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As with everyone, Covid has made people put there lives on hold. This is one of my son’s who has been locked down in London for months. To see him run down the beach and run into the sea was quite emotional. I have the feeling that the new normal has arrived. Childhood can be resumed under a new set of rules.
Take care out there.
All the best......
What would be do without good eye sight? I have one surgery done to remove cataract and one more on March 2nd. All is going well but I am looking forward to resume my fitness. I hope you are well. I took this photo last year in Vancouver near Parc Stanley. I think this section of a mural is not part of the VMF.
Une partie de murale vue en janvier 2022. J'ai eu ma première chirurgie pour une cataracte dans l'oeil droit et j'aurais la même chirurgie pour l'oeil gauche le 2 mars. Tout se passe bien mais je dois faire moins de fitness pendant quelques temps. Bonne semaine à tous.
This mockingbird was at the top of an Electric Pole singing. Every couple minutes it would fly up a few feet and then resume it's position.
I've been observing this nest since March 30th.
That is the day on which the swan mother sat down on the nest for the first time.
In between it was very cold and brooding was interrupted, but also resumed. About two weeks ago the swans cleaned the nest and ate a few eggs that were apparently dead. Today I saw that two chicks hatched. It could be that there is still something to come.
the weather wasn't the best this morning.
I stay tuned
seit dem 30.März beobachte ich dieses Nest.
Das ist der Tag an dem sich die Schwanenmutter zum ersten mal auf das Gelege gesetzt hat.
Zwischendurch war es sehr kalt und das Brüten wurde unterbrochen, aber auch wieder aufgenommen. Vor etwa zwei Wochen haben die Schwäne das Nest gesäubert und ein paar Eier, die scheinbar tot waren selbst gefressen. Heute habe ich gesehen, das zwei Küken geschlüpft sind. Könnte sein, das noch etwas nachkommt.
Das Wetter war heute morgen nicht das Beste
Ich bleibe dran
Having been given permission back out onto the main, the engineer on the "Rosario Local" throttles up his two SD40s while the brakeman waits to re-line the derail once the short train is clear. They've just finished switching Nustar Asphalt, which can be seen in the far right of this shot. This track is part of the pre-1966 AT&SF alignment, which generally followed the Rio Galisteo from near its confluence with the Rio Grande towards Lamy.
This was the culmination of a one year long desire and about a four hour wait. I had seen this shot in my head ever since beginning my time qualifying out of Albuquerque, but it was either "they don't run up here anymore" or (once regular, predictable service resumed) I was always working when this job was working. Everything fell together today though, and it was worth waiting for!
Easter is now well behind us and I've been back in NYC for nearly a month at this point...
I've managed to unpack my suitcases and get more-or-less caught up with the stuff that accumulated in my absence ... but it was only a couple weeks ago that I was able to get back outside with my camera, to resume the "streets of New York" and "peeps in the 'hood" street-photography projects that I carried out during much of 2013 and 2014.
Because I have a strong desire to let the photos sit untouched for a month before I start editing them (which involves far less discipline than the late Gary Winogrand, who apparently waited a full year before he got any of his film processed!), I won't be able to inspect any of these street-photography shots until early May.
And that means I'll have to spread out my remaining Florida sunrise shots, and probably upload only one or two new ones each day ... unless some other photo project comes along in the next couple of weeks...
Meanwhile, I will continue uploading some photos taken by my grandparents in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, out in the American West.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Apr 27, 2015.
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I spent the winter months of 2014-2015 in a warm spot on the beach in Indialantic, FL in order to escape what turned out to be a really brutal winter in the Center of the Universe, as well as most of New England. I'm now back in NYC, but I still have a backlog of Florida shots to edit and upload.
On most of the mornings I was there, I manage to get up about an hour before sunrise every morning, and be out on the beach for a morning walk just as the sun peeked up above the horizon.
On the very first morning, and every morning thereafter, I noticed that I was not the only person on the beach. There were joggers and walkers out getting their exercise, and *lots* of fishermen casting their lines out into the surf. But down by the 5th Avenue boardwalk -- where you can park your car and get a cup of coffee/latte/whatever from the local Starbucks -- there were lots and lots of people who clearly came down here just to watch the sunrise. This was particularly true after the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, for we then "sprang forward" and celebrated the arrival of dawn about 7:30 AM, instead of 6:30-ish.
These are some of the morning scenes that I saw -- the birds, the people, the long empty beaches, and the glorious sunrise...
Located on the lsle of Anglesey North Wales and was built between 1295 and 1330.
lt was the intention of Edward the 1st to colonise the North of Wales and so built a number of castles to govern the population of that area.
This was the last of Edwards castles. Its design for the times was state of the art and included many fine defensive features.
Works finally ceased in 1330. Owing to the costs incurred by its construction and by the threat of a Scottish invasion Edward decided to invest in his army instead. Works here were never resumed.
In 1609 though the castle was manned by a small force the actual condition of the castle was described as at the time "Utterly Decayed. "
ln the English Civil War 1642 / 1646 the castle was of strategic importance and was held by Charles the 1st
Today although ruined the Castle is still an impressive building and is a testament to former troubled times.
Well worth a visit
These are the same Pronghorn bucks featured in yesterday's post. They alternated between grazing and sparring for about five minutes, sending subtle (for me) but clear (to them) signals when one wanted to resume. And a second or two later they'd be squaring off again, nose to nose. It was immensely entertaining and exciting to view at close range in good light.
I am ending my "Half A Day In the Life" image set here. There were other wildlife encounters as I completed a long loop to get home without backtracking, but the light had started to flatten out by then, and nothing could come close to matching the show these two bad boys put on. Thanks to everyone for being good passengers in this virtual tour and not scaring the critters away!
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
1952 Chevrolet Series 3100 1/2 Ton Pickup Truck
In 1925, Ford was the first of the Big Three to enter the pickup market, but it was Chevrolet that stood tall as Detroit's top truck-seller by the time of World War II. Chevy resumed civilian truck production in August 1945, and really got back to business in May 1947 with its new “Advance Design” pickups. Wider, longer and lower than the prewar leftovers marketed in 1946, the Advance Design models looked thoroughly modern and featured an equally modern “alligator” hood hinged at the rear. Beneath that gator was Chevy's proven 216-cid “Stovebolt” six-cylinder.
There were few changes as the Advance Design trucks rolled into the 1950s, but Chevy continued to sell more trucks than all rivals—even with Ford's new F-series models on the market after 1948. Notable updates included vent windows being added to the doors in 1951, and a restyled grille and trendy one-piece windshield appearing in 1954. That same year a much improved 235-cid six-cylinder was installed and an optional automatic transmission was introduced. Advance Design production continued briefly into 1955 before the era came to a close and Chevy’s new “Task Force” trucks were launched, and these last-run Advance Design models carried some Task Force features—accordingly, they are highly prized by collectors today.
Wonderful empty old barn and corral, both in good shape and seemingly waiting for someone to recognize their value. Nothing is quite as frightening to a person in their 50s and 60s as losing their jobs and realizing no one is interested in their once useful skills and experience.
Stagecoach Oxfordshire / 50443 YX70 LVJ / Oxford Tube Oxford - London Victoria / Hillingdon Western Avenue
A fisher(wo)man on even the tallest boat tower can't match the vantage point an osprey achieves when fishing. This particular osprey was circling above the Haw River, looking for fish, and took a quick look at me before resuming its scan of the water below.
While in the midst of this “wait a little longer” I am going to hush my incessantly worrying mind and harness opportunity. There is a “resume” button on the horizon. So here we go.
Time to press “resume” and move forward into this year with expectancy. Step into the future.
Do you need to recommence?
As I explained before, for three weeks now I have been, if not bedridden, at least mostly housebound as a result of a crippling knee problem. I can still drive around and run errands when mandatory, but it is hurtful and I am definitely not up to lugging photo equipment and go shooting. Furthermore, when this struck, I didn’t have many photos waiting for upload, what with the Winter season coming to an end, the pandemic still with us that doesn’t really encourage outings (the one day I went out, on March 9, on a photo shoot for the Fondation pour la Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, I became a COVID contact case of someone I had brushed against during the day, luckily without any consequence as I never was infected)... not to mention ridiculous wartime gas prices!
The bottom line is, I simply ran out of stuff to upload...
So, I had the idea to turn to some older photographs of mine to which I had, in 2021, given a “new life” by creating black-and-white versions of them for the purpose of a photographic essay that had been requested from me by the Department of Mediæval Studies of a US university. The essay’s theme was the emulation, with the tools of today, of the gorgeous black-and-white photography found in the books of the Zodiaque collection La Nuit des temps, devoted to religious art and architecture of the Romanesque age in Europe, and in particular in France. I’m sure many of you have heard about those books and/or own some of them.
Anyway, since those black-and-white versions are available, I figured I might as well upload them to offer you, who are kind enough to follow my stream, something to look at while I recover and until I can resume more normal photo activities...
Thank you in advance for your patience, and I hope you will enjoy this “renewed” content à la Zodiaque! I will put in a short description of each photo below.
As I have titled this series in reference to the Zodiaque books, I construe my “Romanesque” as the good monks did, i.e., I include in it some fine and inspiring examples of older architecture, what would indeed be classified as pre-Romanesque.
Among such places is the so-called “Lémenc Rotunda”, in the crypt (not open to the public) under the Saint-Pierre-de-Lémenc church in the town of Chambéry, at the foot of the French Alps. This enigmatic structure has been diversely interpreted by cohorts of self-styled specialists and self-appointed experts, and no definitive conclusion has been reached as to its purpose —which may have varied as centuries rolled by.
It is almost undoubtedly from the Carolingian period at least, therefore around 800–900 CE, possibly even Merovingian, i.e. a couple of centuries older. The structure is harmonious and delicate, and the existence of a drain at the bottom of the small basin reveals that a liquid was regularly poured into it, that subsequently needed to be drained. The idea of a baptismal font springs to mind, and most likely this was one of the place’s uses... but why did it need to be underground, hidden away in a crypt? Maybe because it wasn’t a baptismal font to begin with, and that’s when you step into the realm of conjecture, speculation and worse...
In 1954 American author Patricia Highsmith saw the bay of Sanremo, thinking about "The Talented Mr Ripley".
She decided, to let Tom Ripley kill Dickie Greenleaf right in this bay. They set sail in a small boat, Ripley beats Greenleaf to death with an oar, dumps his body into the water, scuttles the boat and resumes Greenleaf´s identity.
Part of my holidays have been spent in lovely Strasbourg.
I stayed at a friend that was generous to lend me his flat.
After the long day dedicated to traveling, knowing the house, getting something to eat I finally got sleeping.
Only the necessary time of sleep to make your brain enter pause mode and I wake with the true feeling someone was chainsawing the entire building... I had no escape in two or three floors my time would come. Time enough for my brain recover from hibernation and I could walk to window. The big chainsaw, actually bigger than the trams in Strasbourg, was doing rail polish. The road was long and it was so slow the workers had to stop walking and wait for it. Believe it or not the transformer resumed its business the next day only a 100 meters away.
Class 40 D213 'ANDANIA' departs Hellifield's down loop resuming its journey to Upperby from Skipton as 0Z33, Tuesday 14/1/25.
Copyright Iain Reid - no unauthorised use
In common with all other Vulcans, she was constructed by A V Roe & Co. at its Chadderton, and Woodford plants, and made her first flight, lasting 95 minutes, from Woodford on August 23rd, 1962. After four further test flights, XL426 was collected by an RAF crew and entered service with 83 Squadron at RAF Scampton on September 13th, 1962.
The Scampton Wing (Nos. 27, 83 and 617 Squadrons) were at the time in the process of equipping with the Blue Steel stand-off missile. From September 1961, all aircraft delivered to these squadrons were specially modified to carry the new weapon, which was loaded, semi-recessed, in the Vulcan’s bomb-bay.
In 83 Squadron markings (MAP/E Taylor)In December 1962, Wing Commander (later Group Captain) John Slessor took over command of 83 Squadron from Wing Commander (later Air Commodore) Ray Davenport. John Slessor selected XL426 as his personal aircraft for his three-year tour, and she proudly bore the squadron commander’s pennant painted below her cockpit. On September 10th, 1963, whilst returning from Goose Bay, Canada, John Slessor flew XL426 to RAF Scampton in 4 hours 5 minutes - an unofficial record, pre-Concorde, for a crossing of the North Atlantic at that time.
In April 1964, the centralised servicing was introduced at RAF Scampton, meaning aircraft were no longer assigned to individual units, but instead were ‘pooled’ and assigned to squadrons on a day-by-day basis. XL426 was flown by all three squadrons of the Scampton Wing, which was now was fully operational with Blue Steel.
With the transfer of the nuclear deterrent role to the Royal Navy in 1969, Blue Steel was withdrawn and the Scampton squadrons were assigned to the tactical nuclear and conventional bombing roles.
Individual unit allocations were resumed in January 1971, and for the next 10 years, XL426 spent most of her time with 617 Squadron, although she also had brief spells with 27 Squadron and 230 Operational Conversion Unit, which had moved to RAF Scampton from RAF Finningley in December 1969.
In 1981, XL426 had the dubious distinction of being the 298th and last Vulcan to undergo a major service at RAF St Athan. Completion of the service was marked with a formal hand-over ceremony at which Air-Vice Marshal Richardson, RAF Support Command, and RAF Waddington’s Commanding Officer, Group Captain Warrington, both signed for the aircraft. Also present was Warrant Officer John ‘Bob’ Shillings, one of XL426’s first crew chiefs when she had entered service with 83 Squadron back in 1962.
617 Squadron disbanded at the end of 1981 and XL426 was transferred to 50 Squadron at RAF Waddington, making the short flight south to join her new unit on January 4th, 1982. 50 Squadron became the last Vulcan squadron, operating six aircraft as air-to-air tankers until the Vulcan was finally withdrawn from operational service in 1984. XL426 was not converted to a tanker, but was one of three Vulcans retained by the squadron as a B2 to act as a crew trainer, helping to take some of the weight of flying off the shoulders of the already overstretched tankers. She had also been used as a trials aircraft as part of the Vulcan tanker test programme in 1982. XL426 was one of four Vulcans that took part in the Falklands Victory Flypast over London on October 12th, 1982 (although XL426 herself had not played an active role in the war itself). On March 30th, 1984, XL426 had the ultimate accolade of performing 50 Squadron’s last display, in the hands of Squadron Leader Joe L’Estrange, at the squadron’s disbandment ceremony at RAF Waddington.
Withdrawal of the Vulcan from operational service did not, however, spell the end of XL426’s flying days. Very much aware of the Vulcan’s tremendous public relations appeal, and already committed to a number of air displays appearances in the upcoming 1984 season, XL426 was kept airworthy (along with XH560 in reserve) for air display purposes. The two aircraft formed what became known as the Vulcan Historical Flight (later the Vulcan Display Flight - VDF), staffed initially entirely by volunteers. Under the command of Squadron Leader (later Group Captain) Bill Burnett, the Flight and XL426 gave their first display at No IX Squadron’s Standard Presentation Parade at RAF Honington on May 23rd, 1984.
The Flight went on to give more than 50 displays during the course of the 1984 season, and it was agreed to continue displaying XL426 into 1985. As the 1985 season progressed, a close eye was kept on XL426’s flying hours, as the time when she would require another major service was rapidly approaching. Plans were put in hand to replace her with another aircraft and, eventually, a replacement aircraft -XH558 - was found (retrieved from the fire dump at RAF Marham) and XL426 gave her final display at the RAF Coningsby Open Day on June 14th, 1986.
XL426 was put up for sale during the summer of 1986 and agreement was reached with a French consortium for her purchase. Meanwhile, the VDF was temporarily relocated to RAF Scampton to allow runway resurfacing to take place at Waddington, XL426 making the short flight back to her former home on July 27th. The French deal subsequently fell through and XL426 was sold to Roy Jacobsen, who had purchased another Vulcan (XM655) two years earlier. XL426 was delivered to her new owner at Southend Airport on December 19th, 1986, following a 20 minute flight from RAF Scampton. On arrival at Southend, XL426 had amassed 6236 hours flying time, having made over 1800 separate flights.
Roy Jacobsen had ambitious plans to operate XL426 as a civilian display aircraft, under the auspices of an organisation he had formed called the Vulcan Memorial Flight. XL426 was entered onto the British civil aircraft register as G-VJET and approaches were made to a number of potential sponsors. However, the sums required to carry out the necessary servicing work and finance the aircraft’s ongoing operation could not be found and XL426 remained dormant at Southend. In 1990, local enthusiasts formed the Vulcan Memorial Flight Supporters Club (VMFSC) to help promote Mr Jacobsen’s continuing efforts to return XL426 to the air, and to also take care of the aircraft’s continued preservation.
The VMFSC took over ownership of XL426 in July 1993 and subsequently re-formed as a registered charity, the Vulcan Restoration Trust.
[Having returned home and as we inch into late Fall and Winter with no plans for extended photo trips until next year, I resume uploading the rest of my selected photos from 2020 (10 per day, usually in the morning CET), as well as a selection of my current, 2021 photos (usually 3 or 4 per day, in the evening CET).]
The Gers is a small part of the region of Aquitaine, which covers most of southwestern France. On July 2020, we rented a house for three weeks in the Gers area, and commencing today, I will upload a selection of the photographs I took while we were there. I hope you will enjoy them!
As usual, I will caption more specifically in bold type below whenever necessary.
A July landscape in the Gers. Summer thunderstorms are not infrequent in that area!
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The infamous shacks along the lake foreshore were built around 1948. The Milang Progress Association controlled the area until the local Council resumed control in 1967. Despite government threats to their existence the shack owners have had several reprieves and they are still there.
A week into 2021 and I'm taking my first photos. L516 has been reliably on schedule departing after dark every day and I haven't had time to go looking during the day. I wasn't expecting anything different today and was surprised when L516 rolled into town slowly tonight and paused behind the house. I didn't have the radio on so I don't know if they had to get another warrant or what, they didn't set out any cars and after a couple minutes resumed their trip.
We've had a pretty mild winter so far with fog every night this week. Hoar frost has built up on trees and with overcast all day has remained there. Without daytime trains to take advantage of the frosty scenes I was glad to be able to include this frosty brush in this shot. January 8, 2021.
Car, cycle and pedestrian traffic on Toole St. resumes their respective journeys as the Silver Cloud shoves around the east leg of the 9th Subdivision wye at Missoula, MT.
Since we liked both photos of that Icterine Warbler and couldn't make up our minds which one to post we now give you the second one...
As his correct name sounds a bit icteric and sick I just renamed him by the literal translation of his German name. In German his name Gelbspötter means yellow mocker referring to his yellowish color and his habit to mock the songs of other birds. Actually this one mocked us by singing for a long time nicely hidden in a tree and then resuming his song on the top of a high tree, too far away for our lenses ;-)
Icterine Warbler.
Seen in the nature-sanctuary "Ochsenmoor" near Lake Dümmer - Niedersachsen - Germany.
Da wir beide Fotos von dem Gelbspötter gerne leiden mochten und uns nicht entscheiden konnten, geben wir Euch nun das zweite...
Dieser Gelbspötter hat zwar lange und ausführlich für uns gesungen, aber immer schön versteckt im Baum und hat am Ende ganz hoch oben auf einem anderen Baum weitergemacht, so daß wir uns doch etwas verspottet fühlten ;-)
Gesehen im Naturschutzgebiet "Ochsenmoor" am Dümmer-See - Niedersachsen.
Many people ask me advice about their portfolio and CV and I always tell them to be creative to stand out of the crowd. This doesn't apply to all kind of jobs, but when you're talking about creative jobs, there are simply no rules on how to present yourself.
Don't mention the name of your kindergarden school, don't mention you've been working at McDonalds during summer break. Believe me, nobody cares. And if your future employer does care, then he'll select you on the wrong criteria. You don't want to work for such a company.
So get creative and make something awesome from your portfolio. Take the above portfolio as an example. Michael doesn't show any of its works and still he succeeds in showing off his talent. Not only he can create great graphics, he also proves to be able to turn 'boring' facts and figures into something exciting. Well done Michael!
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Just past sunrise, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad's rotary outfit, with Rotary Plow OY on point, departs the yard in Chama, NM to resume plowing the line to Cumbres Pass. The plow is being pushed by K-36 Locomotives #s 487 and 484 and is headed back to the spot near Milepost 337, where the previous day's plowing operation was halted. This is Day 2 of the railroad's 2020 rotary plow event, which catered to railroad photographers and was the first in a series of events to celebrate the line's 50th anniversary as a tourist operation.
On Day (March 1st, 2020), the train departed the yard early, because it had to plow about 4 miles of trackage between Milepost 337 and 333, virtually none of which is visible from Highway 17 and which the attending photographers would be unable to see from that vantage point. The train would meet the busses carrying the photographers near 333 and the formal event would resume.
Astute observers will note the presence of a snowman built on the tracks by some of the attendees. Nicknamed "Rory", the snowman would shortly disappear in a cloud of snow and ice as the rotary crew briefly fired up the impeller, much to the delight of about half a dozen photographers.