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yeah, so i have some photos you can buy here. i don't have a lot up, but if you want a picture up there, i can make it happen :) oh and i'm trying to save up for a fisheye lens, but we will see how that goes.. me saving money hah..
well things have been pretty slow. not much happpening here. only like 26 ish more days till spring break ! wooo. although i am staying in good ol' TC, it will be nice to have some sort of a break.
Been wanting to do a white fill/red outline for a while now... (Always liked that combo)...
Didn't plan on the gray "E"s I just ran out of White, and the "Quittin-Time" whistle was a last minute addition...
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Action shots: www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2011/07/13/red-white-g...
Wanting to find another shot and something new I decided to give this spot a try. As the snow continues to come down, L010 is passing by Full Circle Stables near downtown Sherborn. It definitely gives off the rural feel here as in another few miles they'll be in the urban settings of Framingham.
This started with me wanting to make an updated beast after making my broader Thing figure. Then I decided to update Jean, and Cyclop, and then just everyone. Really proud of how they all came out.
Im actually kinda on an X-Men kick right now, so for the next week or so expect a bunch of X-Men stuff. Get hype for that bois
I have been wanting to photograph the fog at sunrise for the last few weeks and finally the timing worked out for me.
Fog and mist is a landscape photography dream as it completely changes the landscape and environment you are in. What can normally be flat and uninspiring landscapes are often transformed into ethereal worlds and dreamscapes where detail is lost and feeling and imagination takes over.
My recent visit to Pirton Pool allowed me to capture some great images as the fog enveloped and consumed the grand landscape allowing me to produce a series of images with atmosphere and meaning with much more ease.
I hope you will enjoy the image produced and and i'm sorry in advance for the rather lack lustre youtube video > youtu.be/_X8xihxTZGg
I had several technical issues both in the field and when back at home trying to put the film together. Hope you enjoy and I look forward to reading your comments.
I have been wanting to find this place for years. Yesterday, I finally made it. This obscure place is called, False Kiva. It's in Canyonlands National Park, but don't expect to find it on any map.
There are no tour buses there. There are no Japanese Tourists shooting photos of each other, standing in front of the kiva. There is not even a trailhead, or a sign identifying the trail in any way. Just some footprints in the desert to follow. They don't want you to go there. They don't want anyone to find this place.
With proper instructions, and enough time to get lost a few times and wander around in circles, and slip and fall on some of the loosest rocks I have ever stepped on, it is possible to find this. I'm so glad I finally did.
It ended up being a really overcast evening, which was sort of a mixed blessing. The light in the foreground was really nice. The light in the canyon in the background was kind of blah. When I got back and looked at the images, I couldn't believe how much detail I was able to pull out of that fairly gray sky.
I've been wanting to get some photos in London for years now, and I just haven't been able to get there. Finally, I had a whirlwind 2 day business trip there and managed to get a few hours to walk around the Thames waterfront and get some photos of the iconic Big Ben. There are two classic night shots of Big Ben from the Westminster bridge, one from across the road with the light streaks cutting across the frame and this one from the Big Ben side. The other shot is the more frequent comp, and I was going to try both but it was getting late and I was freezing cold by this time. It wasn't cold at all by London standard (24C during the day and 15C at night), but I've turned very thin-blooded in the southern US, and there was a breeze strong enough to add some windchill. All that to say I didn't get the other shot. And, there are many more shots I'd like to get in London, but didn't have time for this time. Hopefully I get the chance to return again soon.
This is not an especially difficult shot to get, just a matter of having some patience for the right combination of double-decker buses to come along, timing the shot right, and trying to balance the exposure correctly. Nothing to it, only took me about 30 tries ;-) Seriously, though, I enjoyed my night in London a lot.
As for the title, the time on the clock is 10:50, and this classic line from Spinal Tap immediately jumped in to my head (and would not leave). Well, the line is actually "These go to 11" but close enough. Could've called it "Hells Bells" too since as soon as I heard the bells chime on the hour, it sounded *exactly* like the opening refrain from the AC/DC song Hells Bells. I'm too lazy to look it up, but something tells me they used these bells (well, sampled of course, might've been hard to get the bells in to the recording studio).
EDIT: So I was partially right but partially wrong about the bells. The bells in the recording are not Big Ben's bells (snicker): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Bells_(song), but Big Ben still plays a role in the song: answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071025073242AAimxna
I have been wanting to do something to this photo for some time, fill the extra space and what not...so here it is. I think its interesting, let me know what you guys think!
Almost everyone, at one time or another, wants to "see behind the curtain".
It can be career related -- what's going on with the ownership and what does my boss think of me?
It can be spiritual -- wanting to know is there a heaven, is there a hell, is God really there?
It can be financial -- am I going to have enough money to survive?
It can be a health issue -- why me, why do I have this illness?
It can be the future -- what is going to happen to me, to my family, to my friends, to our country?
I believe the truth is, if we were allowed to "see behind the curtain" as often as we wanted to, it would spoil the wonderful gift of not knowing what is coming. I also believe we were created to live one day at a time, to enjoy the mysteries of life and death, and to understand that one day we will certainly "see behind the curtain" at our appointed time.
Bloomington, IN
2023
© James Rice, All Rights Reserved
Due to 7470 being down for maintenance this year's annual Mass Bay RRE's 'Steam In The Snow' charter on the Conway Scenic Railroad was instead billed as 'Covered Wagons In The Snow' and it did not disappoint. Having traveled as far as the Notchland Inn where four photo runbys were performed the two original Boston and Maine F7s (4266 and 4268) owned by the 470 Railroad Club are on their way back east with the train.
This route opened in 1875 as the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway and would remain an important through freight route for succesor Maine Central until 1983, known for most of its life as the Mountain Subdivision. Shuttered for a dozen years it was purchased by the State of New Hampshire from MEC Guilford Transportation in 1994 and revived by 1996 to become a wildly popular 25 mile extension of the little Conway Scenic.
This was the only true 'must have' shot I wanted for the day, and I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out. They are seen at Sawyers River, MP 74.8, where fom 1877 to 1928 the 8 mile long Sawyers River Railroad (a logging operation) connected, although the MEC agency at this spot was closed in 1921. Two historic structures survive to this day, the section men's car house at right and the foreman's dwelling at left, both now privately owned. To the left of the train obscured by the snow is a 21 car passing siding that once again sees use in the summer season as a run around track. One interesting fact is that the house used to also be located on the right (north) side of the mainline but was moved across in the 1950s when Route 302 was relocated. Not wanting a private grade crossing here the railroad chose to move the home instead!
I now have good shots in three of the four seasons here, and a true spring one isn't really possible as the railroad doesn't run their first regularly scheduled Mountaineer train until May 27th.
To see a green summery view here if you missed it before check out this shot:
And for a favorite fall scene this shot:
And for a 'Steam In The Rain' shot this same weekend three years ago check out this:
As for the two classic EMDs, 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century in early 2022. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1757 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
Addendum: thanks to Carl Byron for supplying the fascinating historical information below that I'd never read about before.
The 4268A was actually built in March, 1949 as Engineering Test Dept Locomotive #930. Used for high altitude component testing on the DRGW's Soldier Summit among other locations. It spent some of that summer masquerading as a CB&Q locomotive leading their passenger car display at the 1949 Chicago World's Fair. It was then was cleaned up, re-engined, and made into to a standard F7A and offered for sale at a "slightly used demo" price. The B&M bought it and it was renumbered and painted into the B&M livery and shipped east, so while the builders plate may well say 10/49 but it certainly had a prior interesting career.
Harts Location, New Hampshire
Saturday January 7, 2023
Been wanting to do an alphabet for a long time... I did it portrait to put on a t-shirt, so some of the connections are a bit odd and were difficult to work out.
For all the biters out there (you know who you are) this is for you, now you can do it properly...
Model: Alyssa
I've been wanting to go back and re-edit this for quite a while, and yesterday I found the perfect excuse when my Business Photography teacher told me I should enter my elements series in a contest. When I first edited the photo it was before I knew enough to save a psd of the composited image before I merged, so I went back and re-converted the RAW's and re-expanded.
I'm really happy with the re-edit! It's a lot cleaner. I realized that part of the reason the first edit was so rough looking was becasue I had a longer shutter speed while shooting and didn't hold the camera still enough for some of the shots, so some areas still aren't, and won't be, perfect but it's a whole lot better! I also wanted to do some manipulation on the dress so that she didn't look like her body was a triangle, as it is in the original. And I wanted the water jug and water to be a lot more clear than they were. I included a close up so you can see that better. (seriously compare this close up shot to the one I included on the original. It's soooo much better). I also did a B/W version!
So nice to actually see and feel like I've improved!!
Old Joliet Prison by night. (A long exposure to enhance the artificial light sources I brought along. The tradeoff is, it is almost impossible to remain frozen in place for more than a fraction of a moment. I almost got what I was wanting here. There were two more pieces I wanted added to this but didn't get it in this scene. Next time I have the opportunity I will go for the whole enchilada on one of these. The Nikon mirrorless really enhances low light conditions. It was f***ing dark in there! The lights I had seemed to be absorbed by the darkness here. The long exposure revealed a lot of light in a manageable way.)
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Lately life has thrown me punches that have been not easy to dodge, sometimes I am afraid I might forget my childhood memories.
Mozart he said "there's nothing to composing"
And that's all we do
We just write and play and write and play and write and...
Here, here and here
He pointed to his heart and mind and ears
He said "here, here and here"
He pointed to his heart and mind and ears
---totally and completely inspired by the Meg & Dia song Here, here and here.. and their album.
i love them and their music.
therefore... i love this picture to death..just beacause of what it represents.
and ive been wanting to does this for a long time. i love all of these so i put them all in the comments
*** i had a very hard time choosing so i might upload another one separately..lemme know what you guys think.. i really do love all your opinions. thankyou very much !!!
i had so much fun doing this.. although i froze in the process.. spring where did you go???!?!
Wanting to work on my lights again tonight but with no ideas to get on the other side of the lens I reached for the toybox.
Trooper lit from left and right with 2 x Yongnuo 560iv's. 1/64 power @ 24mm gelled orange. 1 x Yongnuo 560iv behind the trooper gelled Peacock Blue to illuminate the spraygun bokeh. 1/32 power @24mm. 1 x Lauren holding the Led Lenser P7.2 above the trooper illuminating some of it's features.
The first instalment from my recent trip to Venice.
When I visited Venice last year before hosting a workshop with Rohan, the weather gods were not my friend. This has probably been mentioned on more than once in my previous posts (of probably all my images to be fair) so it gave me the opportunity to scout around looking for subjects to shoot and I found this spot on Giudecca.
When Rohan arrived, he seemed to bring the aforementioned weather gods with him for the duration of the workshop and then when I got the opportunity to shoot again for myself, they fled (I think the moral of the story is... go with Rohan ;-)
Suffice to say, I didn't come away with the shot I was looking for despite visiting this location probably 5 times alone last year and thankfully only once this year.
However, my plans for this year for Venice were different. The plan was to go back and shoot Venice itself rather than a continuation of my minimal work, but my intentions were short lived as the visibility was shocking, therefore, I re-visited some already covered ground to see if I could succeed where I'd failed before.
To turn a negative in to a positive, when I arrived here the conditions were exactly what I had been wanting from this location the year before. The tide was perfect, the light was good and there was just enough fog to provide good clarity, but mask the land in the distance.
Just to make sure I didn't walk away from this location for the 6th time empty handed, I shot this at: 24mm, 35mm, 45mm and 70mm... as I knew from my previous encounters it was a difficult one to compose because of some foreground that had no place in the image.
This image is the 35mm version, which is a 3 shot stitched image taken as portrait images on my 17-40mm. Normally I provide the EXIF data at the bottom of my posts, but although I know this was 77s with the LEE Big Stopper, that's about as far as it goes, I was working fast and was changing grads left, right and centre.
As for the title, these posts actually mark where the telephone lines go, but they remind me of, "matchstick men" and seeing as there is a, "little family" of them I thought, "Kin" was quite suitable.
Another from our visit to Newton Woods, around Roseberry Topping, to see the Bluebells. The flowers aren't quite at their best yet but on a sunny afternoon, the Rape [Canola] was lovely against a blue sky. I prefer the cloud detail in this one.
Wanting to do something a little different and not too far from town, I found this trail on a map I have that is geared more towards mountain bikers. Well, I didn't see any mountain bikers or hikers for that matter. The hike ended up becoming a special little gem, no doubt because of the wonderful light conditions I found there. One of those moments you wish wouldn't end.