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The Three Sisters, Tongaporutu, New Zealand.
In a big storm in 2003 one of the Three Sisters disappeared. A few years later a new third sister popped out of the eroding cliff face (right).
Indian barber shop on a back street in Gokarna, Karnataka, southern India.
this is from a 3 month cycle trip in india
After rushing back down out of the power plant we catch the train heading into the coal mine to take the last load of the day back to the power plant.
Life may be hard, things might not be going your way, but at the end of the day, all you really need is someone who loves you and always has your back.
Didn't do as much traveling I wanted to do last summer, but a highlight of Summer 2015 was time spent in St. Cloud during August. Was a fun week down there with the family, visiting friends in the area that didn't migrate away after college. Lots of great times away from the tracks, but carved out a little bit of railfanning too. One of the railfan goals was to revisit shooting a morning train on the Mississippi River. So got up early on this clear, hot Friday and headed downtown.
BNSF 2623 and PRLX 704 ease a dozen or so cars over the former GN bridge in St. Cloud, running east from the yard to the Staples Sub. mainline on Aug. 14, 2015.
This reminded me of the East Locals I used to shoot back in the day in Cloud, a leaser Geep in the consist pulling boxcars. Although back in the day these cars would have been paper loads out of the Sartell Mill.
Much more traffic to contend to when getting on the mainline now. This Friday edition of the local crossed the bridge here and headed for the red signal at the east leg of the wye. Once stopped there, the DS told them it would be several hours until they got out, so they backed back through downtown St. Cloud to the ex-GN yard. Three hours later they proceeded back east towards the Staples Sub. again.
Never saw anything like that in the late 90s. On a busy day, they would wait for maybe one or two trains before proceeding east on the mainline.
The classic BLE tunnel motors are seen doing the helper honors up Byron hill on the CN. Manned helpers and cool power on a class 1 is a great combination
Pima Air and Space Museum, Lockheed VC-140B, cn 5044, BuNo 62-4200, used by artist Kenny Scharf as canvas for his artwork called "Back to Supersonica".
Sega 007 James Bond GoldenEye Pinball Machine
Goldeneye was Sega's first pinball effort in 1996. The theme is licensed from the James Bond movie Goldeneye, the first which features Pierce Brosnan as 007.
The major toy in this game is a rotating Satellite with a magnet in its center capable of catching and holding a pinball. The player can load the Satellite via a Pop-Up Ramp which rises up from the playfield. The machine also has a Ball Saver, which consists of a magnet system which catches and flings the ball away from the outhole and back into play.
I went back to this site to reshoot it, for several reasons. For one, the original had a light leak around the lensboard (garbage lensboard provided by Intrepid), which I wanted to fix. I also wanted to vary my process a little bit, so I shot this on Ilford HP5+ and processed it in Rodinal.
Now, I want to say this about how I used the Rodinal: I did a "stand" process of the neg, using Rodinal 1:100 dilution and allowing a slow process of an hour, with only one agitation cycle at the 30 minute mark (plus a 1 minute agitation at the start). I don't usually use the Stand Development process because it almost always introduces artifacts (uneven areas), but that is more an issue with roll film than sheet film, so I felt it was worth risking one sheet of film to try for this shot.
What did I get? Well, the negative is a bit less contrasty overall, with better shadow information and less blocking of the highlight areas. I knew that the reciprocity effect would increase contrast of this scene, as the bare wood (horizontal wedged in the roots) was considerably brighter than most other areas. I expected the stand process would help restrain the bright regions while allowing the shadows to develop more fully, and it seems this is what happened. As I say, I do NOT advocate for this approach to film processing in most circumstances (the mythology of the process is grossly exaggerated, IMO) but with sheet film, it sometimes has benefits. I wouldn't expect to develop a shot that had large expanses of a single value (blue sky?) because some unevenness would likely become apparent.
I've done this with HP5+ in the past and it seems this Ilford emulsion behaves very well in dilute Rodinal and minimal agitation.
Camera: Intrepid 8x10
Lens: Turner-Reich 12" convertible, exposure 25 seconds @ f22
Looking back toward Boulder City with the River Mountain Trail switchbacking between Red & Black Mountains. An easy trail, mostly because of the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935-1937. They built quality, and they built to last.
Processed on GIMP 2.8.14
Just walking about on a snowy day. This machine shed was at the back of the farmyard.
To often we do not look at the back of the beautiful creations in nature; to see the intricacy that creates the wonders of nature.
I got chance to get out a couple of nights this week before the end of milky way season
an opportunity to re do this image I took 3 years ago at the sea stacks in Trefor
5 shot panorama stitched in lightroom
The City of Long Beach reflecting the morning sun back at me on a wonderful morning on the Queen Mary.
The modern towers of the Back Bay seem to grow out of the old brick city of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Las modernas torres de Back Bay parecen surgir de la antigua ciudad de ladrillos de Boston, Massachusetts, EEUU.
Black-backed woodpeckers forage in dead trees (especially recently burned trees up to eight years postfire) looking for wood-boring beetle larvae. The yellow crown patch indicates this is a male. The white underneath is smudged gray from the soot.
Deschutes County, OR
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