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Continuing on the theme, able to take the M5 and split between the northern part and southern part of the Rockies (Canadian and Colorado). This was the last roll until I had to send the camera away for a full CLA and meter repair, for which it was clearly due being in the wild for sometime. Lots of hiking but well worth it. Most of the time was overcast but did the best I could to capture with suboptimal light. I was inspired as usual with the flickeranians who do so well in the most trying of conditions - thanks for the continued inspiration!
Continuing the fun with the Exmachina Davide avatar. See my blog for the deets: billybeaverhausen.com/2018/09/27/exmachina-davide-4-02-ep...
RKO_5610. Sitting on my deck these grebes came by and started their courtship dance. How lucky can you be!
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Continuing my elk series with this cow elk cooling off on a very warm day in Lake Estes, Colorado.
This shot was taken about an hour before the shot of the bull I posted yesterday.
20A stalled coming up the Slope due to an engine failure which then bunched up the eastbounds. A helper set was sent to rescue the distressed train. Once together they continued east and here lighting up the dense air at Lilly, PA. Over 25 minutes of continuous traffic passed as the eastbounds roared up the mountain in succession along with a couple westbounds.
This is a portion of the trail to Snoqualmie Mtn. It doesn't look too bad but it is steep and continues forever like this, well, until the upper section where it is just steep and slippery.
Continuing with images from our recent travels in Badlands National Park and Custer State Park in South Dakota.
This bison bull spent about 20 minutes using a short post to scratch his belly. He was very thorough, shifting positions several times to assure that no spot was missed.
When we arrived at the small viewpoint parking area, another bull was using the same post for the same purpose. Though there were about 20 identical looking posts edging the parking area, there must have been something special about this one. This bull waited quite a while until the other one moved on so that he could use that one particular post.
Continuing with the Purple Sandpipers :)
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The men in Southeast Asia love to follow the passion for betting. Whether cockfighting, buffalo fighting or even fish fighting, everything is right, the main thing is to bet. They often gamble away their house and yard.
We were invited to a buffalo fight in an open field. Here the buffalos are first inspected in order to then place the bets
...to be continued... ;)
I took this photo in 1983 with my analog Nikon FE camera and 35mm slide film, and later digitalised by using a Nikon Coolscan film scanner.
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They seem to be enjoying their vacation in these parts, perhaps the dining is the big attraction, they arrive before 6:30 in the mornings and hang around for 12 hours
Continuing the fox theme as I've spent more time in London for work over the past couple of weeks...
A morning in April as Sabrina gets ready to go to work.
She is a shoe designer and the manager of the Shoe Dept at Millard's Dept Store. She is romantically involved with Mark Wahlberg, and has been for a few years now.
Continuing the story of the dark and empty beach under the accompaniment of the crunching pebbles, lapping of the waves and the occasional gull cry....are you having a good summer?
First, in line, William Laughlin built a three-story log gristmill on the Cumberland County frontier. In order to generate power to turn the grindstone, he built a dam that provided water power equal to that of fifteen horses to turn the waterwheel. Laughlin's was the first mill on Big Spring and it ground wheat and other grain for the people in the surrounding countryside. Laughlin's mill continued to produce whole wheat flour until 1896 when the Laughlin family sold it to the Newville Water Company, which removed the milling equipment and installed a turbine to drive hydraulic pumps that supplied the town's municipal water mains.
An unexpected bonus on 23rd December, was 60103 'Flying Scotsman' continuing on to Preston from Hellifield with its Settle & Carlisle charter train, the 1Z74 1424 Carlisle to Manchester Victoria, and not being replaced by diesel haulage at Hellifield as originally envisaged. The damp late-afternoon winter conditions, and with just a few onlookers on the platform enjoying the spectacle, the Gresley 'A3' Pacific comfortably gets into its stride and heads away into the night, the last mainline steam working of a very challenging year.
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This is the same photo as yesterday, converted to B&W. The original conversion (cropped to 14x11) that I posted a few weeks ago is in Comments. I wasn't trying to copy (obviously), just seeing what I would come up with this time around.
I think I like the original rendition, below, better in this case, at least the toning if not the crop (which had been done to specifications).
Continuing my Astro Projection series...
On one spectacular sunset in early summer, when sun energy was in its maximum, I had an exciting out-of-body-and-lens experience .... My camera recorded these swirls of sunset particles dancing glowing in magnificent colours on vast Toronto cityscapes as if receiving a subspace message on sunset waves...
...all brought to you by my ICM magic aka intentional camera movement during long exposure :-)
*Have added a thin layer of textures for the painterly feel, but other than that it's a SOOC image - no other processing involved!
Sorry folks but I revisited my Peregrine Falcon folder and found a few more I would very much like to share, thank you all.
Construction continues on Crazy Horse Memorial which was started in 1948. Crazy Horse was a Lakota warrior who was born a member of the Teton Sioux Tribe in about 1843. The memorial is located outside of Custer, South Dakota. It is being blasted and drilled from granite. When finished it is planned to be 641 feet long and 563 feet high. To see the show visit www.travelsouthdakota.com/explore-with-us/great-8/crazy-h...
Opteka 650mm-1300mm @ 650mm.
1953 Kaiser Manhattan
In 1951, Frazer debuted a new design that would continue until the company’s end of U.S. passenger car production in 1955. Designed by Howard “Dutch” Darrin, the cars were longer, lower, and swoopier. The top-of-the-line Manhattan cost just over $3,000, and fewer than 300 were produced in all.
For 1952, the Manhattan name was shifted to the Kaiser nameplate, and the car received a markedly different exterior that was consistent with the rest of the brand. Most notably, a pronounced dip adorned the center of the windshield and rear glass, and the grille had a simple top bar that curved around the front fenders. For this model year, body style choices were greatly revised, as the convertible model was removed, a club coupe and a two-door sedan were added, and Traveler configurations could be ordered. List prices dropped considerably, and production numbers were much higher.
The 1953 model year was mostly the same, though the Manhattan could be ordered with “Bambu” interior, and body choices were limited to a two-door club sedan, and four-door sedan, and a Traveler sedan. For 1954, Darrin redesigned the Manhattan’s grille in a new “jet air-scoop” design, supposedly borrowed from the Buick XP-300 show car. More importantly a McCulloch supercharger became standard on the Manhattan’s old flathead six, which boosted output to 140 hp. Even so, sales dropped to 4,325 Manhattans.
By 1955, it was all over. Only 1,231 supercharged Manhattans were built that year, with 1,021 being sent to Argentina. The tooling was sent down to Buenos Aires and the Kaiser Manhattans continued to be sold in South America until 1962 as the Carabella.
A trip of MACs, 12,600 HP worth lead the 111 north from Seward seen here about MP 88 as they approach Girdwood, AK. Normally this train would stop in Anchorage and be sent north to Fairbanks piecemeal, not today however, as they will make a crew change and continue north to Fairbanks. Traversing the railroad mainline in its entirety, not something that happens often. 5.2.25
As we have continued to digitize old photographs for our parents, I came across this excellent image of my wife’s Great Grandparents automobiles taken from their front porch during a snowstorm. The picture was taken around 1936 near the North Texas town of Woodson. I not sure about the car on the left, but it looks possibly like a 1932 Ford Model B. The car on the right is a 1936 Ford Model 48. I felt that this image really captures that remote sense of loneliness on a 1930s farm in rural North Texas. A good day to stay inside next to the stove and play dominoes if you ask me!
Photo by Unknown, circa 1936
Restoration by Danny Shrode
Continuing the theme of Autumn's bounty, this time the gorgeous red berries of the Hawthorn trees. Considering how dry this year has been I'm amazed at how prolific our trees have been in producing their fruits.
Continuing to mine the great variety of Canadian railroading in the 1980s, we present this view of an eastbound CN container train approaching Montreal on a rolling tangent through Beaconsfield on 9 July 1987, with C630M leading two other big MLWs.
The alarm today went off at 5am, over two hours before sunrise. The reason for the early alarm was the drive to Canyonlands National Park and the ensuing walk to Mesa Arch would take nearly an hour and I wanted to be able to plant my tripod before everyone else arrived. Driving out of Moab the streets were void of traffic and after turning onto the road leading to Canyonlands there weren’t any headlights in the rearview mirror or were there taillights visible ahead. I was confident that I had departed at an appropriately early enough time.
After entering the National Park I noticed a few taillights ahead of me in the distance. “OK, I guess there may be a few early risers there,” I thought. How wrong I was, for as I crested the rise in the dark with my headlamp guiding my way along the path to Mesa Arch I could hear many voices coming from ahead. I wasn’t alone and it wasn’t just a couple of early risers either. There were already 15 to 20 tripods with accompanying cameras and photographers set up waiting for sunrise! Fortunately, the location I had scouted out the day prior was still available, so I joined the masses and added my tripod and camera to the mix. Note to self: rethink the starting time for my next visit!
The beauty of the sunrise here is something one truly needs to witness in person. As the sun broke the horizon the first sunburst occurred, but the best was yet to come. Initially there is the lack of reflected light on the underside of Mesa Arch. But as the sun continued to rise and began to cross the underside of the arch a 2nd sunburst occurred while the reflected light illuminated the underbelly of the arch turning the sandstone a glowing red. While some photographers had already started packing up, the patience of ‘waiting for the light’ was rewarded with this image.
Highlighted by the rising sun is the Washer Woman (derived from its resemblance of a tall and slender woman reaching her hands into a tub) and to its right is the taller Monster Tower. Washer Woman and Monster Tower are each over 600 feet tall. Behind the Washer Woman is the Sandcastle.
This is the second image I’ve posted from that wonderful morning, but this one was taken moments earlier than the previous one. The sunburst is larger in this image as the sun has yet to rise high enough to be partially hidden by the arch.
From the earlier image, Kathleen had commented . . . “I can see an Indian lying in repose, hand in his lap and his legs crossed........lying in the opening, do you see him?” Yes, I could! Can you?
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Wagtail. Part of my continuing series with birds on boats, every wildlife image I see is usually a bird on a stick or in what is considered to be the natural habitat of the bird, I have decided to do one with a difference, all the birds in this series are all shot on or about boats.
Monarchs continue pouring through North Georgia - both at the river and here at home. We had half a dozen Monarchs at the river yesterday and another one at home. We've been getting about one Monarch a day in my zinnias - that's a lot compared to most years. Plenty of other butterflies at the river - so you'll be seeing photos long after they're gone.
>> Monarch on pink zinnia - dangling in my flowers - two days ago
The Monarchs at the river yesterday looked fresh (photos soon!) - they have to make it to Mexico and survive till next Spring. I reached out and touched one of the Monarchs - like touching a miracle in the works. Amazing!
(NIKON D80; 4/6/2008; 1/200 at f/16; ISO 400; white balance: Auto; focal length: 50 mm)
Continued from this. And now you can see how lazy I am as I just put that blue gel between wide-area plastic thing on sb-800 :)
First time seeing an ex-CP GP20C working these parts.
CPKC's LESGOJ (UP's name for it; I never heard the CPKC symbol) takes headroom on the southbound main at Valley Junction, East St. Louis, IL after a lengthy wait for passing UP traffic. The lingering snow is a result of winter storm Blair that intermittently dumped rain, sleet, ice, and snow throughout the St. Louis metroplex last weekend, a mess that Missouri and Illinois DOTs have yet to fully dig out from.
Continuing on national tree week - a lovely misty morning in the heart of the Clyde Valley in rural Scotland.
National tree week info www.treecouncil.org.uk/community-action/national-tree-week
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Been away from my computer a lot for the last few days. Just got back to it. Got sunsets for weather 10a240 looking pretty good I thought :)
Opethfeldt 7 unofficial update WIP
Continuing on my Japan photos, here's one from another airport, Haneda Airport in Tokyo. I took this back in 2007 as well so I'm not sure if this design is still there.
Stonehenge a Scheduled Ancient prehistoric monument located 2 miles west of Amesbury in Wiltshire.
One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3,000 BC to 2,000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3,100 BC. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first bluestones were raised between 2,400 and 2,200 BC. Another theory suggests the bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3,000 BC.
The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge. It is a national legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.
Archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2008 indicates that Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. The dating of cremated remains indicate that deposits contain human bone from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug. Such deposits continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.