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I took a short walk downtown this evening to see if I could find a nice image to capture. This is what I ended up with.
The decorated trees are on the grounds of our Public Library, and the background features the landmark spire of Trinity Lutheran Church reaching into the sky.
Handheld at 1/13th a second and a fully open aperture at f/2.8...
Merry Christmas, everyone!
"Trojan" basks in the August bank holiday sun at Didcot Railway Centre, while "Pendennis Castle" and Prairie Tank 5572 hide away in the shadows.
Locomotive: 1897-built Great Western Railway Avonside Engine Company 0-4-0ST 1340 "Trojan".
Location: The Great Western Society's Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire.
Six days ago I posted an nearly identical scene with the same name except that one was in b&w. Generally I prefer color but in this case I think I like the b&w image more. (DSC_8050.jpg)
Happy Friday guys! With the weather still playing havoc all around us, I'm not sure I'll be venturing too far this weekend!
This afternoon I decided to take a walk up to Hengistbury Head with Buster as I was desperate to capture some pictures of the spit covered in snow. It looked awesome. A scene I never even dreamed of seeing.
This one is of the lone hut at the end of the spit. I'm always drawn to photographing this hut so the added snow was the icing on the cake! Then the birds flew into shot... Perfect!
Have a great weekend guys!
In the previous photo I told you how this factory was originally built for the Rapson Tyre Company in 1926. But no one could have foretold the 1929 flood.. That event is still the greatest disaster ever to strike the city of Launceston. Here is actual silent footage of the floods that killed 22 people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0TTrIhgRNk
All of this area around Invermay was completely inundated. The Rapson Tyre Company persisted after this initial setback, but more disaster was to follow. Here is a newspaper story with the details. www.examiner.com.au/story/6384130/new-tyre-venture-falls-...
Having been in administration since the flood disaster, the company's machinery was finally sold to Dunlop in Sydney in 1932 and the factory closed. Of course the major reason here was not just the fallout from the flood, but the Great Depression. It was the beginning of decades of slow economic decline in Launceston.
In 1938 wool and skin merchant L.W. Smith (whose name still remains on the smoke stack) took over the empty factory. But disaster was to strike this unlucky site again in 1942. In November of that year the biggest fire in Launceston's history reduced this factory/warehouse to a shell. We see some of this in the photograph here The brickwork in the smoke stack is so good, there was never any danger of it collapsing in the fire, and all these years later it stands strong.
As you can see, yesterday we were almost snowed in! This is a view taken during our walk to check up on my Mum's house, through the less glamorous part of the city! Keep your wits about you here!! A postman was walking towards us and had to chase some of his letters, as they blew out of his hands as he walked!!
My winning entry of the competition organized by Ramblingbrick using minifigures of the last series (19). In this case the Fright Knight and the Shower Guy forming a whole scene.
This is a still from the famous scene where Norman sits on top of the Bates Motel doing yoga. There he is visited by a rubber chicken who reminds him of his mother. That’s when he goes all postal. If you don’t remember the scene it’s because it’s often cut out of the TV version. I can see why. There are shreds of rubber everywhere. Hitchcock could be pretty violent.
Loch Callater in the Scottish Highlands, part of the Cairngorms National Park .. think my head was feeling funny after a 7 mile walk into the mountains to get this .. HSS!
For humans living in the Northern Hemisphere, this has been a season of celebration and prayer for millennia.
Soon after we began this venture, the one24thscale team established a few holiday traditions of our own as we started crafting images to reflect a calendar full of holidays.
One of our traditions has become, standing in snowy fields to make Christmas images. A big part of that tradition is the annual, "Dusting the set with baking soda".