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Exploring on the Hyannis Trail this morning. Or, more accurately, I managed to find my way onto a mountain bike trail that eventually led to a powerline clearcut. Thankfully I was early enough that there were no bikes on trail.
Green Line, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Down Street station was situated between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line. Opened on 15 March 1907, a few months after the rest of the line. The surface building was on Down Street, just off Piccadilly in Mayfair. It was never a busy station, as the surrounding area was largely residential and its residents were too wealthy to be regular tube passengers. The neighbouring stations were also fairly close by.
Down Street station was situated between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line. Opened on 15 March 1907, a few months after the rest of the line. The surface building on Down Street is (seen here) just off Piccadilly in Mayfair. It was not a busy station, as the surrounding area was largely residential and its residents were too wealthy to be regular tube passengers. The neighbouring stations were also fairly close by.
Down Street station was situated between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line. Opened on 15 March 1907, a few months after the rest of the line. The surface building on Down Street is (seen here) just off Piccadilly in Mayfair.
Never a busy station, the surrounding area being largely residential and the local residents were too wealthy to be regular tube passengers. The neighbouring stations were also fairly close by.
Down Street station was situated between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line. Opened on 15 March 1907, a few months after the rest of the line. The surface building on Down Street is (seen here) just off Piccadilly in Mayfair.
Never a busy station, the surrounding area being largely residential and the local residents were far too wealthy to be tube passengers!! The neighbouring stations were also fairly close by.
Down Street station was situated between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line. Opened on 15 March 1907, a few months after the rest of the line. The surface building on Down Street is (seen here) just off Piccadilly in Mayfair.
Never a busy station, the surrounding area being largely residential and the local residents were far too wealthy to be tube passengers!! The neighbouring stations were also fairly close by.
The surface building, designed by Leslie Green, is still standing.
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Down Street station was situated between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line. Opened on 15 March 1907, a few months after the rest of the line. The surface building on Down Street (seen here) is just off Piccadilly in Mayfair, and was designed by Leslie Green.
Never a busy station, the surrounding area being largely residential and the local residents were far too wealthy to be tube passengers!! The neighbouring stations were also fairly close by.
Down Street station was situated between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line. Opened on 15 March 1907, a few months after the rest of the line. The surface building on Down Street (seen here) is just off Piccadilly in Mayfair, and was designed by Leslie Green.
Never a busy station, the surrounding area being largely residential and the local residents were far too wealthy to be tube passengers!! The neighbouring stations were also fairly close by.
A white line in the city of Manchester - thankfully i didn't get run over by a tram - I had bessie protection !
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White. March. True Colours 2017
This photo was taken at "The Patch". The Patch is home to the Midland Sportmans Club Inc. The clouds were in an unusal line that begged me to photograph them:)
Information about Midland, Maryland:
Midland is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, located along the Georges Creek Valley. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 473 at the 2000 census.
The town of Midland is 1,600 feet (490 m) above sea level, is located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Frostburg, Maryland and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Lonaconing, Maryland. Paradise Run and Neff's Run carry the precipitation from Dan's Mountain on the east to Georges Creek, while Squirrel Neck Run feeds it from the west off of Savage Mountain. Some say that Midland derived its name from its location, some say it was named after the Midlands in Scotland by the Scottish settlers.
Midland is proud of its two churches—St. Joseph's Catholic Church and Grace United Methodist Church. Both were established in 1891. The bells of St. Joe’s and the chimes of Grace ring out daily from the hill at the edge of town where the churches sit side by side.
About a mile beyond the town's limits, anyone making the climb to the top of the magnificent outcropping known as Dan's Rock is rewarded with an incomparable view of the eastern end of the county and nearby West Virginia. Generations of townsfolk and visitors have marveled at the spectacular sunrises and sunsets seen from this highest point in Allegany County.
Midland was founded in 1850 as a coal-mining community in the heart of the George's Creek Valley, once a major center of the nation’s coal industry. But coal production started to decline after World War I, and today only some strip mining remains as the last vestige of this once all important industry. Coal trains that once went through the town daily now pass only once or twice a month.
Most of the original settlers came in response to the abundance of jobs available in the coal mines. Many were Irish, but German, Scottish, and Welsh names also are found in the early records of the town.
Once a bustling town with big stores, a hotel, and an opera house, Midland today projects a friendly laid-back atmosphere. A convenience store offers the basic necessities, but major shopping is done in the larger communities of Frostburg, LaVale, and Cumberland. The post office in the heart of town is the gathering point for the townspeople to meet and chat.
Information obtained at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland,_Maryland
Yes, my photo friend Mary Jo at the ready for a photo op.
In the middle of the street car - are 2 doors on each side allowing for barrier free access for handicapped people and seniors. The front and the back of the car has more seating that you have to step up to.
The Q View - Finally went to downtown Detroit to check out the new Q-Line..... a street car that travels 3.3 miles (6.6 loop) up Woodward from Congress street to just north of Grand Boulevard. The cars use a combination of overhead power lines and lithium batteries. The route has 20 stops with 12 stations. In operation since May, the ride is free until September.
Detroit, Michigan
Always a fun place to lie on your back and look up. I had to take this picture again, because when, in the early 80s, I got my first A-1 or AE-1 I came here with Theresa and took this exact photo. It was Standard Brand Paints at the time (pretty sure.) They're gone, but this remains.
Hydra-Shok
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Westbourne Motoring Assist Line up GV57RFL Dan 48 Commercial Vehicle Assist Vauxhall GN14YRF and GN14YRG Isuzu vehicle
The Prussian army was equipped with the Dreyse needle gun renowned for its use at the Battle of Königgrätz, which was by this time showing the age of its 25 year old design. The rifle had a range of only 600 m (2,000 ft) and lacked the rubber breech seal that permitted aimed shots.
It was a breechloading rifle. Accepted for service in 1841 as the "leichtes Perkussionsgewehr Modell 1841, with the name chosen to hide the revolutionary nature of the new weapon.
The name "Zündnadelgewehr"/"needle-gun" comes from its needle-like firing pin, which passed through the paper cartridge case to strike a percussion cap at the bullet base.
The Dreyse rifle was also the first breech-loading rifle to use the bolt action to open and close the chamber, executed by turning and pulling a bolt handle. It has a rate of fire of about 6 rounds per minute.
Zali, retired racing greyhound and Neko: Roskyle Too Many Kisses, and Italian Greyhound strut their stuff.
The Tapajós River, next in line for Amazon hydro development, 20km wide at Suruacá, Tapajós Arapiuns Extractivist Reserve.
Outside of Spring Grove, Mn is a line of a dozen cabooses. No idea why they are there but they have been there for a long time.
Creative Exposure:
As we didn’t know a lot about camera exposure yet at the time I took this picture I didn’t adjust most of the settings. I had the camera mode on P as standard and an ISO of 1600 as I shot this picture inside the metal shop. I did zoom in though to focus the camera more on the wood spiral, make the background more blurry to prevent it from being distracting and hereby emphasised the wood spiral.
Elements and Principles of Design:
First of all I want to refer to the composition of the shot as I used the manual focus lock to get the wood spiral into a point of interest according to the rule of thirds. It is nice that at least part of the metal plate which the wood spiral is laying on is also in the area of interest and therefore crisp.
Obviously the curved lines of the wood spiral build a nice contrast to the rather straight lines that create the form of the metal block. Those give the picture a sense of stability, regularity and order while the curved lines add beauty, elegance and charm and make the whole image smoother. The curved lines of the wood spiral are also the leading line. As the angle on which I shot the metal block is rather unusual and it’s lines aren’t vertical and horizontal but diagonal which makes the whole composition more interesting by forcing the eye to follow the lines across the image. It’s form is enhanced by shadows which make its three different dimensions length, depth and width more obvious. The meeting point of their three lines is still on one line with the wood spiral and therefore in the area of interest and nice and crisp. The metal block probably once was a geometric box with sharp edges but the many years of usage smoothened them and added some cuts so I would now call a an organic form.
As the wood spiral is the only thing on the metal block there’s not a lot of variety in the picture, which would’ve made the image more interesting by keeping the eye moving around the piece a lot more, but would’ve taken the focus from the wood spiral. To prevent that, I shot a still life with an empty area surrounding my main object to create the feeling of space, which helps to put all the emphasis on it.
To add more contrast and take away unnecessary distractions in the background I experimented with the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop to eliminate all the other obvious colour spots except for the wooden spiral. But I still wanted to keep the some colour and not totally convert the background into black and white because when I tried that it looked very cold and cool, there was too much contrast and I missed especially the warmer yellow and orange colour touches on the metal. So instead I covered the two main bright spots in the background and then boosted up the saturation on the yellow of the wood spiral.
As the wood spiral and the metal block (for most parts) are crisp you can see the fine lines that make out the structure of the cropped wood and the smoothed out cuts and indentations on the metal block that make out their texture. It makes the image appealing to the sense of touch which helps to make the photograph look more realistic and enhances the three-dimensional feel.
Lighting:
As this picture is shot in the metal workshop the main source of light is unfortunately the top lighting, but a rather soft shadow of the wood spiral as well as the dark shadow on the facing side of the metal block also indicate some softer lighting from the back. Nevertheless I had my ISO on 1600 to lighten up the whole image a little bit.
Post Production:
Resizing
Unsharp mask to sharpen the edges a little bit and make the image more crisp
Use of curves to add contrast
Experimented in with the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop to eliminate other colour spots in the picture other than the wooden spiral
Boost up saturation of yellow
Critique:
After another month of photography lessons I know a lot more especially about the right lighting. If I was to redo the shot I would try to use diffused side lighting rather than harsher top lighting. Also I would try to eliminate the colour and form distractions in the background right on the set either by putting them to the side or by using my new gained knowledge about the AS camera mode, the opening of the lens and therefore blur the background even more. Hereby I could avoid using the Clone Tool which unfortunately put a slight foggy cover over the background and forced me to add a big black area at the top of the image which I dislike. Otherwise I’m more than satisfied with the composition of my shot and the focus lock. The important parts are crisp and I love how you can see the fine texture on the wood and get the smooth feel of the metal block as if you were actually touching it.
Photographic Styles:
Even though I don’t know a lot about photographic styles I would probably put this image into still life as it has a calming emotion and there is no action.