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Assignment: Fall Color.
Easier said than done in Southern California.
We thought Big Bear might be a logical place to find it since it's in the San Bernardino mountains and sits at about 7000 feet above sea level.
There were a lot of patches of yellow sprinkled throughout the mountainsides as we made our climb from sea level, but getting up close and personal to a lot of it, was not gonna happen.
Stopping at the Big Bear Discover Center, we asked where the best color might be and got a few suggestions, and went into a photo gallery and asked the guy where he'd go if he was wanting to shoot fall color that afternoon. His answer? New England.
So we made a drive to a spot I had read about when researching some places that might have possibilities and came across one called Aspen Grove Trail.
There was some color, but unfortunately, most of the aspens were already bare.
Our main plan though was shoot the full moon rising over Big Bear Lake, which coincidentally according to greatest app for photography ever, TPE, was supposed to rise four minutes before the sun set.
It was gonna be a race, because we had 20 minutes to find a place to set up where we could capture both the sunset and moonrise, and we were a good 20 minutes from the lake.
From the direction we were coming it looked like the Stanfield cutoff bridge which connects the South Shore to the North Shore was our best bet.
I didn't even bother to set up a tripod -- just grabbed the camera and ran down the road as I saw the huge moon coming up. Turned on the VR and set the camera on a garbage can to steady it and hoped for the best.
Not much in terms of vibrant fall color here, but for an image taken at 1/15th of a second while the camera was resting on a garbage can lid, it was all I could do, so I'll take it.
After all, the chase for the light is always one of the best parts of the journey.
A colourful structure of horizontal lines winds from tree to tree bringing an element of logical geometric arrangement to the urban environment, creating a powerful and poetic image. Photo by Kelvin Trundle : Facebook - www.facebook.com/KelvinTrundlephotography/
Having decided to take a vacation day Wed and having free time till noon with no need to go right home to sleep I did the only logical thing...head out on the B&A! A quick check revealed that there were three trains all moving east (Q436, Q264, and I022 in that order) out toward the mountains and they should all be through the Palmer area between 10 and 11. That timing was even better since it was absolutely miserable with low clouds, dark gloom, and rain at 'sunrise,' but that all blew out replaced with sparkling clear blue skies by later in the morning come train time.
I shot Q436 (Selkirk to Worcester manifest) arriving in Palmer to start their work setting out in the yard and then headed to this favorite spot out at the Warren line. I kept an eye on things and as it turned out hotshot long pool intermodal I022 ran around Q264 at CP92 in Wilbraham and Q436 in Palmer which made them the first to show.
In the next 30 minutes two more trains showed up spaced 15 min apart so I relocated for a wide angle broadside shot I've been wanting to try that features the ancient doouble stone arch bridge dating from the line's construction in 1839. Having wrapped up their work in Palmer Q436 is on their last 30 miles to their destination in Worcester with a big train running 2x1 DPU. A nearly 20 yr old AC400CW still wearing the ever more scarce YN2 'bright future' scheme is trailing over the Quabog River here at about MP 75.5 on modern day CSXT's Boston Subdivision.
When the Western Railroad was completed in 1842 formed the longest and most expensive railroad constructed in the United States up to that point.
The three predecessors merged to form the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870. Thirty years later the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad and the line would pass successively to the Penn Central in 1968, Conrail in 1976 and CSXT in 1999. To this day it remains as the preeminent freight route and the only Class 1 trunk line still serving New England...truly a testament to the forethought of those who laid out and built the line over 180 years ago.
Check back soon for a view of train number three here!
Warren, Massachusetts
Wednesday November 10, 2021
The last of my Notre-Dame serie but the beginning of a night serie I will do through winter.
I thought it was logical to begin with Notre-Dame because the "point zero" in front of the cathedral is the starting point of all distances from Paris.
On a more personnal level, I have a certain fondness for the cathedral since the events in Paris in 2015.
The death knell was the most moving and dignified tribute. I am not a religious person but I am a historian (an apprentice at least), this had a meaning for me and it left a strong impression.
My cat was bitten by a radioactive cockroach. That really is the only logical explanation for her transformation the last few years. Just like Spider Man gained his supernatural powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider, she has been transformed with the powers of the critter that bit her.
TC (named after "True Colors", the Cindy Lauper tune) was going on 20 years old when I took this photo. I considered changing her name to Skeleton. But the Amazing Cockroach Cat is probably more appropriate. The first of her cockroach powers appeared shortly after when she began to transform from my neat, fussy, tidy cat into a creature that can tolerate -- no thrive -- in all manner of filth. She pretty much stopped cleaning herself. Her feet stink, she usually trails dingleberries, has a constant secretion of goo coming from her eyes and keeps a perpetual hunk of dried cat food clinging to her nose. I no longer have a small out-of-the way liter box discretely available for her use, but an entire room covered with a tarp and three big litter boxes hoping one might appeal to her. And once in a while one does.
The second cockroach power TC developed was an insect-like bony exoskeleton. Petting her is like touching some kind of tiny crooked, hardened washboard with a tail. She has weighed less than three pounds for over a year, consuming three tins of cat food and a cup of half-and-half a day. Each night she selects a new location to vomit about three quarters of that, which I usually discover in the morning before I get my shoes on.
The third cockroach power she has gained of course, is that she will never die. I've taken her to the vet several times wondering if she is suffering, but she seems to still be hanging in there enjoying her new cockroach life. She's actually become far more affectionate now than in any of her previous 16 years as a cat, purring and climbing on my lap and doing her best stinky cockroach-cute impression. I can't help thinking that is just her reaction to knowing how much I'd like to get new carpet though.
Anyway, here's my TC after one of her baths she must take now, drying out in the sun, and planning how to how use her cockroach powers today.
7/12/09 update - I posted this photo over two years ago. My cat passed away shortly after that. She didn't quite make 20 years but had a great life and enjoyed playing and hindfooting with her toys right to the end. I do miss her.
Thanks to all of people who empathized with one of the toughest decisions there is to make - how long to let an elderly animal live and when to put it down - especially when you can't talk to a cat to hear its wishes. Even humans have vast differences in how much they want to live or die if in pain.
Twice we packed her up, said our good-byes and took her into the vet who said she was still hanging in there and no need to kill her yet. Again, its a tough tough tough thing to go through - and sometimes you have to laugh through the tears .
Thanks to all for the considerate concerns - and best of luck to the many of you who have faced similar difficult situations. Take care all.
I previously posted the mono version of this called Delight. So this being the colour version Delight-ful seemed logical.
for November msh: a logical next step
only 3 categories left to go. yay. just need to find "a red head, a rich dad and a dot com" on the way to picking up the little dude from school tomorrow.. and i should be good to go. ha! we shall see ;)
was going to catch up with you all now.. but it is going to have to wait til morning. way late now.
Having decided to take a vacation day Wed and having free time till noon with no need to go right home to sleep I did the only logical thing...head out on the B&A! A quick check revealed that there were three trains all moving east (Q436, Q264, and I022 in that order) out toward the mountains and they should all be through the Palmer area between 10 and 11. That timing was even better since it was absolutely miserable with low clouds, dark gloom, and rain at 'sunrise,' but that all blew out replaced with sparkling clear blue skies by later in the morning come train time.
I shot Q436 (Selkirk to Worcester manifest) arriving in Palmer to start their work setting out in the yard and then headed to this favorite spot out at the Warren line. I kept an eye on things and as it turned out hotshot long pool intermodal I022 ran around Q264 at CP92 in Wilbraham and Q436 in Palmer which made them the first to show.
In the next 30 minutes two more trains showed up spaced 15 min apart so I relocated for a wide angle broadside shot I've been wanting to try that features the ancient doouble stone arch bridge dating from the line's construction in 1839. Following right on Q436's block was Q264 (Buffalo to East Brookfield autoracks) with a a nice duo on the head end of ES44DC 5305 (GE blt. Mar. 2006) followed by quarter century older veteran veteran SD40-2 (blt. Jul. 1979 for the Seaboard Coast Line with the same number amazingly!) crossing the Quabog River here at about MP 75.5 on modern day CSXT's Boston Subdivision.
When the Western Railroad was completed in 1842 formed the longest and most expensive railroad constructed in the United States up to that point.
The three predecessors merged to form the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870. Thirty years later the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad and the line would pass successively to the Penn Central in 1968, Conrail in 1976 and CSXT in 1999. To this day it remains as the preeminent freight route and the only Class 1 trunk line still serving New England...truly a testament to the forethought of those who laid out and built the line over 180 years ago.
And that's a wrap....three trains in about 30 minutes on the good old Boston and Albany!
Warren, Massachusetts
Thursday November 11, 2021
TUNNELS & CHAMBERS UNDER THE GREAT SPHINX
(I) In a series of expeditions between 1991 and 1993 led by John Anthony West, an independent Egyptologist, scientific investigators conducted geological and seismic surveys around the Great Sphinx of Egypt. The chief geologist was Dr Robert, Professor of Geology at Boston University, and the chief seismologist was Thomas Dobecki from the highly-respected Houston consulting firm, McBride-Ratclif & Associates.
(II) The team’s conclusions were as follows: A. Geology. The pattern of erosion on the Sphinx indicates that it was carved at the end of the last Ice Age, when heavy rains fell on the eastern Sahara – perhaps more than 12,000 thousand years ago. This contrasts starkly with the ‘orthodox’ Egypt logical dating for the Sphinx of around 4,500 years ago. B. Seismography. The seismic survey indicated the existence of several unexplored tunnels and cavities in the bedrock beneath the Sphinx, including a large rectangular chamber at a depth of some 25 feet beneath the monuments front paws.
(III) In 1993 John West and his team were physically expelled from the site by Dr Zahi Hawass then (and now) the Egyptian governments’ Chief Inspector of Antiquities for the Pyramids and the Sphinx. He appeared to be angered by the suggestion that the suggestion that the Sphinx might be far older than the civilization of Egypt itself – and thus the work of a lost civilization – and was particularly incensed by an NBC television film that was made about the teams’ work. This film linked the Sphinx to Atlantis and suggested that the chamber beneath the paws might contain the legendary ‘Hall of Records’ of Atlantis.
(IV) An article in the Egyptian press responding to the NBD film quoted Dr Hawass on his further reasons for expelling John West and his teem from the Sphinx enclosure: “ I have fount that their work is carried out by installing endoscopes in the Sphinx body and shooting film for all phases of the work in a propagandistic but not scientific manner. I therefore suspended the work of this unscientific mission and made a report which was presented to the permanent commission who rejected the mission’s work in the future.”
(V) The NVC film was produced by a certain Boris Said and partially financed by the investments from the members of the association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE). The ARE, headquarters in Virginia Beach in the US, is a multi- million dollar organization that exists to promulgate the teachings and prophecies of an American psychic, Edgar Cayce, who died in 1947. Prominent amongst Cayce’s pronouncements were many statements to the effect that the Sphinx had been built in 10,500 BC and that survivors had concealed beneath it a “Hall of Records” containing all the wisdom of their lost civilization and the true history of the human race. Cayce prophesied that this Hall of Records would be rediscovered and opened between 1996 and 1998. He connected the opening to second coming of Christ.
(VI) In 1995 John West and professor Robert Schoch of Boston University put in an application to the Egyptian authorities to resume their research, their application was ignored.
(VII) At the beginning of April 1996, the Egyptian authorities granted a one-year licence to a new team to conduct surveys around the Sphinx and the Giza necropolis using seismic equipment and ground penetrating radar, this team, which claims academic sponsorship from Florida State University, is largely financed by through the Schor Foundation of New York- by Dr. Joseph Schor, an American multimillionaire,, Dr Schor is a life member of the ARE and wrote on p the 24th May 1994 of his great personal interest in corroborating “ the Cayce records which indicated that the culture which led to the building of the Pyramids dates to 10,400BC.” He also state his wish to “further delineate that civilization.”
(VIII) On April 11th 1994 Dr. Schor stated his current project oat the Sphinx: “We do not work for the Edgar Cayce Group…The major purpose of the Schor Foundation and the Florida Sate University is to aid in the preservation and restoration of the Pyramids and Sphinx. In addition, we are surveying the underground of the Giza Plateau to find faults and chasms that might collapse. This will increase the safety of the plateau…”
(IX) Also financed by Dr Schor is a short video film shot at the end of 1995 by Boris Said and produced in early 1996. The film opens with Dr Zahi Hawass scrambling into a tunnel leading under the Sphinx. When he reaches the bottom he turns to face the camera and whispers to the viewer; “Even Indiana Jones will never dream to be here. Can you believe it? We are now inside the Sphinx inside this tunnel. But we are going to open it for the first time.” In commentary the film’s narrator goes on to state, ”Edgar Cayce, America’s famous ‘Sleeping Prophet’, predicted that a chamber would be discovered beneath the Sphinx – a chamber containing the recorded history of human civilization. For the first time we’ll show you what lies beneath this great stature…a chamber which will be opened tonight, live, for our television cameras.”
(X) Dr Schor has stated (on 11th April 1996) that this video is not a promotional venture aimed at hooking a major US network to televise a live opening of a chamber under the Sphinx. On the contrary, he insists, “It was made to test script and equipment and was made in November 1995 which was many months before we received the approval for our expedition. We have abandoned its use…”
(XI) On the 14th April 1996, Dr Zahi Hawass announced in the Egyptian press that there were secret tunnels under the Sphinx and around the Pyramids and stated his belief that these tunnels would prove to “carry many secrets of the building of the Pyramids.”
1991 yılında amerikalı araştırmacı john anthony west ve jeolog dr robert schoch, bu görkemli anıt üzerinde bir dizi araştırma yaptılar. vardıkları sonuçlar, oldukça şaşırtıcıydı: heykelin üzerindeki aşınma izleri, arkeologların inandığı gibi rüzgar ve kumdan değil, uzun ve etkili yağmurlardan ileri geliyordu ve düpedüz "su aşınması"ydılar! mısır'ın bu bölgesi, bundan 5000 yıl önce de çöldü ve yağmur düşmüyordu. söz konusu aşınmayı yaratacak düzeyde bir yağmurun en son düştüğü dönem ise, en az i.ö 5000 yılına, hatta çok daha eskilere dayanıyordu, belki i.ö 7000'e. west ve schoch, ayrıca ekiplerinde sismik ölçümler yapan cihazlarla çalışan uzmanlara da sahiptiler. bu ekip, daha şaşırtıcı bir bulguya da ulaştı: araçlar, sfenks'in pençelerinin yaklaşık 8-9 metre altında büyük bir "oda"nın ve ona açılan dehlizlerin varolduğunu gösteriyordu! mısırlı yetkililer, başta eski eserler müfettişi dr.zahi hawass, bu bulgulara erişildiği günlerde west ve ekibinin iznini iptal ettiler ve sfenks üzerinde araştırma yapılmasını yasakladılar. ama haber basına çoktan ulaşmış, west ve schoch da elde ettikleri bulguları aynı anda filme aldıklarından, nbc'de yayımlanan bir belgeselle ortalığı iyice karıştırmışlardı.
Bütün bunlara "orion gizemi"nin yazarı robert bauval ile "tanrıların parmak izleri"nin yazarı graham hancock'un astronomi temelli bir tezleri de tuz biber ekti: sfenks, tam doğuya bakıyordu, yani ekinoks (23 mart ya da 21 eylül) anındaki gün doğumu noktasına. mısırlıların yıldız kültürlerinde, güneş doğmak üzereyken, ufuk henüz tam aydınlanmamışken son olarak görülen yıldız ya da takımyıldızın ayrı bir önemi vardır. bu durumdaki yıldıza "heliak yükselişte" denir ve mısır'ın hem takvimini hem de dinini etkileyen çarpıcı bir olgudur. sözgelimi, mısır kültüründe tanrıça isis'i simgeleyen sirius yıldızı, yaz gündönümünde (21 haziran) şafak öncesi görünmeye başlar ve bu tarih aynı zamanda nil'in yıllık taşma dönemlerinin de başlangıcıdır. bu nedenle mısırlılar, yaz gündönümünü "yılbaşı" kabul ederlerdi. bu yaklaşım, ejiptologlarca sfenks'in yapılmış olduğu tarih olarak varsayılan i.ö 2500'de, ilkbahar ekinoksunda "heliak yükselişe" başlayan takımyıldızın incelenmesini ilginç hale getiriyor. bauval ve hancock, bilgisayar simulasyonuyla o tarihte boğa takımyıldızının yükselişte olduğunu gördüler. oysa mısırlılar şekil ve simgelere çok önem verirlerdi ve yaptıkları anıtlarda buna çok dikkat ederlerdi. yani, bu durumda sfenks'in aslan değil de boğa biçiminde yapılmış olması gerekmez miydi? iki araştırmacı, bu kez ilkbahar ekinoksunda aslan burcunun heliak yükselişe geçtiği tarihi araştırdılar ve karşılarına "orion gizemi"ndeki o garip yıl çıktı yine: i.ö 10.500! bütün bulgular, her ne kadar ejiptologlar ve ortodoks akademisyenler bunları dikkate almak istemeseler de, aynı "başlangıç tarihi"ne yönlendiriyor bizi. mısır uygarlığının i.ö 3100 yılında başladığı yolundaki yaygın görüş dikkate alındığında, eski mısırlıların bir "şifre" gibi bize bıraktıkları "anıt bilmecesi" acaba bilinenden en az 7000 yıl daha eskiye dayanan bir yitik uygarlığın izleri mi?
While I am talking Caithness, it would seem logical to show the photos I took of Freswick Tower, or Freswick House as it is more modernly called, taken the year before the photos of Bucholie I have just posted.
Freswick House is less than a mile north of Bucholie, and less than half a mile north of the remains of Lambaborg. In fact the site of Lambaborg is visible in this photo. As I mentioned previously, there are three headlands, one behind the other, at the southern extremity of Freswick Bay - Grey Head, visible from Bucholie, but just out of sight round the corner from here; Ness Head, which is the prominent promontory visible here, and Byke Yards, upon which the 2nd or 3rd century broch that was refortified by Sweyn Asliefson and named Lambaborg stood.
(This is the beach that Sweyn Asliefson would have swam to, to escape the Earl of Orkney.)
Byke Yards is almost indistinguishable against Ness Head behind it. It ends about in line with the reefs extending out from the castle. If you enlarge the photo sufficiently, you can see the line of the geo behind it and you can also see some stonework (not ancient) built on it, which stands just on the seaward side of the broch (which is not visible).
No logical explanation - just a mental image I had been carrying around for a while (maybe a dream of flying?). Caroline bravely climbed up onto the roof at sunset to bring it to life...
This one (her improvisation) worked especially well because the direct sunlight momentarily lit up her dress allowing her nice silhouette to show through.
See "Night Flight" and also another "on the roof" photo as well as the other photos of Caroline indoors, the day before.
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Τον Παπα-Βασίλη τον συνάντησα στα βοσκοτόπια της Αετόπετρας καμιά δεκαριά χλμ έξω από την Κόνιτσα.Είχα ξεκινήσει για άλλον φωτογραφικό προορισμό,ο ήλιος χτυπούσε ανηλεώς κόντρα στα μάτια μου αλλά ποιός δεν θα πρόσεχε αυτή την βιβλική μορφή η οποία με τον οπισθοφωτισμό φάνταζε σαν όραμα!
Σταμάτησα το αυτοκίνητο στην άκρη,άρπαξα την D4,σκαρφάλωσα γρήγορα-γρήγορα στο υπερυψωμένο βοσκοτόπι και παρ’όλη την προσωρινή…τύφλωση άρχισα να κάνω κάποιες λήψεις για τις οποίες,πραγματικά δεν ήμουν καθόλου σίγουρος ότι θα μπορούσαν να είναι αξιοποιήσιμες με τόσο…βίαιη την παρουσία του ήλιου απέναντι στον φακό.
Ο γέροντας,βλέποντας την απορία στο βλέμμα μου για το-πράγματι-αλλόκοτο παρουσιαστικό,μου εξήγησε ότι ήταν ιερέας σε σύνταξη και η ανάγκη τον μετέτρεψε σε “ποιμένα λογικών τε και αλόγων προβάτων” όπως ο ίδιος μου είπε χαρακτηριστικά!
Πήρα τότε την ευχή του και,ταυτοχρόνως με μια σύντομη πνευματικού περιεχομένου συζήτηση, προέκυψε η μικρή αυτή “ακολουθία” φωτογραφιών!
I met Papa Vasilis on the pastures of Aetopetra a few miles out of Konitsa. I started for another photo destination, the sun was shaking painfully against my eyes, but who would not watch this biblical form which, with backlighting, seemed like a vision !
I stopped the car aside, grabbed the D4, climbed quickly and quickly into the raised pasture, and despite the temporary ... blindness I began to make some shots for which, I really was not sure at all that they could be exploitable with so ... violently presence of the sun against the lens.
The old man, seeing the question in my gaze on the-indeed-bizarre appearance, explained to me that he was a priest in retirement and the need transformed him into a "shepherd of logical and alogical sheep " as he told me characteristically!
Then I took his wish and, at the same time, with a brief spiritual discussion, this small "sequence" of pictures emerged!
only logical explanation if you ask me. Ex-BFI 1990s/early 2000s Mack MR/Wittke. Funny thing is I have a near-identical First Gear truck being shipped to me right now. I-405 N/B in Westchester
"The heart has its reasons which reason cannot tell."
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Under the previous photograph I gave you a logical reason put forward by Pascal for believing in God. But this is distinctly NOT why Pascal became a follower of Christ. That came about through a deeply mystical experience one night before his fireplace. We know the exact time because Pascal recorded it all on a piece of paper that he tucked into his coat for the rest of his life.
Pascal's experience started on the night of November 23, 1654. It lasted two hours, beginning at 10:30 and ending at 12:30 the next morning.
"The year of grace 1654,
Monday, 23 November, feast of St. Clement, pope and martyr, and others in the martyrology.
Vigil of St. Chrysogonus, martyr, and others.
From about half past ten at night until about half past midnight,
FIRE.
GOD of Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob
not of the philosophers and of the learned.
Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace.
GOD of Jesus Christ.
My God and your God.
Your GOD will be my God.
Forgetfulness of the world and of everything, except GOD.
He is only found by the ways taught in the Gospel.
Grandeur of the human soul.
Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you.
Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy.
I have departed from him:
They have forsaken me, the fount of living water.
My God, will you leave me?
Let me not be separated from him forever.
This is eternal life, that they know you, the one true God, and the one that you sent, Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
I left him; I fled him, renounced, crucified.
Let me never be separated from him.
He is only kept securely by the ways taught in the Gospel:
Renunciation, total and sweet.
Complete submission to Jesus Christ and to my director.
Eternally in joy for a day’s exercise on the earth.
May I not forget your words. Amen."
Blaise Pascal became a follower of Jansenism, a stream of Catholicism that was heavily persecuted by the Jesuits (the arbiters of "true doctrine" in the Catholic Church of the time). This so-called heretical faith had a strong belief that one does not decide to follow Christ, but that God does the choosing. This doctrine of predestination was a central plank in Calvinistic Protestantism. The primacy of God's Grace over human reason is absolutely central to this faith.
As a result, this experience became a "confirmation" for Pascal that he really had been chosen by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the God of Jesus Christ, to be one of his humble servants.
For the remaining years of his life Pascal devoted himself to his Pensées (Thoughts), the clearest expression of his faith and one of the greatest theological confessions in history.
Pascal attacked the very idea that reason or human effort could lead to a relationship with God. No, God chooses us, and we (under the influence of the Holy Spirit) are his vessels for service and good works.
From the time I started doing nature photography as a hobby, photographing trees was always my biggest satisfaction. Therefore interest in woodland or forest photography was quite logical.
There is something in it for me when looking at a good forest shot, from other photographers or mine doesn’t matter, that gives me immense pleasure. It’s subjective what makes a good forest photo, but you know when you have something pleasing to the eye in front of you. Many professional photographers are pointing out how difficult it can be to do forest photography. It knows to be all messy and cluttered out there. But there is no greater thing in photography for me than having a foggy and misty morning, Fog separates and isolates the elements so nicely, gives a lift to the atmosphere around and improves the mood in general.
I got this shot a few months ago when Autumn was still on. I photographed this tree many times in all seasons, but never from this angle and perspective. Which was odd to me. There is a much simpler composition, but somehow I was drawn to this one. When I first saw this shot on my monitor I started to question myself why I photographed it using this perspective. The probable answer was because of the interaction of the light.
After a few days just observing the shot, I can say that I actually like it a lot. It has something a bit mysterious, with this cooler blue tones and fog around. And the main subject is quite strong.
The Autumn mornings are just the best for photographing. This morning was much more productive photographing-wise, but the most important for me is that it was fun and relaxing. And that is what should always be about.
So, please be logical and let me collect all our beautiful words
and memories. They are all for us, but when I die they go back to you.
P.S. I know .. not that much perfect. It was perfect while working ,,
here the colours are darker at the beginning and not blurred ..
P.S. Full Screen it, If you cant read.
I usually use the next names for pieces:
WChSoLA1
White Circle hole Square outside Large move to A1
Find out more on the BoardGameGeek game page: Cirquarles
Solution:
WShCoMC1, Dark shall block on 1st line, so move to B1 with DChSoM or DChCoS (no other option)
WShSoSC2, and dark has no option to block last move to C1 with WChSoS
Three units lead UP's thrice weekly manifest from Grand Junction to Denver, the only regularly scheduled manifest UP still runs on the Moffat. The train passes through the OS at East Rocky. One thing I never quite understood about East Rocky. When UP added their control point designations, East Rocky was given CP DS016. However, it is much closer to milepost 17, so it seems like CP DS017 would have been more logical.
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Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.” David Borenstein
Zooming at Jimbaran.
A beautiful Balinese Dancer performed at the stage, at one seafood restaurant in Jimbaran. Jimbaran is a fishing village and tourist resort in Bali, Indonesia. Located just at the south of Ngurah Rai International Airport, the beach is cluttered with seafood restaurants.
Basic Pjotography Class, Neumatt Kemang Jakarta
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Having decided to take a vacation day Wed and having free time till noon with no need to go right home to sleep I did the only logical thing...head out on the B&A! A quick check revealed that there were three trains all moving east (Q436, Q264, and I022 in that order) out toward the mountains and they should all be through the Palmer area between 10 and 11. That timing was even better since it was absolutely miserable with low clouds, dark gloom, and rain at 'sunrise,' but that all blew out replaced with sparkling clear blue skies by later in the morning come train time.
I shot Q436 arriving in Palmer to start his work setting out in the yard and then headed to this favorite spot out at the Warren line. I kept an eye on things and as it turned out hotshot long pool intermodal I022 ran around Q264 at CP92 in Wilbraham and Q436 in Palmer which made them the first to show.
They are seen here crossing the old double stone arch bridge over the Quabog River at about MP 75.5 on CSXT's Boston Subdivision. Compare this shot to one of the exact same train at the exact same spot taken just shy of a month prior: flic.kr/p/2mCkYPo The colors change quick in New England and the brilliant yellow elms are now bare while the oaks on the hillside which were mostly green now dominate the scene with burnt orange and rust brown tones.
In the next 30 minutes two more trains showed up spaced 15 min apart so I relocated for a wide angle briadside shot I've been wanting to try that features the ancient bridge dating from the line's construction in 1839. When the Western Railroad was completed in 1842 formed the longest and most expensive railroad constructed in the United States up to that point.
The three predecessors merged to form the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870. Thirty years later the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad and the line would pass successively to the Penn Central in 1968, Conrail in 1976 and CSXT in 1999. To this day it remains as the preeminent freight route and the only Class 1 trunk line still serving New England...truly a testament to the forethought of those who laid out and built the line over 180 years ago.
Check back soon for a view of train number two here!
Warren, Massachusetts
Wednesday November 10, 2021