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Because someone has to get **it done! :)
- Laius in his home office at 1am.
I can tell he's quite pleased with the new props... also shown on previous pic.
Now maybe he should be having a refreshing iced tea instead of cup of coffee since its getting super hot here this time of the year... unlike the rest of the world, or mostly!
Aysgarth Top Fall's, taken in 2020, just after we came out of lockdown so a completely socially distanced visit, I say that because when I arrived I was the only person there.
spent a good few hours walking around and never saw a single person till I got back to the car.
Conditions were tricky to say the least, bright sunshine, not a breath of wind and not a cloud in the sky, 8am and I was walking around in shorts and t-shirt.
A Norfolk Southern train with one of the Blue Mane units trailing loads coal at the Consol loadout near Oakwood ,Virginia. We didn't stick around to see how long it's take to leave because we wanted to chase the Clinchfield heritage unit up the CSX Kingsport Sub
Here's this week's "Steam Sunday" offering a day late....because well I was a little distracted yesterday!
This photo should need no introduction given the massive amount of coverage of this event not just in the railfan community but in mass media and by the general public writ large. This is truly, without hyperbole, the railfan event of a generation and perhaps THE event of our lifetime. Never in any of my wildest dreams would I have believed a Union Pacific Big Boy would be under steam traveling far off "home rails" touring the eastern half of the nation. But here we are....the biggest on the biggest.....the largest steam locomotive in the world ever designed and built by the hand of man steaming across the largest concrete railroad bridge on the planet. This view looks down from Spencer Hill Road as UP 4014 accompanied by diesels from UP and host road Norfolk Southern both numbered 1776 steams south 240 ft above the valley of Tunkhannock Creek at about MP 653.2 on modern day NS' Sunbury Sub mainline.
As a tribute the semiquicentennial the Union Pacifc 4014 embarked on a coast to coast tour that saw it steam from Cheyenne on March 29th and travel to California to visit Milepost 0 denoting the start of the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento. It returned to Cheyenne on April 24th for a month before starting east on this much anticipated and unprecedented journey on May 25th. 4014 will celebrate the 4th of July in Philadelphia before starting back west ultimately scheduled to return home on July 29th! The 1.2 million pound 4-8-8-4 rolled off the erecting floor of the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, NY in Dec. 1941 and went cold on July 21, 1959 before returning to steam and moving again under its own power on May 1, 2019. Check out UP's official steam site to learn much more: www.up.com/about-us/history/steam/big-boy-4014
This is one of those legendary places in railroading everyone should see at least once for themselves. It truly is breathtaking and hard to wrap your head around when you see it for the first time. I've photographed trains in many places where they are dwarfed by the environment. In all those other cases it is nature that humbles the train be it towering mountains, or mighty rivers, or the vastness of the desert southwest but not here. Here it is the work of man that dwarfs the train....even one this big.....in the form of Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct...the lagest concrete railroad bridge in the world.
Built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad between 1912 and 1915 as part of the railroad's Nicholson Cutoff project which as a new 39.6 mile alignment between Clarks Summit, PA and Hallstead, PA that shortened the line by 3.6 miles but more importantly reduced the gradient and 2400 degrees of curvature for the massive amount of freight traffic (much of which was anthracite coal) flooding the line. The cutoff also included the construction of a 3600 ft tunnel and the shorter but no less impressive Martins Creek Viaduct in a similar concrete arch style. The DL&W was a pioneer in concrete construction using the material for depots and towers and had built two smaller but concrete arch bridges over Paulins Kill and the Delaware River five years earlier as part of its Lackawanna cut off project.
To learn more about this structure check out these links:
www.nicholsonheritage.org/tunkhannock-creek-viaduct/
www.worldrecordacademy.org/2022/05/worlds-largest-concret...
This route remained important and busy even after the Lackawanna's 1960 merger with the Erie. However after Erie-Lackawanna was folded into Conrail in 1976 the big blue government railroad had little use for the line and in 1980 sold it to the Delaware and Hudson between Binghamton and Scranton so they could replace and abandon their challenging Penn Division over Ararat Summit. The D&H continued to operate the line which during the Guilford years was a link in the 752 mile long Freight Main Line reaching from Mattawamkeag, Maine to Kase Tower in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Guilford spun the D&H off into bankruptcy in 1988 and Canadian Pacific purchased the road in 1991 continuing to send up to a dozen trains a day over this route. Finally in 2015 CP sold all of the former D&H south of Mohawk Yard in Schenectady, NY to Norfolk Southern which continues to operate it a decade later, though these days little more than one giant train in each direction normally travels via this now single tracked route.
Nicholson, Pennsylvania
Saturday June 13, 2026
"Look Ma, no hands!" This is not a stunt that I'll be trying out at home anytime soon😁. This boldly-marked and brightly-colored monarch caterpillar doesn't have to worry about being eaten by a bird because it's poisonous to them, thanks to the glycoside toxins in the milkweed leaves it eats.
Scan from slide ....................................................................................1987
In 1987 a lot of wood harvesting had been done in the nord of Myanmar.
The cutted timber and bamboo went down south, floating on the Irrawaddy river to Mandalay .
There it has been dragged out of the water for beeing distributed and transported overland .
Nowdays you cannot see this anymore, because it has been given up. - Probably not the logging, but the dragging oxes.
because rural glamour exists
♫ America - "A Horse With No Name" (Francesc Candel)
♫ Marisol - "Corre corre Caballito" (Eduardo Ortin)
Dress: Just Because - Daisy Outfit at @FaMESHed
Jewelry: (Yummy) - Hoops Set and Alexis Necklace
Hair: BarberYumYum - S25
In my previous article, like many photographer, I was very excited about the release of the new R6 and R5 because they offered tremendous advances.
www.flickr.com/photos/garivalden/50209737163/in/dateposted/
I bought the R6, the Canon RF 100-500mm and sold everything to buy again a 5D mark III
Why? Because the Canon R6 is also that:
1) Delivery of the RF – EF Adapter Ring offered by Canon has arrived 60 days after purchase. Fortunately, my nice store went out of its way to lend me one.
Many customers have suffered this and it is scandalous on the part of Canon not to have integrated the ring in the original box.
2) Prepare to pay (and I'm not even talking about new RF lenses)
- a very fast and robust SD card to enjoy the burst like the Sony Tough SD
- Resistant, I used Lightroom 6 box. To read new raw CR3s, you need Lightroom Classic
- To make the photos look like a Canon Picture Style you need a quality color profile, thank you to Damien Bernal for your recommendations
The choice of an L Bracket is complicated with this screen, Tom Migot has devoted several videos to it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA25FyekVKY
The R6 is with High ISO but if you want a very clean result, Denoise by Topaze is the best Tool , So, one question: Why have I never needed it before?
www.flickr.com/photos/garivalden/51296276233
This photo at 12800 iso will be almost unusable on 5D Mark III but never forget that the easiest and most beautiful thing is to take pictures when there is ... light
- The second battery is essential. It is difficult to say how many pictures you can take with one battery but I advise you to double your battery park as well as the charging time.
For years, I shot without ever thinking about the drums with a second in the bag never used.
3) The ergonomics of the R6 disappointed me and brought nothing
- The grip is worse than before. However, I have small hands and the handle seems too small to me. Those with large hands have their little finger in the air and some props even sell a base to add.
I wore for years a 5d Mark III with a 300mm 2.8mm IS II sometimes by the tips of two fingers to tell if the whole thing was balanced.
- The SD card door opens only by friction. There is still a small slot to slide a nail with difficulty, but the 5d Mark III and IV opened more easily with one hand.
The adjustable screen has never been useful to me because its tilt to the left of the device is not practical and even less with the L bracket
Touch has never been useful to me, in the field physical buttons are more practical
4 / A user experience that sometimes disappoints:
- Eye tracking stalls when it is too complicated in the foliage. Does the ultimate portrait of your dreams with a subject against a pretty background require this technology?
- In billebaude if you take your camera back, it will sometimes take a while before everything turns on again. Several times I had to turn off the R6 completely because the autofocus didn't know where it was.
- You see a beautiful sunset, you take your R6, you put your eye in the viewfinder and there… disappointment. Why not keep looking in our good old DSLR?
5) The rendering of R5 and R6 is often very different in appearance compared to DSLR.
More so if you mount a native RF lens.
Is it the technology or the level of detail that wants this? The shots often appear to be very artificially separated, and natural colors like grass are sometimes strange. I know you can change everything in PP, but all of this bothers me and takes me away from the pictorial and cinematographic universe.
My daughter came home from school with a drastically different school photo than I saw for a decade, I got it, the canon photographer (my daughter had asked a few years ago ;-) had bought an R6 or R5 and the schoolyard became a bit strange as « Gattaca ».... Advantage for Eye AF, it’s tea time for him ;-)
6) Let's talk about goals.
The photos of a Canon hybrid with an RF lens that I have seen in recent months made me want to buy a Canon EF 85mm f1.2 II 1 month after the R6. I'm not sure that was the goal. from Canon that we buy back the EF lenses that we had sold second-hand.
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Canon did not lose everything because, to get Canon cash back, I exchanged my Canon EF 300MM 2.8 is II before the summer of 2021 for an RF 100-500mm ...
Why did I do this?
Fear of obsolescence and maybe a follow-up helped by an abundant marketing hype which made me give in and go against my convictions of never buying a zoom because the rendering really has nothing to do with a focal length fixed premium… I sold it 1 month later.
The bottom line of this financially not very pleasant operation is that, as in many areas, if we have the feeling that things will not be in our best interest, it is better to abstain ;-)
What will I miss most about the Canon R6
Focusing in low light, your 85mm 1.2 will get a facelift
Staggering stabilization from 100-500mm net to 1/50 th to 500mm
The focus on the eye, clearly the majority of wedding, sports and animal photographers will never want to go back, I understand them, this is a decisive advantage over the competition
And especially the advantage of having the collimators close to the edge unlike the DSLR
The burst and the endless sorting it generates, the swiveling screen, the touchscreen, the wifi, the gps, I will miss less.
I don't think I’ll buy again this excellent 300mm 2.8 IS II.
I still got the magical 135 mm F2 and 85mm 1.2 , my next wildlife Canon Lens will be a prime EF, surely excellent, not too big (price too) because I take my equipment everywhere, repairable I don't know ...
www.flickr.com/photos/garivalden/47688762631
Every day, especially since the digital and the Internet, our so-called user-friendly world becomes unnecessarily more complicated and deliberately consumerist.
The R5 and R6 are good cameras and Canon has really caught up to the competition but it's not my direction.
The 5D Mark III is 2012, a century after 1912, my favorite year, in which I have been preparing a photo for a very long time.
What if Canon EF finally became a way of life.
Gari Valden
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I guess maybe because you don't see ropes tied to tree branches so often here. I just liked this. The rope was cut off about two feet off the ground, not attached to anything.
This was a tricky shot because of not knowing which orientation would work best. I tried horizontal mode to capture the dog trying to run after the kite boarder in the water. But then the sail got cut out of the frame. It was constantly moving high or low with the brisk winds. Then with portrait mode I barely got everything in before the boarder took off with the wind and left the dog behind with a person on shore. I have taken off, too, on a mini holiday to visit family. I shall be in and out on Flickr.
#AbFav_AUTUMN_SEASON
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I Think It's Going To Rain Today…
Randy Newman - youtu.be/k9Fn8VhkK5g
He is one of my main favourite artists, because of his great sensitivity.
SCOTLAND…
It is early October and we are in Scotland, so the weather is ‘Scottish’… which means, some sun, racing clouds, fast showers, lots of light play on the hills and oooh interesting light.
As we are high up, we are closer to the sky, so; often the top of the hills are covered in eerie wisps of white cloud.
Like a lover’s caress.
The weather doesn’t bother us, we take it as it comes, everything has its charms and moods.
When in The Highlands, you just have to see it with mist and rain.
We stand on the shore of Loch Lubnaig, standing silent, stunned by such beauty, which changes by the second! I capture the rain.
This is again how it came out of my camera!
I’m a ‘purist’, lol
Have a beautiful day and thank you for your comments, M, (*_*)
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I think I’m quite lucky because I live very close to a little river. So I can walk along the riverside paths whenever the mood takes me and the weather is kind.
I must have walked along this river hundreds of times.
But it is always different.
Different weather, different seasons, different light, different mood.
I always get a couple of decent shots ……………………. sometimes more.
I took this a little while ago now but have been too busy to process and post it.
But I have now.
So you can join me on this walk.
Just this once, mind.
You can even carry my tripod!
Texture is Graydayz by ghostbones
Bubble bath as a special treat for the Wood Pigeons today.
We're here: Soap
Disclaimer: No pigeon got soap in it's eyes. Or anywhere else. I filled the birdbath with sunflower seeds :-) The soap came later.
75/365
United Kingdom, London, London Wetland Centre
WWT London Wetland Centre is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the Barnes area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Many birds which have now made their home in the Centre cannot be found anywhere else in London. Other wild birds include great bittern, pintail, lapwing, water rail, ring-necked parakeet, sparrowhawk, sand martin, kingfisher, little grebe and great crested grebe.
Pippi has completely made herself at home.
I woke up this morning to Sadie whimpering because Pippi was in her bed and wouldn't leave. In this photo she's napping on top of one of three heated mats in our home.
If you notice some fuzzy strings around her neck, that is a "turtleneck" I've devised for her. She came to us with a pretty serious neck lesion that she had done to herself. I cut the ribbed part of George's old socks to make a small turtleneck for her. Her skin is almost completely healed. So life is pretty good for Pippi and she has been a wonderful distraction for all of us this winter.
Happy Caturday: Faces
because of the strong sunlight, i get a strainge backlight, it's gives a special effect of warm colors
Because we all love a nice action shot of agricultural machinery. This farmer was taking in the harvest at Stanton St Bernard in Wiltshire picturesque Vale of Pewsey.
I sail with the winter night
Oh, alone in the dark
I don't fear the stormy night
And night don't feel too cold
All because I miss you so
In the distance I can see
The island of my home
Oh, I like to be with you
Because yesterdays theme was The Blues, what better than a Slice of Blueberry Tart, Ice cream and Cream !!.........Enjoy but please return the Dish when you have finished .
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October's full moon is called the hunter's moon because it's the time of year when, historically, hunters began collecting food and storing it for the long and cold winter months ahead, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. Not quite full but 94. 7% of full, captured shortly after it rose over the Swansea Valley
...are so Beautiful😍
SPRING🌷
A Rhododendron park in Germany in Westerstede, Hobbie Park. I had a wonderful time there in 2014🌞
Did the master ask for more light or for his chamber pot in his final moments? We do not know.
Even great men can utter banal last words. Thomas Bernhard put forward the theory that he had said ‘Nothing more!’, because he’d had enough.
What is certainly recorded is that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whilst resting in this armchair, passed away on 22 March 1832 at the age of 82.
Haus am Frauenplan, Weimar
Thuringia, Germany 20.03.2013
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
"Mehr Licht!"
Ob der Meister zuletzt nach mehr Licht oder seinem Nachttopf verlangte? Wir wissen es nicht.
Auch großen Männern können letzte Worte banal geraten. Thomas Bernhard vertrat die These, er habe "Mehr nicht!" gesagt, weil er genug gehabt habe.
Sicher überliefert ist, dass Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in diesem Sessel ruhend am 22. März 1832 im Alter von 82 Jahren von der irdischen Bühne abtrat.
Haus am Frauenplan, Weimar
Thüringen, Deutschland 20.03.2013
www.klassik-stiftung.de/goethe-nationalmuseum/goethes-woh...
Because my ride was sick and I didn't get to photograph the Memorial Day parade you are treated to another Annie. This is the last of the three in the official image contest that she couldn't quite decide on.
six faces now
...because our strawberry season is gone, boohoo :-((
Have a wonderful sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jenny are in hoildays and Gaby on tour
so no trouble this morning ;-))
nobody asked
all in here
We had been worried about Ares' girlfriend Cindy because we hadn't seen her for a while! How happy I was when I saw her yesterday on the meadow in our garden! She is doing well, her eyes are fine again and her thick winter fur is ideal for this time of year! Let's see if she treats herself to a tasty portion of cat food later!
"Peace and Quiet"
Tea from Poland
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This is only about my second attempt at waterfall photography because there are not many down this way. This is a lovely spot called Osmington Mills on the Jurassic Coast. We were in Weymouth yesterday for an event. I knew it was going to be a cloudless sunset so I had an idea of coming here and filling the frame with the waterfall with some early evening light.
And I think its paid off with the help of my KASE circular polariser/6 stop filter.
I will definatly return on a more atmospheric day, lots of interesting rock ledges too.