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Red Lights brings out the party animals....All credits: honeybenderdotcom.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/night-crawler/
This pic was taken at Middle Point which is about 40km SE of Darwin, it was one of the most lightning intense storms I've seen in my 40 years of living in the Top End, I can still remember the crawler lighting up the entire sky, the energy in the atmosphere was intense causing the hair on the back of my neck to stand up. I only wish I had a wider lens as this is only the left hand section of the crawler, it also forked out to the right of this shot about the same distance again!
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and fuck it this too...
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METALLLL!!!!!
You don't tend to think of "bulldozers" as antique farm tractor equipment, but these go back quite a ways in history. Agricultural Crawlers are impressive in the amount of very heavy power work they can do. During our floods of 1993 and 1995 here in Missouri, large tractors like these plowed several feet of sand deposited in our Missouri River bottomland.
September 6, 2018
Missouri River Steam Engine Association 2018 Show
Boonville, MO
General purpose tractor, crew of two, 1x manipulator arm.
Fixed! Much better with a tighter triangle on the tread shape. Still struggling with inside the tread and mechanism, it's really ugly in there, don't look too closely! But overall the vehicle has that chunky/boxy look I wanted to achieve. I guess irl the treads might be spayed out from the body more, to widen the load on the ice, but it just looks so much cooler having them tucked in tightly :-)
The white cockpit canopy thing was ok but I dunno, it made the vehicle feel a little too comfortable. Too many windows; reducing the viewport and really shrinking it down kinda gives it a squinting vibe, implies the environment is much more hostile. Like a tank feels: no windows = very hostile outside. It was hard to articulate at the start but having finished it I can see why it was bothering me.
Thanks everyone for the advice and comments on this one, much appreciated.
You don't tend to think of "bulldozers" as antique farm tractor equipment, but these go back quite a ways in history. Agricultural Crawlers are impressive in the amount of very heavy power work they can do. During our floods of 1993 and 1995 here in Missouri, large tractors like these plowed several feet of sand deposited in our Missouri River bottomland.
September 6, 2018
Missouri River Steam Engine Association 2018 Show
Boonville, MO
Red Lights brings out the party animals....All credits: honeybenderdotcom.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/night-crawler/
Photo contest entry taken at TRYST - The best place for Halloween in Secondlife.
You have to see how insanely spooky this sim is.
An old Caterpillar diesel tractor. From the Great Casterton Vintage Working event 2024.
Zeiss Super Ikonta 530/2
Fomapan 100 film
Lab develop & scan
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You don't tend to think of "bulldozers" as antique farm tractor equipment, but these go back quite a ways in history. Agricultural Crawlers are impressive in the amount of very heavy power work they can do. During our floods of 1993 and 1995 here in Missouri, large tractors like these plowed several feet of sand deposited in our Missouri River bottomland.
September 6, 2018
Missouri River Steam Engine Association 2018 Show
Boonville, MO
A Mojave Desert Tortoise climbing on sandstone. It continued climbing up the rock face, at surprisingly steep angles, for quite a distance up to a higher ledge. The original rock crawlers.
Crawler Lightning Over Central Texas, April 26, 2023.
Anvil crawler lightning, sometimes called spider lightning, is created when leaders propagate through horizontally-extensive charge regions in mature thunderstorms, usually the stratiform regions of mesoscale convective systems.
Union Pacific 5483 and 7453 crawl through the north switch at Canyon in the early afternoon, as they struggle uphill with a beefy 155 car manifest train out of West Colton. The Northbound has been doing nothing but gain elevation for the past two hours just to get here, and will grind it out for another hour to the top of Cajon near Highland. Troubles for this train will reappear again near Rosamond for hot wheels and at Fleta where one of it's three mid-train units will drop a piston while setting out the rear end of the train.
Bodmin Parkway, Cornwall, England.
(As of 7/15/2024 no one seems to have got the song reference...anyone?)
Definitely not in the mechanical category. A clever lizard who watched me pass by.
While out walking.
The crew on board of UP SD70M 4921 has train ZDUNP-09 well inhand as it starts its decent down Kirkwood hill. The train is just starting to accelerate again after slow rolling past an area where a group of tresspassers were reported by another passing train.
This was part of the same storm as the previous image. The only crawler I captured this season. Which is coming to an end. The locals complained and called it "Nonsoon 2019" . Think I will just call it grateful.
Empire Ranch Santa Cruz County Arizona
Night Crawler is by Thee Oh Sees, and is perfect for a wonderful night that crept up on me. I've never waited for it to get dark before , but it was a wonderful experience. I saw the biggest meteorite i've ever seen burn up through the atmosphere, as it travelled from north to south, glowing orange at it's head, with a long trail of white light behind. the waves also had flashes of neon blue phosphorescence. I couldn't manage to do it justice, but had great fun wandering alone, with only the crabs for company. It's only when it gets really dark you realise just how many stars are out there. It really stretches the mind. This was all thanks to Monie, who encouraged me to get out, so this is for Monie :)))) It's my first attempt at night shooting.
Credits:
Bauhaus Movement - Mjel Mask / GOLD @TP7
S&P Webcrawler dress sheer Lara RARE @ The Epiphany
tram G0718 hair
^^Swallow^^ Pixie Ears
AG. Charm Eyes - Sky
LeLutka Bento Head - MAY
On a chilly fall morning in Fremont, I ventured up Deer Gultch Trail in the westernmost hills facing out towards the city and the Bay. My main target for this morning was Union Pacific's Oakland to Warm Springs and back freight which shuttles cars between the prior two cities as well as Milpitas. Typically, this train would be south towards Milpitas at this hour; however, due to a lack of avaliable brakemen at Oakland Yard, the train's departure was delayed to accommodate a brakeman coming over from Warm Springs. This delay allowed for perfect lighting for the train's passing at my location with the trio of yellow SD70M's standing out wonderfully against the green landscape as they rolled over the fairly empty Alameda Creek. Besides the train, some other features of note is the Dumbarton Bridge spanning across the Bay between Newark and Palo Alto and in the foreground, the site of the former Western Pacific Railroad's wye which allowed trains coming from Oakland or Tracy to access trackage extending down to Milpitas and San Jose. A majority of the San Jose trackage is now operated by BART with the exception of Milpitas' vehicle loading facility and a small industrial park which are both served by Union Pacific.
This is a shot that I have strived for, for quite some time. A sunset lightning photo, well, I finally got it....well almost.
I was using my back up body, a 30D and I had forgotten that I still had it set up for teaching my grandaughter....set on JPeg instead of RAW, buggar!!!!. Still the shot was worth sharing.
Praying Mantis on my Indian blanket flower. They love this particular clump of flowers and I have seen several hanging around.
That is what this type of intracloud lightning is called: an anvil crawler. What a great name!
This is my last storm image. I want to thank everyone who has commented or faved these images. It was a bit of a departure for me to do this kind of photography and I've been so pleased and so flattered by the people's interest and enjoyment of these images. Thank you all very much!
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In May, 2017 I went storm chasing in Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley, which stretches from Texas through to Nebraska, is the area of the U.S. which gets the most severe weather, and the most tornadoes, every spring. Over 8 days, I chased storms through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. What an incredible adventure it was! If you'd like see more images I took while storm chasing, take a look at my Storm Chasing album.
I tried my hand at time lapse on this trip. If you'd like to see the time lapse film I made, it's on YouTube in 4K and on Flickr, too.