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Me and the waifu got some extensive cosmetic surgery in order to become proper nature hipsters.
Naturally, I cropped the all important legs out of the picture.
This has added interest to previously dull area.
Adjacent to a basketball court in Orchard Road Park Southsea, a stunning new art installation has been painted. The paintings titled 'Proper Faces' are by Dharma 77 who also has work on display in the alleyway between Palmerston Road and Tonbridge Street in Southsea. You can view much more work by Dharma 77 on his Instagram account.
Dharma 77’s mural depicts characters and archetypes all observed by the artist in Portsmouth. The colour scheme evokes the familiar changing coastal light as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west of the island, across the faces representing a diverse collection of idiosyncratic, lairy, real, colourful people who are, like this island, a microcosm of Britain yet distinctly ‘Pompey’.
Each has their own background and story as they and this historic city look towards the future.
Artist Bio:
Dharma 77 (Luke Storkey) is an artist focusing on portraiture, colour and light. Working primarily with spray paint and ink, he paints large scale public murals and produces smaller works for private collectors.
Inside the Atkinson shop. An almost bewildering array of excellent tea and coffee, as well as some essential gear for the home barista.
Roasting is done on the premises.
Also, it's a B Corp company with high ethical standards.
After clearing brush last summer for NECR’s CTC project reopened an old spot. After seeing everyone’s favorite 721 was in Brattleboro, once I got off work I dashed over to the MA/VT border just in time as the northbound 606 with 2 still looking decent C40-8Ws and a SD40-2. Photo taken Vernon, VT April 29, 2024
Quan et sembla que tot és gris, diria negre, quan et sents amb el cap cot s'obre una guspira, potser només un petit llumí que el fa percebre que hi ha o hi poden haver dies de sol, de lluminositat esplendorosa.
En no poder sortir, en no poder fer fotos. en no trobar a gent pels carrers fa que en tanquis en la teva clova i així passis els dies de manera més igual que mai. Vaja no sé si som dilluns o diumenge, tampoc és important.
Ahir vaig rebre un e-mail d'un amic d'aquest món fotogràfic que em va fer molt content, és la guspira que fa que ara sigui un petit moment una mica més optimista, per això la flor mira a munt, mira al cel, el dia de la foto lluminós i blau.
Saber d'un amic, recuperant-ne la comunicació m'ajuda a sentir-me una mica millor.
A quartet of Altoona based SD40E’s bring up the rear of Strawberry Ridge loads starting down the “slide” at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania during a snow storm.
March 9, 2018.
Polish Air Force Lockheed C-130E Hercules 1501 on display at RIAT 2025
1501 was previously with the USAF as 70-1273
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While the IC black is a nice tribute to some locomotive heritage, POVA's proper scheme is pretty attractive, affording this uncoupled view at Albeni Falls, ID. September 2021.
BNSF 9738 and 9246 pull the C-NRMALM out of St. Paul for the 75 mile trip to Alma. This was a nocturnal run across the Wayzata Sub but fortunately there was not a crew ready until 0800, so I still had a chance to get a couple shots and amazingly the clouds cleared off just as he got lights out of St. Paul.
I couldn't believe my luck this is the first time I have ever had siskin at my little reserve since I set it up in 2009 so was proper chuffed when 2 pairs turned up gutted not to get decent shot of one of the males but this female decided to do some modelling for me
During UP's roll-out of PSR, they decided to consolidate their Houston intermodal ramps to the former MP facility at Settegast Yard. However, for a time they still ran a transfer down to the ex-SP facility at Englewood prior to its closure.
It normally got whatever power Settegast had lying around, but on this particular afternoon we were treated to a 5-pack of EMDs on the intermodal transfer.
YHO29 01 (Yard Transfer- Settegast Yard to Englewood Yard)
UP GP38N #823
UP GP38N #651
UP GP60 #2019
UP GP40N #1364
UP SD40N #1734
Houston, TX
June 1st, 2020
British style bacon from Parkers which my son in law, who hails form Nottinghamshire, calls "proper bacon." I must admit compared to American supermarket bacon it is proper!
Happy Macro Monday!
Providence and Worcester Railroad's WOGR crew is in command a loaded unit ethanol train coiling down Main 3 at MP 181.6 on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. They are approaching Cranston Interlocking where they will cross over Mains 1 and 2 to access Cranston Yard which they will pull down through to clear the switch the Harbor Junction Running track so they can shove their train down to the Shell racks at the Port of Providence.
Leading the way is PW GP38-2 2006, which is original to the road having been built new for the then only 7 year independent company by EMD in Feb. 1980 and has spent its entire lives working in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Trailing in Genesee and Wyoming orange is GE C40-8 4041 (blt. Dec. 1990 as NS 8706) and third out in proper PW paint is GE B40-8W 4005 (blt. Feb. 1992 as ATSF 561).
Providence, Rhode Island
Wednesday February 4, 2026
Mandarin Duck male - (Aix Galericulata)
Highroyds Pond - Leeds
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John Ray wrote the first proper bird book in the English language in 1678, though he'd published a version in Latin two years earlier. In this book he sorted several species that had confused people previously, like Grey and Yellow Wagtails, and Twite, Linnet and Redpoll. But he was also the first to sort out Stonechat and Whinchat, as until then the various folk names seemed to have been applied to both species (eg Stone Chack, Furze Chat). John Ray was the first to publish the name Whin Chat for this species, and it has been the preferred name ever since. Now Whin is a folk name for Gorse (Ulex europaeus), but that is more the habitat of Stonechat, as Whinchats prefer annual vegetation that grows tall each season (eg Bracken), whereas Stonechats prefer perennial plants that are tall throughout (like Gorse). This may be niche partitioning between these two closely related species, possibly as the resident Stonechats have occupied the permanent scrub before the migrant Whinchats arrive in spring. But maybe it was different 350 years ago when there may have been lots more gorse so enough for both species.
So back to this photo; This is the adult female of the Whinchat pair I photographed in the Peak District this week. She is rather similar to the male but with a paler cheek and paler orange on the breast. Her throat is also white whereas the male's was orange: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/53010090477/in/dateposted/
My first proper beardie session this season. There were at least a dozen and maybe twenty - hard to say as they move around in the reeds.
I wonder what it saw when it was looking at me. Maybe it couldn't believe its eyes for some reason.
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Class50 50037 'Illustrious' in Large Logo livery heads through Withington in April 1986.
The working is the Sundays only 16.15 Hereford to London Paddington service.
The scene at Withington has changed and not for the better. I haven't visited for a few years but it was incredibly overgrown on my last visit. I will have to check it out again. Please see my album 'Withington Comparisons'. I did remove a couple of shots but will put them back at some point. I also have a black and white shot of 50004 I think.
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First proper night shoot, in Castlefield, Manchester
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The sunset intensities at Punta Custodio were mind blowing. I had to tone down the saturation considerably on the original image because the live event looked artificially pumped. My wife of 50 years, Cathie, enjoying Mexican Wine and snacks, at Casa Iguana.
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The eastern part of Zion National Park has been a successful area for me to find great compositions for sunrise. On our last visit, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of mornings exploring the trails a bit more. I saw this mese getting beautiful golden morning light as I was driving to the Checkerboard Mesa. There was a small trail that led to the mesa, and after a short walk, I was able to compose a few interesting images. The lighting was sublime, with cool tones in the foreground and a warm morning glow on the peaks in the background.
Cooking through Boylston a pair of good looking SD40-2's lead the Grand Rapids turn in the fast fading light.
Svartifoss in Skaftafell is not a big waterfall but it's one of the most scenery waterfalls in Iceland, with it's spectacular basaltic columns.
One of my first shots with the new Carl Zeiss 21mm lens, and I'm falling in love with this baby.
It's very hard to shoot this location with the proper colored sky in the back, as the facade of the wall is very dark against the sky, so the facede needs much longer exposure, in this case I did an exception of one of my rules in photography and shot two exposures, and manually blended the two images together to have the sky blue instead of white. Yes, it's a litle cheating!
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I've been fascinated by astronomy since childhood, and my love for photography actually began with my first attempts in astrophotography. Even though I've mainly focused on regular photography in recent years, astrophotography has always fascinated me. After experimenting with my normal camera equipment, I finally took the plunge and upgraded to proper astrophotography equipment :-)
Unfortunately, clear nights have been relatively rare in the past weeks, so I could be active in only two recent nights. Nevertheless, it was enough to finish my first photo.
The photo shows the Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396) in the constellation Cepheus. This emission nebula was formed by the interaction of young stars with the surrounding interstellar gas. It got its name because of its distinctive shape, which resembles a curved trunk.
🔭 Equipment:
Askar FRA400, 400mm f5.6 + ZWO EAF
ZWO AM5
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro + Optolong L-eXtreme
WilliamOptics Uniguide 50mm + ZWO ASI 120MM mini
ZWO ASIAIR Plus
📷 Frames:
33 x 300s (2:45h) @ Gain 100, -10°C
20 x darks, flats, dark-flats
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Getting out of Woodstock, Ontario in a hurry is Via #75 for Windsor with an MLW A-B-A set lead by beat up paint FPA4 6768 way back on June 27, 1979 slightly over 39 years ago. Yikes that sounds horrible, but I remember this like it was yesterday scrambling up the embankment just in time on a crappy overcast day.
My first proper play with my new drone. Adjusting to the extra dimension and amount of freedom it brings to composing an image is going to be a big learning curve but I love it!
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Drone: DJI Mavic 2 Pro
Camera: Hasselblad L1D-20c
Settings: 1/40 / f5.6 / ISO 100
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Part of a set "Proper Off" comprising characters observed on North Quay, Weymouth Harbour.
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... I am providing this candid capture taken in Bar Harbor, Maine as a Public Service Message showing the proper stance that must be utilized when taking a selfie. Stable stance and posture is a must ;)
In a surprise encounter, Conrail JR-5 heads south down the Chemical Coast Secondary with SD45-2 1700 towing a K652 down to Tremley Point on March 6, 2021. I was heading down the Turnpike to Monmouth County when I noticed the hind end of an ethanol train going through CP Port. Without seeing the power, I continued south and made a quick U-turn at exit 13 and positioned myself at CP Ralph to snag a photo of them coming over the old CNJ Elizabeth River Lift Bridge. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's to always bring your camera wherever you go. You never know when you'll need it.
Following their display at 'AirBourne 2023', Team Raven with their six Vans RV8s provide a formation taxi after arriving at Shoreham Airport
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....not one of yer Japanese built "Green Things"!
The eight o'clock First Great Western (FGW) service from Cardiff Central passes through a well trimmed Cowley Bridge Junction in Exeter behind an EWS branded #67022 on Tuesday the 9th March 2010.
Today, the jungle in the foreground has returned and the Cowley Bridge Inn is a pub no more!
Oh well, life changes sometimes not for the better!!!!!!