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The beauty of the Deschutes River for fishing, is you can launch your drift boat a few miles upstream - and just slowly meander down the river, letting the current propel you at a perfect trolling speed. The lady at the bow was fly fishing, and the fish were biting.
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Spectacular drifting show, but adverse weather has deprived us of the specific smoke of tires on engines over 500HP
The woman's jacket provides the only splash of colour in the bleak landscape near Fuxin as Class SY No 1210 drifts downhill with empties from the tip.
As with other locations in China, on a clear, cold day some spectacular steam images can be achieved at Fuxin. That week in April was reasonably cold but murky grey.
Fuxin, Laioning province, China.
Olo is named after that canyon in the Grand Canyon. I think she first appeared at the Festival in 2017. From her description by the builder in that year's program:
"Olo is a copy of a 1960’s Keith Steele drift boat which had been modified to be self bailing and used with Martin Litton on commercial trips through the Grand Canyon. She was too small to be commercially viable and ended up rotting in a field where she was found and rebuilt by Flagstaff Arizona boat builder Brad Dimock. Working with Brad, I pulled the lines and offsets and built Olo. She is now being used to introduce young people to the joy of rowing wood in moving water."
Another view in an earlier year: www.flickr.com/photos/old_salt7/48706155622/in/photolist-...
one particularly memorable sunset in 2013 happened when i ventured out to North Beach in Perth in September... at first it appeared that not much was going to happen but then the sky and clouds just lit up with colours...
i absolutely love those rocks... sometimes it can be a challenge to get into a good spot to capture them but the effort is definitely worth it!
ISO 400 | f/16 | 1.3 sec | 17mm | Reverse GND Filter
Although it is supposed to be white, this Drift rose in my garden produces several colors from this one to white ones. July 2021.
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Our Daily Challenge 13-19 Feb: You've Got Mail.
This is the drift of post that ebbs and flows on the corner of my kitchen table.
Magazines, periodicals, stuff that is worth reading but I haven't done so yet, all have come through my letterbox.
The only things not in that pile are bills, which I pay immediately. I have a horror of getting into debt!
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
~Thomas A. Kempis
Beyer Patton photo
Passengers, crew and passersby all mill around FQSL railbus 38, which has gotten into a small jam. The homebuilt railbus managed to split a switch and very briefly do a bit of multi-track drifting. It fortunately did not derail, so it was a matter of getting the railbus properly aligned.
Equador
February 1970
Train of the Day
6/2/24
The harsh Siberian wind is drifting the snow across the barren landscape as two Huanan Forestry Railway 762m gauge 'C2' Class 0-8-0s, with 004 leading, at last make confident progress towards Huanan near Changlonggang. The snow on the front of the leading 'C2' shows evidence of it having ploughed through a drift, aided by the second locomotive. Without the wind-chill factor the temperature was registered by our local driver as -33c and quite wisely he remained in his vehicle! Narrow gauge railroading at its best,only made possible in these extreme conditions by the experience and sheer dedication of the locomotive crews.
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Sunday morning on the Bowland fells between Parlick and Fairsnape. The wall in the picture is about 5 feet high when not drifted with snow. Lovely to look at but after 6 miles sinking through the crust the novelty had worn off.
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This year has been marked a lot by the motto of drifting. Drifting not as if without compass. That’ll always be my heart. But drifting as if accompanied by a sense of letting go and letting be without self made pressures. Lately I’ve been possessed with a driven sense of self-acceptance. I can change the way my mind and heart process the happenings of life, yes, yet I’ve mostly been trying to letting go of that necessity to control it all. To try to be left untouched and unhurt. To try and heal as lightning, instead of letting the hurt murmur the rhythm of everything I do and feel and sing as it feels like doing, which can also be relieving. It’s ok to feel hurt. We don’t always have to tame it. It’s ok to feel calm. It’s ok to not always be swallowed by a need of adventure. A need of seizing. A need to excel. Sometimes it’s pretty ok to just want to be. Be as we wake up that day. Tired. Relieved. Angry. Apathetic. Happy. Without having to label it or try to fix it if deemed negative. Sometimes drifting is ok. It is more than ok. It’s a sign of acceptance. Calm. Of letting be. And maybe letting go.
I’m back from my 20 days in Vietnam. Viet Nam you were so good to me. 🌿
There has been a lot of text with the last two posts so just a few words today. Taken from a little boat drifting down a side channel of Borneo’s Kinabatangan River seeing nothing much but trees
Hope you all have a super weekend
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With massive building cumulus clouds as a backdrop, D&RG Locomotive #425 drifts downgrade at MP 287.4, as she slowly descends off the lava-capped mesa a little over 6 miles southwest of Antonito, Colorado. Although the train is technically headed "railroad east", it is really running compass north at this location, soaking up the broadside afternoon sun.
The geography on the east side of the present-day Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is largely formed by ancient volcanic activity, and the evidence of it is on the ground everywhere. And although there hasn't been an eruption here in a couple of million years, the nearby 10,000 ft. San Antonito Mountain is still considered an active volcano. It is said that in the winter, the snows frequently melt up on the summit, despite air temperatures well below freezing.
I'm finally back on track after some problems with my editing software, but let's talk about the picture first: There was a heavy snowfall three weeks ago, and as we were clearing the driveway of snow at my parents-in-law's house, I noticed some nice snow patterns right in front of the house. As there is a large meadow right next to the house and no other buildings, there is nothing to stop the wind from blowing the snow around, creating some beautiful drifts. The only problem was that I didn't have my camera with me, but luckily I was able to borrow my girlfriend's Fuji X-T20. However, there was another problem: she had left her spare batteries at our place and the battery in her camera only had a few percent charge left. So I quickly went outside, ran around like a headless chicken (as Mads Peter Iverson would phrase it) and took a few shots, but back in the house I noticed that someone had accidentally turned a dial on the camera that put the Fuji into some kind of JPG mode, and when I realized this, the camera turned itself off. I then took the battery out, put it on the heater to warm it up and put it back in a few minutes later, ran outside and took a few last RAW images. This is one of them, and I'm very pleased with how it turned out, because this almost abstract image is very clean and has an almost calming character.
This weekend I then decided to update my operating system on my MacBook since I had already skipped the previous version, and I was really happy that the update went smoothly, but when I tried to open my editing program Capture One, it kept crashing. I really thought about whether any of my programs didn't support macOS Sonoma, but I didn't think at all about my year and a half "old" Capture Once (which I bought a perpetual license for). Well, of course it doesn't support macOS Sonoma and so I contacted the support team who told me the same thing. I was quite annoyed, as a year and a half is not a long period of time, and I was even more annoyed when they replied, "However, when it comes to operating system updates and technology improvements, we are committed to providing the best performance for our customers", suggesting that they provide updates to allow "older" versions to run on new operating systems.
After waiting for two weeks and getting no response, I again wrote if there’s anything that can be done and they apologised for their late reply, forwarded my complaint to someone else which basically just told me that I should buy the new version with the regular discount they currently offer. However, when you look at the prices and compare them to Adobe and Luminar, even the discounted prices are at best in line with their competitors' regular prices (not to mention their discounted prices). And as if it wasn't enough that they are one of the most expensive options, they also lag behind in terms of features, making it very tempting to switch, which I will probably do if my new Capture One version doesn't support a new operating system in the future. Nevertheless, it is an excellent RAW converter, but looking at the current pricing and the support that told me "We don't force anyone to update unless you decide to do it yourself" but at the same time told me that this is the only way to get Capture One working again, it's difficult to recommend them.
Well, let's end this “rant” and look at the positive side of things: I'm back to editing and there will be many more pictures from New Zealand and also from London, which we recently visited for a few days. And it's Christmas, so I wish you all a Merry Christmas, happy holidays and quality time with your beloved ones. And I of course hope you like this image! :)
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal.
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method. Source Wikipedia.