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After spending the evening photographing the sunset up the trail almost 2 miles away, you have a long cold dark walk back to the trail head.
As you trek over the final hill, you're greeted with this most welcoming sight of the Lodge. Surrounded by ice capped mountains and piles of snow, the warm light pours out into the night making the inside so inviting!
Unfortunately, I didn't get to stay in the lodge but instead drove all the way down the mountain to my campsite.
Mount Rainier National Park, WA
Spend few hours with my son at a car show near us,
This one was just a beauty!
1949 red pickup don't get any better than that!
So after spending a day in the Hofn area it was time to start heading back west to Reykjavik. It was cold and cloudy but we decided to check out the waterfall we could see in the distance and where that road went (see previous post). The cloudy weather was good for shooting waterfalls, and maybe with the cold less people. We bumped along in first gear all the way to a small parking area and started up the narrow trail. There was a lot of lumber all along the trail, so it looks like they're trying to improve the trial and areas were roped off(although some people just ignored the ropes and walked right through the sensitive ground cover) This was our first view of Hangandifoss and I liked how it was framed in the V of the canyon walls.
Spending my last evening of an extended summer break trackside, PEA102 returns to Mykawa Yard through the center of Pearland. The H3 paint on this pair of Geeps looked sharp in the evening light.
Pearland, TX 8/21/2020
I spend countless hours by the pond watching the dragonflies chase each other, most the males for territorial rights,
Males are certainly more than females, my best shots of them are taken in the afternoon,
My Waterlilies are always the same, I change one or two a year,
My favorite and great bloomer is Star of Siam,
From the same year.
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We spend such a nice evening high above this valley.
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WIDE VIEW: After spending about 45 minutes switching at the Orion Engineered Carbons, Belpre Plant, background, Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad (BIP) GP38-3s 478 & 278 are on the move again on this day's Job 1. Here, passing the skyline steel plant just off of the Ohio River Scenic Byway (left). This time, heading to switch at the Eramet Marietta facility.
Spend Saturday on a non-competitive chartiy ride. TSV Kochertürn (www.tsv-kochertuern.de) hosts its annual Kastanienfest (chestnut festival) and organizes a charity bike ride. Starting fees go to DKMS (www.dkms.de) a charity that organizes bone marrow for leukemia patients.
The group ride was super-fun. Saturday is a team event, Sunday a single event. Only thing that didn't go entirely right was I had no competitive riders on my team. And those two guy who in the end proved the best for fast riding were not really interested in being cooperative in sharing the work load. But anyway. Fun plus a good cause make for an excellent day, right? And so it was.
Spending the day at York while the 'Scarborough Spa Express' has a day at the seaside are West Coast Railways owned 37669 & 37668. Having brought the train from Carnforth earlier in the day, the pair will head west again later taking over from the steam loco, 48151, on that day.
Enjoying the Weather POO cat sitting on the deck rail observing his surroundings, he loves outdoors and spends as much time there as he can. It makes him happy, he patrols the grounds of about 4 houses and the woods next to me, he does what he wants and my nearby neighbors treat him like there own, a spoiled rotten wannabe Ferrel cat!
I spend too much time at road level so thought I'd do some climbing for a change. The weather was very changeable this morning but in between the showers there were fleeting periods when the Sun showed its face.
I just wish I'd gone up there better prepared. I was wrapped up well for the cold but not prepared (literallly) for the rain and sleet. It was VERY windy and the sleet doesn't half sting your face hitting you at 100mph (maybe a little exaggeration there).
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In April we spend a few days in Boulder, Colorado. One day I drove into the mountains and followed a dirt road for quite some time, mainly through forest. I stopped at a turn shortly after sunset to take this shot.
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After spending days in San Francisco, David said he had enough of staring at concrete. For a change of scenery I brought him to some of California’s spring bliss: rolling green hills. This winter and spring the hills have become green unlike the parched past 4 years. David chose the perfect time to visit California as the spring greens peaked. I decided to take him to one of my recently scouted spots where the views reminded me of the rolling hills of Italy or the Palouse.
Perched high above the ridge we looked downward upon the hills looking for patterns, light play, and lone trees. Immediately a small but distant grove of fresh oaks caught our eyes. With the ridgeline in sunlight and the background hill in shadow the lighting on this small oak grove was perfect. The afternoon and evening turned out to be one of my best shoots in the hills where the soft filtered light and peak greens provided the ideal spring conditions. Here’s to hoping for another great green year in 2017.
Sony α7r II
Sigma 150-600mm C
After spending the night in Newton, IA, and upon packing up the car to head east, I turned on the scanner and immediately heard the IAIS 510 copying a warrant for the CBBI to head east out of town! Well, what's any good railfan to do in this situation but to give chase when there's good sunlight, and parallel roads?
As such, the second shot of this mini-chase was in the tiny town of Kellogg, Iowa, where the large Heartland Co-Op looms behind it.
After spending the day with hiking we enjoyed the fabulous evening mood in one of the most beautiful places in Tyrol- the end of the Vals valley. At the upper right corner of the picture the Fussstein can be seen (3380m) with some parts of the Olperer glacier. Austria, 2015.
After spending two days in Mt Adams area on the way home I decided to visit ,as I read, the most photographed falls, Spirit Falls. I read that the hike there is short but not so easy. But I even couldn't imagine how hard it would be on me. Bushwhacking and scrambling down a very steep slope was a good morning exercise. Actually there is a visible path to the falls. I didn't find the place, from where photographers usually take pictures. There were two young people there, they started earlier. We met on the spot I took pictures from. I must say the falls is spectacular. I was amazed by the color of the water. I can imagine how beautiful it is in spring and summer time. Anyway, I am happy I made it. I am not sure I will ever go there again. But I can change my mind.
Currently spending a week in the Wolds. Today went for a walk up a dry valley and saw the beginnings of a rainbow. Took a couple of shots but a couple of minutes later the heavens opened and rain bounced down. It did produce one of the most stunning rainbows I've seen this year! I shot this using a PL filter (thankfully I always keep one with me) and a 0.7 ND Grad.
This will be my last upload of the year so I shall wish every one of you a very Happy New Year and all the very best for 2026
In the UK it is against the law to pick, uproot or destroy bluebells....so...
"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time"
texture thanks to PaintedWorks.
Spending a few days in Switzerland in June.
This is a small part of the Castle at Oberhofen, standing at Lake Thun and after sunset it gave me the right setting for a scenery like this.
Enjoy...
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Camera; Canon EOS 1Ds mkIII
Lens; Canon 24-70mm 2.8L USM
Exposure; 60 sec
Aperture; f11
ISO; 200 RAW
Tripod; Gitzo 3541L
Ballhead; RRS BH-55 with B2 AS II clamp
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Before starting my cemetery project in earnest, I was shooting on a lot of Fomapan 100, using the x-ray film for cloudy days and moodiness. Because of this, some cemeteries that I photographed were done only in Fomapan.
I wanted to reshoot this grave, and did so on New Years Day. I took eight photos on x-ray and this is one of them. The results were mixed, to say the least.
I've written about Mary Dodge before:
There are three stones, but four lie under the ground. Mary Dodge was born in 1849 in Oregon Territory. Her parents were homesteaders. In 1864, at the age of 15, she married Robert Bruce Dodge, more than twice her age.
She gave birth to her first a few months later. Her name was Alace and she died before she was ten months old.
A year later came Thaddeus, and he was healthy, living well into old age.
Her third child, another son, now remembered only as "B.R." was burned to death at the age of one.
Her fourth child was a daughter, Margaret Permelia Dodge. She would live even longer than her brother Thaddeus, to the age of 78.
But her fifth was Julius, and he died on the day he was born, December 2, 1876.
This was also the day Mary, the mother of five children, only two of who survived past their first birthdays.
Mary was 26 or 27 when she died. She was buried with Julius, who is denoted on the stone as: "Also our son Julius."
Two years later, her husband married Ada Lilly Marcy and they had ten more children together. Miraculously, all ten survived well into adulthood. Their mother, Ada, lived until the age of 92.
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'Spending'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 8/90mm
Film: Agfa CP-BU M X-Ray Film; 50iso
Exposure: f/8; 1/4sec
Process: HC-110; 1+90; 7min
Washington
January 2025
Spending my time with Carl Zeiss Ultron. Some bokeh exploration, just a two feet from my desk. SOme color toning was done in Darktable. Not because it was needed, but because I was in a bit different mood than Nikon rendering.
If you get to spend a bit of time in the high altitude Himalayas you soon start to appreciate the old Nepalese pilots adage that “we don't fly when there are clouds, because the clouds have rocks in them”. Peaking though the clouds here is the incredible spire of Ama Dablam at 6,812 metres (22,349 ft). Ama Dablam translates to "Mother's necklace" as the long ridges on each side are said to resemble the arms of a mother (ama) protecting her child, and the hanging glacier thought of as the dablam, the traditional double-pendant containing pictures of the gods, worn by Sherpa women. Shot on Fuji Velvia slide film. Nepalese Himalaya, Nepal
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Spending a few days R&R in Kent, we visited Rochester Cathedral. I reflected how different one cathedral is from another, my favourite still being Chichester Cathedral.
Rochester struck me as being both sumptuous and restrained in its décor. My eye was immediately drawn to the warm red of the kneelers/cushions in the choir stall, and the magnificent wooden carved ends of the pews.
They spend most of their time feeding high in the tree canopies when there is blossom. These little birds can easily be overlooked - but their distinctive little tinkling songs carry a surprisingly long distance and always betray their presence. Duller plumaged females are not only less conspicuous they sing very little, if at all.
With its head, breast and upper back all with bright-scarlet plumage, this species of honeyeater is well camouflaged as it flits about among the blossoms of callistemon (or bottlebrush) shrubs, whose flowers are similarly coloured bright red.
I 've made similar shots with the same boat and the same mountains again and again. But this is something I do usually in my everyday life, when I have no time to pick up my camera and spend time searching for new subjects. In my morning walk, I try to find new points of view for things I have shooted in the past. Once more I used my full manual telescope lens to shorten the distance between the background of snowy mountains and the port.
Spending the evening outside The Louvre in Paris, France. I bet most of you will recognize the place!
After spending an hour or so at the local metro park looking for a Pine Siskin (and fighting off the hoards of midges that sprung up overnight) I came home to find 1/2 dozen or so feeding in my own backyard. I should have listened to the advice of a local photographer who told me "it's always easier to let the birds come to you."
Spending some time in Tokyo this week. So much to see and photograph. Tried to pack light, so I'll be limited to two small prime lenses. So far I'm pretty happy with the results. 28mm lens is a workhorse and seems to work great as my everyday lens.
..You can only spend it .. so don't rush through .. take your time and enjoy the moment ..life is not a race (even though Viru Sahasrabuddhe aka Virus (from the movie 3 idiots ) may not agree with this ) ;-)
Slug and another insect on a banana tree trunk ...
Editing : Healing and contrast adjustment in Snapseed and Picasa... I was contemplating cropping but decided against it
#ShotOniPhone, #iPhoneX
After spending a couple of hours switching at the town of its namesake, BNSF's Parachute Local gets underway back to Grand Junction near Una siding, CO. Todays train was a real treat, as leading the return trip was GP50 No. 3132 still carrying its Burlington Northern cascade green livery. Paired with the 'Geep' was B40-8 No. 528, which was seen at Denver earlier in the trip. The train also had a pretty long load which is not always the case.
09 October 2024
More photos from this trip can be found at: cogloadjunctionphotography.weebly.com/colorado--utah-sept...
After spending the night in Beatty, we stopped by Rhyolite ghost town on our way back into Death Valley. I think this was JP and Jenni's first time here.
Rhyolite is a fun stop, but it has become rather well known, and can be a tad crowded. This building is the old railroad depot. It's private property and fenced. I've never beed inside.
In one corner of the property, someone had mutilated the fence enough to just poke your camera through. There were some power lines in the shot, which I removed in Photoshop. Processing was done in Lightroom.
If you are interested in reading about Rhyolite, check out the Wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyolite,_Nevada
After spending the day out, I decided to check Pig's Eye to see what could be in store for the evening CP trains, and saw CP 7018 & 7019 paired by the fuel racks, and heard they were for 243. After waiting for them to build their train, the chase began. Here they are as they pass over the New Brighton diamond with the MNNR, in pure perfect golden hour