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Who doesn't like to take a photo of probably THE most popular form of transportation in all of Walt Disney World. This is probably my most photographed form of Disney transportation and I bet I have hundreds of photos, most likely in every color. Is the monorail your favorite. Please enjoy and have a magical day!
My mother's day present!
Kellie Mize template No. 131
Anna Aspnes loopdaloopz
The yellow and black were loosely drawn from nature ;)
The hummingbirds have left for the year, but not before tanking up in the garden for their long migration.
565 sitting in the siding near the end of the Castlecliff branch, Wanganui, waiting for more containers to be transhipped onboard from the container terminal out of sight at the rear.
This train will then run direct to Wellington port.
I don’t know how the Valley of Dreams got its name -- perhaps from the German explorers who found it (joke! (the Germans seem to know more about the desert southwest than we natives do)) -- but it seems to me to be appropriate. It is an inaccessible place that can be reached only by driving down about 15 miles of dirt road, then a couple of miles of sandy jeep trail of varying quality, and finally half a mile of no trail at all.The view in this photo is looking north from the southern edge. Just over the hood of the car you can see the first stand of hoodoos. About half a mile beyond that one sees the second stand, and half a mile further north (where you see the red hills) is the third and most impressive area.
My truck can make it to the middle set. I was parked there, sitting in my folding chair in the shade of the truck and trying to wait out the late afternoon heat, when I saw on the horizon a large white panel truck. It was located near where I was standing when I took this photo. I watched it drive back and forth for a while and considered that it was probably a local rancher moving some cattle or horses, but it didn’t seem like the kind of truck for that purpose.
Eventually I lost interest in the truck and went to take some shots of the hoodoos behind me. Later I came back to my chair. I noticed a person walking toward me from the panel truck. He was far away and I had some time to speculate on his intent. I began to wonder if I should be afraid. This area is a checkerboard of patches of BLM, private, and Navajo land, each about a square mile in area. It’s so mixed up you can’t know for sure where you are with regard to property boundaries. So I wondered if the person coming toward me was a local rancher who was going to tell me to get off his property, or a crazed drug addict who would rob and murder me, or just another photographer.
As he came closer, I noticed that he was wearing knee-length shorts, which led me to believe with some relief that he belonged to the final category. Indeed, this was the case.
I rose from my chair as he approached and we shook hands. He asked me how I got my truck there and if I knew whether I was on BLM land or not. We discussed whether his truck could make it and decided that it probably couldn’t. He said that he would just have to carry his equipment from where the truck was parked on the horizon. He told me that he was getting footage for an IMAX movie about the Southwest. I offered to drive over in my truck and load up his equipment but told him I wouldn’t be available to help him carry it back. He declined the offer.
I told him that I was about to set up for a time lapse sequence during the night in the hoodoos behind us and hoped that we wouldn’t interfere with each other. He headed back to his truck and I went over the hill to set up my camera and get the time lapse started. Later I saw his truck moving again. After darkness moved in I didn’t see him or the truck until the next morning. As I was eating breakfast, I saw him coming again from his truck. He had a large shoulder pack. He told me that he had gotten stuck in the sand during the night and had to call a tow truck. He must have had a sat phone; I didn’t ask. I did ask about his equipment for shooting IMAX. He uses a Red Epic Dragon, a nice piece of equipment that shoots 6k video and probably costs more than my truck. He uses a Nikon D750 for star photography because of its low noise floor.
He said he was just walking around to explore the area. He had maps and instructions on how to reach promising locations. He knew about most of the prominent features that attract photographers to the area. I gathered that he would be in the area for some time.
After breakfast, I left for the Bisti area.
Another one for the 'How-To' Department.
I did a few changes to my Zetros truck last night, including the loader crane, so I figured I'd drop this here - mostly because these things are pain in the neck to build at Minifig scale without relying entirely on click-hinges and having them become completely flimsy.
The gun piece is just there as a placeholder, if you want to make it extendable you need another flange or +Rod piece. And of course the hook. ;)
The upper portion of the crane is based on Bobofrutx's design
Some may have wondered what happened to my usual daily postings. My interest in modern railroads has really waned, to the point of only having gone out twice so far in 2022, and that was for the LA&L. Agricultural pursuits have become our primary focus lately. We have built up our flock of chickens, ducks, and geese to over 60 birds. Much planning has gone into this years pumpkin crop. I have been able to secure some manure from a neighbor that lives about 1.5 miles away. It takes me 30 minutes to make a round trip to get a load, since the tractors top speed is probably somewhere around 10mph. It then takes us about an hour to unload the wagon with pitch forks. We should have some happy plants in the garden this year, and with the price of commercial fertilizer having doubled, this also helps with the budget since it is free! Here our neighbor "Lumpy" loads my wagon up on the morning of April 30, 2022.
#307 Loading
Met with the homies today. Some content is coming, but you gotta hold on just a bit longer.
Tonight's boomer post comes in the form of NS train 732. BNSF SD70MACe rebuild #9716 is the leader for this evenings new load of coal from the Powder River Basin. Here the train traverses through the many grade crossings of downtown Dalton, GA. The bubbly K3 airhorn on the 9716 was a treat as well! Always have enjoyed them horns! This shot was done at 1/60th of a second at about 8000 ISO and an F stop of 4.0.
Technicians load cargo into the Cygnus space in the Horizontal Integration Facility Friday, July 14, 2023, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 19th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 8,200 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The CRS-19 Cygnus spacecraft is named after NASA astronaut Dr. Laurel Clark who flew aboard Columbia STS-107, and is scheduled to launch at 8:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Photo Credit: (NASA/Danielle Johnson)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Bexhill-on-Sea 20-03-2022
The first of two 300 ton loads approaching Buckholt Lane roundabout nearing the end of their 2 day journey from Shoreham to Potmans Lane electrcity substation.
Loading at Ocean Terminal Gt.Yarmouth
Type - Multi purpose offshore vessel
I.M.O. - 9761401
Call sign - MAOV8
Gross tons - 2173t
Deadweight - 1500t
Length/beam - 62m x 16m
D.O.B. - 2017
Yard - Cosco Guangzhou [China]
Owner/manager - Sentinel Marine [Aberdeen]
It would appear that all of our local public gardens are full of lovely tulips!
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Loads from the Toyota Tundra truck plant come off the Corpus Christi Sub and on to the Austin Sub in downtown San Antonio behind clean power. September 2017.
Sunday 18/9/22 SSR’s 8140 ex 1841 loads at Nyngan NSW before it’s return trip to Weston’s Enfield via Parkes & Cootamundra. Led by SSR102 & SSR101.