late-afternoon sun. There are a couple other photographs I'd like to take of it, both of which would take some luck and a long lens. Since I don't routinely wander around with my long lens, they'd necessarily be planned photographs. Someday, perhaps.
This is one of a half-dozen similar photographs I took that morning. The framing changed a bit as I moved closer to the house, but they all have the same look and feel.
And please note that the photo's two rightmost barns are part of another farm, a few hundred yards down the road. Perspective can mislead.
Number of pix taken on various March 7ths: 130
Year of oldest photo: 2007
How I Rated the Date's Photographs:
. 1 Star: 0
. 2 Stars: 2
. 3 Stars: 91
. 4 Stars: 33
. 5 Stars: 3
SAR class 19D 4-8-2 No. 2692 heading for Rosmead from Graaff Reinet on the "Cape Mountaineer II. 4 June 1992.
The 6 pack of helpers is just a mile from the switch that leads to the Savage coal load out at Price, where the crew will duck into the east leg of the wye and let the loaded train pull by so they can cut in 2/3's of the way back.
CM3301-CM3312 with QL008 makes it's first trip to Victoria running 1CM7 QUBE wagon transfer from Junee to Victoria Dock in loads of fresh air approach Donnybrook taken on Sunday 5/12/2021.
Tram 2563 just waiting for the road for East Croydon station stop on a 2 service to West Croydon 3/2/18.
A Passenger Service from BRY is Approaching Bamiyana Halt Stn(Abhishek Kashyap can be seen in the Picture)
Air Malta (Valletta European Capital of Culture 2018) A320-214 Reg: 9H-AEO on finals to 09L at Heathrow arriving from Luqa.
Minolta Autocord
Chiyoko Rokkor 75mm f/3.5
Ilford SFX 200
Hoya R72
Adox Rodinal 1/25 6 mts 72*f
DsLr DiGiTiZeD
PS 2021
🇸🇻 #N566TA #TACA-INTERNATIONAL-AIRLINES #TA #TAI #AIRBUS #A321 #LOS-ANGELES #LAX #KLAX #CA #USA #AIRPORT #EL-SALVADOR #APPROACH #LANDING #TACA #STAR-ALLIANCE © #AWP #CHR-2012
TACA International Airlines
Airbus A321-231 - cn 2553 - N566TA
Engines : 2x IAE V2533-A5
@ History Aircraft :
# 01.SEP.2005 : First flight with reg D-AVZJ
# 05.SEP.2005 : Tsfd to "Airbus Industrie" with reg F-WWDF
# 22.SEP.2005 : Delivered to "TACA International Airlines" TA & TAI leased from RBS with reg N566TA and config cabin C12Y182
# JUN.2012 : Leased from SMBC
# 28.MAY.2013 : Tsfd to "Avianca Central America" with same reg
# 26.MAR.2014 : Tsfd to "Monarch Airlines" ZB & MON leased from SMBC with reg G-ZBAI and config cabin Y214
An inter-regional express from Berlin Ostbahnhof to Saarbrücken with DR class V180 No.118 300-3 in charge approaches the West Berlin/DDR border crossing near Potsdam at Kohlhasenbrück on 23rd March 1974.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
The Holyhead to Cardiff WAG train powered by 67002 seen crossing the Great Western Railway Usk Bridge on the approach to Newport Station.
Running along the rocky hillside above the Los Pinos Valley, Denver & Rio Grande Western K-27 #463 takes a mixed freight west toward the remote railroad waystation in Osier, CO. Photographed here near Milepost 317.3, the train has less than a mile to go to reach the station area.
This image was captured during a September 2013 photo shoot on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, which featured turn-of-the-century D&RGW power, including C-18 Locomotive #315 and K-27 Locomotive #463.
Approaching offshore installations on board Belair Augusta Westland AW139.
Dan Field, Danish North Sea
I took this picture at my sister's house where she always has at least two feeders out and attracts large quantities of hummingbirds.
Lighting stuff: I learned the lighting that I used here from a book by Linda Robbins called The Hummingbird Guide. Her method is to use a minimum of 5 to 6 strobes, a supplied background, and photograph the birds in the shade so that you don't have to overpower the sunlight. When you use multiple strobes on a subject in the shade you can use lower power settings for each flash which results in shorter flash durations which means it freezes the wing blur. The backdrop is a painting my wife did for this purpose. I used 6 Yongnuo strobes because I wanted to use identical manual power output for each flash . One strobe was pointed at the background, one was underneath the feeder, and the other 4 strobes surrounded the feeder. The strobes were all at around 1/32nd power, in manual mode, and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N., and you can see the EXIF info on the side. This method is the only way that I've been able to photograph one of these birds with little, or no, wing blur. I've finally learned to pre-focus on a spot near the feeder, using Live View, so that the birds are usually all in focus. I can then sit farther away from the feeder and trigger the strobes and the camera remotely. Down below in the first comment, you can see a picture of the setup that I used on that particular day.
I've taken quite a few pictures of hummers over the years and put them an album creatively called Hummingbirds.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157627149575339/</a
On board the Staten Island Ferry about to dock at the Whitehall Terminal in lower Manhattan. Taken in New York City in May, 1977 on Agfachrome CT100 35mm slide film with a Vivitar 35-105mm zoom lens on a Miinolta SR-T101 camera.
The green approach to the towers of the Mackinac Bridge seem to extend an invitation to what lays beyond, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The U P is a world of its own, offering delights that the rest of the state, or even the Midwest, cannot match. I can't think of a more beautiful entry to the Great North than the Mighty Mac.
The army of puddlington moving through the frozen hinterland.
I've built a mount (Lafette) and a limber (Protze), attached a horse and took the train on a walk. Wasn't surprised at home that it had disintegrated - pretty normal for a fragile build like this. Only when I found tiny bits of plastic in my pocket I was becoming nervous.The rear gun mounts were broken.
This had been intended to be a preliminary to another pic, using the cannon, but that won't happen anytime soon.
Toy Project Day 3098
downtown skyline during an approaching rain storm - shot from lincoln highlands, oakland, california. 5 stitched images.
~
The abandoned farmhouse in eastern NC, the entryway of which was featured in the previous image Open Door Policy.
There's a longer discussion of this image and The Approach I took when walking up to it on my blog at The Approach, along with technical information.
Thanks for visiting. I hope you can feel the eerie in this.
Nikon D7000, Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 lens at 23mm (34mm), f/7.1, 11 exp. 1/1000 – 1/10s. HDR Express merge, multiple tonemaps, Nik Color Efex Pro