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Bit of a damp morning here. The birds still have to feed tho' so nice for me to sit in the dry to watch my garden visitors.
As 66704 sits while its train is loaded at Arcow Quarry, 66760 heads south on the S&C with its train from the Quarry.
66704 has worked into the Quarry on 6M31 from Hexthorpe and is having its first part of the train loaded. 66760 is working 6M38, Arcow Quarry to Bredbury, with its loaded train after running to Blea Moor to run round its train.
14th September 2017 at 1255, nice to be able to photograph to Freights at once on the S&C
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#69 - No Bigger that a Credit Card
This bit of fallen pine twig is just under the length of a credit card
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Been a bit off last few days, we each had our shingles vax, first of two. Left us sore and sorry! Jenny took this phone shot of young Kooka who zoomed in on a big crunchy Grasshopper on the Orange tree! Well, that fixed that pest! As per normal practice, it got bashed about a bit before being eaten. Same Kookaburra as was here the other day. Beautiful thing.
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Die noch sehr frisch lackierte 215 047 verlässt am 19.05.91 die Bierstadt Bitburg mit dem E 3603 (Köln-Trier).
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― Rumi
70020 was in charge of 6G65 Earles to Walsall loaded cement tanks. It's the first time I've seen the tangoed 70 and in the sun it was certainly standout....just south of Dronfield.
I've been reading quite a bit about Nebraska lately. I discovered an author entirely new to me - Mari Sandoz - who wrote quite a bit about pioneering in Nebraska.
Another book recently suggested to me - The Sod-House Frontier by Everett Dick - is now on my growing pile of books I'll get to soon. From the looks of it, the book describes in detail nearly ever aspect of Nebraska pioneer life.
It does, however, leave out normal death almost completely. There's talk of frontier justice and murder, of coruse. But there are only two paragraphs on funerals.
I find this so strange. In the Victorian era, the rites of death were almost gleefully related. But by the 1880s all of that changed. Death moved from the home to funeral homes. Once that separation occured, death became foreign even though it is one thing we all have in common.
We all experience the death of friends and loved ones, we all grieve in many of the same ways, we all cry, we all remember those who have left us. And in the end, we all die. Yet, through so many of the books of and from this era that I've read, death and funerals and burials hardly receive a mention.
Writings about the funerals of the late 1800s and early 1900s that took place in populated areas in the East and the Pacific West are easy enough to find. They were the norm. But those taking place on the plains and prairies, within the cemeteries I photograph, are essentially non-existent. I have come across exactly zero among the journals, diaries, memoirs, and histories I've read. I'm sure there must be something out there though.
Though someone likely recorded this, their absense has left me with endless questions.
If the nearby town had no funeral director, who took care of the body? In regular houses, the funeral would be held in the front parlor (later called the "living room" for obvious reasons), what about small sod-houses or shacks? Who made the coffins and how on the plains where there were few, if any, trees? What happened to the bodies of Black pioneers who died among Whites (they were rarely allowed in the same cemeteries, though there were exceptions)?
More than anything, I just want someone to walk me through the process. I photograph the very end result of death: the gravesite well over a century after burial. I want to know everything prior to this as it happened to the pioneers.
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'An Ocean I See Without Bottom or Shore'
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Nebraska
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A bit of a surprise in my garden with this Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) deciding to grow in the path between my two ponds.
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I've been a bit banjaxed these last several weeks again with the M.E. and overdoing things, part helped by the presence of these beauties, so If I don't reply or comment on your pics, this is the reason. I'm just too knackered - sorry.
A bit of a murky morning but although there was little sign of the sunrise, there's always potential for an image if you embrace the conditions.
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8-22-15 MS Veendam traveling through Prince Christian Sound in Southern Greenland passing a strange looking burger bit on it's way back to Boston.
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Bit of a moody feel to this one, from Crummock Water yesterday, with the dark tones. The vibrant patches of colour in the sky of my last upload had pretty much disappeared, just leaving some blue and purple tones as the light was fighting with the cloud to break through.
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Taken a bit too far, for sliders sunday…
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See the first comment box below for the standard version, the original from which all arose, and a screenshot of this version's photoshop file with the expanded layers panel and channels panel.
After converting to black and white in Lr, and cropping, it was brought into Ps. I liked the version edited as usual, but then decided to see what would happen if I slud things further.
I like the overlay glow that is often created with editing for an Orton effect. The first way I learned was from Tony Kuyper's tutorials. At the top of the layer stack a curves adjustment layer set to screen blend mode is created. Then create a merged up through it layer. Set it to multiply blend mode and use gaussian blur. Group those layers and possibly add a mask to the group, and possibly reduce opacity of the group.
I recently came across another way to do it in the Practical Photography magazine. They say duplicate the background layer a couple times but since I'd already done a lot of editing with quite a few layers, I created a new merged up layer at the top of the layer stack, then duplicated it. One of those layers is set to Multiply and blurred. The other is set to Screen and left as is. They are grouped and a curves adjustment layer is added to the group. The line is pulled up and left to lighten the group.
I ended up using both those ways of creating an Orton effect, and sliding opacity of each a bit for this.
Happy Sliding!
Bit your tongue canoe boy and look again!
I knew little about birds when I first started taking photos on the bayou and calling this white beauty a Snowy Egret was my first major mistake. This it a juvenile Little Blue Heron which you can plainly see is completely white. It lacks the yellow spats that are a part of the Snowy’s wardrobe and also comes with some pale colors in the lores and the eyes. We see quite a few of them at this stage during their development on the bayou. A juvenile Little Blue Heron perched in a tree along Horsepen Bayou.
I meant to include the adult version here, but finally realize I had not included it earlier. In the third comment box.
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As far as the weather was going it was a bit of an anticlimax. Quite overcast and flat.
So went for the obvious minimalistic long exposure shot.
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A bit tight in frame but shot at 840mm with a really narrow depth of field. Try it full size ....press 'L'
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Bit of a storm/rain clouds blowing in, this is a three shot HDR image of the famous lone tree at Malham.
After completing it's ATON work in the Bay of Green Bay the Ice cutting Tug and Barge return home to Sturgeon Bay. Normally icebreaking would be the primary mission this time of year, bit of a different story this winter.
I used to go to school at Portland State University, spent a bit over four years there in fact, so during breaks in classes, or long lunches, I walked the city. I have known about this tree for years, and I knew there was a photo of it that I really wanted to take. Yet despite frequent return trips over the years, I never found it. That is until this night on a photo walk, when the elements all came together and it made sense. And finally I have a picture of this tree that I am pleased with. Not that I won't visit it again, but it is nice to have that particular itch scratched. ;-)
We walked from St Joseph's Monastery to 'The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Graces' - a church which overlooks Cotignac. The bells from the church ring out frequently and loudly. I find them strangely comforting. I didn't take a shot of the church itself, only this bit because of the trees and shadows. You can see part of the church at the left.
I may not be on Flickr much in the next few days as I'm having to undergo some onerous dental work starting with a 2 hour appointment at 5.30 today. I'm having three teeth removed and implants fitted in the space of two of them. This is related to my hip replacement surgery believe it or not. When you have a hip prosthesis you have to undergo a dental check for any infections as this can affect the prosthesis. I went for a check ten days ago and I've got infections under the roots of three teeth. I never knew. All a bit of a nuisance to say the least. It's delayed the hip replacement as I need to be totally free of infections in time for the operation and so this could take three weeks. Probably too much information for you but you know how I can rabbit on unnecessarily sometimes.
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Bit of folder cleaning tonight found this unfinished vertorama .. well until now at least...
This was a cracker of an arvo at Boonerah Point on Anzac day this year.
Pentax K1 w Pentax DFA15-30/2.8 WR
ISO 400 f/11 -1.7 and +0.7ev @15mm
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 7, stiched and blended in Affinity Photo 2.5, colour graded in Nik Color Efex 7, tweaked in Topaz Ai-3 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Regular visitor to this delightful location at this time of the year and often wonder how many of the students actually take time to notice this amazing setting. The security guard that Bruce and I spoke to didnt have a clue suggesting it was a wattle tree....duh.
Nikon 14-24
A bit of a story here. Sometimes I go to the pond before sunrise to look for otters and mink. The tally for the winter so far is one otter sighting, one mink sighting, and zero photos to show for it. In past years when the mammals don't show, there have almost always been ducks to enjoy once the light gets good. Not so this year when the pond has sadly been duckless most of the time. That is until this lovely Goldeneye hen showed up. I was hoping she would stick around for the good light and she did. This is actually my first ever photo of a female persuasion Common Goldeneye. Siskiyou County, California
……A bit of a climb but well worth it for the views, we reckon its 50 years since we’d been up the Wrekin - amazing really, but when things are on your doorstep you so often don't get around to doing them! We’ve climbed many more mountains in Cumbria and more often than this local mountain sitting on the Shropshire plains. So it was a nice thing to do with family up from London - we took a packed lunch and ate it at the top.……Alan:-)…….
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A bit of a hurried capture as this was one of those fleeting moments of light you almost miss because you weren't expecting it.
I was actually packing up and heading back to the car at this point having given up hope of seeing anymore light and with a stomach wanting breakfast - a minute earlier the big bank of cloud in this direction was showing no signs of breaking and indeed was being added to by cloud overhead rushing to join it.
I only noticed it becasue I dropped my filter holder whilst putting it away, causing me to shift round slightly and I had about a minute to compose, focus and fire off a couple of shots before the cloud took over again. Sometimes being clumsy is helpful!
Backyard bits. This is just for fun: I had the hardest time getting my camera to see this and not all the surrounding leaves because it was just a dot of a thing, much smaller than a house fly. I had to use manual focus, but without my reading glasses my eyes weren't much better than the camera's. So yeah, not the best shot, but it was fun watching this green eyed speck watching me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯