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Autumn Whispers
Poem by George Krokos
When you hear all those trees
how they sing in the breeze
with their branches and leaves
which are now falling down
to cover the bare ground
and pile up in a mound
from where all of them grow
they begin then to show
that season we well know.
The Loaned-Sum Duck on Canty's Lake in Silas Condict State Park, Borough of Kinnelon, County of Morris, State of New Jersey, USA!
I was just informed this picture should be "the meadow" in Twilight... not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing!
After finishing up their work at Tri City and leaving the two classic GP18s behind there New Hampshire Northcoast Railroad train D8 from Ossipee to Dover is highballing south behind GP38-2s NHN 3825 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8244), leased FURX 5509 (blt. Mar. 1970 as high nosed straight GP38 SOU 2801) and NHN 3823 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8242). They are approaching the Old Milton Road crossing as they roll thru the colorful the marshland surrounding Heath Brook near MP 81.8 on the former Boston and Maine Railroad's Conway Branch.
For those who are less familiar with this route here is a concise history excerpted from a June 2004 report to the NH State Legislature by the state DOT's Bureau of Rail and Transit on the feasibility of reopening the line to service all the way to Conway.
'Several railroad histories describe the formation and construction of the Conway Branch rail line, most recently The Rail Lines of Northern New England (Robert M. Lindsell, Branch Line Press, 2000). After several attempts to form railroad companies and construct the southern segments of this line, the Portsmouth, Great Falls, and Conway Railroad was chartered in 1865. Construction of the line was completed to West Ossipee in 1871 and to North Conway in 1872.
Initially, the line initiated at Jewett in Maine, through Salmon Falls to Somersworth. This
alignment was replaced by the current line from Rollinsford to Somersworth. Passenger service from Boston to the new North Conway station began in 1872. A connection with the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad (later Maine Central’s Mountain Division) at Intervale was made in 1875.
The Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway was part of the Eastern Railroad, which merged with the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1890. The railroad served manufacturing plants in several communities and lumber mills and sand and gravel operations in the Conway area. Freight service north of Ossipee ended in 1972. During the 1980s, the Boston Sand & Gravel Co. initiated service on the line for its subsidiary, Ossipee Aggregates by a new railroad, the New Hampshire Northcoast. This included the purchase of the line from Rochester to Ossipee and a major rehabilitation project that was partly funded by the state of New Hampshire through capital budget appropriations, federal Local Rail Freight Assistance funds, and the state’s revolving loan program for short line railroads. In 1994, the New Hampshire Northcoast purchased the balance of the line from Rollinsford to Rochester from the B&M.
The rehabilitation of the Conway Branch to Ossipee was a major undertaking, involving a large investment by the New Hampshire Northcoast and expenditure of $989,000 in state capital budget funds, $656,000 in LRFA funds (with railroad matching funds), and $606,000 in revolving loan funds now being repaid by the railroad. The railroad’s ability to handle heavy loads of sand and gravel has removed approximately 30,000 trucks per year from the highway system between Ossipee and Boston.
The Boston and Maine and its predecessors operated passenger service on the Conway Branch from 1872 to 1961. The Interstate Commerce Commission approved abandonment of the line from Mt. Whittier (West Ossipee) to Intervale in 1972. Abandonment, a process now handled by the federal Surface Transportation Board, the successor to the ICC, relieves a railroad of its obligation to provide freight service to a shipper. In 1974, the railroad corridor within the town of Conway was sold to the Conway Scenic Railroad.
Efforts to preserve the Conway Branch as a railroad corridor have included the purchase of most of the line within the town of Madison by the town in 1987, and its subsequent sale to the state in 1995. The state of New Hampshire purchased the balance of the line owned by the Boston & Maine in 2001. Today, the New Hampshire Northcoast owns the railroad corridor from its junction with the B&M main line in Rollinsford to Route 28 in Ossipee, the state owns it from that point to the Albany-Conway town line, and the Conway Scenic owns the balance of the corridor in the town of Conway to Intervale.'
Rochester, New Hampshire
Wednesday October 8, 2025
The so called "accursed" mountains, or recently named Albanian Alps, seen from the road to Theth, an isolated village at the end of the road that is quite busy with tourists nowadays, and the prices are almost shockingly high for this part of Europe, the last 15 kilometers of the road was paved this year, I guess it has to be paid for somehow, at least they didn't fall for the Chinese loan trap the way Montenegro did.
Nonostante il mutuo scambio di dotazioni fra DB ed SBB Cargo si sia formalmente concluso agli inizi del nuovo anno con l'implementazione del sistema di sicurezza ETCS sulle prime Br185 delle ferrovie tedesche, almeno fino a fine gennaio è stato ancora possibile avvistare alcune locomotive delle SBB incaricate di trainare verso l'Italia convogli normalmente in carico al gruppo DB Schenker.
Ecco quindi uno dei "classici" del San Gottardo, il Winnerzug da Wuppertal per Piacenza iniziare l'ascesa verso Goeschenen al traino di un Re10/10 in luogo delle classiche TRAXX tedesche. (22/1/16)
T395 trundles across the Winters Flat trestle bridge just west of Castlemaine with an afternoon charter to Maldon.
T395 is on loan Steamrail Victoria as part of a joint venture agreement with the Victorian Goldfields Railway while their locomotives were out of service for repairs.
Saturday 18th January 2025
I had hoped to get a shot of one of the two PRLX SD70M loaners NSM is using until two of their ACes are repaired. I wanted a shot for historical record, certainly not for its aesthetics.
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Crosvilles NLG 957P is seen far from home in Match 84, one of 2 Nationals on loan to Maidstone and District at Chatham.
This is one of the most photographed spots in the Lake District.
As time has passed the tree has slowly become less and less over the years yet still it survives.
This morning there was a slight head wind at Buttermere lake so I used a 3 second exposure time on this image which resulted in a nice ripple effect on the water, and with the warmth and sunlight from this morning's sunrise it gave a warm reflection across the lake.
The incredible roof at Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista in Racconigi, Northern Italy.
This was shot in a small town whilst we stopped for lunch between locations on our recent UE tour of the country. The trip was full of adventure and the odd scary moment but as always worth every penny and ounce of effort invested. The best part for me was having the power of the jaw dropping Pentax 645Z with me, kindly loaned by the fab people at Ricoh Imaging UK. The detail the camera produces is nothing short of breathtaking! More pictures to come over the next weeks and months.
Often many adults nowadays have loans, but do they exist in your life? Do you think they helped you or rather regret taking on such a burden?
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Personally, I treat them judiciously and am not going to take them unnecessarily. By the way, you can pay for my services as a photographer with a credit card without commission and please yourself and your loved ones. ☺️😉
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But how do you feel about such waste and could you go to such an event to please yourself and your loved ones? Share your opinion in the comments. I will read each of them with interest! :) 😁
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I've had this cloak on loan from Merrilyn for a few weeks now, almost a month, and haven't done anything with it! Until now...I got such an awesome fantasy/science fiction vibe from it, so I swallowed my temptation to do a Star Wars knock off and went with a fairytale/fantasy shot instead. I liked the effect I had in my last photo so I took that inspiration and applied it here.
While I was shooting this yesterday I heard giggles coming from a car about 100 feet away from me. I was ready to leave them to their business while I did my shooting, but then a woman got out of the car and came over to me. She immediately gave me a big hug and asked what I was doing (I had no idea who she was). So I explained, she was interested, and then she told me that she is a retired porn star and that I should definitely get into making porn because that's where the real money is :-D
Ooh some people. She was a doll. She gave me another bear hug and left.
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Grants Not Loans Protest, in the city of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom. Date unknown, but circa October 1987 to circa June 1989.*
* The reason for this date range will be explained below.
About the photographs.
Those are British police motorcyclists whom have been assigned to escort the college students carrying out a peaceful march from the college to city centre which is approximately one mile in length, down a main road.
As those photographs were taken in the late 1980s, at that time they were wearing dark blue biker’s leather jumpsuits and only had bright yellow strips across their body. It was long before the full yellow jackets became common with British police motorcyclists.
Note the strip on the side of the bikes, below the word POLICE. In that era, British police cars were all white with an orange horizonal strip across the side of the cars, as well as motorbikes. This style was often nicknamed as the sandwich jam style, before the police replaced them with a blue and yellow chequered pattern all over the side of the vehicles, that were later known as the Battenburg markings.
The first photograph shows three of the police officers waiting for the start of the march, they were seen at a car park off Venns Lane in Hereford, which is now used as a private hospital called Nuffield Health Hospital. Local journalists were also at this car park, mostly getting ready.
The second photograph shows the police motorcyclist in front of the students. I can’t be sure if this police motorcyclist is one of the three seen in the other photograph, or is another officer. Here he is seen slowly riding his motorbike, with the students behind him, all going through Commercial Street, a mostly pedestrian only street, in city centre.
I took those photographs with my Minolta X-700 35mm film SLR camera and a standard 50mm lens, which I often bring with me when going to college. The film used was Ilford FP4.
What is this all about?
In 1985, while attending my last year at a deaf school, I told the hearing teacher, the visiting career advisor, and my family that I want to do photography as a job, and would like to apply for a proper college course studying photography.
But in those days, there were still discrimination against deaf people, and they advised me that I can’t do photography as a job because of my being deaf. I attempted to fight for my rights, and somehow ended up with a college course that is better than nothing.
This being a two days college course studying graphic design, with a three days work experience with a professional photographer as an assistant, and I started around September 1987 until around July 1989, as it was a two years course.
On that day: I was in my class at college, when I noticed an activity going on outside. As it was the later 1980s, there was no Twitter, no Facebook, nothing like that. Usually news travel by printing leaflets or by word of mouth, being the only deaf person in a class full of hearing people, nobody thought to tell me.
I went to my tutor and enquiry what is going on, and my tutor, thankfully being open minded to my being deaf, explained what it is all about. At that time the British government, under then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had decided that funding to help students should be done by means of loans, which would need to be paid back by the students when they leave college and get jobs, not by grants. But students all over the UK are not happy with this, and are protesting against this idea.
That is why they’re saying ”Grants Not Loans.”
As I really want to do photography, not graphic design, I took this as an opportunity to practise my photography, by doing my first photojournalism kind of photography. Up until that time, most of the photography I did were landscape, street photography, still life, friends, and so on. I explained this to my tutor, and thankfully my tutor gave me permissions to leave class to cover this event.
I asked if I could have some more rolls of film, and the tutor agreed, so I grabbed as many as I could carry, and was off. I was lucky to find that it was only starting to build up, and that the march had not started yet.
I walked with the protesters all the way down the main road, from the college and into the city centre, which took about half hour or thereabouts, taking photos of the event, until reaching the end of the march.
After that, I went back to college, later I developed and printed my own photographs. Many years later, I decided to scan those prints using my Bother multi-faction printer/fax/scanner, and saved the images in my computer.
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While climbing tryfan mountain in North Wales, wondering if the route we had chosen (North face) was doable without ropes we found this guy. Have to admit it did add more feelings of doubt....
Wrongful so, as we scaled it just fine without ropes and climbing gear.
Loan Tree and Lenticular clouds, If you painted this sky, people would say it's not right wouldn't they?
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