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It's hard to believe that I haven't posted this one yet, but that might be due to the fact that the Batten Kill has become quite overrun in recent years and, therefore, I haven't seen a need to post my shots shortly after taking them.
In 2021 and 2022, Raven Rail-owned Alco S-2 #3021 called the Batten Kill home. The engine hadn't seen use since its days on the Saratoga & North Creek, and my railroad boss Hal Raven had it moved to Shushan, NY on the Batten Kill where he could more easily work on it. On a few, rare occasions, it made some "shakedown runs," and -- thankfully -- I was able to catch a couple of them. This one from August 4, 2021 saw the 3021 leading a northbound train of inbound loads from Eagle Bridge to Greenwich Junction. In a classic Shushan scene including a diamond-shaped crossing and laundry hanging out on the line, the 3021 looks right at home on the former D&H Washington Branch (although I'll admit I don't think the D&H switchers ever ran over this portion -- I think they were confined to the G&J).
By 2023 or so, the 3021 moved over the Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson. It's one of my favorite engines to ride in between the seats, the smooth ride, the view, and the turbocharger sound. However, it's been terrible when trying to cut the air into a train -- often dumping if you as much as sneeze on the anglecock. The engine itself is essentially a kicker, and it takes forever to charge a train. For now, we're not really using the engine as it's waiting on a new cylinder.
Considering we've got two (soon to be three) original D&H RS-3s on the SC&H -- along with the fact that this S-2 isn't original D&H -- I'd personally love to see this engine get repainted into FJ&G orange, yellow, and black and renumbered 21. That might take a heck of a lot of arm twisting, though -- as well as volunteer hours. I'm curious what any of you think of the idea, but the FJ&G paint scheme is currently only preserved on model railroads...
Batten Kill Train BK-F
August 4, 2021
Shushan, NY
This early 15th century 'Caraval' carries the name 'Orion Star' and is used for the transport of goods along the Mediterranean trade routes.
In 1486 Florence and Venice had widely accepted trade agreements and benefit of each others reach within the ever expanding worldwide trade routes.
Apart from creating the shape of this ship, the sails and the color scheme, the real challenge was to recreate the symbol of florence; the iconic fleur de lis.
Personally, I think this worked out pretty well 😁
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Some background story;
I chose this type of ship because it fits within the time frame and the characteristics of the venice laguna of that time (not deep and many sandbanks).
The caravel had a stern rudder and a raised forecastle and sterncastle. Caravels had a typical length-to-beam ratio of 3.5:1 with a shallow draught. It was also highly manoeuvrable and fast. All of these characteristics made the caravel ideal for exploring unfamiliar waters and coastal shallows where larger ships might easily have become stranded on sandbanks or damaged by rocks.
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Sea Lions at Pier 39 San francisco California
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Call me weird, but I personally think the little micros tend to be more interesting photographically than the big showy macro moths! This is about 2-3mm width of view. I couldn't ID this, I can't seem to find it in Goater or Skinner. Body length 5mm, gold sheen on wings, comes to light (caught in trap).
Technical: challenging, because there's a lot of dynamic width between the whites on the scales at the bottom and the mediums/darks of its eyes and head. I went for a gradient brown background (rear sync with 2.5s exposure on smallHD) and this is one of the first times I've really felt that the Pentax K7 let me down as it's so noisy with dark tones. Annoying. Only 2 guns, both on 1/64 but close to the polystyrene diffuser. Glass was Carl Zeizz Jena 135mm with Nikon 10x/.25 ∞ plan objective. 75 shots stacked, step size of 14µm.
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Personally I like the layers in this.
Close up...and far away
In focus...and out.
Something different.
Some may like it...some not.
My attempt at summer photography has personally been a hard challenge as its one of the seasons tbh I just avoid. But I have given it a go on three trips through the months July and August and I must admit I miss my misty grey days. However it was a challenge and one I took on and at times did enjoy as I always use any trip as a scouting trip for future compositions.
I was more comfortable with the evening trips as the light at sunset was just amazing and was a real pleasant way to end the day. The chance of of fog or heavy dew is more common mornings but I had no luck there.
My composition here was one of my favourites on an evening trip, the light was just about seeping through a low cloud base and was just twinging the tree tops at the woodland in front of me.
As soon as it appeared though it disappeared just like my foggy mornings so the shot was hand held but all worked out well.
Again one of my favourite trees the birch providing some colour and contrast with the trees on the right.
Really looking forward to taken this one again in Autumn and not having to bother about the thousand midges which have turned my arms into the elephant man.
I have a few images still to post from the summer season, still need to PP them first. But for me I am saying goodbye summer days, bring on the rain, the fog and that atmosphere where I excel.
Just a quicky I rustled up to announce the grand opening of the new website! XD It's not entirely finished, but here it is so far:
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Feel free to have a look round and post comments! :)
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Personally I like Cirrus clouds which give that abstract arts feeling. This was taken when I woke up, a usual routine to look at the sky before wash up :)
Personally, I very often collapse under the weight of dramas that happens to me.
I have a lot of admiration for these people to whom it happens 1 million more serious things and keep calm (my model for example in her life).
Lens: Mitakon 25mm f/0.95
Aperture: 0.95
"Personally I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors." - Björk
Love is the best sort of magic.
Happy Magical Pride everyone!
(taken outside of Florish & Blotts in Diagon Alley)
Personally one of the challenges I face with photographing landscapes of this magnitude is to capture an image of this landscape in such a way a to convey to the viewer the shear scale and vastness of these places.
Personally, I think it's a shame that this type of photo is so utterly oversaturated by "street photographers" that point their DSLRs at every single person that crosses their path, despite having no discernible quality whatsoever, that it has become completely irrelevant. I think it's a shame because it forms the basics of street photography and if done well can be pleasing and interesting on many levels.
One of the things I like about street photography is the challenge to portray the ordinary in an extraordinary way. We can't all be compositional masters, but taking the same photo over and over with a telephoto lens of random people walking towards you from the waist up surely can't be in any way fulfilling? It's not even trying.
Nor can it be fulfilling the empty comments that ensue. When the 'depth of field', 'subject separation', 'nice tones', 'good expression' gratuitous comments are exhausted it then follows to comment only on the subjects attributes, because the actual photo has no merit in its own right. It's not a considered photo that has been taken for any reason, it's random thoughtless snapping.
I have read the opinions of a few of these 'random-people-snappers' and they say how shocking it is, the style of Bruce Gilden and (recently highlighted) Tatsuo Suzuki and how they would only ever treat their subjects with respect etc. yet in their bodies of snaps they have hundreds (from their multiple thousands of almost identical captures) of images of disgruntled people staring into the lens angrily and obviously questioning why they are being photographed. I question it also and wonder what purpose these snaps could ever serve.
Some of these 'snappers' even teach street photography! I've always wondered what the conversation / lesson would go like...
Student: What should I do first?
Master Snapper: Buy an expensive camera.
Student: What about the settings?
Master Snapper: Auto.
Student: Now what?
Master Snapper: Point the camera at a person.
Student: Then?
Master Snapper: Press the shutter button.
Student: What about the composition?
Master Snapper: That is the composition.
Anyway, it's just an opinion. It's all subjective, right?
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Personally I think that women should be up. It's their turn. White men have been screwing things up for hundreds of years. We should put women in charge of everything for the next decade. Could it be worse then the past? I think you and I both know that we would never go back to white men running things again. Have a great weekend.
Personally, I really like abstract images as a photographer. They often convey a stronger sense of vision and composition than a standard landscape shot. This particular formation caught my eye and I dug out my telephoto lens to capture the soft light, colors, and textures. I love the desert Southwest!
It's been awhile since I've posted to flickr. A lot of photos have happened since the time of my last post here. Most notably, I took a trip to Indonesia in September for 10 days with 8 days spent SCUBA diving.
One of the images I wanted to come home with was a split shot of a reef and Manado Tua in the background. The entire trip, I had only one dive to do this and it was at the end of the dive.
While the island and the diving have immense natural beauty, one of the most obvious problems here is a lack of infrastructure. There is no clean water supply, so everyone drinks bottled water. There is also no trash pick-up service, so people leave their garbage everywhere, even down by the river, so when it rains, the garbage goes away. But of course, it must go somewhere, and it goes to the ocean. Floating rivers of trash were scene every day we traveled to Bunaken Island. The diver fee of $150 is supposed to help fund a trash collection boat, but the dive guides say how months will go by without the boat being used. Corrupt government is pocketing the cash I'm sure.
Seeing such things can be a good thing though, and I am trying to look on the positive side as awareness is raised. Single use plastics are persistent and are a major threat to the ocean environment. I've personally started to choose products, when possible, that use glass, metal, or paper packaging instead of plastic. And I look forward to the day when plastic packaging is a thing of the past as better alternatives get put to use.
A time to wind down and relax, no garish neon signs and away from all hustle and bustle. Just gentle sounds of whispers and footsteps instead of loud talking, engine hum and road noise.
A little alley in a most historical section of an ancient city but unlike some ancient cities I’ve been to in the old world, there is little sign of squalor or decay.
Meanwhile, the independent OM-1 sensor test data is finally out, as expected it is no better than the E-M1 Mkii and later cameras; www.flickr.com/photos/86145600@N07/51875512730/in/datepos...
Taken in the right context however, the 24mp Sony A9/A9ii and 45mp Nikon Z9 stacked sensor cameras all exhibited lower Dynamic Range (DR) than their corresponding 24mp (A7III) and 45mp (Z7/Z7ii) non-stacked sensor bodies. The fact that the stacked sensor 20mp OM-1 has similar but not lower DR than its non stacked 20mp brethrens is an achievement although this probably has something to do with the OM-1 sensor being BSI while the E-M1 MKii/iii and E-M1X are all non-BSI.
The OM-1’s stacked sensor should finally bring meaningful upgrade to m43 AF subject tracking (C-AF) which was never as great as the manufacturer and shills claimed and it has fallen much behind competitors with stacked sensors.
Personally, the OM-1 has not made much further inroads on computational photography which is unfortunate given its speedier pipeline and slightly improved stabilization even though Hand-Held High Resolution (HHHR) results do look better and processing time halved.
For those of us using m43 for slower paced subjects, the E-M1 Mkii would suffice and good condition lightly used units can be found for ⅓ the OM-1’s current retail price.
For non-sports m43 shooters and given that sensor tech has stalled, the only meaningful future upgrade will be when m43 moves to 14bit color depth. Those who like to claim that there’s no difference between 12bit vs 14bit don’t really know what they are talking about.
Extrapolating a little, the upcoming A7RV would do nicely with a FF sized OM-1 stacked sensor (effectively 20.4mp; total mp=22.9) at around 87mp, provided Sony stays away from the annoying fully articulated swivel screen for their R series!
Not for trade unless for other BAPs!
And yes, the golden guns are BAPs, as they were hand plunged into the mold. Also, the Golden Gun on the left is darker than the other, so it makes it kinda rare :)
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For me personally, it reminds me of the London metro, which is not accidental because our first idea of a subway came from London’s metro tube. The Old City Hall subway station in New York City, with its ornate vaulted ceilings, skylights, and chandeliers, shares an architectural style with the London Underground, particularly its older stations, due to its grand, historical, and detailed design. It features Romanesque Revival style architecture, which is a nod to the grandeur of European capitals, similar to the ornate stations built in London during a similar period of subway expansion.
This was a sensational sunrise at Tamarama Beach.......my second favourite sunrise of the trip
and obviously my shoes got wet :)
Sunrise, Most Teatralny
Personally, I love days like this. I love the way the cold plays with the light and makes these stunning blues and reds mix...nothing like it the rest of the year. Mind you I also love to come in from the cold and get a giant mug of steaming hot coffee.
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What I personally like most about this shot is not the scenery of Holyrood Park or the ruin of St Anthony's Chapel, but this guy taking his sled dog for a little bath in the loch. My parents had a Siberian Husky once, and he too would have preferred to go swimming where he would be admired and photographed by all the tourists. He was very aware of his beauty :-)
Exactly 12 months to the day since I first took a composed photography of a train, Locomotive Services Limited's 43055 leads the 'Settle & Carlisle Pullman' railtour (1Z14) through Bamber Bridge en-route from Bristol Temple Meads to Carlisle. 43046 brought up the rear.
What better way to celebrate a year since I started than to capture the most marmite livery ever seen. Personally I'm still not sold, but the blue does look better in the June sunshine than the December dullness I last saw it in.
Surprised nobody else on Flickr noticed this was running today...
PICK 9500 leads the Anderson job into downtown Anderson, SC. Anderson formerly belonged to the Southern Railway and is the site where NS and the railroad interchange. An old “Whiteband” southern railway sign still stands as a reminder of what we once had here.
Personally I never touch the stuff as to me it tastes like tramp’s wee (or how I imagine tramp’s wee to taste), but when your better half is outside ordering the evening’s digestive challenge (chicken tikka Madras) one’s mind wanders into the arty side.
So, a close up of the eponymous beer pump with the Viltrox 23mm f1.4 and Fuji XT5
Personally, I think "gray" should be spelled with an "a". But that's not what the people of the Northern Pacific thought when they built across southern Montana in the 1880's.
Montana Rail Link's LAUBOZ turn job approaches Greycliff, swinging around a broad curve in the Yellowstone River.
MRL LB (Laurel to Bozeman and return)
MRL SD45 #355
MRL SD40-2XR #263
Greycliff, MT
May 2nd, 2022
I personally believe that they're nicer SLR but that SLR McLaren Edition is in fact one of the rarest!
The Weapon (H) ..
saleh's weapon :P
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Personally, I find that the saturation is way too high... on the other hand, I kinda like the effect. Can definitely fine tune this more.
“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King
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Personally I would've said Wolves to the left Wolvettes to the right.....just because it sounds better than Men and Women.
Rather nice art at the loo entrance at Tin Can Alley on the corner of Alameda and San Pedro, Albuquerque..
I personally find it hard to believe... this is straight out of the "camera" using the native Camera app on my iPhone 4... the only thing I did was crop it after putting it into Lightroom so I could use Lightroom to add tags and title. (the slight crop was necessary to get rid of the hat in the foreground that belonged to a fellow photographer who passed in front of me as I snapped the picture)
when this gets 10 views w comments I will reveal the shot glass poison..........tell your buds to look and comment.
I personally think that when in breeding plumage they are one of the prettiest birds we have here in South Florida, and when posed like this, who can resist.
Have a wonderful Saturday everyone, and thank you all so very much for stopping by, very very much appreciated.
Personally I would have preferred the focus to be 100% on the nuthatch, but you go ahead and try to photograph ANY bird in a Magnolia Tree (-;
Title is a pun (steel vs steal) on the film of course....
. . . Personally I find a picture of just the comet's tail with nothing else in it, quite boring. So here I am posting one just like that, where I tried to get a good shot of both tails, and it only looks mediocre, at best!
If anyone would like to share how to get a good tail shot, please do! I turned the ISO up to the outer limits here, perhaps I just need a better lens!
Have a great week Facebook, Flickr, and 500px friends!
Personally I like Lina in colour more, but this is for all you monochrome fans! Hope it's sunny where you are!
I am sorry to say that I no longer manage to follow up by commenting and thanking everybody personally, but I want you to know that I truly love every comment and fav I get from you and it gives me inspiration to take more pictures :-)
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to view, comment, and fave my photo.
Anyone that doesnt know me personally can simply take a stroll thru my albums here on flickr and realize quite fast how much time I spent photographing the former Milwaukee Road between Bensenville and Savanna. Easy to call it an obsession, and I wouldn’t argue that one bit. You get to know a railroad and formulate a chase plan with ease. No wasted time and you come away with decent results usually.
Sure, I neglected lots of other subjects the past 20 years, but you have to pick SOMETHING that entertains you. In the present day age of facebook groups and live railcam feeds on YouTube, the intel is out there most days. And even better so, it seems like CPKC has fallen into a pattern along the D&I. A morning eastbound isn’t hard to find. The allure of KCS Belle painted engines - long past their most beautiful days - is enough motivation to hop in the car and refamiliarize myself with the chase highway along Route 72.
So here’s how things are currently. 253 is the general freight symbol eastbound from Savanna nearly every morning. To better align with the overall big picture of north//south in the greater CPKC system, what used to be a westbound symbol for a long while has now become an eastbound symbol. This one “originates” in Kansas City, bound for Bensenville. The westbound (southbound) 252 is a Bensenville to Shreveport long haul apparently. Like every other class one nowadays these symbols are hardly concrete info, as the books can be cooked and the right people be deceived with any given train. This version of 253 happens to be a full train of loaded autoracks. It sure didn’t look that way when it passed the Savanna railcam predawn a couple hours earlier. I can only imagine there is some other northbound from Kansas City that will clean up the mess left behind in Muscatine, Nahant and Savanna to bring in whatever general merchandise that was left behind - only to leave a mess behind for the next one behind it.
And so on and so on…
What do you think about the angle? Personally i'm not to sure.
Anyways sorry about the sharpness, my camera seems to have a problem focusing on GT3's, dont know why though, maybe it doesnt like them, and think they are bettles, tbh i have no clue.
Saw this a few minutes before.
Highest position explore: 206
Explored on 26/12/10
Finally getting in personally with the Limkpin madness that has been happening this year. Limpkins are fairly common in Florida, where they roam marshlands looking for snails and other inverts, and records outside of Florida arent super typical. Prior to this year, there had never been a record of one in MO. This year, we are calling it Year of Limpkin. Mo has now had somewhere between 15-20 of them show up for the first time ever. They have been spotted all over the state, including one at Mo Bot, one at my wifes uncles cabin in Farmington, and as of today, one in Valley Park. With that being so close and nothing really happening, I figured I needed to go see it, and get some better photos of them from what I got in Florida. ( Although my Florida image has it standing on an alligator ) The bird was easily found, and it wasnt bothered one bit by the crowd that had come to watch it. It would wander back and forth across the path looking for food, which we watched it eat some worms and snails. The lighting was difficult but I did manage a few shots, so we'll start with this one to just show the overall bird.