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A trio of Finger Lakes classy looking geeps roll around the bend at Cayuga, NY. They'll stop ahead at Auburn to do work before reaching Solvay Yard to interchange with CSXT.
High atop a 100-foot vintage factory smokestack and cleaning it out with his long wire brush!
No, he's not real, but is a whimsical statue placed there by a local developer who turned the brick factory into attractive modern apartments with old world appeal.
This chimney sweep character has been there for 33 years now and it has become a city landmark :)
I was about a half-mile away when I captured this in the evening with my telephoto lens.
Pigeon Sweeps since they are up there all the time I propose we talk to them about sweeping the chimneys in exchange for some extra food, shot in North Carolina.
The Finger Lakes sweep job heads east through Seneca Falls. Didn't really reinvent the wheel here; the standard shot here just frames up so easily. After concluding this chase, we would start making tracks back to the Midwest, marking the end of our east trip.
Sorry, I´ve decided not to write the "larger version" link due to the fraudulent and abusive use of my pictures. Lo siento, he decidido no poner el enlace con un tamaño mayor debido al uso fraudulento y abusivo de mis fotos
None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot
Cabo de Trafalgar, Caños de Meca (Cádiz - Andalucía)
Sony A900 + Carl Zeiss16-35mm + Cokin filter: X121S
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After a great deal of effort in adjusting the height and position of my tripod, I managed to compose one satisfying image of this scene at Attenborough Nature Reserve. Most people would just walk straight past this spot, as one needs to step off the main footpath and enter into the bramble undergrowth to find the scene. However, being a keen landscape tog, I was drawn in by the incredible colours. From that point on, I was working hard to find a position that might do the scene justice. The sweep of the branches seemed to embrace this little clearing and that small, but vital area of space in front of the main trunk. This enabled the swirling chaos of golden leaves to have context and flourish.
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, with shells of sea creatures in, but also as the greatest pleasure of the waves to bring the stones to the beach and then only try to get them back into the sea!
One thing that I did not notice as I walked around the edges of the harbour, it was very rockery, with plenty of big chunky rocks and hardly any sand on it.
Many thanks for your cool comments and compliments from you here, my good flickr friends !!!
This yellowish rock is a few metres from the Disruption rocks. I got caught up in the shape it formed in the water as the waves moved over it.
I didn't know Flare Friday was a thing until now, so here's a shot of the Finger Lakes Railway's Geneva-Syracuse turn - aka the Sweep Job - working the yard in Solvay with a pair of CEFX SD45 rebuilds, during the short time the leased units were on the FGLK's revolving roster.
© Graham Daly
This image was captured at sunset down on Kinard Beach (Cine Aird in Irish) which is located within the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.
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Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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I did a double-take when I downloaded this photo of a Great Blue Heron in the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge today, August 3, 2025. Might it have gotten wet, perched, and absorbed the wildfire soot from our wildfire skies, being so bad over the past few days? Might this be the look of a chimney sweep, thus the photo title? The last time I saw something like this was the tragic photos from the Deepwater Horizon spill from a few years back and the wildlife covered in oil. I have sent this photo to the refuge's Director and Park Ranger. Ugh.
Nothing else in nature can match the size and beauty of a garden spider's web. This picture shows less than 25% of the entire web! which is about a meter and a half across.
Many thanks Dorota for the link:
Rochester Sweeps Festival :-))
It may be the 2012 event but it gives a good idea
of what the event is all about!!