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Demolition of the postal giro office in Hanover in the light of an early sun.
Abriss des Postgiroamtes Hannover im Licht einer frühen Sonne
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Un helicóptero de la policía vigilando el desarrollo de una multitudinaria manifestación en Madrid - A police helicopter monitoring the development of a massive demonstration in Madrid
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Here are Kellie and Joshua on the Control Freek Ride at Belmont Park in San Diego. This one flips upside down and goes around in circles. Not for the weak in stomach.
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First time out testing my new Tamron 35mm ƒ1.8 lens :) have to say I am pretty happy with it so far.
Pros:
• Vibration control
• Sharp from ƒ1.8
• Even sharper from ƒ2.0
• Very little vignetting – LR profile over compensates it too!
• Easy to focus
• Weather sealed
Cons:
• Coma in the corners at ƒ1.8-ƒ2.5
• CA is apparent up to ƒ2.8
:)
Although the radio telescope at Mt Pleasant wasn't doing scientific work on the day we visited, we were kindly given a tour of the facilities and even shown how the dish itself was maneuvered. The control room was filled with electronic instruments I remember from the days when studying a unit of electrical engineering in the 1970s (before I decided it wasn't a career option for me). But there is some very recent equipment here as well. You can see the computer box from SpaceX, as this telescope also monitors their satellites in space.
No AI was used in the making of these photos or in the writing of the descriptions. It is all my own work.
Learn from the past,
set vivid, detailed goals for the future,
and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
~ Denis Waitley ~
Took this unexpected shot as I was leaving MIA. I had been standing on a cement pillar to look over the chain-link fence to grab the sunset, and as I walked back towards the car this flock of birds was quick to return back to their spot to gaze at the sunset. T3i and Sigma 18-250mm.
This bridge that carries both foot and rail traffic over the Potomac River is known as the Appalachian Trail/CSX - Potomac River Bridge. The ruins of the bridge pylons in the foreground once supported the Baltimore & Ohio (B & O) railroad bridge which was an unusual wooden covered bridge.
From the National Parks Service:
The Baltimore & Ohio (B & O) railroad bridge was once a majestic wood covered bridge that spanned the Potomac River and carried train traffic on the B & O Railroad for 23 years prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1859, John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, launched a raid across this bridge to capture the United States Armory and start a war to end slavery. Brown failed at his attempt but made a major impact on the Harpers Ferry area. With the secession of Virginia in April, 1861, the bridge became a tenuous connector between the Confederacy and the Union. The bridge was over an important border, the Potomac River, and constantly had to worry about attacks from both sides of the war. During four years of Civil War, the bridge would be built and destroyed nine times - four times by war, five times by floods.
On June 14, 1861, as the Confederates were leaving Harpers Ferry, Brig. Gen. Joseph Johnston ordered the burning of all bridges on the Potomac under Southern control. The bridges that were destroyed were Point of Rocks, Shepherdstown, and Berlin. The Berlin Bridge is called Brunswick today. The Harpers Ferry region was a dangerous border area for the next eight months, disallowing rebuilding of the bridge. When the Union army occupied Harpers Ferry in February of 1862 and B & O bridge builders accompanied them. A new iron trestle was completed atop the original piers in less than three weeks, which allowed for supplies to be sent to the Union forces in Harpers Ferry and further south.
The Confederates regained Harpers Ferry on September 15, 1862 but just a few days later they would abandon that post. On September 18, 1862, the bridge was destroyed for a second time by Confederates when they left Harpers Ferry due to the outcome of the Battle of Antietam in Shepherdstown. B & O bridge builders returned with the Union army a few weeks later and had the bridge operational once again by early October.
The third time the bridge was destroyed was during the Gettysburg Campaign in 1863. This time, the retreating Union forces had destroyed the bridge to ensure the Confederates could not use it to support their invasion into the North. Union forces would reoccupy Harpers Ferry during the third week of July of 1863, following the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg. Once the Confederates had retreated, the B & O bridge builders arrived to rebuild the bridge.
The fourth and final time the bridge was destroyed occurred during the final invasion of the North in July of 1864. Once Confederate Jubal Early's forces withdrew from Maryland by mid-July, the B & O railroad rebuilt the bridge once more. In the fall of 1864, the Union used the bridge to transport an immense amount of supplies across the Potomac and into the armory depot for use by Philip Sheridan's army during its Valley Campaign. The Valley Campaign conquered the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley and the B & O Railroad was the artery of life for Sheridan's army.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 24-85mm F3.5-F4.5 lens @ 62mm. 1/100th sec @ F11. Cropped to 5x12 aspect ratio in post.
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