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Taken a few minutes after yesterday's post and from the other side of the road looking west, the sky was much less dramatic, but still very lovely with it's pastel colours.
I perhaps could have used a slightly longer focal length, so that the pond and trees in the background were larger. I did take some telephoto shots in this direction but ultimately chose to post this one because of the reeds. Hard to tell here at this resolution but they were lightly frosted and I loved how they were arched and laying down in clumps showing some Autumn colouring.
A quick one for the Thursday Mono group today. This one is from Sherborne Abbey again, taken in June. There was this magnificent row of candle holders in the choir stalls with the makings of a nice receding perspective shot, looking towards the altar and the lectern in front of it.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Donnerstagsmonocrom!
[Handheld in ambient light.
Developed in Capture One.
Denoised in Topaz AI DeNoise.
Processed in Affinity (just perspective correction).
Converted in Nik Silver Efex, with quite a lot of selective work (Control Points), burnt edges, an off-centre vignette and lightly coffee toned.]
I have barely been out shooting so far this winter. We got some snow earlier this week and I wanted to get out for sunrise before work in case the snow melted off. Which sadly it did melt off a lot of the fields yesterday. I am off to a baby shower so wanted to edit something simple really quick to see if I still remembered everything. Not a lot of color from yesterday but at least there was some snow.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
A shot from a walk at the Chiemsee...
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Blue Dasher dragonfly lightly perched on dry grasses at Gorman pond
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/175350489
Jenny Pansing photos
6C51, the 12.47 Sellafield - Heysham flask train with its now customary load of one, comes off Arnside Viaduct with 68009 'Titan' leading and 68007 'Valiant' on the rear.
Tue 7th September 2021.
A glimpse of one of the peaks of the Ruahine Range with a light coating of snow.
© Dominic Scott 2025
Home time was great, hung out with the grandkiddies, and limited walking to give the sore hip more time to heal. Getting better, but probably gonna be awhile before I'm back to 100%.
Mean time, I picked up a loaded trailer last night at our drop yard and delivered this morning. Unfortunately next load doesn't pick up until 8 pm and is only 140 miles away. So, got some time, gonna catch up on Flickr a bit, then head to pickup and hope they will load me early.
This is a picture I took last November.
I don't get many opportunities to drive along the coast. (Pacific Coast, since I mostly drive western states these days. Over the years I have driven a semi in all 48 contiguous states, as well as much of Canada.)
Back in November on my way to Toledo Oregon from the Portland area I headed west to the 101 Pacific Coast Highway and was able to stop a few times to enjoy the ocean views and take a few pictures. This one was taken just north of Newport Oregon from the bluffs that over look the beaches and ocean. I use to road and mountain bike back before trucking, but never rode a bike like this guy was riding with those huge tires. Looks like it worked pretty well even in the sand, a great workout I'm sure.
One match, lit with a range burner flame then quickly extinguished. If you zoom in, you'll notice sparkles of color; I cannot confirm whether it's the nature of the phosphor or a photographic artifact.
Unfortunately, these matches are of limited usefulness. Neither of the two striking surfaces (one shown in another Macro Mondays contribution from several years earlier) work; the surfaces may have been contaminated.
Art with texture
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Sony ILCE-7RM5
… Lightly touched down …
Gulf Fritillary, Dione vanillae , landing for a cool drink from Frostweed flowers, Verbesina virginica, on a warm Autumn day.
07:30 CST
Southern Pacific's West Valley Subdivision is undoubtedly one of SP's more interesting lines. This lightly used mainline was a secondary to the East Valley, which SP preferred for its direct connection to Roseville. Meanwhile, the West Valley completely bypassed Roseville, running an almost completely straight line for around 110 miles between Davis and Tehama. I should note that timetables show the West Valley as running between Davis and Dunsmuir, but from what I've seen over the years most people refer to the Dunsmuir to Tehama section simply as the Valley. South of Tehama is where traffic was scarce, with not many trains needing to be routed over this part of the line. However, some regular trains included MUG trains (empty lumber trains such as WCEUM), OABRT/BROAT (Oakland - Portland TOFC), LABRT/BRLAT (LA - Portland TOFC), some locals such as the Woodland Switcher, and the Coast Starlight. The line also would see unit sugar beet trains, a service which was one of many things SP was known for.
Not surprisingly, by 1990 the line was on a steep decline. Many of the regular trains had been rerouted to the East Valley, customers in the small communities were finding other means of transport, branches like the Colusa Branch were gone or just barely holding on, and SP didn't see a reason to continue holding onto operations of the line. Since there was still some need for rail service though, in 1993 a new shortline called the California Northern would start a long term lease from SP, acquiring three sections of track. These lines were the connecting Schellville and Vallejo Branches, along with the former NWP to Willits, the West Side from Tracy to Los Banos, and the West Valley from Davis to Tehama. California Northern was founded by the Park-Sierra Rail Group. The railroad quickly became known for their West Valley operations, along with being armed with a roster of former CNW GP15s painted into cream and green, which was the Park-Sierra paint scheme. Later in 2002, Rail America would buy the railroad, but it still stayed mostly the same. However, despite the shortline running everything, SP and later UP still had a presence on the line. Throughout the years there was an interchange of sugar beet trains until the last one to Woodland ran on December 28, 2000. (Look up GolfingJamiethephotog on YouTube if you want to see the last runs of the beet trains.)
In 2012 the California Northern was seeing changes. Genesee and Wyoming bought Rail America and quickly things started changing on the California Northern. Shockingly, all these years the old searchlights were in operation, but eventually the majority were either replaced with new heads, turned, or the heads were completely removed altogether. The old roster of GP15s also got sent off or retired, with the last three GP15s remaining on the property being 1568, 1569, and 1570, with 68 and 69 being scrapped in 2019 while 70 was retired earlier this year. Over the years, new power also arrived in the form of a GP38-2 and some KLW locomotives. At the same time, unit trains were making a return in the form of gypsum, and recently even those are seeing their own changes.
The gypsum trains originate in Empire, NV, which is on a spur off the former WP in Gerlach. These trains typically run to a couple places in the valley such as Fresno and Famoso, but a couple times per year would make their way to Hamilton City. The facility in Hamilton City is where Holly Sugar facility once operated, and was one of the places the sugar beet trains went to. As of recently, gypsum trains are now seeing a new destination on the West Side, another California Northern operated line. For the West Valley, however, these gypsum trains recently are now terminating in Artois rather than Hamilton City. The reason for this is due to the way the Hamilton City branch is set up, which requires a crew to pull cars on the main to the switch so a crew on the branch can take the cars to Hamilton City. These trains get well over a hundred cars and only about twenty to thirty can go up to be unloaded at a time, combine that with a ten mile per hour speed limit, and that's a lot of time and money to unload a single train. The solution was to have the trains terminate at Artois, while some cars get unloaded there, some are brought to Hamilton City. This cuts the time in half for unloading, which means less money spent on crews and a faster turnaround time for the railroad. So far this has been the second gypsum to operate this way.
The gypsum photographed here was an interesting situation. On recent runs, UP units have been leading both directions instead of being taken back to Davis immediately after arriving to their destination, which is what used to happen. This time around, the train was given a new leader, which had to do with a previous motor failing on the train. When the westbound left Empire, originally there was a third motor that was facing east, but the batteries were failing which caused the unit to struggle to stay online. After being dropped in Roseville, the train continued with two west facing motors. After arriving to Artois, the power had nowhere to turn around, it was about 100 to the nearest wye as the one in Tehama has had the east leg cut for many years, which left Davis as the only area to turn the power around. However, in case running long hood forward didn't already sound like enough of a pain, it gets worse. The AC44 rebuild that had to lead the southbound trip had no radios and no conductor side mirror. With empty cuts of cars blocking the main at Artois and UP putting a lot of pressure on California Northern to return the train, running the SD70M around wasn't much of an option either, besides UP needed the SD70M to lead over their own tracks anyways due to the AC44's lack of radios. But regardless of which unit led, there was also the problem that neither unit was equipped with rear ditchlights, meaning the train would have to run at restricted speed. Thankfully, the crew did not have to run like this for long since Cortena was only around thirty miles away. At Cortena, there was a genset which the crew put on point so the train could run track speed and not have to deal with the lack of visibility. Once the new leader was on, the SD70M was shut off and then the train took off for Davis.
The photo seen above is a an almost perfect scene of the West Valley, with a giant silo soaring above the flat land, telegraph poles lined up along the tracks, signals in the background, and a train, the only thing missing from the scene are the Sutter Buttes, which are visible for a good chunk of the trip. This shot is one I've wanted to do for years, but with a lack of a shoulder on the side of the road and how rarely I get out this way, it can make it hard to do a lot of these shots. I did manage to find a small area just big enough for my friend and I to park our cars as the train was throttling up. Making my way to the tack, I was met with a scene that looked better than I had imagined it would look, and this bucket list shot was finally checked off. Throughout this chase I did manage to knock off a few other bucket list shots, which mostly included turned searchlights. With two friends working the train (one helped build the train, the other is the engineer seen in the photo), a few people chasing, and lots of interesting shots, this chase was one of the best I've had in awhile.
Wearing:
Head: Catwa Catya
Body: Maitreya (My own created shape)
Skin: Glam Affair Milu Jamaica
Hair: Truth Apple
Necklace and Earrings: Amala
Leggings and Sweater - Erratic
Boots: Elysium
Fields of pulverized gypsum and the San Andres Mountains at sunset at White Sands National Park. The minute-by-minute changes in light and shadow in the late evening created an almost endless variety of shapes and patterns in the undulating dunes.
Once more the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new,
And domes the red-plowed hills
With loving blue;
The blackbirds have their wills,
The throstles too.
Opens a door in Heaven;
From skies of glass
A Jacob's ladder falls
On greening grass,
And o'er the mountain-walls
Young angels pass.
Before them fleets the shower,
And burst the buds,
And shine the level lands,
And flash the floods;
The stars are from their hands
Flung through the woods,
The woods with living airs
How softly fanned,
Light airs from where the deep,
All down the sand,
Is breathing in his sleep,
Heard by the land.
O, follow, leaping blood,
The season's lure!
O heart, look down and up,
Serene, secure,
Warm as the crocus cup,
Like snow-drops, pure!
Past, Future glimpse and fade
Through some slight spell,
A gleam from yonder vale,
Some far blue fell;
And sympathies, how frail,
In sound and smell!
Till at thy chuckled note,
Thou twinkling bird,
The fairy fancies range,
And, lightly stirred,
Ring little bells of change
From word to word.
For now the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new,
And thaws the cold, and fills
The flower with dew;
The blackbirds have their wills,
The poets too.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sending love to you all from North Carolina have a wonderful Thursday. :-)
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
~Rabindranath Tagore
春に咲く花の代表といえば桜な訳ですが、ハイキー気味に。
ふわっとした雰囲気をテーマにしてみました。
この写真と、
www.flickr.com/photos/107482376@N07/33242596314/in/datepo...
は、同じ場所なのですが、時間が変われば表情も変わりますね。
A Killdeer treads lightly through the water in search of food, a rather quick little bird, hard to photograph sometimes because it's always on the move. I was fortunate enough to come across a few of these in a marshy area that I frequent.
“In the Spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love”… Locksley Hall, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Apparently the same holds for the American Kestrel. I suspect this might be the same pair photographed by Alice Cahill the previous day. www.flickr.com/photos/alicecahill/52754265295/in/feed-283...
San Luis Obispo County, CA