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More Cornwall, I love these old Engine houses wihich pepper the landscape there. This is atop Bodmin Moor at Minories.
Explore 10/10/09 #497
It's official ... both of my grandchildren, who have been with me since their birth, are gone from my home. My daughter Julie bought a condo and she and Andrew moved out today ... There are just no words for me right now.
A trio of Canadian National and Bessemer SD40-3 rebuilds from Southern Pacific EMD SD45T-2s roll a northbound limestone train along MN route 7.
With the limited vehicle traffic in the Iron Range on this route, there was NO chance of getting run over.
Heading out from the Grand Canyon there are several parking areas where there is usually a tribal vendor or two and then there are some boulders or concreate blocks to stop idiots driving to the canyon edges. So after going pass the parking area I had to walk a couple hundred meters down to this gravel road to a local canyon edge. I guess they don't bodies from some fools out to earn their Darwin awards falling over the edge as I am sure the fire ants, ravens, crows and vultures will make quick work of their splattered remains.
Here's my second installment of what will probably be a three part series exploring our quarantined times.
Once again I had my son Will step in front of the camera, this time wearing his camo hoodie to go with his brand new camo mask.
Our brave new world: designer masks!
Using a simple one light set up I chose a large reflector that produces a concentrated beam of light to match the strength of the light in the background scene and taped an orange gel to the front of it to match the color.
At least I think I did. I'll let y'all be the judge. :)
A set of long exposures from Helsinki on a busy Sunday: Oodi becomes quite quiet with 215-second exposure
One of our local egret neighbors searches the last remaining areas of a pond that still has water - it was generally a dry summer. However, I am still surprised of its ability to catch fish, even though looking through such murky water!
Fog, relic signals and end cab switchers on Halloween night. Can't think of a better combination.
IHB job 118 awaits a favorable signal to head back to Michigan Avenue Yard and end their day.
Another look back to 2001, when Union Pacific saw fit to assign Rio Grande power to former Rio Grande lines for a brief period of time. A visit to Soldier Summit and Helper, UT in March yielded many chances to photograph throwback scenes such as this one. Rio Grande tunnel motors 5360 and 5410 seem right at home leading a hot eastbound intermodal train through the desolation of eastern Utah near the ghost town of Woodside. The train is Union Pacific's ZRODV which operated from Salt Lake City to Denver. It typically crossed Soldier Summit before sunrise, making the fast run between Helper and Green River in good morning light.
UP ZRODV:
DRGW 5360 SD40T-2
DRGW 5410 SD40T-2
The St. Joseph Coloma church in Mechelen is barely 100 years old. But in a very poor state as you can see. My Flickr friend Jan had shot some pics in this church before and I was really happy that he took me there during my stay in his wonderful city.
I'll be up in Vermont for the next few days (oh God why) so I won't be posting anything, nor will I be seeing anything. Literally nothing. So let's ogle this for a while.
Explore #36 on Thursday, January 15, 2009
I haven't visited this tranquill valley for quite a while & missed it somewhat. There was a forest fire around 10 years ago which looks like had made a recovery unlike the great storm in 1826 which caused its desolation.
Nature has long since repaired the devastation. In 1999 eight thousand trees were planted and interpretation introduced to illustrate the natural succession of plants and trees thought likely to have developed along the valley and on the immediate fells since the end of the last Ice Age.
Happy New Year to you all !