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As a thanks to all of my followers, and to try and help promote brickly, I'm doing a giveaway with this model. If you haven't heard of it before, brickly is a new app for sharing your original LEGO creations and seeing others' models. It is currently only available for iOS devices, but they have plans to expand to Android and a web platform as well. It is still just getting started, but I think it could become a very useful asset for the online LEGO community.
To be entered, either:
Make a new account on brickly and send me your username via FM, or in a comment below.
Or, if you already have a brickly account, just leave a comment on any of my builds on brickly.
The giveaway is open through October 10th at midnight, and then I'll randomly select a winner and ship them this creation.
You can see more pictures of the build here.
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Mortimer Bay in Tasmania at sunset....this location has been right on my door step every trip to Tassie and yet I had no idea of its existence...thank goodness for being able to stalk other togs on IG etc, for there I found this location and now I have a new favourite spot to photograph whenever I return!
Not unlike this object, losing our purpose in life will lead us to a certain path where even the slightest shadow of our existence will fade away like tears in the ocean.
It's pretty cliche right now and everyone is doing it, but there is a reason those of us of the rail persuasion all take certain pilgrimages. Be it the changing of the guard of motive power, the end of operations on certain routes, or the 'falling of a flag' as a once independent railroad is bought or merged out of existence. The last year has come with news of three major losses of the latter variety so I too had to jump on the documentary band wagon for my own peace of mind.
To that end, last summer's trip was my first and possibly only chance to see the heart of the original Kansas City Southern Railway as its days of independence wane. Meanwhile here in New England the loss of the nation's largest regional (in mileage), Pan Am Railways, was right in my backyard so the chance to document it required little in the way of special effort. So that left only the Montana Rail Link which is soon to return to the fold of giant BNSF from which it was leased into existence by predecessor Burlington Northern in 1987.
Countless articles have been written about the MRL over the past 35 years of its existence so I won't rehash that here. If you care to learn more download this great set of articles courtesy of Trains Magazine:
www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/TRN-MRL.pdf
While I was unable to take my long annual late summer trip with Frank and John and opportunity arose for an abbreviated trip with a friend from New England and we arranged to meet in Missoula for a whirlwind three and a half days of chasing and shooting that would see us cover the railroad as far west as Thompson Falls and as far east as Billings. Despite. We made the conscious choice to focus on strictly MRL powered trains and despite the railroad being dominated by BNSF overhead traffic I only lensed four trains led by BNSF power in the span of this trip that saw us drive nearly 3000 miles!
As expected I have a LOT of photos and they will dominate my feed for a bit as I drop them into the album and journal my adventure. So come along if you wish. I'm going to start by posting one photo of each train of the trip in chronological order before doubling back to fill in with shots from all the spots from each respective chase.
Third train of the trip and second one on Day 2 was one of those four aforementioned BNSF jobs in the form of an empty unit train coal seen dropping down the 2.2% grade of Evaro Hill at about MP 5.2 on the modern day MRL's 10th Subdivision mainline. The only reason I shot this was that I was standing here for my last shot of eastbound empty Day Gas return and these guys were right on their tail. We'd heard them getting authority all morning as soon as the gas would roll up part of their track warrant, and this was strictly opportunistic since this train was about 40 min behind the first one and we had a couple hours to work with before our next official target of the trip.
The rails here are the original Northern Pacific Railway mainline that opened in 1883 as the second transcontinental railroad. This route was largely supplanted in 1909 when the NP completed a cut off between the mainline at Paradise and the Coeur d'Alene Branch at St. Regis creating a water level route from DeSmet (just west of Missoula) that exists today as MRL's 4th Subdivision Mainline. In days of old the 10th Sub over Evaro Hill was largely the domain of passenger trains though today MRL sees fit to use it for empty eastbound unit trains such as this. The only regular exception to the rule are the gas locals which seem to take this route west whenever they can due to their light tonnage which allows them to make the hill with ease while shaving off nearly 30 miles.
Evaro Hill
Missoula County, Montana
Monday September 5, 2022
A wintry scene in northern China as the C2 loco heads back to Huanan with a loaded coal train from the mine in the distant hills. It was as cold as it looks. Be thankful you're not a cow.
Huanan Coal Railway, Heilongjiang Province, Northern China.
November 2006. © David Hill.
“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.” ― Philip Larkin, Letters to Monica
This image will be reproduced in the Guardian's Guide to Photography (print version) on Saturday 17th November. This will be the first time an image of mine has been used in print so I'm pretty pleased to say the least.
an image captured for the BW Project 2019, the theme was "On the Edge"
- on the edge of the water
- on the edge of continued existence for this poor cormorant (note the "ball and chain" attached by monofilament)
- On the edge of existence for us? .....unfortunately, it seems that man and nature frequently don't play nice together.
Planes Of Existence, Canary Wharf, London, UK. July 16, 2022. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian/2022 (NB-Photograph has been rotated 180 degrees)
Le hangar de matériel de Leroy Merlin dans la zone industrielle de St Egreve: les hauts et bas d'une vie de travail et de production...
Throughout the centuries, the existence of the castle was repeatedly threatened. After different successive owners, it was bought by Mister Vaïsse, the great-uncle of the present owner, in 1911. A great art lover, he contributed to the restoration and enrichment of the castle until his death when his successor and nephew, the duke of Dalmatia, opened the castle to the public in 1955. Today, his descendants take care of preserving its authenticity and family character.
...I mentioned before that we are having temperamental September... So here is an impression from one very rainy-misty day. The sunset was so mysteriously impressive - all filled with peachy pink light caught in the constantly moving mist... A pure magic!
Tried to be gently with texture processing to keep this mysterious feel to it...
More of the misty side of September is coming soon - Stay tuned! / Bientot a l'ecran! :-)
The series Toronto's Mixed Forest
You are most welcome to look through the set or you may like to see it as a slide show.
UPDATE: This work was featured at "The World Through My Eyes" blog on Sept 29, 2011 at TWTME Admin's Choice Showcase!!
theworldthroughmyeyesgroup.blogspot.com/2011/09/toronto-m...
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha
Namibia Set I Travel Collection I Steve's Website I © Steve Rosset 2011
Namibia, Africa
Surreal desert landscapes near the border with South Africa.
These Hoodoos of the Southwest always get me questioning time and how their Existence will go on for so much longer then we could possibly imagine,- again reminding me to enjoy everyday for what it is and how important it is to do what you Love!🙏
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The beauty that exists in the world is almost too much to behold. I have just returned from a road trip across the Northern United States and Southern Canada, and feel like I have peered into other worlds! Over the last two and a half weeks I have seen dozens of astoundingly beautiful places, experienced a ton of new things I’ve always wanted to do, and have met over 60 talented and inspiring people that will surely shape me in ways that I’ll still be discovering years from now. I dearly miss everyone that I met but I know God has plans for our lives to intertwine again! I am excited to see where life takes each of us!
This is a shot of our host in Vancouver, the incredible Lizzy Gadd ! She and her beautiful family took us to all sorts of amazing locations, many of which will surface photographs over the next weeks! Please check out her work, she is so insanely talented and inspiring! We shot at this waterfall for like 2 hours and right as we were going to leave, the light started making rays in the water and I was able to shoot this! Too many things seemed so perfect on this trip!
Much more conceptual work to follow!!!
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The only one in Existence. GY DM3A 16474 in the shed's KF livery with the DBR Hood. via 500px ift.tt/2KB3Fk9