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Sometimes it's useless to try to light up a picture. The 150-600 is a "dark" lens, at 600mm the biggest aperture is 6.3 (this is 8. It is a limit of mine, or an obsession, but I don't like going for half stops.)
So what I thought I could do was simply make it more charming. Considering the hour was getting late, and considering the other picture of theirs I had already taken (check in comments) and the fact they really kept talking for a long time, why then not telling the actual story?
Looking north along the BNSF main line at Control Point Tukwila. This is just north of the bridges of Interstate 405 and Grady Way and south of Black River Junction.
Or at least there is a very low probability it was ever used.
One of many.
Survey point nail hammered into tree stub and marked with red spray and ribbon. Surveyed with a Leica 300 or 1200 series GPS using RTK, two times some hours apart.
After a while one learned to disregard any measurements with a PDOP* higher than 3 or 4... The accuracy we where going for was 5 cm (about 2 in) (1 sigma), if we did not get within that on the second survey we did a third and so on.
* PDOP (Position, dilution of precision) is a bit simplified an estimate of how accurate the 2D position measurement is. It depends on how well spread out the GPS satellites are, and surprisingly much on the time of day (it is much better in the morning). My guess is that during the day the sun excites the ionosphere which already before that is one of the largest contributors to the GPS measurement error.
M342 is about to knock down the intermediate at 180.2 and is lined clear into Shops. This guy was heavy and the hogger used a bit of sand to get tractiion.
CSX 619 (a GE AC6000CW) leads another CSX locomotive, 3 CN locomotives, and a combination of manifest freight and ethanol empties westbound under the historic Seminary Street arched timber stringer bridge just west of control point East Rockford (mp 85.6). East Rockford is also the interlocking for the Illinois Railway connection from Flag Center IL. This is the CN North Division, Freeport Subdivision. The train is about to cross the Rock River at mp 86. The Seminary Street bridge was built in 1901 and rehabilitated in 2008. It sees a daily traffic count of about 4,000 automobiles and 1 or 2 Hummers.
Michael Freeman says the essence of street photography is taking pictures of something the photographer, and the photographer only, has seen.
I see street photography allows a moment no one else would know about being captured.
Quantum mechanics says something exists in a specific shape when we observe it.
Who's right? Freeman, quantum mechanics or me? 😊
Coming from Metsovo over Sirrako and then nearing the second Controlpoint of the race I had one of the most vivid sceneries of the Hellenic Mountain Race open up in front of me. Quite a bit more open then many of the very narrow and deep river gorges and with beautiful afternoon light I gazed over the typical „ingredients“ of the Pindus Mountains: steep, deeply forested mountain slopes, wild meandering mountain rivers with little water but wide gravel beds.
As I often do, I just spent quite a bit of time to research what exactly I was looking at there. It is the impressive summit of the Stroggoula, located in the Tzoumerka Mountain Range which is a part of the Pindus Mountain. On its flanks, the Mountain Refuge Melissourgoi is situated. Which hosted the CP2 of the Race.
Melissourgitikos is the name of the mountain river which itself is a tributary of the Kallaritikos river I crossed earlier and is used for whitewater kayaking. And Melissourgoi is greek for „Beekeepers“. How fitting as beehives were a common sight of the HMR. They would line the forest trails in dozens and dozens and you would see probably at least a hundred or even more a day.
So - how much do you liked this bit of hidden Greek trivia research making up for the lack of bikes in these photos? ;-)
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07 June 2007, Lance Cpl. Ashley Ramirez and Cpl. Jessica L. Echeard, of the Regimental Combat Team-2 (RCT-2) Lioness Program checks the passports of Iraqi women coming into the country at the Syrian Border in Waleed, Iraq. The Lionesses is an all-female unit organized to engage with Iraqi women at entry control points. RCT-2 is deployed with Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar province of Iraq to develop Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Lance Cpl Charles S Howard) (Released)
Breanne Delgado is an elemental alchemist. You can find her by the Metropolitan Museum. Those who frequently pass by will easily notice her. Her eyes are very piercing, despite being hidden behind sunglasses. Her smile is contagious. Her charisma as intese as New York.
She kindly agreed to have a few pictures of her taken.
I hope I'll run into her again and take a few more.
You can follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/bybreanne/
A civilian actor dressed in moulage to simulate an injury stands by to be placed at an accident site during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)
A westbound CN mixed consist clears the snow melter equipped remote switch at East Rockford (CN M.P. 85.6W). The wye to the right is the southbound Illinois Railway to Davis Junction and Flagg Center. A little further down the main the switch into the huge Joseph Behr scrap metal yard can be seen. The IR services Behr most week nights via this spur and trackage rights on the CN. These two switches replaced the historic IC/CB&Q diamond at this location in early 2012. The tall brick building in the center background is the old Testor's Chemical Company plant which is empty and in poor condition. The old IC West Belt industrial loop tied into the IC main at the rear of this building. The West Belt is gone now. The photo was taken from the historic 1901 Seminary Street timber stringer bridge which was rehabilitated in 2008.
A westbound manifest freight with a load of continuous welded rail rolls through the Illinois Railway interlocking at milepost 85.6 west on the CN Freeport Subdivision in Rockford, Illinois. This is also the East Rockford control point on the CN. In the background is Behr Iron & Steel which is serviced week nights by the IR. This was the site of the historic IC/CB&Q diamond for many years. The diamond was once controlled by a manned interlocking tower here. The actual diamond is still at the site tossed aside and overgrown with weeds and grass.
CSX 8739 leads CSX 5478 and IC 3101 westbound through Rockford IL with a unit train of ethanol empties bracketed by a pair of covered hopper cars. Shown here they are passing over the former site of the historic IC/CB&Q diamond and approaching the Illinois Railway wye that replaced it at the East Rockford control point.
This is the CN (IC) Freeport Subdivision main line through Rockford at the former and future site of the Amtrak station. The old Amtrak station was leveled a few years ago. But with plans underway to soon restore Amtrak's Blackhawk service to this line, a new multi-million dollar station is expected to be constructed at this same site. The trestle passes over the south fork of Kent Creek. At the lower left of the photo is the trestle that previously held a second track over the creek. At the upper left is the West Rockford control point signal (m.p. 86.7) and the number 3 switch leading to the CN West Yard, the DM&E northbound line to Janesville, the DM&E (ex-Milwaukee Road) upper and lower yards, and the CP/Soo Line (ex-CB&Q) Rockford yard. In the background is the Winnebago Street bridge passing over all of these railroads.
Illinois Railway HLCX (Helm Leasing) 1003 waits patiently on the IR connection as CITX (CIT Group leasing) 3101 pulls a manifest train westbound on the CN Freeport Subdivision. This is the CN East Rockford interlocking and control point at milepost 85.60 west in Rockford, Illinois. Historically this was once the site of the IC/CB&Q diamond which was controlled by a manned tower located at this site. The actual diamond is laying nearby in an outgrowth of weeds where it has been since it was removed from service in 2013.
Line us up dammit!!
Block 4 is the throat of Murray Yard and is the start of the St. Joseph subdivision, which heads northwest to Lincoln, Ne. The CTC also starts here with a handful of pot signals guarding the control point.