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It's not often that I manage to capture an image that exceeds my expectations.
I noticed this alignment of pine trees a couple of months ago, and wondered how it might look with the sun setting perfectly within the gap.
There are only a few days in any year where it would be possible to capture a photo exactly like this. Would the weather play along with my plans?
I've been returning to this exact spot most evenings this past week... hoping to capture my pre-visualised shot. Every previous attempt was a failure, with the sun disappearing behind the clouds before it appeared in my frame.
But then yesterday evening I got everything that I was hoping for... and more. I'm stoked! :)
The stars burn above this puddle of the Cottonwood Lakes to the great amusement of the cheering frogs. Three images stacked manually in photoshop.
M357 works up the 2% grade of Steelton Hill on the new double track alignment. At the bottom of the photo is the old single track route that curved much more than the new line.
This evening's epic afterglow!
Technical details:
Fuji X-E1 + 10-24mm
4 seconds, f/8, ISO 100
7 shot panorama
Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites around the village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre/proto-Celtic people of Brittany, and are the largest such collection in the world. Most of the stones are within the Breton village of Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as old as 4500 BC.
2015 07 27 151700 France Brittany Carnac 1HDR
Liencres - Bay of Biscay - Spain
Another shot from the great adventure in the company of the usual suspects Paulo Dias , Rolhas e Sergio Luis Silva .
This time in search of the North with the precious help and total collaboration of Joserra Irusta's from the North Photo Tours team.
For him, his wife Raquel Castro a huge thank you !
And for those wishing to explore the North of Spain, the answer is North Photo Tours !
Canon EOS 5D MKII + Canon EF 17-40 f/4 L @ 17 mm
ISO 100 - f/16- 129s
Lee ProGlass ND 0.9 + Lee GND 0.9 HE + Lee GND 0.3 SE
SD40-3 6926 an ex CN unit has stopped almost in alignment. They were spotting the passenger train and had run the 2 locomotive around to lead back to Candor. Only needed a couple feet to align the bridge logo with the locomotive logo.
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As 2011 winds down, I want to thank all of you who have supported me and my photography. I couldn't have done it without you!
This year saw fellow photographer Joshua Cripps and I teach many full workshops to groups of great and enthusiastic photographers. What a blast! Another sold out workshop this past Saturday was our last outing of the year, but hopefully soon, we will have some new dates and new locations for 2012.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 12mm
0.8 sec, f13, ISO 100
Lee .9 and .75 Soft GND filters
This is another take on the same Cuban Lily that I posted a few weeks back. Taken at Longwood Gardens with the Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS Lens.
Corbin, KY
I love these old "Bear" signs -- they're cute and fun. The typo on the one sign ("alinement") does irk me. I worked for years as an editor so it's just natural that typos bug the heck out of me lol
UPDATE: So "alinement" is an alternative spelling. Perhaps it's regional, as I've never seen it spelled that way here in Canada.
The newly opened First Light Pavilion at Jodrell Bank is designed with a meridian line to track the changing altitude of the Sun through the year. This north-south alignment also means the window lines up with the celestial north pole and so star trails form in symmetry with the building.
For more details on the building see
www.jodrellbank.net/visit/firstlightopening/
Prof. Teresa Anderson and Prof. Tim O'Brien led the project and Tim has an article on meridian lines -
More than 10 years in Ghent and the city still keeps surprising us… As some of you may know Ghent used to have its own zoo. Regrettably, the zoo had to make way for the fast-growing city and was replaced by working class housing in the 19th century. The architect Charles Van Rysselberghe built the houses around an elliptical inner courtyard that became the playground of at least three generations of working-class children. Unfortunately, not much was invested in the site and after 100 years it was completely dilapidated. In 2001 this architectural gem was saved from destruction and the site was completely renovated in 2006 and converted into the Zebrastraat project: a place to be for events and meetings, in a vibrant setting of cultural activities, contemporary living surrounded by an impressive art collection – Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium.
A rare daylight NYS&W HAN-1 heads west through Franklin Lakes, NJ. The "missing link" of I-287 between Montville, NJ and Suffern, NY was still under construction in this March 1993 view. The Susquehanna main had recently been relocated to the alignment seen here due to this construction project. The original alignment roughly paralleled the far side of I-287 where the distant buildings are located and would have crossed I-287 near the head end of HAN-1. This view is not possible today due to tree growth along the right of way.
NYS&W HAN-1:
SOO 778 SD40-2
GATX 2003 SD40-2