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The completely renewed locomotive 77 002 by Express Service is already on duty on the Rhodope narrow gauge line! We have waited to see the locomotive in operation for quite a long time. It was ready and transferred in Septemvri depot in March 2022, but due to some administrative hiccups, its commissioning was delayed quite a bit. After all, about a month ago, the locomotive was put into operation, with a new number - 77 102, and since then it has been tirelessly and without any problems serving trains on the narrow gauge. The modernization of the locomotive which has been manufactured in Romania in the 80s was carried out by the Express Service workshop in Ruse, Bulgaria. In practice, only the frame and bogies are used from the old locomotive. Cabs and the body shells were removed and re-build using brand new materials. The loco is equipped with electronic controls and also with a brand new Caterpilar diesel engine with EU stage 5 standard.
On the photo 77 102 is seen on train 1661, between the stations of Yakoruda and Belitsa, near Dagonovo stop /15 October 2022/
Video of the renovated locomotive is available here:
and natural and unaffected by the photographer :-)
Bill Eppridge
HPPT! Serious gun legislation now!
prunus mume, japanese flowering apricot, 'Okitsu-Akabana', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The only completely red bird in North America, the strawberry-colored male Summer Tanager is an eye-catching sight against the green leaves of the forest canopy.
The mustard-yellow female is harder to spot, though both sexes have a very distinctive chuckling call note. Fairly common during the summer, these birds migrate as far as the middle of South America each winter.
This is a collection of old network BNC (Bayonet Neill–Concelman) connectors and terminators we found buried in a cupboard at work and joined together. Apart from being 20 years behind the times, they would also send the network traffic loopy if we connected them to anything - so the ultimate contraption. Over complicated. Looks impressive. Does nothing!
The BNC was commonly used for early computer networks, including ARCnet, the IBM PC Network, and the 10BASE2 variant of modern Ethernet.
Built in 1754 and completely restored in 1910, the Château de La Motte-Tilly has now been bequeathed to the French state due to a lack of heirs. The US film director Miloš Forman ('One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Amadeus') used the château and park as locations for his film 'Valmont' (1989), based on the epistolary novel 'Dangerous Liaisons' by Choderlos de Laclos.
La Motte-Tilly in the department of Aube in the western Champagne region.
Grand Est, France 03.06.2022
www.chateau-la-motte-tilly.fr/
milosforman.com/de/gallery/valmont#!prettyPhoto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUiJm34DQMI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCAIx9cRJHs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITbv6l1qnMk
Das 1754 erbaute und 1910 komplett restaurierte Château de La Motte-Tilly wurde wegen fehlender Erben mittlerweile dem französischen Staat vermacht. Der US-Filmregisseur Miloš Forman
('Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest', 'Amadeus') nutzte Schloss und Park als Drehorte für seinen Film 'Valmont' (1989) nach dem Briefroman 'Gefährliche Liebschaften' von Choderlos de Laclos.
La Motte-Tilly im Departement Aube in der westlichen Champagne
Grand Est, Frankreich 03.06.2022
www.chateau-la-motte-tilly.fr/
milosforman.com/de/gallery/valmont#!prettyPhoto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUiJm34DQMI
Something completely different. A picture from the area of Glenorchy, not far away from Queenstown at Lake Wakatipu, South Island of New Zealand
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#50 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
These pretty and unusual flowers were in my flower delivery a couple of weeks ago and are only just showing signs of wilting. I wanted to get a photo before they finish completely. They are called ornithogalum (thank goodness they are prettier than their name!)
The lace is a scarf I bought in Bruges a few years ago, the charms on the frame are part of the scarf. I always like to bring something home to remember my travels...when I used to travel!
Lensbaby Velvet 56...I know the Velvet isn't really made for flat lay style but I still like the glow it gives.
Halfway through my 100 x challenge.
Completely over the top! Aperture did something odd and removed this from my stream hence the repost.
Last Sunday and Monday were my first two completely free days I have had in quite some time. So after finishing my last Choral Concert for the year on Saturday, I set the alarm for 4 AM and set off for Zion National Park. I had never been there before, but had heard it was amazing, and Google showed it as being a 6 hour drive from my house, roughly the same amount of time it takes for me to get to Yosemite. So by 6 AM, I was already through the Cajon pass and on my way to Zion.
Many hard lessons were learned on this trip, and I hope to go into detail on my blog later regarding how no one should ever, under any circumstances, head to a popular national park on Memorial Day weekend and then try to get back home on the last day of the weekend on the one highway leading back to LA from Vegas...(nine hours of traffic!), but let me skip ahead to the part where I drove through Zion without stopping due to the insane crowds and lousy sky and headed straight on to Bryce in hopes of tracking down a thunderstorm.
Bryce was amazing, but the canyon is on the Eastern side of the ridge which wasn't what I need for my sunset shot and I knew that I might still be able to get back to Zion for either a sunset or a blue hour shot from the Canyon Overlook. At this point I should probably mention that I usually spend quite a bit of time scouting locations online before I head out, but in this case, it was such a last minute decision that all I had to go on was that Zion was off of the 15 and Bryce was a bit East of Zion. It was small wonder, then, that I drove right by the Canyon Overlook trail head twice, completely missing the blue hour shot with light trails that I was hoping to get. When I finally tracked down the trailhead, it was already past 9 PM and I knew that it was now much darker than I had planned on. Undeterred, I headed up the trail in the dark with my headlamp.
After a semi-sketchy hike in the dark, I climbed over one last large boulder and found myself looking out over the valley. The view was absolutely stunning, and since I was all by myself up there, I just took a few moments to soak it in. It took a while for my eyes to adjust once I flipped off the headlamp and the stars were gleaming brightly in the warm breeze and you could barely hear the cars down below as they zig-zagged across the valley floor like pachinko machine balls made of light.
This shot is a combination of a 90 second exposure for the valley and light trails, and 30 second exposure for the sky. (Going longer than 30 seconds with the 14-24 would blur the stars.) The glow off of the clouds above seemed to be coming from Hurricane and the surrounding towns.
The rest of the trip was a blur between shooting the Milky Way and getting a couple of hours of sleep before heading back to Bryce for the Sunrise before the long odyssey of trying to get back home on the 15. I'm hoping to spend MUCH more time there on my next trip, which will hopefully be during the off season... on a weekday...in the snow. Never again on Memorial Day weekend!
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My friend Harmon thought this profile perspective on the river-right ridgeline was good and I completely agreed, so we both shot from up here... Oconee Station, Palmetto Trail, South Carolina
No road is completely interrupted.
No door permanently barred.
No history unrecoverable.
No useless life
Nessuna strada è completamente interrotta.
Nessuna porta definitivamente sbarrata.
Nessuna storia irrecuperabile.
Nessuna vita inutile
Don Dino Pirri
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(just wish this was their dog!! lol...it is the dog that lives on this property! Oh well, another Norman Rockwell moment gone bad!)
Do you ever go look at old images and realize you completely overlooked an image. I look at the ones I chose to process back then and how I processed them and realize I would not choose those images nowadays. This is an overlooked image, I've never touched it until tonight. I remember that evening - it was cold, in November but it was one of those years where the snow had held off. A beautiful evening, beautiful light and clouds, and the lake was still. I have some great reflection shots from that night. I hadn't realized just how far digital cameras had come until looking closely at this image - it doesn't have near the megapixels cameras have nowadays, the image had more noise than it should have had at those settings (I used a topaz noise removal program) but still...it was freeing to be able to experiment and not have to be concerned about film development costs.
A completely unexpected sight as we set out for Talisker Bay, Isle of Skye. He put on a great display!
Hope Flickr stabilizes soon! Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2019
This image is completely Artificial Intelligences except for the model and the sky. The first thing I found out about AI images is that it's difficult to manipulate the image. This one look fairly life like. On my first attempts the images came out looking cartoonish.
So, the rest of the story on the water issue is. I live outside of town so I'm not on city water. A private company supplies the water for me and most of my neighbors. They were only suppose to take a certain amount of water from the aquifer and for years have been taking more then their allotment. No one said anything because there was plenty of water. But now that water isn't so plentiful it's a big deal, which is why we're in stage 4 of water restrictions and not allowed to water outside.
Canon EOS 6D - f/10 - 1/125sec - 100mm - ISO 200
"Women and cats will do as they please,
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea".
Robert A. Heinlein
- for challenge Flickr group Macro Mondays,
theme Relaxation.
The Mighty Fraser River on an absolutely enchanting winter evening.
The sky, water & ice reflections were completely mesmerizing.
Sun on the horizon, made for a beautiful colour display of warm tangerine colouring
Ice of all shapes and sizes sailng down the Fraser River from North Eastern British Columbia
The sound of the ice crackling and snapping as it flowed by made for a magical sound.
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 kilometres, into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver. Wikipedia
British Columbia
Canada
~Christie ( Happiest ) by the River
This Tri-colored Heron was completely involved in the hunt and had little regard for my presence as he went about his business. Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou.
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As he lingered on Lipsi that fall, he began to see that his vision hadn't been capacious enough. He had been looking at parts rather than the whole, searching for models rather than an understanding of the greater scheme of things. The oneness of humanity--of all of life--wasn't something to be sought, he realized, but something to be recognized and embraced. The life flowing in his veins had been flowing in veins since the beginning of time or longer. The enduring nature of life was the important thing to understand:
the continuity of life is
its meaning: it begins from
eternity & flows to eternity
there is no right way of
singing a given song: but
all ways are more or less
right
the variations of tone we
bring to our roles give life
its color: whether we will (to)
or not, we add variations
there is no one character in
whom the Lord would dwell &
not in others
he who dances in the middle
of the room, dances for me;
he who sits in the corner
watching, watches for me
...it is not that our lives
should so radically change,
but rather our understanding
of them
--pp. 320-321, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax, by Michael N. McGregor
I had completely forgotten it's Mother's Day tomorrow and what a surprise when Norm came in the door with these flowers. Lucky me! I love it when he gets me flowers and these ones are so pretty I just had to get a picture of them. Which leads me to the second surprise because I shot this with my Blackberry Key2 and it came out better than I would have expected. (Yes, I still am loyal to Blackberry and mostly because I like the physical keyboard.)
Indeed, I have just had two surprises for Mother's Day and the flowers are now arranged and sitting on my desk and the Blackberry may be used again. It's a lot lighter than my camera.
Happy Mother's Day to you all, whether you're a mother, a grandmother, married to a mother or had a mother. :-)
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I recently discovered a watercolorist that captured my attention completely, Hubert Shuptrine. I now have his oversized book and when the day becomes a bit too trying, I relax by studying his paintings. I photographed his still life to create my own version of a basket of apples as an introduction to the autumn season.
HSS
i do not know what it is like
to not have deep emotions
even when i feel nothing
i feel it completely
-sylvia plath
i do not know what it is like
to not have deep emotions
even when i feel nothing
i feel it completely
-sylvia plath
eXxEsS SOLARIA (Breeze+Materials)
TECHNOFOLK_Dispossession Shorts_Legacy_001.
TECHNOFOLK_Ringfinger Boots_BLK.
TECHNOFOLK_Sickness Top_Perky_001.
I completely forgot about this shot from a couple weeks back. We had been watching this Western Screech-Owl for a short time after it came to the edge of the nest box. We had taken some shots and Elliot had gone to the restroom before we left.
While I was waiting for him, a California Scrub Jay had taken umbrage to the owl being outside the box. It squawked and landed on top of the nest box warning the owl it wasn't happy. My lens was too long to capture both in the shot but you can clearly see the defense posture by the WSO.
A late summer camping trip to Yosemite brought warm temperatures, clear skies, and very little water in the Merced River and the Falls. In this view from the Valley View turnout, the Merced River is extremely low, with rocks showing everywhere. Bridalveil Falls is only a mist. Around the bend, Yosemite Falls is completely dry.
This shot is a panorama of four images.
If you compare the title and the photo, you might think that Mr. Kaiser is completely crazy now.
After all, it's just an old tree stump that the years have already hollowed out (with the active support of wind, weather, mushrooms and other tiny forest creatures, because time alone can do almost nothing) and which is now filled with autumn leaves and over them a young fern leans over the edge. So much for the observable facts.
But what makes this scene a magical sight is once again the warm light of the evening sun that shines over to us from the edge of the forest. Not only does it change the entire atmosphere here but it also brings in the ferns and moss. which envelops our miniature volcano to glow.
Without this light, it would actually just be a tree stump filled with beech leaves that I might have walked past carelessly (but only maybe).
But when I stood in front of this scene, I immediately had the image of a volcano crater covered in jungle in my mind.
And now I'm kneeling here in the forest, as if in front of an altar, admiring the almost endless beauty of nature.
Wenn Ihr Titel und Foto miteinander vergleicht, dann denkt Ihr möglicherweise, dass der Kaiser jetzt völlig durchgeknallt ist.
Schließlich ist das ja nur alter Baumstumpf, den die Jahre bereits ausgehölt haben (mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung von Wind, Wetter, Pilzen und anderen Kleinstlebewesen des Waldes, denn die Zeit alleine kann so gut wie garnix) und der nun mit Herbstlaub gefüllt ist und über dessen Rand sich ein junger Farn neigt. So viel zu den beobachtbaren Fakten.
Doch was diese Szene zu einem magischen Anblick macht ist einmal mehr das warme Licht Abendsonne, die vom Waldrand zu uns herüber scheint. Sie verändert nicht nur die gesamte Atmospäre hier sondern bringt auch noch den Farn und das Moos. welches unseren Miniaturvulkan umhüllt zum Leuchten.
Ohne dieses Licht wäre das wohl tatsächlich nur ein mit Buchenlaub gefüller Baumstupf an dem ich eventuell achtlos vorüber gelaufen wäre (aber nur eventuell).
Doch so hatte ich sofort das Bild eines vom Jungle bedeckten Vulkankraters vor Augen, als ich vor dieser Szene stand.
Und nun knie ich hier im Wald, wie vor einem Altar und bewundere die schier unendliche Schönheit der Natur.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
Early in the morning, before sunset i went to Moraine lake. Unfortunately it was completely clear so no clouds to catch the morning glow. Furthermore i tried to do something different compared to the classic shot, and the trees in the water offered me that possibility. Needless to say this lake is of an extreme beauty! (more to come?!) This shot was taken btw a few hours before I went to lake Louise (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/20279401410).
From 11 june till the 25th of July, I traveled in Canada. Starting in Brighton Ontario, where my sister lives at the border of an amazing part of lake Ontario, I flew to Vancouver, and Vancouver island where I took the boat at Port Hardy to take part 1 of the Inside passage, to Prince Rupert in BC. Two days later I took part 2 to Skagway in Alaska. When coming from Skagway Alaska, you can take the train to Carcross. it is a very scenic train ride that halts at Bennet lake.
And then to Whitehorse and further on by car to Kluane National park in the Yukon district. Whitehorse is situated at the border of the Yukon. Frow there I flew back to Vancouver, rented a car, and traveled three weeks in the BC- and Alberta Rockies, visiting the famous, and less famous Nature parks like Banff and Jasper. Last few days back to Brighton Ontario to enjoy lake Ontario once more, before going home. A picture of my itinerary can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152940536581759&set...).
4000 pictures later, it is quite a task to show the right stuff, although the stunning scenery guarantees at least a few great shots to share. Objective will be to make a book (for myself mainly), and that might take a while.
I hope you will enjoy the impression of my travel, one that equals earlier journeys to Alaska and south America, this journey was the first in the digital era, and equally intensive because of all the hiking activities every day on and on. I loved every minute of it.
Completely out of sequence. This was taken as our bus crossed the border from Canada to the US, a milestone on the June Tour. We had just stopped at border control, a painless presentation of passports.
Something of a contrast with the re-entry after the Rhine Cruise, which happened during our flight layover in Toronto. Friendly arrangement between the US & Canada to pass security and sit in the US at the lounge and gate while waiting to board. But the security process was back to shoe bomber days. I hope that’s just an expression of caution, not a response to known threats, in these troubled days.
(Yes, the title is an intentional reference to Neil Diamond’s classic song. Who says Americans don’t understand irony, or nuance?)
And I’m not talking about my little green buddy. He was perched on a tangle of floating plants in the middle of the bayou and there was no way of getting close to him without being noticed. He stopped foraging when I arrived and departed soon after I took this shot. You can manage “almost” walking on water when you are as light as this little character…with the help of a floating mass of vegetation. Green Heron foraging on Horsepen Bayou. I might add that he’s still dressed in his breeding colors and the blue lores and the salmon-colored legs can still be seen clinging on to this Greenie.
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Yesterday, my girl completely blew me away. I’ve always loved the woods and lakes, and she somehow found the perfect little getaway, just for us. It has everything I’ve been missing, and I never could have imagined receiving such a thoughtful, amazing gift. She’s my one and only, and she holds my heart completely. She’s unlike anyone I’ve ever known, and I’ve never felt happier. She brings me peace, and she is my peace. I’m so grateful for everything she does.
Thank you baby, from the bottom of my grinch heart.
Jeans are by [Deadwool] and are called Kojima jeans available at mainstore
EN: The photographer was completely surprised when the last Re 4/4 II in "Swiss-Express livery" appeared in front of train 915 on the morning of 28.03.2021. According to plan, a normal red Re 4/4 II would have been assigned, but apparently there was a change.
The locomotives in this livery, along with matching type EW III carriages, were to herald a change in Swiss long-distance traffic in the 1970s. The Swiss Express was the SBB's showpiece train at the time, serving the SBB's most important transport axis, the Geneva-Lausanne-Bern-Zurich-St. Gallen route. Unfortunately, not much remains of that time and only 2 locomotives still exist in this colour scheme. Due to its advanced age, however, only locomotive 11109 is still used as scheduled, 11108 meanwhile leads a survival with overrun and towing trips. It is not known how long these two unique locomotives will continue to exist, but the time of the Re 4/4 II has definitely also passed.
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DE: Völlig überrascht war der Fotograf als am Morgen des 28.03.2021 die letzte Re 4/4 II in "Swiss-Express-Lackierung" vor dem Zug 915 auftauchte. Planmässig wäre eine normale rote Re 4/4 II eingeteilt gewesen, doch anscheinend gab es eine Änderung.
Die Loks in dieser Farbgebung sowie passende Wagen des Typs EW III sollte in den 70er Jahren eine Wende im Schweizer Fernverkehr einläuten. Der Swiss Express war damals der Paradezug der SBB, er bediente die wichtigste Verkehrsachse der SBB, die Strecke Genf–Lausanne–Bern–Zürich–St. Gallen. Leider ist von dieser Zeit nicht mehr viel übrig geblieben und es existieren nur noch 2 Loks in dieser Farbgebung. Aufgrund ihres fortgeschrittenen Alters wird aber planmässig nur noch die Lok 11109 eingesetzt, 11108 führt mittlerweile ein Überleben mit Überfuhr- und Abschleppfahrten. Wie lange die beiden Unikate noch existieren ist nicht bekannt, doch die Zeit der Re 4/4 II ist definitiv auch abgelaufen.