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This cormorant was working one part of the lake, then evidently was dissatisfied, so moved to the west end. Fortunately for me, I was well situated for the flight.
Black Skimmers relocating along the shore line on a wind swept day.
From FWC:
Appearance:
The black skimmer is a seabird with defining physical characteristics that make it easily distinguishable from others. The key physical feature of the skimmer is its large red and black bill. The bill begins to widen at the top and gradually becomes smaller as it forms a sharp tip at the end of the bill. The lower part of the bill is longer than the top, which is important because they use their bill to skim along the top of the water to catch fish, for which they are aptly named. Skimmers can reach a height of 19.7 inches (50 centimeters) with a wingspan of 3 to 3.5 feet (.9-1.1 meters) (The Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2011, E. Sachs pers. comm. 2011). Skimmers have a black back, black wings with white edging, and a white belly and head.
The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain and located midway between the northwest Wyoming towns of Cody and Powell, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted during World War II from their local communities (including their homes, businesses, and college residencies) in the West Coast Exclusion Zone by the executive order of President Franklin Roosevelt, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
There are only a few original buildings remain, two barracks and this, the smokestack building (see pic).
Pic: The hospital, behind, relied on the boiler house to provide steam heat during cold Wyoming weather.
There is a museum, Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, just east of this. They open daily, 10am to 5pm. I got there like 4:15pm on Friday, September 9th, not enough time to visit inside - just don't want them to see me acting hurry; just took the pictures of those abandoned buildings, and left.
On one of the roads towards the great freshwater lake named Tonle Sap, central Cambodia. Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia flooding a vast area in the rainy season and retreating significantly in the dry season. Small homes are often relocated closer to the waters edge in the dry season.
Cormorants moving from one end of the pond at Delores Fenwick Nature Center to the other. About 50 birds in this mini-migration. Could have used more DoF. Pearland, Texas.
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At Fernald, Lodge Pond is a sure-fire spot to observe many ducks. if one is patient, afternoon light hits the ducks flying in or simply relocating across the pond. The dry weeds on the banks provide great background.
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BNSF 6643 heads down the BNSF Hannibal Sub. just north of Elsberry, MO. with 25 CitiRail Gevo's in tow. Running in a 1x2 formation to haul the units at this point of the journey under the symbol D-ALNSTL3 05T. This is 1 of 4 planned moves to relocate the units from Alliance, NE to St. Louis, MO. The units are headed for the Prairie Lines yard for storage in St. Louis, MO., I'm guessing that Citi got tired of paying BNSF for storage.
CitiRail units in this move: 1333, 1410, 1212, 1350, 1429, 1303, 1332, 1434, 1412, 1347, 1318, 1435, 1213, 1208, 1325, 1338, 1210, 1310, 1345, 1415, 1411, 1314, 1419, 1316, & 1201.
This is the central plaza with the Cathedral of St. James in Antigua, Guatemala.
Antigua, Guatemala was the Spanish colonial capital for all of Central America and southern Mexico in the 17th and 18th centuries. The city was abandoned after a 2nd large earthquake destroyed the city in the late 18th century and the capital was relocated to Guatemala City. In the 19th century, the inhabitants began reconstruction. Today the city is fully reconstructed with the old cobblestone streets and many fine examples of Spanish colonial Baroque architecture. There are several beautiful churches, convents, monasteries, administrative buildings, and other buildings, homes and palaces. There are boutique hotels, fine restaurants, bars and other nightlife, and a lively street scene. The entire city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Praying Mantis
A species of Mantid that I don't see very often. You can see some yellow colouring. This year we have cleared the garden alongside our driveway where these appeared from time to time. This one was on our Wisteria, looks like it has found a new home.
Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan
It is the relocation project of a three-span arch bridge. The work had been carried out over approximately three years, and it was successfully completed two days after this day.
Relocation of a puffin (Fratercula arctica) conference
Umzug einer Konferenz von Papageitauchern (Fratercula arctica)
This church originates from the village of Dorohynka in the Fastiv district of Kyiv region. It was relocated to the museum grounds in 1971. In those days it remained an active Orthodox church, with services occasionally held there (but I don’t know whether the church is currently operating, since the museum grounds have been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, some malicious individuals have set their sights on the territory and carried out a raider attack, so for now, the fate of the museum and all the property located on its grounds remains uncertain...).
A distinctive feature of that period in wooden architecture is the pyramidal shape of the church domes (later, they began to be built in the form of “onions”).
This type of architecture is characteristic of central Ukraine in the 16th–17th centuries and is a rare example of the oldest wooden churches. A unique feature is the simplicity of forms and strict geometry, without decorative excesses, which indicates a transitional period between defensive and sacred architecture.
This photo was taken by my mother in 2014 with an Olympus VG-160 camera, which I gave her as a gift.
It's embarrassing how many cobwebs and dog hairs the small animals find behind our furniture. Here I bring this stag beetle girl outside. Yesterday we had a cornu aspersum with cobwebs and dog hairs. We've put it outside. Fun fact is, that the giant house spiders don't collect dirt before I find them and scream (I would be good in a bad horror movie). Two days ago, I saw a giant house spider in the bathroom. I screamed, and the brave husband caught the girl (it was a girl) in a glass and threw her outside. I'm sure she comes right back inside to look for a cosy spot for to make a cocoon. She was completely clean!
Nobody. Still posting old stuff until new adventures arise.
This is an empty early morning Abu Simbel in September 2009 as we were the first to arrive before the cattle from the tourbuses were unleashed.
This place has a pretty cool story: it was build 7 or 8 centuries ago, forgotten, then discovered early 1800s but in the 1960s this entire mountain was cut into pieces and relocated to this new location as the original location was put under water (Nasserlake) for the Aswan dam to collect hydropower. This is the south of Egypt, close to the Sudan border.
Two day before I shot this, we were in Caïro looking at the Piramids. We were put on the nighttrain to Aswan. From Aswan there is a convoy to Abu Simbel (twice a day I believe) with police escort. We were told there were pirates in the desert and therefore you could not drive up there yourself as you would be stopped along the highway and get robbed. At least, that is the story.
With Canada Day and the concomitant fireworks coming, I decided to experiment with previous fireworks photos. I took a 2023 fireworks photo from one location and merged it with a daylight phone photo from 2026 from another location. Obviously, I darkened the daylight photo.
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Excerpt from the plaque:
Port Dover joined Canada's railway boom in the late 1800s. The Port Dover & Lake Huron was the first train to enter the village in 1875. The Hamilton & Lake Erie Railway, completed in 1878, linked the harbour communities of Port Dover and Hamilton, providing a belated alternative to the Welland Canal. An amalgamation in 1881 of some early railways by the Grand Trunk Railway included the PD & LH. In 1916, a third railway, the Lake Erie & Northern, created an electric interurban system between Galt and Port Dover, using the Grand Trunk tracks to reach the GTR station. In 1923, the GTR became part of the Canadian National Railways. Over the years, Port Dover's many daily trains transported fish, agricultural products and tourists. They also carried coal, which arrived by ship. By the 1960s, local rail use was abandoned. The Lynn Valley Rail Trail between Port Dover and Simcoe is now a recreational path. The GTR station was relocated here, where locomotives were turntabled at the roundhouse nearby.
Looking to be freshly rejuvenated, an S1, possibly of Long Island origins, waits in Conrail’s Allentown Yard for a ride to its new home. The vintage Alco will soon be working for Missouri Farmer’s Association in Mexico, Missouri.
Building the Intercolonial Railway back in the 1860s and 1870s was not for the faint of heart. ICR Chief Engineer Sanford Fleming endured more than a decade of engineering challenges in order to link Halifax with the western markets of Quebec City and Montreal.
A few site were more complicated than others like this one, located a mile and a half west of St.Noël, Fleming, in order to save the cost of building a bridge over Tartigou River, had it's construction crew bore a tunnel thru the rock in order to reroute the river away from the not yet constructed roadbed.
Talk about ingenuity !
The rock debris, issued when ICR crews pierced the roadbed thru the same rock cut, was used to stabilize the embankment along with keeping an acceptable rolling grade.
I made the walk -in heavy rain no less- from St.Noël to the tunnel on a cold autumn day, hoping to catch Campbellton-bound L562 passing the site of one of Fleming's legacy.
CN L56221-21
2294 8845
Milepost 85.6 Mont-Joli subdivision
St.Noël,QC
October 21st 2025
"Electric Sunset at Watson Lake:" I had been shooting at this location for a while just hoping that an outlying cloud in a rather large monsoon storm would shoot off some bolts within the frame of my camera. The main storm and lightning activity were heading in a slightly different direction just out of my view. I began to contemplate if I would have enough time to try to relocate my position to get more of the action, but decided to stand my ground a bit longer. Finally, after sunset, as some color still lingered in some of the clouds, a sudden big bolt of lightning flashed before me. Here is the result of a little persistence, patience, and watchful anticipation.
Relocated from under the Great Octagon crossing and rebuilt c1770
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Olympus 9mm 1:8 140° fisheye zone-focus body-cap lens
P4201424 Anx2 Q90 1400h 1.5k f25
im almost 100 percent sure this was the last time we shot in this field; its since been fenced off. which is so totally unfair.
125/365
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UP GP40-2 1361 leads a local in Superior, WI. Once a regular unit on the Harvard Sub, the elimination of ATS in favor of PTC has caused it to be reassigned up here to the other end of Wisconsin.
Some people come to Cooly Rocks for the cars and chrome, but this bloke was the unexpected standout — a wandering Gandalf who looked like he’d traded Middle‑earth for the Gold Coast sunshine. Monopod like a Staff in hand, beard flowing, he carried that rare mix of whimsy and quiet authority that makes you stop mid‑stride and lift the camera without a second thought.
He wasn’t performing or posing, just existing with a kind of effortless presence that made him a must‑photograph. Among the retro rhythms and polished classics, he became the festival’s most memorable character — proof that sometimes the best stories aren’t in the machines, but in the people who drift through them.