Hamburg Speicherstadt (part I) speed boat

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Calata cuneo, Oneglia, Imperia - Liguria Italy

Some of the fairground rides at my place.

one new change, london

5-3-2017 Railway Bridge

View through the carriage window.

Sea truck passing Antony Gormley's Another Place.

I do enjoy all genres of photography and railways are no exception. My father & grandfather worked on the railways and my personal experience of being with grandad in Meadow Lane signal Box (Sneinton Nott'm) as a steam loco came through that was quite an unforgettable experience. As too was this close quarters encounter at Christon Bank as a high speed Azuma service to Edinburgh thundered passed me as I stood ready with camera to capture the moment.

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The Shinkansen (bullet train) arrives at Kyoto Station.

The Flying Scotsman showing the speed and beautiful restoration of this steam engine.

Taken on The Watercress Line last March

gotta love the west!

Driving in the driver's cabin of a Swiss train.

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Qantas Travelator, Sydney Airport

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The Time Warp

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S91wQbYYX3Q

NO AI USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THIS IMAGE.

By now you well know my take on AI and photography, writing and music. It's like oil and water - they don't belong together! But please don't take my word for it. The great Australian musician, Nick Cave, was so incensed by AI he wrote one of the finest reflections on the subject in defense of the human creative spirit.

When this letter is read by the incomparable Stephen Fry, then it really is something special. Take a few minutes to watch this beautiful reading:

Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF4bLKd4

"Chat GPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanizing the imagination."

"This impulse, this creative dance, that is now being so cynically undermined, must be defended at all costs. And just as we would fight any existential evil, we should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world.

Love Nick."

L514 cruising for a quit rolls through Gaines with one of the two flared SD40-2W's on point with a SD60 trailing. L514 is simply a Flint to Moterm and return container shuttle job. The job used to be out of Port Huron but with Poho being a crew change point and a customs inspection site it would severely delay trains and create quite a bottleneck so the pick ups and set offs were moved to Flint and created this L514 job to handle the traffic between the two locations.

London, UK - Apr. 2017

Hand held slow mo shot of the approaching train

Grand Central Terminal, New York City, USA

Porthcawl. South Wales. September 2021.

The "final sprint" (our speed here, at this point, had nothing to do with sprint.)

A bit steep here, so if one stumbles over the edge, you'll be somewhere down in the village in no time. Or the remains at least.

Er ist flott unterwegs...

Athens, GA (Clarke County) Copyright 2008 D. Nelson

LARGE

It's 33 degrees out right now...needless to say, no more outdoor dress pictures (at midnight, in the train tracks).

Speed stripes

For Speed!

With the Cans lit this Tornado Gr4 crew steer their Tornado Gr4 out of low level to make a fast track for home with the wings swept back to help the aerodynamic flow.

Explore #67

Bragg Creek Alberta Wilderness

Soon to be demolished for yet another multi-story bleh.

Photo from winter ’21…