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As it's that time of year, here is a picture of a Robin I took on the Camel Trail yesterday! I lucked out with a dark shadowy background so made it a little darker to make the Robin pop!
That railway photographers dilemma - when something interesting is running and where best to try for the shot, but with the added difficulty - its after dark.
I was in Leeds at dusk last Sunday looking for interesting compositions and failing miserably but that’s another tale. After giving up but before starting for home, a quick check if anything of interest is running when lo and behold an STP freight with Class 60 60046 running 6Z55 Derby Chaddesden Sidings to Carlisle Kingmoor will pass through Leeds and my local station in about 40 minutes. Now here’s the dilemma where to go to stand any chance of a photograph, I tried a couple of spots out of Leeds which were just too dark, even Stourton Freightliner terminal with a bright moon there’s not much lighting, so with 5 minutes to spare I settled on Woodlesford Station, hoping the station lights would provide enough illumination - and here’s the result.
I did take a burst of shots, I have one with the locomotive nose nicely illuminated under the station lamp, which I may share at some point, but for some reason which I can’t put my finger on I preferred this one.
DC Rail 60046 William Wilberforce passing through Woodlesford at speed with 6Z55 14:40 Derby Chaddesden Sidings to Kingmoor Virtual Quarry.
5th January 2020
I was waiting for NEOWISE to show up in that evening. But when I turned around, I saw those wind turbines in the far distance. I quickly turned my camera toward them and took a shot. It was still very dark. Not until I had lifted the shadows, did I saw those three cows grazing on the hill.
Run Day, 02/22/2020, Long Island City, NY
Apple iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 7 Plus back dual camera 3.99mm f/1.8
ƒ/1.8 4.0 mm 1/900 20
I liked how these two figures were standing back in the shadows of a St. George's Chapel entry (part of the Windsor Castle complex), with a relatively bright frame of carved rock around them. I had no luck in finding out their roles, who they are, or what their robes signify. Guess I should have asked, but we were being ushered out of the Windsor Castle complex as our tour had bumped up against closing time.
Construction of St. George's began in 1475 and was completed in 1511. Since then, it is has seen of lot of history. In more recent times it has been the site of many royal events, including weddings and funerals. Also, many kings and queens are interred in the chapel.
From Wikipedia: The Chapel suffered a great deal of destruction during the English Civil War. Parliamentary forces broke into and plundered the chapel and treasury on 23 October 1642. Further pillage occurred in 1643 when the fifteenth-century chapter house was destroyed, lead was stripped off the chapel roofs, and elements of Henry VIII's unfinished funeral monument were stolen.
Prompt:
Sunlit forest ambiance, ethereal East Asian woman, long windswept hair, knitting blue sweater, daydreaming by riverbank, mysterious spring forest, yellow, gold, green hues, dreamy background, shadowy tree silhouettes, purple, green midground, defined blurred plant stalks, subtle purple, blue flowers, magical atmosphere, serene forest, impressionist style, abstract painting, ethereal quality, EmmAI composition.
The buffer stop is still in place where the railroad siding ends at Kellers Feed Mill in Newport, Kentucky. The huge mill with its wood and steel siding is very out of place. A reminder of the era when train tracks wove throughout the business district. This building would qualify as a museum setting.
The last golden light of an autumn day reflected in the lake waters with the white trunks of the dead trees.
Cool name, isn't it! Drasteria abumbrata for you scientific types. I've only seen these once before so was very pleased to find this one working my favorite patch of pennyroyal aka coyote mint on the slopes of Mt. Shasta,
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‘I was non-committal. Nowadays, one never knows who is a secret agent.’
(From: Julian, by Gore Vidal, 1964).
SHE emerges from the secret time portal and like a shadow SHE moves through the megacity’s aqueduct system, silently and deadly. Overhead the muffled sound of the metropolis when, unexpectedly, SHE encounters a fellow agent of the shadowy Mardie Industrial Complex moving in the opposite direction. It is Mission Sunday. Silently they pass each other, like ships in the night, a short nod and a discrete salute, and on they continue on their respective missions, their futuristic night vision goggles signaling goodbye and Godspeed. These are the true professionals, helping us to sleep soundly at night as we browse our Flickr feeds before bedtime. They are Major Tom and ….
Agent: ZodaZoul
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From our developing, highly unstable and explosive series 'Série Noire'. Welcome to Megatropolis - raw, hungry, at dusk, at dawn, always on the edge of darkness - surreal, expressionist, ripe with the smell of danger and the scream of victims. This megacity is always ready to pose for a movie director, a starlet and a loaded gun. Film noir shot in hardboiled color and occasional B&W. You have been warned.
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