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2/3 Cambridge "Half Marathon" series. A proper Spring day yesterday for the race. Winter again today.
A pair of West Midlands Trains Class 730 'Aventra's', with 730039 leading 730024, hurry away from Lichfield on 16th November 2024. The EMUs are approaching Wall while forming service 2O22 1009 Lichfield Trent Valley - Bromsgrove. A neatly trimmed hedge completes the scene. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
A street shot depicting two men in dissimilar stations in life - a lowly worker in casual clothes whose job consists mainly of moving merchandise and a well-groomed man in a business attire who most likely engages in a certain professional activity.
Captured in early morning at the town proper of Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
1048 awaits her move into preservation. She is inside the works at Newton Abbot. No loco had been in there since the works closed. She was put in there for security. But as a young local lad i got to here about it and cycled down to Newton Abbot after school. I knew the loco shed very well but I had never been inside the old works. It was locked up good and proper apart from the window to the right of the red coach, if you look closely you can see it is open. There was good access to the over head crane gantry from which I took both pictures. I cant remember the exact date but I know she was withdrawn in Feb 77 and I was at School. As it is light enough for me to take a picture indoors at about 1700hrs I estimate May June or 1977.
I've been itching to do a proper seascape for a while now. I didn't really get a chance to do any on my Queenstown trip, and I've had a few failed attempts in the last few weeks where the sunrise or sunset just didn't play ball.
This morning I decided to give it another crack. Like a lot of planned sunrise shoots I was so close to climbing back into bed with all the usual negative thoughts in my head (it's probably going to be too cloudy, too clear, raining, etc etc) but I managed to resist the urge and made my out to the North Shore. In the past I've sworn not to do any more Rangitoto shots but I just couldn't help myself (hey, I haven't done one since August!).
I ended up getting soaked for this shot - at times the water was waist deep (though I am vertically-challenged, so it's probably only knee-deep for most people...) - and my filters and camera got a bit of a drenching too from the crashing waves (camera still works, luckily), but it was all worth it. One of the best sunrises I've seen in ages.
CN 578 (Daily Senneterre - Val d'Or Turn) is seen pulling out of the yard with the pride of the fleet as a leader.
A proper Cotswold establishment, it looked great. We went to see if they were serving food and they were!!
You can see the amount of water outside, it was very wet.
My first proper session in the new photo hide but it didn't coincide with high tide and there were relatively few birds there. Also the bright light produced a shimmer in the air that softened the photographs. I wonder whether a polarising filter would sort this out. Whilst they are usually too cumbersome to use in the field, in a hide session it might just work.
This male lapwing was display flighting but eventually settled in front. Named after the sound of its wings beatuing in flight, the crazy sky-dance of its spring display is a particular favourite of mine.
The relatively large eye of this [and indeed all] plover suggests that it uses its vision for feeding, unlike many shorebirds which feed by feel using a very sensitive bill tip.
This year the Providence and Worcester Railroad continued to provide their passenger train and crew for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council's extremely popular Polar Express trains with trains running and 3:30 and 6:30 PM Fri-Sun for a total of 42 sold out trips in 2024.
The train consist is deadheading south from Worcester to begin the final weekend of performances with B39-8E 3910 (GE blt. Dec. 1987 as LMX 8534) amidst a winter wonderland scene of the first significant snow of the year. They crossing in Blackstone River near MP 17.9 on the historic original Providence and Worcester mainline just north of the Rhode Island state line. This is the 10th of 14 crossings of the Blackstone along the 43 mile line when traveling south from Worcester to Providence.
As I've told you before in previous posts the P&W is my hometown road and it is inextricably linked to the river it follows both historically and physically. The Blackstone River courses 48 miles from its headwaters near Worcester (at the confluence of the Middle River and Mill Brook) to where it flows into the Seekonk River at the headwaters of Narragansett Bay. The river drains a watershed of 640 square miles and more importantly drops 450 feet in the 48 miles. It is that drop, that made this river a pivotal point in American History.
From ririvers.org: A series of steep drops along the length of the Blackstone River provided ideal conditions for the development of water powered industry. Samuel Slater arrived in America in 1790, with managerial experience and technical knowledge of textile manufacturing in England. With the assistance of local merchants and artisans, he helped establish the first successful water-powered textile mill in America. Slater Mill was established on the Blackstone River, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This achievement is credited with spawning the birth of America's industrial revolution. Development of the Slater textile mill catalyzed the development of water-driven technology throughout the length of the Blackstone River. By 1914 water-powered mills occupied all of the readily available dam sites in the Valley.
As the birthplace of industrial America, the need for transportation quickly arose in the valley, and between 1825 and 1828 the Blackstone Canal was constructed. The canal lasted only 20 years having been rendered obsolete by the opening of the Providence and Worcester Railroad in 1847. The railroad has proven to be a more durable method of transportation and 175 years after its opening here it is still serving the purpose for which it was built.
Blackstone, Massachusetts
Friday December 20, 2024
The moon was 3/4 full when I was at Atacama so proper stars / milky way photos were not possible. But I tried to take advantage of the moon and photograph moonlit Licancabur and Juriques volcanos. Here's the result, I hope you like it.
The ultimate soundtrack to Atacama / altiplano driving and night experiences by a Santiago-based band Föllakzoid: follakzoid.bandcamp.com/album/iii
This past holiday season the Providence and Worcester Railroad once again provided their passenger train and crew for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council's extremely popular Polar Express trains with trains running and 3:30 and 6:30 PM Fri-Sun for a total of 42 sold out trips in 2024.
The train consist has just arrived from Worcester after deadheading south for the last time to begin the final weekend of performances. Bringing up the rear is PW 4007, a GE B40-8W blt. Apr. 1992 as Santa Fe 582, and one of three of the model on the roster acquired from BNSF by the then independent P&W in 2010. Above the train can be seen the historic depot built in 1882 by the original Providence and Worcester Railroad replacing one dating from the 1847 opening of the railroad. This view looks across aptly named Railroad Street at about MP 16.5 as measured from Providence Union Station.
The depot is contributing structure to the Woonsocket Main Street Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. From the NRHP nomination form:
Providence & Worcester Railroad Station 1882, John W. Ellis, architect: The original 1847 railroad depot burned and was replaced in 1882 with what was considered the most impressive depot on the P&W line. The new station is a rectangular, one-and-one-half-story, red brick Queen Anne building housing the main waiting room with a similarly designed baggage handling and service extension at the north end. The jerkin-head gable roofline is oriented parallel to the railroad tracks, and the building faces onto Depot Square with one end abutting Main Street.
Prominent features include a protective overhang integrated into the roof slope and supported on large, curved brackets, which runs around three sides of the main building and extension. The central entrances on both sides are located below a large cross gable with elaborate decorative brickwork and terra cotta ornamentation, stained-glass and ocular windows, and terra cotta finials. A square clock tower with a tall, pyramidal hip roof topped with a distinctive locomotive weathervane rises from the roof ridge between the gables. The narrow Main Street elevation has now-altered storefronts on the first floor and brickwork, stained-glass windows, and a large central oriel window on the upper floor. The east end of the Depot Square elevation is sheathed in modern vertical wood siding and has no openings, reflecting the fact that this was originally a party wall shared with the Edwards Block, a Second Empire building that was demolished in the 196Os. The former building site is neatly landscaped with terraces and evergreen and deciduous plants.
The P&W really was Rhode Island's own railroad. Chartered in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts in 1844 it opened for business on 43 miles between its namesake cities in 1847. Built along portions of the Blackstone Canal that was opened in 1828, the P&W replaced the waterway as the main artery of transportation in the historically significant Blackstone River Valley - the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution.
The New Haven leased the P&W for 99 years in 1892 and that lease passed to the Penn Central in 1969. The PC intended to abandon the middle of the P&W and sever it as a through route when a group of dissident independent shareholders wrested control away from the giant carrier and began independent operations again. The P&W thrived on it's own for 43 years as a publicly traded company (I held a small equity position for many years) until being sold to Genessee & Wyoming in 2016. It's hard to see the P&W I loved and grew up with turn orange, but at least the rails remain and continue to thrive.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Friday December 20, 2024
Proper cool night out tonight with Rob H and a visit to a new tunnel, which is prime light painting real estate. Its dark in the day. We made friends with a newt and we both got shots we were really happy with.
What more could you ask for.
Refractograph set up after framing Rob and the tunnel. Positioned and sized to give some sense of reality.
Fired the shutter and let the refraction element burn in for 10 seconds. Lens swap to the Pentax 28mm then walked away from camera shining a torch gelled the same colour as the refracograph and back again. Then turning towards Rob I used the Palateth method of lighting the scene, as if the light form was illuminating Rob and creating a believable shadow.
All in all a superb mid-week faff in top company. Happy days.
Minimal tweaks rto the raw file in Lightroom.
Inspired by the epic work of Alan Jaras, David Hull, Ectro and the ever awesome Palateth. Cheers chaps.
Unlike the prior image, Paddle To Sun, this is the proper image taken without the paddle reaching up. The intention was to have the sun flares above and align with the gunnels of the canoe.
Any visit here usually finds something of interest going on.
Lovely calm day over at Meols as the tide rolls in through the channel
After hours of sitting in Selkirk Yard, Q253 throttles out of the yard here at Gamefarm Road on the Selkirk Branch with now another former SCL SD40-2 leading as an add-on from the yard. Two empty oil trains ahead of the autorack train had gotten gevo add-ons, but thankfully that was not the case here.
Stagecoach London
Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC
11033 - SN18KTX
Seen at the 46th Annual Spring Gathering, London Bus Museum, Brooklands.
One of the trial buses to be fitted with Hanover's new high-resolution screen went to the show and the added flexibility allowed the shuttle 462 service to be programmed on the display. All other London buses have to show blank or Special Service with 462 in the window.
Thanks to a quick sign test I found out that the resolution of the front screen is 512x88, already far superior to the standard 144x19 but with added smoothness from the anti-aliasing.
View of the summit and the view too!!
Taken with proper camera so better for zooming in!
Amazing spot for a spot of lunch!!
Windy so had to go hide behind some rocks!!
Popped up to Scotland to do a walk with my friend Michal. He's a paramedic now working for the Scotish Ambulance Service. He was at my station in Sheffield when he quailified as a paramedic with YAS before moving north..
We did lots of walks around the Peak District over last couple of years..
More of my girl's eyes with a proper macro lens for the first time ever. Also, I can Photoshop out the reflection of my lighting rig, which was always a distraction.
Proper winter - soft late afternoon winter light and new snow (and a biting cold wind) - cold and numb fingers all day but hopefully worth it.
For Macro Mondays "Intentional Blur"
Coachbuilder Henri Chapron built decapotables/cabriolets/convertibles based on the Citroën DS. This is a '58 "La Croisette" based on the DS19.
Photo technique:
Tripod, kitchen table, ambient light, manual focus, manual exposure.
By moving the object parallel to the lens front it stays in the same focal plane, so the object will not move in/out focus.
For exposure I made shutter speed leading. I started at 8" but that was all blur and no car. 4" proved to be better. I chose the lowest ISO available (50) and matched the aperture to get the right exposure.
The car filled up the frame to start with. So front bumper/fender near the left of the frame. During exposure I pulled the car backwards, resulting in the impression the car is speeding forwards.
Of the 4 seconds exposure the car was still for the first 1.5 seconds to get a proper car image, the other 2.5 seconds where used to pull the car back and add the blur.
In PP I flattened the frame somewhat to emphasize the illusion of speed. Added a little contrast and saturation to.
Displayed part of the car is 82mm, a tiny bit more than 3", sorry.
A northbound Cumbrian Mountain Express romps along the Garsdale Valley with King Arthur 777 "Sir Lamiel" ( minus smoke deflectors ) in charge.
A heavy snowfall overnight had produce wonderful conditions on the S&C although mist and fog surrounded much of the line. After a long hard climb from the road in the valley and having to trudge through 3 foot snow drifts we finally got to this spot , the mist was swirling around us but cleared just enough for the passing of Sir Lamiel producing some weak but welcome light on the scene.
2nd February 1991.
Mamiya 645, 150mm. Fuji RDP 100.
The proper ratio of EMD power to GE was displayed at Bensenville back in 2005. A CEFX SD45 rebuilt into a SD40-2 was hanging with a CP Rail SD40-2F and a AC4400CW was also sitting around, but that doesn't really matter.