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I'd like to apologise for the lack of updates lately. I haven't been out with my camera much recently for various reasons, but I hope this will start to change with Spring now in full-throttle.
With what is possibly the shortest trip working in the UK at the grand total of a 2 mile return journey, 66591 and 66510 arrive into Fairwater Yard (Silk Mills bridge is visible in the background) with the very-early 6C76 12.49 Bishops Lydeard (Norton Fitzwarren)-Fairwater Yard empty recycled ballast, comprising of 2 HOBC wagons and a IFA barrier wagon. Timetabled to spend 2 hours at the Norton Triangle complex, it couldn't have spent more than 30 minutes there on this particular occasion. What's more, I was extremely thankful to be able to grab two shots in short proximity of each other of this rarely photographed working - one not in sun and this one, taken in one of the longest sunny gaps between rain showers on an indifferent day for the weather.
Possibly the only reason this chap was so relaxed was because I was behind my car and able to use the zoom lens and use said car as a rest to steady the camera.
This year has been a really bad one for me getting out and taking photos - covid has had a devastating impact as we have had to be so careful for others who relied on our well-being to be able to help them in the troubled times.
This was a carefully planned move to avoid everyone and get a bit of freedom for a change.
All of my life, in every season you are still God. I have reason to sing, I have a reason to worship,
In the Country Club parking lot with his 1990's Budweiser Racing marketing van and dog.
Canon Fd 24mm f/1.4 L
Actually I think before we grew into "reasoning beings", (the thing that makes us unique), we only craved need. As infants without reasoning abilities, hard to know if we felt love or just need. Closeness or love instinctively means safety, and that was all we "needed" before reason made us self-conscious, aware, or the word bandied around lately, we became "woke".
I think we are more than chunks of meat with firing neurons, the ability to "reason" about our place in the universe makes each of us special among all life forms. Our uniqueness gives me reason to suspect none of this is just a random quirk of nature. Was there nothingness before awareness, and will there be nothingness after? I don't think so, otherwise what's the point? Too many things have had to happen over time beyond our comprehension to be just luck or chance. We are part of something special. The natural man is a beast, cruel beyond anything else in nature. We have thousands of years of history to look back on to see the truth of that. Right now the world of man (and woman of course) is at a time of peace and prosperity never know before. We're at a precipice, do we continue to lift humanity to even greater heights, or revert to our bloody, enslaved past? Did God roll the dice on mankind, and was everything for nothing. We have free agency and reason, are we up to the task?
What a ramble, sorry for getting carried away. Just wanted to post a picture. ;>)
Jack: Did, curl his hand around hers when she put her own hand in his.. his gaze lowered to watch the contact between them, a squeeze given, but the grip was weaker than how he might have normally held her. "I don't want to feel this way.... I'm trying here.. I'm trying to think of any good reason... " he was possessive, she knew that and it was one of his flaws but a flaw she'd accepted him for a long time ago; So the thought that for a moment however brief he didn't possess her, that she didn't belong to him was a hard one to swallow. "I'm trying Lex.. if my heart didn't still belong to you... you'd have already been kicked out of that door... I want forgive and forget... help me do that... help me fall for you again... that's gonna take time... "
Alexis: felt that weak grasp and slight pulse of a squeeze. It wasn't much, but it something and right now...she'd take whatever she could get from him. While none of it was her intentions, she'd found herself persuaded into that stupid theory that the grass was greener on the other side and damn if that wasn't a lesson hard learned, but nevertheless....learned, burned, and embedded into her brain. It was horrible to see someone that you cared about, loved with every beat of your heart, hurting. It was even worse when you were the reason for their pain. She never wanted to hurt him and sure that was something easier said now, than stopped before it even happened. But, as pathetic as a excuse, as it might have been...she was human. A guy, someone completely different than what anyone would have ever expected for her..caught her attention and held it briefly. But...as the saying goes... Treat her like a Queen, she'll treat you like her King...treat her like a game...She'll show you how it's played... Jack...Jack had always made her feel like a Queen. Sure they had their ups and downs..but she knew who spoke to her soul.. he wasn't a 'fun time'....he was a 'long time'. "I promise you..." she whispered, as he gave her head a little more of a notable squeeze. "I won't let you give up on us...I won't give up on you...I am where I belong...I know that now more than ever and I'm so sorry that it took this for me to reopen my eyes and realize what I've nearly lost for absolutely nothing..." She felt that way, lost. She had been completely lost, while in Cali. Lost touch of who she really was and what she actually deserved. But after a few childish mishaps and dealing with a narcissist who was sure he could find better. She woke up and realized her worth and that sure as hell wasn't it. "Jack...sometimes two people have to fall completely apart, before they can fall back together..." quietly she'd edge herself up near his lap and attempt to curl her arms around him in silence.
66568 leads 4L87 09.31 Tees Dock - Felixstowe North across the flooded Welney Washes (between Manea and Ely). 66557 was on the rear, but out of sight in this picture.
This was the first outing for my new camera, named as though it were the mark 3 version of what I'd been using for almost the last eight years (the mark 2 version), but in reality a new camera as it has been upgraded in so many ways. I'd been working in Ely, so took my camera with me in anticipation of a session here at sunset. The sun was still some way above the horizon when this appeared, not long before 4pm, but it had dropped into the cloud on the horizon by the time the usual train for sunsets appeared (4E20 from Felixstowe, over twenty minutes later) and the sky had lost its colour.
Unfortunately, for some reason the battery had run down on my monitor and, although I managed to set up the pole and take a couple of test shots, the monitor kept switching off. So I decided to do the shots from ground level, something I rarely do here now. I photographed both front and rear locos, changing the angle for the latter to include the girder bridge but not the trees on the right. However, with no containers right at the front (there were plenty everywhere else, including at the back) and the loco fitting perfectly between the sun and the small tree, I much prefer this one - and it's slightly different from others I've uploaded.
Manipulation notes: none at all - not even any straightening, cropping, lightening or darkening, increasing (or decreasing) the contrast, or enhancing the colours: it's straight off the camera! I had, however, set the camera to under expose by 1.3 stops based on the meter reading.
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Even though I am in Red Rock Canyon almost every day, I am still amazed by it's beauty. I find it so hard to believe that this wonderful gift to mankind is just minutes away from the neon of Las Vegas. This is one of the reasons I love living in the desert Southwest and Nevada. Was photographed in HDR
The Wilderness Resort in Finnish Lapland.
Our primary reason for coming to Lapland was to see the divine Northern Lights. We Aurora camped, we Aurora hunted, we had Aurora apps and an Aurora alert buzzer... We had our winter fashionables--wooly gloves and hats, hand and foot warmers, twenty pairs of long johns (at least it felt like twenty pair), fleece, balaclavas (or baklava to some 😄!), and Frankenstein boots.
Finally, after several days of Aurora keeping to herself, she made a bashful showing on our third night! The reception we gave her must have emboldened her, because the next night she began to show off! It was such an incredible experience, made all the more fun being in a large group of people, all with the same dedicated purpose, and all absolutely enthralled by a natural phenomenon. No Rhianna, no gimmicks, no influencer telling us how great this is--just pure, intense awe and joy at seeing something so magical, so wondrous, so natural, happening on the world's biggest stage.
There were cheers and squeals, hoots and laughter, silence and stillness. We were all suddenly children again, and no translators needed. Reverence is a universal language, a human experience connecting everyone out on that bitter cold night.
Well done, Aurora! We can't wait for you to return and dazzle us once again!
There a multiple reasons why my camera has been collecting dust recently.
One of the more enjoyable explanations is that I started playing strategic board games.
Games we regularly play are:
Carcassone
Dominion
Ticket to Ride
Agricola
(and expansion sets for them all!)
I most often play them with one or both of my boys. My parents come over each week for a games night as well. And there are a couple of small groups that get together occasionally. I probably lose more than I win but it doesn't matter; I find all of them rewarding.
I did get out for an evening walk at Iona Regional Park on Thursday. Carried, but never used my tripod. But still snapped a few shots while wandering around for 3.5 hours of solitude and exercise. It felt good.
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The reason for my journey to Wyoming on this Sunday! UP is transporting a VIA rail trainset and two Amtrak commuter cars from Florin, CA (the Siemens plant) to Chicago, IL. A single UP units leads the rather unique trainset through Archer Curve just east of Cheyenne.
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Another one from a while back...
My archive seems to have saved me through the cold and rainy season although the arrival of our Spring seems more like Winter now with cold fronts around us and more cold fronts approaching through the rest of the week and the weekend.
I'm still quite hectic but I've started to catch up (very, very slowly) with all my contacts' uploads.
I hope you're all having a great week. It's almost weekend!
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The reason why there is some undesired polarization in the shot, was I had just arrived at the airport and hadn't even gotten out of the car yet, when this appeared in front of me. So I hastily shot it through the car windshield lol
All of my life, in every season, you are still God. I have a reason to sing. I have a reason to worship.
Santa Cruz County, AZ - My friend Jules Wyman and I found this beautiful adult Green Ratsnake in a rather indecisive position on a dirt road about an hour before sunset. It was our first snake of the year in Arizona (at least for me!) and a really stunning one at that. It was special to getting out with Jules as he was recovering from a recent injury and was relegated to the car for the most part. This was a difficult shot for me as without a friend and being slightly unprepared I had to balance my camera on my leg as I gently posed the snake while I tried my best to get good focus at such an awkward angle. Keeping the photo session short, I was initially frustrated that I may have failed to get a good photo as for one reason or another I either haven't photographed or poorly photographed this species during other encounters. Luckily the snake and my camera were on my side and I was happy to find this photo when I parsed through the results of my little sunset shoot. I was very happy to have Jules literally rooting for me from the sidelines and being a positive influence, as this marks what I hope to be a fantastic summer full of great photographs and even greater memories!
The real reason behind Thumbelina's abnormal growth was far more sinister than a magical seed.
"Even top-notch medical care can't compensate for the multiple effects of smoking on a developing baby. First and foremost, smoking cuts down a baby's supply of oxygen. A lack of oxygen hampers a fetus's growth and development, setting the stage for low birth weight, stillbirth, miscarriage, and many other potential complications."
Research shows women who smoke while pregnant are three times as likely to have a smaller baby. They are less likely to carry the child to full term and face a 26 per cent greater risk of miscarriage or stillbirth.
Just a quick note for the series - I am not trying to glamorize any of the issues here. I hoped by providing statistics about them, people would be made aware of these terrible and yet realistic consequences. I'm not a drug addict. I've never touched a cigarette and the nearest i've been to alcohol is flavoured ice cream. I've never been physically abused, nor have I had to deal with alot of the horrible things I have been addressing in this series - so excuse me if my interpretations are a little off. But whether they are accurate or not isn't the point - the point is that these are real issues and they need to be addressed.
Ok, so I just got back from the dentist so I can finish the description! This photo was damn fun to do, but very frustrating getting all the angles to match. The cigarette box is my Dad's - he hunted through about 20 packs of new boxes until he could find me one with appropriate wording, bless his soul. Anyway, I hope you guys like it!
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I finally went swimming today. I used to swim everyday of the summer when I was a kid, and I don't know why I stopped. But I think I outta start again. Gotta unleash my inner mermaid ;)
CREDIT---
pose & diving board . Flying Squirrel / by NANTRA @ La Vie En Pose
house . "Ocean Pacific" art studio / by CIRCA
pool . "Oasis" shallow pool / by C&D Designs (aka CIRCA)
landscape . Turnip's Skydome / by Turnip's Homes and Stuff
body . Lara / by Maitreya
hair . Blown Away / by Exile
✭ CIRCA ✭ Lovely Alien ✭ NANTRA ✭ Sinful Needs ✭ Spookshow ✭ Zibska ✭
Image taken in the virtual platform of Second Life (tm)
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is it for environment reasons of for reasons of heath and safety of the animals?
what is more important?
Human nature often encourages us to do exactly what the signs says not to do.
Photographed at North Lakes, Queensland.
When we are together we gets stronger. There's no reason needed for us to be together.
Catya - Maitreya - No Cabide Valentine Gift set - Simply Scha - Signature
This is the reason bulldogs are so wonderful. They have a way of getting people to laugh. George has the funniest sleeping positions. I don't even know how to put him in such a position. If you could only hear him snore...
There's always a reason
Sometimes invisible
Always a reason, but sometimes
You can't see them
And the pain
Fell like rain
But it passed
And I opened up again
There's always a reason...
Just before the quiet time
When black of night becomes the sunrise
You are sure that it will never shine
I see it shining
There's always a reason...
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Another reason to love our winter Light trips in December. Miles of untracked sand dunes!
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A beautiful, quite chill & moist morning with camera at hand but for some reason I didn´t bring a tripod. Punk is alive.
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From what you see is not the original photo, I have enhanced the color and filter to make it with this effect. There is a million reasons for us to touch up the photo, but not everyone will agree or like it. As long as I like it.
A little different than my more recent posts, isn't it? After some discussion with a Facebook friend who posted images of a Eurofighter Typhoon from an airshow in Northern Ireland yesterday, it occurred to me that I hadn't posted this image from earlier this year at the airshow from Langley AFB in Virginia... there was a reason why. This Hornet was flying by so fast and so close that I clipped its nose in the original image... "Rats!" No such luck for a retake, so I combined two images in Photoshop. Sounds easy, right? The angles and lighting were different throughout the series of images, however, so it took a bit of work... of which I will not bore you with the details.
I grew up in a military environment, closely connected to aviation, particularly fast movers like this one. Back in that day, it wasn't unusual to hear the occasional explosive sonic boom... we called it the "Sound of Freedom". Times are different now, though there are some places where it still occurs... for a reason. There's a corridor where my parents once lived (and where my oldest brother now lives) where F-15 Eagles that have undergone repairs and upgrades at Robins AFB in Georgia transition to supersonic speeds and high Gs to make sure parts don't fall off. You can see a tiny arrowhead shape in the upper atmosphere, likely around 8 miles up, moving much faster than commercial aircraft... then you'll notice a puff of vapor around it. As it is with thunder and lightning, depending on how far away it actually is, you'll feel the shock wave as it moved into supersonic speeds seconds later, which is impressive on its own... but the sonic boom afterwards sounds like 10 sticks of dynamite going off, even from so far away. I brought a girlfriend on a visit to my parents many years ago. The whole family was there and we had all just sat down to breakfast when a shock wave occurred that rattled everything in the house... we knew the boom was coming, but acted like nothing had happened. My friend was already wide-eyed with concern to the shock wave, but when we didn't react to the sonic boom, she said, "Am I the only one who heard that?" Our response: "Heard what?" Wish I could have filmed that!
This aircraft is real close to punching through the speed of sound here, in a condition known as transonic... two specific shock waves are made evident in the vapor. Here's the text I used on a previous image of this same aircraft: This is a U.S. Navy F/A-18C Hornet, flown by Lt Scott Lindahl, callsign "MacGruber", with Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (VFA-106) out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. A Hornet looks fast even when it's parked on the ramp... here, MacGruber is pushing it at just under the speed of sound, Mach .96 at sea level, or 730 mph. The jet is condensing the vapor in the air around it by decreasing the air pressure and density along some of its structure at this high speed.
That Mach number isn't consistent along the Hornet's curves... some of the curved parts force the air moving over them to supersonic speed, while linear parts are still subsonic, creating a condition known as transonic... transonic speeds form troughs of lower pressure than the ambient air along the airframe. The rapid pressure change also lowers the temperature around the aircraft enough to reach the dew point... instant clouds on a humid morning such as this. That's the scientific explanation, but here, I'm just as happy that it's making it appear to be doing what it actually is in a still shot... moving fast! Try tracking that in any viewfinder... blink and you've missed it.
I'm former Air Force, and had spent some quality time right here at Langley AFB, in Hampton, Virginia... it was a great show here highlighting airpower at its best, but it was also nice to show my wife some good stompin' grounds from the past. I can't close this without a big thank you to Lt Lindahl for his service in troubled times.
trying to come up with a decent reason for why my goody-two-shoes breton mage winds up with the mace of molag bal.
it's easier than i thought it would be.
Market hall, 1936, to the designs of the Horseley Bridge Engineering Company, incorporating the walls of the 1932 open-air market.
Reasons for Designation
The former Woolwich Market, 1936, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* the roof is a good representation of the Lamella system, built at a scale which clearly demonstrates the structural capability, is unaltered, and is the earliest known surviving example;
* based on a simple but visually distinctive geometric structural system which creates a striking, uninterrupted interior.
Historic interest:
* a rare survival of a dwindling number of Lamella structures in England, of which over 100 were built during the interwar period and only 16 of which are thought to remain.
History
A market was opened on the site on Plumstead Road in 1932, necessitated by overcrowding of the earlier marketplace on Beresford Square, c50m to the west. Four years later the new market was enclosed by a lightweight steel structure with a Lamella roof; construction took three months and cost £2,268, and the new, covered market was reopened on 18 September 1936.
The Lamella system was developed in Germany in the 1920s. It uses short structural members in an interlocking lattice grid to create a shallowly arching structure which could achieve wide, uninterrupted spans. The Horseley Bridge Engineering Company of Tipton acquired the license to use the system in England in 1929, and in the following decade designed and built over 100 structures incorporating Lamella roofs. One of the principal applications of the system was in the construction of aircraft hangars, and the first commission, in 1930, was for Henleys Ltd at Heston Airfield. The Air Ministry commissioned their first hangars at Usworth, near Newcastle upon Tyne in 1932, and in 1936 placed an order for 22 hangars to be built at their stations at Ternhill, Shawbury, Brize Norton and Kemble; of these, a number survive, and the group of four at Kemble are listed, as is the Lamella hangar at Liverpool airport. Lamella roofing was by no means limited to hangars, however, and in his ‘short history’, Allen notes various industrial buildings, garages, a school, and power plant which incorporate the structural system. Lamella roofs were used much less frequently following a couple of collapses in the 1940s, due to the unforeseen weight of snow, and faults in assembly. One notable example of later use was on the Sea and Ships Pavilion at the Festival of Britain in 1951.
Woolwich Covered Market is the earliest known example of a Lamella roof to survive in England. The building ceased use as a market in 2017, and has been converted to a multi-venue food hall. The structure remains largely intact.
There are purported to be subterranean passages beneath the market, used as air-raid shelters during the Second World War.
Details
Market hall, 1936, to the designs of the Horseley Bridge Engineering Company, incorporating the walls of the 1932 open-air market.
STRUCTURE and MATERIALS: a steel-framed, segmental-arch roof supported on steel stanchions encased in concrete and brick. The roof is clad in corrugated sheeting and glazing. The walls of the 1932 open-air market are built in London stock brick and have limestone dressings.
PLAN: the market stands on the south side of Plumstead Road. The building is rectangular in plan, with a span of 29, and c35m long.
EXTERIOR: the principal elevation of the building faces north onto Plumstead Road. The dominant feature is its deep projecting fascia of white boarding with ‘PUBLIC MARKET’ inscribed in applied lettering. The elevation is divided into three sections by wide tiled stanchions; the outer bays have concertina shutters, and the central section is fully glazed, with multiple windows in replacement metal frames. The roof, clad in corrugated sheeting, recedes in a gentle arc, and has strips of glazing and a pitched lantern along the apex.
The building abuts other structures at either end, and its glazed gables rise above to the rear. On the rear elevation are a number of brick ancillary structures related to the 1932 market, with a pitched entrance leading into the main market hall.
INTERIOR: internally the main market hall is a single, open-plan space, and the principal feature is the roof structure. The steel framework is exposed; it consists of short channel-section members – Lamellae – bolted together in pairs to form a diamond lattice, braced with narrow purlins and tie rods. Mechanical and electrical services are attached to the framework, and there are metal domed light fittings. The segmental-arched gable ends are fully glazed with multiple lights in metal frames.
The roof is supported on steel warren trusses; that on the southern side is glazed, and is supported on brick piers, and on the north side, the truss is supported by four concrete stanchions. The brick wall of the original open-air market of 1932 stands detached from the piers on the south side, forming a narrow aisle beneath a lean-to roof. The walls contain two doorways with limestone architraves with circular mouldings at the corners and inscribed date-stones. They retain sliding timber doors.
For some reason I'm kind of obsessed with this yellow machine.
Control - Downsampled from ~15, hotsampling! using SRWE; using this guide and CT by Frans Bouma; Lightroom
...for a title.
So there is a story behind this. I was holding my camera for whatever reason, and found my way into a room with a mirror, and for whatever was going through my mind for that second, I turned and took this picture. For no apparent reason other than I was holding my camera and there was a mirror in front of me.
Ok, that was a long story for something that wasn't really a story.
One reason why I haven't sought out a vintage 85mm lens is that I sort of have one already.
This is an example of what my fairly old, (first offered for sale in 1992) Canon EF 85mm f1.8 lens can do. Normally it won't focus any closer than 85cm, but here I added 32mm of extension tubes and I'm able completely blow away any details in the background and turn it into a blur of soft pastel colors that just blend into each other.
Shot at f3.5, the in focus areas are still sharp. So I always ask myself, "Do I really need an expensive vintage, manual lens when I already own this 32 year old lens?"