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Trying to find something to do last night, I gathered up a bunch of images in photoshop and just started playing around with different elements from each one… This is what I came up with. If anything, it most certainly works to beat boredom!
Having traveled 29 miles from North Conway and run around beside the historic former Maine Central depot at Fabyans, Conway Scenic Railroad's 470 Railroad Club special excursion cuts a fine sight as it gets underway starting back east. A little fall color hangs on in the background as the train is seen here at MP 89 on the former MEC Mountain Subdivision approaching the US Route 302 crossing with the 8 car train strung out across the Ammonoosuc River bridge.
Both units are owned by the 470 Railroad Club and are original Boston and Maine locomotives wearing their as delivered EMD designed scheme. 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century just earlier this year. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1751 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
Carroll, New Hampshire
Saturday October 22, 2022
#Still using my F2 XF 50mm lens and a film recipe "Pure Grit". This one does seem to provide a darker contrast throughout the image compared to some of the other fuji film simulations
#Pictures of You - An ongoing series of street portraits often taken on the move or temporarily stationary. see album for more www.flickr.com/photos/runninginsuffolk/albums/72157719810...
Delphinia picta from Angelina County, Texas.
D. picta is a striking little fly that I see infrequently in our garden. They have ornate wings and I find the dorsal coloration to be quite lovely. Both larvae and adults feed on rotting vegetation. Though it looks like a fairly normal fly top down, it is truly bizarre looking in profile. Tomorrow I'll share an image that shows this strange appearance.
DSC_1773 SIGMA
My grandmother Maria lived here. The town is named Ledec nad Sazavou. In the nearby village Lipnice worked in a pub. Served famous writer Jaroslav Hasek. Jaroslav was a big drunk. Here she took my grandfather. Love! War hero from Vladivostok. Bolsheviks killed there. Grandma loved, because the grandmother was a tough woman, as legionnaires in Russia, then got married. Grandfather was a wealthy owner of the transport company. All dreams of prosperity was interrupted by the Communists. Grandpa died in 1967 and my grandmother in 1973.
Saturday Self-Challenge: Take a picture of a permanent architectural detail INSIDE your home (apartment or house).
This was a very tough challenge for me since there is nothing of note with the inside of my home. For most of the week I was going to use the cutout in the wall bordering my kitchen and living room, but lighting was a problem. This morning presented a better opportunity when I saw the light filtering through the picture window in my living room. It made for a far more interesting image. I wound up using my phone camera as it captured the scene so much better than my regular camera (my apologies to the camera purists).
Have a good weekend, my friends!
This is Tephritis bardanae, i didn't find a good english trivial name, maybe she has none. In Germany also many of the Tephritinae didn't have a trivial name, this one has, from the plant it lives endemic with, the burdock (Arctium lappa). As any insect that is bound to one plant, she stands for the loss of biodiversity. Everywhere where the burdock disappeared for monocultures the insect disappeared too.
Diese Kletten Bohrfliege lebt endemisch auf und von der Großen Kletten (Arctium lappa). Wo diese Pflanze für Monokulturen verschwindet, verschwindet auch diese Fliege. Sie steht symbolisch für die Mehrzahl der Insekten, die Nahrungsspezialisten sind. Anders als Stubenfliegen, die als Allesfresser den Menschen folgen. Nur auf einen Allesfresser kommen bei den Insekten tausend Spezialisten.
Update from 02.06.2023, might be Chaetostomella cylindrica, not Tephritis bardanae
Panasonic Lumix G9
Panasonic 45-175mm
Raynox DCR-250
175mm ca. 1,3:1
ISO 800
f8
1/125s
Stack from 139 pictures,
Helicon B (6,3)