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A sound regularly heard in the garden is the distinctive "chiff chaff"
Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita
Our Garden - Leeds
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Local power awaits the call at Sulphur Springs, TX. The second unit is one of KCS's F7B slugs.
10-14-1981
Local DMU running through spring rice field.
Located : Between Kyotango-Omiya station and Yosano station of KYOTO TANGO RAILWAY.
Okuoono, Omiya-cho, Kyotango-shi, Kyoto pref.
京都丹後鉄道 / 京丹後大宮駅 - 与謝野駅 間で撮影
京都府京丹後市大宮町奥大野
Pan Am Railways local BO1 is seen switching out Rousselot in this shot looking east on the South Reading Industrial Track at Allens Lane crossing. MEC 505 is an unrebuilt sister to the MBTA unit in the previous post having been built by GMDD in Jul. 1974 as CN 9470.
This customer is the only reason there is still freight service on the Eastern Route main and on this last branchline in the northern suburbs of Boston.
Rousselot is the worldwide leader in gelatin production and has a dozen other plants around the world. This particular facility was owned by Eastman Kodak until 2012, although manufacturing has taken place on this site since 1812 when a glue factory opened here.
Kodak used the plant primarily for making a very pure gelatin used in photographic film, but the market for that has dwindled with the emergence of digital cameras. As recently as 2007, 95 percent of the gelatin it produced went toward film, but by 2011 that had been reduced to a 50-50 split between gelatin for film and for other products. During the last 10 years, the facility's production has also decreased dramatically, going from about 19 million pounds of gel in 1999 to 2.75 million pounds at the time the plant was sold.
However the shift from film pharmaceutical products has led to increased production in recent years and more inbound raw materials (bone chips and acid) arriving by rail.
Peabody, Massachusetts
Thursday December 16, 2021
Canción del fuego fatuo "El amor brujo" M. de Falla. Paco de Lucía♪♫♫
"La tesis de Nancy" 4
[...] Estábamos la niña y yo casi siempre en un cuarto que tiene una ventana sobre un huerto con arrayanes moriscos. Al otro lado del huerto se veía una casa de aire mudéjar que llaman la casa de la reina mora. Ya ves si hay color local en mis surroundings. El "color local" no me gusta en la literatura, porque hace "inferior y provinciano" , pero en la vida es la chipén. La segunda tarde entró por la ventana un abejorro dorado, recorrió la habitación, fue a la cocina, al dormitorio, a la sala, se quedó girando alrededor de las flores de los tiestos, visitó de uno en uno los geranios y una brazada de nardos que había en un rincón y luego se acercó, dio una vuelta alrededor de mi cabeza y se fué [...]
Ramón J. Sender
BNSF's Sealy 191 Job takes a Cut of Boxcars from Cat Spring back to the Yard in Sealy. Pulling the Local today is BNSF 1935, Built in January 1979, and BNSF 1681, built in May 1973.
A former Wisconsin Central GP40 was switching the glass recycling building in Burlington a decade ago. Really. Over ten years ago.
That just isn't right. I miss that railroad.
local crop ...
at the market ...
Pic in my Summerscape Album ..
Pic taken 22 June 2024
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Just over a week ago, the radar showed a potential break in the storm that was raining up and down the west coast of California. So what does any self respecting seascape photographer do? I made my way to one of my favorite local spots and enjoyed the stormy light at the beach.
This is the infamous "hole" in Hole in the Wall beach. I've passed through here hundreds of times, often running from the waves that wash through here. The tide was pretty low on this evening, and the arch was taller than usual as the storms had scoured out a lot of sand. The low tide did allow for some nice sunset reflections vs. having water movement in the foreground. I'd like to try this composition again with more waves, but the sand has already started to build back up and the interesting rocks along the bottom are starting to get covered up.
This image easily had too much dynamic range for a single exposure and is a result of double processing a single RAW file and blending it with a bracketed "fused" image using the Exposure Fusion function in Photomatix. I am keen to try more advanced image blending techniques for shots such as this where traditional filter use and single exposures just don't work.
Anyway, hope everyone had a great weekend and as always, thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it!
Nikon D300
Nikon 12-24mm @ 12mm
-bracketed exposures at f11, ISO 200 fused and blended with a single RAW file
-Tony Kuyper's luminosity masks and color tools used extensively to better balance the image
NS Danville, IL, local D91 rolls west at Homer, serving customers at Sidney, Tolono, and Bement this day.
Just as I arrived this female stepped out from behind this bush....having a camera in the seat beside you is everything!!
This yard job ( I72 ) got RIGHT to work in La Crosse. We saw them roll east past the depot as lite power at 9:29, and just 14 minutes later, I photographed them pulling out of the west end of the yard with this local. They'd make their way across the river as soon as another local, powered by the CP 6246 would come in from the Wisconsin side.
Here, they're seen crossing Liberty St. with an apparently-shuttered MTU bus stop on the left. MTU's system map can be seen here ( chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.cityoflacrosse.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=834 ), and Liberty St. is somewhere between the 5 & 6 routes.
Running Monday to Friday, nicknamed the Lost Local, and typically having a rather photogenic set of power, this local for BNSF has some pretty classy operations. Originating out of the little treasure trove of Great Falls, MT the Lost Local is seen here on its run south to Fairfield, MT after already servicing the Elevator in Choteau.
L-MON8661-281 - BNSF 2890, BNSF 2893
L581 prepares to depart Brantford to collect their train at Paris with CN 9675 CN 2444 CN 5470.
This is the first time we have had a pair of 6 axle units assigned to Brantford for the local.
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One of the good things about staying local this past year has been getting to know my local area a bit better. This little patch of woodland is not the most photogenic - the trees are mostly young and there's a lot of messy undergrowth, but by visiting them often I've started to find interesting compositions and when I wake up to a foggy morning (like today) it only takes me 10 minutes to walk down the road on the off chance of getting a picture like this. Happy days!
Montana Rail Link GP9 No. 113, built Northern Pacific 291 in Feb. 1957, leads MRL train 641, the Livingston - Helena local at Spokane Creek Road in Louisville, Montana the afternoon of October 10, 1993.
BNSF 527 leads four axle local power on the Parachute Local approaching De Beque on its its return to Grand Junction, Colorado.
4 October 2023.
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3 huge pools of processed fracking fluid a few miles from my dad's house. the run off from this also gave a friend of mine a rash.
this is located just behind a hill so the houses at the bottom of the image do not have a view of the pools (but the rest of the site is very visible).
Local T88 rolls north past the classic Southern signals standing at Citico Junction, Chattanooga, TN.
Resting for the weekend, the pair of SD40-2's that work BNSF's Sealy Local are tied down in the small yard at Sealy, about 50 miles west of Houston. The Sealy Local is a M-F job that runs from Sealy down to Booth and returns, switching various customers along the way.
BNSF 1914 was built as BN 6333 in February 1972. Despite receiving a BNSF patch in 2000, and a BNSF number about 10 years later, this locomotive's original BN number can still be seen in faded paint on the long hood.
L RDV1911 19I ("Sealy Local")
BNSF SD40-2 #1914
BNSF SD40-2 #1671
Sealy, TX
July 19th, 2024
Literally 1 minute from my house is a country lane (on the outskirts of the local conurbation).
This is the view from beneath a pair of oak trees.
Do photographs have to be dramatic? To me, often, the boring less out there ones are more fulfilling. I suppose its relevant to the individuals concept of what constitutes a photograph? I imagine as I get older my prerequisites and appreciation of scenes differs or evolves....
Most power on UP's main line (and about everywhere else) looks like crap, but ironically, some of its oldest power, the SD40Ns, look pretty good since they were overhauled not that long ago. I lucked out with three of them bringing a local west along Highway 30 near Central City, Nebraska.
Located : Satsu station, Sanin main line, Hyogo pref.
West Japan Railway Company
JR山陰本線 佐津駅 ---兵庫県加美町香住---
Watchet, harbour, Somerset, UK.
Watchet developed as a town thanks to its closeness to the minerals within the Brendon Hills, and its access to the River Severn for onward shipping. Aside from local ships plying trade across the river, from 1564 onwards the port was used for import of salt and wine from France.
In 1643 during the English Civil War, a Royalist ship was sent to Watchet to reinforce for the siege of Dunster Castle. Parliamentarian Captain Popham ordered his troops into the sea with the tide on the ebb, and with the ship unable to move, attacked the ship with fire from their carbines. Taken by surprise and under heavy attack, the Royalist commander surrendered the ship, resulting in a ship technically at sea being captured by troops on horseback.
After letting P001 get out of the way, local M721 pulls out of Wauhatchie Yard. Since I figured Wauhatchie was full & there was no where for them to run around, the dispatcher decided to have them pull up past Lookout & have them run around their train between Alton Park & Lookout so that they could head back north. 3-2-21
Local Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) enjoying life in the Mombasa Lagoon, San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Conservation status: least concern
NS train D19 rolls west along Missouri Highway 10 at Carrollton as it approaches WB JCT on the NS Kansas City District, where it'll hop onto joint trackage with the BNSF Marceline Sub. With a GP60 for power, this local is headed for Hardin with six cars for the Ray-Carroll County Grain Growers Elevator.
Knowing D19 was still east of WB, but not how far east, I blasted off from downtown KC towards Carrollton hopint to intercept them before they got to Hardin. Thankfully, other traffic and even some track and time helped me out, and I got here mere minutes just before they reached the Highway 65 overpass. 2/29/24.