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I had a chance to try out my new 24 mm Tilt-Shift lens at Turkey Run State Park (Indiana). I love the ability to shift the lens up and down to create two or three images that can be easily stitched together to create a larger picture. Since the camera always points straight ahead, there is no distortion between the images, and vertical lines remain vertical throughout the scene. (Of course in this picture there weren't many vertical elements to worry about.)
I called in at the scrapyard and by chance came across another 205. I had a brief chat with it's young owner who has owned the car for about a year and is very much a fan. His is a diesel.
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I was busy taking a photo of the reflection of the bridge in the water for this challenge when a group of young boys trundled across it on their motorised scooters. I was too late to take a photo, however, a couple of girls were coming up the rear so I did not miss the chance afterall. Fun and Reflection = two challenges in one.
Just had chance for a grab and go Moon shot before the clouds rolled back in ;0) Thrilled we captured both the X and V!
Prime focus single shot, Canon 600D attached to Maksutov 127mm telescope
ISO 400, 1/125
They may be over 40 years old but the famous class 103 engines are still going strong. Granted, it is getting harder and harder to see one of these majestic engines but when there is a chance, you immediately jump for joy. On January 2nd 2011 I had the chance to shoot 103 235 with special train TEE 5461 from Dresden to Koblenz, the picture shows the train in the Genshagener Heide.
Ze zijn en blijven mooi, de locs uit de serie 103.
Op 2 Januari had ik weer eens de mogelijkheid een 103 te fotograferen toen de sonderzug TEE 5461 van Dresden naar Koblenz via Berlijn werd gereden.
De foto toont 103 235 met haar trein in de bocht van de Genshagener Heide.
Ein Umweg über Berlin machte TEE 5461 am 2. Januar 2011.
Der Zug war unterwegs von Dresden Hbf nach Koblenz und fuhr nicht auf dem direktem Weg über Erfurt aber macht einen "kleinen" Umweg über Berlin.
Im fast letzten Licht des Tages konnte ich Lok 103 235 mit ihrem Sonderzug in der Genshagener Heide fotografieren.
Nach einen Zwischenstopp am Berliner Hbf ging die Fahrt über Hannover - Ruhrpott - Köln weiter gen Koblenz.
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I have been under the weather with no opportunity to go out and shoot. So, I'm revisiting old photos. This one was taken on my honeymoon, and it's quite a sweet story ...
David and I were on Maui and decided to drive the Road to Hana, a 68-mile long stretch of highway which connects the population center of Kahului with the remote town of Hāna in east Maui. About half way through our drive we turned off a little dirt road just to be adventurous. We eventually came across a beautiful and very old little church and graveyard right on the coast. We parked and explored that for a bit, and beyond that discovered a couple little ponies in a pasture. We said hi to them and went for a walk through a forested little trail.
When we came back, this beautiful child was there loving on the ponies, with her mom standing near by. The crazy thing was, I recognized this little girl ... she was in Skylar's class at school in California! Here I was in the middle of absolutely nowhere running into someone I knew!
The touching thing was that she was with her mom, who had cancer, and had lost all her hair and was wearing a scarf. I knew she had been fighting that for a while and wondered sadly if this was a final trip for her with her daughter. But, happily, I saw her over Halloween (years later) and she is fully recovered! It made me so happy!! :)
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While Dot spotting yesterday I chanced upon this drone patrolling up and down the River frontage.
The local Gulls and especially an Oyster Catcher were not best pleased about it and were making a heck of a din while dive-bombing the intruder
I've only seen the odd one from a distance so I sought out the 'pilot' standing not too far away and got chatting.
Funded under a joint scheme by the local Council and a Government initiative it's being used in relation to the local Gull population and also some COVID19 'Social Distancing' monitoring.
For both uses, the drone is equipped with an AF (Audio Feed) system where the operator can either invoke Gull 'distress' calls to try and disperse them or for the latter, various voice commands can be activated so as to remotely advise any groups or individuals of the error of their ways and suggest appropriate actions.
This was just a practice run for an initial three month trial and in my book, the jury is out as whether it will be effective.
Time will tell.
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The chances of seeing a dynamic brake equippted GP9 on the east end of the EL in Bergen County N.J. were rare in the early 1970's. Here is ex Erie 1262 built in 06-1956 at Scranton Pa. on 07-22-1973. Howard Kent Jr.
It was lovely today! With blue skies and a temperature hovering around the 0 degree Celsius mark, what better to do than clamber down a frozen waterfall in street shoes - even with the full force of the flow rushing unabated below the ice. These two did fine but with warmer temperatures coming, I'll bet you wont be able to take chances like that next week
Image not taken at Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Randall you are correct I Checked my library and there was over 3 hours difference so yes I guess I was at Yoho...lol
Considering all the cool stuff that rolled through Alanson in the Michigan Northern era this is far from sharks or Alco's but for a multitude of reasons I hardly ever shot Michigan Northern in its heyday. In September 1983 this excursion made its way up the old MC/NYC line through Gaylord to the Mackinaw City and after letting the passengers spend a couple nights in the Straits area it returned southbound on the old PRR route through Petoskey. It was sort of a farewell to the Straits area for railroading as the tracks were soon coming out north of Cheboygan and Pellston. My Uncle who lived in Flint and often had taken the train north in an earlier era rode this and I was tasked with picking hime up Friday night and bringing him home to Trout Lake for the weekend and then getting him back on the train Sunday morning. The weather was pretty bad on Sunday but I followed the train south and shot it as far as Alanson where SEMTA 902 and 904 roll by the old station.
It was a dark and stormy afternoon on the Mogollon Rim
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Today is a special day.
First up, it’s the 4 year birthday of my photoblog, www.murphyz.co.uk. 4 years ago today I started posting images there, and after a month of daily posting I cut back to Monday thru Friday of posting a new image, so just 5 per week instead of 7. That has continued throughout. Through busy schedules, illness, travel and various other distractions, I have somehow managed to post an image without fail during the whole of that period.
I think that’s pretty awesome.
I've learnt a lot in the past 4 years, and improved greatly. I've met some amazing people, and made some great friends. I've also changed as a person. From someone who never used to like to travel, I've started to do a lot more of that. 4 years ago when I started the blog I had visited 5 foreign countries; by the time I finish the trip I'm currently on that total will be 34 countries…and that’s due to photography.
However, it’s now at an end. As the title of this post suggests, I will not…indeed I can not…continue to do the same. I’m not sure I’m learning anything through posting daily. I’m no longer finding that I am enjoying it in the same way as I used to either. Sure, I love being out there and taking photos, I love processing them, and I love to share them – however I can do all of that without having to post daily. There were too many times last year when I felt I had to post just for the sake of posting, and my heart wasn’t in those particular images. There’s one thing for creating something and sharing it because you want to, but it’s another thing when you are just going through the motions and creating something because you feel you have to. Quality suffers as a result.
I also want to free up more time to do other things. Work takes up a large portion of my life, and much of my ‘spare’ time in the past year has been travelling. In between those and trying to maintain some sort of social life I had tried to fit in photography and daily posting of images. That doesn’t leave time for much else, and there are lots of projects I wish to work on. If I can free up the hours I spend on processing and apply these elsewhere, I think that would be a great thing.
It’s not the end completely. I will still be posting images, they just won’t be daily any more. Chances are, if you follow me on the social network sites instead of the blog itself, then you may not notice any difference as I don’t post all of my images on sites other than my blog. However, I can’t guarantee when I’m posting. It won’t be daily, it may not even be weekly or monthly. I guess it just depends on how I feel, what I’m up to, where I go, and those kinds of things.
In one way it will be sad to stop. Part of me thinks ‘give it another year’ as 5 years seems like a better number to end on. However, as I’m typing this I’m feeling pretty pleased by it.
For the next 10 days I’m going to be spending time in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand – so the chances are these will be the next images you see from me once I’ve returned.
See you soon.
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I had an appointment downtown, and arriving a bit early (I'd allowed time for traffic) I grabbed the chance to relax with a spot of photography. It wasn't as relaxing as I'd hoped, as a security guard came out and told me that I wasn't allowed to take pictures of the building without written permission. When I went into the bulding to inquire how I could get that permission, the officers on duty told that I had every right to take pictures outside. From their expressions when I told them about the security guard, I suspect I'm not the first photographer who's been handed a line.
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According to the official web site:
Osgoode Hall is a heritage building located at 130 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario. This historic site is the focus
for legal activity in Ontario and has garnered attention for over 170 years. Osgoode Hall occupies six acres and was acquired by the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1829. The name Osgoode Hall honours William Osgoode the first Chief Justice of the province. Osgoode Hall withstood more than ten major restorations. The front facade maintained its originality and is basically unaltered to reflect the 1860 design.
The interior of Osgoode Hall possesses unique architectural achievements. The heritage courtrooms are from the late 1800's. Convocation Hall boasts ten gorgeous stained glass heraldic windows covering 4,000 years of law. The Great Library touted as the most beautiful room in Canada has an intricate ceiling, cork floors and triple cube design. The rotunda is spectacular from the original tiling on the floor to the elegant arched pillars surrounded by elaborate oil paintings of former Chief Justices of the Province.
Since 1840 Osgoode Hall has been co-owned by the Ontario Government and the Law Society. The Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Superior Court Of Justice and the Law Society of Upper Canada currently reside at Osgoode Hall.
According to Wikipedia:
Osgoode Hall is a landmark building in downtown Toronto constructed between 1829 and 1832 in the late Georgian Palladian and Neoclassical styles. It houses the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Divisional Court of the Superior Court of Justice, and the Law Society of Upper Canada. The portico of Osgoode Hall's east wing was built at the head of Toronto's York Street to serve as a terminating vista, though it is now obscured by trees planted on the building's lawn.
Osgoode Hall was named in honour of the province's first chief justice, William Osgoode. The building housed Osgoode Hall Law School until 1969 when the faculty was relocated to the campus of York University in the North York community of Toronto. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1979. It was also designated by the City of Toronto under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1990.
The six-acre (24,000 m²) site at the corner of Lot Street (Queen Street West today) and College Avenue (University Avenue today) was acquired by the Law Society in 1828. At the time, the location was on the northwest edge of the city, which has since grown around the building. It was originally bounded on its north side by Osgoode Street, and on its east side by a street that would eventually be known as Chestnut Street. The former no longer exists, and the latter now stops at Armoury Street as Nathan Philips Square now lies to the east. The original 2 1⁄2-storey building was started in 1829 and finished in 1832 from a design by John Ewart and W. W. Baldwin. The structure was named after William Osgoode, the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada (what is now the Canadian province of Ontario).
Between 1838 and 1843, the hall was turned into troop barracks. When the Law Society regained possession in 1844, an expansion was designed by Henry Bowyer Lane; the West Wing and Library were built, with two domes (later removed) over the library to connect the two wings. In 1846 the Law Society entered into an agreement with the government to house the province's Superior Court at the hall.[citation needed] Today, the building is jointly owned by the Law Society and the Government of Ontario.
From 1855 to 1857 the building was refurbished and enlarged again, according to a design by the firm Cumberland and Storm, to accommodate courts with the original 1829 building becoming the east wing. From 1880 to 1891 the building was again expanded twice in order to accommodate the law school.
Despite the expansions, the hall presents a unified design in the late Palladian style. The iron fence surrounding the lawns of Osgoode Hall has become a landmark in itself. Its distinctive iron gates are narrow and restrictive; it is a long-standing myth that they were designed to keep livestock out of the grounds of the hall and in the 1950s, students did attempt to pass a cow through one of the gates (they failed). The gates were likely due to Victorian architectural fashion, rather than wandering cattle.
Two libraries are housed within Osgoode Hall: the Great Library of the Law Society of Upper Canada and a smaller library for judges. The Great Library was designed by Cumberland and Storm (1857–1860) and features an ornate plaster ceiling, cork floors, and etched glass windows. A War Memorial by Frances Norma Loring (1887–1968), sculpted in 1928, was added to the Library in honor of Ontario lawyers and law students killed during the First World War. Behind the Great Library (and accessible through it) is the American Room, designed by Burke and Horwood in 1895, a more intimate room with a spiral staircase. The courthouse at 361 University Avenue directly to the north is accessible through a connecting tunnel.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 54 RAW photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
And then I reprocessed the tone-mapped image when I got more software. First I used the new Life Projection mode in Affinity Photo to inpaint the area where the tripod was. (When I shot this I didn't know how to get decent nadir shots.) Then I used the Tonal Contrast filter in Color Efex to punch the image up a bit. Finally a bit more work in Life Projection mode to fix the wrap problem caused by Color Efex (it doesn't understand 360° images wrap, so the edges often don’t match), and back to Aperture for a touch of sharpening.
It's not as sharp as I'd like, as when I went inside to inquire about permission I accidentally changed my aperture, and didn't notice when I went pack out to photograph. The sky is also a bit off — adjusting the white balance so the shadows weren't blue made the sky greenish, and I can't figure out a way to adjuste the colour all the way back.
Original size: 18970 × 9485 (179.9 MP; 260.51 MB).
Location: Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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During my visit to the Conowingo Dam in Maryland, I had a chance to photograph a young Eagle in Flight. It is amazing to see how they mature, becoming the stunning bird we see.
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