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Cypripedium calceolus (Gelber Frauenschuh, lady's-slipper orchid) Kreuzenstein, Niederösterreich, Austria. It was a dry periode, but they survived untill the rain came a week later. Steinheil Cassar 2.8/50.
We had our first big snowfall overnight, and I know it wasn’t an isolated system. The temperatures are still too warm to photograph interesting snowflakes reliably, but I spent most of today editing this one that has a quintessential snowflake charm. A classic – view large!
Symmetrical, balanced snowflakes are rare. This particular crystal isn’t perfect symmetrical, but it has the same combination of large and small branches in the same order. It’s about as good as you can get unless there are unnatural environments at play (like growing a snowflake in a laboratory). It’s these close-to-symmetrical snowflakes that are icon and symbolic of winter. I thought it would be a good fit for the first snowfall.
The very center of the snowflake has an interesting feature, but one you need to imagine on the opposite side of the crystal. There is a little “button” of sorts, which protrudes from the opposite side of the snowflake that began as a twin to the larger crystal we see growing here. The growth was likely a different origin than yesterday’s snowflake where a cavity in the ice split the snowflake into two planes. In this case, it started life as a column.
Warmer temperatures (around -5C or warmer) tend to force snowflakes to form into columns rather than plates. These types of crystals might be more common in my area than most because we get lake-effect snow where crystals could begin forming at warmer temperatures, but Georgian Bay is a fair distance away from here and the snow has time to rise higher in the atmosphere and switch from columnar growth to plate-like growth. This creates some very interesting structures at the heart of a snowflake, which you’d be familiar with if you have followed my series in past years!
I think tomorrow I will share a column-type crystal to illustrate these features to put the tiny inverted button at the center of this snowflake into greater context.
The other interesting feature in this snowflake is the colour in the branches, not created by the thin film interference phenomenon we’ve seen in previous snowflakes but by a simple prism effect. Snowflakes can very easily act as prisms, and if light hits them the right way you can see rainbows of light running along the branches. The central spine or “ridge” of a branch can be rather geometric as well with hard edges that facilitate the creation of these colours! Some of the colours might be due to lens aberrations caused by the actual prism colours being too bright, but I keep the spirit of those colours in the areas surrounding the over-exposed prism areas (such as the top and bottom branches).
Snowflakes can be a symbol of winter, but there is plenty of complexity to ponder as they fall by the trillions. If you’re curious about understanding this scientific puzzle or you enjoy macro photography and would like to make images like this yourself, pick up a copy of Sky Crystals! Every photographic technique is explained in complete detail and all of the science is explained for any curious mind to understand: www.skycrystals.ca/book - let it snow!
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A reliable observer informs me that all the eggs are now gone from this Red-necked Grebe nest in Bronte Harbour. They could have been within a few days of hatching. The cause of the egg disappearance is not known to me. Oakville, Ontario
July 27 update: The pair are still in attendance and one was sitting on an eggless nest.
Pushing her hard is the SD Reliable (right), accompanied by SD Impulse (left), and (centre) the SD Resourceful.
USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE-5) is a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ship of the United States Navy. She is the fourth Navy ship named for Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1856–1920). Crew complement: 49 military, 123 civilians. Aircraft carried:two helicopters, either Sikorsky or Aerospatiale Pumas.
Name: USNS Robert E Peary
Namesake: Robert Peary
Builder: National Steel and Shipbuilding
Laid Down: 12 December, 2006.
Launched: 27 October 2007
Christened: 9 February 2008.
Motto: “King of the Team”.
Gross tonnage: 43,758 tons.
Max dry cargo weight:
5,910 long tons (6,005 t)
Max dry cargo volume: 83,000 cubic feet (22,000m³)
Max cargo fuel weight: 2,350 long tons (2,390t)
Cargo fuel volume: 18,000 barrels (2,900 m³)
(DFM: 10,500) (JP5:7,500)
Armament: 2–6 × 12.7 mm machine guns; or 7.62 mm medium machine guns.
Aircraft carried: two helicopters (Sikorsky or Pumas)
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SD Reliable: The SD prefix represents the operating contractor Serco Denholm Marine, who took over most of the MOD harbour vessels and tugs after the disbanding of the RMAS in March 2008.(copyright Dave Forbes). Vessels currently in service can be recognised by their black hulls with white beading and white-coloured upperworks
SD Reliable (based Faslane):
Gross Tonnage: 271
Length: 29.14m;
Beam: 9.59m.
Year Built: 2009.
SD Impulse:
Gross tonnage: 319 tonne
Length: 33 m
Beam: 10 m
Draught: 4.2 m
SD Resourceful:
designed to offer towage and assistance services to large vessels and maritime objects on inland waters, in ports, and on coastal waters in heavy weather conditions. Azimuth steering - i.e.360 degrees turn for propellers. Used for Harbour and coastal berthing operations, inc fire fighting.
Length overall (inc. fenders): 29.14 m
Beam (inc. fenders): 9.98 m
Depth at side (at half length): 4.00 m
Draught aft (approx): 4.8 m
Passengers:
Max 15 (12 pax, 3 crew)Crew: Accommodation for 6
Max Speed (knots): 13.1 ahead/13.3 astern knots
Former used car lot sitting along a state highway.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, handheld light producing device set to white and yellow, large sodium vapor light to camera left and numerous passing cars behind the camera.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
New England aster is one of the most reliable plants in my garden to attract insects. Plus I love the color of the petals.
One of the insects I haven't yet seen is the hover fly, which used to mob this plant. Given the paucity of butterflies this year, this is worrisome.
Eye update:
I'm not seeing blurry anymore, but I can read only at a very limited range. This replacement lens was supposed to give me a range of distance vision. So far, that's not happened. I'll give it time. No matter what, after both eyes are done, I"m sure I'll get prescriptions for corrective eyeglasses that will work out fine. I went into this knowing I would have to and preferring to wear glasses.
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CSXT 323 shows off an honorable mention to the L&N RR, aka "The Old Reliable" while hanging out in Bedford Park Intermodal Yard in Bedford Park, Illinois.
Panama -The Panama Canal is a complex system of artificial lakes - natural, man-assisted, and artificial channels - and three sets of recently expanded locks. To state that its undertaking was immense is putting it lightly. Construction took place in two stages by two completely different groups, first French (1881 – 1889) then American (1904 – 1914), at an estimated cost ranging from $375-$400 million with almost 30,000 lives lost mostly to disease.
The fleet required to complete the early 20th century dig was immense; to fill the need, a number of American heavy-machinery companies were enlisted to custom-build dredgers, dredger engines, and other dredging equipment. Baltimore-based Ellicott Machine Corporation crafted six of these machines. Ellicott’s products proved their worth and their lasting power since the dredging of the Panama Canal is a proverbial work in progress. Their cutter suction dredger MINDI joined the Panamanian maintenance crew in the 1940s. Well known to mariners who have transited the Panama Canal, the 125-meter-long vessel has been in active service since 1943 (often more reliably than some newer larger dredgers), working in and around the Culebra Cut — the narrowest stretch in the Panama Canal — most recently to widen a turning radius for new bigger ships expected by 2017. Here she is moored in Gamboa, just shy of the canal’s midway point south of Lake Gatun.
Getting a shot of a Sacred Kingfisher in the Sandy Camp Wetland is almost guaranteed. They take advantage of the large number of arboreal termite nests which provide ideal breeding sites throughout the bushland.
Union Pacific SD40N 1948 rolls past some rubber-tired testaments to its reliability as a main-line locomotive for the past four decades.
Built in 1979 for the UP, 1948 is going strong on the Janesville turn as it passes O'Hare Airport on the way out of town, reliability is certainly one of the hallmarks of the SD40 family. Will those trucks still be on the road in forty years?
Not really the go-to or solid backup shot in my case, as I've never stepped foot here before, but all of my research on the remaining semiphores here convinced me this shot was, if nothing else, the one angle I was going to walk away with.
This was almost true, with leaving Trinidad behind the train, losing it again in Raton due to road work, and stopping for the previously-uploaded sub-par shot at Wagon Mound. The stop at Las Vegas, NM allowed me to get ahead of the train once more and set up for the third and last chance I'd have to frame some semiphores on this trip.
The long write-up aside, Amtrak's Southwest Chief rolls up to the classic, well-documented, semiphores at MP 774.2.
Las Vegas, NM
March 14th, 2022
This has been a reliable working all this week. 56113 on the 6K28 Doncaster Wood Yard-Pinnox Branch Esso Sidings, Bessacarr, 22.12.21.
Reliable Karin posin´ for a poster. Look carefully and you´ll see me too! I´m a bit busy with other stuff for the moment, don´t have the I time I would like to have for my Flikr.friends...But at least my health is improving after three weeks of boring illness...so I´ll be back soon...
For several years, A408 was my go-to train for a good chase on the IC mainline through central Illinois. Nothing to do on my days off? Go look for A408. Here, a pair of IC SD70's roar south past the ancient and long-disused Tuscola Farmers' Co-Op elevator at Hayes. Those were the days!
Corallorhiza trifida, Präbichl, Steiermark, Austria. This tiny orchid grows unrecognised by most hikers next to the beaten track. Fortunately, I know where they grow.
The always reliable #19K on the Marion Branch delivers once again in style! A bright nosed Heritage Unit leading, on street trackage, and with brillant fall colors completes the hat trick for the win. The race through traffic to nail him in multiple spots between Milford Jct. and here is a story for another time.
I love how reliable these amazing birds are on the west coast if you go to the right places. I mean, they're by no means common, but you don't have to rely on just dumb luck either. I might post a few more photos of this particular bird later; maybe a portrait or something...
P.S. If you zoom in on this shot, or really any of my other shots for that matter, and the photo doesn't look sharp anymore, just move your cursor around a bit.
This is in the upper portion of Waterfall 227. For those of you that don't know (or care), I call it Waterfall 227 because to it's on Hwy 227 and to my knowledge doesn't have a real name.
I also call it Old Reliable because this one is always flowing, as it is fed primarily by runoff (seems like very clean water) from a pipe on top of the hill.
fave things together - old reliable leather gloves and fresh reliable coffee .
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now i think this is kinda texture-y but would be delighted to hear how this could be a more compelling photo such that more folks might feel "ah ha" about it. Thoughts?
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strobist note: .
shot low w flash low power and to side camera right using honel diffuser and wee low power LED light in same line as flash but on camera left for slight light running in/over left
The farther we are from noisy cities, the more we interact with nature and the more we have to work with our hands. Of course, we cannot completely abandon the benefits of civilization, otherwise life on the countryside will turn into a struggle. But sometimes even the rejection of smartphones, computers and information flows allows us to feel truly alive.
This simple little tractor was inspired by the classic LEGO Town 6608 “Tractor” set from 1982. It's always interesting for me to dig back into the past in search of real gems in old sets. LEGO makes it possible to take this simple and recognizable things and create a modern version based on it.
Believe it or not, but red-bellied woodpeckers were not reliably found in Winneshiek County Iowa until the twentieth century. They have been moving north from Arkansas and Missouri since then due to help from winter birdfeeders and a warming climate.
if nothing else is about is the days around christmas, you can always rely on the 6k05 engineers to run. Here is 66425 yesterday at Hellifield Green in some stunning late afternoon light with the 6k05 Carlisle-Crewe running 53 minutes early.
CN's L508 Quad turn rarely serves up power that is "boring". Yesterday was no exception with the GTW GP38 in the lead followed by a zebra-striped CN GP40-2LW.
GTW 4928
CN 9486
North of Wagoner, the tracks don't really parallel any roads too reliably, so I jumped out ahead using US highways. Between the lack of "action" going on and the all night drive catching up to me, I was getting a little sleepy. So after the roads joined back up with the tracks, I pulled over along Highway 88, figuring that when the Steam Special got close, the rush of oncoming traffic would wake me. I got in about a 30 minute nap and sure enough I was awoken as I expected. This photo was taken approximately 45 seconds later.
-Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4014
-UP (ex-MoPac) Wagoner Sub, MP V605
-S 4180 Road Crossing, Tiawah, OK
-November 16, 2019
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Deansgate Junction signal box panel.
The original 1880 built lever box was closed in 1957 and was replaced by the current building which houses the 1991 NX panel and controls trains to and from Northenden and Mobberley as well as the trams towards Timperley.
A very busy and cramped box, it is double manned as it oversees the busy crossings at Navigation Road and Hale as well as its own at Deansgate Lane.
With the bio-mass services now running this way, the signallers are even busier and there is never really any time when there isn't a train on the panel. Despite the age of the place there seem to be few issues with the signalling compared with other locations and systems and it keeps plodding along, accommodating the intense service.
* There's an unfunny old joke about a 'Wabbit living in a Westinghouse" which you'll be pleased to know I can't remember!
My equipment got compact and light weighted. The telescope was the heaviest element among the equipment except the battery. It is natural and pertinent.
The mount performed precise work through the night with 250mm counterweight shaft and 4.8kg counterweight, and 17.5kg weight in total on the genuine stone bag. It was pointing Polaris, ready for Polar Drift Alignment on PHD2 Guiding. Mechanism for polar alignment was precise and stiff, just the same as Losmandy G11.
I hope to try next generation ZWO AM7 and AM3 in the future. Please make the bottom plate thicker. I will put heavier weights.
equipment: AstroPhysics 130GTX "Granturismo," Field Flattener at f/6.7 focal length 873mm, 22.1mm Spacer, EOS Adapter, Kipon EOS-EOS R adapter, and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, auto guided at a star with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding
I put the guide camera and lens on the side of the mount body at the night, but it was a minor mistake. Minor drifting of stars was remarkable on some frames of longer exposure.
Small and lighter guide scope must not have moved remarkably, but long and heavier scope may have moved more against the mount body due to slip between telescope and rings and/or elastic deformation of dovetail, dovetail plate, and rings. I will put the small and light guide scope on the dovetail plate or the ring next trial.
site: 1,530m above sea level at lat. 36 26 01 North and long. 138 30 24 East in Rhododendron Park in Tsumagoi near Mt.Asama 群馬県嬬恋村しゃくなげ園. Ambient temperature was around 2 degrees Celsius or 36 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. SQML was 20.80.
Custom Reliable carrier at the St. Clair power boat races 2008. This appears to be a peterbilt model
Gillingham to Charing Cross service runs into Strood. Solid reliable units which technically could have still been running today. Simple basic electric, nothing to go wrong and not much to wear out.
Suzuki Grand Vitara on the lava fields near Hverfjall crater, Iceland. I drove more than 3000 kms without any hiccups on this ride (that too when it had already run more than 125k kms).
It looks amazing against the fall colors and that incredible sky. What do you say?
A peek into Canada’s oldest surviving hydroelectric station still in operation during Open Doors Ottawa 2017. It harnesses the clean and reliable energy of Ottawa River on Chaudiere Falls.
Commissioned in 1891, Generating Station No. 2 was refurbished and fully automated in 2001.
Model:
Poppy Miss Behave
Fashion credits:
shirt and cap: Eden Reliable Source
shorts: Barbie
socks from Etsy
sneakers Balenciaga