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Male and female. The male is on the left. It has spots on its sides. The female, on the right, has streaks on her breast. Thanks Alice Cahill for the clarification.
After I took this shot, I was stunned at the result. The way the patterns of light mixed with the textures of the concrete amazed me. I took several more shots from the same spot, but none had the same grainy feel to it. I guess because this was at 1600 ISO. Most of the others were at 100 ISO.
Taken during a night shoot under the Esplanade Bridge.
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This one hit #1 on Explore!
Esplanade, Singapore
2007
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Heading south toward Oliver and timewise heading toward sunset. Bird activity scarce but mosquito activity well under way. Three shot pano taken from the top lookout of a three story observation duck blind. I say 'observation' as clarification to gun happy hunters whose ears perk up when they read duck blind. It is a protected bird sanctuary. The fish on the other hand, well they're on their own.
.....this was taken between the last two snowstorms and as you can see there were still some small patches of snow even after a day of rain in between. We had a very brief interlude of sun during which I managed to get a few shots of some bluebird couples investigating nesting prospects in the boxes.
Today the temperature is in the teens and this meadow lies beneath about 6 inches of snow.
I doubt very much that these bluebirds are migrant arrivals because for the last 6 or 8 years we have had small flocks winter over on the homestead. They come into the feeders for mealworms and suet offerings and the winter sumac berries seem to be one of their favorite foraging grounds.
(Note) Just for clarification the berries in this photo are not sumac berries they are rose hips from wild multi-flora roses. Although they do provide forage for multiple small mammals and bird species, and the summer pollinators love them, they are an extremely aggressive, invasive species. And I have spent hours trying to route them off banks, hedge rows and out of the elderberry patch.
Acknowledging the many deaths over these last few months: Be it friendships i had to let go of, spiritual and/or emotional deaths - RL and SL. Clarification: This is not about a physical death of anyone - it's symbolic.
Which one do you prefer?
Just some clarifications:
1 Everything is natural...I used photoshop just for raw adjustments
2 These are water drops
3 The green thing is a pumpkin tendril
4 ...And yes, it takes a lot of patience!
Spotted these growing in the fair sized pond of the house I was watching being built during the pandemic - the one with the huge basement which I believe ended up being a cinema room .
The pond has always been there but does not have so much wild life on it than it used to , but does have these pretty Water Lilies .
Nymphaeaceae (/ˌnɪmfiˈeɪsi.iː, -ˌaɪ/) is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains five genera with about 70 known species. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on or rising from the surface. Leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and Nuphar, but fully circular in Victoria and Euryale.
Water lilies are a well-studied family of plants because their large flowers with multiple unspecialized parts were initially considered to represent the floral pattern of the earliest flowering plants. Later genetic studies confirmed their evolutionary position as basal angiosperms. Analyses of floral morphology and molecular characteristics and comparisons with a sister taxon, the family Cabombaceae, indicate, however, that the flowers of extant water lilies with the most floral parts are more derived than the genera with fewer floral parts.[clarification needed] Genera with more floral parts, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Victoria, have a beetle pollination syndrome, while genera with fewer parts are pollinated by flies or bees, or are self- or wind-pollinated , Thus, the large number of relatively unspecialized floral organs in the Nymphaeaceae is not an ancestral condition for the clade.
Koh-Itten, which loosely translates to “one red spot” is a Japanese aesthetic term. Several other examples of this aesthetic can be viewed in the first comment box below. Albeit, these are my personal interpretations of 'koh-Itten' and quite probably they are a misinterpretation of the original Japanese concept? I will happily stand corrected if a viewer knows better and provides clarification in the comment section. :)
It is a pleasure to, once again, be photographing in Portugal!
- Praia Grande, Portugal -
Eicher tractor was a manufacturer of tractors, agricultural machinery and engines. The company was founded in 1936 by the brothers Josef and Albert Eicher in the Upper Bavaria town of Forstern. The brand name "Eicher" was last used in Europe in 2009 by the Dutch agricultural machinery dealer Hissink & Zonen and is still in use today in India by Eicher Motors, which manufactures tractors & commercial vehicles by this name.
The first Eicher tractor was made by Joseph and Albert Eicher in the 1930s, in the village of Forstern, near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. It was the beginning of considerable development of Eicher's Forstern and Dingolfing factories. These pioneers made several tests and carried out a patient work of clarification. The first evolution was marked by the construction of an automatic mower and a three-wheeled tractor. In 1936, Eicher built the first diesel tractor with a 14.7 kW (20 hp) Deutz – diesel engine. The engine was welded to the frame and the rear axle was flanged. The gearbox was attached to the engine and passed the power via a propeller shaft to the rear axle. The mowing drive went from there via an open chain drive. One year later, in 1937, Eicher was represented for the first time at the DLG exhibition in Munich. The block-construction of the Eicher tractors with engines of Deutz and transmission of Prometheus prevailed in the following years. More and more tractors were sold, even tractors could be exported to Austria.
Eicher brothers Joseph and Albert Eicher were born and grew up in an agricultural part of Germany. Their personal taste for agriculture favored the development of ideas which led to the manufacturing of machines and modern devices.
Back in 2011, I was hanging around LaGrange, and found the IHB 1520 working the yard in what seemed like an unusual move. From here, the slug set took a cut of about 20 coal cars south out of La Grange... possibly to Argo? Unfortunately, I never got any clarification as to what was happening here, but it was definitely odd to see an SW15 slug set lugging coal down the main.
Home, not on the range - my last image for a while folks as of last night I'm an agent of shield/under house arrest/ at risk from society or some such. Well at least until there's some clarification about personal exercise. Having managed my condition for years I have been able to go about my life in the past few weeks without putting myself at any great risk.
The thought of not being allowed out to see this years orchids, butterflies, dragonflies and summer visiting birds is challenging but the NHS has my best interests at heart.
Keep Safe....
In the ice cave of the Mer de glace, we read this chilling clarification : since 1988, the glacier has lost more than 100 m (328 ft) in thickness!
The photo from 1986 in the text illustrates this very well, compared to that of 2019, taken at the same place.
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Une précision glaçante
Dans la grotte de glace de la Mer de glace, on peut lire cette précision glaçante : depuis 1988, le glacier a perdu plus de 100 m d"épaisseur !
La photo de 1986 dans le texte l'illustre très bien, comparée à celle de 2019, prise au même endroit.
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Chamonix- Montenvers - Haute-Savoie - France
(Point of clarification - Scrap Mosely came in one night on that alt as a goof and was hitting on me in front of Rhama...I mean over the top, flirting...with the expected results)
A sentimental journey
back and forth through time
a haze sometimes
clear as crystal on other days
this is where the emotion chimes
hourly, daily, eternally perhaps?
as much as the Sun gives to life
the hidden shadows remain lost
to the extended night
only touched by reality's hurtful frost
perchance can it change at all?
or has time done enough inside
that sentence dressed in ill-fitting words
like Winter nestling in the clutch of Spring
the bane of all nature's lovebirds
herald the call with a cry
in clonos nothing can defy the truth
of intuitive feelings so vivacious
they of the free world fly in the face of our 'society'
reaching up in unison, in search of rightness...
we follow suit for justification of our ills
clarification of the wrongs within
condemnation of all others we deem below us
always in denial of our own contemptuous stance
of which none among us are truly blameless
upon this fact we at least stand shoulder to shoulder-
the blame in part,
consuming thoughts on a diet of weighty emotions
is a recipe for the poor health of purpose
we must all take responsibility for the recycling of such actions.
by anglia24
09h30: 10/04/2008
©2008anglia24
For any of you that saw the last posted "self" portrait photo, it was a posting/title error. For clarification, I decided to post one of me...Jay
Luxemburgo - Clervaux - Castillo
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ENGLISH:
The castle stands at a height of 365 metres on a rocky spur above the town, surrounded on three sides by a loop in the River Clerve.
The oldest parts of the castle from the 12th century were built by Gerard, Count of Sponheim, a brother of the Count of Vianden. The large palace and the rounded towers are probably from around 1400 when the prosperous Lords of Brandenbourg lived there. In 1634, Claude of Lannoy built the reception halls, including the large Knights' Hall in the Spanish style of Flanders. In 1660, stables, storerooms and administrative buildings were added. Finally, in the 18th century, new stables were built.
Over the years, like other castles in Luxembourg, Clervaux fell into disrepair although it was partly restored and used as a hotel before it was finally destroyed in the Second World War during the Battle of Clervaux (December 16 to 18, 1944), part of the Battle of the Bulge.
After being fully restored after the war, the castle is now used partly as a museum and partly for housing the local administration.
The south wing houses an exhibition of models of Luxembourg's castles; the old kitchen in the Brandenbourg House[clarification needed]. It is a museum devoted to the Battle of the Ardennes.
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ESPAÑOL:
El sector de más antigüedad de esta fortaleza se construyó en el siglo XII y aunque el castillo fue totalmente destruido en la llamada “ofensiva de las Ardenas” ocurrida en diciembre de 1944, en la actualidad se encuentra completamente restaurado y contiene varias exposiciones de fotos.
I like this image because of the muted colours coming through from the garden. Another Macro effort at home.
Thanks to George Hauxwell for clarification of insect.
Luxemburgo - Clervaux - Castillo
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ENGLISH:
The castle stands at a height of 365 metres on a rocky spur above the town, surrounded on three sides by a loop in the River Clerve.
The oldest parts of the castle from the 12th century were built by Gerard, Count of Sponheim, a brother of the Count of Vianden. The large palace and the rounded towers are probably from around 1400 when the prosperous Lords of Brandenbourg lived there. In 1634, Claude of Lannoy built the reception halls, including the large Knights' Hall in the Spanish style of Flanders. In 1660, stables, storerooms and administrative buildings were added. Finally, in the 18th century, new stables were built.
Over the years, like other castles in Luxembourg, Clervaux fell into disrepair although it was partly restored and used as a hotel before it was finally destroyed in the Second World War during the Battle of Clervaux (December 16 to 18, 1944), part of the Battle of the Bulge.
After being fully restored after the war, the castle is now used partly as a museum and partly for housing the local administration.
The south wing houses an exhibition of models of Luxembourg's castles; the old kitchen in the Brandenbourg House[clarification needed]. It is a museum devoted to the Battle of the Ardennes.
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ESPAÑOL:
El sector de más antigüedad de esta fortaleza se construyó en el siglo XII y aunque el castillo fue totalmente destruido en la llamada “ofensiva de las Ardenas” ocurrida en diciembre de 1944, en la actualidad se encuentra completamente restaurado y contiene varias exposiciones de fotos.
Another pair of red border Kodachromes of a Sacramento Northern fantrip with Car 1005. I believe this one is also at 40th & Shafter in Oakland, but would welcome clarification on that.
This car survives today, beautifully restored at the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction. www.wrm.org/visit/car-roster/passenger-cars/interurban/it...
Original slide in my collection, photographer unknown.
Time to pop some tags, divas! Time to hit up MP and in-world yardsale and show those commons some love! No rares, all gacha, and extra points for creativity.
Show me what you got and make sure to show some love to those commons. Keep it summer and PG-13. Comment below with your entry by May 25th to win one of three prizes:
1st Prize - Most Likes - 2000L
2nd Prize - My Choice (Most Thriftshop) - 1500L
3rd Prize - Most Commons - 1000L
The spirit of this is fun and the stakes are low, so head to your local gacha reseller or dig through your inventory and give some items love. Comment on this with a link to your photo and may the games begin!
***Clarification: Men's outfits & Decor scenes are welcome too! If it's gacha and summer? Lemme see it <3 ***
Rain drops in the Garden of Benign Neglect.
Clarification! It was heavy dew, not rain! still, the effect was the same.
For Clarification: I do not celebrate Valentine's day ... The sole purpose of this shot is to show how cute the wrappers are :P
comments are disabled because I don't want any controversy on this topic
Taken by me
Edited by: me
QTRZ . d e l i r i u m © All rights reserved
Eilean Musdile
Eilean Musdile (Mansedale) is an islet, and lighthouse to the south west of Lismore in the Inner Hebrides.
The island lies in the entrance to Loch Linnhe, separated from Lismore by a sound ¼ miles across.[3] It is a low-lying rock, ten acres (4.0 hectares) in size,[3] with some grass on it. CalMac ferries pass close to the island on their way from Oban to Mull.
The lighthouse was built by Robert Stevenson in 1833 at a cost of £4260[4] and initially showed a fixed white light.[3] In 1910 most of the Northern Lighthouse Board's lights were changed to dioptric or Fresnel lenses but Lismore and Fidra, in the Firth of Forth, were left as the only remaining purely catoptric lights in the service.[3]
A Standing Stone once stood on the highest point of the island (NM779351). The 9-foot (2.7 m) monolith appears to have recorded the midwinter sunset[clarification needed] and is thought to have been removed during construction of the lighthouse.[5]
The Moai Paro - The largest moai ever raised.
With a height of 9 meters, a giant red cap a unique energy that can be felt just by approaching it, the Paro moai is perhaps one of the most striking figures on the entire island.
About the moai Paro:
There are many moai on Easter Island, but perhaps none like the Paro moai. This giant statue is the largest moai ever raised on an Ahu, and although today we see it on the ground and split in two, just imagining its standing figure gives us a huge surprise.
Size and shape of the moai paro:
The moai Paro has a height of 9 meters and if we take its parts separately, we have a head of more than 3 meters, a body 6 meters and ears of 2 meters. Its estimated weight is around 80 tons (it is impressive!).
Right in front of the moai Paro I saw a large red stone. This stone is the Pukao (red bun/topknot) that this giant wore on his head. This Pukao is the largest on the island, with a height of more than 2 meters and a weight of more than 17 tons.
Comparison with other moais:
I already said that the Paro moai is the largest moai on the entire island, but I want to make a clarification: it is not the largest moai built, it is the largest moai moved from where it was built and raised on an Ahu (the platform that supports to the moai).
This is only an explanatory data, but it does not detract from this giant that was the only one capable of getting up considering its more than 80 tons.
Now, to avoid confusion, let's make a list of the largest moai on the island:
- Te Tokanga: it is the largest of all (it measures 21 meters) but it was never finished or taken from the rock where it was carved.
- Moai Piro Piro: it is the second largest moai (11 meters), but it was never finished. It was taken out of the rock, but they left it halfway, and today half of the body is buried (I could not appreciate its large size).
- Moai Paro: it is the third largest moai, but the only one of the three that was 100% finished, moved and raised on an Ahu.
Location of the moai Paro:
The moai Paro is located in Te Pito Kura, a ceremonial center with archaeological remains on the island.
In the area I did not only see the giant, but also a series of other very important elements that made me understand and know in greater depth how the natives lived.
History of the moai Paro:
Why is the moai Paro destroyed and on the floor? This question is still an unknown for historians.
As you know and as I have told you on several pictures, the island's natives, when they were affected by the over-exploitation of natural resources, began a series of internal wars in which the different tribes destroyed many of the Ahus and Moai.
Despite the above and the fact that most of the destroyed moai are associated with this period of history, the characteristics in which the Paro moai is seen today, suggest that this giant was thrown away by the climate of the island (winds and rains) and not during this war period.
Investigation is still ongoing, but there is no certainty or official data that brings us closer to the truth.
Comparison of the size of several moai on the whole island with men:
PRR (NS) 5315 & its less-than-attractive partner, 5077, switch out the Cargill plant on the corner of CB&Q St and SE 30th St in Des Moines, IA. For clarification, I took this out my car window as I crossed over the tracks. Taken on 7/25/19.
Here's our new Monarch Butterfly, about 20 minutes after yesterday's post, and likely about 35-40 minutes after she emerged from her pupa, or chrysalis.
Here's some clarification on the words used to describe the casing, gleaned from the web: "A chrysalis is the hardened body of the butterfly pupa, while a cocoon is the silk casing formed by the larva of a moth.
A chrysalis is the stage during which the caterpillar transforms into the butterfly, while a cocoon is the casing around the caterpillar as it transforms into the moth.
A chrysalis is usually attached to a branch or a leaf, while a cocoon is usually hidden in a crevice or a hole." Key is cocoon-moth, chrysalis-Monarch.
More than you ever wanted to know. Maybe tomorrow I try and find something else, although I did photograph a boy Monarch on my lantana this am.
The Dom Luís I Bridge, officially Luiz I Bridge, is a double-deck metal arch bridge that spans the river Douro between the cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal. At its construction, its 172 metres span was the longest of its type in the world. It can be confused with the nearby Maria Pia Bridge, a railway bridge that was built 9 years earlier, which is similar in aspect to the Luiz I bridge.
Today, the bridge's upper level is used by pedestrians and by line D of the Porto Metro, whilst the lower level is used by buses, taxis, cyclists and pedestrians. The lower level links to the Porto waterfront, including the Praça da Ribeira and the lower station of the Guindais Funicular, at its northern end, and to Gaia waterfront, with its Port wine lodges, at its southern end. The upper level connects to Porto city centre and São Bento station at its northern end, and adjoins the Serra do Pilar Monastery and the upper station of the Gaia Cable Car at its southern end.
In 1879, Gustave Eiffel presented a project to construct a new bridge over the Douro, with a high single deck in order to facilitate ship navigation. This project was rejected due to dramatic growth of the urban population, which required a re-thinking of the limits of a single-deck platform.
A competition was initiated in November 1880, in order to construct a double-deck metal bridge, which included projects by Compagnie de Fives-Lille, Cail & C., Schneider & Co., Gustave Eiffel, Lecoq & Co., Société de Braine-le-Comte, Société des Batignolles (which submitted two ideas), Andrew Handyside & Co., Société de Construction de Willebroek (also two projects) and John Dixon. It was in January of the following year that deliberations by the committee supported the project of Société de Willebroek, a design that cost 369,000$00[clarification needed] réis and provided better carrying capacity. On 21 November 1881, the public work was awarded to the Belgian Société de Willebroek, from Brussels, for 402 contos. It was to be administered by Théophile Seyrig, the former partner of Gustave Eiffel and author of the project. Seyrig had also designed the Dona Maria bridge that was constructed by Eiffel & cie, hence the resemblance of his new bridge to the Dona Maria bridge. Construction began on the Ponte Luís I alongside the towers of an earlier suspension bridge, the Ponte Pênsil [de; es; pt], which was disassembled.
By 26 May 1886, the first weight experiments began, with the transport of a 2,000 kilograms per metre. On 30 October construction of the main arch and upper deck were concluded, resulting in its inauguration the very next day. On 1 November, a toll system began to operate under the administration of the winning company, that was equal to 4 reís per person. The following year the lower deck was inaugurated, completing the project. During its ceremonies, the bridge was blessed by Bishop D. Américo.
Just for clarification :) , I didn't apply any blur to this photo. The effect is simply a result of the shallow depth of field from having the aperature wide open.
For those unfamiliar with flax blossoms, this one is about 1 cm (about 1/2") across.
John Allen Photography 2021
Just for clarification, this is not a composite photo. I saw this image and window on the side of an old building on the west side of Grand Rapids.
A massively clarified view roughly south from Sgùrr na Banachdich in the Cuillin range on the Isle of Skye.
The peak in the foreground is the western top of Sgùrr Dearg, also part of the Cuillin and only about a kilometre away. Beyond that is the island of Eigg, beyond that the Ardnamurchan peninsula (whose tip, out of shot to the right, is the furthest west point in the mainland of Great Britain) and in the far distance is Ben More, the highest mountain and only Munro on the Isle of Mull, about 90 kilometres/60 miles away.
I've added some grain to disguise the rather unpleasant noise caused by the small sensor and greatly exaggerated by the clarification. Previously posted in colour.
Unusual double KUA consist to Georgemas, as clarification, not high risk material waste to be disposed of from Dunrae PS. The Mk2 Brakes weren’t required…made a solum change from the tiny boxes that plod up the HML. Here seen at Gleneagles. The shadows….they were horrid to see upon arrival to set up!
Thanks to 2 helpful local Oregon souls who pointed out that I had mistakenly identified the Astoria-Megler Bridge because the GPS coordinates on my phone have the location in Astoria as connectivity on the Highway 101 corridor was very spotty, actually closer to Lewis and Clark National Historic Site based on the GPS coordinates and the fact that this bridge Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport Oregon both have are painted green but lack the monuments on both sides & wouldn’t have trees in the horizon, I made a bad call on the bridge off the files on my Iphone rather that my camera pictures which I carefully keep track of location. Thank you @bobcat.lamb & @grillindaddy for pointing out my “fake news”. Appreciate the clarification and the fact that you read the caption.
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I am fortunate to be able to safely view this wild local Miami saltwater crocodile at somewhat predictable times. The photographic challenge is that the location has way too much sun bouncing from all directions, and the crocodile skin camouflage works so well on the coral rock, that my camera lens and many people, dog walkers, bikers, can miss the prehistoric and disturbing beauty. I am making a more deliberate study of the detail, after 3 Nile crocodiles with matching DNA were located in South South Florida. We cannot allow the Nile to become a breeding invasive species in Florida, since it is known to regularly attack humans in its environment. So I really need to be on the lookout for the differences so I can reorganize and report the event to the experts who capture the Niles and transport them to a better home where they will not be wild in USA. The American crocodile, is a protected species, that was down to 500, and cannot tolerate cold water, usually not seen north of West Palm Beach. It dines on fish and turtles. I also look for the Caiman and Cuban Crocodiles which also rarely show up. I would rather be putting more time into photographs of birds, but the Nile sightings have brought the clarification of species identification in my neighborhood to awareness. And a super zoom lens camera is a fantastic asset for this self assigned project.
One of the family of Bank Voles that live in our garden wall. Thanks to Tim Melling for the ID clarification. With Tim’s help I also now know I’ve got a family of Field Voles living under my decking too.
If you garden with nature in mind, wildlife simply appears !
'Koh-Itten' No. 1 can be viewed in the first comment box below. :)
Koh-Itten, which loosely translates to “one red spot” is a Japanese aesthetic term. Albeit, these are my personal interpretations of 'koh-Itten' and quite probably they are a misinterpretation of the original Japanese concept? I will happily stand corrected if a viewer knows better and provides clarification in the comment section. :)
- Praia Grande, Portugal -
Macro Mondays theme: Redux 2022 (Miniature)
I chose to revisit the theme from August 1, 2022: Miniature as there is no shortage of tiny things in this house, but I have struggled to 'manage my spoons' this week.
I had to wait until one of my gifts was opened but those shots sucked. At the last minute I pulled together a few alternative shots in the hope one would work. I'm posting my favorite of the lot.
Miniature Photographer Captures Reeses Miniature.
(While the peanut butter cup is actually called Miniature, I am not sure whether it technically meets the requirements as it is the thing in its own right. For clarification, the subject is the LEGO photographer, definitely "a model or copy of an object replicated at a very small scale."
HMM
Explored 31st August 2015. Thank you my friends x
Burghley House Stamford. The sculpture Gardens. I think this is wonderful work and really connect with it.
Being in the woods to me feels like a natural comforting place, the place of our past, when this small island was covered with one great forest.
For clarification, the tree is real, look for the Tree People :-)
Looks good in Large x
The work is entitled Balance by Sophie Dickens
"Soooo... ya know how we were recently talking about the KYLE picking up some Dash-9s?" This is what I texted Lucas McIntyre after stumbling upon today's MKSTP with a quartet of ex-KCS, exx-BNSF C44-9Ws in tow behind the on-line power. Some messaging went around from here, and we're pretty sure that these are indeed headed for the KYLE. As to what they replace is the big question now.
When I shot this, I was on my way to Dan Munson's place, saw this to the south from I-70, and IMMEDIATELY changed course to shoot it up the road at Midland. This is on UP's Kansas Sub, just (railroad-) west of Lawrence.
For clarification, the Dash 9s are the KCS 4457, 4465, 4447, and 4423. UP 1425 and BNSF 6359 were powering the train.
It's better than nothing... I did quite a bit of yard work today and had seen that the UP's new Abraham Lincoln presidential tribute motor was leading a North Platte to Valley Park train out of NP around midday. This was about the best-case scenario, arriving Omaha just before dusk but early enough that it barely beat the shadows downtown. Having named my second child Lincoln, I couldn't not make the effort to watch its first trip across the river into Iowa... I was able to shoot it here, scoot across the river to an apartment complex parking lot and get what likely is the first shot of the motor in Iowa; the birthplace of the Union Pacific and Transcontinental Railroad.
Numbering clarifications:
- UP 1616 (SD70M), renumbered from UP 4015 on 4/21/25
- UP 4015 (SD70M), renumbered from UP 4392 on 4/22/25
oops....
i have been linking my photos to the redbubble site page, where they are on black, and can be purchased.....however it was pointed out to me that this is probably a breach of the Terms of Service of flickr....
there is a discussion here... www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/75298/
i've emailed flickr for clarification, but if you have also done the same...then maybe you should also delete your links.... :)
Celia Farber claims to be an investigative *ahem* journalist. Really she is nothing more than a person who gets paid for spreading HIV denialist propaganda. Every cause has their mouthpiece. Celia Farber is an expert. Not in HIV or AIDS. No Celia is an expert in very publicly stitching herself up! The following extracts from an interview are taken from bookslut all comments in bold are my own observations:
BS:You are constantly described as an AIDS dissident that does not believe HIV causes AIDS -- but nowhere in your book is this explicitly stated. So how would you describe your views?
CF: Thank you for noticing that critical detail. I have never written that HIV does not cause AIDS. I don’t think I’ve ever said that HIV does not cause AIDS. I took one semester of journalism in college. Thanks Celia. Good to see that you spent a hell of a lot of time earning the title of journalist!!!
CF: It is not for me to say as a journalist -- as a nonscientist -- what causes or doesn’t cause AIDS. Great Celia. You are off to a blinding start. Not only do you admit to having no substantial education as a journalist but you make it perfectly clear that you are not a scientist...
BS:Do you wish you had taken a different approach reporting? Is there anything you would have done differently?
CF:My quick answer is usually yes, of course. But it’s unanswerable… What I wish I had done differently, in retrospect, was to calculate the damage and the blight, both on myself and on my family and ask myself, “Is it fair to do to others?” Because what you actually do is you invite financial ruin. The damage and the blight Celia? Oh poor you and your poor family! How many of your denialist chums have died? How many people who have listened to your warped rhetoric are now dead because they did not access the treatments that could have prolonged their life? That is the damage and that is the blight Celia. NOT the fact that you did not earn more money. But I think that is more to do with just the one semester at journalist school than anything else...
BS:As a non-gay male AIDS reporter and Westerner investigating Africa, did you have to deal with identity politics?
CF: I never got that kind of guff from any Africans, [but] certainly from the gay community. Those that were opposed to what I was doing -- that was one of the charges: that I wasn’t gay and how the hell could I know what I was doing and what right did I have to say anything? But that’s inconsistent with the core belief system, which is that AIDS is everybody’s disease... Yes darling but you started spouting your denialist crap in 1988. Do you also have selective amnesia? Of course the Gay community were going to take exception to your denialist crap because Gay men were bearing the brunt of the numbers of deaths and the social stigma. The last thing they would have wanted when they were dying would be for someone like you to add more bulshit to the fire...
I would go to AIDS conferences and go through an immense crisis each time, “Am I crazy or are they crazy?” Answers on a postcard...
BS: Do you think The Constant Gardner was able to voice political dissent as it is shielded as fiction?
CF:I would caution people against assuming that John le Carre is writing fiction. Let me make a generality: fiction writers today like John le Carre are doing journalism, and the journalists are writing fiction. Thanks again Celia.... i didn't need to read this interview with you to know that you talk a pile of stinking shit! But thanks for the clarification!
I do wish that I could crawl away, quietly and turn up on some completely other part of the beach. So do we Celia, so do we... and take your denialist chums with you...
Celia worked as a researcher on the BBC documentry "Guinea Pig Kids" This is what the BBC had to say about the programme in question:
ECU ruling: Guinea Pig Kids, BBC2, 30 November 2004 and related websites
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/news/2007/11/30/51154.shtml
Publication date: 30 Nov 2007
Complaint
The Director of Planning and Policy Research of the New York-based Center for HIV Law and Policy, supported by several academics and other agencies involved in HIV research and treatment, complained that the programme unfairly claimed that New York City's Administration for Children's Services, together with a number of medical and child care institutions, "effectively conspired to force helpless children of colour into inappropriate and sinister 'experiments' when in fact they made life saving drugs already approved for adults available to children living with HIV/AIDS who were in the foster care system", that it gave a misleading impression of the effects of anti-HIV medication, and that it falsely claimed that "denying medication to children with AIDS will improve their health while appropriate treatment will kill them".
BBC Editorial Complaints Unit's ruling
The programme explored legitimate concerns about a research project involving the testing of anti-HIV drugs on children in the care system, where (it had emerged) there had been a failure in some cases to provide independent advocacy as required by the research protocols. However, the programme portrayed this failure as being the more serious because the drugs being trialled were, it claimed, both "lethal" and ineffective. In support of these claims, the programme interviewed an expert witness who was, though the audience was not told, a leading advocate of the propositions that HIV is unconnected with AIDS, that anti-retroviral drugs do not work in the treatment of AIDS and that they are, in fact, responsible for deaths attributed to AIDS. The audience was not told that his was a minority and controversial view which would be challenged by mainstream medical opinion. No other medical opinion was heard on this subject.
The programme also gave the false impression that parents or carers who objected to their children being placed in the trials risked losing custody of their children. In fact, the three case studies which created this impression did not involve children connected with the trials. Though there was no explicit claim that "denying medication to children with AIDS will improve their health while appropriate treatment will kill them", the treatment of case studies in the programme contributed to that impression. This complaint has been partly upheld.
Further action
A correction will be published on bbc.co.uk, as part of the pages on which the material complained of appears, with a link to this summary. In addition, the ECU will contact other websites featuring the material in order to draw their attention to its ruling. The management of BBC News is addressing the issues arising from the ruling for the commissioning and supervision of independent productions of this kind.
Celia Farber: An AIDS Denialist Masquerading as a Journalist
Celia Farber, the author of the March 2006 Harper's Magazine article attacking HIV clinical research, misrepresents herself to the popular media as a legitimate journalist and science writer, interested only in doggedly covering a good story. She is in fact an AIDS "dissident" who has been publicizing and extolling the claims of AIDS denialists and attacking scientific research on HIV/AIDS since the late 1980s. Farber has signed the two defining petitions of HIV denialism and she co-authored with members of the denialist group HEAL a core tract of the denialist movement called "HIV: Against Science." She described herself in the subtitle of one of her articles as "an AIDS Dissident" and she is a prominent member of the denialist "Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis." Her denialism is well documented, but she conceals her beliefs in order to fool the mainstream media into allowing her to promote them in print.
Farber's main contribution to the AIDS denialist movement is to broadcast their views to the general public in the disguise of objective journalism. In her writing for the popular press, she has consistently and deceptively refused to fully disclose her deep involvement with, and her role as a spokesperson for, the denialist camp. She has also evaded explaining clearly her own understanding or beliefs about HIV and AIDS. Instead, she allows other denialists to make the case for her in extended, laudatory quotes, while maintaining the pretense that she is just an objective reporter asking honest questions, and one who is unfairly abused for her honesty:
All I ever did was follow and report, with what some may consider excessive attention, the vital debate about whether HIV is the cause of AIDS. And whether AZT is a viable therapy for those who are HIV antibody positive. And whether being HIV antibody positive is the same as "having" HIV. And whether "having" HIV necessarily means your immune system is decaying. Etc. I consider all of these questions to be very straightforward, logical, and of obvious importance. I simply picked up a thread and followed it. (Farber , "AIDS Inc." 1994).
Farber's disingenuous claim to "follow and report" on an issue in which she is deeply committed to one side is one she has tried to maintain even as the Harper's Magazine piece brought new attention to the denialist clique. She is reported in The New York Times as saying that she "does not endorse [denialist Peter] Duesberg's position but is simply reporting on an unpopular view. 'People can't distinguish, it seems, between describing dissent and being dissent [sic],'" she wrote in an email to the reporter, Lia Miller. But in fact, people can distinguish between reportage and the party line, and Farber has always toed the latter. She has for two decades consistently attacked medicine, belittled scientific research and enthusiastically promoted denialists and their various claims. There is nothing even remotely balanced in her work.
Despite the denialist motive that drives her writing, Farber lacks the courage of her convictions and won't publicly stand behind the denialist ideology she promotes so relentlessly. She even cravenly disclaims her own positions when cornered. In a recent email she sent to a wide circulation list, she wrote of her Harper's Magazine article, "It does not, for example, say that all AIDS drugs are ghastly, or worthless." No, perhaps not in those exact words, but Farber is being disingenuous. What her article does say is "Duesberg thinks that up to 75 percent of AIDS cases in the West can be attributed to drug toxicity. If toxic AIDS therapies were discontinued, he says, thousands of lives could be saved virtually overnight." In the same email, she asserted "In each article [in the past] where I have addressed HAART I have included, clearly, the fact that the regimens have absolutely helped people who are very sick." That statement's as absolutely false as it is hypocritical. For example, in an article about HAART published in 2000, she made two comments about the benefits of antiretroviral drugs:
There are facts and figures, studies and counter-studies, a virtual blizzard of data that could be arranged to show any number of things. The new AIDS drugs have saved people's lives: that's one piece of truth. The new AIDS drugs have killed people: that's another. The new AIDS drugs have damaged and deformed some people so badly that although they are alive, they wish they were dead.
And:
Precisely what it means for a life to be "saved" is complicated, especially when the patient was not sick to begin with. As [German denialist Claus] Koehnlein wryly commented, "If you treat completely healthy people you can claim great therapeutic success."
Both of these statements, spun by sarcasm, are in effect claims that no people with HIV/AIDS have benefited from HAART, which is a blatant lie.
Farber has tried to portray herself as a neutral observer to The New York Times and critics by claiming she merely presents the contradictory views of others for the edification of the reader. But when we reviewed 34 articles about AIDS by Farber, we found that the clear thesis and topic of every single one was some variant of AIDS denialism--HIV does not cause AIDS; AIDS doesn't exist; there is no heterosexual AIDS; there is no AIDS epidemic in Africa; HIV is not transmitted by sex or by semen or by breast milk; HIV does not exist...
Farber's writing style typically highlights extensive quotes from denialists, whom she describes in warm, laudatory and respectful terms and whose claims are given great credence. By contrast, she consistently attacks legitimate HIV science, medicine, researchers and AIDS activists. Occasionally, she takes the words of legitimate doctors and advocates out of context to support the denialist argument. All of this is held together with her grandiose narrative of her Quest for The Truth: This, she says, "is my private hell, but also my great Sisyphean challenge. My labyrinth…" (Berkowitz: "Interview" 2000).
Celia Farber wants the world to regard her as a courageous and objective investigative journalist, but in reality she's nothing more than a lying propagandist for the denialist mini-movement. What is shocking is that Harper's Magazine's editors fell for this scam.
Roger Hodge: In Cahoots or Just Incompetent?
Roger Hodge, Farber's editor and, sadly, the man replacing Harper's Magazine's legendary editor Lewis Lapham, has defended his ignominious debut by claiming that he is merely airing an important controversy. It is not yet clear if he actually shares Farber's denialism or was, by failing to exercise due diligence, merely deceived by her masquerade as a journalist. Quite possibly, both of these things are true. On the question of HIV as the cause of AIDS, he told Gay City News "I don't feel like I am qualified to judge it"-a dodge similar to Farber's feints when she's in the headlights. The New York Times reported that "Mr. Hodge said the magazine stood behind the article and Ms. Farber. 'The fact that she's been covering this story does not make her a crackpot - it makes her a journalist. She's a courageous journalist, I believe, because she has covered the story at great personal cost.'"
Hodge also continues to assert the accuracy of the article against the overwhelming evidence presented to him that the piece is a farrago of fabrications, errors and innuendo. Gay City News reported that he said: "It was very, very thoroughly fact-checked over the course of three months. … A lot of what people are describing as errors are differences of opinion about the data." But his fact-checkers were either biased or incompetent, because at least 58 scientific and non-scientific howlers made it into print (www.aidstruth.org). Did Farber provide Hodge with her own list of "experts" to consult as fact-checkers? Or did Hodge select them based on his own knowledge of science and medicine? In either case, this vital task in the editing of any article was thoroughly botched.
If all it takes to get a science-bashing article into the new, dumbed-down Harper's Magazine is to warm-over baseless conspiracy theories and wild speculation, then we can expect the next issue to feature a piece from the Discovery Institute that promotes Intelligent Design – let's teach the controversy, brave Sir Roger! And perhaps he'll offer space to the oft-maligned Holocaust denialists, too, who make the same claim that legitimate scholars will not pay attention to their theories.
Hodge's quotes in Gay City News reveal that he still sees AIDS denialism as something honorable, a case of the little guy taking on the big bad wolves of the federal government and the pharmaceutical industry, standing up to be counted, risking it all for the sake of the truth and freedom of speech. If this were true, Hodge would have the full support of all of us, for we share this predisposition. We, like most scientists and AIDS activists, are liberals and progressives. That's why it's so difficult for us to accept that Harper's Magazine, a journal aimed at liberal intellectuals, would print Farber's article. The AIDS denialists are not honest dissidents, and they tarnish the word by using it. In South Africa, they even have tried to link their dissidence to that of Nelson Mandela, as if the two positions could in any way be equated. And when it comes to craven profiteering and the unethical exploitation of people with HIV, the denialists' champions, such as Matthias Rath and David Rasnick, take the cake.
Where Roger Hodge got it so badly wrong was to allow such an obviously error-ridden and biased article into a once-reputable magazine. In the circumstances, Hodge should now do what is honorable and resign for the sake of his magazine's reputation. He's proven himself not up to the task of editing an article. He's proven unable to exercise intelligent judgment about scientific discourse, medicine, public health and the HIV epidemic. He's proven himself gullible and sloppy by being fooled by a writer he told Gay City News he's known for "many years." Perhaps you knew Farber both too well and not well enough, Roger? And perhaps, Lewis Lapham, you knew Roger both too well and not well enough when bequeathing your legacy to him?
Jeanne Bergman, PhD, Health GAP, New York, NY
John P. Moore, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York
Well done Celia... keep on digging.....