My daughter used to live in the backyard cottage of people who own this gorgeous German Shepherd, Luca. She is now living somewhere else, but we both still miss dear Luca. Such a magnificent and very sweet dog.

the A10 leading along one of the most amazing landscapes imaginable, linking Lofoten islands to each other and making it possible to visit this archipelago of extremes above the Arctic Circle.

Our way leads us to the church of San Carlo di Negrentino, whose visit we never miss when we are in Ticino.

Unser Weg führt uns zur Kirche San Carlo di Negrentino, deren Besuch wir niemals versäumen, wenn wir im Tessin sind.

Schweiz

Mamiya 7II, 4/80 mm, Ilford Delta 400

Print auf Fomatone 132 mit Moersch 6 blue, ein Spritzer finisher

Selentonung MT1, 1+15, 1:20 min

photo taken by me.

edit done by @georgia.slx (on Instagram).

I wrote a short blog post on my afternoon of shooting building abstracts: brianevansphoto.com/2022/01/04/an-afternoon-of-building-a...

Pittsburgh, PA

...the light leads you to harbor in paradise

"In Greek Mythology The Elysian Fields is a place or condition of ideal happiness."

♪ Drink from me, drink from me (ah, oh-ah, oh-ah)

That we shoot across the sky (now I'm feeling drunk and high)

Symphony (so high, so high)

That we shoot across the sky

Oh, angel sent from up above

You know you make my world light up

When I was down, when I was hurt

You came to lift me up♫

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YykjpeuMNEk

Taken:: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Elysion/128/128/22

...that leads to your door, will never disappear

Love Now & Forever

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqu9qhBHWNs

NS 911 leads C65 through East Liverpool, OH for Mingo Junction.

CN 5262 leads a 8:18 late City of New Orleans into Chicago as it pulls past 21st Street interlocking where it'll shove back into Chicago Union Station. May 9, 2023

Percipient object

Awareness unity

Classification event

CN 5771 leads a 4 pack of SD75I's on a heavy northbound manifest up Steelton Hill. As you can imagine, four EMDs hauling over 10k feet of train over a 2% grade sounded glorious. Even though the Iron Range has its own charm, my visit to the area started, and ended, on Steelton Hill. It's a fun diversion for sure.

On October 2, 2022 BNSF leads a westbound Q train that comprised just 6 Boeing 737 fuselages along the Clark Fork River near Trout Creek, MT

CN 2263 leads train 406 as they hit a small snowbank left by the plows after the second storm of the year. Here's hoping the banks get bigger and bigger as the winter goes on.

November 21, 2018.

This road leads from Kalki in German Gut Sechserben to the boarder to Kaliningradskaya Oblast, Russia. This is one of the most lonsome areas of the European Union.

The contraption on the left side is a ferry for snowmobiles.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

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Hamburg / Germany

294 885 leads two tanks down the waterfront along the Rhine (Rhein) river after working Neska, one of four active customers along the waterfront here. The crew delivered three two-axle sliding-wall cars (effectively comparable to boxcars in the US, only with half of the sidewall sliding open as compared to the single/dual doors on North American boxcars) and the tank cars will go to another customer somewhere on the Mühlauhafen harbor island. I had always gotten a glimpse of this spur from the train when visiting family and always wanted some photos of it getting serviced. I unfortunately failed to catch the shove down to the customer so I'll have to try again sometime and catch them with the (to me much preferable) two-axle sliding wall cars, but this will do in the meantime. It's a very neat and nowadays more and more unique operation, running down quasi-street running right on the waterfront and even with some remaining patches of cobblestone in the street. I'm not sure if the crew has to abide by the awfully slow 10 km/h posted speed limit, but the speed bumps they can certainly avoid. Mannheim, Germany

This link leads to my website:

www.jobstvonberg.de

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CN 2577 leads a priority intermodal out of Montreal, QC across a causeway spanning Lake Athabaska in Jasper National Park. The "lake" is actually a wide spot in the Athabaska River that carries melt water from the Athabaska Glacier north into Hudson Bay and eventually the Arctic ocean.

Former EL SDP-45 #6687 leads an interesting set of power for "Flare Friday" as she heads a westbound freight over the Vermilion River. Helping out are two ex-PC units, an SD-40 and a U-25B. Given the nice patch job, definitely the right leader in my book.

Southern Pacific SD45T-2R No. 6827 leads a 46-car Kansas City to Oakland auto train east of Kobe, Colorado on March 29, 1997. This historic D&RGW route over the Continental Divide would be shut down to through traffic by the Union Pacific Railroad in less than five months.

37418 leads 11 TTA two axle fuel tanks over the viaduct at Ackworth on the line through Pontefract Baghill to Moorthorpe on the morning of March the 7th 2023. These wagons have been in store at Gascoigne Wood since mid November 2022 after being made redundant in their work carrying Aviation fuel from the Grangemouth Refinery. Running as train 6Z42, the 09:45 from Gascoigne Wood to Lydney, the wagons are heading for a new era in Preservation at the Dean Forest Railway.

Direct Rail Services (DRS) 37716 leads 3x RHTT sets (642050 + 642036, 642044 + 642011, 642041 + 642019) past Barway, 6Z37 1135 from York Thrall Europa (Holgate Works) to Stowmarket D.G.L, in preparation for the Autumn RHTT season. These 3x RHTT sets were taken back to York Holgate Works on the 10th, to receive additional wheel maintenance before beginning the 2020 RHTT season.

GB Railfreight (GBRF) 'Pride' liveried 66773 'Pride of GB Railfreight' leads the 4L13 1114 Doncaster Railport (Gbrf) to Felixstowe North Gbrf intermodal past Ely Dock Junction.

Leased CN GP40-2 9418 leads a Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia work train westbound across the Canso Causeway.

The bridge is over the canal that lets ship traffic pass through the causeway.

Photo by Douglas Courtney

WCOR 309 leads SIRI south at Johnsonburg.

IHB GP38-2 5629 leads a pulldown in Hammond, IN.

The helper now on and the westbound ready to go up Mullen into the sunset.

One of nine GP-18's inherited from the Northern Pacific leads the pack.

1 GP18, 3 GP9's, 1 F9A, 2 SD45's

10-10-75

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66423 leads 66426 past Castle Bromwich with the 4Z71 08.37 Tees Dock to Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal liner.

The footprint of the old station is clearly visible here.

The HS2 cranes are busy in the background.

GP30 #2553 leads a southbound work train by Cumberland Falls, Kentucky in 1983.

BNSF 1826 leads a northbound Pikes Peak Local around the frozen waters of Palmer Lake, CO.

This was my first dedicated railfan outing in nearly 4 months...what a nice 'Welcome Back'! The PPL runs north out of Colorado Springs on its return trip to the Denver-area every Tuesday and Friday mornings. It's always a nice catch as it's typically sporting solid, old(er)-school power. Today's H1 SD40-2 was no exception.

An SD80MAC leads NS 11V west on the Pittsburgh Line between Birmingham and Tyrone. In their final years of active service these engines broke out a bit more from their normal South Fork pool and often led trains on various parts of the NS systems. The 7214 was originally Conrail 4126 and was retired in 2020.

Direct Rail Services owned Intercity liveried 37419 'Carl Haviland 1954 - 2012' ' leads 4x RHTT sets (642036 + 642050, 642019 + 642041, 642047 + 642024, 642011 + 642044) past Ely Dock Junction, 6Z60 1042 from York Thrall Europa (Holgate Works) to Stowmarket D.G.L, in preparation for this years Autumn RHTT season.

This link leads to the website gallery with the full (first) set of pictures from the dance photo shoot with Sarah.

www.chris-r-photography.net/latest-work

Here you find a blog article about the editing process of these pictures.

www.chris-r-photography.net/blog/2022/9/11/ufomevq60hobqu...

And here is the link to the article about the shooting.

www.chris-r-photography.net/blog/2022/9/10/cgmti28s0gm5yn...

Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9302 leads a westbound on Track #1 with UP pool power out of the snowshed on the west portal of 1659 ft "Summit Tunnel" #6 on April 13, 1981. This tunnel was last used in 1993 when track #1 over Donner Summit was removed.

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The Great Glacier Trail mountain route leads up a narrow winding path and beyond the forest slopes offers a view of an unusual glacier, the outlines of which resemble a bird's paw ...

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View from the Glacier Crest Trail to the Illecillewaet Glacier.

Glacier National Park, British Columbia, Canada.

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See my new photos in the "My Travels" album:

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В поисках ледовой птичьей лапы

Горный маршрут Great Glacier Trail ведет вверх по узкой извилистой тропе и за лесными склонами открывает вид на необычный ледник, очертания которого напоминают птичью лапу...

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Вид с ледового горного маршрута на ледник Illecillewaet.

Национальный парк Глейшер, Британская Колумбия, Канада.

KCS SD60 #751 leads Oakway SD60 #9065, Burlington Northern SD40-2 #7940 and Union Pacific SD40-2 #3385 on a westbound empty coal train at East Donkey Creek, WY in October of 1992.

They are passing Burlington Northern B30-7 # 5491 which was the power for a Maintenance of Way work train.

BNSF 7887 leads a westbound vehicle train through Lake Park, MN along the renowned Staples Sub.

This particular day, 17 Apr 07, was an epic day, to say the least. It was one of those rare days where everything just kind of comes together and you're left years later wishing you could have another day as fulfilling as this one. Interestingly, at the time, this train was viewed as kind of an, "Eh, I'm here; I might as well shoot it" type of shot. Today, though, catching something like this would be coveted.

Anyway, here are the shots I've previously uploaded to Flickr from this day, all of which have EMDs leading, BTW:

www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/32096114671/

www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/35466105284/

www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/15141376504/

www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/49574735377/

www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/11092466175/

www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/15381821670/

www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/9727348848/

What a perfect time capsule for what northern plains railroading was like back then! Anyone else miss it?

GWA001 leads 2182S ORA Grain from Tailem Bend to Pelican Point through Monteith on a sunny Saturday morning. 2/07/22.

The path of this growth is through suffering: “Unless you suffer, you do not grow” (LW) “All misery, all exile that one bears willingly for the love of God is agreeable to Him and draws us close to the totality of His nature” (L.II.)27

--Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th Century), WOMEN MYSTICS IN Medieval Europe, Emilie Zum Brunn and Georgette Epiney-Burgard

Scene on the large lawn in the park of the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) behind the main building (14e)

Paris, France 30.05.2022

Wer führt wen?

Szene auf der großen Wiese im Park der Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) hinter dem Hauptgebäude (14e)

Paris, Frankreich 30.05.2022

VTR 206 leads a train of interchange traffic across the Walloomsac River at North Hoosick, NY amid some nice fall color. Hoosick Jct. is only a short distance ahead. For many years 206 operated wearing this neatly touched-up RailTex paint scheme. It was only recently repainted into the current standard Vermont Rail System red livery.

VTR 206 GP38-3 (ex-SOU 2741)

... It is covered with dead leaves and I don't know where it leads - I can barely remember whence it comes, indeed. Veils of thick mist are concealing the landscape - if there really is one beyond the narrow limits of my vision - and my mind is wandering freely into this mysterious translucence. Memories come to the surface of my soul and float there like fallen leaves on the calm water of the river. Yes, there should be a river here, just beyond the fading trees - but no, there is nothing but a milky nothingness and a deafining silence. The track is waiting for my weary steps, with its promises of unknown lands. My only certainty is the feeling of the damp ground under my boots - there still is a center, after all. The track is waiting for me - it is calling for me to leave my footprints upon it, a new chapter of the tale.

Maybe the track ends just there, and the glowing mist marks the outer boundaries of the world - maybe there is nothing beyond that misty walls.

Then, suddenly, a swash shattered the deep silence - a moorhen plunging herself into the water to fish? And a bird's call. I awakened as from a dream. Life was still teeming all around me, just beyond the veils of mist. So I gathered myself together and set forth toward my unknown destination, whatever it would be.

I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp.