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The short Easter break is gone and it's back to business as usual. It seems time passes so quickly nowadays... I remember the days when I had too much time on my hands, and wasn't getting anything done. So, I suppose it's not too bad to be busy yet productive. I hope your break was full of love and happy times!
If you zoom right in you can see the reflection of the blue sky, palm trees, and myself taking the lizards photo. I took this photo at the Brisbane Botanical Gardens at Mount Coot-tha.
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A photo from a past fall in Jackson Hole, WY (USA).
That year I was in Jackson from late September to October 10 and what a show it was...maybe one of the most intense I've seen over the years. The majority of the trees you see here are Cottonwoods.
I was looking at the various web cams a little earlier today and I saw where a storm front was moving through the area. And my guess is that once it passes through you'll see the first early snow on the upper elevations of the Tetons.
Another thing the web cams revealed ... the trees haven't changed much. With temps dropping nicely into the 30's at night my guess is that in 2 weeks the colors will really start popping out but the weekend of Sept 23rd will probably disappoint those who are there for the fall colors....it just looks like they will be late this year. Hey, that's ok...I'll be there through Oct. 4th.
This shot was on a day when the branch from the Snake River going through Lower Schwabacher's Landing was perfectly still.
The pdf version to my upcoming ebook "Jackson Hole, WY - A Photographer's Shooting Guide" is now completed. See my profile for more info on obtaining a copy.
Hope to see you there between Sept 28 and Oct 4..
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Friends and enemies, the point has come
Now no more mincing words
What the fuck is going on?
Don't we realize it or are we just hiding it?
We are mad, our madness is great
It's in our flesh, how do we get rid of it?
Maybe it's just my own view
Maybe I'm wrong and don't understand it all
But there are shows on TV that explain it's all about looks
While at school kids go on a killing spree
It drives me crazy
I can't watch this shit no more
More light, I can't see
I'm half blind and I can barely stand
It's so loud, I can't hear a thing
Everybody's talking through each other so they don't get lost
My childhood was beautiful, I played and laughed.
But when I was 8, I thought for the first time:
When I stand before God one day
I'll break his nose bone and ask him how it can be
That all his children here are deaf, dumb and blind
Tearing themselves apart in fear, their souls out of tune
You FREAK, what did you create?
You structure us humans as if we were your weapons
Built to destroy ourselves and everything else
We beg you for mercy, but you won't hear it
We scream because we feel that we are fearful and bad
Thunder, the balance of nature, are like the plague
YEAH! HOW CAN IT BE?
Someday I'll enter your heavenly kingdom
I'll grab you and drag you down to us!
Live this shit yourself, drown in it!
But today I am no longer 8 and I see life differently
God is ourselves, consciousness that wanders
From form to form, to grow and become
And the fear of every form is the so-called dying
But dying is becoming and suffering is learning
And the shards we inherit are ourselves, from far away
To give us what we have given
In words and thoughts and feelings and deeds
And become we will, until the world implodes
And all that is is born again from the beginning
For in us rests the infinite now
It penetrates and gives birth and decomposes
And unites and distributes and networks in such a complex way
That it shreds our imagination
Nature is nothing more than consciousness that grows
It is we who become, in the infinite now
Robert Gwisdek
For a few days each year, the sunlight from my neighbor's windows (at left) comes through my window (www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/49735387972/in/photost...) before the actual sun clears my other neighbor's roof. This results in a rather artistic pattern of lights and shadows: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/49735062661/in/photost....
Oh yeah, my Border Collie Cody wanted to show-off.
View out the opening for children to overlook the stunning "bee garden" as I call it, at the Montreal Botanical Gardens.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Rydal Cave can be found on the north side of Loughrigg Fell above Rydal Water and, like Cathedral Cavern, is man made; a consequence of quarrying, again for slate in this case the slate was used for the roofing in the nearby village of Ambleside. Long disused, the cave can be entered by the public.
As time goes on, I'm seeming to become more and more reflective in my thoughts. While this concept covers all things in my life, one part I can easily tie in here are, of course, railroads. When I started taking train pictures some 10+ years ago, they were nothing good - very bad, in fact. I'm still glad I took those pictures, though - nothing is the same in railroading today. What I've found is that it's much easier to look back, or even ahead, than it is to look in the moment. Railroads have reached such an interesting state now that things quite literally change daily - whether it be layoffs, the addition or annulment of turns, or even something as cliche as the retirement of locomotives.
As I said, it's hard to see "in the moment" - railroad or not, with anything. So something simple, in this case locomotive retirements, sets the scene here.
Last night I had gone out on walk - it was a beautiful evening and I didn't care whether or not I'd shoot anything, just wanted to get out of the house on foot. Well, I stumbled across IHB 2924, an SD20 originally built WAY back in 1960. The three SD20s have been endangered for a few months now, so figured I'd try to get a nice sunset shot of it. Flash forward three hours later, a Facebook message would tell me that an IHB employee said 2924 will be gone in two weeks. The other two will remain, but too many problems plague this one. Gone, 2 weeks from this photo.
Why do we shoot trains? An alternative art form yes, a passive hobby yes, but what about documenting history? Something a lot of us "younger generation" fans don't think about. Perhaps it's time we start thinking more about this.
Pendulum Man - Bark Psychosis
After 2 days of horrendous rain over the week-end many of the surrounding fields are flooded ....though a miserable time for the farmers ...makes for great reflections !!
Freightliner G&W Orange liveried class 90 no. 90044 leads ex-Greater Anglia liveried classmate no. 90006, 'Roger Ford'/ 'Modern Railway Magazine' north at the Oxford Canal at Shilton atop 4M87 Felixstowe- Trafford Park intermodal on 12th April 2021.
The last time I photographed either 4M87, or at this location was back in October.
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