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For about a year, Fragonset Railways supplied the stock and motive power for an early morning and evening return commuter service from St Annes to Greenbank via Manchester. Here 31459 "Cerberus" (leading) and 31602 "Chimaera" (trailing) pass Ashley with 2D44 06:40 St Annes to Greenbank on the 30th March 2004. The service continued to run until June 2004, after which it became a Blackpool to Manchester Victoria working.
Throughout the day, guests at the Valamar Fortuna Hotel on St Nikola Island off Porec in Croatia await the little ferry to get to the mainland.
It's like waiting for a First Great Western train. Only very different.
Bus Stop at Colesville Road and Fenton Street in Silver Spring, Maryland on Tuesday morning, 20 October 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Waiting At Bus Stops Project / En route to LABCORP @ 344 University Boulevard, Silver Spring MD
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The Long Commute...
Sony Rx100 Mark V (Point & Shoot) sitting on bridge railing (but secured to my wrist)
ISO 80, 2s, f11, 51mm (FF equivalent), inbuilt 3 stop ND filter On
Jalan Kayu Flyover, Singapore
(facing roughly West, into the Sunset)
5 images developed in Capture One & stacked in Affinity Photo
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Entry for the lomography competition of the FZ7 users group
The first part of my commute to work. A 15 to 20 min roll down the hill to town.
This is the first of a series of images taken in the lomography style.
To learn about lomography here is a link to www.flickr.com/groups/e-lomography/
I like getting work in Oxford. The cycle ride though the City is the best commute I have. This photograph is made after crossing Magdelene bridge with the tower of Magdelene College on the rght.
Morning traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Heading into Manhattan from Brooklyn.
I have been out all weekend long without a computer or internet access...this is just a quick post to say hello and that I will catch up with everyone over the week. :)
Old mid-80s Stumpjumper Sport I adopted as my commuting bike until recently. 'Upgraded' it with new pedals (MKS Sylvan), fenders (SKS), panniers (Arkel), tires (Schwalbe), and a new helmet. Wanted to make sure I was able to be seen by Houston's notoriously idiotic traffic -- hence why I've gone almost overboard with all the blinkies, lights, and reflective tape/stickers (see notes). It has 26" wheels (now with a 1.5" tire in the front and a 1.75" in the back -- both with the reflective stripe all the way around [photo shows old tires]), so is a tad small for me at 6'1" but was worth it as I didn't have to buy a new or used bike while trying out bike commuting.
As I've kept with bike commuting, I've upgraded my bike to a Bianchi San Jose (a single speed).
Commuting lives photo project. Commuting to work each day can be a challenging experience and daily I meet hundreds of people, pledged at the same times and same trains.
4 of 365 (click for a Better view)
Women go out and buy fifty pairs of shoes and one present for you. For me, that present is proudly presented here - my new cycling gloves. They are rad, I mean red. And they screw the auto WB setting big time, too.
This time I decided to shoot straight JPEG, and it hardly made any difference since I set WB manually anyway.
Oh, and I just have to rave about my new remote triggers (Yongnuo brand). I've got two remotes and they can act as remote release for my Canon! So I put one transmitter in the camera's hot shoe to trigger the flashes, and user another transmitter-receiver pair as remote release. Of course, the second pair was set up for a different channel so it would not interfere with the flashes. Also, when you half-press the button on the transmitter, the camera pre-focuses. But this shot was manually pre-focused anyways. I'm old school, you see.
Ok, back to the important stuff.
Strobist info:
Canon 20D | EF 24-70 | f/2.8 | 1/125 | ISO 800 | WB 3200
Two 5000AF, one high right with CTO gel into silver umbrella, the other low left with grid snoot.
Click here to see the setup.
After my el cheapo aluminum Axiom Journey rack broke in four welds and sheared one spar, I installed a Tubus Airy. I chose the Airy because it's very strong and light, with Tubus' extender adapter it clears my 700c wheel and fender, and it attaches to the brake bridge. The MMD lacks upper seat stay brazeons.
St Albans to the City of London is reputed to be Britain's "most expensive commute".
Rather than take the train, I decided to travel overland and see what I could see...
We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.