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SUNSET - Boca Raton, Florida U.S.A.
Spring 2020 - Florida Everglades
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Bastei Viewpoint, overlooking the Elbe Valley and Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Sachsen, Germany
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With a little help from Arizona forest fire smoke, a perfect example of why New Mexico is called the land of enchantment. Los Lunas, New Mexico. USA
Ominous shades of gray, at the Midvale signal on what was the N&W's Shenandoah line on May 4, 2021. Twenty minutes later, and a few miles north, it was difficult to drive through the resulting cloudburst ...
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"TEMP ORAGEUX" en APRĆS-MIDI Ć RAPID CITY au DAKOTA du SUD, ĆTATS-UNIS. ( Voyage 2010 )
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By now we were pretty much running on fumes. A long drive, four full days of intensive togging in the Peak District, followed by a hefty hop to the west and two blustery afternoons around the Mersey and Dee estuaries, and we were about done. It had been a very productive few days, but there was no denying that the collective spirit had sagged after so much adventuring. Itās not exactly as if weāre a bunch of young whippersnappers you know. By now, just one target remained, and weād made arrangements to meet an esteemed local photographer, just to say hello and catch a few photographs together. Once again, the real magic of Flickr was amongst us, bringing like minded crazies together at the coast in the gathering darkness on a foul evening in this shared passion to photograph the hell out of the landscape. Our party arrived at the waterfront first. The night before, weād agreed to postpone the rendezvous as a hellish cloudburst erupted over Merseyside and kept everyone indoors, and even now conditions remained challenging. For a while the three of us waited in the car, hiding from the terrible weather outside. I stepped out to breathe in the evening rain and inspect a billboard at the edge of the car park. Tribute acts galore. The Spicey Girls I wasnāt sure about. Bootleg Blondie looked rather more like it though. From the promotional picture, āDebbie Harryā looked almost exactly like Debbie Harry, which made for a far better photograph than any I was likely to take tonight. After a while we decided to brave it and explore the beach. Identifying us wasn't going to be that difficult for our local guide. Apart from anything else, we were the only people on the beach at all.
If Rebecca was shocked by the appearance of the group of ragged men she met by the walls of the fort at New Brighton, she covered it well. So did H for that matter. You know H - theyāre an inseparable pair. And while H performed parkour (I checked the spelling to make sure I was still down with the kids) on the walls of the breakwater, we chatted to his mother about all matters landscape photography related and our adventures of the last few days. In fact Rebecca had been extremely generous with the local intel, sharing a number of additional locations as well as recommending which chippy we might want to try in West Kirby if we ever arrived there hungry. We were always hungry. With just two weary days here we barely had enough time for the locations weād come to shoot, but you only have to look at her photos to see that thereās so much more in these parts. We shall return.
Ironic I suppose that we were here for that famous lighthouse, and Iām sharing a picture of Liverpool Docks instead. I was standing far too close to Perch Rock this evening, although I didnāt realise quite how skewed everything would look until I visited the editing suite much later. Even after a degree of faffing about in Lightroom it looks as if itās about to topple backwards into the Irish Sea, and we donāt want that. Fortunately we returned the following morning with just enough time to take some more shots before heading home to Cornwall - but thatās another story. Weāll be back for that one soon enough. It was later, as we made yet another wholesale retreat from the advancing tide that the deep blues of the evening sky offset the reds of the huge cranes across the water on the dockside in Liverpool. Blues and reds in Liverpool - usually that means something else in these parts.
Itās not often that Iām attracted to whatās been put on the landscape by the human hand. Well apart from when itās a lighthouse or an old tin mine for example. Or those statues on Crosby Beach where weād been a little over twenty-four hours earlier. Generally speaking I prefer the natural world alone, but thereās something quite iconic about this view. My brother did his fine art degree somewhere across there many moons ago. It was the first time heād ever been back this way. Heās a lifelong red. Heās quite enjoying life at the moment. I digress.
By now our friends had departed and weād said our farewells - after all, tomorrow was another normal day for the rest of the world, while we remained at large with nowhere to go apart from a long way back to Cornwall. I did a quick roll call in my head the other day - thatās eleven of you Iāve met this year, and that excludes Dave and Lee who donāt count. Itās impressive how this place in the clouds brings us all together. Six days earlier weād started the adventure in very much the same way as we were finishing here, making friends with fellow togs. And tomorrow Iāll be catching up with one of the famous eleven again. Iām sure another story is waiting to be told. Watch this space.
The CSX Tribute to Law Enforcement unit leads Q009 at Mentor. The former NYC freight station is on the left and the old NYC passenger depot is on the right. The spire in the distance is the old match factory. Got drenched by a cloudburst while hiking up the overpass, but it was worth it.
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A. - hometown
Summer 2020 - Coral Springs, Florida - 6/24/20
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 - STOP COVID-19!
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*[Reflecting On 2020 - Florida Wetlands]
Every sunset is different, because every day; sun
is different, clouds are different, space is different,
reflections are different....mountains are different,
fogs are different, and above all, we are different.
ā Mehmet Murat ildan
Sunsets are proof; that no matter what
happens...every day can end beautifully.
-- Kristen Butler
Bright light of Albuquerque lights up the distant storm while the Los Lunas lights cast an orange glow on the nearer lightning maker. Los Lunas, New Mexico USA
Sonnenuntergang an der Nordsee - ein Unwetter naht - wir haben es gerade noch vor dem Wolkenbruch ins Trockene geschafft.
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North Sea sunset before a thunderstorm - we reached our flat just in time before the cloudburst began.
Para ver mejor sobre fondo oscuro presionar la letra "L" / View in Light Box for more detail by pressing letter "L"
A sudden summer cloudburst on the Ottawa market catching tourists unawares and sending them scrambling for cover
One of my favorites in the fleet shown here in the Heiberg garage shortly after the Cloudburst Recycling acquisition. Being a former automated unit this truck has a list of unique features: hinged doors, extra mirrors, different seats, different controls, and most significantly a body modified to house the arm extension slide between itself and the rear of the hopper. Now that the arm is gone and a tipper in it's place the auto arm "shelf" holds a shoulder can for customers who pay extra for yard service.
All in all a pleasure to operate. The International Maxxforce DT is rated at 285 hp rather than the 230 or so most of the single axle EVOs come with and you can certainly feel it. The tight tipper (a cushioned cylinder essentially eliminated the self-inflicted wear these otherwise fantastic tippers are plagued by) works quick enough at idle, so no need to rev. She's a solid 8/10. The air conditioning doesn't work so I'd rather the usual roof vent, would prefer rotating halogen beacons like some of the other trucks in the fleet, and most annoyingly the packer retract button is a push and hold affair. Everything else is great or something you can get used to after a few hours of operation.
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A. - hometown
Summer 2020 - Coral Springs, Florida - 6/24/20
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 - STOP COVID-19!
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - final moment]
*[Reflecting On 2020 - Florida Wetlands]
*[End Of An Era......A Mask-less Society]
Every sunset is different, because every day; sun
is different, clouds are different, space is different,
reflections are different....mountains are different,
fogs are different, and above all, we are different.
ā Mehmet Murat ildan
Sunsets are proof; that no matter what
happens...every day can end beautifully.
-- Kristen Butler
In torrential rain Network Rail 97302 T&T with 97303 charge north on the down fast of the WCML approaching Winwick Junction.
Running 34L at this stage, the working appears to have been checked at Stenson Junction earlier in the morning.
* Both English Electric Vulcan Foundry (Newton-le-Willows) products from 1963-4 and still doing the business!
This was an awesome sight. The bottom of the rainbow is cutoff due to forerunning cells blocking the sun as multiple storms move out of the Manzano Mountains. The sun rays managed to find a hole in the back-to-back storms, allowing for a midair rainbow to develop. Los Lunas, New Mexico USA
This is the third in the series of what turned out to be a rainbow chase. It looks like I will be having a fourth for this series.
We had an unexpected thunderstorm that brought heavy rain at the zoo. The guests took it in stride. One woman told me that she doesn't melt.
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A. - hometown
Summer 2020 - Coral Springs, Florida - 6/24/20
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 - STOP COVID-19!
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - red afterglow]
*[Reflecting On 2020 - Florida Wetlands Red]
Every sunset is different, because every day; sun
is different, clouds are different, space is different,
reflections are different....mountains are different,
fogs are different, and above all, we are different.
ā Mehmet Murat ildan
Sunsets are proof; that no matter what
happens...every day can end beautifully.
-- Kristen Butler