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TRRA's 101 Job has finished putting it's typically monster transfer together and begins pulling west towards Norfolk Southern's Luther Yard. I have to believe there is some sort of PSR going on as this transfer typically doubles and triples itself together, drags a big train to the NS (less than 5 miles away) then has to double into Luther Yard. Seems like a lot of work that could be accomplished with a pair of moves over the Merchants Bridge.
This day gave me my first sunny view of the TRRA's newish former Conrail SD60I's. We arrived a bit late to the party as 101 was already beginning to pull west but this view shows the bridge over the NS Brooklyn Main, the double track UP Springfield Sub and Illinois Highway 3. Nice to see RA and DW among others GTS this move while we all waited for the Rio Grande to come east on the UP in Missouri.
A virus and a shelter in place order were blissfully a couple of weeks away...
03-07-2020
A view from the sand dunes, looking across the picturesque bay of St Ouen, in Jersey Channel Islands. La Rocco Tower sits in the bay surrounded by calm waters on a warm summer's eve. We are so blessed on our island with the natural beauty surrounding us - sometimes it is hard to appreciate this, but this image makes me realise how lucky we are...
The sky is an infinite movie to me.
I never get tired looking at what's
happening up there.
(K. D. Lang)
Weekly Theme Challenge - Sky
(photo by Freya, edit by me)
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Motukiekie Beach is a fantastic location on the West Coast of New Zealand.
After a "Blazing Kaikoura" sunrise on the east coast I headed over to the West Coast for sunset.
This spot is only accessible at low tide and even during the very low tide on this particular evening the swell would regularly wash over this scene. This regular water movement however provided another layer to the seastack / starfish combination that the area is famous for!
The growing popularity of Motukiekie for serious landscape photographers is largely off the back of some fantastic images created by Kah Kit Yoong here a couple of years ago. If you haven't already make sure you check out his Flickr stream at www.flickr.com/photos/kahkityoong/ - you won't regret it!
The above image was taken well after the sun had set, providing a wonderful atmosphere including the sea mist in the background. My legs were soaked from the numerous swells and on the walk back down the beach it started to rain. This just added to the adventure at a remarkable location!
As always I would love to hear any thoughts / comments that you may have.
Taken with a Pentax 645Nii medium format film camera and fuji velvia 50 film.
A BNSF freight descends down the grade at Caliente with BNSF motors as they near Caliente about to go through Tunnel 1
NJT GP40PH-2s #4109 (CNJ) and #4101 (NJDOT) lead the Tri-State Railway Historical Society Santa train up NJ Transit’s Montclair-Boonton Line.
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At first glance this captivating scene peering through wispy clouds and down onto a dune field is reminiscent of a satellite view of one of Earth’s deserts, but this is in fact a beautiful landscape on Mars.
This spectacular dune field sits in the centre of Lomonosov crater, deep in the southern hemisphere of Mars (65ºS, 351ºE). It was imaged by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on 2 December, 2020.
At this time, southern summer was coming to an end on Mars. The image was taken as part of a campaign to track the evolution of the dune field through the end of summer and beginning of autumn, when frost would start covering the surface in this region. The crests of the dunes indicate the average wind direction, in this case, the wind comes predominantly from the bottom left to the top right of the image. To the right, darker, more basaltic rich sediments are visible. It is also in the right of the image that bright white clouds stand out against the darker sediments on the ground.
The image was released on the occasion of the five year launch anniversary of the mission.
The first five years
TGO launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 14 March 2016, arriving at Mars seven months later. It spent several months aerobraking – using the top of the planet’s atmosphere to create drag and slow down – to became the first ESA spacecraft used to enter its science orbit in this way.
The mission began full science operations in April 2018 with its suite of four instruments. TGO’s NOMAD and ACS spectrometers are designed to provide the best ever inventory of the planet’s atmospheric gases yet, and have already detected a new gas – hydrogen chloride – for the first time, as well as studying processes linked to atmospheric water escape in greater detail than ever. TGO is also adding to the lively debate surrounding the presence of methane on the planet by revealing a surprising lack of the mysterious gas. The FREND instrument is mapping the distribution of hydrogen in the uppermost metre of the planet’s surface, creating a detailed map of possible water-rich oases, relevant for future exploration of Mars. The CaSSIS camera has captured more than 20 000 images documenting the surface and complementing the data returned by the other instruments to help characterise features that may be related to trace gas sources.
TGO also provides routine data relay for NASA’s landers and rovers: Opportunity (until its end of operations in 2018), Curiosity, Insight and Perseverance. It will also be the communication link for the second ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars mission, comprising the Rosalind Franklin rover and Kazachok platform, when it arrives on Mars in 2023.
Credits: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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I was surprised to see all of this action in the sky last night, the night sky has been quite 'uneventful' this entire winter.
I had read about this technique a few years back, and always wanted to try it. Canada Day brings with it a fireworks celebration on most urban waterfronts, and those celebrating Independence Day will likely have an opportunity to try this tonight.
This technique involves changing the focus of the lens during the exposure. Through the 2 second exposure, I manually turn the focus ring which allows for the fireworks trails to fall out of focus and expand. Shifting the focus back and forth from in-focus to out-of-focus can create interesting patterns unseen by your eyes! It's a fun trick that offers many random "happy accidents" and the exposures are really fun to review, almost like watching the entire fireworks display again from a different perspective.
Just be sure to grab a few frames with static focus, however! You'll need to mask in the foreground from a separate image to keep the landscape details looking normal. This is two images combined - one for the fireworks and one for the landscape below. I adjusted the reflections to match the colours in the fireworks image so that everything blends together nicely.
Next time you're out shooting the fireworks, give this "dynamic focus" technique a try!
(I just looked it up after writing this post, and I originally read about this idea here: www.popphoto.com/how-to/2010/06/make-unique-fireworks-pho... )
A fine sunrise after days of rainy wet mornings.
Available on Shutterstock and a less "filtered" version on iStockphoto
This eagle came in very close, filling the frame. Very high dynamic though given the clouds and lighting. I exposed this 1 stop over, and probably could have gone another half stop. The noise in the dark areas is pretty low though, and I could eliminate it if I darkened it a hair more, but I like the details here when not zoomed in. At full resolution you start to perceive a little noise ... pixel peering.
ZENITAR-M2s 50mm f2 MC / 改鏡
== 右眼慢拍老鏡攝影展 < 第 7 講 > ==
冬天的寒風不是溫柔的，它以凌厲的速度擦拭大地，將楓葉搓紅如燃燒的烈焰。在這莫之能禦的自然神力中，拿著 ZENITAR-M2s 50mm f2 MC 這顆老鏡，改過鏡片排列後賦予影像更強烈的畫意風格，使楓葉不只是靜止的葉片，而是一幕北風的吶喊，一場季節的狂舞。這個畫面讓我聯想到 羅伯特·卡帕在二次大戰諾曼第登陸搶灘時的失焦系列作品，影像幾乎失焦到難以辨認，卻更具速度孤寂與生死瞬間的情緒張力，攝影從不僅只是清晰的再現，它可以承載動感、情緒與時間的脈動。
--- 使用刻意修改鏡片排列的老鏡，創造出異質的焦外畫意，使影像帶有撕裂般的張力，這種光學語言，使風中的楓葉不只是散亂的物件，而是畫布上的狂放筆觸，顯現當下的不安分，在風裡飛旋，用失焦來訴說北風的剛烈。
--- 一般而言，清晰度被視為影像品質的標準，但在表現動感時，失焦反而是一種更具張力的語言。卡帕的戰場影像、布列松的街頭紀實，甚至莫內的印象派繪畫，都在探索焦點的模糊如何強化情緒的力度。
--- 標準焦段 50mm 記錄楓葉準焦區域的細膩紋理，而 f2 的大光圈則柔化了失焦的背景，使紅葉在柔霧般的光影中顯得更加鮮活，紅色的葉片被冬風輕輕揉搓，彷彿即將燃燒出訴說不盡的光陰故事。
這場如靜似動的視覺體驗不僅與羅伯特·卡帕的戰地紀錄產生共鳴，也與印象派的筆觸哲學相互交織，焦點不再是精準的輪廓，而是流動的情緒，失焦，不只是技術上的偏離，而是攝影語言的一種自由釋放，使影像擁有更強烈的感官能沉浸其中的衝擊，如同詩句未竟之筆，讓觀賞者留下了更多想像的空間與自我闡釋未知的未知。
「攝影不是複製現實，不是讓世界靜止，而是創造氛圍。」—— 畢馬龍
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作品名稱 / 楓動 (Dynamic)
使用鏡頭 / ZENITAR-M2s 50mm f2 MC
拍攝日期 / 2024.12.5 12:15 pm
The BEST sunrise that I have seen this year.. and I have seen a few lately.
Photo taken at Bronte
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