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Puente de las Pescaderías o Puente Eiffel, Gerona.
Camí cap a la foscor.
Pont de les Pescateries Velles o Pont Eiffel, Girona.
Road to the dark.
Bridge of "Pescateries Velles" or Eiffel Bridge, Girona.
(Explore, February 23rd, 2016)
With steam to spare and a healthy-looking load of coal in the tender, 46100 'Royal Scot' rolls into Beattock up passenger loop heading the 1Z64 10:37 Edinburgh Waverley-Carlisle S.R.P.S. charter on Bank Holiday Monday 29 August 2016. The surviving infrastructure at this once important 'banking station' and loco depot site is remarkable.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
To the best of my knowledge, the last wig wag in service on the Shasta Route protected KLAD Crossing. This grade crossing lies between Texum siding and Bieber Line Junction just south of Klamath Falls, Oregon. The white structure behind the stop sign was originally an administrative office building for the lumber mill on the site. After the plant closed for the final time, the administrative building was converted for use by radio station KLAD, which gave the crossing its unofficial name.
Although the radio station has since moved on, the crossing retains its unofficial name to this day. Not long after this Kodachrome was exposed, the Magnetic Flagman was retired by Union Pacific.
Just 3 minutes after this image was taken, thousands of people were scurrying across the platform to the escalators
I edited my original selective color shot to full black and white for a contest on Viewbug. Wish me luck!
Another rainy day might as well take advantage of the atmosphere. Rail yard for Port of Seattle as seen from the 4th Ave bridge over the rail yards.
The Port is the heart of Seattle but it is mostly hidden from view on city streets. This location is one of the few places where it can be seen with a sense of it's size and scope. At the far end the cranes from the terminals are visible. On left semi tractors are lined up to have containers dropped onto their trailers, end everywhere else there are trains coming and going.
Cropped for 16 x 10
Christian Radich is a Norwegian full-rigged ship, named after a Norwegian shipowner. The vessel was built at Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation established by a grant from an officer of that name.[1]
The vessel is a full-rigged three-masted (fr) steel hull, 62.5 m long, with an overall length of 73 m including the bowsprit and a maximum width of 9.7 m. She has a draught of about 4.7 meters and a displacement at full load of 1050 tons. Under engine power, the Christian Radich reaches a top speed of 10 knots, while she can make up to 14 knots under sail.[2]
The crew is 18 altogether. It can accommodate 88 passengers. The Christian Radich is well known through the international release in 1958 of the Cinemiracle widescreen movie Windjammer. The Christian Radich sailed to the United States in 1976 as part of the Bicentennial Celebration, and partook in the Operation Sail parade in New York Harbor on 4 July 1976. The ship also appeared as herself in the 1970s BBC TV series The Onedin Line, as one of James Onedin's ships.[citation needed]
The vessel was built for training sailors for the Norwegian merchant navy, and did so for many years. From 1999 and on, the ship has been on the charter market as well as sailing with paying trainees to foreign ports on summer trips, participating in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race and large sail events in various European ports. She won on corrected time in Class A and overall the tall ship in total in 2007, and became the only class A vessel that crossed the finish line.[citation needed]
A new addition to my "Bayside Impressions" series
I have not done this for a while, but it felt really good to do some black and white long exposure work again. This image and another one were just about right to be added to my series "Bayside Impressions".
Long exposure black and white photography has become a very popular genre in photography and many photographers followed masters like Michael Levin, Jeff Gaydash, Marc Koegel and Joel Tjintjelaar and started experimenting with neutral density filters. I personally enjoy the idea of taking long exposure photographs a lot. It always fascinated me how light gathered on film and produces a image that not only captured light but also time. I did not like the clean and sometimes overproceseds look of some of the digitally processed images. My process is a bit different, it concentrates on the more natural look of a scene and less on the creative interpretation. This is just a different approach and something that suits my personal style more. I hope you are enjoying this photograph. The Bay Bridge and the piers in San Francisco have been photographed many times, but they are still iconic and people will continue to shoot them over th next decades. This is my interpretation, my work, my photograph - one among others but still unique.
Pier 24 is a wonderful place to view and think about photography. If you have not yet been there I highly recommend putting this on your itinerary for the next SF trip.
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Il mistero di quella parte di città
che scende ripida verso i cantieri,
ora che non ci sono più cantieri
ma solo qualche scafo imbalsamato
e palazzoni popolari in declivio
che si accendono ai tramonti d'ottobre
non potrò salire le scale
per ascoltare di là dalle porte
le donne e i bambini sbadigliare
e i raggi dell'ultimo sole
tra i quaderni incantati e una minestra
era così e poi una piccola luna
era il segno di domani per i padri
e anche un sogno breve all'osteria
carezzando il mare laggiù in fondo.
Cartolina di Trieste? Ma sì, forse.
Eppure se dal porto una sirena
lunga e triste mi raggiunge la notte
mi accorgo che essere felice
si riduce, in fondo, a poche cose.
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Paolo Longo ottobre 2014