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In continuing my story from the previous picture, we loaded up and drove almost a mile down the road to Golf Course Road.
Golf Course Road provides a great overview of Click's Curve between Mountainair and Abo. All one has to do is drive up the road until they are satisfied with the elevation. Then, you just get out and shoot wherever you want. Pretty easy.
We had just enough time to catch this D-KCKLAC one last time before letting it go. The only reason I had no interest in catching it again was because my half-eaten green chili cheeseburger was still waiting for me at the AirBnB just up the hill. I knew the burger was ready to be consumed, so we went back to the house so that I could finish the job.
Union Pacific SD70M 2002 leads the I-G2G2 shuttle through Elmhurst on a sunny morning along the Geneva Subdivision. Westbounds in the morning aren't the best to shoot light-wise unless you go wide and to the side.
The games were held in Salt Lake in 2002 and the reminders of that time continue to roll across the Midwest in fresh paint, thanks to some nice folks at Union Pacific.
This is continued shot from Portland Bill. The sky that day made me get dark and freaky with my verotrama's. I love this place, the rocks and sea have Soooooooooooo much power. :-)
Barbara and I have gotten personalized Christmas Ornaments since the 70's. For the last few years we have gotten them in Pigeon Forge, TN. Christmas is a big time at our house, even though it is just the two of us. Yesterday, being the first Saturday of December, was the day to go to one of the local tree farms and pick out our Christmas Tree. The farmers cut them for you, so it is nice and fresh.
During the next couple weeks, everything will be removed from the mantel, curio cabinet, coffee table, window sill, piano, etc. Christmas decorations will replace everything removed. Barbara and I made many of the decorations from ceramics. Dozens of stuffed animals will fill the living room. Barbara's little girl Bride Doll and her electric train will go under the tree. The train is almost 60 years old and still runs fine. Yes, Chistmas is a big time at our house.
. . . Continuing my series from Yellowstone National Park, this well known geyser is very close to Old Faithful. Sadly, I have never seen it erupt, which it does about every 10-12 hours. It is called a cone shaped geyser, and was first named in 1870 because it reminded one of a castle.
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We continue with rushing, whitewater photos. This was just past the drop from yesterday's photo (in Comments). That was almost mono, but there is much colour in this.
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Continuing our first chase up the Rich Mountain grade we caught them again grinding up the 1.12% climb toward the summit about six miles or so ahead. This is almost exactly one mile east of the Oklahoma state line as they approach a private crossing at MP 361.4 on Kansas City Southern's Shreveport Sub deep in the Ouachita Mountains.
The MKCSH2 02 (second Kansas City to Shreveport manifest) has a nice consist of KCS 4618 (GE AC400CW blt. Dec. 1999 as KCS 2043), gray ghost KCSM 4533 (GE AC400CW blt. May. 1998 as TFM 2633)and KCS 3967 (EMD SD70MAC blt. Mar. 2000 as TFM 1667) on the head end with KCS 5023 (GE ET44AC blt. 2019) on the rear as the DPU.
Polk County, Arkansas
Friday September 3, 2021
Continuing my Little Planets series...
Had cast some globular & texture magic on Toronto cityscapes as seen from the Riverdale Park East on one hazy-lazy day in August :-)
after today's dollpa we went to tradition after-party at our fav starbucks) man, so many beautiful dolls!
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[13:12] Belle Mistwallow shouts: Oh goodness heavens. It's INCREDIBLE to see each and every single one of you out here CELEBRATING our FANTASTIC, ONE OF A KIND city. It's more than just a city. It's a community. We love each other as much as we love the Moles and Lindens who invest so much time and effort to improving it on a regular basis. IF you dont live here, you should. But that's by the by. Just want to thank you all for being here, and adding to the color and vibrance of the event. Here is to 8th years and many more. NOW....PARTAAAAYYYYYY
Continuing with our "beginning to hate this winter" theme (re: last weeks photo)...Pyper has decided that the best way to get through it is to find the warmest sunbeam and dream about summer. This is pretty much how she spends her days.
continued trying to develop these abstract figures...in this one the android girls are walking downhill....
Entered in natahaha's HYPOTHETICAL AWARDS CHALLENGE
"Take a Walk or a Ride"
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Shot about 45 minutes after the previous Cover Shot photo. This train met another train at the siding just West of Tower Rd. This photo was taken at the Engel Rd crossing just West of Burlington, IL. This CSXT231 led train was highballing toward Iowa with a string of empty ethanol tanks
I took my Akubra hat to this shop to have ventilation holes (rivets) inserted to, hopefully, make wearing it somewhat cooler. This is John, his father started the business many years ago and John continues the family tradition of fine leather work on shoes.
February (continued )
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All images were shot using the Hasselblad 500v
Because the Hasselblad has an interchangeable back I decided to shoot two Kodak films. Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak Tri X 400 all on a tripod so the framing and lighting would be identical. Light meter readings were all done using the “Viewfinder “app. More on that later
I’m traditionally a black and white kinda guy but I may be exploring a bit more color after this experiment. Each post will have both version for comparison.
Note: these posts will continue into March as I put together next months installments for the project
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I’m sure y’all are board to tears with the greenhouse photos… don’t worry we’re almost done….
Hasselblad 500c
Zeiss Planar 80 mm f2.8 lens
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Tri X 400
Continuing on with the autumn theme.
Near Steamboat Springs, Colorado - September 2019
Ektar 100 4x5, 300mm lens
15 seconds at f64, no filters
A view looking to the south-southeast while on the Oak Trail in Hot Springs National Park. Quite a few sections of trees had vibrant colors of yellows and gold present in the leaves. Here I focused on one section of trees that I could fill from edge to edge. My thinking was to use an idea I'd read long ago entitled the "impact of less." The idea is to focus on one section and let the setting continue off the edge of the image. The viewer can then imagine so much more stretching on or be focus on that one spot. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 3 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
Our Willow, Salix babylonica, continues to Weep even after that very stern and fierce look by Dog Violet, Viola riviniana: 'Stop it!' Not a friendly look at all. But under the very blue sky our pretty flower is probably just bracing against the strong, icy northeasterly wind like your sandal-shod photographer.
'Riviniana' is for August Quininius Rivinus (= August Bachmann) (1652-1722), a famous physician and botanist at Leipzig. Medical doctors will know him even today for his work on eardrums and the salivary glands; several of their anatomical structures are named for him. A versatile naturalist, he was also a consummate botanist and an uncautious astronomer; he went blind because he studied sunspots without protection for his eyes. Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (1793-1879) - whom I've mentioned in these pages before - named (1823) our Violet for Rivinus no doubt because the latter was a pioneer in the classification of plants according to their morphology.
Continuing the pause from the recent series of abstract images: long exposure across the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia during a photo-shoot with Sam Lynch on Wednesday evening.
An all rights reserved copyright attaches to this image. Please don’t reproduce, blog or otherwise use the shot without doing me the courtesy of asking first. Nicole and I can be contacted via markandnicole2@yahoo.com.au . Thank you, Mark.
Am lucky enough that the Evening Grosbeak are still visiting. It's pretty awesome. They seemed to have gathered some extra friends this morning, counted 20+ around the backyard!!!
Continuing my streak of getting at least one epic sunrise on each visit to Death Valley, here's the sunrise from last week's visit. It was a firecracker!
A two shot focus stack to improve sharpness from front to back. No filters. This file should easily stand up to being printed at 30x45". The image quality of the D850 is spectacular.
Cracked mud formations, Death Valley National Park, California, USA.
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"The Doctor will see you now"
After one of Meltdown's experiments goes wrong, his arm was left heavily mutated, but he continues his research on Quaza Cores...
(Credit to Nimbus for the lower coat design)
Don't get me started with all the cute Nerd Stuff at Color Me Cute, and you can score this amazing outfit from Tiny Trinkets there right now: delisadventures.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/total-nerd/
I continued my little trip where I left off last time and I found that nice little bay with a shack that was used to store boats, now it was empty. Nice little trip to the woods to calm my mind and relax myself.
Continuing on from the calm conditions of the previous image, this is literally a couple of hundred yards away in the opposite direction. This is why this area is so popular with photographers, a fresh image every few steps.
Continuing with these decade old photos I dug out but never processed.
An unidentified BNSF stack train is descending the approximately 2.5% grade as it drops down Tehachapi Pass northbound on Union Pacific's Mojave Sub mainline. They are on a 1.2 mile long stretch of single track between the north end of Cliff siding and the south end of Bealville siding. On the hillside beyond their train is emerging from 1175 ft long Tunnel 5 and just behind me they will plunge into 494 ft long Tunnel 3. Prior to the 7.3 magnitude Kern County Earthquake in 1952 the train would be about to enter Tunnel 4, but after the devastation wrought by that temblor part of the mountain was removed and the tracks were located around the former tunnel which was sealed. Portions of the exposed reinforced concrete lining are still plainly visible to this day.
The route over the pass was truly an engineering feat of its day and is no less impressive nearly a century and a half on. Southern Pacific assistant chief engineer William Hood devised the ingenious method of 18 tunnels in 28 miles of track climbing up over the Tehachapi Mountains from Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley below. Constructed between 1874 and 1876 the signature achievement on this remarkable mountain railroad is the famed loop. In 1898 the Santa Fe acquired trackage rights over the pass between Mojave and Bakersfield which have continued unabated to the present as a core route of successor BNSF.
Kern County, California
Saturday May 3, 2014
...for one last day.
Good morning everyone and Happy Dragonfly Thursday. Featured today is a series on newly emerged Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina), usually the last of the three Pennant species found here locally to emerge each Spring.
As for these photos, they're a combination of both gender, with the above being a male, and all were taken at "tick city" at the reclaimed strip mine. And both gender when newly emerged look essentially the same. As with newly emerged Calico Pennants, the best way to distinguish between the two is by the length of the cerci at the end of the abdomen, which are longer on males, plus the last few segments tend to be narrower on males also.
Of the three species of local Pennant dragonflies the Halloween is the largest at approximately 1.5 inches in length (3.8 cm) versus both the Calico and Banded Pennants which range between 1.1 - 1.3 inches (2.5 - 3 cm).
As always, don't forget to click on "view previous comments" if you don't see the additional pics in the comment section. Even better, scroll through them by clicking on the arrow thingy to the right of the above pic. And if you want to view any picture in the comment section large all you have to do is click on it where you'll also find the full text describing this species of dragonfly.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you're having a truly nice week.
Lacey
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 300mm
I continue to experiment with Drone Photography and I will be the first to admit that the results are a little hit and miss. Probably a lot more miss than hit but I suppose practice makes perfect and all that.
This shot was taken of Eilean Donan Castle at 23:30, long after the sun had set and in almost complete darkness. I used the built-in HDR mode to try and get something useful from what was certainly far from optimal conditions. Away from the building and the lights the image is oddly ghostly and the noise level is pretty dire. If that was the quality of the whole image it would be discarded without hesitation. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the detail on buildings came out. I’ve applied a fair but of post processing to the raw image to bring out the detail but at least the detail was there to recover.
In future I’ll be limiting use of the drone to times where light is more abundant. The quality of the DJI devices may be impressive, relatively speaking, but they really do not stack up against a decent DSLR.
I am continuing working on getting some decent images of Mountain Bluebird inflight. I learned a lot more about the challenges today and got a few that I will share but I am still not there yet. It was a lot of fun doing it though.
Continuing my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024 and continuing my visit to Bisbee Arizona. This is stage 7 of 9.
I arrived just a little before the original Bisbee Breakfast Club opened so I walked around Erie Street. Then I ate a Harvest Omelette with egg whites at BBC. Then I walked around Erie Street a little more.
Lots of memories for me since I grew up in Arizona in the 1950's. Miami & Globe Arizona were a lot like Lowell.
This is the iconic Lowell space ship mural. Lots of street art and murals in the Bisbee metroplex.
The closest I can get in identifying this truck is a 1940 Chevrolet wb-Series 1.5-Ton Flatbed Truck. Any correction will be appreciated. This truck is famous as the Lowell Old Chevy Truck making it hard to specifically identify it since its picture is the primary one to always appear.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/erie-street-historic-lowell
Erie Street, Historic Lowell
Bisbee, Arizona
A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.
Visiting Erie Street is like walking into a 1950s post-apocalyptic landscape. From all that is immediately apparent, it could have been abandoned in a hurry and forgotten for half a century. Rusting cars, trucks, and an old Greyhound bus sit deserted along the street as if their passengers had suddenly vanished (or worse).
Erie Street is most of what is left of Lowell, Arizona, a mining town incorporated into Bisbee in the early 1900s. Much of the town’s residential area was demolished to widen an open-pit copper mine. Losing most of its residents caused the commercial district to struggle, and many businesses failed as a result. Today, the street’s special curiosities include a Harley Davidson repair shop with a now-defunct gas pump and Sprouse Reitz Co., a department store that is nearly empty except for a few appliances and a whole pile of mannequin parts.
Despite appearing untouched since its decline, further investigation reveals that Erie Street is continually restored by a vibrant and passionate community of residents and volunteers who want to remember a different America. So although you can no longer see a show at Lowell’s movie theater or pay $0.22 for gasoline, the Lowell Americana Project has made it possible to experience the street as a living snapshot of another time. And not everything on Erie Street is purely decorative—visit the Bisbee Breakfast Club for an excellent Huevos Rancheros.
www.legendsofamerica.com/lowell-arizona/
Lowell, Arizona was once a sizable mining town located just to the southeast of Bisbee. Today, it is a small neighborhood of the larger community.
Though the majority of the original townsite was consumed by the excavation of the Lavender Pit mine during the 1950s, what remains today is a photographer’s dream. The one street that is left features mid-century buildings, signs, and artifacts in a colorful display that makes visitors feel as if they have taken a step back in time.
Haiku thoughts:
Erie Street lingers,
Ghosts of fifties' laughter hum,
Time stands in still frames.
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
Happy Truck Thursday, HTT,