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There was a stiff 25mph wind yesterday and the courageous kite surfers were out and having a ball.
This is the first of several images I will post from my hour of shooting their action.
It looks like a blast and they made it look easy. But I know better and I would think it requires a person to be a good swimmer, in good shape, have excellent balance, and also be adventurous and comfortable with fairly high risk activities :)
Our city, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is known as the "Malibu of the Midwest" because of our large waves and a lakefront that is ideal for watersports.
Surfers came from all over when they hear conditions are right for their extreme water sports.
Enjoy!
There was a stiff 25mph wind two days ago and the courageous kite surfers were out and having a ball.
The wind chill was about 32 degrees, and I'm sure it felt even colder if you were wet!
This is the second of several images I will post from my hour of shooting their amazing skills.
It looks like a blast and they make it look easy. But I know better and I would think it requires a person to be a good swimmer, in good shape, have excellent balance, and also be adventurous and comfortable with fairly high risk activities :)
Our city, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is known as the "Malibu of the Midwest" because of our large waves and a lakefront that is ideal for watersports.
Surfers came from all over when they hear conditions are right for their extreme water sports.
Enjoy!
Network Southeast 50032 'Courageous' and 50044 'Exeter' at Oxford after arriving with commuter trains from London Paddington in July 1988. The shunter will ride 50032 to the carriage sidings where the loco will run round.
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Meet my courageous friend Ottó, standing on to that rock with that light to give us something interesting to photograph. What's more interesting though, is that shortly after this photo was taken, there were a couple of earthquakes happening almost directly below us, the biggest 4.3 Richter. Lava injections underneath have been verified recently, as this area is sitting on a fault line that's been active in the past few weeks, and many are expecting an eruption literally any minute now. We didn't feel the quakes as we were driving along the Reykjanes peninsula coastlline that night, but after reading about the quakes in the news (on our phones) we decided it might be a good time to get the f*** back home ASAP.
Shot with Canon EOS 5DsR + Sigma 28/1.4 Art.
TPE-liveried Class 68 no. 68029 'Courageous' heads past Salt Lake Quarry, North Yorkshire, on the 25th June 2020 with the 12.46 Carlisle New Yard to Crewe Basford Hall departmental working. One of Yorkshire's 'Three Peaks', Whernside, forms the backdrop.
Daryl the Dachshund rides the bottom of clouds. Why? Well, to catch badgers when they burrow through the clouds, of course! No one claims Daryl is right in the head!
Stansberry Lake, Washington 2017
Another photo from Iceland I can't resist posting. We were trying to get to the beach when we accidentally stumbled upon hundreds of crazy dive-bombing birds (I think we were right by their nesting grounds) and I snapped this photo of Rob before we ran back to the safety of the car. It was incredible (and maybe slightly terrifying).
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I, George Arfur, do solemnly swear
To chase all critters that scurry with hair,
To leave no tidbits or kibbles behind,
To cultivate cuteness till mom loses her mind.
To bark at mail trucks and growl at strange folk,
To take my new pills with a gulp and a choke.
To wake everyone up when I have to go pee.
A courageous canine always will I be.
Thanks to my husband for writing this adorable poem, and thanks to my crazy dog for knowing how to fly. :)
Courageous is about to get underway from Leeds with 1K42 20:43 Scarborough to Manchester Piccadilly.
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Courageous Bridge.
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Steve.D.Hammond.
Human, compassionate, survivor, courageous, brave, intelligent, artist, musician, follower of God, friendly, funny, thinker, out of the box, tap dancer ,clothing maker, interesting and an all around fantastic person..
I met Laundry Liz, a name we both agreed on , down at the washmat in town a few weeks ago. She had this crazy vintage looking bicycle on the back of her van and I had to know who's it was so I asked her.. We ended up talking for quite a while about everything and everything. Slowly over time she told me just about her whole story , which parts of it are hard to hear and harder to imagine and digest.
A week or so ago I asked her if I could photograph her for a project of mine , she agreed , we continued to talk and I got to know her even better, ups and downs, struggles, hopes and dreams, regrets and precious memories she has.
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After some some serious dental work she decided on having her dentures made Her way, green glitter gums, a diamond and a peace sign in the front. Just one of the gems that make her up as a person.
Homeless , living in her van , working in town , saving money, taking care of her Dog, eating best she can and getting it all back together, she has more guts and courage than most people I know. I have a ton of respect for her in that way.
I shot this portrait of her to portray coming up for air through the bokeh as its the sense I get from her. No quit and aiming up through struggles that would drown most of us. This is just one of the images I took of her the other day and I think it symbolizes what shes going through right now best.
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At journey's end, Hertfordshire Railtours' "The Malt & Hops", headed by Old Oak Common's Indomitable and Courageous, rests at Kings Cross among the mailbags. 29 October 1988.
Network Southeast liveried 50032 Courageous at Reading with a London Paddington-Oxford train in February 1990. The loco was withdrawn in October 1990 and scrapped the following year.
TransPennine 68029 'Courageous' departs noisily under the fabulous North Eastern Railway footbridge and equally impressive but I guess mostly overlooked Leeds & Selby Railway skew bridge, this road bridge was hailed as a wonder of the new railway age when opened in September 1834 and incidentally this was the first main line to be built in Yorkshire.
68029 'Courageous' 1E43 16:31 Manchester Victoria to Scarborough
This shot is made up of three images a couple to make up the train and station and another shot once the station lights had illuminated, blended in Photoshop.
For anyone interested I have made another short YouTube video of my hour at Garforth youtu.be/Id-nzRiSxTY
12th October 2020
Bagnall 2680 of 1942 'Courageous' with a late morning train on The Ribble Steam Railway, Preston.
Good Friday 7th April 2023.
With thanks to the engine crew for their help with this photo.
This portrait of Katherine Parr is clearly from a template produced for multiple portrait copies of the queen to be hung in the halls of English nobility. It seems to generally fit the overall image of Katherine as reddish-blonde-haired, blue eyed, healthy, and attractive.
Portrait painted by an unknown artist, possibly a follower of Hans Eworth, in the 16th century.
Oil on panel. Collection of Appleby Castle.
Philip Mould: "As the famous rhyme suggests, Katherine Parr’s record as the last of Henry VIII’s six wives was unique. She survived. Though Anne of Cleves, the sad ‘Flanders Mare’ unable to arouse England’s most insatiable monarch, lived on until 1557 it is only Katherine who was neither divorced, beheaded, or died. She was by any standards a remarkable woman: beautiful enough to marry the King of England, despite having neither royal nor court background; shrewd enough to remain his Queen, despite court plots and an attempt on her life; and courageous enough to sustain the Protestant cause, despite Henry’s latent sympathies for the Roman faith. She was Regent of England during Henry’s invasion of France in 1544. And with her publication of religious works such as Prayers or Meditations in 1545, she became not only the first English Queen to publish a work of prose, but the first woman to do so in the sixteenth century.
Katherine became Queen of England in July 1543. Henry was her third husband, but, on this occasion, not her first choice. She had instead fallen in love with the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour, and was understandably wary of Henry’s past form when it came to marital relations. Five wives had failed – what chance did a sixth have of success? Nonetheless, to turn down the King’s offer of marriage was unthinkable. Katherine, a deeply devout woman, determined that if she was to be Queen, she would be Queen with a purpose. That purpose was to further the cause of the Protestant Reformation.
In doing so Katherine, literally, risked her life. Never afraid to exercise her sharp mind, Katherine had become accustomed to discussing religion with Henry VIII. Though this was at first welcomed by the King, the conservative factions of court and church were terrified of any radical words whispered into the Royal ear - that after all was how Anne Boleyn had first led Henry towards Lutheranism. To conservatives like Bishop Gardiner and Chancellor Wriothesley the answer seemed obvious – Katherine should meet the same fate as Anne. At first, Henry, increasingly irascible from ulcerated legs, indicated that Katherine’s days were numbered. An arrest warrant was drawn up, and, amid rumours of ‘a new queen’, arrest could only have been followed by death. But Katherine succeeded in persuading Henry of her good faith and innocent naivety. “Is it even so, Sweetheart?”, said the King, “Then perfect friends we are now again…” Thus did Tudor Royalty kiss and make up.
Katherine’s victory checked any conservative renaissance in the final years of the King’s reign. From now all eyes turned to the future (Protestant) reign of Edward VI. Here, Katherine appears to have been less successful, and for once followed her heart rather than her head. With ill-considered haste, she took Thomas Seymour as her lover within weeks of Henry’s death in 1547, and married him just months later. In doing so she lost any chance she may have had in exercising power during Edward’s minority. And yet, perhaps her final and most enduring success was yet to come, for in helping to restore the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession she had extended the Tudor dynasty by half a century. Katherine died after giving birth to a daughter in 1548.
The iconography of Katherine Parr is of particular interest. It is ironic that so few portraits of the Queen appear to survive, given that she was the foremost patron of portraiture in mid-Tudor England. There are several reasons why the Queen liked portraiture, not least because she evidently liked art. But perhaps the most intriguing reason may lie in Henry VIII’s habit (undoubtedly annoying to Catherine) of repeatedly portraying himself with Jane Seymour. Was Katherine’s jealousy manifested in art? Was her decision to commission the first full-length portraits of Elizabeth and Mary as Princesses, part of her desire to elevate them from illegitimate bastards to heirs of the English crown? Whatever the reasons, her legacy to the advancement of English portraiture cannot be doubted.
There are five recorded certainly known portraits of Katherine Parr that survive. The first is a miniature formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole (now at Sudeley Castle), which is probably by Lucas Hornebolt. The second and third, in the National Portrait Gallery, are a full-length (once erroneously called Lady Jane Grey) by Master John, and a half-length by an unknown artist. A fourth (Lambeth Palace) shows a young Katherine in the 1530s. And now the present example represents a fifth, and shows the Queen towards the end of her life.
And yet, Katherine’s own records show that she commissioned at least more than a dozen portraits of herself; “give me one of your small pictures”, her fourth husband Thomas Seymour wrote, “if ye have any left…” The contrast between Katherine’s commissions and those extant portraits gives a useful indication of how little survives from the sixteenth century – in this case less than a third. The Queen’s chamber accounts show that John Bettes the Elder painted up to seven miniatures – none survive – and nor apparently do any other miniatures by Hornebolt, aside from the possible Sudeley example.
Records also show that Katherine was painted by Hans Eworth, the Dutch artist considered the closest thing to Holbein’s heir . Such patronage was an indication of Katherine’s desire to support the new, for Eworth had only arrived in England c.1543. His earliest known work is dated 1549. The almost enamel-like flesh tones and bright colouring of the cheeks in this portrait, together with the distinctive modeling of the eyes, may suggest that the artist of this picture was influenced in some way by Eworth’s now lost original. The accomplished handling of the detail in Katherine’s out-turned collar, and the delicate portrayal of her hair, is also reminiscent of Eworth’s Mary Neville, Lady Dacre (National Gallery of Canada). That the jewelry Katherine wears in this portrait is similar to that recorded in her inventories, not to mention the intelligent depiction of Katherine’s slight physique, further suggests that it is based on a contemporary ad vivum example."
To stand courageous, dignified and headstrong in the face of annihilation, to stand for truth in the wake of corruption and distrustful character, it is these agents only the initiated possess. For myself and the strong willed, the courageous, the fine soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic, that’s what our values are. We stand to protect and serve on the front, our home, the capital of our democracy, taking out the evil on our doorstep or on theirs, to push the enemy back for all time. No need to overthink, only to push forward to victory. We stand here on this bridge, stand for the people of this planet, and we will not bow, we shall keep our heads raised high and take out these clankers. Coruscanta a'den mhi, Vode An! - Captain Fordo
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"Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."
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50 032 Courageous tackles the steep gradient away from Bodmin Road towards Doublebois with the 10:50 Penzance - Paddington
Another dodgy 2X teleconverter shot judging by the distortion at the edges of the frame
Courageous - that’s how you see me
Successful - that’s how you believe in me
Happy - that’s what you expect of me
Emptiness - that’s what is inside of me
1F72 15.34 Scarborough to Manchester Victoria approaching York at New Earswick, 23rd March 2022. Pole pic.
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Another one from Sussex Prairie Garden. The day before my visit there had been heavy rain and on the day I was there it was very windy. I'm always amazed by the resilience of apparently delicate flowers. This pretty Cosmos held its head high despite it all. Incidentally, I was also amazed that my lens found anything to focus on. :)
"I AM NOT A LIBERAL SNOWFLAKE.
MY FEELINGS AREN'T
FRAGILE, MY HEART ISN'T BLEEDING.
I AM A BADASS BELIEVER IN HUMAN RIGHTS.
MY TOUGHNESS IS IN TENDERNESS.
MY STRENGTH IS IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE FIERCE THAN FORMIDABLE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
THERE IS NOT A THING MORE COURAGEOUS THAN COMPASSION.
BUT IF MY BELIEF IN EQUITY, EMPATHY, GOODNESS, AND LOVE INDEED MAKES ME OR PEOPLE LIKE ME SNOWFLAKES, THEN YOU SHOULD KNOW . . .
WINTER IS COMING."
Shock of the New Challenge # 62.0
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playing with an image.
iPhone died and then everything else seemed to collapse.
But hopefully all will be restored soon.
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The 16.28 Heathfield - Manchester Piccadilly leg of the Pathfinder tour approaches Newton Abbot on the Teign Valley branch. 50 032 will lead following the reversal in the station back to Bristol Temple Meads from where 47 974 will take over the remaining leg.
It's hard to believe, but a few of our aloe plants put up flower stalks in December. I don't know what they are thinking because we have had some freezing mornings. I hope they survive: it is nice to see the color in the drab winter landscape.
Seacat Services offshore energy support vessel SEACAT COURAGEOUS making its way towards Wick Harbour on 4/10/2024 pictured in a choppy Wick Bay.
Venturing Courageously Into The Unknown.
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レーシングステップの重要性煙大量の感情恥ずかしい指導者貴重な秘密の写本幸せな公演編入事件征服した.
Steve.D.Hammond.