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After a decade I have Brown headed nuthatches visiting my place again. They zip in and grab one seed and fly up to a limb and crack it and eat it and then down quickly for another. Welcome back nuthatches. Labor on.
Macro Monday "Book"
Not just about the famous brand, its about design work over the last decades and as it should be, its widely read and used as you can see!
In the untouched nature of the Livno field in Bosnia and Herzegovina, about 300 wild horses gallop. This beautiful place is only a few kilometers from Livno and lies on a plateau. Cattle horses withstood the harsh weather, devastation and predator for about five decades.
For decades Ozark fields were plowed with draft or dray horses. . . today a few Amish farmers still do travel in horse-drawn carts and work their fields with real horsepower. . .
This Image only has one simple Message - There is Hope! Those Days are challenging world`s population because of COVID-19 as nothing else since many decades.
After shooting this Image my very first mind has been HOPE !
My message to all of you out there: Stay safe and stay strong ! Never loose your Hope !
This shot was taken back in June, during a woodland drinking-pool stakeout, in Hungary.
Our target species for the day was the Hawfinch, though a number of other birds also put in an appearance.
One of these visitors, I'm pleased to say, was this Nightingale & this was a first time sighting for me.
I can remember hearing their song on late night dog-walks around our village, but that was over a decade ago now. Nothing since then, sadly.
Some people say that this full moon is the last full moon of the decade. However, there are those that argue that it occurred last December 2019. (See my post in the comments) At any rate, it's also known as the Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon. I caught it on Monday night just before it was actually full surrounded by puffs of pink clouds at sunset.
This vintage Catapiller sits on display at the Guy Goodwin Education Center in Carrizo Plain national Monument, San Luis Obispo County, California. Cattle were brought to the grasslands of the Carrizo Plain by the early 1850s. The next big change came when dryland grain farmers started homesteading in the valley. Eventually vast amounts of the grassland was put to the plow. The farm work was orignally all done with horse drawn euipment but eventually tractors like this one did the heavy work. The Carrizo Plain gets only 8 to 10 inches of rainfall a year on average but the amount during any given year can be highly unpredictable. The risk of crop failure due to insufficient moisture became to great and most of the farming efforts were abandoned. In the last few decades many of the homesteads were bought and became part of the National Monument which is administered by the BLM.
Many decades ago, this wetland had been the place where stowaways and illegal immigrants risking their lives flocking to Hong Kong by swimming across the muddy channel. Nowadays, the opposite side of Hong Kong has changed to a metropolis whilst our side remains as a preserved wetland for migrating birds.
Shot at Deep Bay, the western border of Hong Kong
2010-2019 resulted in some great adventures and photographs. I am going to steal some formatting from Brian Plant and share a few from the archives that have not been previously posted.
While we rarely saw the sun on our second consecutive week long traincation to Colorado the fall color was nothing short of spectacular. The cloudy days allowed for some different angles at more common locations such as HPVODEN seen here quickly approaching the siding at Yarmony just east of Bond.
Following an absence of almost 10 years, Aurizon (or when they last ran as QR National), have returned to the Southern Highlands and the NSW Riverina with a bulk grain train, operating to and from Port Kembla.
Here 6002, ACD6046 and 6001 approach Calwalla, with late running empty Aurizon grain 9357 from Port Kembla to West Wyalong to load.
Saturday 11th February 2023
For literally decades I have passed this beautiful church but usually I was always in a rush as I always had to be someplace to go or people to meet. This day was no better I was busy to heading downtown to cover the Halloween Parade but at least this day I grabbed a quick shot and decided to look up the history. Finished in 1846 in was designed James Renwick Jr. in French Gothic Revival Style. It's walls were built out of Sing Sing Marble from a nearby quarry next to historic Sing Sing Prison were the inmates were hired out to cut out the stone as a cost saving measure. The original spire was wood but was replaced with a stone spire in 1888. When the church opened it became very popular with many of the wealthiest families in the city as it outclassed many of the simpler wooden churches that existed in the city at the time. During the mid 20th century it was designated a New York City Landmark and now also enjoys National Landmark Status.
2012 A Decade Later:
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago today, March 7, 2012. A pair of former Rio Grande tunnelmotors take a short freight to the AVR interchange at Bruceton.
Italia, Emilia-Romagna, Ferrara, Primavera 2023
Ferrara è una città dell'Emilia-Romagna, nel nord Italia. Il paese presenta strade larghe e numerosi palazzi risalenti al Rinascimento, quando ospitò la corte degli Estensi. Per la sua bellezza e importanza culturale, è stato designato dall'UNESCO come Patrimonio dell'Umanità. Il pittoresco cortile noto come La Rotonda Foschini è parte integrante dello storico Teatro Comunale di Ferrara. Questa ripresa della Rotonda Foschini, rivolta verso l'alto, mostra con grande effetto la sua strana forma ellittica e chiarisce perché questa parte del Teatro ha fornito ispirazione ai fotografi nel corso dei decenni. Fu costruita nel 1797.
Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the Renaissance, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance, it has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The picturesque courtyard known as La Rotonda Foschini is an integral part of Ferrara’s historic Teatro Comunale. This upward-looking shot of the Rotonda Foschini shows off its strange, elliptical shape to great effect and makes it clear why this part of the Teatro has provided inspiration for photographers through the decades. It was built in 1797.
Back in 1956 hood ornaments like on this 1956 Mercury were not even thought to be a deadly weapon when striking some poor pedestrian. It was all about beauty back them, however, that all changed in the years that followed. As a 15 year old at the time I have fond memories of the Sunday night television show, The Toast Of The Town, aka The Ed Sullivan Show which was sponsored by Lincoln Mercury, and drooling over all the commercials of "the latest models" from Mercury. The following from Wiki is a little history of the show:
From 1948 until its cancellation in 1971, the show ran on CBS every Sunday night from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time, and is one of the few entertainment shows to have run in the same weekly time slot on the same network for more than two decades.
Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the show; classical musicians, opera singers, popular recording artists, songwriters, comedians, ballet dancers, dramatic actors performing monologues from plays, and circus acts were regularly featured. The format was essentially the same as vaudeville and, although vaudeville had undergone a slow demise for a generation, Sullivan presented many ex-vaudevillians on his show.
Originally co-created and produced by Marlo Lewis, the show was first titled Toast of the Town, but was widely referred to as The Ed Sullivan Show for years before September 25, 1955, when that became its official name. In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.
From 1948 through 1962, the program's primary sponsor was the Lincoln-Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Company; Sullivan read many commercials for Mercury vehicles live on the air during this period.
The Ed Sullivan Show was originally broadcast via live television from CBS-TV studio 51, the Maxine Elliott Theatre, at Broadway and 39th St. before moving to its permanent home at CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York City (1697 Broadway, at 53rd Street), which was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater on the occasion of the program's 20th anniversary in June 1968. The last original Sullivan show telecast (#1068) was on March 28, 1971, with guests Melanie, Joanna Simon, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass and Sandler and Young.
Decades ago when I was a teenager, I went to a Remembrance Day ceremony honouring veterans and the dead from the World Wars. As people were bowing their heads at the playing of the last post this man was moved to tears.
HANDS a companion image to this one can be found at:
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2010-2019 resulted in some great adventures and photographs. I am going to steal some formatting from Brian Plant and share a few from the archives that have not been previously posted.
Often times most of the "fails" end up sitting on the harddrive forever but this seemed like a fun one to share. We were pretty excited to hear the ECO set call the dispatcher and request some railroad back to Conway. We were not so excited to see lite power come around the corner. At least it provides a nice unobstructed view of the now removed signal bridge?
Charlie Burns, who was born on October 8, 1915, once met the Pope on a delegation with the Mayor of Bethnal Green in the 1960s and was also given the Freedom of the City of London after decades of collecting waste paper from offices for recycling.
He was honoured by urban artist Ben Slow with a giant portrait which has given the drab little turning off Brick lane a splash of colour on the wall of Charlie's recycling warehouse, and had a chapter written on him in Spitalfields Life published in February.
He staged bouts at York Hall which attracted the famous and the infamous. They included Judy Garland, Liberace and especially the Kray twins.
HEHEHEHEH - always good to see where we started and where we are now. 10 years ago, and this isn't what I looked like when I started here in SL that's even a bigger difference.
Under decades of overgrown vegetation, the landowner finally decided to clear around this old home.
It's only one hundred feet off the road that I travel several times per week, but I never knew it was there. Hiding in plain sight.
Whinnyfold (locally pronounced finnyfa) is a clifftop hamlet of fisher cottages built in the 1860s, replacing an older settlement one mile inland. Whinnyfold has no harbour, and fisherfolk had to scramble up and down a steep grass slope to access their boats and catches. Nevertheless, in the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century it was a thriving fishing community, supporting as many as 190 fishermen operating 24 boats and exporting fish as far afield as Manchester.
During the herring boom the fishers abandoned the village for the summer season, seeking more lucrative employment in Peterhead. Enterprisingly, those left behind temporarily converted a few of the cottages into a series of tearooms serving the moneyed holidaymakers visiting Cruden Bay. Among the visitors was Bram Stoker, author of Dracula.
She was a teacher in the class of 1st grade about 40years long, this spring kids from her very last class nearly 3 decades ago were contact her suddenly & they gave a party to celebrate her 88years of age. This huge bouquet was a present from them.
Now she wrap her around with happiness and good memories,
Congrats, mother!
A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers. In the town of Alberobello, in the province of Bari, whole districts contain dense concentrations of trulli. The golden age of trulli was the nineteenth century, especially its final decades, which were marked by the development of wine growing. … —- Wikipedia
A decade ago today, H19 skirted along the Mississippi just north of Lock and Dam #5 with SOO 6061 doing the honors. During this epoch, H19 was an afternoon departure from La Crosse and reliably had some sort of good power. Another thing of the past are gondolas loaded with sand 10 cars deep. The sand boom had really strained railroads for available cars and the early years saw loads going out in gons. As you can see, a lot of product would be lost to the winds. But by this point, the practice was nearly over.
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The Fighter Collection's Sea Fury shows off the top surfaces during a performance at the 2010 Duxford Flying Legends Air Show, a decade ago today.
The airframe has since become G-CHFP and is now G-INVN.
Decades of overbuilding have produced extensive and heterogeneous urban areas facing some of the most beautiful Italian beaches.
Even in the event of abuse, the repeated amnesties have regularized the buildings for passing on to future generations.
The buildings, different for structure, materials and colors, have gradually accumulated alongside each other in unlikely and fascinating aggregates, constituting a self-contained universe with strong aesthetic and poetic overtones enhanced by the coastal location.
Palazzo Butera - Palermo
The first news is from 1692. Belonging to the Branciforte family (one of the most prestigious and rich noble families of the time).
Left partially neglected in recent decades, it was purchased in 2015 by Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi, who completely renovated it, making it a precious art gallery and returning it to its splendor. It stands on the "sea" view of the city of Palermo.
The brick building with the OC Surf Cafe is a remnant of an earlier era in Ocean City, New Jersey.
Many buildings have been torn down and replaced in recent decades, like the gray apartments on the left. .
For decades the harbour has been an area of workers, industry and trade. But after the Mannesmann company had discontinued its tube production in Düsseldorf, parts of the central harbour lost their reason for being (another harbour is in Düsseldorf-Reisholz). As a result the eastern part of the harbour started to be redeveloped.
Six decades after the East Broad Top ended revenue freight operations, a large portion of its rolling stock roster remains at their yard in Mount Union, PA. Most of this equipment has not moved since the shutdown. As a result, trees have grown around and, in some cases, through the strings of coal hoppers lining the yard tracks.
The ranks of cowls on CN has dwindled to 81 from a fleet of 200+ less than a decade ago. Getting two (or more) in the same paint on the same train is getting pretty hard considering the remaining C40-8Ms only comprise three percent of CN's fleet.
Glad it was cloudy today, as high-sun would have killed this shot.
Here's a more than decade old one from a past life and the caption I wrote oat the time when originally shared on RP.net.
It was a splendid cold Sunday with bluebird skies and crisp white snow abounding. An empty intermodal (bare table) train was called for a date with the Northland Services barge at the Alaska Railroad's southernmost terminal in Seward. So, a quick call to my friend Frank Keller and we decided to go for it. What a chase...114 miles from Anchorage to the end of the line with not a cloud in sight. Two clean SD70MAXs led the train, which albeit was not very photogenic consisting of one tank car and 60 flats (most of which were empty) for a total of 2660 tons and 4852 ft. Here the 110S symboled train is seen just out of Anchorage at MP 113 passing Westchester Lagoon which is hot mopped by the city and is a popular place to ice skate and linger by the burn barrels (I put literally hundreds of miles on my skates here ovee the years!) Rising beyond 33 miles across Cook Inlet is the iconic Sleeping Lady, 4396 ft. Mount Susitna.
Anchorage, Alaska
Sunday March 11, 2012
A 35mm slide image, originally shared almost a decade ago, that has brushed up nicely courtesy of the improved digital darkroom skills (and software packages) I've managed to pick up over the last few years.
In this shot an Eastern Region Rail Rover and an overnight train from London Kings Cross provided for a dawn arrival in Newcastle Central, where first light catches a class 03 shunter at the eastern end of the station ready for the day's action. The Keep, a must-do destination for rail snappers visiting Newcastle back then, stands imposingly in the background.
As ever, exposure was a bit finger in the air with the Zodel F Lightmeter (a 60's vintage hand-me-down from my Dad), but two or three bracketed shots for safety managed to yield a result.
I had a couple of these ERRR's over the years and they provided superb rail photography opportunities for this East Midlander who had rarely ventured further east than Grantham.
This version should go to full-screen quite well. The original has been deleted.
Nikkormat FT2, Agfa CT18, exposure 3secs @ F8
Dawn, 6th September 1976
Germany, Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, Summer 2024
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg. The current structure was built from 1788 to 1791 by orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, based on designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. The bronze sculpture of the quadriga crowning the gate is a work by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow. The gate forms the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, which leads directly to the former City Palace of the Prussian monarchs (now housing the Humboldt Forum museum), and the Berlin Cathedral. Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events. After World War II and during the Cold War, until its fall in 1989, the gateway was obstructed by the Berlin Wall, and was for almost three decades a marker of the city's division. Since German reunification in 1990, it has been considered not only a symbol of the tumultuous histories of Germany and Europe, but also of European unity and peace.