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Sant Vicenç de Montalt, 2024. Sony ILCE-7M2 · CMOS Exmor 24 Mpx (Fullframe) / NOVOFLEX E-CY Adapter / CONTAX/YASHICA (C/Y) Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 80-200mm f4.0 MMJ / CONTAX L39 (UV) MC / RawTherapee 5.12 @ Adobe RGB.
A wider view of the Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte area as seen from the Little Horse Trail, April, 2024. I've seen beautiful places in this later life of mine, but few top this.
Just a wider angle of this scene from a truly memorable day out trackside chasing with a great friend. Here's the caption I wrote when I shared another frame of this spot several months back:
This was the second to last spot on our 110 mile chase of this CSXT G693-30 loaded grain train from Russell, KY to Rocky Mount, NC. This location was one of my 'must haves' of the day ao after Emporia we hustled south 20 more miles and crossed into the Tarheel State. We set up here on the side of Elm Street at MP62.8 on CSXT's North End Sub mainline, the railroad's busy and important 'I95' corridor. In short order our train came sailing over the the Roanoke River and the small town over the 3700 ft long single track bridge built by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1908. But the first bridge over the Roanoke was constructed nearby in 1837 by the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad. It was via trackage rights on this bridge that the Petersburg Railroad crossed the river from its original 1833 terminus at Garysburg north often the rapids.
Weldon ultimately grew into a major rail crossroads and featured a two level Union Station shared with rival Seaboard Air Line. While the upper level platforms, shelter and stairs are long gone, the circa 1912 station building survives as the town library and it can be seen through the trestle directly beneath the lead unit. And nearby stands what is purportedly the oldest railroad structure in the state, the former SAL freight house built in 1838 by predecessor Portsmouth and Roanoke.
To learn more about Weldon and its railroad history and to see some really cool photos here are four links worthy of a look:
www.historicweldonnc.com/about-weldon-nc/the-first-railro...
www.pwrr.org/nstation/weldon.html
www.weldonnc.com/weldon-walking-tour/
Here is a nice little map showing the route of CSXT's North End Sub that we spent the entirety of the afternoon exploring:
Weldon, North Carolina
Saturday April 1, 2023
Akagawa Fireworks Festival
赤川花火大会
There were still large fireworks in the sky, as well as 700m wide star mines.
上空には尺玉、そして横幅700mのスターマインも相変わらずでした。
Tsuruoka city, Yamagata pref, Japan
Korean Friendship Bell
Angel's Gate Park
San Pedro, CA
01-18-25
My first photo to be filed in my brand new "2025" folder. It's been a minute, but I used my brand new ridiculously expensive Canon RF10-20mm F4 L IS STM full frame wide angle lens this morning at Cabrillo Beach, Angel's Gate Park, and Pt. Fermin Park. Just a few hundred shots, because I wanted to rush home and process them. As I think you can see here, this lens doesn't just shoot wide angle, it creates a completely new experience viewing familiar places and things. This is at 10mm, but it seems wider than the 10mm setting on my 10 year old APSC lens, which on the full frame camera is actually shooting about 13mm I understand.
I'm really going to like this lens.
A month since my laat visit Vermont Railway has been continuing to use ancient Green Mountain Railroad Alco RS1 405 in daily freight service on the Bellows Falls switcher assignment (train DASW). For decades this unit has almost exclusively been used only for service on the VRS' passenger seasonal excursion trains and perhaps would see use on revenue freights once or twice a year at most. What is even more special is that this unit is very much on home rails having been built for the Rutland in November 1951. So that means she is approaching her 71st birthday in a few months and has never left the Green Mountain state!
So any time she's used for revenue service is special, and I'm hard pressed to think of anywhere else in the country an RS1 is used to haul freight anymore. For these reasons, I figured I should make the nearly 3 hr trip north to see her again!
One pleasant surprise since my last trip up exactly a month ago was to find that VRS had completely cut ALL the brush from the diamond up to Riverside. Where before the trucks would have been obscured now the railhead was visible from virtually everywhere! Given this nice change I decided a morning view from across the Connecticut River from the park at the end of Pine Street in Walpole would be in order. Here is the switch crew making some moves near MP B1 on the Falls Running Track at the east end of the Bellows Falls Subdivision, the former Green Mountain Railroad, nee Rutland, mainline.
Rockingham, Vermont
Friday September 16, 2022
The wide brimmed sunhat my wife bought in Millport in 2019 while cycling round the island of Cumbrae. While it looked good it was rather impractical for cycling!
I set the camera to its widest aperture and used a reflector to maximize the windowlight. I was a little concerned that I may pick up moire in the image but it didn't appear to be a problem.
Canon EF 17-40 f/4 L USM
A 17 mm, cet objectif a le plus grand angle de vue de tous mes objectifs.
At 17mm, this lens has the widest angle of view of all my lenses.
Stack de 46 images assemblées avec Photoshop
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View from the mountain Śnieżka on surroundings :)
Śnieżka is a mountain on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland, the most prominent point of the Silesian Ridge in the Karkonosze mountains. At 1,603 metres, its summit is the highest point in the Czech Republic, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in the Krkonoše and in the entire Sudetes. On the top of Śnieżka on the Polish side is a disc-shaped observatory with a weather station and restaurant was built in 1974, and the St. Lawrence Chapel. On Czech side are a post office, and a chairlift station, connecting the peak with the town of Pec pod Sněžkou at the base of the mountain. There are many marked tourist routes from the Polish side to the summit, mainly from the city of Karpacz. It is possible to take a chairlift from Karpacz to Kopa (1377 m a.s.l.) which significantly shortens the way to the summit. Śnieżka belongs to the Crown of Europe, Crown of Polish Mountains and Crown of Sudetes. Śnieżka was one of the first European mountains visited by many tourists. This was mainly due to the relatively minor technical difficulties of the ascent and the fact that since the sixteenth century, many resort visitors flocked to the nearby Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój and the highly visible Sněžka, visually dominant over all Krkonoše was for them an important attraction. One side of the mountain is in the Czech Republic; the other belongs to Poland. The area is very popular in summer with tourists from the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany, who enjoy hiking in the alpine environment unique to this area.
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Widok ze Śnieżki na okolice :)
Śnieżka – najwyższy szczyt Karkonoszy oraz Sudetów, jak również Czech, województwa dolnośląskiego, a także całego Śląska (wysokość - 1603 m n.p.m.). Zlokalizowana na granicy polsko-czeskiej. Po stronie polskiej znajduje się w granicach administracyjnych Karpacza oraz na terenie Karkonoskiego Parku Narodowego. Po stronie czeskiej na terenie Krkonošského národního parku (KRNAP). Widoczność z wierzchołka przy sprzyjających warunkach przekracza 200 km. Należy do Korony Europy, Korony Gór Polski, Korony Sudetów i Korony Sudetów Polskich. Na śnieżce od strony polskiej znajduje się kaplica św. Wawrzyńca z 1665 oraz budynek Obserwatorium Wysokogórskiego Instytutu Meteorologii i Gospodarki Wodnej z restauracją, w kształcie charakterystycznych dysków, z 1974, zaś po stronie czeskiej górna stacja kabinowej kolejki linowej z miasta Pec pod Sněžkou oraz budynek czeskiej poczty w miejscu dawnego schroniska, będący najwyżej położonym punktem pocztowym w Czechach. Śnieżka była jedną z pierwszych gór europejskich licznie odwiedzanych przez turystów. Wiązało się to głównie ze względnie niewielkimi trudnościami technicznymi wejścia na szczyt oraz z tym, że już od XVI wieku liczni kuracjusze przybywali do pobliskich Cieplic Zdroju i dobrze widoczna Śnieżka, dominująca wizualnie nad całymi Karkonoszami, była dla nich istotną atrakcją. Obecnie szlak na Śnieżkę jest bardzo popularny latem wśród turystów z Czech, Polski i Niemiec, którzy chętnie odbywają piesze wędrówki w unikalnym dla tego obszaru alpejskim środowisku.
While up in the Cairngorms I had a few trips to Neil McIntyre's awesome Red Squirrel site. I put most of my time into trying wide angle images like this. All taken remotely using wireless triggers, and some with graduated filters to retain detail in the background, I love how photos like this provide context to an animal’s habitat. You can see from the photos that the squirrels were very inquisitive of this new alien object! :D
Playing with the widest lens on my iPhone - a chance/glance at this large leaf - the way it points into the scene which is a damp reflective road. The picture post card house and the hint of red from the Jaguar car bring further interest.
Forever trusting who we are ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QohUdrgbD2k
Admitting what you want most will leave you vulnerable and exposed. This can be scary until you realise you are also wide-open for incredible possibilities.
Shannon Kaiser
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Two female red deers (Cervus elaphus) spotted at sunsrise, while ending their night feeding time on the Alpine prairies
Werribee Mansion, wider view of the whole structure and additions. Showing the arches, windows and tower with flag flying. On a bright and hot day earlier this month.
For more information on its history - "Werribee Park Mansion was built between 1874 and 1877 in the Italianate-style by the pioneering pastoralists Thomas Chirnside (1815-1887) and his brother Andrew Chirnside (1818-1890), from Scotland, founders of the "Chirnside Pastoral Empire"" and "From 1923 to 1973, Werribee Park Mansion was a Catholic seminary, Corpus Christi College. The wings, which are now the Mansion Hotel were added during that period." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werribee_Park