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In keeping with my recent "green" theme, I'm posting an image from 2016 when we were in Ireland where almost everything is green. This was taken from a bridge close to where we stayed in Dublin.
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Px48-3901 with a special freight on the Koszalin narrow gauge railway. I'm not sure but it looks like the track is a part of a tourist trail, judging by the sign painted on the tree
Moundville, AL, USA
Local tracks are often rough and used only by freight trains traveling at very slow speeds.
Ff_IMG_0361, 31 Jul 07
Doublestacks for the west coast roll through Milledgeville, IL, on the mostly single track former Burlington Route's C&I line.
towards the village
of Vezon - Lorraine - France -
traces dans les champs
vers le village de Vezon en Lorraine
… or Road to Nowhere.
Actually, it does go somewhere. It’s the track to a modern eco-house (complete with its grass roof) that sits at the top corner of one of the local fields. Naturally, the access road is eco too, though the ruminating cows that sit in the field globally warming let the side down a bit :)
I found this one curious. There are two telegraph posts (doubtless carrying high-speed internet to the house ;) ), and the vertical movement has over-emphasised them and made them very… curious. It reminds me of some abstract oil paintings you see in galleries. I like the way the track just seems to go nowhere as if it has no purpose.
It’s the wobbly for today anyway. I’ve got a whole collection to process so I won’t chatter on too much. Be well!
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the abstraction and the wobbles. Happy 100x :)
The tracks were ice where water flows down from the hill which I took advantage of to make a lead in line. We don`t get snow very often so when it does fall here the country falls into chaos, trains planes everything pretty much comes to a standstill, down this way it is not worth investing in the heavy equipment to clear large amounts of snow.
This is the North side of Cissbury ring which was in deep shade at the time but the sun was lighting up the landscape so I had to bear in mind my exposures in the Histogramme at all times.
Spalding County, Georgia
Canon IVS rangefinder camera with Canon 28mm f/3.5 lens.
JCH Streetpan 400 film with 720nm infrared filter
WISH YOU ALL A MARVELLOUS 2011.......
( inconstant on flickr:)
Hugs
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I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory. [By: Sri Chinmoy]
(form the archive....)
Il tema di Lara, Zivago
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Thanks Elliot for the music
In the early morning light of what felt like a frigid January morning, a CN westbound freight is seen track level approaching the Canoe River bridge. Hiding behind the low hanging clouds, fresh snow has just dropped on the rockies, signalling the approach of winter weather. Fall doesn't last for long in this region, snow would soon blanket the whole area two weeks after my visit to Yellowhead pass.
The one shot I was after while away; we stayed at a hotel in Turin which was part of Fiat's old Lingotto factory until the seventies. This is eight portrait shots, second attempt, at a time when there was no-one else in sight, thirty-degree heat in an extremely perilous crouch at the very top of the bank.
The building atop, the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli Art Gallery - not the ugly, incongruous glass and steel one being built behind - contains an exhibition full of works by Canaletto, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani and others. I love this place.
The factory was completed in 1923. Unlike any other car factory to date, the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked rooftop test track. It was the biggest car factory Europe had ever seen and was the second largest in the world.
Designed by engineer Giacomo Mattè-Trucco, the five story building featured a simple loop rooftop test track with two banked turns that consumed a 1620 foot x 280 foot portion of rooftop. The test track's banked turns were constructed from an intricate series of concrete ribs in a construction technique that had not been used frequently before Lingotto's construction. It's safe to say the technique had never been used for a test track six stories in the air.
The rooftop test track at Lingotto was not a novelty or an afterthought, but an integral part of the manufacturing process; the Lingotto factory featured a unique upward spiral assembly line. As each Fiat was put together it would progress upwards through the building story by story. Each floor was sequentially designated to specialize in a major part of assembly. What would start on the ground floor as raw materials and individual parts became a running driving Fiat by the time it spiraled its way to the top of the building.
When a Fiat had finished its climb through the 16,000,000 square feet of Lingotto it exited the building by way of the roof. Each Fiat was taken on to the roof and around the banked race track to make sure the prior five floors of manufacturing had done their jobs to satisfaction. The Lingotto test track was even briefly featured in the Italian Job. During the famous escape sequence the red white and blue Mini's go three wide on the banked rooftop race course with police in hot pursuit.
If you're in Turin, go. It's worth the trip. Plus you can go to the track for free if you use a little confidence or you can buy a ticket for the exhibition and go with your ticket.
A track I often walk through forest down the hill at the end of our street. There is a little barricade to stop bicycles which I took while spinning the camera and then used Photoshop to crop square and Distort>Polar co-ordinates. Surprisingly the wood work remained identifiable after such rough treatment!