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I have really been swamped with work. I appreciate all your comments, invites, and faves and if I miss replying to someone, it is not intentional. Hope you're having a great weekend. Ours here is spectacular!
Striking a match. Match is moving left to right. Flash employed. Numerous attempts. Proved to be a challenge. Box is 2 inches in length.
I hope you enjoy my impression of the mysterious Manukau harbour, Auckland. On a gloomy day it's a silent, magical and strangely ominous place. A plane can be seen just above the boat navigating the sandbanks. ICM (Intentional camera movement)
I borrowed Mr. Flamingo from my Floridian friend. He has wings that flap all day long as long as he is in the sun (he is solar powered). Most work caused me the background this time. To simulate a sunset I put my orange egg from a previous Macro Mondays on a Bajan sunset which I thought would be fast, but it wasn't. The layered photo was used as a background on my computer. Mr. Flamingo stood in front of it. The next difficulty was getting light on Mr. Flamingo without making him too shiny. I used a torch to make his wings flap and it took quite a few tries to get the wings going but not to shine it directly on his highly reflective surface.
With all the recent flurry of photos of the final trains to run on this unaltered single track stretch if street running I figured I'd edit up a few more from last summer's pilgrimage since I couldn't make it for the last runs.
Here is another look at South Shore train 508 (the railroad was running their weekend schedule on the observed Monday holiday) that left South Bend at 5:45 PM 45 minutes prior to when I took this shot at 5:30 PM. Yes, you can travel through time on the South Shore Line! Are there any other commuter lines in the country where you cross a time zone boundary?
Anyway, the standard train of Nippon Sharyo Electric MUs is led by #106, one of the single ended cab units from the 2001 order of 10 similar cars, the newest of the single level fleet most of which date from 1982-1983 though 14 more are a decade newer than that.
They have just snaked through the famous s-curve on 11th Street between Lafayette St. and Cedar St. at about MP 33.8 and are climbing the hill toward me at the corner of Spring Street. Dominating the background is abandoned Spanish Revival style circa 1925 First Christian Church building. I framed this scene up intentionally like this to highlight the historic church which has since been demolished to allow for the straightening of this curve in conjunction with the double track project that is underway forever altering this classic scene.
To learn more history of this last interurban check out the long caption with this image from my trip out last year: flic.kr/p/2jx3cBG
Michigan City, Indiana
Monday July 5, 20211