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on the streets of Berlin, Germany
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An UN-forgettable experience !!!!!! ❤️❤️❤
I will tell you now a heartfelt S.African story of Liza’s recent experience over there, with this adorable giraffe girl, that you can see in my today’s photos!!
Well, that very warm day I was alone with Alex , my lovely Scottish guide and driver , in that huge savannah jeep of the Lion Park in Johannesburg. No other tourists participated in that hour of the day…Just Liza. The jeep was not protected in that specific area, because we were surrounded by harmless African animals, ….like giraffes!!
A certain moment, turning my head to my left, and about some 600m away, I see a lonely giraffe staring at our jeep. Alex stops the car , and says, “ Ah, she is Alice”!! Suddenly, I see …Alice starting galloping towards us…She stops some 50m away, and then calmly starts walking towards our jeep….My camera in my hands, does not stop shooting…Alice stops, and starts sniffing around the jeep, getting closer to me, while I was sitting on the left back, upper seats of the jeep!! My heart is about to explode!!! I see her ….enormous head with those adorable eyelashes approaching …..my face holding the camera! I leave the camera aside!!! ….I touch her cheeks!!! ….Start cuddling her face! She feels like a horse!!!.... She comes VERY close to my face, and leaks my face all over, and breaths all over my face!! I close my eyes cuddling her cheeks!! She makes a horse-like noise with her mouth , staring directly into my eyes, while I see her with my eyes wide open now. And….. then, ….she starts getting away from the jeep slowly!!!
I am sitting on my seat, motionless, breathless! Was this real???An African giraffe just kissed my face ??? I cuddled a lovely giraffe’s face, for, at least, 4 minutes???.....I started jumping up and down on my seat, laughing, joyfully saying “Yess! Yess!!!!” , while Alex jokingly, says, “She was just a friendly girl, Liza, not a handsome man!!” ❤️❤️❤️
A former Susquehanna SD45 that went to the Montana Rail Link has found its way onto the I&M Rail Link was leading a leased SD40 and a Southern Pacific AC4400CW one month into the IMRL era at Nahant in 1997.
The new regional was getting started and all sorts of interesting power was showing up.
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This is a composite image made from photos I took in different places (the background was taken in Brussels' Central Station, the animal is an elephant I captured in Kenya). This picture is part of my series titled "Wild Animals Downtown". I wanted to generate a surreal atmosphere with a clean and unexpected composition (Every graphic element you see in my Flickr gallery comes from my own stock/production)
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Always Be a Beginner to See
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
You, always be a beginner to see
The runaway in motions close from you
The street's not empty if there is a tree
Shadowing your footsteps from the sky blue
Each of your moments is nearly not fed
Like rain bowing colours in cyberspace
The prism of few: yellow, purple, blue, red
Coming and visiting each of your place
Come see a few pictures there in your mind
Experience passing longitude in line
If I'm not wrong and you're not colour-blind
It's hard all those shades clearly to define
Closed book gets open a guide to the way
How you each moment meet with a new day.
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The poem appeared on www.poemhunter.com/peter-s-quinn
The head end crew of a BNSF stack train gets a look at their train several feet below as they negotiate their way around Tehachapi Loop.
UNBLIND YOURSELF AND REACH FOR YOUR STAR
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Having a night 'off' and actually doing a sketch (feel like I haven't sketched for ages!) of my art supplies and using this as a way to get them together...
next I want to sketch the bag, the extra supplies (ink etc)...the full art packing list!
This year I have started my sketchbook with two sections - 1. Research 2. Getting ready. I am not going to do the stupid thing I did last year by sketching the last 5 days before I left as if I was on holiday... but rather just doing a few pages if I have (or make) time
"You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere…"
*Tracy Chapman*
It's almost time for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia
(March 11-15), getting ready for this one week marathon... and finally I'm getting the feeling of the project as a whole, so stay tuned...
And if you want to see/shoot/participate, take a look here:
I had been watching this location for some time and I chose the right moment to photograph it, since only a couple of weeks later it was completely boarded up. I would imagine that the owners of this former restaurant received a good sum of money when they sold this property to developers and closed down their restaurant. I was amazed to see that almost everything was left behind at this location, the tables and chairs you see in this photograph as well as dishes and like most restaurants everything within the kitchen itself.
Abandoned Restaurant in Ontario, Canada.
©James Hackland
This is a restaurant scene, which I photographed in Nottingham with my X-T2 camera and 35mm prime lens (50mm full frame equivalent).
I was aiming for a Jack Vettriano look for my image.
Software used:
Capture One Fujifilm Express
Topaz Studio - dehaze
Photoshop Elements
Click on the image to see a larger view.
The 3415 of the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad, getting underway this past Saturday.
The 3415 was built in 1919 and was last operated by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad before being donated to the city of Abilene, Kansas. It was on static display in a park for decades before being restored in the early 2000's.
Image made with a Pentax K1 and Pentax DFA 28-105 in Abilene, Kansas.
every time I decide to use groups I get nervous, first , because fave links are slow or mostly difficult to catch immediately, I use personal lapcomputers and Explorer, maybe that's the reason ? then because I have to use the old groups not to incur in that beta ridiculous praxis to scroll down maybe hundreds of comments in order to put mine, I just wonder who was " intelligent "
enough to invent this unnerving practice ! he , she or they probably don't put his , her, their pictures on Flickr and have no problems with fingers after hours of scrolling up and down ! I just wonder if these new and " intelligent " rules have been made by a photographer or by an idiotic burocrat or a whole team of idiots
Shooting from Alexandra Palace, North London
Alexandra Palace is an historic entertainment venue in Alexandra Park, North London. It is located between Muswell Hill and Wood Green, in the north of the city. It was originally opened in 1873 but was rebuilt in 1875 following a destructive fire.
As winter draws nearer and daylight savings drew to a close, I once again find myself in the end-of-the-year hibernation that seems to have become an annual occurrence. Certainly a struggle to find the desire to want to shoot anything when darkness comes quick, the days get chillier, and probably most importantly, a lack of stuff I actually want to bag. So many things I would otherwise enjoy shooting have become nocturnal, and everything else is too far away to justify - be it time, distance, or cost to get there being the killer. A little burnout from a long year is the cherry on top of it all.
But, all is not lost. All it takes is the right thing to prod me and I'm out in the hot seat once again. A little heads-up that CN A407 had the venerable IC1000 leading it earlier in the day made me decide for once it would be worth jumping out of the house and taking a peek. I needed to run some errands anyway, why not have a look? Happily enough, I ran across the train as it was pulling up to Leverett Junction for a recrew. It was only a short wait until they were ready to go and moving - and I just couldn't resist going for the classic twin elevators of Leverett proper for a shot.
IC1000, class leader of the Illinois Central SD70s, has become the most coveted of all 26 all-black units today. Earlier this year, while in for its usual maintenance, the 1000 was given a gift: new white reflective tape to replace the ~17 year old yellow tape on the sill and footwells.
With a paint scheme as incredibly simple as the IC New Image "Death Star" is, even the smallest changes make a big difference - and wow, what a difference the white sill makes here. The addition of the AC and the - thankfully - tastefully small PTC antennae on the roof of the unit means you wouldn't fool anyone into thinking it would fit perfectly into the 1990s again... but it's pretty damn close. Although unlikely, it would be a real treat to see some more of the SD70s regain their white sills again. One can dream, anyway.
I've not had the best luck catching the IC1000 after its re-silling, so to get a chance to nab it again was a real delight. Some would complain about the CN-dressed IC1009 trailing, but I didn't terribly mind. No matter what trails, I'll never complain about getting to see the 1000 in the lead!
A woman takes a position on the rocks to get a photograph of people in front of the falls at Gooseberry Falls State Park in Minnesota.
Macro Mondays ~ Rainbow
One of my dollar store purchases for this weeks theme were colorful pencil grips.
The color and texture really drew me in, but I wanted them to look more mysterious or alien
and once I got the angle of my flashlight just right and toyed with the dof, my camera and I were in sync for the moment.
HMM to All!
Patryk Szymanski gets low to deliver a body blow to Gundrick King during their 8 round super welterweight bout on December 12, 2014 in Chicago, IL. Szymanski won by first round KO and improved to 12-0, 7 KOs.
This is a re-edit of one of my favorite boxing pictures. I originally edited this photo in the now defunct Aperture and Nik's Silver Efex Pro. This version was done entirely in LR, and obviously, in color.
I have driven past this place hundreds of times . . . literally . . . but usually on the clock, so no time to dawdle . . . on this day, the sky was dramatic . . . the highway empty . . . and I was on my own time. There is actually a lot more clutter than I captured here, but this angle just sang . . . I knew I would have to sacrifice foreground and sky in a crop, and I hesitated before releasing the shutter . . . I'm glad it turned out!
For other reasons that I am not presently at liberty to discuss, I will remember this day as Black Friday!