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Working through orders o u o
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I have a couple of FMs to reply to sorry if I'm a little slow atm n_n/
We finally got a dye day squeezed in too and another one this week to get anyone waiting for specific dye colours, done and dusted o u o
With the closing of the paper mill in Canton, the Blue Ridge Southern's fleet of SD45 frames were on borrowed time as the tonnage hauled over the route was significantly reduced. This angle was on my "to get" list and I figured this would be my last opportunity to get it. Here, three of the brutish 45s lead the eastbound T31 through the farmland in Candler on their way to Asheville.
A kayaker floats by Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park in the early morning.
I am going to be taking a break from Flickr for a few weeks as I do some more traveling -- this time in the Southwest. I still have some more pictures of Grand Teton and Yellowstone to post, but when I get back, I will be posting pictures from the national parks of the Southwest that I will be visiting, as well as Monument Valley and Las Vegas.
Our train didn't stop here. I think his train was going the other way. The shot is panned while we move and they stay still which does interesting things to the platform and station. Quite difficult to get faces sharp and a few rejected shots before this one.
Hope you have a good weekend and thanks for visiting.
We followed two African elephants on a short journey through the savannah at Amboseli. They followed each other, one of them always a few steps behind the other. The first crossed the path of our safari van, stopped, called out to the other and then turned around and kept walking. Soon the other had also walked across our path and then a little distance away, they crossed paths and went their own way. If only I knew what they were saying or even why they called out to each other and then never looked back.
Few of the SD75Is are in truly good paint these days but 5755 is marginally better than partner 5793 (and probably better than the average). With the uniform rail train bending around the curve they make for a tidy sight approaching Highway 63. July 30, 2020.
I hope to see this old car again. It's been there for many years now, and will probably be for many more.
With plenty of evidence of leaf fall around it, 66427 and 66421 continue their journey eastwards on the Tyne Valley RHTT.
Sunday 30th October.
A parting shot. Five tall wind turbines standing in a row, Along came the north wind and it did blow, We'll power the city lights incandesent glow, But where have all the stars gone, no one will ever know. Malcbawn Jan 1st 2018. N.B. It was also my final photo of the morning. ;-)
Huntly.
On our way back to Wellington we took a turn off and crossed the river to check out this huge power plant we've always been interested in. This was taken halfway there
Kodak Portra 160
*Pentax Me Super 35mm lens
Polaroid Spectra Onyx | Color Protection Film
2015
So many memories... so many ghosts.
You never think that things will come to an end, until one day they do.
I missed the last ferry
She had gone....
without leaving a farewell note.
A red hot needlle pierced through my heart..
the agony of parting....
Many more monsoons will come
The Garden will gain its charm again..
Humming of birds will be there again...
Many more waves will come and go..
But the itch in my heart will remain for ever.
As the Carlisle to Bangor 'Pendle Dalesman' charter dips down towards London Road Junction, with 33207 on the rear, Freightliner 90041 and 90046 snake into Carlisle heading the 12:13 Daventry to Coatbridge intermodal on Wednesday 17th October 2018.
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After a norm of dark days, two glorious sky days arrived filled with a variety of cloud formations was dizzying to take in. Stormy, moody cloud formations in shades of both cool and warm shades of gray morphed into imposing shapes creating imposing skyscapes.
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I went out this morning. The sun was out early but it clouded over at about 10:30 so I started to head home to get a good seat in front of the Tv to watch Liverpool beat Man U. Obviously the sun came out again when the football started.
I had just stopped to watch some Grebes, when this beauty came into land. I crept quite close and he seemed not to be bothered. The sun had just started to come out from behind a cloud and I thought if I stay still i will get a great shot when the sun comes out, but before it did some joggers came past and hw flew away. Anyway still happy with this.
This is a parting action shot of last year's Fourth of July Independence Day celebration using action on the medium telephoto-zoom signaling another need for independence... from billionaires. They can stay... if they pay, taxes, that is. This looks like one of those NASA images of things many millennia ago. There seems to be star explosion in the background. I particularly like the golden veiled bony fingers that happened over the hand-held two-and-a-half second exposure. I've gotten hand-held golden veils like that before. I do like the hand-held telephoto zoom traces without spin. This EXIF reports 130mm but I probably used more zoom range although the red and gold exploded at different times and during different parts of the zoom.
I was in the good spot I used last year although I took shelter under a Roger's Grove tree during the heavenly sprinkle. I ran into the same problems with procedures shooting fireworks at night as I did last year. What else could go wrong on my long walk to the fourth venue from the Golden Ponds parking.
The most prominent problem is tracking the action and when to trigger the exposure: the display and eyepiece go blank and alternate tracking strategy is needed. I am coming up with an apparatus that could overcome the problem, I had trouble with accurately tracking the action while using the monopod so I ditched the monopod this year. Why would I need steady? I have conferred with several psychiatrists about the many people with explosive personality defects even though psychiatrists have little to do with the study of science.
I am adding these "action" shots to my stash, all of the fiery kind. Although I still have a pile to clean up, I dumped even more into storage this year. Apparently there was good motion and the usual shakes as the fireworks erupted. I remained impressed with how these can appear stable at all at these slow exposures.
these are the last two for tonight, I am sure about the centre parting in this set it just doesn't seem to sit right but then that could just be me being over critical! something I really must stop doing.
well another long week is upon us back to the grind tomorrow I really hate working a Saturday as the weekend is way to short,
You're either going to like this or hate it -- a little gausian blur (orton effect) a little "find edge," but toward the goal of trying to capture the feel of these old guys out sculling in perfect unison on a day with only the slightest breeze, caught just as the sun came over the horizon like a searchlight on their boat. You could imagine that the sound of their oars was the only thing you could hear that morning, except for the song of countless red-winged black birds. Of course I am shooting this from a highway overpass during early morning rush hour -- but you could imagine it. LOL. Anyway let me know what you think.
geoff