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As per the Iron Builder competition rules. I (the looser) have built a trophy for Bruce (the winner).
I figure that anyone who beats me in a head to head (no pun intended) competition deserves to be able to mount my head on their wall. Thus I have created a Lowell sphere version of my head for Bruce to mount on his wall.
With virtually the last of the daylight the westbound Empire Builder is seen running a couple of hours late at Essex, Montana. It had just departed from the modern concrete platform that has been built to replace the original chalet style predessesor.
By way of a little explanation. The Empire Builder runs between Chicago and Portland/Seattle daily, a distance of over 2,200 miles. An end to end trip might sound enjoyable, but I would guess without a cabin it would be quite a feat of endurance. I have been lucky enough to experience a short two hour trip between Whitefish and East Glacier.
On the side of every locomotive's smoke box is plates with the information for when the locomotive was built. These are the ones on Black River & Western which started life out in Colorado on the Great Western Railway.
Westbound Amtrak #7, the "Empire Builder" slows to a stop at Red Wing, MN depot on June 15th, 2021 with 2 locomotives and about 12 cars. Train arrived at 10:20 pm, late this day (due at 8:52 pm) due to signal issues somewhere between Lake Cities and Red Wing.
I always loved O. Winston Links work on night railroad photography and have been taking more shots at night.
The Empire Builder kicking up new snow as it passes Northtown yard at 44th. Passengers are enjoying a late breakfast of French toast and bacon in a nice warm diner as I freeze in the wind wishing I were traveling on it. It's cold and gloomy out but it'll be a nice trip for them as they travel along the Mississippi and enjoy the extra 4 hours on the train for which they are being charged no additional fee.
Amtrak Empire Builder train with service from Seattle to Chicago, East Glacier on Marias Pass line Montana.
While Amtrak train 7, the westbound 'Empire Builder' waits in the Milwaukee Intermodal Station, CSXT 140 pulls through on the bypass with a CP ethanol train.
The Builders Arms Hotel is a historic pub on Gertrude Street Fitzroy, and the public bar has been whetting the whistle of locals since 1853.
With the last car just clearing the Rum River, the eastbound Empire Builder passes the Northstar commuter rail station at Anoka enroute to St Paul Union Depot.
This is a shot that I did for a builder's portfolio. I'm very pleased with how it turned out.
It's about 10-12 total layers. Sky and grass replacements. Several flash pops STU to bring up the lights a little. I tried to accentuate what was more than just lighting it all up.
“A job you have to do, or a job you want to do?” I asked as I approached. “Oh I love it.” Was the answer. This is one of the roughest paths on Cader Idris, mostly used as a descent route. Erosion from footfall and weather has taken its toll. The massive chunks of stone are dropped in by helicopter and then chaps like this slowly manhandle then into place. He’s been at this since September and has another year to go. Funding is an issue, having lost some in European money due to Brexit, so if you’re visiting, use the car park, pay the fee, it all helps these guys continue to improve and maintain the paths too many people take for granted.
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Titled after a song by Gong. "Master Builder", on their album "YOU" is a power-house piece of music like no other. Starting off with deep Tibetan style chanting and repeated mystic syllables, the song gradually and gradually builds up to a muscular, repeated figure leading to furious and dazzling displays of synth, guitar and saxophone.
"Master Builder" takes no prisoners. It makes no compromises and relays a spiritual power that is hair-raising and breathtaking. It's shocking, rocketing finish is like being propelled out of cannon into the vast, light filled sky of another universe. In this case, on the album, "Master Builder" leads to the complex wonder of "A Sprinkling of Clouds", one of the greatest pieces Gong ever created. The two songs are inextricably linked.
It is this moment, from the Zen-shock finish of "Master Builder" and the propulsion into "A Sprinkling of Clouds" that came to mind when this image was created.
"Master Builder
Tell me how you make a Temple.
Jewels and Moonstones
You don't really need them.
You know.
Master Builder,
Tell me what the Temple's
Made of.
Deep inside you,
You can make
An Invisible Temple
In your own Imagination
If you Will."
- Allen, Smyth, Blake, Malherbe, Moerlen, Howlett, Hillage.
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On 12-30-17, the late afternoon sunlight was resplendent upon the westbound Empire Builder at Milwaukee, with its typical three engines during the winter months for its trek across the high prairies and Pacific Northwest.
Skokie, Illinois. Fabulous sculpture outside the most mundane business strip in the world. There's a sculpture park nearby; maybe this one is in for repair.
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This Blythe Middie is Pixie Peaceful, posing for Winter Celebration in Blythe Pure and Simple on Facebook. The background is a jigsaw puzzle.
This male Great Egret was busy bringing in twigs, which the female was incorporating into her nest. She may have wished he'd chosen something a little smaller. :)
The Empire Builder pauses for the last in a series of switches needed to be thrown through the Minnesota Commercial yard area. MNNR personnel threw the middle switch shaving off valuable minutes of time spent navigating the yard complex itself. Overall, I give a big thumbs up to the look of the Siemens ALC-42s at night.
Amtrak's Empire Builder crosses Two Medicine Trestle and past a barn. East Glacier, Mont. | May, 2023.
I photographed the builders and staff for a contracting company here in Ottawa. I think what's different about these is you rarely see the faces of who will actually be working on your home or business. L3 doesn't sub-contract any of it's work, so an in-house team means a bit of stability and I think a more personable approach. We shot these on a job-site so the dirt is real ;)
Strobist info: Elinchrom Ranger Quadra through a Westcott Apollo Orb on-axis and angled towwards subject. Large silver scrim-jim below for fill. A Ranger Quadra through an 18cm gridded reflector for the background (2 lights). Triggered with skyports.
While the next round of Iron Builder rages on, I present a trophy to my victorious opponent Andrew, as per the tradition of the Iron Builder competition.
I hope there is space for this Brickarms Bionidoll trophy to stand proud on your shelf of wonders!
Cheers! : D
My neigbours are having a new drive put down - one of the builders looks like he stepped straight out of a Caravaggio painting.
