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just blew me away. A 22 kilometer long white sand beach stretches along the coast, here at the beach you have a sunset photography guarantee :)
The colors that arise here in the evening when the sun is slowly sinking into the Indian Ocean are just spectacular. From purple and gold to fiery reds, the entire sky shines here. I could have stayed here forever!
Olympus OM-1
Zuiko 50mm 1.4
Kodak TMAX 3200
Part of the mechanisms by which the San Francisco cable cars are pulled up those steep streets on their rails.
Slaty skimmer on one of the support cables between two posts on the boardwalk handrail at the park. Not quite in sharp focus but still saving for now. They seem to like these cables for some reason.
Continuing my series of depots in and around Edinburgh we visit one of the oldest depots in use. In 1901 plans were laid for a depot and power house to serve the cable tram routes in the east of the city. This was situated on Portobello High Street at Pipe Street, and brought into use in 1902, replacing the Rosefield Place horse-car shed. Two 500 hp engines drove the cable drums by gears rather than ropes as at the other 3 depots, and these provided traction for 22 trams on the GPO (Waterloo Place) to Joppa route.
In 1923 transfer to electric traction was made and an extension to the south-west elevation of the depot enabled accommodation for trams on services 5, 15, 20, 21, 22 and a share of the 12 and 26. Older 'wooden standard' types outnumbered the modern domed trams and one of the oldest fleet 78, built at Shrubhill in 1923, is seen returning from service 12. The depot also housed Edinburgh's largest trams, known as the 'Pilchers' and restricted to route 21 (to Levenhall). Depot destination screens were 'Bath Street' , 'King's Rd P'Bello' and 'King's Road' the latter still in use today. In 1954 all trams in the east of Edinburgh were withdrawn, the duties on service 12 moved to Leith depot and services 5, 15 and 26 were replaced by buses carrying the same route number, Service 21 was replaced by a new Scottish Omnibuses route to Galt Road and Wallyford. The depot site was restricted for operational bus use but the shed continued in use for bus storage until demolished the site now occupied by flats and a car park.
The cable car flies over the port ... I'm not very good with heights and missed the spectacular views that could be seen from such a vantage point ...
Only for the lazy and those without wind/waterproof clothing basically.
And for everyone during the winter season, of course...
860 vertical metres in 7 minutes
Åre Kabinbana’s valley station is just above Åre square at 421 meters above sea level.
In the station there are workshops, office spaces, a coffee shop, ticket sales with a small sports shop and a control room.
Each cable car holds a capacity of 75 people in perfect weather conditions.
Departures are every 20 minutes or continuously when the queues are long.
The journey up to 1274 meters above sea level takes about 7 minutes. Dogs are welcome in one of the cable cars, just make sure to keep it on a leash while on the mountain.
My X-Men heyday was during the 90s, when Cable was leading X-Force and getting framed for shooting Xavier with a technovirus (spoiler alert). Still, there's something about this more modern pairing that appeals to me, even with very little exposure to it.
Besides, Lego had already made Deadpool...
Late afternoon near the town of Tehachapi finds a northbound UP manifest freight with a new GE ES45AH "Heavy" leader heading downgrade through Cable as it slowly makes the descent toward Bakersfield.
Took and edited this back in Feb. Not sure why I didn't upload it then, as I quite like it.
Probably using the sweet 35 optic and extension tubes, going by the other photo I uploaded that day.
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The Zane hair works amazingly for Cable.
The head was incredibly hard to find. If you don't want to do what I did to my Cable where I sharpied in the eye, you have to use the Commander Wolffe head. The missing eye substitutes for the glowing eye.
The torso is complex. You need Turk Falso's torso, a blue right arm, a flat silver or chrome silver left arm, and two blue hands.
Use a belt from TLBM to give Cable more detail.
These dual-molded yellow/blue legs provide Cable with some boots.
Cable has had so many guns throughout the years that it is impossible to choose one. I suggested a standard TLM Robo-Swat rifle.
If you go non-purist, the Brickwarrior's Deadly Cricket, Resistance Sniper, and Grinder Shotgun all work very well.