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With a long intermodal train in tow, CP 8747 races eastward past the 10,600 ft siding at Gap, Alberta. The train has conquered the climbs of Rogers Pass and Kicking Horse Pass, so from here it's all a gentle downgrade along the Bow River to Calgary.
In the distance are the peaks of Mt Lawrence Grassi and Ha Ling Peak, part of Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park.
CPKC Stack Train
CP ES44AC / DRF-44 #8747
CP AC4400 / DRF-44 #8507
(Mid-Train DPU) CP ES44AC / DRF-44 #8726
Gap, AB
August 26th, 2025
Just playing with some focus-stacked macro shots of plants and flowers here. Incredible amounts of detail in some these - if nothing else, it was fun experimenting bit with these and my home-made backgrounds and window light.
When stacking lighting frames (in this case 18 frames), there is always a tendency to overdue the number of strikes. A balance between too many and too few is challenging. In this image, I could've used more than twice as many frames but the impact due to the loss of detail would have been obvious.
This lightning storm was captured using my Fujifilm X-T3, Fujinon 16-55mm @ 16mm, f/2.8, iso 3200, 0.25s exp per frame (movie mode @ 4K), I cropped the clip and extracted only the best strikes. Most lightning occurred between 15 and 25 miles to my south. This activity was over a 6.5 minute period.
Yes! Quilt top in a day! I am convinced quilting is best as a team sport, after yesterday's session with The Aunts.
Now I have to wait until July to get back together with them to finish it. Meanwhile, I'm dreaming up my next top.
South Stack Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1809, marking a tiny islet off Anglesey at the north west tip of Wales. The lighthouse is built on Ynys Lawd, a small rocky island just off the edge of Holy Island, which itself is an island just barely separate from the main part of Anglesey Island.
The North end of the Salt Lake Valley is pictured with the Great Salt Lake and ever further mountains beyond.
This amazing stack is at Cathedral Cove Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, NZ.
Very many thanks to Nick Twyford www.flickr.com/photos/67654596@N04
I spent a number of memorable days in his company visiting various locations around Coromandel.Peninsula and out to West coast beach's
On this occasion we trekked down to Cathedral Cove from Hahei with our torches at 0430hrs hoping to find an empty beach and catch a sunrise. Unfortunately no clouds.
A magical time..
f11 24mm iso100 79 sec
Filters B&W ND 110 and Lee 0.9s grad
made this one today in an old abbandonned ware house full of white walls ;) .. you will be seeing some more pieces at this spot in the future..
peace!
The South Stack Lighthouse has warned passing ships of the treacherous rocks below since its completion in 1809. The 91-foot (28m)-tall on South Stack was designed by Daniel Alexander and the main light is visible to vessels for 28 miles, and was designed to allow safe passage for ships on the treacherous Dublin-Holyhead-Liverpool sea route. It provided the first beacon along the northern coast of Anglesea for east-bound ships.It is followed by other lighthouses, fog horns and other markers at North Stack, Holyhead Breakwater, The Skerries, The Mice, Point Lynas and at the south-east tip of the island Trwyn Du. The lighthouse is now operated remotely by Trinity House.
Visitors can climb to the top of the lighthouse and tour the engine room and exhibition area.
PLEASE VIEW LARGE! As an added point of interest, there are exactly 400 steps down to reach the island!!
This is a quick and dirty stacking of 21 lightning images. The quick part is to place the images in camera raw, reduce exposure so only lightning is clearly visible, save, then stack into Photoshop, lighten resulting image then lighten exposure as necessary to bring out the foreground.
This method avoids using masks for nearly each image in the stack. The downside is that some movement (leafs, clouds, cars, etc.) will not be fixed and sharp. That's the dirty side of this technique. Sometimes the images can tolerate less post-processing.
iLightningCam2 app was used for this night display.
For a really crazy stacking of lightning, see: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/34303851190/.
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This focus stack turned out better, although the constant wind was giving me a hard time. Still room for improvement, and maybe next time under better environmental conditions.
Ben Stack, Sutherland.
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A double stack train for the Ports of LA and Long Beach is next in a long parade of westbounds at Verdemont. In the background, M-BARSDG rests on the main. Cargill's grain elevator is visible on the left side of the frame.
This 6x77s interval stacked image was lightened in Photoshop. Fire Skies are one of the best uses of this type of post-processing. In this equivalent 7.7 minutes elapsed time, the start and end of the fire sky is depicted.
This was taken from the following time lapse: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/49498158871/in/photost....
Dasypoda sp.
Melittidae
ƒ/5.6, 0.8 s, ISO 200 - stacked from 40 exposures; natural light
OLYMPUS OM-D E-M1 MARK II + Olympus M.Zuiko 60 mm F/2,8 Macro + Hoya Fusion ONE CIR-PL + Berlebach Mini Stativ + Manfrotto 410 Junior + Novoflex Castel XQ II
Rock balancing can be a performance art, a spectacle, or a devotion, depending upon the interpretation by its audience. Essentially, it involves placing some combination of rock or stone in arrangements which require patience and sensitivity to generate, and which appear to be physically impossible while actually being only highly improbable.