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Under angry skies, a westbound BNSF coal train is at Benteen, Montana, as some final beams of sun shine through late on the afternoon of June 14, 2014. This location on BNSF’s Big Horn Subdivision is not far from where George Armstrong Custer made his last stand during the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Taken a couple of years ago during hurricane weather in the Highlands (hence the afternoon skies at the height of midsummer), but only just edited this shot now.
I think (if memory serves me right) this is Loch Ailort between Mallaig and Fort William. Seen from the West Highland Railway.
Cellardyke, Anstruther, Fife, Scotland
Please see my other Fife Photographs at www.jamespdeans.co.uk/p350570900
Taken in brilliant low sunshine, just as it was about to get very black and then start hammering it down!
Taken at a favourite spot in the Yorkshire Dales
Grateful the many paths I have taken, have always led me back home.
Many thanks to Jai Johnson for the lovely textures.
As always, thank you for your visit, all your kind comments, invitations and favorites. This image may not be copied or distributed without my written consent. © All rights reserved.
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While the light tries to make its way
through the menacing dark clouds
swollen with rain ...
The sea waves rise roaring,
shaken by a raging wind ....
Everything seems to be crossed
by uncontrollable and overwhelming forces ...
Mentre la luce tenta di farsi largo
fra le nubi minacciose e gonfie di pioggia ...
Le onde del mare si sollevano ruggenti,
agitate da un vento impetuoso....
Tutto sembra attraversato
da forze incontrollabili e travolgenti ...
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MANY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! :)
We've had wind and rain storms during the last few nights, with no signs of the moon. Earlier this evening, however, it did become visible for a while, but always with a heavy cloud covering. Not having a telephoto lens did not help me in getting a better shot either. This photo was one of the best and with a little editing I was able to add a bit more interest.
The fantastic fields of sunflowers seemed to go on forever. The bright "faces" of the flowers were turned away from the gathering dark clouds, like an audience of thousands of points of brightness, looking to me.
That was a happy scene.
A queued up quartet enjoying the Rotterdam Maas river view while waiting for a water taxi.
Happy Bench Monday :-)
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(No, I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth, or anything like that - I have had a very soar throat. It's surprising how sick you can get from something as simple as that. First day at the big computer screen for quite some time today.)
For those of you who don't speak Swedish: Eksjö (lit. oak lake) is the name of the place, hovgård means manor (not a word really in use today, but in this case it's part of the name of the place). It is just outside of the town Sävsjö, built in the 1650s by Carl Mauritz Lewenhaupt (who died with the title of field marshal in 1666). But it was not completed by the time of his death and his family could not complete the project. It saw substantial remodelling in the 1730s (including the tearing down of the top floor - so it is now a two storey structure, though it doesn't quite look like that in this shot). In 1812 the copper roof was sold and the manor quickly deteriorated.
(And I will have you guessing what the man to the left is actually doing! ;-))
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And Winter came ...
with its short days and its long hours ...
with its silences .....
broken by the breath of sea ....
E venne l'Inverno ...
con i suoi giorni brevi e le sue ore lunghe ...
con i suoi silenzi ......
infranti dal respiro del mare ....
❄️.¸¸.•*´❄️¨*•.¸ ♬♫ And Winter came ♬♫¨.¸¸.•*❄️*•.¸¸❄️
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MANY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! :)
Today’s post is another view of the broken jetty at Loch Gelly at sunset.
The shot is a little less HDR than my usual fare with only two frames capturing foreground and sky so that means that the sun is a little burned out and losing detail whereas the shadows are a little deeper than I would normally like. However, I was taken by the depth of colour in these frames which was too dark for the lowest exposure and too bright in the highest. So I chose to use only the middle two and concentrate on pulling out the nice tones in the water and the lower clouds.
I’m still trying to figure out how to capture long exposure but still see some movement in the turbines. Perhaps I’ll get that worked out for the next visit.
Tribute to a Poet ..... 🌹♥
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" ... The tired earth , under the snow,
sleeps the silence of a heavy sleep.
Winter collects its labor
of a thousand centuries,
from an ancient dawn …. "
" .... La terra stanca, sotto la neve,
dorme il silenzio di un sonno greve.
L'inverno raccoglie la sua fatica
di mille secoli, da un'alba antica … "
"INVERNO" - FABRIZIO DE ANDRE'
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MANY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! :)
I have not posted this shot as I have so many beautiful shots from Monument Valley that the day we got there and it looked like this (we could not even go down into the valley as it was closed) seemed so 'not pretty' to me by cmparison. Yet, as I have viewed it in the days since then it now seems like 'another world' type of photo that sort of appeals to me so here it is as it was! Smile.
MONUMENT VALLEY
Laguna de Huaypo is a picturesque lake surrounded by the snow-capped peaks of the Sacred Valley as well as the rural Andean countryside.
This is the landscape of the Nogent nuclear powerplant. You can see both cooling towers.
La vapeur des deux aéroréfrigérantes des tranches 1 & 2 de la centrale de Nogent sur Seine
Second shot in a series I took of an incoming cold front on Sunday afternoon.
SOOC, no editing.
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