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During a stay in Xian we went for a walk on the city wall on a sunny day. I saw this old chinese three wheeled (delivery) bicycle and thought it might be a good photo motif.
I tried some lomo and vintage processing to create an old style photo - I hope you like it... :-)
During the recent 1Z10 organised tour of the Scunthorpe Steelworks site, some excellent and unusual run past opportunities were organised, here coupled to a number of Billet Wagons 0-6-0ST No 3 "Cranford" comes into position ready for the merry group to continue the Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society Steelworks tour.
14th March 2020
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Taken during the Lytham 1940s Weekend 2024 (Lytham, Lancashire, August 2024)
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The Lytham 1940s Wartime Weekend took place between Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18, 2024.
The two day spectacle saw thousands of people re-live the 1940s wartime era with a weekend of forties singing, dancing, weapons displays, historic vehicles, military charities, vintage traders and more.
Early during the blue hour on the evening of November 17, 2014, Rio Grande 2-8-2 K-37 No. 491 simmers on the turntable at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. The big Mikado (for three-foot narrow gauge, that is!) was originally retired in 1963, and restored to operation in 2014.
During a walk to test my new telelens, I think I unintentionally got too close to the nest this Zitting Cisticola is building. It was carrying some fluffy stuff and started flying around me and vocalizing a lot. I got a quick shot when it perched on a shrub in front of me, and then quickly left the area not to disturb it further. Next time I take a walk in this valley, I will make sure to avoid that particular spot. Nesting birds are best left alone.
During the Palio in in Siena's Piazza del Campo, children from the various districts harangue the riders and their horses to give them courage. The race lasts barely three minutes, is extremely intense and the riders are bare-knuckled. No mean feat, but there's a lot of pride involved!
Lors du Palio sur la Piazza del Campo à Sienne, les enfants des différents quartiers haranguent les coursiers et leurs chevaux pour les blinder de courage. Il faut dire que la course dure à peine trois minutes, qu’elle est d’une très grande intensité et que les cavaliers sont à cru. Pas un mince affaire et surtout beaucoup de fierté dans tout cela!
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During a full-weekend engineering possession on the Caerphilly branch (presumably at Heath Junction), Freightliner 'Shed' 66621 heads a rake of discharged ballast wagons back to Westbury early on Sunday morning running as the 9.00am departure from this station, Cardiff Queen Street. Out of sight and tailing the formation is sister unit 66592.
For what is an incredibly busy station during the week, Sundays seems to start slowly here with barely a handful of passengers distributed around the place. In fact the first train to the main Central station wasn't due out until 9.11am.
The chap on platform 4 studying his phone while waiting for a train up to the Valleys, doesn't seem too impressed by the presence of a proper diesel locomotive. Maybe he should be - with the recent demise of regular coal traffic through the station, the appearance of proper locomotives is a pretty rare event here these days.
Much has changed in the city, even over the last 5-10 years, with many new buildings gracing the skyline, and more currently being built. And, with the Welsh Senedd based here, it does have the feeling of a city on the rise.
9.03am, Sunday 9th June 2024
At this time of the year, during the summer months I tend to step back from my own photography and concentrate on other areas of the business such as updating my website, putting together workshops for the following year, writing blogs, creating new presentations for camera club talks (contact me if you are in a camera club and would like me to come and present a talk) and in general, anything other than heading out with a camera.
However occasionally, sitting in front of a computer for 16 hours a day sends me stir crazy and I feel the need to get out and feel the breeze on my face and last night was one such occasion. I am in possession of a lovely piece of kit courtesy of Olympus. They have very kindly loaned me an E-M1 MK2, 7-14mm, 12-40mm, 40-150mm and their 300mm for a month and it goes back to them on Tuesday so last night, with the promise of a decent sunset, I ventured out to my local hotspot, Lytham, which is only twenty minutes away from me and in particular, this lovely wooden jetty.
High tide was schedule for half past midnight but to have it cover the end of the jetty, you need to be there two hours before on average. Sunset was 8.45pm and there was no colour in any case as things turned out however thanks to Southport in the distance and its light pollution, I was able to capture a lovely shot of the water marker (aka lamp stand) set against the bright lights of the coastal town.
I will be writing up a blog complete with some images taken with the Olympus sometime next week. It won't be an indepth review, more of a brief overview of my thoughts in using the camera and the quality of the lenses but for now, here's this shot to whet your appetite. I will still be sticking with my Canon EOS R and have no intention of changing as I love what full frame offers me but you can read my thoughts on the Olympus next week.
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Oculus, Centro de Transporte del World Trade Center, durante la pandemia del coronavirus, Distrito Financiero, Manhattan, Ciudad de Nueva York, EE.
¿Por qué el Oculus se llama "el Oculus"?
El nombre proviene de la franja de ventanas, o tragaluces, a lo largo de la columna vertebral del techo. Oculus es la palabra latina para "ojo", que, en arquitectura, se refiere a una abertura redonda o similar a un ojo con vista al cielo. Eche un vistazo a través de las ventanas y verá Freedom Tower.
Es una vista inspiradora.
Esta abertura también permite que entre la luz del sol cada mañana. El ángulo de las ventanas está particularmente colocado para que cada año, en el aniversario de los ataques, el sol brille directamente a través de la claraboya e ilumine el salón principal a las 10:28 am (hora del derrumbe de la segunda torre). Se llama el "Camino de la Luz". Calatrava colocó el edificio ligeramente inclinado con respecto a la cuadrícula de la calle para lograr el efecto.
Si bien el diseño complejo fue responsable de varios retrasos en la construcción, el edificio es ahora un destino habitual para los visitantes de la Zona Cero. A la gente le encanta tomar fotos dentro y alrededor de la estructura monumental.
During an early morning walk I came across this lovely Cardinal perched on a bush very close to the trail. I approached slowly and he didn't fly away allowing me to get some nice shots. There was a light wind with a few snowflakes blowing by (you can see the snow trails) and I think he must have just finished a berry breakfast and didn't have time to clean his beak before I took this shot.
During these unusual times of Lockdown, there's plenty of time to practice my wildlife photography. We have a huge variety of birds visiting our garden, so I'm spoilt for choice really on subjects. This Pied Wagtail is a regular visitor and posed nicely for me today.
During my Spring holiday a giant thundercloud approached our campsite. A minute after this shot it started flashing so it was time to seek some shelter.
During the last few kilometres of the long 343 kilometre run from Cloncurry to Winton the geomorphology of the region changes for a while as you travel through some very different country to the flat grassy plains. As a person with a lifelong intense interest in this stuff, I had been excited during the whole trip to pass through it again. Flat topped mesas are a bit of an item around Winton. They are formed when a tough layer of rock forms a cap and doesn't weather and erode over millions of years. They are also called "jump ups" around here and the Age of Dinosaurs centre on the other side of Winton is actually situated on top of one. We will get there in a couple more days.
Australia also has a number of quite large mesas, Mt. Conner is often mistaken by tourists at first distant sight on the way to Uluṟu as the actual rock; Mt. Oxley is also another large one in northern New South Wales north of Bourke.
During my time off on a Los Angeles flight, I had the chance to drive to Trona Pinnacles for a night session. My friend Eric Gail was able to join me on short notice. Not only was it great to have pleasant company and the expertise of a local, but Eric also saved my night by borrowing me his spare tripod head, when I discovered that I had forgotten to pack my ballhead. Thanks for that mate!
The moon phase was already past optimum and the quarter moon was too close to the Milky Way to allow core shots. With the moon above the horizon, sky contrast was considerably lower, but the moonlight helped to illuminate the foreground.
We set up our equipment early, set up two low level lights and started shooting when the moon moved behind the pinnacles. Shooting directly into the bright setting moon is not what I would normally do, but the result exceeds my expectations by far.
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During midsummer night a full moon is seldom. The orange glow at sun rise is fantastic, here is a later stage of the more yellow moon.
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During my early April visit to Chincoteague NWR, these striking shorebirds were seen commonly as they foraged in and flew back and forth between Tom's Cove and Swan Cove.
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A visibly quieter than usual A13 London Road, Horndon Footbridge, Essex UK. 07:40am Monday 30th December, 2024.
During our stay in the Marigny district of New Orleans, I became fascinated by what they call "Shotgun Doubles". The most plentiful historic house type in New Orleans, the shotgun fits perfectly in the long, skinny lots that early developers designed when they divided up their family plantations.
Shotguns have rooflines that slope to both sides rather than to the front and the back, and, in their most elemental form, are just one room wide and completely without hallways inside. They are called shotgun houses because you can shoot a gun from the front of the house and it will exit the back without hitting a wall.
It did occur to me, during the period that GBRF ran the Deltic "Royal Scots Grey" during late spring and Early summer in 2011, that the first, or last portion of its short journey from the Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter to the North Blyth Aluminia import silos, that this section of line ran along the coastal sand dunes. In fact there had been colliery tipping on the beach up to the end of the 1960s here from Cambois colliery. There is a picture of this in one of Colin Giffords books. And Gone Forever, plate 213 to be precise.
But there were scant few in the hundreds of photographers who turned up during that time who acknowledged this obvious fact. Well, you would have to arrive early, and not many then shot in dull conditions.
So a calculation was made. The sun would rise over the sea at an acute angle in the mid winter, and the train for Fort William left on Saturday at 09:02, around half an hour after sunrise. Prone to run a little early too..
Keep an eye on the forecast and go. So long as the empties ran the day the day before.
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The Lynemouth smelter, which received three trains each weekday from here, closed in March 2012, leaving from then on two to three trains a week to Fort William from this terminal.
Minolta x300, 100mm f2.5 Rokkor. Fuji Provia 100, 1/250 @ f8/11 with a 0.6 Hard ND Graduated filter mounted on a tripod.
Sometimes the first picture is the best. I could leave this place alone but there is something here, there is not another place like it and its not just the sea and the structures. Its everything that made what it is now, and what it was before. Life feels different in the North. For all its economic inequalities, life feels better up here, the melancholic celebration of life in the North is symphony for the soul.
Photos during a walk from Severn Tunnel Junction station to Chepstow on 30 April 2024.
This is the newest (1996) crossing of the Severn Estuary linking Wales with England, on the far bank.
The first crossing was completed in 1879, a rail bridge between Lydney and Sharpness (both in Gloucestershire, England), but this was demolished in 1967 after severe damage in 1960.
The second crossing was the Severn Tunnel of 1886, whilst the third was the road suspension of 1966.
The bridge shown was named the Prince of Wales Bridge in 2018, a calculated insult to those in Wales who object to rule by the English. The so-called Prince of Wales is English!
During clear cold mornings with light winds, I look at these steam stacks to see if there is a valley inversion. In this case the steam starts to flatten at the top indicating were the temperature starts to rise with height. Below this boundary, temperatures can be 20F or more colder or more than where I'm living.
This happening in Fairbanks, Alaska where the temperature difference could be 50F difference because colder air is denser.
During lockdown, when it was virtually impossible to take strangers' portraits, I began this series using existing portraits for mono conversions. I have found it interesting to find what does/does not convert well and still continue with it.
Martin, a volunteer at Mottisfont Abbey, was one of the first people whose portrait I took for my strangers' portrait project.
I recognised him, by chance on duty in the house when we visited the current art exhibition this week, and we had a chat.
Martin explained that he has worked in this voluntary role for some eleven or twelve years and, in addition, also now carries out induction training for new members of staff and volunteers, taking them around the whole estate on an introductory tour.
Good to meet up and to recognise the importance of volunteers in the running of National Trust properties.
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During the 7 year war in 1756-63, French sailors were imprisoned here in dreadful conditions. The sailors referred to the place as ‘le chateau’ hence castle being adopted into its name.
During the recent winter storms that have rolled through the south, I've kept my photography skills rolling by photographing birds in the back yard. This Cardinal was out during the freezing rain that prefaced our snow. I couldn't believe how much ice had gathered on some of these birds!
During the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, Poblenou was the epicenter of Catalan and Iberian industry, earning it its sobriquet of the Catalan Manchester. Surrounding the extensive cluster of factories stood mostly working class residential areas. When the industrial buzz passed, the neighborhood fell into a state of abandon and after a period of decay, the neighborhood has undergone a dramatic transformation starting with the Olympic Games in 1992.
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During the building of the road over the Simplon, Napoleon ordered a hospice to be built at the summit of the pass in 1801. The accommodation was completed by the Great Saint Bernard canons in 1831. The three-storey building is the largest pass hospice in the Alps.
From 1800 to 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte had the first alpine pass route practicable for vehicles built over the Simplon. In 1801 he ordered the construction of a hospice at the summit of the pass that could also be used as a barracks. The running of the hospice was given over to the Augustine canons of the Great Saint Bernard hospice.
The laying of the foundation stone only took place in 1813. The following year Napoleon was overthrown and building work was suspended. The Great Saint Ber-nard canons completed the building by the Lausanne architect Henri Perregaux in 1831. The accommodation for over 300 people fed and lodged up to 12000 guests per year.
The three-storey building with steep gable roof measures and impressive 20 to 64m. The recently-renovated and modernised hospice is open all year round and can accommodate up to 130 guests. It is still run as a meeting place by the Great Saint Bernard canons The almost 9m high Simplon eagle has stood opposite the hospice as a stone sentinel since the 2nd World War.
L'hospice du Simplon est un hospice appartenant à la congrégation du Grand-Saint-Bernard, situé en Suisse, sur le territoire de la commune de Simplon, au sommet du col homonyme.
Das Simplon-Hospiz ist ein Hospiz der Augustiner-Chorherren auf dem Simplonpass.
Sein Bau wurde 1801 auf Befehl von Napoléon Bonaparte begonnen und 1831 durch die Augustiner-Chorherren des Hospizes auf dem Grossen St. Bernhard vollendet. Es steht auf einer Höhe von 1'997 m ü. M. in der Gemeinde Simplon VS.
L'ospizio del Sempione è noto internazionalmente come Simplon Hospiz, Simplon Hospice, Hospice du Simplon e si trova in territorio elvetico. Si tratta in effetti però di due ospizi.
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during a photo session at beach those two showed up and gave us a nice show , so we took advantage of it ;)
During Alpini's Feast in Biella a lot of trains were deployed to withstand the very high demand of visitors coming to the event. To this purpose, a longer diesel shuttle trainset, which hasn't been running on these tracks for decades, was brought up from Tuscany to work extraordinary runs with larger capacity. In the picture, the D.445.1100 is pushing its train from Biella to Novara while passing nearby Sillavengo.
During the winter months, these birds will roost together in an attempt to reduce heat loss and many individuals can pack into a nestbox or roosting pouch.Distinctive, undulating, gregarious, and a lover of small and excitable flocks, the Long-tailed tit is, as a matter of fact, one of the smallest garden birds in the UK. If not for its extensively long tail, the most characteristic part of the bird, it would be tiny and measure just 6cm in length.
During a via ferrata tour I could photograph this beautiful view of the Unesco World Heritage Three Peaks. I hope you enjoy looking at this impressive mountain range.
During a short walk through Nendaz in Valais, we passed this pasture with bulls. At first they stood far back in the fog. But curiosity drove them to us. And as if he wanted to be photographed, this one bull stood still and allowed himself to be photographed for a long time.
A few days ago, during the last hour or so of sunlight, I went to Vandusen Botanical Garden to admire the remaining flowers in their gardens and some of the leaves that are beginning to change colours. While I was there, I took this shot of some lavender. Although I am sad to see the end of summer, I am looking forward to a beautiful, colourful fall and I am hopeful for a short, mild winter.
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The most strenuous hike i have made during my vacation was the Tachäl Dhäl (Sheep Mountain) Ridge. It is a category very difficult. Used to American classifications I thought it wouldn't be that bad, but from the first moment it was steep, and sometimes very steep, and sometimes quite dangerous. So completely exhausted I arrived at the top, some 1300 meters higher. The view in every direction was the reward. And I stayed up there for an hour (I think I even slept, because I was wasted). But with Dall sheep and Lake Kluane close to me and this mountain view I didn't care. After 10 hours I arrived exhausted at my car, even the descend was a tough one!
To make this picture I had to wait quite a long time, because the clouds were covering the peak almost always, or there was so much shade It didn't look interesting. But when it finally came, this was the result! I by the way made two pictures with my 200 mm, and stitched them to make this panorama. More pics from this fantastic hike will follow sometime!
From 11 june till the 25th of July, I traveled in Canada. Starting in Brighton Ontario, where my sister lives at the border of an amazing part of lake Ontario, I flew to Vancouver, and Vancouver island where I took the boat at Port Hardy to take part 1 of the Inside passage, to Prince Rupert in BC. Two days later I took part 2 to Skagway in Alaska. When coming from Skagway Alaska, you can take the train to Carcross. it is a very scenic train ride that halts at Bennet lake.
And then to Whitehorse and further on by car to Kluane National park in the Yukon district. Whitehorse is situated at the border of the Yukon. From there I flew back to Vancouver, rented a car, and traveled three weeks in the BC- and Alberta Rockies, visiting the famous, and less famous Nature parks like Banff and Jasper. Last few days back to Brighton Ontario to enjoy lake Ontario once more, before going home. A picture of my itinerary can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152940536581759&set...).
4000 pictures later, it is quite a task to show the right stuff, although the stunning scenery guarantees at least a few great shots to share. Objective will be to make a book (for myself mainly), and that might take a while.
I hope you will enjoy the impression of my travel, one that equals earlier journeys to Alaska and south America, this journey was the first in the digital era, and equally intensive because of all the hiking activities every day on and on. I loved every minute of it.