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A narrow gap breaks in the cloud at just the right moment for a beautiful sunrise on the Norfolk Coast.
A tiny gap in the overcast allows just one small sliver of light to fall on a cliff face, while rains falls further to the south.
This perching Bald Eagle was barely viewable between the fork of a cottonwood along the Snake River.
she steps out of the dark. just for a second. a sliver of light, sharp as a blade, cuts the black. it finds her face, her leg. she looks at us. a fleeting, accidental encounter. a direct gaze. then she is gone, back into the shadow. the floor holds the light for a moment longer.
With just enough space on the curve at Mons for the cab to be able to block out the yellow and gray, Union Pacific 1989 looks great on point with a wall of mixed international containers behind it. As it takes it's Long Beach bound intermodal train over the east slope of Beaumont Hill in the early afternoon.
Late in the day of February 13, 2024, a fortuitous sliver of sunshine illuminates the new long bridge across Lake Pend Oreille between Sandpoint and Algoma, Idaho. Construction of this second bridge was completed on November 20, 2022. The old long bridge, built by Northern Pacific in 1904, is still being used and is almost completely hidden by the new bridge from this viewpoint. These two side by side bridges provides BNSF a double track railroad from Hauser to Sandpoint Junction, where the BNSF’s MRL Subdivision diverges eastward toward Montana.
IHB train 115 is running on NS trackage rights, passing CP501, on its way home from Burns Harbor. I was going to head home after the sky clouded up when the train was leaving Burns Harbor, but saw a few slits in the clouds. So I decided to play the sucker hole game. This time I won.
The early morning South Dakota sun peeks through slivers of openings in an old farmhouse that keeps a quiet eye on a failing barn. On empty plains devoid of trees and companionship, this plot once served as the training ground for young farm lads and lasses. For many of them, their experiences led them far away to lives only connected to the farm in their memories.
I captured this waxing (growing), crescent moon in October, soon after it rose above the horizon.
Full moons are loved by everyone, but sometimes just a sliver moon is beautiful, too...
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Why always take a Full Moon I keep asking myself...
I saw this from our kitchen window and I had my camera ready to shoot birds(not my settings, just the camera available) so, why not, I thought!
Grabbing the last bits of golden light, a westbound manifest rolls through Bancroft MI on CN's Flint sub.
A year ago yesterday I watched that small sliver opening in the clouds move closer to the sun with a slight glimmer of hope, as I heard Lake Sate train Z127 south approaching with that original Soo Line Nathan horn still in use after all these years. As the train with that pretty lease unit rounded the curve, the shadow line was approaching me and then then the old cantilever signal bridge. I clicked the shutter and the sun was gone a half second later . . . . . success ! ! ! . . North Grand Blanc, Michigan 11-2-19.
Talking of new viewpoints over familiar places, for the first time I was able to get an above-ground view of Dolphin House, one of the more interesting buildings in the town. Unfortunately what looks somewhat grand from below ends up looking dull and uninteresting from above. Still, an interesting backdrop to the concrete box we were in.
As we wandered around from space to space, floor to floor, we were very aware of the occasional person by their window. Would they happen to peer out and catch us skulking about? Would they even notice us?