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Note: This is a reupload due to some sync errors in Adobe Lightroom Classic which unfortunately caused some photos that were uploaded previously to be deleted as well.
This photo was taken at the Changi Point Coastal Walk during sunset. It is a very beautiful and often overlooked place, not just for photography, but also a place to take a breather from the very fast pace of life in the city.
None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot
Sony A900 + Carl Zeiss16-35mm + ND1000 filter + Lee filter GND8
Bolonia, Tarifa (Cádiz - Andalucía)
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purple haze and thick, honey light. the kind of light that makes your heart beat faster. after several days of clouds and grey, this was a welcome surprise.
QE006 and CF4405 crawl uphill away from Fish River with empty boxed grain 1319 to Junee.
Thursday 21st November 2024
Growing up on the mid-atlantic region of the United States, I had been accustomed to the ever-present trees that surround at every turn. Which is probably why I'm so fascinated by the mid-west's vast, treeless, open views and big skies - a place where you may not see any trees for miles and miles. Traveling through the tallgrass prairie and Flint Hills of Kansas, these lush green rolling hills seem to go on forever. With so few points to focus on, it's almost like you're moving in slow motion or barely going anywhere at all.
The alarm chimes in at 3:00 am at our Dzongri campsite. I slowly slither out of the tight strait jacketed sleeping bag, yes like a snake shedding its skin & wonder who else wakes up at this unearthly hour. My tent-mate Sanjay Hosali is still asleep but his aircraft idling on the runway like snores makes me jump outta the tent in a flash. Complete darkness surrounds me. I realize it is our Hindu New year & I whisper Happy New year to my family a good 1200 kilometers away. The Mercury reads a few notches below freezing and I pull my four layers of clothing closer to the skin. The sky has cleared up all the fog & mist of the earlier evening & the hike to the Dzongri Top to have our first eyeful of the grand Mount Kanchenjunga looks promising.
Our group assembles in half an hour & we start the early morning grind up to the Dzongri Top. The long line of headlight-bearing zombies silently walk in a single file up the mountain. No one is talking or singing like the previous noon hike. It is too freaking cold & spooky. I stop periodically, get my racing pulse rate down, inhale & exhale ten times & continue to climb up the mountain. The younger lot slowly overtakes me one by one. In spite of the Type A Personality that I am otherwise, here on the mountain I do not get annoyed at them outdistancing me. The mountain teaches you to be patient! It does! :D
The double hill climb is a long drawn one & needs some careful steps as there is a deep fall on the left. The dawn slowly glows from the eastern banks of the Himalaya. It is almost an hour & a half or maybe more. I hear the squeals of joy as our group has summited the Dzongri Top. I stop for the last time, look at the light around, wipe the frozen sweat, or maybe the nose dribble off my lips & pump up that last bit of Adrenaline & Testosterone through my engorged veins & speed up.
13,630 feet. Dzongri Top at last. The mighty Kanchenjunga & his family of massifs break into applause. I take a bow in front of these majestic mountains as I quickly set my tripod.
Lots of photographs quickly get registered on the memory card but the one that will stay with me for a long time is this photo of two trekkers returning back from the frosty top, somehow symbolizing the ups & downs of life.
all roads in my region will remain closed until tomorrow, and great gusts of wind continue to hit the house, but the storm appears to be finding its way out of the Westfjords.
some concern for flooding tomorrow, as it’s forecast to warm up a few degrees and a LOT of wet snow has fallen. so thankful for this cozy house and my catboys as companions through what’s been called the worst September storm in 40 years!
I've been watching the barn on the left slowly crumble over the last couple of years....Its front was still standing when I first starting taking pics of it. Here's what it looked like a couple years ago during a winter sunset. bit.ly/29p4WK2
I feel it somewhat appropriate to post this shot as I am going through one of those 'life is moving too fast' periods. My eldest son turns 7 tomorrow and to add to this I am in complete denial about hitting 40 in a couple of months. Seriously, life needs to slow down a bit!
This was taken in one of the foot tunnels near The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (aka SECC) in Glasgow. No fancy processing here, its straight from camera (despite the implied dynamic range). It's not quite perfect compositionally (as would have preferred the white line coming leading from the corner) but the distinct smell of wee and a real jobsworth of a security guy meant I had to cut it short.
Have a great rest of week everyone. :-)
Is this way to slow down or forcing you to change your direction .
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This freight train was moving through the fog at about 5 mph on a frosty morning in the Montpelier, Idaho railyard.
Arizona & California 4001 sits awaiting a call for service... That call never came, and soon 4001 and sister 4002 would be parted over time, and eventually torched in 2024.
It would've been awesome (maybe troublesome) to run these beasts in and out of Huron, but 4001 and 4002 arrived DOA from California. The only working ones we got from the ARZC were ARZC 3997 (ARZC 4004) and ARZC 3999 (Turned back to RCPE, but was RCPE/ICE 6434 before going to ARZC). 3996 also showed up with the other units as well, it never turned a wheel while here, and sat in the Freight House track with a CORP Geep, but it left with the 3997 when it went to the KYLE.
I nearly stepped on this Slow Worm.. Not expecting to see one out in the open on a October morning! Took a few images and as it was starting to rain i decided to place into cover.
Isola di Filicudi - Eolie
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Povera patria! Schiacciata dagli abusi del potere
di gente infame, che non sa cos'è il pudore,
si credono potenti e gli va bene
quello che fanno e tutto gli appartiene.
Tra i governanti, quanti perfetti e inutili buffoni!
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Si può sperare che il mondo torni a quote più normali
che possa contemplare il cielo e i fiori,
che non si parli più di dittature
se avremo ancora un po' da vivere...
...la primavera intanto tarda ad arrivare.
Povera Patria - Franco Battiato
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