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Recently I was getting frustrated with the lack of focus and softness in my images and couldn’t work out of it was my kit or my settings.. luckily these kites came out and allowed me to practice and adjust things until I got it right.
To continue the theme of photographic experimentation; this is a portrait of Margaret who runs our local corner shop, and has done for her whole working life. It's a bit of a landmark pic for me as it's the first time I've actually managed to ask a stranger if I can take their picture. I'm really pleased with the result and hope to maybe do a series on local people and services and the degree to which they are being squeezed out by mass-market capitalism.
Many thanks for taking the time to look :)
Framed by some of the last fall color in the area, Conrail Shared Assets local BS-3 eases out onto the Pennsy-built bridge over the Delaware River. Heavy rains have swelled the river, and white-capped waves can be seen passing under the bridge.
on my short walk today
this is one of my fave tree
its old and withered ,,,first to shed it leaves every year
,,,, but usually the first to bloom come spring time
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GWR Small Prairie 4555 steams along the Severn Valley Railway during a 30742 Charters photography day.
Locomotive: Great Western Railway 4500 Class 2-6-2T 4566.
Location: By the Crossing Cottage at the top of Eardington Bank on the Severn Valley Railway.
Like most who spend time on a safari in Africa our itinerary included a visit to a Masai village. I am sure that there were many aspects of village life that were staged for the benefit of their visitors however I am likewise happy in the knowledge that we benefitted from an insight into an entirely different way of life. At this point during our visit the gaggle of tourists were watching a dance by the local men. I however turned around and spotted these kids hanging out on what looks like an old termite mound. A couple of the young girls look as though they might have been dressed for the cameras but the lads look like they are in their everyday playing out clothes.
Montana Rail Link's Paradise Local heads back west to Paradise after working Tricon Timber in St. Regis, Montana. The pair of GP9s leads the local past a patch of turbulent water in the Clark Fork River.
Moorhens—sometimes called marsh hens—are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family. Most species are placed in the genus Gallinula, Latin for "little hen". They are close relatives of coots A familiar black bird of our lakes, ponds and rivers, the Moorhen is widespread
NS Atlanta South District local G15 is on the McDonough Industrial Lead waiting to work Ken's Foods. McDonough, Georgia October 4, 2018
A short Y104 local passes under the tell-tales in lower Price Hill as it works some of the last remaining trackage of the CH&D in Cincinnati.
Camera: Rollei 35
Lens: Tessar f/3.5 40 mm
Film: Kodak Gold 200
Exposure: 1/125 sec and f/5.6, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by Foto Brell, Bonn
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
Besides attempting to capture the autumn colors of my local forest, I wanted to test my recently acquired Rollei 35 and also the look of Kodak Gold in dull weather.
Mayville Local at Portland Junction. The Portland leg is only used for car storage anymore but the Mayville leg sees regular traffic.
A recreation of a Great Central stopping train heads past Woodthorpe during a Timeline Events photo charter in 2015.
Locomotive: LMS Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 45305.
Location: Woodthorpe, near Loughborough, Leicestershire.
"My Harvest Home" (1835) is one of John Glover's most popular paintings. To me it is the one with most photographic compositional elements - even though photography didn't arrive in the colony until 1841. See how he creates those sun rays there just above the hay wagon. And those shadows. This is precisely the way most photographers would set the scene.
The painting is made on his property at "Patterdale Farm" Mills Plains in northern Tasmania. Here we see convicts at work, as Glover would have been assigned a number of convicts as farm labourers.
Northern Class 158 DMU 158759 passes Birkett Common on the Settle & Carlisle Line with a Carlisle to Leeds service.
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta III (531/16)
Lens: Novar Anastigmat f/3.5 75 mm
Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Exposure: 1/300 sec and f/5.6, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
CSXT Middleboro based local B727 (now officially known as L007) led by GP40-2 6237 (blt. Feb. 1979 as BO 4335 in Chessie System paint) and two sisters are switching on the Myles Standish Industrial Lead. They will spot one reefer at Americold and pull one from Reinhart Foodservice at the end of track before coming back here to work the busy New England Waste Disposal transfer station whose lead track is in the foreground. This branch is accessed from Attleboro Junction at MP 8.6 on the Middleboro Secondary a bit over a half mile behind me here.
The Middleboro Sub is strange in that it is owned by MassDOT and dispatched and maintained by Mass Coastal, but CSX still operates it and serves the customers as the direct corporate successor of CR, PC, NH, and all the way back to the Old Colony Railroad. In fact this particular segment of line here on the Myles Stabdish was opened in 1836 by OCRR predecessor Taunton Branch Railroad making it one of the oldest rail routes in New England. Becoming a mainline for the Old Colony it survived as a secondary through route under New Haven aegis seeing its last passenger train pass shortly before the connection with the shoreline was severed at Mansfield in 1955 to make way for a highway grade separation project.. The tracks into Mansfield center lasted until about 1966 for freight service served from this end, but then were abandoned leaving only the present 1.5 mile stub still in use today up to the large industrial park.
Taunton, Massachusetts
Tuesday March 15, 2022
Another shot at Franklin St similar to the one I took from the same perspective a few weeks ago. I was able to get the driver in better focus this time.
Hughes-Fowler '5MT' 2-6-0 'Crab' no.13065 powers through a sunny Burrs with the 14:10 Bury-Ramsbottom shuttle.
Just continuing to fill in some random spots from last summer's whirlwind Montana getaway.
In this post I told the story about my last minute pilgrimage to Montana Rail Link on the cusp of its flag lowering: flic.kr/p/2nLhAy6
I'd only planned four days of shooting and the final day was only going to be a travel day. With the curfews around Bozeman and the dismal smoke conditions we slept in a bit, had a good breakfast downtown, and then I dropped my friend at the Bozeman airport. He'd elected to fly home from there instead of Missoula, but I had to head back west for my flight so after dropping him I headed for I90 and points west. Needing to be in Missoulal by 1500 I had just under an hour to play with so figured at least I could ghost foam somewhere or perhaps drop into Butte or Garrison or something along the way.
Anyway, about an hour west I realized I could take a five minute detour and drop into Whitehall. On our day chasing the Logan local we hadn't make it that far west since they traveled no further out the line than Sappington that day. In fact the famous stretch of track through the Jefferson River Canyon was the one significant and scenic stretch of MRL property still in service that I'd yet to see for myself. Frankly, I didn't think I'd get to since we hadn't lucked out with a ballast train during our short visit. But as I was cruising along I remembered my MRL contacts telling me that Thursday is the normal day the local makes the trek all the way to Whitehall if they have work so I crossed my fingers that perhaps they'd be working in town.
Well lo and behold lighting struck, because just as I got into the center of the small town this was whay I found!
And my timing could not have been more perfect because they were literally completing their air test on one car and were on the move back east within five minutes of me pulling up! Had they left 5 min earlier I'd never knwn or had they just gotten there I'd not have had time to wait around while they worked. But, miraculously the allotted extra time I had left I was exactly what I needed to chase them east for a dozen miles to and through the famed canyon where the Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited and the Milwaukee Road's Olympian Hiawatha once raced on opposite banks.
Here is the 844 Logan local with one covered hopper behind the same pair of classic EMD GP35s we'd chased to Harrison two days prior, MRL 403 and 405 blt. Dec 1964 as DRGW 3039 and Jan. 1964 as DTI 353 respectively. They are a few miles out of Whitehall making a good clip headed east approaching Tebay Lane at about MP 34.3 on MRL's 5th Sub mainline. The wildfire smoke has nearly obscured the mountains that would normally dominate the horizon to the west. It's only 18 miles in a straight line from here to Homestake Pass where the NP crossed the Continental Divide, but it's nearly 2000 feet higher!
Countless articles have been written about the MRL over the past 35 years of its existence and if you care to learn more download this great set courtesy of Trains Magazine:
www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/TRN-MRL.pdf
Near unincorporated Cardwell
Jefferson County, Montana
Thursday September 8, 2022