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White Pocket is a great place to work on using leading lines in your photography since they're all over the place!
A very late Amtrak 40 departs Toledo with Amtrak's 50th Anniversary Pepsi Can unit leading the train. For some unknown reason, a superliner sits on the adjacent track. With the Capitol Limited being combined to make the Floridian, no Superliner consists traverse through Toledo anymore.
Toledo, Ohio
I love our new train station, that building will keep me busy with photography for a while...
For 52 weeks of 2015, and for Sliders Sunday I've been playing around with colours. HSS!
52 weeks of 2015
Theme: Leading Lines
Category: Technique
10/52
SP 7405 and company have a heavy manifest in tow as they climb towards Hiland on SPs Palmdale Cutoff. I always loved listening to these big EMDs muscle through the grade.
Bandon, Oregon sunset. As the tide ebbs, there are lots of opportunities to incorporate leading lines from the landscape.
Museum of Islamic Art building ,Doha, Qatar
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had to do some filming in Brighton for a project and with how nice the light was, couldnt miss out on a few stills.
I took another identical shot without the people walking in the distance. The long shadows from them is why I choose this version.
Also I thought I had broken my 17-40mm lens last Friday, mainly water damage inside the front element. Couple of nights wrapped in a towel with silica gel packs, and then I took the lens apart, gave it a good clean to remove the water dropplets still evident behind the glass, and its working perfectly again so I am very happy.
Steps leading to an outside terrace where I was heading to have a coffee and croissant! I noticed the wonderful shadows in the bright sunlight and the strong leading lines!
Mardale Head seen from Swine Crag on the Long Stile ridge leading up to High Street. The top of Harter Fell shyly hiding under its cloud cap.
The "Creamsicle" unit rolls head on into the blazing evening sun leading 238 in Columbia, shown here outside of Blyethwood, SC.
The red-wattled lapwing is a lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. It has characteristic loud alarm calls which are variously rendered as did he do it or pity to do it leading to colloquial names like the did-he-do-it bird.
Scientific name: Vanellus indicus
Austria, Burgenland, Reiter's Stud-Farm, Lipizzan or Lipizzaner.
When you think of a Lipizzaner, the image of a white horse automatically appears. This is because Lipizzaner have a snow-white to silver coat colour, which they do not have from birth; about 91% of horses do not get the white colour until they are seven to ten years old.
Like all grey horses, Lipizzaner are born black & more rarely brown or mouse grey. In most foals, only white burin hair proves within the first few weeks that they will one day become white. This phenomenon is caused by a gene mutation that is thousands of years old, the so-called grey gene. One of a hundred Lipizzaner foals born in "Piber" still remains dark or even black.
The name Lipizzaner appeared for the first time in 1786, the "Karster", as it used to be called, takes its name from the "Lipica Stud", the original breeding facility in the former Habsburg monarchy.
The Lipizzaner horses have been one of the most famous horse breeds since the 16th century & they are also sensitive, spirited, courageous, intelligent, loyal & prefer to have just one person around taking care them.
The warm-blooded animals originally come from the Slovenian "Lipica" as robust karst horses. Here & above all in the "West Styrian-Austrian Federal Stud Piber", they are still bred to become first-class riding & competition horses. However, only a few stallions make it to the "Spanische Hofreitschule", the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, exclusively from the West Styrian-Austrian Federal Stud Piber.
Karl Reiter, owner of "Reiter's stud Farm" has within 35 years built up Europe’s largest & leading private Lipizzaner stud farm, he received numerous international & national awards for his successful breed.
The sales price for foals starts from 4.000 € & breeding horse with basic training from 15.000 Euro up in 2016.
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Red arrows team leader, Jon Bond, callsign Red1, leads the team out for a winter training flight over RAF Waddington in LIncolnshire.
"Einsiedeln Abbey (German: Kloster Einsiedeln) is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The abbey is dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, the title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation, for the first inhabitant of the region was Saint Meinrad, a hermit. It is a territorial abbey and, therefore, not part of a diocese, subject to a bishop. It has been a major resting point on the Way of St. James for centuries.
Meinrad was educated under his kinsmen, Abbots Hatto and Erlebald, at the abbey school at Reichenau, an island on Lake Constance, where he became a monk and was ordained a priest. After some years at Reichenau, and at a dependent priory on Lake Zurich, he embraced an eremitical life and established his hermitage on the slopes of mount Etzel. He died on January 21, 861, at the hands of two robbers who thought that the hermit had some precious treasures, but during the next 80 years the place was never without one or more hermits emulating Meinrad's example. One of them, named Eberhard, previously Provost of Strassburg, in 934 erected a monastery and church there, of which he became first abbot.
The church is alleged to have been miraculously consecrated, so the legend runs, in 948, by Christ himself assisted by the Four Evangelists, St. Peter, and St. Gregory the Great. This event was investigated and confirmed by Pope Leo VIII and subsequently ratified by many of his successors, the last ratification being by Pope Pius VI in 1793, who confirmed the acts of all his predecessors.
In 965 Gregory, the third Abbot of Einsiedeln, was made a prince of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Otto I, and his successors continued to enjoy the same dignity up to the cessation of the empire in the beginning of the 19th century. In 1274 the abbey, with its dependencies, was created an independent principality by Rudolf I of Germany, over which the abbot exercised temporal as well as spiritual jurisdiction. It remained independent until 1798, the year of the French invasion. It is still a territorial abbey, meaning that it is located in a territory that is not part of any diocese which the abbot governs "as its proper pastor" (Canon 370, Codex Juris Canonici) with the same authority as a diocesan bishop.
Einsiedeln has been famous for a thousand years, for the learning and piety of its monks, and many saints and scholars have lived within its walls. The study of letters, printing, and music have greatly flourished there, and the abbey has contributed largely to the celebrity of the Benedictine Order. It is true that discipline declined somewhat in the fifteenth century and the rule became relaxed, but Ludovicus II, a monk of St. Gall who was Abbot of Einsiedeln 1526-44, succeeded in restoring a stricter observance.
In the 16th century the religious disturbances caused by the spread of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland were a source of trouble for some time. Zwingli himself was at Einsiedeln for a while, and used the opportunity for protesting against the famous pilgrimages, but the storm passed over and the abbey was left in peace. Abbot Augustine I (1600–29) was the leader of the movement which resulted in the erection of the Swiss Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict in 1602, and he also did much for the establishment of unrelaxed observance in the abbey and for the promotion of a high standard of scholarship and learning amongst his monks.
The pilgrimages which have never ceased since the days of St Meinrad, have tended to make Einsiedeln on a par with the Holy House of Loreto and Santiago de Compostela, serving as a major stopping point on the Way of St. James leading there. Pilgrimages constitute one of the features for which the abbey is chiefly celebrated. The pilgrims number around one million, from all parts of Catholic Europe or even further. The statue of Our Lady from the 15th century, enthroned in the little chapel erected by Eberhard, is the object of their devotion. It is the subject of the earliest preserved print of pilgrimage, by the Master E.S. in 1466. The chapel stands within the great abbey church, in much the same way as the Holy House at Loreto is encased in a marble shrine and is elaborately decorated.
September 14 and October 13 are the chief pilgrimage days, the former being the anniversary of the miraculous consecration of Eberhard's basilica and the latter that of the translation of St Meinrad's relics from Reichenau Island to Einsiedeln in 1039. The millennium of St Meinrad was kept there with great splendour in 1861 as well as that of the Benedictine monastery in 1934. The great church has been many times rebuilt, the last time by Abbot Maurus between the years 1704 and 1719. The last big renovation ended after more than twenty years in 1997. The library contains nearly 250,000 volumes and many priceless manuscripts. The work of the monks is divided chiefly between prayer, work and study. At pilgrimage times the number of confessions heard is very large.
In 2013 the community numbered 60 monks. Attached to the abbey are a seminary and a college for about 360 pupils who are partially taught by the monks, who also provide spiritual direction for six convents of Religious Sisters." - info from Wikipedia.
During the summer of 2018 I went on my first ever cycling tour. On my own I cycled from Strasbourg, France to Geneva, Switzerland passing through the major cities of Switzerland. In total I cycled 1,185 km over the course of 16 days and took more than 8,000 photos.
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Leading Lines, take your choice...fence, road or wall. Another from my trip through the Langdales on a misty morning a couple of weeks ago. The tree up on the hill on the left is more usually shot facing the other direction. This is just along the start of the road to the Wrynose Pass.
A large snow covered bull bison leads a string of cows and calves on the plains of Colorado. Stylized in High Key.
This is a European Wool Carder Bee (Anthidium florentinum) that was snoozing in my Lavender. For this shot I focused on the leading edge of the bee's face and then twisted my wrist to push the top of the frame deeper into the scene. The result is a "magic angle" that creates the illusion that there is a lot of depth. Those three orbs on the critter's forehead are simple eyes, and it is thought that they are used to help maintain stability while flying.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to around 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
Dogwood Wk 13, Leading lines, and the long walk to the small boathouse of Hafrsfjord lurking in the morning fog.
BNSF 2745 leading the 428 on the Beatrice Sub sure brought out the crowds the last couple weeks. I threw my hat into the ring on Friday as I only have a few shots of 2745 trailing or tied down. Here's a shot just south of Wilber.
An attractive skipper I have see now and again on trips.
Once again at this location along the dirt road leading away from lower end of the town.
When waves crash onto the rocks, there are a few pathways on the cliffs that lead to small waterfalls like these. The Paradise Park Cliffs has tons of cool spots to see. I love the look of the contrast between the water and the rocks.
Check out how I edited this photo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm_6QBXatB0