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If you've followed my photostream for a while you may have noticed there isn't much steam on here. Thanks to the antics that surround mainline excursions I swore them off about 20 years ago. I have a list of reasons to pass on them about as long as my arm. I knew the Big Boy revival would be the hot topic this year and didn't make any plans around it. I was content to follow the action through the impressive imagery by those I follow here on Flickr.
When the 4014 got closer to the Twin Cities I started comparing the schedule of the train to my own. I would be in the same city on the same day as the Big Boy at least twice. With billions of pixels burned on the 4014 this summer I had doubts about the need for me take pictures of the trip. A bigger consideration was simply seeing this beast in action with my own eyes. Last Friday the 4014 headed for Duluth but oppressive heat and poor sun angles dissuaded me from being there.
Monday had a very nice forecast and I brought the camera along to work with plans to nab them coming through Northeast Minneapolis on their way back from Duluth. I tracked the progress of the excursion through the day. There is frequent bus service out of downtown so I planned to duck out when they got close to the Junction at Coon Creek and intercept them for a quick photo. I also kept an eye on ATCS for an indication of the line-up and reroute for the extra when I reached the Staples Sub.
It looked like they made excellent time out of Superior and each time they stopped I hoped for a little more delay for a little better afternoon light. Maybe I got lulled by all the updates, I watched them close in on Coon Creek, still no lineup onto the Staples. Hmmm, they aren't stopped, a couple minutes later and a check of the live map on UPRR, they were on the Staples already, oh no! I bolted out the door and caught the next bus, a very crowded and very slowwww bus. Well I got to my spot but missed the 4014 by just a couple minutes. I cut it too close and could do nothing but catch a bus back to the office (almost empty and twice as fast of course).
Frustrated, I now had a quandry, do I give up on seeing the Big Boy or do I make one more try at it since it was still in St. Paul for the night? The forecast for Tuesday was just as nice and if I altered my commute a bit I could be there to see the departure on my way into work. This alternate route put me on the always exciting I-94 where my car sustained a healthy rock chip crater to my windshield. This casual visit with the Big Boy was not proving to be easy. The bus deposited me right on time near the foot of the Kellogg Blvd bridge. There was a handful of folks waiting on the bridge (much larger crowds along a fence closer to the train). The train started the trip right on the advertised at 8 a.m. but stopped to fuel up before departing the depot. Within a half hour the fueling was done and 4014 had resumed the trip to Altoona.
Watching the 4-8-8-4 swing out of the depot and climb the hill was very impressive and I'm glad I was there to see it at work. Now I'll go back to watching its progress near and far through the lenses of others. A short walk from this spot put me on a light rail train in front of Union Depot for the rest of my trip to work.
Watchful eyes from both sides of the cab keep a close eye on the running gear as it swings around the tight curve approaching Seventh Street in St. Paul. July 23, 2019.
for those who don't know yet, aside from photography, i love cooking. looking at these fesh produce at a street stall in venice was just such eye candy for me. i just grazed my eyes on tons of veggies that we don't grow in the tropics. i see fennel here and there in some supermarkets, but they can cost up to 6 USD a piece for a small root! i loved the freshness of everything that i wanted to snatch them all and make some rockin' rattatouille!
The locals are looking for any remaining coal lumps after 15AR 2082 has cleaned fire at Molteno whilst working the daily washout train from Queenstown to Burgersdorp.
A giraffe’s neck is too short to reach the ground. As a result, it has to awkwardly spread or bend its front legs to reach the ground for a drink of water.
Rothschild's giraffe is a subspecies of the giraffe. It is one of the most endangered distinct populations of giraffe, with 1671 individuals estimated in the wild in 2016
Rothschild's giraffe displays no markings on the lower leg, giving it the impression of wearing white stockings
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This one is dedicated to my wife, for without her support, it would've been impossible for me to pursue my passion for photography. Also, we celebrate our wedding anniversary today..
Thanks for visiting! Most photos are of Mei, my wife and muse.
Albums of interest:
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Delayed for processing and, just in time for the #CrewDragon's return to port: This is the #SpaceX #Demo1 #Falcon9 launch early last Saturday morning (2:49am ET, March 2) seen on Kodak Ektachrome 100 35mm film.
My thanks again to James Dean, Emre Kelly and Craig Bailey for letting me shoot on their roof. Their coverage for Florida Today is really great and if you're not following them you should be. (The two silhouettes disembodied by the light from the parking lot are from the Florida Today team; I was too busy fussing with cameras to notice who they were.)
Shooting film continues to be a test of my patience, as I just received the scan of the transparency film this evening, almost a week after the launch, but it sure is fun seeing the results.
Details:
Picture by me using Kodak Ektachrome 100 transparency film in a Canon Elan7 with a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens. The exposure time was approximately 15-minutes at f22.
Shoes, boots, sandals and the ubiquitous 'Havaianas' flip-flops on display in a shoe store and a huge 'For Rent' banner at one of many shopping streets in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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British Columbia, Canada,
Central Park, is a, 90-hectare, (220-acre), urban park, in, Burnaby, British Columbia, founded in 1891
Dieses Haus in Brno verkörpert den sozialutopischen Anspruch des Architecten Mies van der Rohe und den weltoffenen grossbürgerlichen Lebensentwurf seiner Auftraggeber Grete und Fritz Tugendhat.
2001 erklärte die UNESCO das Haus wegen seiner universellen Bedeutung als architektonisches Kunstwerk zum Weltkulturerbe.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe realized his famous Farnsworth House, and seven years before emigrating to the United States, he designed Villa Tugendhat in 1930 for the wealthy couple Fritz and Grete Tugendhat.
As a wedding present, Grete (born Grete Weiss Löw-Beer) received about a half acre of her family's land, a portion on a slope immediately adjacent to Černopolní Street in Brno, now in the Czech Republic. On the property Mies developed a split-level house with three floors: The entrance, bedrooms, nanny quarters, a terrace and play area, and a garage with chauffeur quarters are on the upper level; the living spaces, kitchen, winter garden and another terrace are on the middle level; and the utilities are on the lowest level.
The house can be seen as a domestic version of Mies' Barcelona Pavilion from just one year before, with its flowing, open plan and structural columns distinct from walls. It is also a precursor to Mies' later "universal space," found primarily in the office towers he designed in the United States in the 1950s. But the design is sensitive to the particulars of place and the family who occupied it for only a short time — the Tugendhats, Jewish in origin, fled in 1938, first to Switzerland then to South America.
Perhaps due to Mies' open plan, the building was able to serve later as a school and hospital (housing a child psychology department) before the municipality took ownership and restored the villa in the 1980s. In 2001 the house was named a Unesco World Heritage site, and 10 years later it underwent more restoration work, opening to the public in March 2012.
TOP = AFTER MY EXPERIMENT
Experiments with one JPG with 5 emulated exposures and a few Photoshop.
*This photo belongs SXC.HU
The Sphinx megalith is placed at an altitude of about 2350 m in the Bucegi mountains.
The Bucegi mountains (about 2500m high) are considered as the magic mountains of Romania. Several paranormal phenomena were observed in this area.
This interesting man-shaped (?) stone is looking to the sky. The megalith has its clearest outline on 21st November, at the time the sun goes down.
Around the “Sphinx “of Bucegi and “Babele” (Old women) were weaving legends and have turned tens of mythological theories.
Some researchers consider that the giant megalith (about 10 m hight and 14 m width) Sphinx was used 2100 years ago by the the ancient population of Dacia as an altar for religious purposes
You can found bellow a sequence from the picture DACII-Daces (1966) with a RITUAL HUMAN SACRIFACE made by ancient populations of Daces at the Sphinx, 2100 years ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmmkns7Ty7E&feature=player_em...
See also the video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=al6YA8WwFC4&feature=youtu.be&...
About the religion of the ancient Dacia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8DtIecKeSA&feature=watch_res...
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Airbus A330-323 cn758 de 2006
Air Caraïbes (26/06/2006 - ...)
Aéroport Marseille Provence
18/09/2022
F-WWYR, F-ORLY.
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Maui, Hawaii
Lanai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain. It is colloquially known as the Pineapple ...
Population: 3,131 (2010)
Highest point: Lānaʻihale
Flower: Kaunaʻoa (Cuscuta sandwichiana)
Color: ʻĀlani (orange)
This is for my friend steve in australia! He has been a little under the weather so this is to brighten his day and make him feel better hugs from chico
Waiting for my train at London City Airport.
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Assignment for our photography course: night photography. View from Lillo (a small Belgian village) on the port of Antwerp.
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For April
I know, I know. I have no dignity, but I figure, more people have seen the goods in the last couple of years (Doctors) that really, this is nothing.
Look ing for a sport large enough to land in Rome :D
Photo shot by my friend Tanka
Another step into my European Jump project.
Jumped capitals cities so far:
Berlin :: London :: Madrid :: Amsterdam :: Warsaw :: Paris :: Prague :: Bratislava :: Vienna :: Lisbon :: Stockholm :: Budapest :: Brussels :: Bucharest :: Athens :: Dublin :: Luxembourg :: Ljubljana :: Zagreb :: Podgoricá :: Copenhaguen :: Helsinki :: Rome :: Bern ::
Oslo :: Vatican (Bonus) :: Moscow (Bonus).
To be continued ... ;-)
For once the title isn't completely random. I took this photo while I was waiting for a friend in front of Beaubourg, also called "centre George Pompidou", a modern art museum in central Paris.
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Comme la photo a été prise en France, voici la traduction en Francais, chose que je ne fais plus.
"Alors que je l'atendais ..."
Pour une fois le titre n'est pas le fruit du hazard. Je m'inspire souvent d'une photographe américaine pour créer un titre. Ce jour la, j'attendais une amie devant Beaubourg ou Centre Georges Pompidou. Quelques elements ont attiré mon regard et m'ont inspiré quelques photos. En voici une, un detail de la façade avant du musée Beaubourg.
anyone who's known me since 2009ish might know how much i love the kpop group shinee. my flickr url is shineeshawol. they meant the world to me as i was growing up and the death of jonghyun has hit me hard.
in honor of the hashtag #rosesforjonghyun that was trending after his death i took this picture.
i love you jonghyun. i love you shinee. forever.
you did so well.
Time for another round of Brickbuilt's Finest Creations!
Isaac and I each choose 5 of our best creations from the given time frame and compile them in a single post. Then it is your task to cast your vote on our website, and decide what were our best builds of the given timeframe.
Created for The Blind Pig Speakeasy Challenge 17 - Memory Lane: www.flickr.com/groups/photopigs/discuss/72157644978967275/
It was on January 3rd that I had to say good-bye to my old boy Ozzie. Hard to believe that it has been six months without him. His three best friends (Yellow Dog, Mr. Hedgehog and Mr. Bun-bun) wait patiently for someone to love them. Maybe someday soon.
★ Item ★ The Kinkd Heels come with stockings and some lovley details to make any outfit smexy!
★ Rigged For ★ Maitreya ★ Legacy ★ Reborn ★ Kupra ★ Gen-X ★
★ Remember to always try the DEMOS!★Check for Body Type & Body MOD Compatibility★
★ Comes with a Color Control HUD for changeable color options
★ Cult LM ★ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Champ/189/200/17
★ Cult's Social Media Links ★
So here are some prortypes for trade. I am only looking for prototypes, more specifically, the following:
-Boneduster (Tr-barrelled Lever Action shotgun)
-Overmolded V1 Thumper (Brown and Gunmetal)
-DMR
-Bren
-RPD
-FMG
-Laser Pistol
-M7 SMG Unsilenced
-M90 Shotgun
-M7 Flamethrower V2
-Ushanka
-Rail Gun
-V2 AC8s
-Dark Red
Thanks!
-Chris
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Colin writes, for the 2nd of my three trips on the Wenford, the loco was 08 488, and took place on, of all days, New Year's Eve, 1982....
Eric Rowe of Bodmin Road had arranged with travelling shunter Bill Richards for his young son to travel with him in the cab of the 08 throughout. As for me, I was more than content to enjoy the warmth of the brake van.... I would add that on this middle outing, I was alone - the others being in the company of my good friend Nigel Ward. Eric's home garden backed onto the line, and his lad gave a resounding pull of the horn as we passed by.
Here is Eric's boy - I believe he may work in a Bodmin Car dealership/garage these days? - with Bill Richards at Wenford, just before departure. This time, we took a lengthy payload of 'hoods' back to Boscarne Junction, for later collection by a class 37, and onward movement to Carne Point. Having deposited our rake, we duly proceeded to Bodmin General - here I was asked if I would be happy to descend back to Bodmin Road with the brake van alone - in order to avoid another run-around there. I was more than happy !! It was great fun watching the Guard working the brake handle furiously, racing past " Charlie's Gate ". As we rounded the curve to run adjacent to the up platform, I ventured onto the brake veranda, and bellowed " My Lordz !! " with time-honoured flail salute..... To the amusement of the platform staff, and the utter bemusement of those gathered for the imminent London Paddington-bound HST..... They would be seeing in the New Year at various places up the line - for me, it was the Polgooth Inn, near St. Austell... Friday, 31st December, 1982.
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This is for round 1 of the BioCup 2018 theme fusion (Exo-Force)
Storm Lasher: www.flickr.com/photos/93028248@N08/42345720515/in/datetak...
At the start, I already set my target on making my entry based on a set, originally I was thinking of choosing either Sentai Headquarters or Combat Crawler X2, however I didn’t have a good amount of a certain color or parts I needed… yes I was planning on using a shit ton of bones on the Sentai Headquarters!
With Storm Lasher, the only part I didn’t have that I need for it was the sword pieces for the wings, or the amount I need at least. I use some other blades as a replacement for the lack of those parts. As you can see, I use lots of bones to make the around wing like with the Cave MOC, but all cover with shells.
The tail I didn’t have the parts I need, and the first thing that came to my mind is using the Skrall’s helmets; was a bit annoying putting them on until I found the hand joints to get the shaping right.
The weapons I could had just went with more detail, but I wanted to add some shooters for no reason whatsoever, and now they look like eyes. And with covering the front of the head and the bottom I had to use some rubber bands to get some add-on armor to stay put.
As with the Mini Dragonfly Bot, the color of the wings have to be replace with white, do to not having those hinge pieces and there not being a lot (that I have) of transparent pieces to be use as wings.
For the rest of it, thankfully the banana costume with hand in it helps give a curve shape on top, and than finding ways to get it not to look like a banana on top of a bug.
For my dear friend Angie in remembrance of her dear Mum
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If Roses grow in Heaven
Please pick a bunch for me
Place them in my Mother's arms
and tell her they're from me
Tell her that I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile
Because remembering her is easy
I do it every day
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away
Kirsten Preus
Sky with thanks to Cindy’s Art Stock
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For a time, East Lancashire Railway’s Class 144 DMU set 144 009 carried a non-standard blue livery with yellow ends and black windscreen surrounds, which is believed to have been in connection with a film contract. This image was intended as a refined version of that livery to more closely replicate the style applied to BR’s DMU fleet in the 1970s. The first attempt, without the black windscreen and light surrounds, was less than impressive and these features have now been restored. The base image is, of course, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's 144 011, photographed at Haworth depot (09-Jun-23).
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It has been a tough week. On Thursday morning, we got up as normal at 6 am. 2 hours later, Myles, (52 weeker in 2010 and 2015) was unable to walk, completely unsteady on his feet. We spent the last 4 days in the vet hospital.
Unbelievably, he came down with vestibular disease, the same thing that took our dear Lexi in January. He went from pretty much uncontrolled movement with rolling body behavior from the vertigo, to being able to return home today. The head tilt is a result as is the wobbly legs, high stepping as he walks and the occasional slip to the floor, only time will tell how much he gets back.
it is quite unlikely for 2 dogs to get this in the same house so quickly, so we have had our water tested ~negative, Myles was tested for lead which came back negative and we are waiting on a full toxicology panel on him to come back.
We moved here 11/11 with 4 healthy dogs and now we have 2.5 healthy dogs. it is very disconcerting. Your positive thoughts are greatly appreciated. We and the Drs are baffled. so I end as I started. Its been a tough week.