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The San Francisco Bay Bridge
While most people think of the Golden Gate Bridge when they think of San Francisco, I think about the Bay bridge. I've always admired the look of this beautiful bridge.
Today I woke up super early, for no particular reason, so I decided to get dressed and go out and shoot a few long exposures. While I was out shooting, I realized that I forgot my flashlight, and my remote stopped working. Despite missing some equipment, I stuck it out and got a few shots that I am pretty happy with.
I haven't posted anything recently as I am getting ready for the new year. If I am not back again til 2009, then Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all of you!
Here's a photo (SOOC with just sharpening) of a beautiful bride getting ready, which I captured in November at the awesome Parker Hotel in Palm Springs.
Before entering the Connecticut Ren Fair, my daughter Carolyn is helping her friend Justin McGuire get into costume. My wife, Mary Ann is in the center and our friend Jean Smith can be seen to the left. Note the somewhat unmidieval modes of transportation.
On 8 July, 2017 Carolyn and Justin married.
Was challenged by Marianna Armata to do a portrait of a stranger. Strangers were tough seeing the I live in the country and don't get out much. Got this portrait of my wife during an unplanned trip to Chicago. Late but better than never.
My son was playing with Natasha yesterday, Moving his hand into her space, the top of the bookcase, and then jerking it out of reach before she could get her claws into it. He didn't want to be in my shot and moved away, but she wasn't done playing!
Illinois 7 Jade Vecvanags in the middle of a rough inning. Nebraska scored 8 points in the second to win 10-2 in five.
This is the fun little Get Well Card I made today.
Used "wishing you well" 40-131 and "eloquence" 30-162.
Washi tape and heart button.
Wave Swinger at night in PNE's Playland, Vancouver
Canon EOS 10D: 20mm (32mm) f/9 0"6 ISO 100
As crossposted on our photoblog, pleasantly tilted.
Found this new SD70ACe sitting by the yard office in Burlington, Ia, so I braved the rain to grab a shot. The unit behind it is the 9647, the former "vomitbonnet".
Ok, so my new librarian friend, Bunny Spice,http://www.flickr.com/photos/bunnyspice/, who I have probably seen at some library event somewhere, suggested that I ...
"I enjoy your stream. We are quite alike in our photography tastes, which makes this fun for me.
I challenge you to take three of your favorite things (or a representation of) and compose a lovely still-life. You can light and process it as you wish, but it should be representative of your personality and style. "
I first had to think of three (notice how I scored a couple of extras?) favorite things. I hope it's a lovely still-life. I looked at the project as a story. In the year 2035 a grandchild is given a very old leather suitcase. The story she is told: this suitcase belonged to your great-grandmother, and years ago your grandmother treated it like a time capsule and packed away three (or four) things that had meaning for her. There is a letter, hand-written, that tells a bit about your grandmother, but she hoped that these objects would give you a broader picture of what was important to her and what were some things that shaped her life. Inside the suitcase the grandchild found: a wedding photo in a silver frame, an old toy car, a photo of three young adults, a bald doll, and a yellowed school schedule of some sort. The grandchild took them out, examined them, and pieced together significant pieces from the life of her aging grandmother. Whether the child was correct will never matter. What is important is that she held the objects and gave them life again.
For his next duty is the driver of EAC Lda operated Atomic bodied Scania, seen at the depot in Canico Madeira. 17/07/12
black and white or no?
i love this picture sooooooo much.
i was trying to get a picture of him looking of that fence but then he picked his wedgie and i HAD to snap a picture!
for the Albanifest in Winti tonight
I'm getting things arranged at the new office. Nowhere near done yet, but this is what it looks like. The Pooh books are above the monitor just off the top-left corner of the picture.
look from under the water at Alu ^^
Visit this location at Blessed Inc.- Clothing Store and Zooby Baby Clothing Affiliate in Second Life
Getting on board a tram at the Halfway Station on the Great Orme Tramway for the ride up to the Summit Station / Summit Complex.
The Great Orme Tramway (Welsh: Tramffordd y Gogarth) is a cable-hauled 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge tramway in Llandudno in north Wales. Open seasonally from late March to late October, it takes over 200,000 passengers each year from Llandudno Victoria Station to just below the summit of the Great Orme headland. From 1932 onwards it was known as the Great Orme Railway, reverting to its original name in 1977.
It is Great Britain's only remaining cable-operated street tramway, and one of only a few surviving in the world, and it is owned by Conwy County Borough Council. The line comprises two sections, where each section is an independent funicular and passengers change cars at the halfway station. Whilst the upper section runs on its own right of way and is very similar to many other funicular lines, the lower section is an unusual street-running funicular.
Whilst the street running section resembles the better-known San Francisco cable cars, its operation is quite different in that it adheres to the funicular principle where the cars are permanently fixed to the cable and are stopped and started by stopping and starting the cable, unlike San Francisco where cars attach to, and detach from, a continuously running cable. As such, this section's closest relatives are Lisbon’s Glória, Bica, and Lavra street funiculars.
Authority to build the tramway was granted by the Great Orme Tramways Act of 1898, and construction started in 1901. The tramway was opened in its two stages: the lower section on 31 July 1902 and the upper on 8 July 1903. The original power house, at the Halfway station between the lower and upper sections, was equipped with winding gear powered by steam from coke-fired boilers. Communication between the power house and the tram cars was provided by a telegraph system, operating over an overhead wire and trolley poles on the cars.
The line was initially provided with seven cars, three freight cars numbered 1 to 3 and four passenger cars numbered 4 to 7. The passenger cars were each named after a local Welsh Christian saint and are still in service. The freight cars were for the carriage of goods and parcels, as stipulated in the tramway's original Parliamentary Order, but were withdrawn from service by 1911. The freight vans were also used to carry coffins for burial at the church on Great Orme. There were two methods of using the freight tramcars - they could be placed on the track ahead of a passenger tram, and propelled up the incline, or the cable could be detached from a passenger tram and attached instead to a freight tram, which then operated alone up the incline. All seven trams were fitted with couplings, which would have allowed the passenger trams to tow the freight trams, but there is no evidence that this type of operation ever actually occurred.
The line suffered a serious accident and consequent financial difficulties in the 1930s, resulting in its sale in 1935 to the Great Orme Railway company. In 1949, Llandudno Urban District Council exercised its power, granted by the original act of parliament, to buy the line. Ownership of the line has since passed to Aberconwy Borough Council and then Conwy County Borough Council as a result of local government reorganisations.
The original steam power was replaced in 1958 by electrically powered apparatus. In 1977, the line reverted to the Great Orme Tramway name that it had carried prior to its sale in 1935. Between 1999 and 2001, the line received £1 million of funding from the European Union, together with a further £1 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund and matching funds from its owner. As a result, in 2001, the entire Halfway station, its control room and its power plant were completely rebuilt and re-equipped. At the same time the overhead wire telegraph communication system was replaced with an induction-loop system.
The Great Orme or Great Orme's Head (Welsh: Y Gogarth or Pen y Gogarth) is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, next to the town of Llandudno. It is referred to as Cyngreawdr Fynydd in a poem by the 12th-century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr. Its English name derives from the Viking (Old Norse) word for sea serpent, which it is said to resemble. It is echoed by the Little Orme, a smaller but very similar limestone headland on the eastern side of Llandudno Bay in the parish of Llanrhos.
Tram 7 - St Trillo