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Continuing with Cinque Terre: a classic view of Vernazza.
I recently launched my website where I share the behind the scenes of photos like this one and some photography and post processing tips and techniques: antongalitch.com
Been away from my computer a lot for the last few days. Just got back to it. Got sunsets for weather 10a240 looking pretty good I thought :)
Opethfeldt 7 unofficial update WIP
Continuing with the tree obsession... the well-known tunnel of Cypress trees at Point Reyes California is beautiful in any light, but I think at its best when shrouded in the fog that is so common on the headlands in late summer. Again, a subject I've photographed many times but never caught quite the right fog for my liking. I think this was my 5th or 6th time trying here, most of the previous times having either no fog at all or fog so dense I couldn't see more than 20 feet.
I've always loved the magnificent building at the end of the tunnel road, and I've long thought it was an old coast guard station, but that isn't quite right. It is in fact an old radio listening station (www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/kph_treetunnel.htm), and is open to visiting public with its world war II era equipment on display. These Monterey Cypress trees are of course a staple of the northern pacific coast, but this tree tunnel is a unique opportunity to see so many mature trees.
I always enjoy the drive up to Point Reyes from San Francisco, and had a few hours to kill in the morning before a flight back home. Since there was a lot of fog in the area I decided I'd head for the Marin Headlands at sunrise, hoping for the elusive shot of the Golden Gate poking through the fog. However, the fog layer on this day was too high up and too thick so the bridge was not visible, and so my backup plan was to keep on motoring up to Point Reyes and hope for the fog to be doing its thing around the cypress tunnel. Luckily I was rewarded this time! I'm a little bummed though because now I have less reason to do the drive, and I really do love this area. I'm guessing this won't be my last visit up here.
I have to add my personal thanks to Kevin Benedict for his (always) helpful suggestions on composition. I often let myself get distracted by small touches in a scene that I like and lose sight of what makes the image compelling for someone else, and having another set of eyes to set me straight is extremely valuable.
still continuing my winter and snow series of Wien - although spring is arriving in my home region... but the memories of this week are good and strong
Box of Chocolates, Part 3. Wide Field Astrophotography is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’ll get. The same photo on different nights can look very different. That’s one of the things I love about night photography. Here are 2 panoramas of The Mittens in Monument Valley, Utah, from roughly the same spot on different nights. There is wonderful green and red airglow on the left in the bottom photo, absent in the upper photo. I am continuing on my panorama binge, but this gives me a chance for a “two’fer”, 2 panos for the price of one (and they fit better on IG to boot). Top pano done with a 24 mm lens vertically, second photo done with a 35 mm lens vertically, each approximately 12-13 images combined in Lightroom. This lies within the Navajo Tribal Park and you need a guide to go there at night. If you are interested contact Majestic Monument Valley Tours and ask for Quanah. Hope you enjoy! Wayne
They were just curiously looking the stranger.
“..use that famous line on this one, do it do it” – Stormtrooper on the back anxiously said thru the speaker system.
“…let me see your identification“, said the Stormtrooper on front to a stranger.
Stranger didn’t responded. He just stood there, like a statue. For a moment, it looked like the Stormtroopers were seeing ghosts or visor on their helmets just needed to be replaced. You know the chances to find something from a space sewage system are very high. It would be odd to think the otherwise. But this one didn’t looked like a creature from a horror movie…
Previously in this series: Ro Sham Bo!. If you're interested more about these fella's, you may wanna take a look what I've done with them earlier.
Moment of mystery continues. I’m trying to decide, whether I will show the stranger or not. Well, there are bigger problems on this Death Star, remember this series? Anyway I go, it’s the right decision. I don’t need to see the stranger’s identification and we all can move along, to another scene.
Continuing the Slovakian theme with PSZ 770 538, seen here leading a rake of RTI self discharging hoppers. CHME3's as they are known on the 1520 gauge are a loco I don't think I'll ever tire of seeing and was quite the welcome sight on standard gauge rails.
-Có flash nhìn trắg :)) thíc :))
-CMT+Fav nhìu nhak :****
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It's all just a big blur...which will most likely continue right into year's end. A nice Thanksgiving, spent with family.... an overnight shift with my Kohl's family....drive home, an hour's sleep and a shower and a full busy day at work... back to Kohls to shop for things that I forgot that my daughter asked me to get. The end result... I hardly even know what day it. Oh, yeah... it's Friday... so here's a fence. LOL! I'm going to sleep now so I can stay awake at my desk tomorrow. 'Tis the season.... is it any wonder why I don't really like the holidays anymore?!!
Happy Fence Friday... I hope your Thanksgiving brought you more fun than work!!
Zion National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah near the city of Springdale. A prominent feature of the 229-square-mile (590 km2) park is Zion Canyon, which is 15 miles (24 km) long and up to 2,640 ft (800 m) deep. The canyon walls are reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone eroded by the North Fork of the Virgin River. The lowest point in the park is 3,666 ft (1,117 m) at Coalpits Wash and the highest peak is 8,726 ft (2,660 m) at Horse Ranch Mountain. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique geography and a variety of life zones that allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. Numerous plant species as well as 289 species of birds, 75 mammals (including 19 species of bat), and 32 reptiles inhabit the park's four life zones: desert, riparian, woodland, and coniferous forest. Zion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches. Human habitation of the area started about 8,000 years ago with small family groups of Native Americans, one of which was the semi-nomadic Basketmaker Anasazi (c. 300). Subsequently, the Virgin Anasazi culture (c. 500) and the Parowan Fremont group developed as the Basketmakers settled in permanent communities. Both groups moved away by 1300 and were replaced by the Parrusits and several other Southern Paiute subtribes. Mormons came into the area in 1858 and settled there in the early 1860s. In 1909, President William Howard Taft named the area Mukuntuweap National Monument in order to protect the canyon. In 1918, the acting director of the newly created National Park Service, Horace Albright, drafted a proposal to enlarge the existing monument and change the park's name to Zion National Monument, Zion being a term used by the Mormons. According to historian Hal Rothman: "The name change played to a prevalent bias of the time. Many believed that Spanish and Indian names would deter visitors who, if they could not pronounce the name of a place, might not bother to visit it. The new name, Zion, had greater appeal to an ethnocentric audience." On November 20, 1919, Congress redesignated the monument as Zion National Park, and the act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson. The Kolob section was proclaimed a separate Zion National Monument in 1937, but was incorporated into the national park in 1956. The geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area includes nine formations that together represent 150 million years of mostly Mesozoic-aged sedimentation. At various periods in that time warm, shallow seas, streams, ponds and lakes, vast deserts, and dry near-shore environments covered the area. Uplift associated with the creation of the Colorado Plateau lifted the region 10,000 feet (3,000 m) starting 13 million years ago. The park is located in southwestern Utah in Washington, Iron and Kane counties. Geomorphically, it is located on the Markagunt and Kolob plateaus, at the intersection of three North American geographic provinces: the Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert. The northern part of the park is known as the Kolob Canyons section and is accessible from Interstate 15, exit 40. The 8,726-foot (2,660 m) summit of Horse Ranch Mountain is the highest point in the park; the lowest point is the 3,666-foot (1,117 m) elevation of Coal Pits Wash, creating a relief of about 5,100 feet (1,600 m). Streams in the area take rectangular paths because they follow jointing planes in the rocks. The stream gradient of the Virgin River, whose North Fork flows through Zion Canyon in the park, ranges from 50 to 80 feet per mile (9.5 to 15.2 m/km) (0.9–1.5%)—one of the steepest stream gradients in North America. The road into Zion Canyon is 6 miles (9.7 km) long, ending at the Temple of Sinawava, which is named for the coyote god of the Paiute Indians. The canyon becomes more narrow near the Temple and a hiking trail continues to the mouth of The Narrows, a gorge only 20 feet (6 m) wide and up to 2,000 feet (610 m) tall. The Zion Canyon road is served by a free shuttle bus from early April to late October and by private vehicles the other months of the year. Other roads in Zion are open to private vehicles year-round. The east side of the park is served by Zion-Mount Carmel Highway (SR-9), which passes through the Zion–Mount Carmel Tunnel and ends at Mount Carmel. On the east side of the park, notable park features include Checkerboard Mesa and the East Temple. The Kolob Terrace area, northwest of Zion Canyon, features a slot canyon called The Subway, and a panoramic view of the entire area from Lava Point. The Kolob Canyons section, further to the northwest near Cedar City, features one of the world's longest natural arches, Kolob Arch. Other notable geographic features of the park include the Virgin River Narrows, Emerald Pools, Angels Landing, The Great White Throne, and Court of the Patriarchs. Spring weather is unpredictable, with stormy, wet days being common, mixed with occasional warm, sunny weather. Precipitation is normally heaviest in March. Spring wildflowers bloom from April through June, peaking in May. Fall days are usually clear and mild; nights are often cool. Summer days are hot (95 to 110 °F; 35 to 43 °C), but overnight lows are usually comfortable (65 to 70 °F; 18 to 21 °C). Afternoon thunderstorms are common from mid-July through mid-September. Storms may produce waterfalls as well as flash floods. Autumn tree-color displays begin in September in the high country; in Zion Canyon, autumn colors usually peak in late October. Winter in Zion Canyon is fairly mild. Winter storms bring rain or light snow to Zion Canyon and heavier snow to the higher elevations. Clear days may become quite warm, reaching 60 °F (16 °C); nights are often 20 to 40 °F (−7 to 4 °C). Winter storms can last several days and make roads icy. Zion roads are plowed, except the Kolob Terrace Road which is closed when covered with snow. Winter driving conditions last from November through March. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_National_Park
Continuing south, the train approaches Sutton Junction, where the one-time Drummondville Sub up to its namesake city via Foster (junction with the Sherbrooke Sub) diverged to the north. To avoid confusion with the nearby town of Sutton, the junction was later renamed to Enlaugra - a portmanteau of Enid, Laura and Grace, names of the daughters of a local CPR official.
...the concise report on our trip through the southwest of Iceland. Warning: this is only day 2 of 9, so you'll probably get bored... // ...met het beknopte verslag van onze tocht door zuidwest IJsland. Waarschuwing: dit is pas dag 2 van negen dagen, dus je zult je waarschijnlijk gaan vervelen!
Junk Food - "Cocktail Weenies" New from Junk food, and only in-world during the Saturday Sale for $75L. This interactive, holdable or display option in both white or black, allows you or your friends to click and attach with animations, no matter what your height. Follow the link to the in-world sales and see all that awaits you this weekend!
Junk Food In-World (It's like Disney but for foodies!):
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Junk Food MP:
marketplace.secondlife.com/en-US/stores/150026
Junk Food on FB:
Junk Food Flickr:
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Junk Food on Discord:
Continuing the series of images from the Sandwich Fair, the biggest and the last county fair in the state of Illinois. Known simply as "The Fair" by locals, it was started in 1888 and is the oldest continually-operated county fair in Illinois as well.
Held the week after Labor Day, the Sandwich Fair can draw tens of thousands of visitors per day and is a photographer's delight.
It is the reason why my photography club, the Sandwich Photographic Society exists. Formed in 1986 to document every aspect of the 100th Sandwich Fair in 1987, SPS is now a Chicago Area Camera Club Association certified club.
SPS sponsors a "Sandwich Fair Challenge" every year a themed photographic competition open to all that consists of 10-15 categories with the only criteria being that all images need to be taken at the current year's Fair. Many of the images featured in this series were taken to fit these categories.
This image is of the draft horse pull, a popular event that always takes place the final day of the Sandwich Fair. In this case, it did not take place inside the horse show arena, as heavy rains relegated it to a sloppy mess. So it took place in the staging area behind the show arena. It certainly made for some more up-close action and unique photographic opportunities.
2019 Category: Horsepower
For more information on the Sandwich Fair, visit their website at www.sandwichfair.com/.
Union Pacific SD70M 2002 leads the I-G2G2 shuttle through Elmhurst on a sunny morning along the Geneva Subdivision. Westbounds in the morning aren't the best to shoot light-wise unless you go wide and to the side.
The games were held in Salt Lake in 2002 and the reminders of that time continue to roll across the Midwest in fresh paint, thanks to some nice folks at Union Pacific.
The ability to continue trying to do something, although it is difficult.
One thing I've learned lately is that sustainable change actually takes a lot more than this. It's requires a complete change in mindset, which in turns means a lot of questioning of stuff you took for granted. Perhaps this is what I can bring...
This is continued shot from Portland Bill. The sky that day made me get dark and freaky with my verotrama's. I love this place, the rocks and sea have Soooooooooooo much power. :-)
Barbara and I have gotten personalized Christmas Ornaments since the 70's. For the last few years we have gotten them in Pigeon Forge, TN. Christmas is a big time at our house, even though it is just the two of us. Yesterday, being the first Saturday of December, was the day to go to one of the local tree farms and pick out our Christmas Tree. The farmers cut them for you, so it is nice and fresh.
During the next couple weeks, everything will be removed from the mantel, curio cabinet, coffee table, window sill, piano, etc. Christmas decorations will replace everything removed. Barbara and I made many of the decorations from ceramics. Dozens of stuffed animals will fill the living room. Barbara's little girl Bride Doll and her electric train will go under the tree. The train is almost 60 years old and still runs fine. Yes, Chistmas is a big time at our house.
Continuing the theme of prairie weather... and a shot from last summer, made with my old (1981), manual focus, non-chipped 24mm lens - therefore no lens data in the EXIF info.
After three black and white images, I'm back to colour; this one had to be in colour. That red line of sunset afterglow just above the horizon added an exquisite touch. And this was a "dry storm": that is, it wasn't raining on me, so keeping my lens dry wasn't a problem. And it wasn't directly over me, either, so I could safely shoot it without having to run for safety or dive like a gopher into a hole in the ground.
Photographing lightning after dark is relatively easy: camera on tripod, cable or remote shutter release, focus on infinity, f/8 or f/11 depending on how close the lightning is hitting (which affects the brightness of the flashes), shutter on "B", hold open and wait for lightning to strike. Single strike or multiple strikes? Your choice. Stacking frames to include multiple strikes is an option in processing. Holding the shutter open for more than about a minute often leads to an amorphous glow on the clouds, so if I don't have a strike by then I generally move on to the next frame.
Safety notes: This is dangerous business. Stay away from fences and trees. Lightning can travel great distances along a barbed wire fence. And your tripod makes an excellent lightning rod. I shot this from my car but am under no illusion of safety; contrary to popular belief the rubber tires do not offer any protection. The car's metal frame does, but if you are in the car touching any metal parts, you can get zapped. Beware of any storm that's coming toward you, and never shoot a storm that is too close. This storm was at least 10 km away, moving left to right across my field of view, so relatively safe.
Photographed in the Frenchman River Valley north of Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Exposure data: 24mm lens, 29 seconds at f/8, IS0 200. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Clockmaker Hugo Stanley established his clockmaker's shop in Lahti, Finland, in 1924. Besides keeping the shop he started to make electronic clocks and when 10 years were passed he came to establish a clock factory. Stanley's clock factory mainly
made electric functioning central clock systems to rail stations, schools and factories. The clock factory also made clocks to use outdoors and different "accurate" devices.
Information from late Timo Tuomivaara: "During the last years of WW2 the Finnish army asked Hugo Stanley to make new
handcuffs very fast, because there weren't any handcuffs available to the market. His son has told that he and his father packed about 1 000 handcuffs to small, green boxes and the boxes were sent to the frontier to the military police and officers."
The lock system was made for working with the same key as the Finnish Konepaja Voima handcuffs since they also were in use on the field. The Hugo Stanley's factory employed about 10 people and was equipped with very up to date machinery. After Hugo Stanley died in 1956 his sons Arent and Oswald Stanley continued the clock factory until 1972 when they went out of
business.
The Hugo Stanley handcuffs are high precision piece of work, what else could you expect from a clock maker?
We continue with rushing, whitewater photos. This was just past the drop from yesterday's photo (in Comments). That was almost mono, but there is much colour in this.
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Continuing our first chase up the Rich Mountain grade we caught them again grinding up the 1.12% climb toward the summit about six miles or so ahead. This is almost exactly one mile east of the Oklahoma state line as they approach a private crossing at MP 361.4 on Kansas City Southern's Shreveport Sub deep in the Ouachita Mountains.
The MKCSH2 02 (second Kansas City to Shreveport manifest) has a nice consist of KCS 4618 (GE AC400CW blt. Dec. 1999 as KCS 2043), gray ghost KCSM 4533 (GE AC400CW blt. May. 1998 as TFM 2633)and KCS 3967 (EMD SD70MAC blt. Mar. 2000 as TFM 1667) on the head end with KCS 5023 (GE ET44AC blt. 2019) on the rear as the DPU.
Polk County, Arkansas
Friday September 3, 2021
As the story continues from the previous post, the Peregrine finished showing off her catch and headed right for her perch. With bated breath, I tried to stay focused on the bird and hoped for the best.
As a bird photographer we realise how the circle of life works, however, there are times when natures normal course of action, transcends past the lens.
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[13:12] Belle Mistwallow shouts: Oh goodness heavens. It's INCREDIBLE to see each and every single one of you out here CELEBRATING our FANTASTIC, ONE OF A KIND city. It's more than just a city. It's a community. We love each other as much as we love the Moles and Lindens who invest so much time and effort to improving it on a regular basis. IF you dont live here, you should. But that's by the by. Just want to thank you all for being here, and adding to the color and vibrance of the event. Here is to 8th years and many more. NOW....PARTAAAAYYYYYY
Shot about 45 minutes after the previous Cover Shot photo. This train met another train at the siding just West of Tower Rd. This photo was taken at the Engel Rd crossing just West of Burlington, IL. This CSXT231 led train was highballing toward Iowa with a string of empty ethanol tanks
17. Get off the train.
18. Walk to Australia.
19. Wonder why it's shut.
20. Check watch and discover it's only 11am and they don't open until 12.
21. Wonder what you're going to do for the next hour....
to be continued....
[17:36] Taladis Tower wrinkled his nose as he came down from the small ramp. Reaching up the dark cat pulled the cigar from his mouth - tossed it to the floor and proceeded to step on it. He walked forward and leaned on the railing that led to the beach, looking over at the Cyborg Zero.
[17:39] Damienn Kiranov is blatantly amused when he sees the black cat walk up to the railing. He takes a drink from his flask, then puts it back in his pocket. A wry smirk crosses his lips as he speaks. "Well well well. Look what we have here. Sure as hell took you long enough. Surprised?"
[17:41] Taladis Tower grumbled in response to the man's comment. Instead, he moved down the sidewalk - as he walked he was unwrapping the gauntlets around his wrists. He tossed them on the ground as he continued to walk, only leaving the wrappings on his hands. Closing his fists, he just looked at Kiranov with that cold expression.
[17:43] Damienn Kiranov yawns. "Oh God. Now we go to this again... What are you gonna do now? Hmm? Seems kinda pointless to start a brawl when we don't have an audience."
[17:44] Taladis Tower wrinkled his nose at Kiranov's comment before practically growling out, "This isn't about people watching." His ears falling against his head, "You were supposed to be dead."
[17:45] Damienn Kiranov laughs and shakes his head. "You've got to be kidding me... Do you really think they would've left out any explosives training when I worked as an operator?"
[17:47] Taladis Tower grumbled lowly, "I don't care. I walked away because I expected you to be dead. You shot me, you left me for dead. I left /you/ for dead, you were just supposed to die. Now - we're somewhat at a crossroads, aren't we?"
[17:49] Damienn Kiranov pops his knuckles and takes his flask out of his pocket. "I guess we would be. So, what's your choice? I could care less about continuing this boring rivalry, since you're not the one I was looking for." He takes a drink from his flask, then pockets it.
[17:50] Taladis Tower watches Kiranov's movements carefully. Tal's cold gaze soon locking on the man's face once more. He wrinkled his nose, a grumble escaping his lips, "Next time that I see you? This won't be 'boring.'" Tal growled as he turned away, then knelt over to pick up his gauntlets before wandering off.
My dog lying down on her bed with window light illuminating her head.
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FEC train 111-15 is passing thru St. Augustine, FL on May 15, 2016 with the LNG test set on the point. The set has been in semi-regular service on trains 111-112 between Jacksonville and New Smryna Beach. On Sundays, 111 departs earlier than normal (Normally a nocturnal move) and is shootable in the golden light.
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CP 469 speeds due east through Mazeppa. Back in the day Mazeppa would have been the second station on the Aldersyde Subdivision timetable after, well, Aldersyde. In the days of the Macleod Subdivsion, the Aldersyde Subdivision would have branched off the Macleod at Aldersyde. Both lines would have then continued south towards Fort Macleod and Lethbridge respectively, with the Aldersyde being the less frequented of the two. But, times changed, and the Macleod was abadoned and torn up while the Aldersyde was selected to remain the sole route linking Calgary to the Southern Alberta trackage. The portion between Calgary and Aldersyde was absorbed from the Macleod, and stations such as De Winton and Okotoks were added to the Aldersyde timetable.
Wow... that's a lot of Aldersyde's for one description.
This is a custom-built trophy that you can win with digital entries in the Marchitecture contest. It shows the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, Japan at about 1:350. While not exactly an unrealized project, the building was demolished in 2022 and now also continues to exist solely in digital reproductions. You might be able to guess which piece was the main inspiration for this build.
Continuing the pause from the recent series of abstract images: long exposure across the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia during a photo-shoot with Sam Lynch on Wednesday evening.
An all rights reserved copyright attaches to this image. Please don’t reproduce, blog or otherwise use the shot without doing me the courtesy of asking first. Nicole and I can be contacted via markandnicole2@yahoo.com.au . Thank you, Mark.
Am lucky enough that the Evening Grosbeak are still visiting. It's pretty awesome. They seemed to have gathered some extra friends this morning, counted 20+ around the backyard!!!
Explored! Thank you so much!
I've been spending much of my time in the fog, from late night, to early morning- just waiting for shots like this. It was a very strange, whimsical night in the fog that shrouded one of the oldest districts of the city and in a sense, it was like stepping back in time that night. There was a turn of the century grain silo (long abandoned) behind me, I was walking on a road that was just as old as the railway, and the clanging of train cars could be heard just the same as they would have sounded back in the 1900's. It's the oldest part of the former city of Fort William that has remained unknown and untouched since the industry began to shut down in the 1940's. This image was created with not much more than a strobe on 1/2 power, a fast dash, and a ten second timer. As soon as I saw these trees leaning over, I knew that I had to capture what I was feeling.