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My first playdate with my paintbrush markers. I had never used these markers before and was trying to get a feel for them.
I fear this will be a very long journey! :-))
My view coming over the bridge. The clouds were puffy cotton balls and the sky was so blue. This was definitely a stop and stare moment. New York, Bronx.
Beginners at those surf camps can rent a softboard and the whole outfit ... this Dutch girl forgot she was also given the trunks.
A blog to indulge two greatest interests - amateur astronomy and the internet.
Comet Facts
Fact1: A comet is a conglomerate of particles bound together by ice (not necessarily H2O water ice, it could be dry ice (CO2), for example)
Fact2: When a comet approaches the sun the ice melts and releases the particles from the main body.
Fact3: The tail of a comet always points away from the sun.
As the picture below shows, there are in fact two tails, both curved, and they are 30 MILLION kilometres long. That's a lot of fine particles. The theory is that the solar wind is responsible for the blue gas and gravity alone for the larger particles.
More interesting cosmological facts will unfold at Astronomy For Beginners
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Nikon EM (1981) slowly getting the Nikon Collection filled up.
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Note: this photo was published in a Jul 2009 Squidoo blog titled "A Beginners Guide to How to Throw a Frisbee." It was also published as an illustration in an Aug 2009 Mahalo blog titled "Ultimate Frisbee," at www-dot-mahalo-dot-com-slash-ultimate-dash-frisbee. It was also published in an Apr 6, 2010 blog titled "It’s Senioritis Season."
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Most people think of frisbee as a casual form of relaxation between two people, or perhaps an alternative to throwing a stick for your dog to run and fetch. But apparently it can be a serious competitive sport, too, as I discovered when I wandered past two uniformed teams playing a "serious" game of frisbee on a grass field the size of a soccer field. (After uploading these photos, I was informed by a Twitter friend that they were playing "Ultimate Frisbee," which is played by competitive club teams in colleges across the country. Who knew?)
True, the uniforms consisted merely of a colored shirt, to distinguish the yellow team from the blue team; there were no helmets, hats, knee pads, or other forms of protection. It wasn't needed, because there was little or no physical contact between the players; they merely tossed the frisbee to other members of their team as they raced from one end of the field to the other.
All of this took place in Riverside Park, near a broad sidewalk that runs along the Hudson River, beneath an elevated section of the West Side Highway. This is located near 72nd Street, and many other New Yorkers ignored the frisbee while they lined up to take freely-provided kayaks out into the river for a quick paddle, or while they enjoyed lunch and a snack at an outdoor restaurant just to the south of the frisbee field.
But the frisbee players ignored all of this, and continued dashing to and fro. I snapped a few hundred images during the course of an hour, and ended up with this set of 30 "keepers" ...
Although this is similar to one I have shot before, I thought Id try it again for the challenge, I think its quite beautiful even in black and white.
Plows are something I haven't shot much of over the years, mostly because the snowfall in New York's Capital Region usually doesn't warrant them. January 7, 2003 was a major exception, however. With our area having been hit with two back-to-back nor'easters, something had to be done. On this day, I was out running errands when I came across a fairly normal CP Train 169 heading north out of Albany with the usual pair of NS Dash-9s for power. Being on break from college and not having much else to do, I decided to follow the train north. After jumping ahead of the train and arriving in Mechanicville, I was pleasantly surprised to find a CP plow train with this Jordan Spreader holding on the Colonie Main at CPF467. I headed up to Coons to wait for it, and had the opportunity to shoot ST Train AYMO first. Then came the dramatic moment seen here, and after that Train 169 and ST Train EDMO (4 trains at Coons in 1 hour!). I then headed up to Crescent where I caught a Guilford plow train coming off the Rotterdam Branch (a photo of which can be found in my B&M book). This was quite the catch for me at this time as I had only been doing railroad photography for a few years and wasn't yet connected to the rest of the railfan community to have even known that two plow trains would be running! So, thank God I was too young and naive to blow-off a pair of NS Dash-9s on 169!