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This late sunset at about 8:30 p.m. bounced onto the eastern clouds surprised me and brought me joy.
No increased saturation. Only had time to take the D810 and 105mm f/2.8 prime outside to capture that light on the trees.
Many thanks for looking! Please, no advice. There are many who take skilled landscape shots. I am not one of them ;)
. . . They had stepped out of the party and onto the bridge . . .
Kulaan D. Dragon nodded, and turned to her. He walked, slowly, towards her as he looked to the side again. "I lied before. I suppose it's part of my education that I..." he trailed off and stopped, shaking his head and settled his eyes on the girl. "You're beautiful, every detail I notice. The hair, the gown, the butterflies, every touch of it, and every bit of you." he smiled, and took a step or two more towards her. "Even the crown. It's all so.... you." he continued, softly, almost with a touch of melancholy. "And it's more beautiful than a thousand Hogwarts." he finished.
Rya Voinea ... the poor girl was biting the inside of her cheek as he spoke. because she didn't know how to take it. Forget about the cool air outside .. she was hot enough that she couldn't even feel that. She pulled in her lower lip then and looked off to the side a moment before she replied softly.. "Tis onleh t'e costume. I will go back tae being plain meh a'ter today."
(( Picture taken at Mischief Managed ))
Signalman comes onto the track to collect the token , knowing that the single track from Ramsbottom to Rawtenstall is now free for the train waiting in the station to proceed up the line in safety ..
The red sandstone formations, the twisted pine trees, and the desert shrubs all work in concert to form a perfect masterpiece of nature. Even the dead trees find their way onto Ma Nature's canvas--they accent the landscape like costume jewelry on an evening gown.
Zion National Park Utah
Once upon a time I freelanced for a couple of Calendar greeting card publishers. Most of my images were taken on Medium Format or 35mm transparency film and have 1000s stored away that need sorting. They are quite easy to copy onto digital, thanks to my home made equipment. Every now and again I pick a few slides out to re-copy. Goodness knows how long ago i snapped this?
These have appeared in the garden over the last few weeks - tiny things, about 4-6 mm across on average.
"These odd and fascinating little fungi look for all the world like tiny birds' nests. The fruiting bodies form little cuplike nests which contain spore-filled eggs. The nests are called "peridia" ("peridium" in the singular), and serve as splash cups; when raindrops strike the nest, the eggs (called "periodoles") are projected into the air, where they latch onto twigs, branches, leaves, and so on. What exactly happens next is not completely clear, but eventually the spores are dispersed from the egg. They then germinate and create mycelia, which eventually hook up with other mycelia and produce more fruiting bodies." - www.mushroomexpert.com/birdsnests.html
Macro Mondays: Run
Photographed in morning window light, with a container of detergent reflecting its colour onto the water.
Good to catch a few Bearded Reedlings this morning as they start to form groups at the same time they start to feed on the seed
I wandered onto the balcony this morning and spotted this rather large 'shroom on the top of my compost heap. It is about 9 inches across. Not being able to get near the compost at the moment, the backyard is still a muddy mess from when the sewer works were done, I decided to try for a shot with the birding lens.
The light shines through the window onto the mantelpiece. It's a gentle light and it slowly warms up its surroundings. Ages ago the old farm house was in full bloom and there were sounds of horses and people tending them. It was a happy place but at the same time it was a harsh and hard place. Its still the same light that shines through the window but the people and horses are now gone. When you look through the window you feel like you looking into the past. You can imagine what they saw and what they felt, ages ago while tending to their chores. It's a window from the past.
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The ancient juniper sits against some fleeting light cast onto the clouds at sunset.
While out in Joshua Tree last weekend I made a quick stop to see if the tree was available for a shot. Upon arrival I was pleased to see that nobody was there at the location and only 2 camp spots were being used. I pulled into one of the campsites and unloaded the gear and made my way to the tree. I set up my tripod with the classic tree kissing the stone composition, I have no issues with comp stomping because that is part of the learning process, a guitarist doesn't just "create" music when he or she first starts out, they emulate the most inspirational artists and then start to make there own music after they learn how to use their instrument. I've always heard that it takes many trips to a location to get a really great shot so every time I'm in JT I check this spot. The sky was plugged up to the west but for about 10 seconds a hole opened up on the horizon and cast a soft glow on the clouds to the south. I shot there into the night using both camera bodies and after sometime heard some rustling to my left. When I turned to see what the sound was I found a fox watching my every move. He appeared there less than 10 feet from my head, poking his head out from between a crack in the rock face, no kidding, less than ten feet away I looked him right in the eye and it didn't move so I continued shooting watching to see how he was behaving. He was so filled with curiosity and looking so cute that I didn't feel in danger at all. After about 5 minutes of observation I thought that I would try to get a photo of him so I grabbed the camera on the tripod and started to recompose to include the little fella, but he grew skittish and made off around the bushes that lined the base of the rocks, I followed him around just in time to see him disappear into his hole right there next to the stone in this photo. This was the second time i've seen this little guy but had forgotten about it. If you ever decide to come by here to "comp stomp" then don't be alarmed if you hear some rustling around you, it's just a cute fox with chronic curiosity, LOL. :)
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Found in one of the few places I can get to on a tiny mobility scooter, where I can climb down onto grass and kneel on a gardening kneeling mat using the scooter as a counter balance. Once done I can then very carefully lie down to get the shot. easier said than done.
Horse mushrooms are bigger than field mushrooms and have a distinctive aniseedy smell when cut. Although that might sound alarming they safe to eat.
Your eyes don't deceive you! The UP Computer system sure didn't believe that the GTW 5937 had made its way onto the LMC40 for the second consecutive day, but it sure did!
This engine came into town with another CN unit, the 5773, presumably on an HNTP, the power got split up, and reallocated for other purposes. I can count on exactly one hand how many times I've seen foreign-road power lead this local over the years, and to make it a good looking SD40-2? Yes, please!
For the record, this non-dynamic 40-2 was built in 1975 as the MP 3196, so it's very likely spent plenty of time in the Sunflower State in the past.
As you emerge onto the hand-levelled platform atop the ridge, the sense of exposure after the climb is suddenly liberating. The High Place of Sacrifice (al-Madhbah in Arabic) is one of the highest easily accessible points in Petra, perched on cliffs that drop an almost sheer 170m to the Wadi Musa below. It’s just one of dozens of High Places perched on ridges and mountain-tops around Petra, all of which are of similar design and function. A platform about 15m long and 6m wide served as the venue for religious ceremonies, oriented towards an altar, set up on four steps, with a basin to one side and a socket into which may have slotted a stone representation of the god. Within the courtyard is a small dais, on which probably stood a table of (bloodless) offerings.
What exactly took place up here – probably in honour of Dushara – can only be guessed at, but there were almost certainly libations, smoking of frankincense and animal sacrifice. What is less sure is whether human sacrifice took place, although boys and girls were known to have been sacrificed to al-Uzza elsewhere: the second-century philosopher Porphyrius reports that a boy’s throat was cut annually at the Nabatean town of Dunat, 300km from Petra. At Hegra, a Nabatean city in the Arabian interior, an inscription states explicitly: “Abd-Wadd, priest of Wadd, and his son Salim… have consecrated the young man Salim to be immolated to Dhu Gabat. Their double happiness!” If such sacrifices took place in Petra, the High Place would surely have seen at least some of them.
It’s also been suggested that Nabatean religion incorporated ritual exposure of the dead, as practised among the Zoroastrians of Persia; if so, the High Place would also have been an obvious choice as an exposure platform. You can survey the vastness of Petra’s mountain terrain from here, and the tomb of Aaron atop Jabal Haroun is in clear sight in the distance.
The ridge extends a short distance north of the High Place, nosing out directly above the theatre, with the tombs of the Outer Siq minuscule below. From here, it’s easy to see that the city of Petra lay in a broad valley, about a kilometre wide and hemmed in to east and west by mountain barriers. North, the valley extends to Beidha, south to Sabra. It looks tempting to scramble down the front of the ridge, but there is no easily manageable path this way; it would be dangerous to try it.
Its Thirty Thursday ! we go back to March 1975 Were at Griffith Ind with C&O GP-30 leaving the Erie tracks and getting onto the C&O heading to Cincinnati Ohio .today all this track is long gone
A lot of effort went into climbing onto this wall. This seal looked like it thought it deserved a superior position.
Photo made with a Leica iiic
Lens: an uncoated Elmar 4/90mm from 1937.
Settings: Aperture f/9 - shutter 1/40sec
Film: Fuji Acros II, pushed 1 stop
With roughly 25 empty trash cars destined for the New York Department of Sanitation Fresh Kill's facility, the Conrail BY-1 crew advances up to the Arthur Kill Lift Bridge with SD45-2 duo 1704 and 1700 leading. The original SIRT right of way is pictured in the foreground, which still stands despite not seeing active use.
My first attempt at capturing this stone arch from an adjacent footbridge, had the sun reflecting too intensely down onto the brook. We tried again an hour later and the light was less severe. However, a steady stream of hikers wanting to cross the single file bridge had me frequently moving out of the way and every time someone set foot on it, the wooden structure moved. I finally crawled under the bridge to get this point of view. I'll have to try again on an overcast day when it's not so late in the year and much of the foliage is in full bloom.
The original mill, built here in the mid 19th century, ground lime in much the same way a grist mill produced grain. This arch is an original feature of the mill race and you really have to admire the masons that cut and fit the stones together to make it last this long. The Halton Hills Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, strongly requests that people stay clear of the arch to assist in it’s preservation.
So after climbing down a ladder onto the rocks beside Sydney Harbour, to take sunset pictures, I then returned to the car just a little beyond twilight. The car was parked along Milson Road at Cremorne Point. I had to kill people to get this car spot so close to the harbour. lol.
However, as I passed by the cluster of 1930s Art Deco apartments on Wulworra Avenue, I glimpsed - through the narrow alleyways between these apartment blocks - the city lit up like jewels in Aladdin's Cave.
I thought it might make a 'different' kind of portrayal of the city - from Cremorne Point. It was a little eerie in this alleyway as dark descended. Twilight had all but disappeared. Hence I called this 'Sydney noir'.
And here's a little glimpse of the inside of the apartment directly to the left (above) of where I took this photograph.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReZq2cNV3g&t=6s
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
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this was for a competition. Didn't win or anything - but i still liked this photo.
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thanks to hailey who laid in the neighbours driveway and helped with this.
FP4 in efd 35mm cropped to square.
Omega Lith onto Select Sepia VC matt.
SE5 Lith A+B+E 30+30+13+1100 ml 5:30 mins, followed by Lith Omega 1+100 2 mins.
Right hand side Gold toned (MT10) 2 mins.
INRD's HWTHT hops onto the CSX's CE&D Sub at Spring Hill in Terre Haute with their train for Baker yard. Having never done this job before, the learning curve was pretty steep. But we walked away with a few shots that made the drive worth it.
First York Mercedes-Benz Citaro bodied O530G BG58 OLR passes over the Blossomgate Crossroads onto Nunnery Lane, York with a Silver Line Park & Ride 9 service to Monk's Cross. 29/09/2020.
Lake Lucerne
near Weggis LU
Schweiz
Hasselblad 503 CW, Makro Planar 4/120 mm, Ilford FP4+
Lithprint onto unknown Baryta paper
Cropped to portrait format to fit my A4 scanner
I'm still discovering old prints in my basement.
09-11-2024 and we had a wonderful walk though Kingsford Country park on our way up onto Kinver Edge ....a beautiful location
Had to climb onto the roof for this view. Hope you like it:
Bergh Castle or in Dutch Huis Bergh, in 's-Heerenberg, is one of the largest castles in Gelderland, The Netherlands. It gives its name to the Land van den Bergh and was previously owned by the Counts Van den Bergh.
The building history dates back to the 13th century. The main parts of the castle are from the 14th, 15th and 17th century. In the beginning of the Dutch Revolt the house got damaged by war. In 1735 the castle burned down.
In 1912 Huis Bergh and all belongings became the property of Jan Herman van Heek, an industrialist from Enschede.
He restored the buildings. In 1939 there was another major fire. Thanks to the help of locals most of the furniture was rescued. Renovation began the same year and was completed in 1941.
© Mieneke Andeweg-van Rijn 2017
CN 3115 ventured onto UP rails last month, leading manifest MPSHO 14 from Parsons, KS to Settegast Yard. Unfortunately, the train arrived under some terrible mostly-cloudy lighting conditions. I was able to get this shot of the train rolling past the west end of Englewood Yard on the Houston Sub main, thanks to a pop-up storm that prevented this scene from being entirely backlit. Not exactly the shot I had hoped for, but it was neat to finally shoot one of CN's heritage units.
Houston, TX 9/16/2022
Lavertezzo, Valle Verzasca
Tessin, Schweiz
2001
Mamiya 7II, 4/50 mm, Ilford Delta 3200
Print onto Foma Retrobrom, Moersch 6 blue
The wide sweep of mountains in the distance, the different shades of green with tiny trails of pathways and the snaking Chamonix valley below make this panoramic scene breathtaking. A sense of freedom and wellbeing sweeps over you as stand and just observe. Nature at its finest.
West Hump got one westbound onto the Wayzata Subdivision and then lined up Northstar out of Stadium, holding TCW back at Rollins Avenue. This afforded me time to get over to CP Stadium proper for a nicely timed intercept of the St. Paul Turn heading back home.
This fox sparrow briefly flew from the ground onto this branch, then moved on to another grazing ground.
A very blustery and with the occasionall soaking by the elements a great Mountain day in the hills of Snowdonia, so lucky as I walked from my front door up onto this great ridge
image copyright www.kevinobrian.co.uk/
Looking south onto the Hole of Horcum, North York Moors.
The National Park provide some insight into this natural feature:
"The Hole of Horcum is one of the most spectacular features in the North York Moors National Park – a huge
natural amphitheatre 400 feet deep and more than half a mile across.
Legends hang
easily upon a place known as the ‘Devil’s Punchbowl’ – the best-known says that it was
formed when Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife during
an argument.
Actually, it was created by a process called spring-sapping, whereby water
welling up from the hillside has gradually undermined the slopes above, eating the rocks
away grain by grain. Over thousands of years, a once narrow valley has widened and
deepened into an enormous cauldron – and the process still continues today."
'The John Street Roundhouse in Toronto was built between 1929 and 1931 by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. It had stalls for 32 locomotives that were moved in and out of the structure on a huge 120-foot rotating turntable shown here. Locomotives were driven onto the turntable and rotated for positioning into one of the available stalls'.
Now part of the Toronto Railway Museum....
Lamprocapnos spectabilis/Tränendes Herz
From our garden
Canon EOS 50E, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Fuji Acros
Print onto Forte Bromofort BN0 (7,5x10,5 cm), Moersch ECO 4812
Hofgut Gümligen BE
Schweiz
Dec. 2024
Nikon TW Zoom 35-80 mm, Ilford Delta 400, Kodak D-76
Print onto Ilford MG Warmtone with Moersch ECO 4812
Unfortunately i could not get the whole reflection onto the photo, because right under the bottom of this photo, there's the balustrade of the bridge from which i was shooting this. And by the way, this is nearly the same place as in "the blue hour", just needed to turn around
Bregenzerach
Bregenz 2012
Mamiya 7II, 4/80 mm, Efke IR 820, Filter IR 715
Lithprint onto Fomatone 532II
SE5 1+25, +2 f-stops, 5 min
Lith G (100 H2O/10 G/16 NH4Cl/2 D/10 B) 1 min
After their overnight run from Medley, FL, FEC train 336 switches onto the Cemex City Point lead at CP City Point in Cocoa, FL.
CP City Point was rebuilt from its original configuration a few months prior to this photo. Originally, it was just the single main and the City Point lead with some standard vaders. Now, as you can see, there's a whole new main being built and two tracks that turn west off of the main to head toward Orlando for Brightline.
Birch grove, Schweizer Ried
Lauterach, Vorarlberg
2025
Olympus XA4 macro, Zuiko 3,5/28 mm
Adox CHS II 100, Kodak D-76 (1+1)
Print onto Ilford MG WT with Moersch ECO 4812
Selen MT 1
Taxiing onto Stand 257 operating Transair flight GTS301 from DSS via AGP.
Previously registered D-ABJB.
With Blue Air from Aug-16 to Mar-22 when it became 6V-AJD for Transair.