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"Closure only comes with letting go,
letting go starts with not looking back."
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With the closure of the Canton mill, scenes like this will be soon a thing of the past... On another beautiful winter day a quartet of SD45 carbodys roar upgrade with a unit coal train for the paper mills power plant in tow. This would have been a much better shot if I hadn't been greedy and came straight here. By the time I had run up the steep hill the train was almost upon me, no time for the necessary brush cutting to open up the full view of the bridge. Anyways, nothing to be done about that now.... For my friends on the east coast, if you can get here, do it. One of the last great railroading shows in the Southeast is about to disappear.
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Sunset at Zelenogradsk beach, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Sony A7 + SMC Pentax-M 28mm F2.8
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A trip in the car this morning led me to the Nant Mill Country Park at Coedpoeth. I'd seen several shots from here over the years but never made the effort to get there. Except for this falls there's not a great deal more to photograph but it's a lovely place to go for a short walk and ideal if you have dogs. It's clear that we're in the last few weeks of autumn as the leaves are delicately holding on to the trees. I saw an image captured from here a few weeks back after the heavy rain we had and where I took this was completely submerged then. Thanks Mike for the final push to get there.
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This is officially the last shot i'm uploading from this Trial Harbour series.
It's been a seriously busy week for me - we started another company, completely renovated my office, and somehow did a mountain of work. Somewhere along the way I lost my creative side. I haven't even picked up my camera for a few weeks now (other than to take before/ after shots of the office renovations).
I'm not sure what will happen, but from here on my photostream will be different. Better hopefully, I just need my creative edge to return. So i'm not sure how long i'll be gone, but i'll be back sometime.
The Superstition Mountain certainly lived up to my Zane Grey imaginings of what an Arizona landscape should look like, everywhere I looked I could see in my mind cowboys making ambling through the countryside on horseback and could almost hear the howls of coyotes bouncing through the canyons.
This is my last shot of the evening leaving the Superstition Mountains retracing our drive back along the Apache Trail as the Woodbury fire of summer 2019 forced the closure of the trail between Tortilla Flats and the Roosevelt Dam.
Over 123,000 acres burned in the fire and the 30 miles of Arizona Scenic National Trail between the Flats and Roosevelt was burned over, the Tonto National Forest service lifted the usage ban for the area but the Apache Trail still remains closed as of Dec 2019.
Because all the vegetation was burned off there is nothing to slow rainfall naturally and the soil sheds water like a ducks back creating flash flooding that are unpredictable in direction or flow and the instability it causes in the surrounding roadside soils leads to slides and severe washouts.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 Lens at 62mm 2.0s, f/16 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, finished with Topaz Denoise & Focalblade
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.
Road closures, specifically I-82 at the Oregon/Washington State line have me shutdown due to weather, snow and wind.
Was looking at what to post and decided I and maybe you needed something not winter.
This shot is from October 2017 and taken near the Santiam Rest Area near Jefferson Oregon. The Santiam River is to the left about 200 feet out of the picture, but the path here takes you along the rivers banks.
I've pulled some nice pictures from this rest area and the woods nearby, all easy walking distance from the parking lot. Maybe enough for it's own album. Might do that today if I'm stuck here much longer.
I have food, diet coke, slow but mostly useable internet, so I'm in good shape. Getting paid to stay safe, I like that. Hope everyone's having a cozy Sunday.
More to worry about. The earth's outer liquid iron core seems to be moving and that can cause magnetic polar reversal, the current moving of the magnetic North and weaking magnetic fields that also protect us from our Sun's radiation.
While we should be concerned about Climate change, (Well at the moment I'm ready to go back to Global warming.) I'm also wondering how much the declining Earth's magnetic polar fields could be affecting all kinds of things. Apparently the North and South poles regularly switch positions,
This is from British Geological Survey
"How often do reversals occur?
As a matter of geological record, the Earth's magnetic field has undergone numerous reversals of polarity. We can see this in the magnetic patterns found in volcanic rocks, especially those recovered from the ocean floors. In the last 10 million years, there have been, on average, 4 or 5 reversals per million years. At other times in Earth's history, for example during the Cretaceous era, there have been much longer periods when no reversals occurred. Reversals are not predictable and are certainly not periodic in nature. Hence we can only speak about the average reversal interval."
Here's a Wikipedia link if you're interested and looking for one more thing to possibly worry about.
The RWE EL1s are anything but beautiful, but they are unique and now quite old machines so well worth documenting. The RWE, or Rheinbraun railway is a quasi insular operation between the companies brown coal mines and powerplants just west of Cologne, Germany. The network consists of two primary routes, the Nord-Süd Bahn and the Hambachbahn. Last Saturday I made my first visit to the network with the idea to focus on the Nord-Süd Bahn. This train showed up exactly as I arrived and was happy to so quickly get a EL1 led train. Unfortunately things went downhill from there.
A few notes for those interested in photographing this line and also not so familiar:
1.) Blocks A -E of Kraftwerk Neurath have were shut in March of this year, meaning that the classic shot from the overpass with the power plant in the background is now impossible. Good for the environment, tragic for the photographer.
2.) 90% of trains shove back towards Frimmersdorf, making west/northbound shots very difficult.
3.) There are very few good photo locations on the Nord-Süd Bahn, this one being the best. Unfortunately this spot happens to be right in the path of the cooling tower exhaust shadow! About 30 minutes after this photo the spot was fully in the shadow. I didnt really find a satisfactory angle the rest of the day, in most of the other segments the light is wrong for southbounds or very overgrown.
Ill have to try again for the Hambach side, on this visit getting there would have been a pain due to the closure of the Aachen - Köln line due to a derailment. (always something wrong with that cursed line)
With stormy weather and some road closures again, we had a bit of cabin fever and went out for a drive on the ones that were still open to see what we could find. To the north of us, darker skies and snow squalls underneath were visible but behind us, the sun peeked out between the clouds onto this scene and caught my eye. The road was deserted until I stopped to get out of the car for the shot and of course, a car immediately pulled up behind us and another in front. I had to move onto the side and hope the snow drifts weren't hiding a deep ditch. Sunlight on the windpump along with the contrast of rusty roofs set against darker skies were what appealed to me here. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
Zum Allerheiligenwochenende 2024 kehrten kurzfristig lokbespannte Wendezüge auf die KBS 945 zurück, um das gestiegene Fahrgastaufkommen aufgrund der Streckensperrung zwischen Freilassing und Rosenheim zu bewältigen. Den Reisenden nach München wurde nämlich nahe gelegt, den Weg über Mühldorf zu nehmen. Passende Fotostellenden gibt es an dieser Strecke nicht allzu viele. Um etwas Variation hinein zu bringen, wurde der Blick von oben gewählt. Hier sieht man am 01. November 2024 bei Salling die 218 498 die RB 27978 in Richtung Mühldorf schieben. Im Hintergrund kann man den Kirchturm von Kay erkennen, der Landstrich dahinter gehört dann schon zu Österreich.
For the All Saints' weekend in 2024, locomotive-hauled push-pull trains returned to the KBS 945 at short notice in order to cope with the increased passenger volume due to the line closure between Freilassing and Rosenheim. Travellers to Munich were advised to take the route via Mühldorf. There are not too many suitable photo spots on this route. To add some variation, the view from above was chosen. Here you can see 218 498 pushing RB 27978 towards Mühldorf near Salling on 01 November 2024. In the background you can recognise the church tower of Kay, the area behind it already belongs to Austria.
A closure of the Fresno Subdivision between Sacramento and Stockton sees the MNPFR backing its train up the wye at Haggin Junction. The train is backing up onto the Sacramento Subdivision, what was formerly the WP’s paralleling line to the Southern Pacific into Stockton, which is now the Fresno Subdivision. Once the train crossed the American River, the switch in the foreground would switch from the wye track to the mainline. Then the MNPFR would pull up to the first crossing in Midtown, less than a mile away, to swap crews before making its final stretch to Fresno.
I had a deeply moving chat recently with someone witty and wise that I know, about the subject of closure. Since then I have mulled further upon the subject.
When relationships end, usually we know exactly why they ended. This really does help. It's like reading a book to the end and knowing exactly how the story ends, and why. One can then close the book and move on to other new stories, without being confused and wondering about the previous one anymore.
But occasionally, relationships end, and we're not exactly sure why, or perhaps even what went wrong, or why the other person decided to end it, because they're either not telling us at all, or not telling us enough, or not telling us the entire truth. This can be very frustrating to the person who is left not knowing. It's like getting to the end of a book, and realising someone has ripped out the final few pages of it, so you'll never know how the story ended, or why. You might eventually move on to other books, but you'll always be wondering what the ending of the previous one was about. And it will leave you dubious about any future books you might be inclined to read, in case the same thing happens all over again. It can traumatise and worry you for a long time to come.
It is a horrible position to be in, to be left wondering and not fully knowing why a relationship ended, wondering if it was you, or them, or whatever. It helps if you are given the chance to understand fully why it ended, and to get an opportunity to say goodbye and put a proper ending on things, since this person has obviously meant a lot to you and been a major part of your life throughout the relationship. Having a full understanding of the situation helps aid the bereavement and healing processes that inevitably come with a relationship ending.
Everyone needs closure. Everyone needs an ending to their story, even if it's an unhappy one. It's the least one can do when one leaves a relationship, to let the other party know exactly why one is leaving.
Breakups are awful. But we don't need to make them harder on each other than they already are. Empathy is a wonderful thing. And if we do the right thing by our former partners, we can walk away with our head held high, knowing that we kept our integrity to the last, even if we couldn't or wouldn't keep the relationship going.
If someone already knows exactly why you're leaving them, like, there was domestic violence or whatever, then you can just run for the hills without a backward glance. But in some other cases, when there was no violence, no fight, no obvious big catalyst for the end...then fess up and tell the other person why you ended it. Rip off that Band-Aid. Do the right thing.