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Having been given permission back out onto the main, the engineer on the "Rosario Local" throttles up his two SD40s while the brakeman waits to re-line the derail once the short train is clear. They've just finished switching Nustar Asphalt, which can be seen in the far right of this shot. This track is part of the pre-1966 AT&SF alignment, which generally followed the Rio Galisteo from near its confluence with the Rio Grande towards Lamy.
This was the culmination of a one year long desire and about a four hour wait. I had seen this shot in my head ever since beginning my time qualifying out of Albuquerque, but it was either "they don't run up here anymore" or (once regular, predictable service resumed) I was always working when this job was working. Everything fell together today though, and it was worth waiting for!
A hidden mystery in the woods near Roche Harbor on San Juan Island, WA is the John S. McMillin Mausoleum.
John McMillin - a mason by trade - brought a lot of this skill into the architecture of the mausoleum which you'd imagine was plucked from some sort fantasy novel/mythical tale.
The next day we boarded the boat that would take us iceberg hunting. We found a few and were amazed at how cold it would become the closer we got. As we circled the behemoth, I noticed the thin cloud above and aligned the two as we rounded it again.
A black and white version of an earlier shot of the log storage lagoons on the River Clyde. About 2 acres of these are found in the shallows near Port Glasgow, used extensively during the Clydes ship building period the area stored a vast amount of logs to be used in the ship building process.
This weekend was Mum and Dads birthday, Mum who was a year younger - would catch up to Dad for one day each year in a Brigadoon kind way.
We lost them both a few years back and normally I'd go home to Werri Beach and say G'day to them at the ocean - like eveything else this year lockdown has stolen that chance as well.
So I went to the place I feel most at peace - Lake Illawarra, for the sunset today and remembered you pair and hope you had a great birthday up there.
Happy Birthday Mum an Dad.
I stopped to catch a few shots of this Red Tailed Hawk in the snag.
As luck would have it, I quickly realized the moon was right there and I only had to move a few feet to line it up behind the hawk. My luck was further compounded when I shot a short burst right as it took off.
Explore June 5th, 2021
The Kermario Alignment consists of 1029 stones in ten columns, about 1,300 m (4,300 ft) in length. This alignment is also called the "House of the Dead."
The granite structure in the foreground is a dolmen -- or burial chamber -- and was originally completely covered by an earth mound. The menhirs -- standing stones -- in the background are generally smaller than those in the Ménec alignment and were installed later.
One theory is that the alignments are a giant necropolis, with each stone representing a leader. Each row could represent a different tribe. The dolmen could have been the burial site of a very important person, perhaps a religious figure. Although archeologists have not been able to prove that human remains and artifacts found around dolmens date from the time when the stones were originally set in place, it is a story that appeals to the imagination.
Hope you have a good start to the new week. Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your visits, comments, awards and faves.
© Melissa Post 2016
Second edit of this at Arnos Grove
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The core of the Milky Way with the Carina nebula and the Southern Cross. This is a panorama taken using a Nodal Ninja rotator, stitched and edited in Lightroom. I cut the ends down a bit due to light pollution and sky glow. I didn't have the rotator properly lined up so the Milky Way isn't as straight as it should be, tricky to do when it is nearly overhead, and dark! The shots were taken north of Port Wakefield, SA. The comet Linear is in the top left quarter in this shot too!
Low Fog Sunset at Golden Gate Bridge, taken from a small airplane.
The sunset burn w/low fog was predicted by Yiupai sunrise/sunset forecast service.
Keeping the cobwebs off the 200/3.5 Tak. It takes some patience (& some luck TBH) but it really delivers when the planets line up.
Shot wide open
At last the days are more spring-like and the crocuses are getting a chance to open. I have seen one or two pollinators around so they would get a treat if they visited my crocus pots.
Aircraft landing at Schiphol airport are following a path over office buildings on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Why are The Netherlands able to tackle the noise nuisance issue whilst in Belgium it has become a ridiculous political battle? Is the deeper cause the expensive and ineffective byzantine complexity of federal and regional legislation? - Halfweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chicago South Shore winds its way through a residential area of Hammond, IN, with cars for Chicago interchange. In 2021, work started here to realign the railroad and remove the reverse curves in an effort to accommodate expansion for commuter agency NICTD. The mainline is now about 40 feet behind where I am standing, and this area is now access and parking for the new Hammond Gateway Station.
The Langdale Pikes, Bow Fell and Crinkle Crags photographed from Side Pike.
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Looking out the back door I saw the moon rising and then noticed that it was coming "up" into the flight path of airliners on final approach to DIA. So I set up my shot and I waited and waited and waited...
Yeah this went on for a bit. Finally I got one that was close.
Keep an eye on the moon and sky this month as there is a lot of cool things happening! Most of the planets are in wonderful alignment and are basically on parade as they are in conjunction with each other and the moon.
Later this year there will be a combination of Jupiter over a crescent moon and Venus underneath. That should be spectacular!
Shot using a Canon EF 70-200 f4 L and a Canon EF 1.4X extender.
In camera editing. - - - love that bouncing light
But I should have used the "500 rule"
The 500 rule for a full frame camera requires you to set your camera to ISO 3200 or 6400, Aperture to f/2.8 (or as wide as possible) and your shutter speed to 500 divided by the focal length of your camera. For example, if you are shooting with a 50mm lens, your shutter speed would be 10 seconds (500 / 50 = 10).Jan 28, 2020. That would have avoided those elongated stars..