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This photo was taken on the morning as storm Arwen raged, as I was adjusting my composition tuning the camera on the tripod to vertical I glimpse this wave starting. I quickly took several shots as I tightened my tripod. This first shot was the only one I caught full frame as it soon rose higher and started to exit right, that photo I called "The jaws of Arwen”.
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 2-8-0 1702 leads its excursion train through Jackson Line, NC, shortly after departing Bryson City on the morning of August 21, 2022.
This photo was taken one month shy of the 25th anniversary of my first train chase, of the same locomotive on the same route, and this was one of the same locations on that first chase, which happened thanks to my grandfather. The GSMR and I have both changed a lot since then, but I'm glad it's still possible for me to come back here and briefly relive those early days and think of the good times that went with them. Until I got my driver's license in 2001, train chasing was a family affair, and I'm thankful to have had those experiences with my parents and grandparents, who weren't railfans themselves but were very supportive of my hobby.
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“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
― T.S. Eliot
Happy first day of 2015 my friends,
may your New Year be bright and inspired!
♥
This was taken on 11/20/2017 at Potter Marsh, AK. This was the beginning of a pretty impressive northern lights storm.
Road Trip... early morning view going out to a desolate part of the Mojave Desert and then a warm welcome home on the return.
Some of you may have noticed that I've been more or less absent from Flickr for well over a year. Life has a way of catching us off-guard and sending us spinning sometimes. Many changes in my life over the past 12 months, some good and some not, left me with not a lot of spare time for editing or posting photos, let alone thinking of witty and delightful things to say. It's a lot of pressure (just kidding!!). I can't say exactly what caused my creative block, but I've been shooting again, processing again, and starting to warm to the task of reconnecting with many old Flickr friends, and hopefully making some new! I hope to get to visit a few of the brilliant photos that I've missed over the next few weeks.
This shot actually dates back to about one week before the pandemic officially wrecked our lives back in 2020. A more recent trip to Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley National Park reminded me that I had this one still waiting to be processed. I don't do a lot of black and white, but the light and shadow interplay across the sweeping dunes emphasized the shapes and symmetries better in B+W, so I ran with it! I really struggled with which photo to post first after being away so long, but it doesn't matter in the end, there will be more!
May 2022 be filled with dazzling photo opportunities and joyous times for all. Peace.
I bought an amaryllis bulb in early December and I was hoping she would be flowering by Christmas but sadly, it was not to be. Fingers crossed though that she will be revealing her beauty in time for the new year
A lovely oak tree which was presumed killed in a landslip, is producing leaves low down on it's trunk - HMBT!
Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
*happy beginning bokeh wednesday*
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Climbing a mountain at 6 in the morning is one great way to start a new day - Have a nice weekend :)
“Another Sunrise, another new beginning.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Taken at Tai Mo Shan, the highest peak (957m) in Hong Kong
…not on New Year Day though :-)
Wishing you a healthy, happy & peaceful New Year!
Explore #03 (2023-01-01) - Thank you for stopping by and for your words of encouragement and favorites!
This is the interior ring of a sunflower. My goal was show the texture at the end of each stamen as the primary focus of the shot. Normally, this can be done using a cooler light to draw out detail. But that would take away the rich color of the flower. So I used a few light sources in different locations running different color temps. Pretty happy with the result. Amazing what is found inside a sunflower. The geometry and detail is striking.
I rarely use Photoshop other than to adjust exposure in the RAW editor. No recoloring, painting, cloning, or anything else was used in this pic. The flower is beautiful and interesting enough to stand on its own.
New life-new hope.....!
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It is just about time for the Northern folks to head down here to sunny Florida for the season. The bridge is down, awaiting the traffic to come swirling down into the neighborhood...
What may seem like the End could just be the Beginning!
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I've always loved the beginning BW segment of the Wizard of Oz film. In particular the scenes where Dorothy meets Professor Marvel just before the storm brews up. The sepia tones, the dusty landscape, the dark clouds, the shadows, it's all part of classic visual storytelling. It sets the mood and atmosphere before even a word of dialog is spoken. I think, like most of us, scenes from that film are hard wired into my mind because we first viewed it at such a young age, and probably multiple times. All these years later, I still react to environments that remind me of the film. I'm insipred to attempt to recreate them photographically.