Looking south along the Ohio & Erie Canal on a sunny day in Valley View, Ohio.

Valley View Yosemite

The valley in winter is still a diverse landscape even if it lacks the color of spring which is rapidly approaching.

#6792 SD60M x-Conrail #5552

Captured this NS with a GMTX lease locomotive in the lead.

Valleyview, Kamloops. BC

Our36th break with www.coastalcottages.co.uk

One of the small, low-roofed bedrooms upstairs at the Gleeson House in Valley View.

Models working with photographer Robbie Merrit at Valley View, with a replica Spitfire and Beech 18 in the background on 22 April 2012.

An NS high hood is 3rd in the line up. This train sat unmanned for more than 12 hours and when finally underway she brakes down just past the Scioto diamond holding things up for several hours. 2 engines from another train came to the rescue and pulled it to Delaware to get it out of the way.

One of the visiting aircraft to Valley View near Northern Gully east of Geraldton in Western Australia on 22 April 2012. The Wilga was made by PZL "Warszawa-Okęcie"

Captured this westbound passing another westbound at Harper Road.

Bob and Mary Norton, Anne Kerr, and Zora and Ross Stevens

T-6 Texan/ Harvard is seen taking off with smoke effects at Valley View 2012 at Northern Gully east of Geraldton on 22/4/12.

Captured in the curve at Harper Rd after a crew change.

Captured this BNSF/BN waiting for a crew on the way home yesterday.

Captured this ex-UP now NS roaring through Valleyview, Ohio

While walking along the Ohio Erie Canal Towpath, I was itching for something that looked like Spring was coming...unfortunately, that was tougher to find than I thought! I took a jaunt into the forest alongside the path, looking for some buds, a flower, anything at all, and these lonley little buds on a tree were all I could find. It was cool to get in close and spot all of the details of the small buds that will become flowers and then leaves as the season settles in.

This was take almost at the minimum focusing distance for my ZD 50mm lens, with my Metz 48 flash handheld down and to the left of the camera.

Winter in Yosemite National Park can be a beautiful place with spectacular sunsets and snowy foregrounds. The iconic El Capitan stands in the background with melting snow sitting atop reeds along the banks of the Merced river forming the foreground.

Early morning fog along the lower areas of land as the sun crests the hills to the east.

Photos of Valleyview, Alberta, Canada. Photos courtesy of Lindisfarne Productions and Jonathan Koch / RPAP.