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A very short and pleasant stroll Easter weekend. I quit smoking sometime ago, morning walks are a nice substitute, but my coffee doesn’t taste the same.
I was standing in the stairway, smoking my cigarette and waiting my partner to come. A bad habit, that i had to quit of.
If you were trying to quit smoking, you might want to avoid going outside in the Northeastern US and Atlantic Canada. Wildlife smoke from across Canada and the US, the majority from Saskatchewan, has been blowing down over us for the last week.
Just in time for the worst of it, I decided to take an impromptu trip north to visit the Napadogan and Pelletier subdivisions on my way up towards the Gaspe Peninsula and northern NB. By the time the sun was up you couldn't see more than half a mile before smoke hazed over your sightlines. Hell, one of my shots from this day was about 1,000 ft from the tracks and the locomotives are grey and red, not black. Nonetheless, the shutter must click.
I decided to drive towards Boundary, NB and wait by a signal set to be in position for a good shot in either direction to start my day. Half an hour later, a green for CN 121 had me moving to my first spot. Unfortunately, I'm dumb and forgot these fuckers run at 55 mph up this way and drove like a grandma to get there. After a few expletives were uttered in the safety of my own van I scrambled back west to get ahead of this incredibly fast train. A few miles later, I stumbled my way up the side of a rock cut covered in down trees to get this frame along the shores of Lac Baker. There I would grab this image of CN 121 fit with 3 six-axle GE's screaming towards Quebec with 2 and a half miles of intermodal in tow.
Luckily for me, the smoke would clear out overnight and the following two days would be a much different environment than the pseudo-apocalyptic nightmare that Sunday was.
Well I am not a smoker myself, but wanted to do this shot for a long time. So i made Rahul smoke three cigarettes before i could get a good shot.
It is said that at an average 1 cigarette takes away 3 minutes of your life. Sorry Rahul I had to take away 9 minutes of your life for the sake of photography........ :(
Hope you quit smoking someday.................
Strobist Info:
For the first shot
Vivitar 285 triggered via cable, bare, to camera left and corner of frame.
For the second shot
Vivitar 285 triggered via cable, white umbrella, to camera left and top
Post Production Details:
RAW adjustments for white balance, levels and contrast in Nikon Capture NX2;
Frame and logo placed in photoshop cs3
Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
Dutch: Heggenmus
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I quit smoking. Yeah, you better believe it. Smartest thing I ever did. I feel sooo much healthier now.
OK?
Satisfied?
Good. Now gimme a cigarette.
Nighttime abstract of a giant cooling tower at a disused power station.
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I quit smoking in the beginning of this summer, and every day has been a challenge. I tend to feel fatigue and get easily dizzy where I loose my concentration. Although I have cheated once in a while, I have kept myself on a good track I believe. I just hope the dizziness will go away soon.
Our youngest son quit smoking cigarrettes several years back but replaced it with a Vape thing. I caught him blowing smoke.
Blowing smoke can mean knowing something you really don't understand however, in this case, our son learned over the years how to fix a vehicle and work with tools from Mike. He wasn't just blowing smoke when he said he could come and put in the new alternator in my car.
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Quit smoking today. Cold-stupidass-turkey. It's more difficult than the outcome of the election is gratifying. Now that's sayin' something.
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I quit smoking after 20 years,I tried to quit few times-i hope this time definitely.it's never too late to quit and i feel really better-my punch bag is busy again-i love life after smoking...! Have a great weekend guys.Thanks for comments and faves.
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Many years ago Dad decided the time was right to quit smoking. With his weekly cigarette spend put to one side he soon had enough to rekindle his old interest in motorbikes. As can be seen he was most certainly an avid British bike fan and also a brilliant bike restorer. His normal process was to buy a bike in a totally run down state and renovate it in such a way that it became a museum piece. Thankfully the fact that his collection grew meant that these bikes were ridden regularly and I had a pick of the bikes to take out. At this time four of his bikes were lined up along with my brothers Triumph Tiger 90 which is seen at the far end of the line up. The picture was taken at the front of my childhood home.
Of note as well as the bikes is my grandfather who is seen in the window looking out to see what was going on.
Dad as now supplied a detailed explanation of the bikes sown above.
The Norton Commando was a 1976 model 823cc twin cylinder with electric start. It fired up on the button, but sounded like a ruptured duck when doing so. Seat height was some 34 inches which made it difficult to put both feet down to the floor for anyone less than six feet tall. The twin air horns, not standard, really announced its presence. It won one or two awards at the C.D.B.M.C. local and national shows.
The BSA B31 is a 1952 350cc single cylinder bike with a rigid frame. I say 350cc but after doing some engine work on it, boring out the barrel to accept a T140 piston it became 399cc. The cylinder head needed opening up to match the barrel; Gold Star valves, seats cut, high lift cams, bigger carb etc. fitted, and it stopped being an apparently bog-standard B31 plodder firing once every other lamp post to being one that went like stink and made the lamp posts pass by much quicker.
The third bike in line is a 1955 BSA A7 Shooting star 500cc twin cylinder machine, the sports version of the excellent A7 all-purpose bike. On this bike, in addition to obtaining some correct tin ware and doing a total cosmetic job, I fitted a Philp Pearson (Gold Star specialist) clutch conversion (beautifully made from a Suzuki clutch). Purists may frown now, because I made and replaced all fasteners with stainless steel ones – they’ll outlast the bike. It looked and went magnificently. Another trophy winner.
Bike number four is not one of my machines but belonged to a good friend, Keith Hawes, who happened to be visiting me. It is a BSA A10 650cc in Road Rocket trim and restored by him. I can’t be sure of the year but I believe it is a 1960 model.
The last bike in line is indeed, Andrew’s 1966 Triumph Tiger 100 500cc twin, beautifully restored by him, I gave him one or two ‘pointers’ but did all the work himself. It had a lovely free revving engine and Andrew said it was a joy to ride.