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Passengers and Dispatcher alike monitor progress of their train, a class 221 Super Voyager, as it approaches Crewe station.
It's Avanti's 11.10am London Euston - Chester service (1D85), which not only arrives bang on schedule but eventually reaches Chester on time too. Great Expectations, at least regards timekeeping, would appear to have been met on this occasion!
12.45pm, 24th January 2020
A Black Skimmer holds its beak open, with perhaps too great expectations for the shallowness of the skim.
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“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
I had hoped to reprise my luck from a year previous at Darling, AZ for a morning parade of eastbounds heading into the rising sun. Unfortunately an early work block in Flagstaff spread out the eastbound fleet from the LA harbors and terminals, and a cloudbank right after dawn impeded the light.
BNSF 7663 heads an eastbound priority intermodal through the Darling sag just after dawn, and on towards Winslow.
"Where man sees but withered leaves,
God sees sweet flowers growing."
- Albert Laighton
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Honestly I can't remember what this is! It's dappled with dried rain spots and has a stuccoed exterior in the background, but beyond that...
When the company I worked for introduced Quality Assurance principles in 1988, as part of my role I taught the history and application of Quality Management techniques to my staff. I used to hold up Arnott's Biscuits as a leading example. All Aussies will know and love Arnott's wonderful biscuits.....until not all that long ago they used to deliver their products in sparkling red vans that were never dirty, always shining clean and personally I had never found an Arnott's Biscuit that I didn't like nor that was presented and opened without perfection. Now those to me at the time were some important hallmarks of TQM (Total Quality Management) that I thought were great examples for my students....exceeding customer's expectations, consistent quality of product.
I know many of you will have studied and applied this stuff in your professional and perhaps personal lives in recent times. This mural of an Arnott's advertising sign brought back those memories and I still love their biscuits (many made within a couple of kilometres from us in Brisbane, at times I can still smell their vanilla creams!) - although they are not so good for me health wise these days. Sadly in some ways, Arnotts was sold to Campbell's (soups) of the USA quite a few years ago, amid some controversy about selling off the farm and is now owned by American investment company KKR - see link below.
Today, they have modified their advertising to simply..."There is no substitute".
This is one of a number of old signs at Scotty's Garage.
I'm going, I'm going
Where the water tastes like wine
I'm going where the water tastes like wine
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay
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Ruaha National Park was still waiting for the so much needed rains. The habitat couldn't have been more different from the Selous / Nyerere had it tried. Dry riverbeds, yellow and brown grasses, and even the normally verdant green leaves of Acacias tinting toward the grey.
This Zebra, with its stark black and white contrast proved to be the "speck of colour" in a fairly monochrome ochre landscape :)
Good luck U.S.A. and may a straw of common sense and democracy will always be in reach ...
No Expectations by The Rolling Stones (1968)
Meerkat / Erdmännchen (Suricata suricatta)
Makgadikgadi Pan N.P., Botswana, Africa
I was grateful to be invited along by the Great Glen Camera Club this morning to a day trip around Glens Affric and Cannich. Having been 'spoiled' on my last visit to Glen Affric 2 weeks ago, I was keeping my expectations in check, especially as we arrived to heavy cloud cover. I chose a slightly different shooting location for my first images, using these 3 boats to add some near-field interest (which had been only barely visible in my previous series). I was delighted that Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin was once again mirror-like and even more so when the sky coloured briefly just before sunrise.
"It don't get no better
My tongue writing you letters
Feeling you get wetter
We'll be making love until the morning after
And I can feel your tide slowly rising
As I'm sipping from your water fountain
We gon' flood the bed, take it to the ground
While I'm in your ocean baby, hold my head down.
I wanna drown in it, drown in it..Yeah, baby.
Drown in it, drown in it..Just take me under.
Drown in it, drown in it...Under your waters, girl.
Drown in it, drown in it. I won't ever come up, oh." - Chris Brown ♫
Some people believe that there is no such thing as “true love” they believe that love is nothing but an illusion designed by social expectations. These people believe that love ultimately turns into pain and despair. This idea in some ways is true. Love is not eternal it will come to an end one way or another, but the aspect that separates true love from illusion, is the way love ends. “True Love” is much too powerful to be destroyed by Human imperfection; it may only be destroyed by a force equal to the power of love. Diotima believed that “Love is wanting to posses the good forever” In other words love is the desire to be immortal and the only way that we are able to obtain immortality is through reproduction, and since the act of reproduction is a form of sexual love, then sexual love is in fact a vital part of “True love”. Sexual love is not eternal. This lust for pleasure will soon fade, but the part of love that is immortal, is a plutonic love. You can relate this theory to the birth of love that Diotima talks about. She says that love was born by a mortal mother and immortal father. The mother represents the sexual love, the lust for pleasure. The father represents the plutonic love that is immortal. Plutonic love is defined as a true friendship, the purest of all relationships. A true plutonic love will never die; it transcends time, space, and even death.
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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ~Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations
Ever since shooting a train with Boeings here in 2017 (flic.kr/p/CzV3jf) I had thought it would be a cool shot to do over with an MRL Ace, or if I was lucky an SD40. Never did I imagine I would get a chance to shoot an SD45 here! It's tough, because Columbus offers a number of other neat shots that generally get all the attention. However, with the more scenic location slayed the day prior, I decided to see how this looked. While not earth shattering, I can now cross a pretty damn neat shot off my list. Train is seen here roaring out of Columbus, which has a Minnesota connection. Originally called Sheep Dip, and then Stillwater, due to the Northern Pacific already having a Stillwater, MN, the mail was getting delivered to all the wrong locations. It was then renamed Columbus, which it remains today.