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(The Chinese fishing nets at sundown story starts here.)
The last day of my trip though India was spent seeing the one thing I came on the trip to see, the Chinese fishing nets at sun down. To do so, my tour company out of the UK, scheduled a cruise through the harbour and bay of Kochi.
I waited on the dock and saw a large boat pull up and board many tourists. I was prepared to get on that boat, but my guide shook his head no. Then a smaller boat docked and he motioned that this was my boat. Let's say that the boat resembled the walls of this old house along the harbour.
It was a wooden boat with cracks like this and I could see light through many of the boards. I gingerly stepped on board and began a joyful "cruise." I loved having my own boat and the wonderfully polite and kind men who proudly showed me the area were an added bonus. I could focus on taking pictures and have the silence to do so. Moments like this are the times I cherish in remembering my travels.
I can be skeptical when I travel so I kept asking for reassurance that we would be close by the fishing nets at sundown. At times, the suspense over came me, but at the end of this series I will show you the finale of the cruise and my trip through Southern India.
After another full day on the river we made it to our campsite at Pogamasing, nestled along a bend in the river near the east end of the siding. Not satisfied with the amount of photography done over the first two days, I poked around for opportunities to do something at night. I stumbled upon this angle, set up the tripod and focus, and headed back to camp collecting firewood for dinner. Fast-forward to 05:00 hrs and CPKC's dependable hot-shot 101 is westbound on the approach to Pog. With only the sound of gently flowing water to be heard, the eerie quiet turns to faint rumblings echoing in and out of rock cuts in the damp fall air, at times disappearing for so long you wonder if its your imagination. Growing louder and louder again, the suspense finally crescendos, the train thundering around the corner amidst a blaze of fall colour, the sound now so deafening with the squealing flanges on the curve and the GEs howling that the "clear signal Pog East" is barely audible on the radio - MP 19.4 CPKC Nemegos Subdivision.
At first I thougth it was an illussion..but after some seconds I realized that something was holding me so strong ...I couldn´t move my feet...I made a load scream..but no sound came out fr my throat......
View of Langkawi Sky Bridge and its surrounding greenery seen from the Top Station, Gunung Machinchang, Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia.
Located at the top of Gunung Machinchang, the Top Station is 708 metres above sea-level while the Sky Bridge, a 125-metre curved pedestrian cable-stayed bridge, is located 660 metres above sea-level.
The Sky Bridge is truly a great architectural feat! It's a must visit if you're in Langkawi. To reach it, you'll first have to take the Langkawi Sky Ride, a 15 to 20 minutes Cable Car ride up the mountains. We went there in the morning around 10am and there isn't much crowd so that's probably the best time to go there.
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It was only a matter of time before I got too intimate with the sea. This was a fun, if dangerous shoot...by the end of the week, I was lucky to be alive. Such is the passion for getting close to nature in all her moods, for capturing her extremes.
For many landscape photographers that has increasingly translated as shooting the arctic extremes of the planet. However, the arctic ecosystem is disintegrating as the earth warms and the ice melts. This warming, brought about by the lifestyles we pursue.
It's time the incredible images of landscape photographers are used to help save it.
As well as combat the threat governments pose when they try to open up National Parks to mining and drilling, to sell off public lands to private enterprise.
Sunrise @ Sleepy Bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia.
Nikon D810, Nikkor 14-24mm @ 14 mm
Four exposures hand blended for water motion, dynamic range and depth of field.
1/5s, 1/6s, 1/8s, f/11, ISO 31, ISO 40, ISO 64
When it was constructed, it was the longest chain link suspension bridge in the world. Built over the River Tweed to cross the border between Scotland and England and it still carries vehicles to this day.
Can't listen... can't look... can't scream!
I was at the craft store... Halloween in August?
We're Here - Suspense
the suspense
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thicker
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A big South Texas whitetail approaches a potential rival, ears pinned back and antlers displayed as a clear sign that he means business. December 2021.
This was taken in the same morning as the shot I posted 12 images back ..but the opposite direction to the sunrise and as soon as I arrived....one of those morning's that delivered from the start
dot dot dot, mass suspense...
The phrase "You've come all this way" was thrown around a fair bit on the cloudy days we encountered on our trip; as we know, not every day can host sunny three-quarter Graham Cotterall weather. Now, call me a snob, but I've never really been one for shooting in gloom (the last outing I did knowing I'd be full gloom was March 2021 for a C-set to Mount Victoria).
Anyway, the phrase was thrown around by the R'bauers, one of them in particular (dot dot dot) when I'd act all Tiger Woods big dog and watch the train go past when a cloud would wipe out the sun or if the train was in cloud and blue skies in the background. I'd be judged silently for coming 14,000km and several thousands of dollarydoos and putting the camera down. I was also judged for drinking moonshine out of my 'More Beer, Less Assholes' (a PSA from your friends in Montana) pimp cup, but to me, that was half the fun... each to their own.
The train over the bridge in the doom and gloom you see is BNSF's 1st division manifest from Laurel, MT to Yardley, WA (premium name for a yard I might, nay will add), and Lewis has noted 40 wagons mostly empties, so we'll take his word.
7590-8263 BNSF M LAUSPO1 18A Trout Creek 19-4-25