... or seasons mix

The iconic Corfe Castle in Dorset. I took loads of photos when I visited recently but liked the birds flying past in this shot! HSS!

Long Eared Owl on the Hunt

Canon R5

Canon Rf 100 500 + 1.4 x Teleconverter

the sun still shines like it used to, things just aren't quite the same anymore...

taken in the sunny days of february.... remebering those days.

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Van 4 t/m 6 september 2024 konden mijn treinenspotmaat en ik eindelijk weer eens samen op pad. De weervoorspellingen voor ons "treinenland" Tsjechië leken drie dagen op een rij perfect en qua werk en privé pastte het ook net. Er stond weer (te) veel op het programma en er konden weer lekker veel treinen en stekken worden afgestreept. Er werd cargo gescoord aan de hoofdlijnen en steeds meer verdwijnende klassieke tractie aan de "kleine" diesellijntjes werd tussendoor ook meegepakt.

Zaterdag 7 september reden er rond Praag veel historische dieseltreinen in het kader van de PID-dagen. Er werden o.a. een 751, een 744 en een 820 ingezet. Op de lijn tussen Hostivice en Praha-Dejvice werd één van de helaas weinige geschikte stekken opgezocht om de 751 te fotograferen. Een andere stek bij het fraaie station Praha-Ruzyně was niet bruikbaar, omdat er teveel schaduw is rond deze tijd van het jaar. Deze lijn gaat de komende jaren ingrijpend veranderen door de ombouw van de diesellijn naar een elektrische lijn met als eindpunt de vlieghaven van Praha.

Hier zien we de zeer fraaie Bardotka T478 1148 (751 448) met Os 91171 Hostivice- Praha-Dejvice bij Řepy passeren op 7-9-2024. De locomotief is met bouwjaar 1969 een echt klassieker! Achterop loopt de 749 250 mee die op de terugweg de tractie levert. Heel mooi om deze prachtige locomotieven te horen en te zien!

A tree lined street in Summerville, South Carolina, 1906.

Egret flexing it's wings at Frampton Marsh. one from my archives.

Skopje / North Macedonia

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This little corner of Grass Valley is a place trapped in time. There's a lot of that around here. A constant reminder of how old I'm getting.

Grass Valley CA

HFF !!!

Mallard drake at Brydon Lagoon, Brydon Park, Langley, B.C.

Set a km or two through the Petra complex, just as impressive as the Treasury.

Wheeling 430 hustles east past the long deactivated PRR signals at Ada, OH.

Can June be here already? Yet another sense of 'blink twice and you'll miss it' 😊

But summer has finally arrived here in the north east of Scotland. OK we still have regular overnight temperatures close to zero, but by evening it is hot and sunny! The garden has woken up, and seems to be dashing to catch up with the season. We have all manner of colour and flowering - from rhododendrons and azaleas to apple blossom .... but it all seems to be very short-lived, and almost fades before our eyes. Is it the 8 month winter? Or is it the current impending drought, as the soil is dry beneath the surface nightly dew.

And the welcome warmth has meant a trip to Fyvie Castle gardens (with Infrared camera in hand) and plenty of flower photos too! And some fun experimentation, with 'balloons' and daisies as well as prisms and Lensballs.

This month it has been harder to fit my photography into the daily schedule ... even more like snatched moments. But I hope that the selection of Flickr offerings has entertained you as much as it has me while planning and shooting 😊

Many thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves.

All my collages are collected here: At a Glance

East Broad Top 16 curves past shop buildings headed for the main.

A Lerro Photography charter.

GTW 5851 with CN 4116 work the London East yard on a gloomy, wet and cold day on March 27th, 2023. 5851 is quite tired looking these days.

A very old barn painstakingly goes through the stages of deterioration leaving only faint memories for those who remember the farm family years ago that lived on the farm-site during its heydays. Every generation leaves footprints of things that defined them but soon a generation is born that knows those items only through faded photographs and wonder why these were so important to those striving daily to make a living with them.

Afternoon along Turnagain Arm with an out going tide.

Heavy flow here as the Potomac River cuts through Maryland.

Camera - Canon EOS Rebel T7 (Digital)

Abandoned Saskatchewan Prairie Town

The storm may be finally losing some umph ... and start moving out.

Here was some light trails in the snow as the storm began last evening.

With thanks to everyone for your faves and kind comments!

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Well, that's what it made me think of, with the fine strand of a spider's web linking the two..

As the RMC shunter awaits its next command to shunt back, 56113 powers past with 6E07 Washwood Heath Met Cammel to Boston Docks, smoking its way past Washwood Heath Up Yard.

What might he have with him?

Light on the path.

Kenosha Electric 4616 heads past the lighthouse in Kenosha, WI.

Missing our boy right now. We’ve been visiting family in Wisconsin for the past 10 days and were supposed to go home Sunday. But our flight was one of many that was canceled and we couldn’t get another flight until Wednesday. So we’re camped out in a hotel for 3 days with nothing but photos of Jasper for our dog fix. Thank goodness our dog sitter was available to continue her stay with Jasper at our home. But we missed his 13th birthday on Sunday. So we’ll have to celebrate big when we get home.

This shot is at the riparian preserve in front of some barrel cacti. Having grown up in the desert he’s rather adept at navigating prickly stuff

A single exposure photograph of a once heavily sign-written wall in Boston, Massachusetts. Photo taken in May 2024.

In Linzgau

I recently spent a couple of days in the lovely town of Bath and discovering much of its historical landmarks, here we have the River Avon, Pulteney Bridge and of course the Pulteney Weir. Weirs are a means of flood defence and are installed where dams are not a realistic solution to flooding.