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After spending the night of April 26 at Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, Steve and I got an early start that gave us plenty of time to make many stops along the scenic Notom-Bulfrog Road. We took many photos, made a number of short hikes to enjoy the views from higher vantage points, and spent some time looking at the wildflowers. We turned off the Notom-Bullfrog Road and drove the Burr Trail, stopped for lunch after driving up the steep switchbacks, then headed to Muley Twist where we hiked two trails. Photos to follow.
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After spending the morning in Bozeman shooting the local and its round trip to Logan, I elected to head east towards Laurel and see what the Laurel - Bozeman train would have for power. I parked the car up on the bluffs overlooking the town of Columbus and the Yellowstone River and waited. Storms came and went as did the BN trains. After what was and anxious eternity of waiting, the 355 and a healthy train of Bozeman cars appeared in the distance. The chase was on.
a beautiful day with my wife through the countryside, we learned to make wine, horseback riding and ended the day sitting watching the sunset in the top of a hill overlooking the coast of this beautiful place!
The Vineyard at Checkmate :
After spending couple of days at Spangmik, we reached Hanle. It is a small little town and provides ample photography opportunities. Though it was another night where we had to wrap up shooting pretty early because clouds took over skies and because a little incident that we had with wildlife. A little scary at first but it was eventually a funny story. :D
Loved the shape of milky way we were able to capture here. That curve is special for me :)
Spending lots of time with the black woodpeckers in the forest. They're coming home every evening at the same time, a wonderful show.
Decided to spend my day off on "Christmas Eve-Eve" building a scale model of the Wisconsin River Bridge at Merrimac, WI, complete with a little ice on Lake Wisconsin. Even posed a train on it, meant to represent the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad's L467 Madison - Baraboo Turn returning south.
(Or this could be another "tilt-shift" photoshop attempt from the drone... not as good as some of my other attempts, but it's a fun technique to play around with a bit.)
Spending time enjoying evening supper out in the garden with Amber, after our brilliant bike ride. She complained why was she left home alone all afternoon. 🐈
Sophie got a free pair of sunglasses with her magazine. The amount of fun we got out of destroying them made it a fully worthwhile purchase.
Spending a few days in SLC and I like the city, the people, the vibes and last but not least the snow covered mountains…
Spending the morning/early afternoon on the 81s is this panther seen leaving Lockerbie heading back to Dumfries on its second working of the 81
Spending a few days at Disney with my daughter because I needed to see her be happy. It seems to have worked. Didn't take a whole lot of pictures, but there was a beautiful sunset on Saturday night that I couldn't say no to.
Spending the day home with Keezy, recovering from my wisdom teeth coming out. Also testing some light for a project I'm shooting this weekend at our place.
A friend and I ventured into a forgotten “city” for a afternoon photo shoot. Abandoned long ago, Concrete City is full of jagged edges, dangerous footing, caved in floors and ceilings and enough spookiness to scare yourself silly! I’m including some interesting background information.
Concrete City was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Company back in 1911. It was left abandoned by the same company in 1924. There were 22 2-story homes that faced a courtyard with complete with a wading pool, tennis courts, playground, baseball field and a small pavillion. It is believed to be the first example of modern tract housing.
Each home had seven rooms and rent was $8.00/ month with concrete outhouses built behind each house. They were painted white with dark green trim. The main disadvantage of the concrete city was the dampness caused by moisture rising through the pourous concrete. Everything, including the roof is made of concrete. Each tenant was required to have a garden hose to wash the culm from the walls. Every two years, the coal company made all the necessary repairs and painted the entire town, inside and outside, papering any rooms as requested by the tenants. Only working coal miners were allowed to rent. The Glen Alden Company took possession of the property and did not want to spend $ 200,000.00 installing a sewer system required by the township. Demolition began in Dec. 1924. Glen Alden abandoned the complex, in place, because 100 sticks of dynamite had little impact on one of the buildings. Since then, the "city" has been used by the military, police, and fire departments for training. You can see large caliber hits on some of the walls. It was declared a historical site in 1988.
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I spend two hours on the cold ground waiting for this Grebe to come closer. I was testing my new lens a 2nd hand Canon 300mm f/2.8. I shot all day with speeds like 1/2000, what a treat! With my extender x1.4 it gets me out to 420mm and is very quick to focus. My friend Stu helped me with the micro adjustments after this shot so it should be a touch sharper now. So far I am very happy with it.
If you spend any time this summer away from city light pollution look for the Great Rift. It's visible most any clear moonless night from the northern hemisphere and appears as a dark lane between the bright starry band of the Milky Way stretching from Cygnus to Sagittarius. The rift is made up of massive dust clouds obscuring some of the brightest parts our Milky Way Galaxy.
This image captures the Great Rift from the Scutum Star Cloud (upper left) to the Great Sagittarius Star Cloud (bottom center). This area is rich with many star clusters and nebulas.
Nikon D600 | 70-200mm f/2.8 | ƒ/2.8 | 70.0 mm | 8 sec | 6400
Got to spend three days at Magee Marsh in northwest Ohio last week, and what an incredible trip that was! Twenty-four warbler species seen, with the majority of them posing and providing wonderful photographic opportunities, including the Cape May Warbler (Setophaga tigrina) shown here. This gentleman was spotted preening in a sunset light at the end of the first day. The incredible cape may warblers feast on spruce bud worms and spend their winters applying semi-tubular tongues to the sipping of nectar in the West Indies!
Keep an eye out for future shots from Magee Marsh that will be going up for the rest of the year!
Take some time to enjoy the waning days of summer. Did just that while relaxing on the banks of this gorgeous lake at Grand Mesa. As Annie Dillard said, “Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
While Spending A Few Hours Carrying Overhead Line Maintenance In Oxley Yard On A Cold Frosty Morning, It Would Have Been Rude Not To Grab A Shot Of Virgin West Coasts Pendolino Units 390135, 'Business Is Great' Branded 390151, 390010, 390127 & 390011 As They Were Stabled In The Down Sidings While Being Cleaned And Prepped For Service Later In The Day.
Sunday 6th March 2016
We try to spend at least one weekend every year at Mt. Rainier's Paradise Inn. I think we might be too early this year for prime wildflowers, but I'm still greatly looking forward to the experience of being up there.
Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.
After spending the Christmas and New Year period in storage, the pioneer Class 507, 507001 left Merseyside for the last time on January 23 2025, after just over 46 years. Together with classmate 507029 they were the last 507s to leave the network they worked on since new. Both units were hauled to Simms Metals at Newport - whilst 507029 will be scrapped, 001 is more fortunate and will be taken to Derby Litchurch Lane where it is planned to have it on display during the 'Rail 200' celebrations later this year.
Back on June 1 2012, the unit calls at Bank Hall as the rear set of a six-car Southport to Hunts Cross service. This was long before it gained celebrity status and was just another anonymous member of an otherwise mundane, overlooked fleet.
Despite spending Friday afternoon on the Cape I found myself back the very next morning for the last weekend of the CapeFLYER for this season in hopes of some sunlit morning shots of 1129. The small trestle over the Wareham River at MP 49.44 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal Railroad operated Cape Main is perfectly lit of the sun is out so that's where I waited. The Flyer was a bit tardy but while I waited this entirely unexpected surprise showed up. An extra Mass Coastal job cruised past light engine with MC 2008 (GP9RM blt. Apr. 1956 as CN 2020) about 25 min before the Hyannis bound passenger train. It turned out that thess guys were headed to Buttermilk siding to pick up the prior day's energy train which had been left there after the locomotive on it suffered a failure.
A nice little surprise indeed....but alas the sun just didn't cooperate.
Wareham, Massachusetts
Saturday August 31, 2024
After spending the last few nights at a nearby beauty spot and ending up with nothing. I stayed at home and literally took this from the back door. I have only just started to try and take photos like this so a lot to learn.
I have left the building on the bottom of the sot on purpose to give the photo some perspective. This is a single shot, 8 second exposure only.
I may have caught a shooting star at the same time ?
After spending the afternoon cycling short distances and sheltering under trees to cover freight trains, which never ran in the end due to the extreme heat, this working finally came good after a 7hr wait.
Here we see 66119 still in EWS livery working the 17:45 aggregate service (6V71) from Hardendale to Margam TC on the evening of the 18/7/22.
Yay for random titles xDD I took this a few weeks ago (notice the exif data XD) BUT I am cleaning out my files & found it! Not sure how I feel about it, but I like it! It's different. I might delete later...not sure. This was inspired by Lanietriplets. I spend probably an hour and a half just taking long exposure photos ha! Have a wonderful day!
Spending a beautiful day in California where the most beautiful people live.. Living the life .
Hearing some AC DC and sipping on a cold glass of water
AC/DC - Who Made Who
Spending the night before your birthday printing in your darkroom is the best gift you can give to yourself
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I spend hours trying to get a shot of a short eared owl last night! Most of the ones I saw never came very close to me, but this one did land about 15ft in front of the car.
It did have a small mammal by it - I may post that shot later.
Leek moors, Staffordshire
Spending this evening editing some of the 800 or so from my past weekend in France, will hopefully have them all up on www.f3historic.com/ and www.1000ccf3historicracingassociation.org.uk/ soon
Taken at Sunny's Studio
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Pose : Spring Fever
I spend a lot of time walking outdoors in summer and winter, and more and more I end up thinking about the living ecosystems I am a part of. It is very common, for example, to complain about insects when trying to photograph birds in the spring and summer - but without them, there are no birds. Insects breed and thrive in and around still water, and so the big pond/tiny lake that attracts and sustains them turns out to be at certain times of the year a migrant bird sanctuary.
There are other ways in which the creatures we come to photograph are involved in a deeper, less obvious kind of life. It is common for photographers to complain ‘there is nothing around’ during winters in Ottawa, and yet the woods are alive in a bunch of ways. And that life is varied - a tree is not simply alive or dead, but can host various forms of other lives, from birds to insects to fungi.
As Ottawa experiences more and more severe weather, trees are downed, healthy and unhealthy alike. The ecosystems in which those trees live and die are constantly processing those living and dead, and in my searches for Owls and other species, I have come to develop a greater appreciation for the less obvious lives that are often hidden in trees, acting to create new opportunities for nutrition and reproduction.
The Milk-white Toothed Polypore is fairly common around the world in temperate areas. It is resupinate, meaning basically it is upside down: its cap is attached to its substrate like a root would normally be. But it hangs its white (or ochre x they darken over time) teeth down, an amazing adaptation that maximizes spore production, using very little energy on its cap, as other mushrooms do.
It is saprobic, which means it feeds on dead trees. And as you can see from this image, it maximizes its spread on its food. And like most bracket fungi, it shows specific preference for its host: this species is mostly found on dead hardwood, while other bracket or polypore mushrooms prefer conifers.