I don't like to get up early, but one weekend morning I decided to drive to the coastal village of Quriat to photograph at sunrise. I took some shots of the village, and then a fisherman paddled by in a traditional wood fishing boat. I couldn't pass up that shot... Some time later the daughter of one of my friends made a pencil drawing of this and gave it to me. I framed it and still have it hanging in my house.

When I retuned to visit Oman in 2005, an artificial harbor had been constructed at this spot and it was filled with new fiberglass fishing boats. Progress, for sure, but sometimes I like the old way... Scanned Velvia slide from my archives.

At the Lemon Groves ( Limonodassos ) near to Poros, the owners wife prepares lunch.

I asked to take her photo and understood her nod and smile to mean she was happy. When I tried to show her the photo I saw she was unable to see the camera not alone the tiny LCD screen and used her fingers to discover that it was a camera I was holding. She smiled and explained that she was unable to see. She then retuned to her work.

Wearing a Routemaster registration is T17, seen at New Addington laying over before retuning to Thornton Heath via Croydon

Originally registered LJ08CVN

© Omid Mossavat

20189, 20205 & 50049 retuning home to the Severn Valley Railway, passing Whitacre Junction with 0Z20 East Grinstead - Kiddermisnter SVR.

03/04/2017

Thorpness is such a magical place. I never tire of retuning here, even for just a flying visit.

The House in the Clouds was a water tower at Thorpeness, Suffolk, UK. It was built in 1923 to receive water pumped from Thorpeness Windmill and was designed to improve the looks of the water tower, disguising its tank with the appearance of a weather boarded building more in keeping with Thorpeness's mock-Tudor and Jacobean style, except seeming to float above the trees. The original capacity of the water tank was 50,000 imperial gallons (230,000 l) but during the Second World War, the House in the Clouds was hit by gunfire from anti-aircraft guns based at Thorpeness. The water tank was repaired using its own steel, which resulted in a reduced capacity of 30,000 imperial gallons (140,000 l)] In 1977 the water tower was made redundant by a mains water supply to the village, and additional living space was created. In 1979 the main water tank was removed to fully convert the building into a house. The building currently has five bedrooms and three bathrooms; it contains a total of 68 steps from top to bottom and is around 70ft high.

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the building is today a Holiday let.

East Anglia Visit 2012 07 595 Suffolk Thorpeness HDR

Explore 31st August 2012 #221

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Kruise for kids toy run, 2021, Covid -19,

George Preston Recreation Centre,

Brookswood, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada,

Toys donated, cash donations, T shirts, given out, all in the, parking lot,

The new convertible offered both a retractable hardtop and soft tops, with the Sebring's roofs manufactured by Karmann.

The convertible top retracts into the trunk with a power tonneau cover and a luggage protector for the top. The top can also be retracted with the remote keyless entry, meaning the top can be stowed without being inside the car or starting the engine.

The LX model included a new 2.4 L I4 engine, the Touring version came with a retuned version of the 2.7 L V6, while the Limited featured a new 3.5 L V6.

There we all were sitting lakeside of a local beauty spot......Of course I had my guitar laying nearby......But having blamed all my bad playing on the fact the guitar was worn out and out of key no matter how many times I retuned it.....And what was needed now .....Was a brand new one paid for by the treat fund.....This of course went down like a lead balloon.....Which left me not daring to pick the guitar up, never mind play it, with all the bad looks I was getting....So I decided to skip some flat stones across the flat waters of the lake to show off a bit....But as you can see....No one seemed the slightly interested in me.....As their attention had been drawn to a pretty Irish lass who was passing, and had asked Halo if she could pick up the disregarded guitar and play him a Irish lullaby just for him and Midnight....I thought oh yeah.....Well young lady my Shelties do not like the ill tuned sound from that guitar, let alone people singing along to it...To which I can lay testament..... ......And to which you are about to find out soon enough....But to my shook and dismay... (Or was it jealousy).... Halo and Middy were actually loving and enjoying hearing her singing and playing my guitar.....And when the Irish lass wove Halo and Middy names into the lyrics she was singing ......They become spellbound by her....With Halo throwing her a cheeky kiss.......And I will admit to thinking to myself that guitar and her singing was sounding very good......And also thinking what has she done to that guitar, that made it sound so good......And when the Irish lass had bid her farewells to us all, and continued on her walk.... I walked over to pick up that fine sounding guitar to play myself.......But the funny thing was......That the guitar was once again sounding the rubbish guitar it always was......Now I wonder how that could be!!!!.....And no Halo ....I cannot support your theory that it is me that is rubbish and not the guitar....No No No......It must be she put a spell on to the guitar when as she played.....After all, and I am sure you will agree dear reader that it could not possibly reflect on my guitar playing abilities......Can it

Post election graffiti.

The parliamentary seat of Basingstoke was formed in 1885 and has returned a Conservative MP at every election since then, the only exceptions being 1923 when it retuned a Liberal MP, and then this year, 2024, over 100 years later, when it returned a Labour MP.

Ian wanted to get me something special and came across this HMV 1930's Grammar Phone on market place it was located in Goulburn NSW only 144kms from Oberon. Ian had to retune the timing and do a little cleaning he did an amazing job and now it works and sounds beautiful, it also came with some Jazz records. most of them are amazing to hear. Now I have to start collecting the old 78

Ex-BNSF C44-9W being retuned to leaser.

Santa Cruz Lighthouse taken from the Chardonnay II yacht whilst retuning to Santa Cruz harbor.

As well as the Sanders Norfolk County Council/HM Government supported service/timetable enhancements, introduced from week commencing Sunday 2nd April 2023, a retendering exercise has seen changes to most of their Fakenham Academy High School and Wells-next-the-Sea Alderman Peel/Primary School related operations.

As mentioned in a previous upload, from the commencement of the Summer Term, today Tuesday 18th April 2023, Wells Schools service 201 has retuned to Sanders after a brief spell with Konectbus and it is now combined with part of Sanders former service 205 which is withdrawn and as a result the service 201 route is much altered. Services 202 from Cley-next-the-Sea/Warham and 203 from Saxlingham/Hindringham continue much as before whilst the service 204 journeys from Holt/Langham are transferred as schoolday only operations to the service 46 timetable.

In this shot, having just crossed the River Burn at Burnham Thorpe, Sanders former Nottingham City Transport East Lancs bodied Scania N94UD Omnidekka type number 116 - YN53 CFZ is captured in the bright glow of early morning sunshine as it works the above journey on revised schoolday only service 201. Having reached this point from Wicken Green by way of Syderstone, B1454, A148, B1355, South Creake Common, South Creake and North Creake the route to Wells continues via Burnham Market, Burnham Overy Town and Holkham. Note that unlike the previous incarnation of service 201 the route does not run via Burnham Overy Staithe which is now served by Lynx. Originally named “BRUTUS” when acquired in June 2017, vehicle 116 had lost the name by February 2019 and having been rechristened with the new name “PONTOS” in early 2020 it had also lost that name by January 2021.

This may well be a rare shot as I understand that based upon today's loadings, this service doesn't warrant the use of a double decker and in future it will be worked by a 70 seat coach, probably 915.

Returned to sit and wait for the Kingfisher, but retuned with a duck..

Bentley Turbo R (1985-97) Engine 6750cc Rolls Royce V8 Production 5864 (SWB 4653 LWB 1211) Registered G 193 UYP (London C)

BENTLEY SET

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A high performance model, sharing its chassis with the Bentley Mulsanne and inheriting the Mulsanne Turbo engine. However the Turbo R engine was retuned with Bosch MK-Motronic fuel injection for increased torque. It also had retuned suspension, wider tyres and alloy wheels.

Diolch am 77,811,093 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.

Thanks for 77,811,093 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.

Shot 06.10.2019 at Bicester Scramble, Bicester, Oxon. 143-1177

"The Grim Reapers"

Embraer ERJ-145EU

cn: 145404

ff: 2001 PT-STB

22-03-2001 G-EMBT British Regional Ailinres, config Y50, opf BA

31-03-2002 G-EMBT British Airways CitiExpress tfd, config Y49, opf BA

01-02-2006 G-EMBT BA Connect tfd, config Y49, opf BA

25-03-2007 G-EMBT Flybe tfd. config Y49

11-2007 wfu

31-01-2008 UR-DNF Dniproavia, config Y49

10-2015 wfu

03-2017 UR-DNF reurned to serivce

06-06-2017 UR-DNF Windrose Ailines, config Y49

26-10-2019 wfu and stored at Dnepropedrovsk (UKDD/DNK)

10-10-2020 returned to service

22-03-2021 stored again at UKDD/DNK

Seen again at rwy 01R this tuesday 21 years ago, retuning from Newcalste as BA7819

Scanned from original Kodak Gold 200 negative film, shot with Pentax MJ-5N

This may look like a rather poor railway photo but this view tells the tale of a horrendous recent historical period.

Step back in time to 1973 when Augusto Pinochet a Chilean Army general seized power and became the countries dictator and later president for the period right up to 1990.

After his rise to power, Pinochet persecuted leftists, socialists, political critics and in general communists resulting in the executions of thousands of people. the internment of as many as 80,000 people, and the torture of tens of thousands. His country headquarters was in the small town of San Jose de Maipo where this photo was taken. Our guide for the day advised that the ranch he lived on doubled as a torture centre. When those unfortunate to be taken there had been tortured, the survivors were put on this narrow gauge train, taken five miles up the railway line to a tunnel when they had to disembark before being gunned down. This process went on for many years and our guide mentioned that of the likely tens of thousands of dead his cousin was one.

Of course the official government records only detail much smaller number but it remains true that over the period tens of thousands of people with opposing political views disappeared never to be traced agin.

As for Pinochet, his popularity dwindles, he stepped down in 1990 but continued as commander in chief of the Chilean military until 1998. He was arrested in London that year as a result of the mounting humanitarian accusations and retuned to Chile where he was placed under house arrest. Despite being eventually deemed for to stand trial he passed away at home through natural causes in 2006 aged 89. As a result he never received any sentence for these atrocities. Maybe some of the reason for this leniency was due to American involvement when they backed the coup and supported the Pinochet regime.

For the record the locomotives here are designated J-3 and J-5 of the Puente Alto-El Volcan railway and were photographed at the small museum in San Jose de Maipo.

Former Leeside Buses L333, and The Original Tour, London Sightseeing bus Reg J433 BSH has retuned to Mardens to have a little attention.

It is on wedding duty 16 August and has also therefore received a bit of appropriate decoration.

15 August 2014

Mercedes 380SL (1980-85) Engine 3818cc V8 OC Production 300,175 (106,215 V8 SL models)

Registration Number SIL 2512 (Fermanagh, Northern Ireland)

MERCEDES SET

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The R107 Mercedes Roadster and C107 Coupe were introduced in 1971, designed by Joseph Gallitzendörfer and Friedrich Geiger, with the C107 in production until 1981 and the R107 to making it Mercedes second longest model run. The R107 and C107 took the chassis components of the midsize 1968 Mercedes-Benz W114 model and mated them initially to the M116 and M117 V8 engines. The body styles for both R107 and C107 did not change materially from introduction in 1971 to end of production in 1989.

The SL (R107) variant was a 2-seat convertible/roadster with standard soft top and optional hardtop and optional folding seats for the rear bench.

The 380SL being introduced in 1981, on the same chassis as the six cylinder cars, with engines retuned for greater efficiency, losing a few bhp and gaining better fuel consumption

From September 1985 the 380SL was replaced by the 420SL

Diolch am olygfa anhygoel, 62,203,597 oblogaeth y Lloegr honno dros y Mynyddoedd

Thanks for a stonking 62,203,597 views

Shot 30-07-2017 exiting the 2017 Silverstone Classic REF 129-481

Bentley Turbo R (1985-97) Engine 6750cc Rolls Royce V8 Production 5864 (SWB 4653 LWB 1211) Registered Number G 513 TGJ (London SW)

BENTLEY SET

www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157623759855498

A high performance model, sharing its chassis with the Bentley Mulsanne and inheriting the Mulsanne Turbo engine. However the Turbo R engine was retuned with Bosch MK-Motronic fuel injection for increased torque. It also had retuned suspension, wider tyres and alloy wheels.

Diolch am olygfa anhygoel, 65,043,131

oblogaeth y Lloegr honno dros y Mynyddoedd

Thanks for a stonking 65,043,131 views

Shot 06.05.2018 at Catton Hall Car Show, Catton Hall, Walton on Trent, Derbyshire Ref 133-425

All in all I'm a very laid back person. I like to have fun and I hate to fight more than anything the the world. I believe wrong is wrong and right is right. I also believe it's not our place to judge people it never has been. Drama is something that gives me hives and I feel like it's so high school and above anyone who calls themselves grown.

Thanks and sorry to post this but I wanted it to go public that way I'm alot nicer than if I would have replied to the e-mail any other way. And I have enough to pray about without adding more to the list for all the bad thoughts that was flying through my head before I calmed down.

GWR 7029 "Clun Castle" passes Smardale Hall with the retuning Vintage Trains special from Carlisle.

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This wedge of land is nestled between a freight line, and a major freeway. I drive past often and wonder about it. I finally managed to locate the access point to it. It is a stretch of outdoor space that may never be regenerated. Despite have a walking/bike path adjacent to it.

I will be retuning here frequently as this forms part of a corridor that some new airport infrastructure is being built along.

One of several projects, that explore photography as evidence amongst other ideas.

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[ENG] Fortified complex situated in the southwestern corner of the streng rock of the city of Zamora, is then result of different defensive look interventions from medieval to the First Carlist War. Altroungh it has provided pre_Roman archeological and early medieval period vestiges, wocks with military services during the war of Castilian sucession occured with the death of Henry IV (1475-1479). Abused and neglected by their govermors , the Counts of Alba, retuned to have a very important role because of the separation between the crowns of Portugal and Spain at the time of Philip iV (1640). Remodeled during the War of Spanis Succession with Philip V and repaired with French (afrancesada) again in the early 19th century, preserves perimeter moat, external barbican, weapons courtyard, homage tower with rhomboid floor and the door called Saint Colomba. After losing its martial and its Poliorcetes use, worked a jail and correctional prison, as a school of aplied arts and more recently, has been transformed into a museum dedicated to de sculptor Baltasar Lobo.

[ESP] Complejo fortificado situado en el extremo suroccidental de la peña fuerte de la ciudad de Zamora, es el resultado de diferentes intervenciones de cariz defensivi que van desde la época medieval hasta la primera guerra carlista. Aunque se han hallado vestigios arqueológicos de época preromana y altomedieval, desempeñó función militar durante la guerra de sucesión castellana acaecida a la muerte de de Enrique IV (1475-1479). Maltratado y olvidado por sus alcaides, los Condes de Alba, volvió a tener un papel muy destacado a raíz de la separación entre las coronas de Portugal y España en época de Felipe IV (1640). Remodelado durante la guerra de sucesión española con Felipe V y nuevamente adobado con la francesa a inicios del siglo XIX, conserva foso perimetral, barbacana externa, patio de armas, torre del homenaje de planta romboidal y la llamada puerta de Santa Colomba. Tras perder su marcialidad y su utilidad poliorcética, funcionó aquí una cárcel de audiencia y prisión correccional, una escuela de artes aplicadas, y más recientemente, ha sido acondicionado como anexo del museo dedicado a la obra del escultor zamorano Baltasar Lobo.

Más información: CastillosNet, Muralla urbana de Zamora

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Here as it's now Arriva Buses Wales is Optare Solo CX58 FYY 679 is seen as its about to leave the Palladium in Llandudno as this was on the route 25 from Eglwysbach. This is now retuning back to Bangor. 21/09/17

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After lunch on the Saturday we took advantage of the good weather and went for a sail on Windermere. We sailed from Newby Bridge to Bowness on Windermere. Had tea and a scone there and then retuned by boat to Newby Bridge.

This was taken on the return journey

Great to see the whitethroats have retuned perching and making plenty of noise

50 008 Thunderer top and tailing with 66126 Driver Jack Mills and the London Underground liveried 4-TC set.

The working was 1Z68, the 13:57 Northampton - Princes Risborough ACE (destination Chinnor) retuning Thundering Shed railtour and is passing the Network Rail access point at Steeple Claydon on the newly rebuilt East West Rail link between Bicester and Bletchley

Typically, 2 minutes later it was full sun here

Bentley Turbo R (1985-97) Engine 6750cc V8 Turbo Production 7230 (+ 252 Turbo RT's 1997-99)

Registration Number G 609 BRT (Ipswich)

BENTLEY SET

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The Bentley Turbo R was a high-performance model it initially inherited the turbocharged engine from the Mulsanne Turbo and also sported a retuned suspension and wider tires on alloy wheels, a first for a Bentley. From the 1987 model year (20,000 series chassis numbers), however, the Turbo R's V8 engine was retuned with fuel injection for added torque.

A "New" Turbo R model was introduced in 1995. Changes included Zytek fuel injection and appearance modifications. There was also a special version for the German market, the "Turbo R Sport", which featured the Continental T's sporty alloys and carbon-fibre rather than walnut panels inside

Thankyou for a massive 58,257,649 views

Shot 30.04.2017 at Catton Hall Car Show REF 125-384

Colas Rail class 67.027 'charlotte' and 023 'stella' decend Hencote Bank with Tyseley LMD to Derby RTC (network rail) test train. The train ran as far as Wrexham before retuning back via Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Walsall before finally arriving back at it's destination

73 107 heads north through Cuxton on the Medway Valley line working 7T66 the 09.45 SX East Peckham Tip Siding to Hoo Junction Up Yard. The train is made up of ZBV 'Grampus' wagons that would have been unloaded at the tip. The wagons would then go back into circulation for weekend ballast work from Hoo or be retuned on 7T33 to Tonbridge West Yard.

Retuning from a week relaxing in Kauai. Time to start planning the next adventure!

Cheers,

Wade

Upon arrival at Fareham I was greeted by the surreal sight of a totally deserted station - not one person in sight, I had cycled to 2 other locations prior to retuning to this location, hoping the shot at Funtley may have been on, but was heavily penned in by tree growth. 66187, 2 Bass and a number of loaded Salmons loaded with concrete sleepers trundle through the station working the 6N02 Eastleigh East yard to Preston Park on Saturday 9 May 2020. The rail served Kendall aggregates stone terminal can be seen in the background

There is a pond near Manhattan, Montana

, about twenty acres in size, that attracts the migratory wildfowl from the far Northern climes. Why I have no idea, but I was fortunate in finding this pond and had the pleasure of photographing their mass'.

At the time I had just purchased my first digital camera, Canon 60D along with a 75-300mm macro lens and was about to explore the world of digital photography. So venturing forth armed with my new equipment I began photographing everything in sight. I experimented in taking ducks and geese in flight and rising wildfowl off of the pond, needless to say the delete button on my camera was nearly wore out from over use. I really yearned for a larger tele, but funds were not available so I settled for a used 400mm tele I was able to locate at a nearby camera shop.

The reason I'm rambling on so, is because those were the years I began to become a serious photographer and have often retuned to those early images, in my digital archives, to view and learn from them. I'm betting each one of you can return to your earlier days of photography and remember your hundreds of deleted images compared to your keepers.

The four wild fowl images I'm posting were taken at the fore mentioned pond in the year 2003.

Arriva Kent & Sussex no 6212 (R212 CKO)

DAF DB250 / Northern Counties, new to London & Country DFD12, one of the batch for LT route 85. With the closure of Leatherhead garage in 1999 the batch passed on loan with the route to London United. They were retuned to Arriva in 2002, and DFD12 as Arriva Kent & Sussex 6212 is seen in Lewes bus station on service 29 on 4th July 2005.

Pascal, facteur de pianos ... one hand playing, one hand tuning... and meanwhile we were discussing ! I suppose then one ear for the piano, one ear for me ! impressive :)

his real work is not only to retune the pianos, but especiallier to manufacture them ...

an artist in my eyes :)

and it's fascinating to listen to him talking about his job, his passion, explaining all the unsuspected details that give its uniqueness to each instrument.

he was also questioning me on photo, painting etc.

& at the end, the piano was perfectly in tune ... artist & magician... really impressive ! :)

best viewed large etc. :)

South Gloucestershire Bus & Coach Volvo B10M-50 Citybus / East Lancs retuning to the garage after a morning school run.

This is a remarkable survivor, having been delivered to Tayside 30 years ago in 1984.

The County Sessions House was built between 1882 and 1884 to house the Quarter Sessions for the West Derby Hundred of the county of Lancaster. The county's coat of arms appears in the pediment over the main entrance. Quarter Sessions were courts in which cases involving non-capital offences were tried by magistrates. Until 1877, they were held in Liverpool at the court in Basnett Street and at the Kirkdale Sessions House attached to Kirkdale gaol. When the Prison Act of 1877 transferred prisons like Kirkdale from local authority control to the state, a new home had to be found for the Sessions. They were housed temporarily in St George's hall until the new Sessions House opened in Islington. The magistrates held their first meeting here on Monday 4th August 1884.

The architects of the new building were Messrs. Francis and George Holme, members of an important Liverpool family of builders and railway contractors. Francis Usher Holme (1843/4-1913) trained as an architect in Edinburgh and London, and worked in the office of Sir Charles Barry, designer of the Houses of Parliament, before retuning to Liverpool. He was Surveyor to the County of Lancaster, and in this role he did much work in connection with the design of roads and bridges. In partnership with his uncle George Holme (1822/3-1915) he designed the Conservative Club in Dale Street (built 1882-3, now the Municipal Annexe) and the Homeopathic Hospital in Hope Street (1887, now the Hahnemann Building of John Moores University). In the 1880s and 90s F. & G.Holme regularly exhibited designs for buildings in the annual Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions held at the Walker Art Gallery. These included houses in the Sefton Park area and in West Derby, churches in Crosby and Oxton, the Town Hall in Widnes, and various buildings associated with the Snowdon Railway

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/about/countysessions.aspx

Didcot Heritage Diesel Day 4 May 2019. Gas turbine loco 18000 was an experimental machine, although it achieveed a working life of around 10 years on the GW main line out of Paddington. It was built in Switzerland by Brown, Boverie and entered service in 1949. Eventually it retuned to Switzerland but was secured for preservation and came back to the UK in 1990. In 2024, the loco has suffered the ravages of weather and does not look as good as it did in 2019.

Once again this is off Herrick Lane and Wyoming I-80, west nearby the earlier ranch house but with buildings from some generations and decades earlier. Even the barn in the background may be from another era, This is simply more prairie ranching culture housing guaranteed Trumpvid-19 free and fully UV bombarded inside and out. Ahh, this is another load of lumber from the Snowy Range in the background and is a monument to early ranching settlers. Sadly, this place is no longer even window and door ready! Even new ranching left a round hay bale in the background.

It almost seems these old buildings are getting in the way of growing hay and it's harvesting, be it illegal round bales. There is no way for a cow to get a square meal. The worst part is that your teens don't even get a "romp while hiding in the hay."

At the time, I was accompanying eDDie on a trek into the great north on an agricultural and scenic camera series. Early on, I grabbed my gear and immediately bailed to Loveland to pack in with the chief and scout explorer. We turned north onto Highway #287 through northern Colorado and southern Wyoming to scout for all things of interest even the odd antelope or two working to keep the grasses cropped. That is always a great scenic drive.

I found captures that interested me like this derelict log ranch house near the Little Laramie river-watered bottom land as long as we had plenty of time to poke. Clearly, ranmching was THE historical industry on these lands. Now I feel that I should have been even pokier while snagging possible snaps and snapped even more. I suppose that you could get cheap boarding in this rural shack but it is reserved for now. It may no longer have any utilities connected - or heating. That is not the problem this summer as is sleeping at all in the heat. This boarding-wise, you could get a bit nippy in the winter.

We were blasted by a hazy sky due to some degree of moisture and a load of "fake global warming" smoke from California and Colorado wildfires. I heard that is no smoke from wildfires in California because der Leader has decried "global warming" as fake news. It must be something else entirely but boy was it thick in Colorado. Damn, it's really hot even this early in the morning. It was early in the day but it was starting to slug me down. It was smart to bring a load of my Propel hydration.

Although a plain shot, this old derelict house was better built than others nearby and has yet to tumble and I love this old exterior wood grain and its patina on the humble house that held against the Wyoming prairie winds in its past. The shack has accumulated old farming sheds in the back; were they old pens or veal feeding sheds? It looks like the California smog is moving on east from here for the edification of Kansan global warming hoaxers. The eastern area folks await the Sturgis flu... another week certainly!

After retuning with a card full of shots, I am now on my way back to highway #66 and Logmont in the drain of evening while I empty the rest of my hydration. Yesterday was another hoax warming bummer and we pray for September relief until the fake global warming ramps up worse next summer. This August was record setting. Real global warming reared its head this August with 3 days below normal, one normal and the rest above 90. That means we can spend next year under AC fueled by fossils while waiting for the END and the end of the first Trumpandemic surge in the US. Wait, wait, theres supposed to be a second wave? We need another Sturgis to educate the right.

BNSF 4029 gets the call to lead the 2003 BNSF Southern California Christmas Train which ran from Los Angeles to Barstow and back.

The scene here was as the train was passing the rather large intermodal facility at San Bernardino, CA. Sharp eye will pick up the warbonnet led intermodal in the distance with the Redlands Loop job retuning from the loop beyond that.

LR-0803-3-4 - Had a bit of time to work on a couple of shots taken at the end of June. Back to the Isle of Wight steam railway, but out in the country this time. There is a previous posting of the return journey to Havenstreet (see Night train. The above posting concept was from two shots as I missed the train and the sunset as dinner was slightly more important.

Version 4; camera mounted on tripod over the other side of the railway fence

Shot 1. Sunset shot taken without the train about 30 minutes before train was due.

Shot 2. The train (the best of 7 shots), then converted using ‘creamtone’ and loaded into PS, extracted with the magic pen on a 50% grey background and overlaid on shot 1. (Disappointed the camera had moved a millimetre or two so realigned to match the background. Retuned to Lightroom and colour and light tweaks, dampen down the joins. Returned to PS along with a slightly re-tweaked train magic brush extract, train overlaid on to the image from the merge in shot 2. Back into Lightroom 4 for a final tweak to the light on the carriages and engine.

Perhaps dinner could have waited !

HaPpY SliDeR Sunday

London Bus Company AEC Regent III RT1530 a former Chiswick works skid bus retuned to the site of Chiswick Works today for the 70th anniversary Routemaster event.

Boeing 737-81Q

cn: 30785 / ln: 1007

ff: 05-11-2001 N1786B

19-11-2001 N308TA Tombo Aviation, WingLets installed

04-01-2002 EC-ICD Air Europa, config CY186, (leased from BBAM)

please note: on May 4th 2002, EC-ICD became the first 737 with WingLets to arrive Oslo airport as AEA741 from Malaga

01-02-2008 LN-NOC Norwegian Air Shuttle, "Real Norwegian Ole Bull", config Y189, (leased from BBAM)

LN-NOC was the 2nd 738 into teh fleet, and became the only Norwegian airplane to have Ole Bull on the tail, a very famous Norwegian musician who lived from 1810 to 1880

24-11-2014 wfu after flying 7 and a half years for DY, and stored at Budapest (LHBP/BUD)

13-02-2015 OM-HEX AirExplore, config Y189 (lsf BBAM)

31-03-2015 OM-HEX opf Ryanair

20-09-2015 OM-HEX Iraqi Airways (lsf AirExplore)

01-10-2016 OM-HEX AirExplore (returned)

03-12-2016 OM-HEX Palau Pacific Airways, config Y189 (lsf AirExplore)

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Photo is shot at 06:15 a.m local time, standig at gate 17 preparing the first flight this day as DY642 to Bergen (ENBR/BGO)

This was my first sight and shot of LN-NOC, thirteen years ago

Bentley Turbo R (1985-97) Engine 6750cc Rolls Royce V8 Production 5864 (SWB 4653 LWB 1211) Registered BRS 3 T (Cherished number, allocated from Aberdeen)

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The "New" Turbo R model was introduced in 1995 for the 1996 model year. Changes included Zytek fuel injection and appearance modifications

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Shot 30-07-2017 exiting the 2017 Silverstone Classic REF 129-119

Fokker F70

cn: 11532

ff: 08-02-1995 PH-EZR

17-03-1995 PK-JGJ Sempati Air

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16-09-2003 OE-LFJ Austrian Arrows tfd, named "Graz"

01-07-2012 OE-LFJ Austrian Airlines ffd

14-05-2017 wfu after 22 years in service

My only meeting with a VO F70 at FBU, and this was only three weeks after delivered to the airline..

Sorry a litttle blurry, seen on a far distance, photogrpaphed using a 2x teleconverter in addition to max zoom 210mm with manual focus... It has left gate to taxi out for a rwy 06 departure after a night stop.

(SAS DC-9-41 LN-RLT seen behind)

Summary Data

State or Country of birth: Illinois

Home prior to enlistment: Winnebago, Illinois

Occupation prior to enlistment: farmer

Service:

Co M 8th Illinois Cavalry - 1864 - 1865

Rank at enlistment: private

Highest rank attained: private

Principal combat experience:

Monocacy, Maryland

numerous scouts and skirmishes with rebel guerrillas

Casualties: none

Photograph by: Gideon Smith, Geisboro, D.C.

Inscription in period ink on back: "Charles Prescott"

There were several men named Charles Prescott who served in the Union cavalry during the Civil War. However, based on my research the man who best fits this photo according to his matching signature, physical description (blue eyes, brown hair, light complexion, and standing 5'8" in height), and who had an opportunity to be at the Geisboro Cavalry Depot in Washington, DC, was Charles Prescott of Winnebago, Illinois.

The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment had originally been recruited in the late summer of 1861. Since that time it had served entirely in the east, fighting with the Army of the Potomac. It's most notable battles and campaigns from 1861 through 1863 included Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Stoneman's Raid, Brandy Station and Gettysburg, as well as many more numerous minor skirmishes and scouts. It had acquired a well-deserved reputation as one of the most reliable hard-fighting regiments of cavalry in the Union Army. In January 1864 a majority of the men of the 8th Illinois Cavalry agreed to reenlist as veterans, and while the men went home on veteran's furlough the regiment took the opportunity to recruit new members to help fill up its ranks.

One of those responding to the call was Charles Prescott, a farm boy from Winnebago County, who was born in October 1848. Prescott lied about his age, claiming to be 18, the minimum age for enlistment, when he signed up on January 29 at Marengo, Illinois. In actuality he had just turned 15 the previous October. He was big for his age, standing 5 feet 8 inches tall, and was described as having blue eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion. His father was dead and his widowed mother still had several other children at home. Prescott was offered an enlistment bounty of $300 ($140 to be paid up front and $160 at discharge). The money must have been a significant windfall for the young lad. Charles Prescott was mustered into the service at Marengo, Illinois on February 2, 1864, with the notation that his time in service was to date from his enlistment on January 29.

On February 18th the regiment's commanding officer issued an order recalling all veterans stating, "All leaves and furloughs to officers and men are herby revoked, and all will join the regiment at St. Charles, Illinois, without delay. The regiment is ordered to active service in the field at once, where it has been continuously in the front during the last two and a half years. It is a high compliment to the regiment to be ordered back again inside of thirty days, while other cavalry regiments have been permitted to remain over two and a half months at home, evidently showing that the Eighth Illinois Cavalry is two and a half times more efficient than some other regiments. I will therefore expect that the regiment will assemble promptly and be ready to fight its way through as heretofore, without expecting or receiving any favor from any source. The fighting reputation of the old Eighth must be retained without any fictitious puffs so much depended on by others. - William Gamble, Colonel Commanding Eighth Illinois Cavalry."

No matter what the veterans might have thought of the compliment paid to their abilities, the premature recall from their veteran furloughs must have disappointing. For the new recruits, such as Charles Prescott, it meant the beginning of their grand adventure in the army. On February 25, 1864 they took the train headed for Washington, DC, and arrived on March 1st with the snow "several inches deep and thawing." On March 3rd the regiment was sent to camp at Geisboro Point "by the side of the government corral, where were kept from ten to fifteen thousand horses for mounting cavalry and for artillery purposes." While at Geisboro, Prescott took the opportunity to have his photo taken with his saber and holstered pistol. In it he is wearing spurs and has a piece of small brass on his cap that may be the number 8. The men of the 8th Illinois Cavalry remained in this camp about two months then moved to other quarters in the city. During the day the men were assigned guard duty at various places throughout the city. And at night they patrolled the city, entered suspicious places and arrested any hapless soldier who should be found without a pass. "But this work, although it amused the men for a time, and was arduous to perform, did not satisfy those who longed for more active service."

In the spring, rather than join General Grant for the opening of his campaign at the battle of the Wilderness, the regiment found itself in the role of onlookers. The regiment was divided by detachments and sent to various posts in Washington, Maryland and Virginia. On July 4, much of the regiment was dispatched to Point of Rocks on the Potomac River to intercept Mosby and his band of partisan rangers. After a brief skirmish there, they moved up beyond Frederick where they confronted the advance force of General Jubal Early's army on its way to attack Washington. The 8th Illinois took part in the battle of Monocacy on July 8 and 9 and the subsequent retreat to Baltimore. From there they were sent to Cockeysville to guard the railroad from rebel depredations.

August found the men scouting along the Potomac near Muddy Branch and guarding the fords on the river. The regiment also conduced raids into Virginia against Mosby and his guerillas, after which, "The regiment then returned to Muddy Branch with their prisoners, horses and plunder. This expedition, like many others that preceded it, was one requiring great courage and endurance. Marching from thirty to forty miles and skirmishing most of each day, lying down on the ground at night and rising in the morning to repeat the labor of previous day, was a work to be endured only by veterans like those of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry." Presumably the new recruits managed to keep up with their veteran comrades.

For some time the regiment had been divided by separate detachments, but it was now about to be scattered to an even greater distance - stretching from Muddy Branch on the Potomac north of Washington to Port Tobacco far south of the city, and embracing an expanse of some sixty to seventy miles. "September 8th, part of the regiment was sent down the Potomac, on the Maryland side, to the vicinity of Port Tobacco to look after and arrest blockade runners, which duty though arduous and sometimes perilous served to amuse the men, and was very different work from that of facing and fighting the rebels, which they were always prepared to do." Charles Prescott was included in the detachment sent to Port Tobacco.

By October the scattered detachments of the 8th Illinois Cavalry were consolidated somewhat in Loudon County, Virginia, and engaged in scouting against Mosby and his guerillas. On November 24, 1864 the regiment was sent to Fairfax Court House as part of a new brigade whose "duty was to guard the line extending from Prospect Hill on the Potomac River to Burkes' Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, a distance of twenty miles, and to scout and forage the country in our front to the Rappahannock River."

The coming of snow and cold weather sent the men into winter quarters. "The winter was spent in a very agreeable manner for soldiers. The finest houses in Fairfax were used as headquarters; the men built excellent huts for their protection and barracks were erected for the horses. When building their huts some of the soldiers asked for permission of General Gamble to take bricks from an elegant mansion, the 'Love House,' to construct their chimneys. The General gave permission to take none but loose bricks. In forty-eight hours that fine building was a heap of ruins. When questioned as to exceeding their permit the soldiers replied that they brought away 'none but loose bricks.' A fine church building was in like manner made to contribute to the comfort of the men."

"January, 1865, found the regiment performing the ordinary duties of winter life in the field and at the headquarters both of the brigade and the regiment. Frequent parties and social gatherings enlivened and relieved the monotony of camp life. A grand New Year's ball was given at the brigade headquarters, where a number of guests from Washington and no small number of Virginia ladies were present." Otherwise, for the enlisted men anyway, the new year of 1865 opened much like the latter part of 1864, with frequent scouts and skirmishes with confederate guerillas.

News of the fall of Petersburg and Richmond created great excitement and wild enthusiasm within the camp of the 8th Illinois Cavalry. The surrender of Robert E. Lee a week later was even more happily received. The mood changed drastically upon receipt of the tragic news of the President's assassination at Ford's Theater by the actor John Wilkes Booth on the evening of April 14.

"The Eighth were at once sent down the Maryland side of the Potomac, in the vicinity of Port Tobacco, which country they thoroughly searched, leaving no nook or corner in which the assassin could be secreted. The well known rebel sentiment of this part of Maryland made the duty extremely arduous, for no information would the citizens give which they could possibly withhold. Booth, however, had succeeded in crossing the river into Virginia, and was finally captured by other cavalry."

Following their unsuccessful search for Booth, the regiment returned to their camp at Fairfax. News of the surrender of the rebel army under Joseph Johnston in North Carolina arrived in camp on April 29. This virtually put an end to the rebellion. "Following this event, rebel soldiers came by scores to our headquarters to be paroled, as the same terms were granted them as were given the soldiers of Lee and Johnston."

When, on June 16, 1865, the regiment was ordered to proceed to St. Louis, Missouri, "arrangements were rapidly made, and on the 19th the Eighth Illinois bid farewell to Fairfax and Virginia. We marched to Washington and took the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Parkersburg, West Virginia. At that place we were taken on board of steamboats. On arriving at Cincinnati, Ohio, Companies I and M were transferred to the railroad and went to St. Louis by cars...Companies I and M reached East St. Louis June 25th, and Companies B and E June 27 and that afternoon crossed the river and went in Benton Barracks...The majority of the regiment came in by boats by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers."

"July 1st orders were received to proceed to fort Riley, Kansas, which gave great dissatisfaction. The men claimed they re-enlisted for three years or during the war; that now the war was over and having fulfilled their part of the contract they should be mustered out. A petition embodying these views was signed by all the officers present belonging to the regiment, and sent to General Pleasanton, chief of cavalry in Missouri. The General telegraphed the substance of the petition to Washington with a hearty indorsement; and on the 4th of July an order was received to turn over all government property and be mustered out. When the order was read to the men such a shout as went up from them had not been heard since their victories over the rebel cavalry in Virginia."

The next two weeks were spent in turning over government property and in preparing the muster rolls. Muster out was completed on July 17 at Benton Barracks in St. Louis and on the 18th the regiment started for Chicago. Those that did not live in Chicago went out to Camp Douglas where final payment and discharge was completed by July 21.

Charles Prescott, only 16 years old at the time he mustered out, was now a veteran with a year and a half of service in the army. At discharge, he chose to retain his government issued arms and accordingly had $21 of his pay withheld in order to pay for his carbine, revolver and saber. He retuned home to his mother for a while and took work as a laborer. By 1880 he had moved out on his own, boarding with a family in Fairmont, Nebraska, and working as a carpenter. In 1881 he married a woman named Anna, who also hailed from Illinois. The two of them would eventually have four children; three sons and a daughter: Wade in 1883, Bertie in 1885, Charles C. in 1889, and Ethel in 1894.

Charles continued working as a house carpenter and eventually bought his own home in Fairmont. By 1920 he had retired and his grown sons had moved out, although Ethel, his 25-year-old unmarried daughter, was still living at home and working as a telephone operator. Charles Prescott, the one-time boy veteran, died sometime around October 1927.

[All quotes taken from "History of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment Illinois Volunteers" by Abner Hard, M.D., surgeon of the regiment, published 1868.]

Bentley Turbo R (1985-97) Engine 6750cc V8 Turbo Production 7230 (+ 252 Turbo RT's 1997-99)

Registration Number 5 JLE (London NW)

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A "New" Turbo R model was introduced in 1995. Changes included Zytek fuel injection and appearance modifications. There was also a special version for the German market, the "Turbo R Sport", which featured the Continental T's sporty alloys and carbon-fibre rather than walnut panels inside

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Shot 30.04.2017 at Catton Hall Car Show REF 125-385

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A F-22 fron the 1st Fighter Wing retuning to Nellis AFB during Red Flag 14-1.

After a long day out visiting the sights of Bali ,we retuned to the port terminal building . Sitting in this building was this lovely young lady , tired though I was ,I just had to get a picture of her . A little shy at first ,she was soon happy to pose ..........probably to get rid of me !!!