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Ringlet posing in overcast conditions in Belfairs Woods. Only took me 3 years to get a decent photo of this rather common species!
Stunning conditions with heavy hoar frost, mist and sunrise light.
High Peak, Derbyshire, UK.
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We are experience some treacherous travelling conditions with freezing rain and snow. I am happy to be able to stay at home today but I am thinking of those who have to travel today home from the holidays or still visiting family and friends. Please drive carefully and get to your destination safely. ❤️
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Then there are days that are not really suitable for photography. A photo should be able to show these conditions clearly.
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An image of two of the three peaks in Assynt captured here in sublime light and weather conditions.
I decided in this image to concentrate on just two of them, Canisp and Suilven. The way the light danced about on the side of the mountains memorised me and I waited until the perfect moment to press the shutter button. I particularly love the light on the foreground.
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Fog, Snow and Ice
These sub zero conditions are often short lived in the this region.
West Coast Winter
British Columbia, Canada
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CONDITIONS - FORECASTS
The stone is wet - rain
The stone is dry - it does not rain
The stone casts a shadow - the sun is out
Above the stone there is white - snow
The stone is not seen - fog
The stone sways - wind
The stone jumps up and down - earthquake
The stone is gone - whirlwind
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Given the right conditions, these mushrooms have been around for a few weeks now. I was there at the right time with some nice light behind them. It made focusing with this camera and longer lens easier. Taken with a 30 image stack otherwise the stock would have been blurred. Why don't I use my Z9, it's too proud off the ground (too high). The Z7II hugs the ground nicely for these Mushroom images.
Not many atmospheric conditions across the New Forest heaths this year - the heather has been rather patchy and there's no water - streams dried up and usually impassable boggy bits you could do in flip-flops!! Not good! But I did strike lucky on this recent morning and found a lone pine tree in a dip where the heather was still pretty decent. Here's to some rain?!
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Sacred Kingfisher
Scientific Name: Todiramphus sanctus
Description: The Sacred Kingfisher is a medium sized kingfisher. It has a turquoise back, turquoise blue rump and tail, buff-white underparts and a broad cream collar. There is a broad black eye stripe extending from bill to nape of neck. Both sexes are similar, although the female is generally lighter with duller upper parts. Young birds are similar to the female, but have varying amounts of rusty-brown edging to feathers on the collar and underparts, and buff edges on the wing coverts.
Distribution: The Sacred Kingfisher is common and familiar throughout the coastal regions of mainland Australia and less common throughout Tasmania. The species is also found on islands from Australasia to Indonesia and New Zealand.
Habitat: The Sacred Kingfisher inhabits woodlands, mangroves and paperbark forests, tall open eucalypt forest and melaleuca forest.
Seasonal movements: In Australia, Sacred Kingfishers spend the winter in the north of their range and return south in the spring to breed.
Feeding: Sacred Kingfishers forage mainly on the land, only occasionally capturing prey in the water. They feed on crustaceans, reptiles, insects and their larvae and, infrequently, fish. The birds perch on low exposed branch on the lookout for prey. Once prey is located, the Sacred Kingfisher swoops down and grasps it in its bill, returning to the perch to eat it.
Breeding: For most of the year Sacred Kingfishers are mainly solitary, pairing only for the breeding season. Usually two clutches are laid in a season. Both sexes excavate the nest, which is normally a burrow in a termite mound, hollow branch or river bank. The nest chamber is unlined and can be up to 20m above the ground. Both sexes also incubate the eggs and care for the young.
Calls: The voice of the Sacred Kingfisher is a loud "ek ek ek ek" repeated continuously throughout breeding season. Birds also give a "kee kee kee" in excitement and a series of chirring, scolding notes when alarmed.
Minimum Size: 19cm
Maximum Size: 24cm
Average size: 21cm
Average weight: 45g
Breeding season: September to December; occasionally extended to March, if conditions are favourable.
Clutch Size: 3 to 6
Incubation: 18 days
Nestling Period: 26 days
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds - Second Edition")
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The conditions were perfect and constantly changing, when the light broke through the clouds you could hear an audible gasp from all the photographers occupying space at Oxbow Bend.
The conditions were favourable for the first time for a while out on the Malverns. Low cloud was coming in and out, with the sun breaking through in between. That led to the sun shining its rays through the foggy trees on the hillside above Wynd's Point, and fogbeams are always good to see!
Fighting harsh winter conditions deep into Quebec's countryside, CN 324 is Vermont-bound with 73 cars, opening the way, snowdrift after snowdrifts as locomotive engineer P.V laying on the horn in order to keep it clear of any packed white stuff.
The wind at this point was terrific and thanks to my scanner, I only waited in those awful conditions less than 15 minutes.
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January 9th 2025
Getting conditions right at Corfe is a real crap shoot, and just requires a bit of luck really.
This morning, all came right and myself, and many other photographers, were treated to an amazing light and fog show!
I took an inadvisable trip out on Saturday at dawn to watch the deer rut. The fog was so bad the roads were extremely dangerous, but it did make for some interesting conditions for photography.
Lighting conditions were far from ideal in the hazy, smoggy, harsh midday sun of Feb.
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Cold conditions today here in central Maryland. Day started just above freezing with light rain, then later this afternoon a period of heavy sleet followed by moderate snow and wind.
Captured in the low light and snowy conditions at ISO 5000 and 1/400 shutter speed.
What appear to be icebergs here are rock shelves that have frozen over by the waves during last week's 10 below zero weather.
It was -25 F. with the windchill when I ventured out and took this picture. I was dressed appropriately, but I still could only manage 45 minutes before having to get back into my warm car and go home.
The ducks apparently didn't get the memo :)
The sunset colors created this lovely color palette.
Sadly the wonderful conditions we had on arrival and sat waiting in didn't last as by 4.30 the clouds started to roll in. Thankfully though the breezy conditions of earlier had dropped. 6233 makes a fabulous sight and sound at Newbiggin and our thanks once again to the lovely people at the adjacent farm for allowing us into their field. Taken from behind a wooden fence near the bridge parapet with Milburn Road below.
VT The Settle & Carlisle Saturday 12th March 2022 Carlisle-Tyseley Copyright Simon Lathlane
Straight from work, I was not going to miss this rare Saturday working in such lovely conditions. I took a total gamble having no info on what was working it, what the load was or if it was top 'n' tail so I headed here to Holme Island crossing near Meathop. I knew 007 had worked the 6C53 nukes in the morning so my hope was it would trail here, and my gamble paid off swimmingly.
This is the 6C44 Sellafield-Kingmoor conveying one of the mega KUA flasks. 68005 is leading. This slotted in just nicely on my way over to Shap for a brace of 90's.
Boardwalk in the Fagne Wallonne
The reserve is one of the wettest and coldest parts of Belgium.
It is frequently shrouded in mist and low cloud. It has a subalpine climate with strong winds and fierce winters, which are occasionally subarctic. The Fagnes plateau intercepts clouds brought by the prevailing Atlantic winds, and this results in copious precipitation, with an average of 1,400 millimetres (55 in) of rain per year. However, beneath the fragile composition of the overlying soils are rocky beds and clay that prevent infiltration of water and thus create the conditions for wetlands, marshes and bogs.
I had spent the prior week in the park mostly getting skunked by blue and smoky skies ... not good conditions for landscape photography. But the first day back home served up this great sunrise. You never really know when Mother Nature is going to decide to put on a big show. Alta, Wyoming, USA, September 2024
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The only red GEVO in the lineup, which doesn’t make it any better, but means you’ll only have to close your eyes once ;). In all seriousness, with conditions like this, I mostly just pray it’s not a pissbrick because just about anything else can be managed.
By now, many of you should be familiar with these trains. As of right now, the CP traffic makes up about two to four out of every 10 trains on the Portland Sub. Obviously this number fluctuates month to month, but it’s safe to say that roughly 20% or more of all traffic comes out of Eastport. This number has risen quite a bit in the past few years.
Back in 2018, Canpotex—the company that produces and ships potash out of Canada—completed a $150 million upgrade to Terminal 5 at the Port of Portland. The company said the upgrades would result in a capacity to export up to 7.5 million metric tons of potash annually. In August of 2024, UP published on their website that they had completed a record number of shipments of potash out of Terminal 5 in the second quarter of the year, but it gave no official numbers. The only statistic given was that Portland exports roughly 20% of Canpotex’s annual potash supply, which is “more than 13 million tons.” This didn’t seem to add up, or perhaps they were old numbers on their website, so I did some more digging. On the Port of Portland’s website, I found yearly export statistics going back to 1994. In 2024, listed under “Mineral Bulk Tonnage,” the port exported 7.59 million metric tons (8.37 million tons) to ocean going vessels. This was the third time they have eclipsed 7 million metric tons exported, and the first time since 2019. However, I’m unsure if this includes the soda ash trains out of Wyoming that are exported through Terminal 4, and being unsatisfied with the answer, I did some basic calculations.
Based on information I have, the trains run in sets of 189 (UP’s website says 188, but their computer says 189, so who knows) and are roughly 27,000 tons each. Numbers I found say that they export “more than a dozen trains per month”, which means UP probably exported somewhere between 4 million and 6 million tons of potash through Terminal 5 in 2024. That puts the train count somewhere between 15-18. I’ve also heard Canpotex wants to increase the train length closer to or even over the 200 car range, which would push these trains to 9500 feet in length. I’m a numbers guy so I found this all to be fascinating, though perhaps some of you find this to be rather abhorrent.
As for the grain trains, like the one pictured here, it’s harder to find information. Unlike the potash trains, these do not come from a single customer, and I would assume they come from all over the CPKC system. Perhaps someone out there has more information about how this handoff works or how the contract for these trains work, if that information can be shared.
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Celilo, OR // UP Portland Sub
Amidst some visibly mixed conditions, the MRVHK 24 curves through Cruzatte on its way north and down the hill. With southbounds on the hill now being DP'd, the extra units are set out in Klamath Falls and must be taken back to Eugene by northbounds (Or sometimes in large light moves), hence the hefty consist of 9 GEs on the head end, probably only 2 or 3 of which are under power. A waste of time and assets compared to running 2 helper sets if you ask me, but I guess I don't see the "Big picture." As this northbound was approaching Oakridge, the dispatcher was making a plan for it to donate one of its 9 units to a southbound which had lost a unit and was unable to make the hill. However, this plan was called off in favor of the southbound setting out cars until it was light enough to make the hill with the reduced power, apparently because the master plan called for the crew of this NB to get to Eugene ASAP in order to be called on their rest for the next Z. The type of things that you can expect on a railroad operated with too few crews, too little maintenance, and too little equipment, or equipment that could be used more efficiently if they didn't hate their workforce.
In freezing conditions, the driver applies some power as 66168 passes Elmswell in charge of the 6L40 04.52 Mountsorrel Sdgs - Barham loaded stone on Saturday 22 January 2022. Pole shot.
Wintery conditions, snow, freezing temperatures: No problem for some plants, as for the bamboo shown in the picture.
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Adverse conditions get me trackside in a hurry, especially fog. And when it’s bad out I’m looking for G O O D power. Enter the H53, roaring south outside of Dauphin PA with the never disappointing pair of SD40-2 locomotives.
Went out with the intention of trying to get a migrant in-flight and failed. Just not the right conditions today. Just a couple of nice perched ones
Death Valley, California
The sand dunes take on a reddish hue as the rising sun attempts to shine through the dust and sand thrown up by high winds that morning. The background slope is the alluvial fan at the base of Tucki Mountain and beyond are the Cottonwood Mountains
Of course the title is sarcastic, but nevertheless, in my humble opinion, the snowless, depressing winter makes for a perfect backdrop for old Soviet rolling stock. The picture shows DR1AMv-283 upon arrival at Elektrinių traukinių depas-1 (Elektrodepas I) as a midday LTG Link Turmantas to Vilnius service at the first day of the year 2025. The trainset has passed the Vilinus city limits approx. 700 meters before and is about to stop at the first stop in the Naujoji Vilnia city part. The stop, as the name suggests, is located directly next to the electric trains depot, which mainly serve the commuter trains around Vilnius, as most of the country's network remains unelectrified.
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Early morning commuters brave the conditions as 66743thunders through Lea Green with the 6E09 07:11 Liverpool to Drax loaded biomass working on the 28th November 2019.
2021 represents a significant milestone in the history of the Phoenix Railway-Photographic Circle with the celebration of our 50th anniversary by publishing a book to showcase some of the members work, past and present, from 1971 to the present day.
The book contains 14 chapters and 144 pages of photographs depicting the work of over 50 accomplished railway photographers with many differing styles and approaches. It takes an alternative view on photographing the railway scene over the past 50 years.
The book, called 50 Years of Phoenix will be published on 14th May 2021 with pre-orders now being taken – click on this link to order your copy: www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15554
Why not take a look at the PRPC web site at www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html.