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Just a bit over a quarter mile after passing the old depot Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad train NPWJ (Newport to White River Junction) has paused for a break behind Wing's Supermarket, a popular lunch stop owing to its convenient trackside proximity. What isn't convenient this day was the pouring rain which certainly made their work and my photography less than a pleasant experience!
In short order the pair of company red EMD GP38-2s, CLP 204 (blt. Oct. 1973 as SCL 528) and VTR 201 (blt. Dec. 1972 new for the VTR) will be back on the move with their dimutive tei car train from this spot here at MP L82.7 on modern day WACR's Connecticut River Division Lyndonville Subdivision.This is the former Boston and Maine Conn River Line main which dates from 1848 when the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad built north from White River Junction.
Fairlee, Vermont
Saturday June 22, 2024
Having clicked the shutter slightly too early, 37612 thunder through Water Orton 122 minutes late with 0Z30 Derby RTC to Derby RTC, having traversed the Chase Valley a couple of times.
i was on a tiny sliver of path going around a bend, with people and dogs needing to get around me...but i didn't give up on the scene like i sometimes would, and i'm glad. it took me a bit to gain solitude and decide on the framing. i probably could have spent an hour here, shooting off the entire roll. but i only pressed the shutter once. i think there were more people coming :)
I wanted to try out a new white(ish) background yesterday, so I grabbed a couple of miniatures, a few flowers and grasses from the wild bit of the garden, and took a few shots. I had nothing particular in mind, but I quite liked the result, so I thought I'd post one anyway. I afraid I didn't even get as far as choosing a lens. The Lensbaby 56mm just happened to be on the camera at the time. Will I ever actually think things through and plan anything? Probably not. :)
Miscellaneous bits and bobs.
Left to right, back to front: Engine strut and engine brick core for a now dead mini Steampunk Serenity; Power cell? Futuristic light? Miniature sun ala' Spiderman II? >_< The world (including me) may never know; Connection bit; connection bit #2.
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 14/01/2023 ---------
to create a colour and mono diptych.
For my shot I first looked for the base to be be full of colour and then with " My Craft Studio " using a digital punch took one diagonal section off and I also used a scalloped edge to break up what would have been a straight line . this section I then converted to black & white . Secondly I put a new photo of the same shot into " MCS " ------ then the fun begins !! I had to get the B&W section to be the same dimensions as the full colour image before overlaying the mono half shot and moving it up & down , left to right until it sat exactly where it should . By and large I think I have got it not too bad although I am aware of one bit that could be better , but will it end up being off somewhere else ??
The shot subject is just one of the very many cross-stitch pieces of work that my wife and daughter have made over the years and hang on walls all over the house . This one was created in 2004 ( a label on the back is a good reminder ) .
In keeping with the Native American theme , here is some music from an excellent album by Sacred Spirit ( actually I have put the whole album up so give it a listen and loose yourself for a while ) -------
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580EXII in the fridge & Elinchrom BX500Ri on my right side with soft box. Both triggered with wireless El-Skyport system.
Shot with Canon EOS 5D MkII + 15mm fisheye... and some bit ;-)
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A bit south of Westfield, IA, and less than a mile from where they cross over the Big Sioux River into South Dakota, the D&I's southbound road freight rolls through a big, sweeping curve towards the southeast that affords the photographer views of the train as it snakes around itself.
Speaking of snakes, just south of here is the Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve, which is home to Iowa's largest remaining prairie, over 200 bison, and where in 1999, the Conservancy found the prairie rattlesnake, an extremely rare species.
On the point is the DAIR 3025, a late-production SD40-2, built as the BN 8117 in 1980. Trailing it were the 3020 and 3027.
Yes, that is all that is left of the former coastline, bits and pieces.
This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Multi-Coated Macro-Takumar/6X7 1:4/135mm lens with a Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 67ø L39(UV) SMC filter using Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
This change was a bit unintended... I bought the wig so I could try it on Momoe. But it made her look somehow sad and dark. Then still thought to try it on Nanami and I must say that I love the result <3
Funny thing... this wig was my first choise when searching a new wig for veritas but I didn't know how monique wigs would be like and was afraid to try.. And now she still got the wig :D
Lily aka ‘Lil-bits (because she's so petite). Under the firebush on a foggy morning pretending she's invisible.
Happy Monday
A bit of a day for me yesterday, it was my birthday and reached the age my father died at. Granted my father died at a young 64, still it’s a wee bit of a milestone for me, funny how things stick in your head. I had to do something different from the day, when I was at work I always took the day off and headed for the hills, so I did the same yesterday. Waking at 4:00 I had a bit of breakfast and headed to the lakes. I only intended to explore a wooded area I’d not been too and bag a little Wainwright that in all my time here I’d not ticked off, a good morning explore then home. I knew the weather would be showery and that’s what I was looking for. On arriving and navigating United Utilities gotcha’s I eventually got parked and slowly headed for that top, it was too dark to taken any photos just yet. When I gained the top the weather it all kicked off, I was a bit stumped for a composition, :-)
Here we are with a photo that is a bit simpler in concept, at least at first glance. No head stuck in a milky jar or recreation of Ophelia. The thing I enjoy doing about shots like this, and I sort of have a similar feeling toward my oranges shot, is that there is an implied story and everyone can make up their own.
Here is mine, and what I talked about with the model before we shot...don't read if you want to interpret your own and not be swayed by mine -
We had a great time coming up with this story. So she is in the 1890s, and she had a boyfriend that she loved very much, but her parents didn't approve. She decided she would run away with him, but shortly after doing this he left her. She couldn't go back to her parents because they didn't want someone who left their family, so she had to prostitute herself to make money. There was shame in this for her, and since making enemies with the police she decided to flee the state and start a new life for herself (presumably with this lovely pink dress stuffed in her suitcase).
So...in other words....photos can be a lot of fun when you just make up a somewhat silly story and go with it :-)
Bit blur but I would share this cuties with you!
I've never seen this before in my life! All sweet little swanbabies (well, I don't think all of them because she has 9!) sitting on their swan-mothers back. How cute is that!
The meteor is a bit faint in this shot, but it's there slicing through the image horizontally in about the middle. I've brightened the image a bit in post. This is one of the images in the AuroraDance timelapse. I particularly enjoyed watching how quickly it moved and how often the little "sprites" bloomed and glowed then dimmed. There are definitely bluish tinged lights here which I believe implies interaction with sunlight higher in the atmosphere.
See the whole sequence as a timelapse here.
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With a name like Maritime a bit of mist and fog isn't going to bother you to much . 66727 is seen passing through a very gloomy Primrose Hill whilst working the 6E42 0715 Cliffe Hill Stud Farm - Doncaster Down Decoy .
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Gather what ye may of the world around you, but when it whithers and dies you'll have naught left but dusty remains.
another one from te crazy hangbridge in Garzweiler.
I had to climb a little illigal bit to make this one.
A bit of background info:
This is a self portrait for my digital photo class. Theme: You at your Worst/Best.
Dont you hate it when you just woke up, frizzy hair and all and someone is wanting your attention (i.e. take your picture)....
thats me at my worst...in the morning.
Me at my best is almost self explanatory ;) All made up with little black dress and camera... perfect!
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A bit different processing with this one. I used some Camera RAW processing combined to HDR-tonin in CS5. The just the normal curves adjustments etc. :)
Canon EOS 5D Mark II | 30 sec | 16mm | f/2.8 | ISO 4000
Great place ,great athmosphere, just a bit..
Shot for the Macro Monday group. The theme is "a little bit of red"
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone.
These are bits and pieces of three clematis blossoms that my son donated to my project. He has been so generous by letting me collect flowers from his yard. This entry is 58/100. I am glad I still have a little less than half of my project left. There is still much to explore and discover, I love the whole process.
Little Bit Country Little Bit Rock-n-Roll debuted 30th May 2008 at Inn On The Green, Ladbroke Grove, London. The new club night featured live music and performance, including:
Cheer A Go Go
House of Hee Haw!
JC & The Disciples
It seemed a bit crazy to just run the typical errands while the California wildfires are still raging and not under control.
We had to go to Palos Verdes anyway so why not take a bit of time to explore?
It was a beautiful day. But the coast was smokey north of us.
I thought I heard a Cactus Wren but knew I had a Coastal California Gnatcatcher when I heard the call.
They look so different from the Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. Maybe it's a Winter look?
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And for the science starved....
“The California gnatcatcher is a threatened species essentially restricted to coastal sage scrub habitat in southern California. Its distribution and population dynamics have been studied intensely, but little is known about its diet. We identified arthropod fragments in 33 fecal samples of the California gnatcatcher to gain insight into its foraging ecology and diet. Fecal samples were collected from adult males, adult females, fledglings, and nestlings. Leaf- and planthoppers (Homoptera) and spiders (Araneae) predominated numerically in samples. Spider prey was most diverse, with eight families represented. True bugs (Hemiptera) and wasps, bees, and ants (Hymenoptera) were only minor components of the gnatcatcher diet. Gnatcatcher adults selected prey to feed their young that was larger than expected given the distribution of arthropod size available in their environment, and chicks were provisioned with larger prey items and significantly more grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) and spiders than adults consumed themselves. Both adults and young consumed more sessile than active prey. Further studies are needed to determine whether arthropods sampled in coastal sage scrub that are common in fecal samples are good indicators of California gnatcatcher habitat.”
Foraging ecology of the California gnatcatcher deduced from fecal samples
Jutta C. BurgerMichael A. PattenJohn T. RotenberryRichard A. Redak