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Having cleared the temporary speed reduction around the bend, 3642 puts the foot down again, climbing Sheils Hill with 6S63 "Thirlmere Flyer". The train had left the museum in the early hours of the morning fro Sydney having to also twist the whole consist via Chullora before heading into town and then back for the Festival of Steam.
Slightly hairy :)
We went to visit the Scrub Jays while in Florida. We always worry that they won't be there (because their numbers are so
low), or they won't come out because it's illegal feed them, but they always do.
Minutes after we arrived in the open, at least 5 flew out and started landing all over us. One was on my head trying to remove my button by smashing and pulling, and OUCH that hurts. This one was trying to open up Ham's coconut. We both thought we had concussions. No wonder, just look at the size of the beak.
Happy "Funday" Thursday.
#EndangeredSpecies #FloridaScrubJay
Canon 1DXII, F8, 1/1600, ISO 640
Ah! So much personal history...
I will say this one thing...Al Moretti (his name was Elio but, to us teenagers, he was Al) opened the store in 1964 in Thorold, a small industrial (at the time) town in Niagara. It is where I grew up. My first guitar was a Kent (-o-caster, as we liked to think of it as) and through much teenaged angst and abuse, it was in rather delicate shape the day I brought it into the store. Al (who played guitar in the store but, was missing a few fingers, of which hand, I can't quite remember) took the neck of my Kent and snapped it with very little effort. I remenber he laughed and told me to go downstairs (basement) and get another one. In the basement were boxes of guitar parts...bodies, necks, pick boards...I chose a Ferrari red body and matching silver steel pick board. When I came upstairs, Al did not charge me a penny and away I went.
Here is the moral of the story: Maybe a year or so later, our band was playing a local gig and I had the idea to cap the show off with a Pete Townsend-like guitar smashing. I went to Thorold Music and told Al I needed a guitar. In the basement I went and came up with something. In our talk, he asked if I was going to use it for a smash-em-up. When I said yes, he snatched the thing back and soundly redressed me down! "That guitar could be for some other young kid!" Well, something to that effect...a lesson I never, ever forgot!
Oh btw, same store location (former bank), different owner.
Created for the Hypothetical Awards' Come See The Music challenge.
My musical suggestion is: 'For the Love of God' - Steve Vai
...one of my all-time fav guitar pieces! So good!
Special Thanks to Liane from "The Wright Way" for some inspiration and tips on bringing this photo to life.
Processed with Photofiltre and Photoscape
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Quite a while ago I bought a trigger called Nero trigger, mainly because it was able to trigger with lightning, but beside that it can trigger by sound and more. Had to use long exposure and have it trigger a flash instead of having it trigger the camera and the camera triggered the flashes, but in the end I got a decent shot out of it, now I just need to hunt down more lightbulbs, all we have left are those pesky energy savers!
Had a tremendous time on set with Dana Immanuel for our new video clip for "WD40 & Duct Tape." There was a lot of breakable glass involved. Watch this space!
All the ads along this stretch have been smashed & a butterfly placed at the point of impact. A statement about consumerism and the effect it has on our natural world
A typical photo from me on show here a full on front of a bus at a bus stop with the sun doing weird things to my camera. This livery was the one tested out on the 55 plate Gemini's at the start of 2017 personally I really like it. Here we one of my favourite buses in the fleet 709 about to swap with much more modern buses 1002 doing service 29 to Silverknowes duties.
Uncertainty Road Trip 2016 // Architecture department from the University of Strathclyde.
Northern lights on the ferry to Aberdeen from Shetland Islands, Scotland, March 2016.
Italian postcard by Cecami, no. 383.
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I thought It was time to try out my home made sound trigger :).
Lighting
One strobe on camera left with a softbox camera right acting as a reflector (no power).
Pete's Travel Plaxton Pointer R659 GCA comes off in a bad way after an argument with a bus shelter and some metal fencing in Fazeley Street, Birmingham City Centre whilst on service 97 to Chelmsley Wood.
Luckily no-one was seriously injured on the bus or in the bus shelter and the bus was rebuilt and continued in service with Diamond Bus in Tividale.