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Continuing my Toy-ronto Life and Miniature Park series...
Happy Miniature Sunday, Pan Am edition! :-)
Toy-ronto's miniature park turned into one of celebration venues of Pan Am Games! Little Toy-rontonians and guests are gathering to the big telly in the park to watch the spectacular opening ceremony of Toronto 2015 Pan American Games! :-)
We watched it too! :-) The opening ceremony was absolutely amazing with a dazzling show by Cirque du Soleil and fireworks from the CN Tower!
More Toy-ronto's tilt-shift fun is coming - Stay tuned / Bientot a l'ecran!
To learn more about PanAm and ParaPanAm Games in Toronto 2015, visit site www.toronto2015.org/
A month since my laat visit Vermont Railway has been continuing to use ancient Green Mountain Railroad Alco RS1 405 in daily freight service on the Bellows Falls switcher assignment (train DASW). For decades this unit has almost exclusively been used only for service on the VRS' passenger seasonal excursion trains and perhaps would see use on revenue freights once or twice a year at most. What is even more special is that this unit is very much on home rails having been built for the Rutland in November 1951. So that means she is approaching her 71st birthday in a few months and has never left the Green Mountain state!
So any time she's used for revenue service is special, and I'm hard pressed to think of anywhere else in the country an RS1 is used to haul freight anymore. For these reasons, I figured I should make the nearly 3 hr trip north to see her again!
One pleasant surprise since my last trip up exactly a month ago was to find that VRS had completely cut ALL the brush from the diamond up to Riverside. Where before the trucks would have been obscured now the railhead was visible from virtually everywhere! Given this nice change I decided a morning view from across the Connecticut River from the park at the end of Pine Street in Walpole would be in order. Here is the switch crew headed west to Riverside Yard seen near MP B1 on the Falls Running Track at the east end of the Bellows Falls Subdivision, the former Green Mountain Railroad, nee Rutland, mainline.
Rockingham, Vermont
Friday September 16, 2022
Continuing the planetary theme with Thirty-Six Views of CN Tower and Little Planets series...
The sunset light of Spring Equinox played cheerfully on futuristic cityscapes of Toronto... So it was just natural for me to cast some globular & texture magic :-)
Continuing south in some nice late afternoon sun, NPWJ rolls through the cornfields in Newbury, as mountains in New Hampshire loom in the distance. Clarendon & Pittsford GP40-2 306 is providing the power on this trip, with eight cars bound for White River Junction trailing behind it. Despite a few setbacks, and delays, the crew will still make it to WRJ before sunset. where they will drop the cars in the south yard, and tie the power down by the station.
Continuing its trip down the Joint Line, #196 passes the landmark red barn at Greenland with about 5 miles to the summit of the grade at Palmer Lake.
The 100+ year old structure appeared in many railfan photographs through the years. It burned to the ground on May 11, 2023 from a lightning strike.
A magnificent view from the Loch Ness shows this wonderful Castle of Urquhart surrounded by beautiful scenery and wondrous Autumnal colours from the Landscape.
Founded in the 13th century, Urquhart played a role in the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century. It was subsequently held as a royal castle, and was raided on several occasions by the MacDonald Earls of Ross. The castle was granted to the Clan Grant in 1509, though conflict with the MacDonalds continued. Despite a series of further raids the castle was strengthened, only to be largely abandoned by the middle of the 17th century. Urquhart was partially destroyed in 1692 to prevent its use by Jacobite forces, and subsequently decayed. In the 20th century it was placed in state care as a scheduled monument and opened to the public: it is now one of the most-visited castles in Scotland.
Scottish Citylink are continuing to operate their route 900 between Edinburgh and Glasgow for key workers who require transport between the two cities.
Here is Parks of Hamilton HSK653 heading along a very quiet Glasgow Road on a service 900 heading to Glasgow. 18th April 2020.
At the end of the first day of the weekend of enthusiast running between Amersham and Watford, the LT Museums preserved 1938 stock flies through Northwood. A Met Line S Stock overtakes it on the curve. The '38 Stock will drop it's passengers (who had bought one way tickets for the homeward trip from Watford) off at Harrow on the Hill and then continue on to Neasden Depot for the night. September 2022.
I had spent the day chasing this little train around the Met by bike and tube and deciding to save the tube fare to Northwood at the end of the day, I gambled on cycling back from Chorelywood to Northwood before the '38 stock arrived. I got to this spot with about a minute to spare and standing on my bike helmet for a few more inches over the parapet I saw it coming through Northwood Station in the distance. I would have liked to have got the S Stock and '38 stock side by side but the S Stock was just going too fast! After it had passed I cycled back to South Ruislip setting a distance record for my 'local' cycling in the process!
Continuing to work through all the colours from the Re-ment Addicts Colour Challenge (www.flickr.com/groups/re-mentaddicts/discuss/721576651253...).
This is Yellow, a casual writer's sunlight office.
Full Colour Challenge Album: flic.kr/s/aHskupaW5F
Completed Colours:
Black, Gray, Silver - flic.kr/p/ELEcbM
White, Cream, Clear - flic.kr/p/F6HsgM
Red - flic.kr/p/Ggut8B
Orange - flic.kr/p/GgDFHD
Yellow - flic.kr/p/Gda8Ld & flic.kr/p/Gda6yN
Green - flic.kr/p/GzY2BE & flic.kr/p/FNBQSW
Blue - flic.kr/p/GNdS2L
Purple, Burgundy, Lavender - flic.kr/p/H1koVf
Pink - flic.kr/p/HS2WwR
Brown, Beige, Gold - flic.kr/p/J8hnYS
Continuing my mini series of little mocs based off my favourite movies, a great suggestion from @the_brick_silo Ghostbusters! Really pleased with how they turned out, especially the proton packs! More characters in this style and more mocs coming soon!
I'm going to be away over Christmas so I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends & contacts a joyous Christmas. Thank you to all who have continued to support me, for your friendship & may 2015 burn bright for everyone!
Continuing to slide back through time to some of my earliest work. In December 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a "Bed-In" in Montreal. I happened to be attending university there at the time, and often had my camera with me. One day I noticed one of their billboards and quickly framed and snapped this shot. A moment in time. The end of the Sixties, too, that turbulent decade in which I spent my teen years. I was 20 at the time, about to turn 21 on the Winter Solstice, and ready for something new and exciting in life, although I would slog through one more semester of school before hitting the road.
Photographed in Montreal, Quebec (Canada); scanned from the original Tri-X negative, made with a Pentax Spotmatic and 50 mm lens. My first good camera! Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 1970 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Continuing my exploration of shapes in the film that’s all about shapes. Really happy with the way this one turned out. It’s exactly what I was trying to do. I used the manual exposure on my Mint SLR-670S to overexpose and make the shot high key. Love the way it came out.
“As the anti-bending-revolution continues, the grip of Amon’s claw on the city tightens and more and more Chi-Blockers can be seen in the streets. While Chief Saikhan’s metal bending police and council member Tarrlok’s task force seem helpless, the new team Avatar, led by Avatar Korra, intervenes and patrols the streets, opposing the notorious rebels.“ - Shiro Shinobi
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Now, finally I can show you, what I have been working on of the last few weeks. As you may know, I am a huge fan of both Avatar series, The Legend of Aang and The Legend of Korra. While I already built some MoCs related to ATLA, my stream still lacked a Korra related build. While watching the Episode „When extremes meet“, I figured that the perfect and most challenging thing to build would be Asami’s satomobil, used by team Avatar to patrol the streets of Republic City. Once having built the car, I quickly had a scene concept in mind, which in the end took almost two weeks to build. However, the outcome was definitely worth the wait in my opinion. I hope you like it !
Also, have a look at the whole Republic City diorama. Stay tuned for more photos of the motorcycles, too !
Also, thanks to Kal Skirata for painting Asami's hair.
Finally, have a closer look at Asami's satomobil!
As Norfolk Southern continues to slowly but surely replace the vintage CPLs which are still left here in Virginia, particularly in the Shenandoah Valley, it was time to stop making excuses, and prioritize shooting them. A buddy joined me for 2 days of a wild mission shooting sunrise to last light. Having already shot Pkin, we opted to go for Vesuvius upon learning that 11Z was coming our way. The storm clouds were rolling in, and the shadows were getting long, as we nervously awaited 11Z's arrival. As they rolled through, we were treated to absolutely spectacular late afternoon lighting in this legendary location. Fans of O. Winston Link may recall he shot a few of his scenes here in Vesuvius, Virginia, and it is today just as beautiful, rural, and peaceful as it was back in the days of N&W steam railroading. I will be back out trackside soon no doubt, but without any pretense of being owed any luck. The train Gods owe me nothing.
This Sadhu had his hair twisted up in a bun and looked very dramatic when I first met him. He decided, however, that he wanted to be photographed with his hair down. Oh well. He is still a pretty amazing guy, don't you think?
Varanasi, India
With another winter storm on the way, this goes out to all the 100k+ still without power, but there is hope !! Think good thoughts, the roads weren't bad during this ice storm, this next storm is supposedly supposed to be only snow.
As I continue archiving my work and digging through boxes and boxes of illustrations I keep finding things that surprise me. I did this for Audio Magazine in 1993 for their record reviews. I had the pleasure of working for them for 16 years. Bernard Hermann was a composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films. Hitchcock used him many times.
CSX Q247 blasts through Summerfield, IL on the theoretically "closed" Illinois Subdivision. 2 July 2015.
Liked how the evening sun was coming through what's left of the windows. William Smith School, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Digital photo. (2008)
Continuing to photograph, edit, then take apart old MOCs so I can clear shelf space for newer stuff. This model was an experiment building a small cargo vehicle with an interior. There is a second room behind the cockpit divider which was smaller than I hoped when I started. Large enough for a brick-built bed, but nothing else.
Built in March 2019.
Some of the remaining trackwork in the abandoned Stuart / Kier / General Refractories silica mine. Notice how far apart the ties are spaced! The mine dates back to at least the late 1800's as the Stuart Fire Brick Company. At some point in the early 1900's it became the Kier Fire Brick Company. In 1933 the company was purchased by the General Refractories Company. Silica from the mine supplied the brickworks by running on a tramway that went out of the mine and down a hill to the brickworks. That facility was located at mile 46.0 (Kier) on the old P&LE Railroad. The brands of bricks made there included "Salina", "Etna", "Lyon", and "Yough". The Layton plant ceased operating by 1970, but the mine continued producing silica that was transported to another General Refractories plant in Claysburg, PA. until it closed in 1982. I am not mapping the location of this mine, to protect it from vandalism and scrappers. Some parts of the mine already have heavy graffiti. Please see an interesting blog about this location here: coalandcoke.blogspot.com/2019/02/stuartkiergeneral-refrac...
Continuing the early 2021 Lockdown, and weather permitting, whilst not at work i was walking from home to the farside of RSPB Dungeness.
The pools at Hanson ARC, to the left of the path before you reach the Water Tower, now Forbidden Territory as the RSPB don't like people going to them anymore!!! Nevermind, if I do visit them I just won't bother to tell the RSPB of any Species Records I find, anyway if I had not gone to the pools on this day, I would not have had the best ever/closest encounter with a Bittern that I have ever had, plus I would not have been standing there to look up moments later to see the White Tailed Sea Eagle fly over me!!!
I continue to photograph this beauty. I hope you will enjoy this set of this young male. The colors are just started to appear, and he looks a lot like the female at this stage.
Thank you dear friends for your support, and for your faves and kind comments, very much appreciated - deaR♥‿♥
Continuing my theme of Class 60 uploads this week, here's one I didn't expect to see. After a fairly cloudy day in the Bristol area on Friday 28th June, the sun started to come out late afternoon, just as I noticed an empty aggregate train for Tytherington was shown running on RTT. I've been fairly unlucky for photos in the Avon valley and have no decent shots - so with plenty of cloud still around, I was well chuffed to capture this sunny shot of 60046 'William Wilberforce' rounding the curve at Freshford. The train is 6Z23, 14:11 Wembley - Tytherington. (I've photoshopped out a bush from the front of the loco)
Dollparty today was a success, some really awesome displays, but i was rather lazy and barely did any pics
Anticipation continues to build at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida before the scheduled launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will carry two American NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, to the International Space Station for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff from Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39A is targeted for Wednesday, May 27, at 4:33 p.m. EDT — an instantaneous launch window.
Here, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon atop, stands poised for launch at historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 21, 2020, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission.
Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The Bull has been and continues to be a strong symbol and a living icon in our lives. Those that know them revere them for their fertile nature. They will graze and ruminate and add fertility to the ground they adorn. One bull can sire a heard and not many bulls see great age as only the chosen are kept and they need to fulfil a purpose. King for the day and King for the year have not as many days and years as others and yet who would be the bull not chosen? I would if that is my choice, many though want to be Top Dog and Chief Bull.
This magnificent Bull in Bo’ness had me thinking of Pictish Art and their Symbol Stones. Their animal symbols survive to this day where their language is now none existent. The wonderfully evocative decorated stones are found at Pictish Sites with the striking lines flowing and curling like waves of energy form both the outlines and internal structure of the subjects. At Burghead in Moray several Bull symbols were found leading some to believe that the Bull was a symbol venerated here, maybe a marker not unlike those later used in Heraldry to tell a story of identity that is linked to landscape and to those who control it. The notion of totems as good luck and potent identifying markers of person and of people, of individual and of tribe to set a motif of identity within this material world and an icon within all spiritual realms too.
This particular carved stone is displayed in London in The British Museum and thought so highly of that a replica cast is held in Edinburgh at The National Museums Scotland. This Bull is also incorporated into the current Logo for The Moray Society Elgin Museum. There is a cast in The Elgin Museum amongst other Pictish Symbol Stones. The symbol stones from Burghead are numbered 1-6 and this one is catalogued as,
Burghead 5, Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: 0.53m, W 0.53m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 109 691
Present location: British Museum, London (1861.10-24.1) (cast in Elgin Museum)
Evidence for discovery: one of many bull carvings said to have been found during quarrying of the wall of the upper citadel to find building stones from around 1800 onwards, of which six have survived (Macdonald 1862). This stone was found sometime before 1809, when it was exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and it was in private hands in London for many years before being presented to the British Museum.
Present condition: good.
Description
The triangular shape of this slab may indicate the preferred form for these bull stones from Burghead. One broad face is incised with the most ferocious image of a bull to have survived, pacing angrily towards the right with his head lowered far down and his tail swishing across his rump.
Date: seventh century.
This is a cast of a stone found at Burghead in Moray. It is one of a number of stones carved with bull symbols, found in and around the site of the Pictish fortress at Burghead. They date from between 500 and 800.
Like the other stones, the bull is naturalistically depicted, with scrolls defining the joints where the limbs meet the body.
The large fort at Burghead was a major Pictish settlement. A number of carvings have been found there, many depicting bulls. Various theories have been put forward to explain their significance, including religious, territorial emblems or clan totems.
“Interpretation of the stones' original role has varied. Some scholars have suggested they were displayed on the fort's ramparts as symbols of power; others have seen them as having a votive role in a frieze as part of a pagan fertility cult; while others argue they were standing stones lining a processional route through the ramparts, a role suggested by their likely original kite-shaped form.”
Noble, Gordon (2019). “Fortified settlement in northern Pictland,” Noble, Gordon; Evans, Nicholas, The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce, Birlinn, Edinburgh. Quote p.54, ISBN 178027551X. 1788851935, 9781788851930
The British Museum, reference below, records,
Exhibition history
Exhibited:
2001-2002 12 Dec-28 Feb, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, The Unidentified Museum Object
1998 18 Apr-12 Jul, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Celtic Art
Camore, reference below, records.
Exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries in London in 1809.
[Completely required note to the film.
At the moment of poo you are able to see the lifted tail in shadow and hear the cycle of living and giving without poo visuals.]
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Elgin Museum Carved Stone Collection
Burghead 5, cast of syMbol stone with bull (ELGNM 1892.1)
youtu.be/liuNaY-glfI?si=JLiGMcyf6O-yZ8Uo
Burghead Bulls
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghead_Bulls
Burghead Bull (cast)
nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-104-159-C
The Burghead Bull
On display (G41) (G41)
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1861-1024-1
The Burghead Bull Canmore
canmore.org.uk/site/319205/burghead
Noble, Gordon and Evans, Nicholas, The King in the North, The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2019.