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Original Reserve Mining SD18 with factory low nose (only Missabe's SD18s came with high short hoods). Working the loading silo at Babbitt because 1235 was being serviced and 1236 was out-of-service.
This is a place marker for the Active Assignment Weekly group, as suggested in this thread.
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Taken for the Active Assignment Group Weekly
Assignment: Consumerism
Straight from our waste paper bin a sample of the loads of advertising we get daily plus a bill of the shopping I had just done at the supermarket (something which has to do more with our need to eat now and then than with consumerism, actually). Ironically enough now that Italians are under stress and with no money because of the economical crisis, advertising seems to have grown to an unbearable extent, at least in our mail box.
I adjusted light and contrast in the .raw file then added a slight vignette effect.
L-R: Keith Stringer, Craig Foster, Timmy Cocks,Trevor Luttrell, Pip Harris.
ActivePlus at Helston Community Fire Station
I don't know if anyone ever reads my descriptions, but I write them anyway, so there!!
Was out today (August 20th 2021) on a forced vacation day, from 9:30AM til' almost 4PM. 80F today but it felt like 100F. This is a very active line and I probably flicked 20 freights today. 750+ flicks. By the time I get rid of a few duplicates, and bad ones, I'm guessing it'll be about 700 +/-. 700 to straighten, fix any color issues, upload, and also ID the writers. It's lots of time and as you can imagine, it's a lot of work, but so far it's been fun. I'm trying to not rush myself to post before I'm ready. I already have the flicks, and they're timeless. So getting them posted ASAP!!!!!! is not really my concern. Duh..
Had an interesting interaction with a guy while out there. Guy with backpack had walked back and forth across the tracks a few times. The lat time I saw him he was on the other side of a set, about 100 yards away. Next thing you know he's coming closer..... Closer..... And I'm like WTF? I'm way out here minding my own business. He walks within' like 10 ft. of me and I say "How ya' doin'?" he says something, and then says "Trains?" and I say "Yep." and he says "Oh.." and walks away. I think he was feelin' me out, as there's a small population of people who's homes are shall I say, mobile. I've talked to a few of them, and have never had a bad interaction, I just don't like people walkin' up on me when I'm trying to get away from the rest of the world out by the tracks. I go out there to get away from people, not to interact.
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I follow some other amazing photographers on flickr, but for this I will talk about the ones who flick the freights. There are a few that I really love. Some it's because of the great locations they shoot at, and others it's the amazing little details they manage to capture. For me (right now) I don't have the luxury of walking the lines and seeing pieces static. 99.999% of my flicks the freight is rolling by at 10-50 mph and sometimes I don't really even know what I have until I get home, dump the memory cards and go through the photos. Because of this, most of my flicks are just straight on shots and documenting what I saw and where. I saw this freight here, on this date, here's what was on it, and i captured it. Buffed or scraped next week, well I have it on "film" for future generations (sounds corny, I know). There are times when a freight will stop in-front of me, and I'll walk up and get some shots of monikers, but it's rare.
Obviously in any area there are sidings where freights park for extended periods, I know a few spots, but as I get older, and older, do I really want to leave my car parked on the side of the road and walk 2 miles to capture some little details I might normally miss? I'd love to, but it's just not practical for me at this time, any many other people do it better than I could. Retirement is getting closer every day, maybe then, when my weekdays are free. :-)
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During the Covid lockdown, I was working from home, and I was getting out benching like 2 & 3 times a month. Back at work, I'm lucky to have the energy to get out once a month. Every time I do manage to get out, I come home and my batteries feel re-charged. It's been so f-ing hot here in SoCal though, I can't wait for cooler weather and some clouds in the sky.
As always, thanks to the writers!
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Remains of a granite quarry active between 1850 – 1939 [and again in 1946-51?]
This, along with the other two above the village [as well as neighbouring Trefor & Tan y Graig] produced granite setts, which were rectangular blocks used as a solid road surface [similar to cobblestones] on the streets of Liverpool, Birkenhead, Manchester and beyond. I assume that the quarries produced chippings too. Nant Gwrtheyrn was as isolated as you could get – surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the other. All materials would be exported by ship. Cae’r Nant had its own jetty at the bottom of the incline, as did Carreg y Llam further along the bay, both jetties collapsed in about 1970[?].
In regards to the village’s isolation, there was a bridleway over the mountain used by the locals to go to the shop in Llithfaen and by the postman on his rounds. This had been considered unnavigable until a stunt in 1934, when a brand new saloon car was brought in by ship and drove up the track in two minutes, all filmed by British Pathé*!
Remains at Cae’r Nant include, from the top,
Workers cabin [?stables?] with large fireplace / kitchen, perched high above the workings.
Blacksmith
Drumhouse
Zig-zag incline [horse drawn?]
Barracks/Workshops?– Didn’t visit.
Various concrete cabins – To control the main incline & machinery.
Crusher & Compressor/Engine House
Hopper
Then a long incline down to the beach, where there is another hopper.
The village was abandoned in the late 1950s.
A hippy commune, ‘New Atlantis Commune’ occupied the village in the early 1970s. Timber from the houses was used as firewood which resulted in a lot of damage.
In 1978, owners AMEY Roadstone Corporation (ARC) sold the village to a newly formed trust with the aims of setting up a residential Welsh language school.
In 1982 the first students arrived!
Active Assignment Weekly: Jan 11 to Jan 18: 'Something with Meaning'
What a great assignment, a moment to pause and look around at all the things that mean something to you. I loved every fustrating moment of this assignment!!
With that said..............what to photograph..........so many things mean so much to me. My family, extended and immediate, my friends near and far, my work.................. on and on.
But then I noticed that for the last 2 weeks all my attention was focused on this broken camera.............as if one of my family members had been injured.........
This camera was my first digital.......... picked out for me by my husband who was scared to death to pick the wrong thing. I recieved it on Christmas in 2006,................I cried and was truly touched at his push for me to continue with the love I had found behind the camera. To show the world what I saw..........in my way.
Any one who knows me knows that this camera is almost always with me, whether in my camera bag, in my purse, or around my neck............I have captured more moments than I can count or would want to.
I recently got a Sony an actual DSLR, but my first love will always be the Panasonic "DSLR wanna be" :)
So I was devestated when after carting it to work with me in a bag I don't usually use it dropped out and bounced across the frozen ground. Tired.........I never turned it on til the next day when then I found nothing but a black screen and it taking only all black images.................again I cried. Told myself "you have the Sony".............that did not help.........I still cried.
My husband lovingly looked for the paper work (which even after all this time I am not allowed to see) and found that the warranty did not end til Feb. 2010 YAY!!
Packaged it up shipped it out and have been waiting for it to come home...........anyone who knows me knows that I am one of the lucky with an address that confuses the whole postal set up in this are LOL ..............so a two day shipment that should have happened last week has finished today, with my baby coming home, as of this moment I am sighing in releif as it warms up and I wait to make sure that all is ok with it again.
Some of the things that mean the most to us are the ones we never saw coming............or realize until something happens to it.
Would I have fixed it without the warranty covering it...................yes, and that is how I know this things means so much to me. I would have never thought an object could become such a part of me, and who I am.
Radio Active
Wardrobe styling- Ray Mez
Creative Consulting- Amber Twyne
Assistant by- Quan Kareem
Published by- Secdum Magazine
Esmail and crew made the rounds to all the I.E. Active locations on Black Friday morning to serve hot chocolate and giveaway some free Mugs. Went to Active Rancho, Chino, Chino Hills, Corona, Temecula, and Riverside. Overall the shops did successful that day!
Baxter Junction stands as the most active point on the CV in today's standards. R614 rolls off the Poorfork with a trio of engines and 111 loaded tubs from Lynch 3. With Lynch 3 generating the bulk of traffic on the CV these days, sometimes up to a dozen or more trains can traverse this junction in a weeks time.
A very strong and comfortable elastic finger bracelet, for daily use. The beads are thread on a very strong elastic cord. That makes them comfortable to wear, as they follow your hands movement. All my Jewelry is one of a kind.
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Altamont skate demo @ Active Long Beach:
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Active Assignment Weekly: Nightime
In honor of the current meteor showers and all of the wonderful Christmas lightings out there, let's make this week's assignment a nighttime shot. No subject, just get out there and test your skills doing a nighttime shot.
WIT: Nina Akamu (American, born 1955). The American Horse, 1998, Bronze. Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. www.meijergardens.org/
Thanks Cliffwix for getting me back outside with my camera. 1600 ISO, F14, 13s.
The skys were very active over the battle. In this case the Soviets got some help first. The strafing run did get a few hits on the inf guns crews. I tend to use the rectangular based models for the HQ squads.
B&W Flora - Don’t get me wrong I love the intensity and variety of the colour of flowers and plants - but there is something about their form and texture which only B&W images shows off.
So get out in the garden, the countryside - or just pick up a houseplant and see how beautiful these plants can be - without their colour.
Restriction:
Just to keep things interesting - no trees - that’s a separate challenge altogether. So its flowers, vegetables, shrubs or grasses.
Dare:
Get up real close and have a go at a macro shot and make the ordinary look extraordinary.
WIT: found this in a garden centre in Lusaka, Zambia, B&W conversion, crop, some contrast adjustment