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Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.
~Mae West~
Sintaja, making it do what it do...
She picked the out fit, did her own makeup & hair.
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After checking out the old GM&O Tri-Light signals slated for replacement in Auburn, I remembered that the Texas Eagle was a thing. So I raced home, grabbed my camera and frantically settled on the shot with minutes to spare. Actually that's not true. I should have counted on something holding the train up, and that something was the NS at Hazel Dell on the south side of Springfield.
Anyways, Amtrak 21, the southbound Texas Eagle roars past a seemingly ancient irrigation system during golden hour.
Rounding off the Preston images, save the best to last and that is the only vehicle in Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire's fleet that carries the somewhat insipid looking Distance livery that has replaced the Gold brand... A shame as the Gold livery was one of the best designed liveries.
At present, only 15247 has received this colour scheme having ditched the Gold livery and lost its 125 branding in the process... Despite this, the vehicle remains a common fixture on the 125 for which it was specifically delivered for. Stagecoach has so far been focused on its Local repaints, although could change with the acquisition by National Express, although a livery change is never guaranteed.
Alexander Dennis Enviro400 15247 (YN65 XEY) leaves Preston Bus Station on 125 to Bolton via Bamber Bridge, Chorley and Horwich.
Taken with Tokina AT-X 24-40/f2.8 without AF
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This old barn used to belong to Doukhobors, a Christian group with Russian origins. Information below:
www.bigdoer.com/66001/exploring-history/anastasia-lords-o...
This is the same barn that I posted yesterday, when it was seen from a huge distance and a head-on view.
The day before yesterday, 8 August 2019, was more of a barn day than a bird day. A while ago, another photographer had mentioned that a few barns in a certain area SE of Calgary had been removed and I was curious to see if I could tell which ones were missing. There is one huge barn in particular that I am always hoping still stands. I would love to be able to get photos from both sides of it, but it is way out in a farmer's field that is, of course, private property. Standing in the road, I can only get a distant shot and, as often happens, I had a problem with heat distortion on distant shots. There is an old, round, wooden grain bin and a partly hidden, smaller barn just near the barn, too. I think the first time I ever saw the barn was on 21 January 2015, when I took my daughter out for the day.
My intention two days ago had been to leave early in the morning, but it was already 10:45 am when I climbed into my car. Seeing that the weather forecast for the next six days included rain on each day, I knew I just had to do this trip straight away. Some of the roads I drove to get to my destination(s) were familiar, but others less so. There are two or three highway intersections that are confusing to me and I usually end up taking the wrong turn.
For a change, I turned off the main highway going south before my usual turn, in order to shorten the distance. My first sighting was a distant Red-tailed Hawk perched on a wooden fence at a wetland that used to be a great spot, but now is totally dried up.
After a quick stop at a tiny church that I always photograph when I am out that way, I continued east till I came to the three old Mossleigh grain elevators - one of the places I always get confused about which way to drive. Ideally, a dramatic sky would have been great, but I have taken better photos in the past.
From Mossleigh, I did my usual exploring, finding that a lovely old, wooden house was still standing. I believe this was built from a kit years ago, and it remains in reasonably good condition.
Eventually, I found the large barn that I wanted to see again. It took me a while to work out which road it was on (thought I knew!), but I found it after some driving back and forth. It was good to see the smaller barn, in less then good condition, just down the road. The other two times that I have been standing in the road to take photos of this smaller barn, a lady has come along the road from a nearby farm and very kindly told me to on in and take any photos I'd like. No-one around yesterday, so I stayed on the road,of course. At one point, I happened to glance up the road and saw what I thought was someone's dog on the crest of the road. When I zoomed in on my camera, I realized it was a coyote, who started walking towards me. Unfortunately, it turned off into the field and disappeared. When I was at this smaller barn, it amused me to see a magnificent Mule near the barn, plus a horse. The Mule looked huge and was a real poser, wanting to be in almost every shot I took. Such a gorgeous creature, that I don't remember seeing there before.
Once I had taken a few photos, I started on my homeward drive, not stopping anywhere as I could see that, if I hurried, I could get to the Saskatoon Farm in time to get a meal before the restaurant closed for the day. Yay, I just made it.
Knowing that Frank Lake was only a short drive away, I couldn't resist driving back south to have a quick look. Found a couple of my friends there and spent some enjoyable time with them. Only took a few photos there, most to be deleted, before heading home. A fun day, though hot and hazy.
Second exercise of the Strobist Lighting 102 series, 1.2: Position/Distance. This was interesting! It was puzzling me beforehand, and keeps on puzzling now that I did it. The goal was to vary the distance of the light source to the model, adjusting the power so that the model is always well exposed, keeping the rest constant. In principle, one could vary the background colour from white to black by controlling this distance.
Set-up: camera on a gorillapod tripod on a table, wireless remote release Phottix Cleon II C6, model-to-wall distane perhaps 2 meters. I was holding the flash (Canon 270 EX on PW FlexTT5) on my hand, and the remote flash was fired through PW MiniTT1 and AC3. The bare flash was on camera left, somewhat higher than the model. The flash was used in the wide-angle setting. ISO 100, 1/200 s, f/5.6.
I started with full power of the flash. My goal was to halve the distance every time, diminishing the flash power to one fourth (In the AC3, going from +3 to +1 to -1 to -3). For the darkest picture, I am not sure if the flash was at 1/32 or 1/64 power, I did not find it in the manual whether it would support 1/64.
What great result, and so easily! I am amazed by the black background. I have tried making it earlier, but that you could get it by putting the flash so close, that I had not realized.
This was so interesting that I might redo this later. Also finding a way to make the camera take sharp pictures - here I had focussed once in the beginning, and images are not sharp. But here the light was the point anyway.
Original assignment: strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06/lighting-102-12-position-di...
Taken from the Brentnall car park in Middlesbrough, a long distance shot of Arriva NE Max Specification Pulsar 1443 NK10CFF about to head north to Durham on August 6th 2016.
Reynisdrangar, S-Iceland
15 sec long exposure iso50 f22 Lee filter system, ND grads
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Porth Nanven lies a short distance from Cape Cornwall, and is reached via St Just and the Cot Valley. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest owing to the very large ovoid rocks or pebbles that gently cascade from the cliff and now form the beach and foreshore. In the distance is the twin-peaked islet called The Brisons, which lies one mile off Cape Cornwall, out of shot to the right of the picture.
Porth Nanven is sometimes referred to as 'Dinosaur Egg Beach' because of the remarkable deposit. These boulders come in all sizes, from hen's egg to a metre or more in length, and are now legally protected by the National Trust which owns the beach.
Many visitors assume that these weirdly shaped boulders are the work of the sea, which they are, but the sea of many thousands of years ago. Sea levels have changed several times since then and are now much lower than they were, causing the ancient beach to be suspended in the cliff high above the present level. Stand on the beach and look back towards the cliff, and you will see a wall of the rounded rocks waiting to break away and join those on the beach today (see below).
Or, to put it in scientific terms:
"The cliff and foreshore at Porth Nanven is important for Quaternary geomorphology
and stratigraphy, providing a particularly good example of an unusual type of raised
beach facies, namely a raised boulder beach. It comprises a coarsening-up sequence of
deposits with an upper two-metre thick layer of boulders (up to 0.6m long), overlying
four metres of smaller cobbles and gravels. The beach deposits are overlain by a
substantial thickness of fining-upwards head, with coarse angular boulders at the base.
The deposits at Porth Nanven demonstrate Quaternary changes in relative sea-level,
wave energy, sediment supply and climate."
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We used to hang out with Abbie once or twice a week - this was our first time hanging out since March 14. Just one of the many ways life has changed.
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City of London on a Monday afternoon. This place would normally br bustling with people. Coronavirus Lockdown has seen a temporary end to that.
My family went hiking at Point Lobos a couple of weeks ago, and this is a photo that I took of my sister looking off into the ocean.
Sunset over the ocean through the clouds with light reflecting on ocean waves moving with boats on the water in the distance off Waikiki on Oahu, Hawaii.
One of three moved to Peasmarsh, Stagecoach Distance Coastliner 700 liveried 27654 on Portsmouth Road with a Route 34 to Camberley.
DXO Pure Raw 6.0 Deep Prime XD3 Tests - ISO 64 - Export of original RAW file no NR - shot a ~5m which is not yet at the 2.5m Min-Focussing-distance for the 400mm, but inside the min focussing distance for the 600mm -- but shot wide open f/2.8 to "see what I could capture" -- sure it would have been better to be at f/5.6-f/8.0, but the shallow DOF and blurred out background result is just fine.
This image was originally taken last year at Bedruthan Steps. The image has recently become part of a series. Originally taken as portraits, I've recently decided to transform into landscapes.
The idea to re-visit past images taken at Bedruthan Steps and turning them from portraits to landscapes comes from the previous image, 'Perspective' (The images Perspective and Calm - both are the same image), and turning them into a series which I hope will depict a feeling of calm within the landscape/seascape.