View allAll Photos Tagged Two
One of my favourite shots.
Taken without any filter and no post editing, in the freezing cold above a bridge on a snow filled lake.
This is the same wagon as the one viewed in the previous picture (91010) . The former OBA - previously pictured with sides removed - is now seen with the half height steel ends also removed. When EWS took over flask trains from B.R. they inherited these wagons but when DRS took over from EWS, EWS took the PFAs with them.
In 1994 the Waste Monitoring and Compaction Plant (WAMAC) at Sellafield entered into active commissioning and began compacting solid Low Level Waste for disposal to the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) at Drigg using half height ISO containers designated TC-01 (2910 series). Prior to that, waste had been moved in commercially available industrial waste skips. A more robust type of re-useable container was tried in the 1990s but was short lived because the WAMAC system rendered them redundant.
Containers like this, designated TC-05 remained in use for many years in the nuclear industry but after 1995 saw little use on trains.
Route 66, Two Guns, Arizona.
Ruta 66. De la modernidad a la marginalidad. Proyecto apoyado por el FONCA, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, México 2015 - 2017.
Andrea Di Castro's Popular / Interesting:
As I've said before, one of my goals in photographing birds was to get this particular resident species, the Oak Titmouse. (Second on the list was the White-crowned Sparrow in breeding plumage.) My first two cameras didn't have the range for avian photography of any kind ... well, with the first exception when an Oak Titmouse popped up on a newly planted five foot orange tree right in front of me.
Still, I persisted, and I think I have 15 pretty good images of this titmouse. One in particular was my prize and was the first image I hung on my wall. (flic.kr/p/ufUbT1) That's not the reason that I never posted this image. The reason for that was that I wasn't on SmugMug or later Flickr, and so I just printed this, put it in an album, and there it stayed until this morning.
I was in the archives again, and I must say I really like this shot. The way the tail just clears and follows the curve of the piece of rotten oak which was also used as a granary for Acorn Woodpeckers (which is why I was there taking pictures that day in March). More than that, there appeared to me that there was movement in this pose. He actually had just landed, and was already about to take off again. 1/640th was my go to prep speed, and it worked very well here. The light was good, too. And that's why I'm starting off the week for you (I can look at it any time) with one 3 gram Oak titmouse on a Live Oak (that's the name, not the description).
I've described this bird many times. Let's just let it go with this: The Oak titmouse (Baeolophus inornatus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. The American Ornithologists' Union split the plain titmouse into the oak titmouse and the juniper titmouse in 1996, due to distinct differences in song, preferred habitat, and genetic makeup. It sleeps in deep cavities, and what better place than a woodpecker hole in an oak or yucca. We are surrounded by thousands of acres of three of the twenty species of oak in California: valley oak, interior live oak, or blue oak. The Valley Oak is the largest oak in the state, and we have 30+ heritage oaks within a quarter mile of my front door. (Heritage oaks are huge, some with canopies 100 feet or more across, 70 feet tall, and with trunks about 25 feet in diameter. How can you tell if one is a "heritage oak?" Easy: every heritage oak is numbered with a metal tag about 8 feet off the ground ... and that's all I'll say. They are also between 200 and 350 years old. And every one has an Oak titmouse in it! I just made that up, but it's where I'd start to photograph these little flitters.)
Two days into November and I'm already missing Summer.
This is my second attempt to use Capture One 10 and I'm happy with the way it treated this old favorite. Lots to learn but there's a wealth of Capture One tutorials which appear to be very well done.
"And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease...."
John Keats, "To Autumn"
While these garden visitors are obviously not bees, the Agastache blossoms they are enjoying do have an amazing effects on the bees. Large "bumblers" visit these flowers often and after only a few sips of nectar they simply zone out. I've been able to wave my hand slowly through this stand of flowers and the bees simply ignore me. I think they get drunk on this stuff. : ))
Similar to a previous photo late last year but this time two trees in the morning light (just after 10:30am) at Lake Eppalock. Looking straight down on things is one of the best parts of drone photography!
- August 28th, 2038 -
It’s been two weeks since I was thrown into all this. I'm not sure whether it’s good or bad to say that I'm starting to get used to things out here. Me and Cristy have developed a regular schedule of going out on our wanderings for two days, setting up out in the wastelands for a night, and then heading back to the shelter. We drop off our gear, sleep in the comfort of our bunks, de-stress for a while, and then restock our gear and head back out.
Cristy’s done some more of her hobby work with our times at the shelter. She’s continued her drawing and last week she’d found some more patches that she’d added to her collection. Still have to admit it’s cute as hell. She’s also improved with her vocalization, if you could call it that; she’s getting a lot more comfortable around me and, for lack of a better word, playful. But she still knows when to keep a hold of herself when we’re out wandering.
We've also had a few more run in’s with rangers during our times out. We've been trying to practice pacifism whenever possible, but a couple of times we've had no choice but to drop the bullet on some of them. It’s just more gear though, and it’s not like these guys were doing anything good out here anyways…
Still, so far I'm actually impressed with myself that I've come this far. I can’t say I'm too optimistic, but I have faith that the two of us can keep each other going for now.
Two (6) trains are seen north of St Lawrence Ave station on the Pelham Line. Peak period, peak direction express service operates on this line, and the train on the middle track should be using the diamond bullet to denote this, but quite often the front and rear rollsigns are not changed, leaving only the side LED signs to denote whether a train will run express or local north of 125th St.
R62A (6) (Bombardier, 1984-1987)
St Lawrence Ave station
Pelham Line - IRT
The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route crosses Honshu's Northern Alps (Hida Mountains) in Chūbu-Sengaku National Park. We made the crossing from east to west in seven stages over two days utilizing three tunnels and five different modes of transport. Stage one began at Ogizawa Station (elevation 1,433 m, 4,701 ft.) from which we took a trolley bus 6.1 km (3.8 mi.) through a tunnel to Kurobe Dam Station (elevation 1,470 m, 4,823 ft.). We then walked 0.5 km (0.3 mi.) across the Kurobe Dam to Kurobeko Station (elevation 1,455 m, 4,774 ft.) where we boarded a 0.8 km (0.5 mi.) underground funicular railway to Kurobedaira Station (elevation 1,828 m, 5,997 ft.). We then took the Tateyama Ropeway (cable car) 1.7 km (1.1 mi.) to Daikanbō Station (elevation 2,316 m. 7,598 ft.) where we took another trolley bus through a 3.7 km (2.3 mi.) tunnel to Murodo Station (elevation 2,450 m, 8,038 ft.) and the Hotel Tateyama, where we spent the night. The following morning we boarded a Tateyama Highland Bus and descended 23 km (14.3 mi.) along a paved, winding road to Bijodaira Station (elevation 977 m, 3,205 ft.) where we boarded a funicular railway and descended 1.3 km (0.8 mi.) to Tateyama Station (elevation 475 m, 1,558 ft.).
Two snowboarders are seen here climbing toward the slopes beyond in this view looking south from 0.4 km (0.25 mi.) east of the Hotel Tateyama.