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At Hawthorne Yard on Indy's east side, five Amtrak P40DCs (four in Phase IV), built in 1993, are waiting to be shipped out to its new owner, Larry's, after years of rusting away at Amtrak's Beech Grove shops, and before that, Bear, Delaware. #813 and the rest of these P40s were the first of over two-hundred Genesis units built for Amtrak between 1993 and 2001; the P40s were subsequently stored after only a decade of service.

Amtrak's new phase II heritage unit 130 leads the way of the Chicago bound California Zephyr as it passes through Downers Grove, Illinois

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Sun’s phases: almost straight up at high noon (11:53 am EST)

Seasonal phases: Winter

Ice phases: freezing, cracking, and some open water in the distance

Today’s view from the dock at Centennial Park, Deseronto, Ontario - Mohawk Bay, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

Manipulations of my own photograph(s) combined with sampling and manipulations of my own previous abstract work using IfanView and Photoshop Elements.

The Waning Gibbous phase is when the lit-up part of the Moon shrinks from 99.9% to 50.1%. It starts just after Full Moon and lasts until the Third Quarter Moon. Waning means that it is shrinking and getting smaller, while gibbous refers to the oval-to-round shape.

The moon is most likely to look orange when it is low in the sky. ... Longer wavelengths are more red, and so, when the light from the moon has to travel through more atmosphere and undergo more scattering, the moon appears redder in the sky. This is also why sunsets and sunrises are orange.

Dandelion macro - I know spring is finally here when I start seeing these.

Amtrak 161 the Phase I heritage unit leads Hiawatha train #335 at Lake Forest, IL.

Fit young fellows romped ahead up that mountain — retired and grey now.

Behind was the cadre of the gods, keepers of the arcane, among them — the pyrotechnician. He's why I'm in front. He knows his stuff. He also throws lighted fireworks over his shoulder; maintaining attention, creating mischief. I know him, and some of his foibles. Mostly, they're dead now, those gods and even a few of their disciples. Their genius documented is all that remains. All things must pass.

Passage obtained through the cow dung and mud of a farmer's lane is now superseded. A modern pilgrim might run a different gauntlet as mythologies younger than this tale are wrapped around like that sea spray from the heavy waves. Watching the phases evolve is a new experience. The ascent then was imperfect; its purpose served.

Mud-splattered white Kombi vans await the descent, and to repeat a dance with the slithering slime of the farm. This mountain had its gold mine, now worked out, and secrets for the god's revelation. Practically its the root of a Cretaceous volcano, now ⅒ of its former height. Typified, it is a zoned pluton — a monzonite, they say — more mafic on the outside, more quartz-rich in the middle.

The highest ranking of the gods holds court, black marker in hand, and with a Kombi whiteboard to draw his Qz-Ab-Or ternary phase equilibrium diagrams, explains why we should believe that this mountain and its concentric zones were once a partially melted and fractionated alkali basalt. He's very big on partial melting — drawing on his expertise, and cars!

Adding a mind-bending fourth dimension, his curves become the planes where his hypotheses glissade. Where the containing pressure is exceeded by the volatiles that flux his crystal mush, they breakout and flow stops in an instant as the mobilising flux exits, stage left, creating a solidus for the melt. All things must pass, and so they wait for the next zone to form — I think that's what he said.

There was a notion to re-ascend that mountain; finish the job. Trusted advice said, nah, you're on a short break, it'll break you, and besides the recent view was a bit rubbish. Instead, I'm here contemplating the tail end of an east coast low which dumped 250mm of rain and continues to pile up a heavy surf that's making all of that spray. Tomorrow I head away south to peramble gently between the two end points of a track I have visited and not joined.

All things must pass. This is just one of those phases.

One of the new EMD rebuilds for NS is the third out locomotive on this Willmar-bound train. After a quick recrew, they are back on the move and crossing over at Rollins Avenue.

Quick doodle of a shuttle "landing" or phasing into N-space. The shuttle is fairly goofy but the angular shape was fun and above all easy to place around with transparency effects.

A bit after mid-totality. Local time is 03:06

.....on my way home this afternoon, my favourite phase of the day.

Singapore

Dandelion seed head - just a sign of more to come.

100% low poly, made and rendered in Eevee (Blender) (with viewport render).

Firing a phaser is fairly easy to make: set up a bezier curve, apply a physical constraint to a cylinder to follow the curve, and insert the necessary keyframes in the timeline.

For the "world" shader I used a star map from NASA (credits: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Constellation figures based on those developed for the IAU by Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott and Rick Fienberg)).)

Can you spot the Big Dipper?

It took me a while to figure out how to set this up. In the world sharder editor: use a texture coordinate - mapping - environment texture. Connect the "camera" of the texture coordinate to the vector of the mapping node and in the scale options of the mapping node, set X and Y to 3 (leave Z at 1).

Connect the "color out" of the environment texture to a "RGB to BW" node, and feed this into a RGB curve node. Then drag this curve down to get rid of all the noise.

Connect the output of the RGB curve node to the color of the background node and connect the latter to the surface of the world output, as usual.

The trail down Sahale Arm, before dropping toward Cascade Pass. The air moved quickly and clouds would often completely overtake the landscape.

Phase One XF IQ3 100, Mamiya 150mm.

Phase One IQ3 100 back album (Flickr)

Homemade Montecristo cigar box 4x5 pinhole camera - Ilford Delta 100 - Rodinal 1+50 - dslr scan

While headed back to Altoona, we stopped at Mattawanna to shoot the Phase III on train 42.

Tents at night in the desert

We are in Phase 2 of our Zakopane in the Sierras Project. It is an alpine “outbuilding” done in Sud Tyrollean Style, and will hopefully be done sometime this coming Summer. Our Master Mason, is a genius, and in discussions, he has indicated that stone cutters in his family may go back 10 generations…. Back almost to the days of the Aztecs (where his family hails from). He is a proud and very creative artist.

Phasing into 2025: A new year, a new chapter, seamlessly transitioning from the memories of 2024.

For Flickr Friday

Theme: Phase

One of my Chamomile plants displaying her stages on one stem.

Total Solar Eclipse Phases from start to finish, as seen and photographed from Trinity Overlook Park with Cindy @offdutyeyedoc, Mike @bb49r, and many others on April 8, 2024, from 12:23 PM - 3:06 PM! In spite of the clouds coming in and out during the entire Solar Eclipse phases, I am so thankful that I was able to see and capture all phases of the Solar Eclipse well, in order create this composite of all Solar Eclipse phases. "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the works of His Hands." Psalm 19.

Frost occurs when water vapor in the air deposits on a surface when the outside temperature drops below 0 °C (32 °F). Because no liquid form of water is present, this is an example of deposition—a phase change directly from a gas to a solid without going through the liquid phase

Today's Waning Gibbous Phase of the moon. The Waning Gibbous on January 7 has an illumination of 100%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 7 the Moon is 15.25 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases. #moon #astronomy #moonphotography #luna #lunaphotography #astrophotography #laluna #nikonp1000 #blogto #toronto #torontosky #canada #astro_photography_ #seaoftranquility #seaofserenity #moonlight #moonphases #supermoon #moonlovers #moonwatch #mooncraters #tycho #copernicus #apollocrater #aristoteles #aristarchus #astrophotography #moonphoto #Aquarius #waninggibbous

Very unusual creatures, the Phase Dragons somehow feed on their own kinetic energy. The faster they go, the more energy they get. They enjoy chasing all sorts of fast things, like vehicles and other Rahi. When they finally catch up, they pounce, only to phase through their target harmlessly. They then wander off to find something else to chase.

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This is kind of cheating because I didn't take it this week, nor is it a self-portrait. Oops. I'll do my best to retake this week, but I'd like to put this here so I have something if I don't have time to.

And here is a part view of the red dress I wore the other day. Looks like my cold is on the move so that a good thing I might even be able to manage dancing tonight yay

I was trying for a side by side shot of the 2 Phase III Cabbage cars but timing was not right. But this shot of the 90368 next to the dome car isn't bad either so I will take it.

hope you are not bored about my blonde phase ...