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Another from my Crayford marshes collection, taken early in the morning down in a ditch to get this angle, I just love the the clouds and colours!
Reflections along Bull Creek in Austin, Texas. Note the color in the Tallow Tree as the cooler weather starts to color the leaves. 20161124BullCreekDxLr6v3
When planning my recent trip to Utah, I found myself with a free Sunday, so I figured I'd shoot the former Rio Grande or the Union Pacific main line. Having done well on Soldier Summit before (and by "well" I mean I have seen trains, which is pretty astounding considering the lack of traffic there now), I opted to do the Union Pacific main line through Echo Canyon. "It's the UP main line!" I thought, "they're always running trains!" Well, they are, unless UP blows a train up near Rock Springs the day before. Despite the main line being almost shutdown due to the derailment, I still got one train: an eastbound at Echo Canyon. No complaints from me about this being the one train of the day.
An old home, once filled with love and laughter, sits vacant. If you listen real close, you can still the echoes of children’s voices.
An old place I stumbled upon long ago in San Luis Valley in Colorado, USA. I always wonder, like many I'm sure, just who lived there, how long, and what were their lives like? I am sure the answer would be that they were a lot like you and I, and completely unique at the same time.
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HMS Echo (H87) was the first of two multi-role hydrographic survey ships commissioned by the Royal Navy. With her sister ship, HMS Enterprise, they formed the Echo class of survey vessels. She was built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon in 2002 and was the ninth Royal Navy vessel to carry the name.
Decommissioned in June 2022 into 'Reserve State of Readiness'.
A watch bearing the patina of years, the yellowed pages of a forgotten book, and intricately woven lace—fragments of a past that still breathes through delicate details. Each object tells a story, an echo of bygone times when life moved at a slower pace and things were made to last. This composition captures the essence of nostalgia and the quiet charm of a vanished era.
"Echo waits with art and care. And will the faults of song repair."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Duisburg, Mercatorinsel, Skulptur "Echo des Poseidon" und Blick auf die dahinter stehende Skulptur "Rheinorange" und auf den linksrheinischen Duisburger Ortsteil Homberg.
Wie ein Schiffsbug ragt die „Mercatorinsel" hinein in das Mündungsgebiet von Ruhr und Rhein. Die Landzunge, zugleich nördlichster Punkt des Duisburger Hafen-Areals, ist seit dem 27. Mai 2016 Standort eines außergewöhnlichen Kunstwerks.
Die Bronze-Statue „Das Echo des Poseidon" erinnert an den griechischen Meeresgott, dem in der Antike die Kraft zur Beherrschung der Wellen und Stürme zugeschrieben wurde. Die Skulptur steht - beleuchtet und vor Hochwasser ausreichend geschützt - auf einem Sockel von ca. 6 m Durchmesser und ist insgesamt 10 m hoch. Die Skulptur selbst zeigt einen 6 m hohen Kopf mit Schultern, der zu schweben scheint, allerdings von einem 4,5 m hohen Sockel getragen wird.
Das Kunstwerk ist eine Kreation des berühmtesten zeitgenössischen deutschen Bildhauers, Prof. Markus Lüpertz, geschaffen aus Anlass des 300. Hafengeburtstages. Lüpertz würdigt damit sowohl die Verdienste des Hafens um den erfolgreichen Strukturwandel an der Ruhr, als auch die Region selbst, in der er u. a. zeitweise im Bergbau gearbeitet und Kunst studiert hat. 21 Jahre lang, bis 2009, leitete der universelle Künstler Lüpertz (neben der Bildhauerei hat er sich als Maler und Grafiker, aber auch als Bühnenbildner, Dichter und Musiker einen Namen gemacht) die Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, heute lebt und arbeitet er in Berlin.
Like the bow of a ship, the "Mercator Island" protrudes into the confluence of the Ruhr and Rhine.
The headland, which is also the northernmost point of the Duisburg port area, has been the location of an extraordinary work of art since May 27, 2016.
The bronze statue "The Echo of Poseidon" is reminiscent of the Greek god of the sea, to whom the power to control waves and storms was attributed in ancient times. The sculpture stands - illuminated and adequately protected from flooding - on a base of approx. 6 m diameter and is 10m high overall The sculpture itself features a 6m high head and shoulders that appears to be floating but is supported by a 4.5m high base.
The work of art is a creation of the most famous contemporary German sculptor, Prof. Markus Lüpertz, created on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the port. Lüpertz thus honors the services of the port to the successful structural change in the Ruhr, as well as the region itself, in which he e.g. temporarily worked in mining and studied art. For 21 years, until 2009, the universal artist Lüpertz (in addition to sculpture, he made a name for himself as a painter and graphic artist, but also as a stage designer, poet and musician) headed the Düsseldorf State Art Academy, today he lives and works in Berlin.
A 114-car Sparks, Nevada - North Platte, Nebraska "extra" manifest squeals around a six degree curve along the Lincoln Highway in Echo, Utah on Saturday, April 29, 2023. The old UP Park City branch once connected here, where I-84 (to Portland) and I-80 (to San Francisco) connect today. I want to live in that nifty McMansion on a hill at upper right!
"And no one called us to the land
And no one knows the where’s or why’s
Something stirs and something tries
Starts to climb toward the light"
Took the new lens as far as the deck - Echo paused just long enough for a quick pic. Sunshine making a nice change from all the dreary rainy weather that’s been plaguing us in the DC area
Echoes of Gasworks?
A4 60009 ‘Union of South Africa’ takes on water outside Bury North Tunnel...
(Taken with permission on a photographic charter)
Union Pacific's Park City Local crosses Echo Dam Road while exiting the small town of Echo, Utah on July 25, 1980. On the point, A-B-A GP30s No. UP 831, UP 736B, and UP 876 provide the necessary pulling power. Today's local will stop in Coalville and drop off eight hopper cars from Devils Slide, and continue south to Chevron's phosphate rock truck to rail transload facility at Phoston.
Givre du matin (Nature d'hiver du Québec) Digue-aux-Aigrettes, RN de faune du Lac Saint-PIerre, Dundee, Québec
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Mt. Blue Sky Scenic Byway, near Idaho Springs, Colorado.
Here's a place I'd like to visit again. Very pretty, cool and comfortable. And a few thousand feet up are mountain goats.
According to track charts, the six degree curve at Echo, Utah, mile post 952.2 of the Evanston Subdivision is the sharpest west of Omaha, Nebraska.
No doubt there were curves as sharp or sharper than six degrees along the original transcontinental route. Over the years, 40 miles of track have been trimmed from line changes and track realignments. Due of geography, there is no practical way to reduce the six degree curve at the east end of town.
Union Pacific 8901 leads the INPOA 08 train along the Lincoln Highway into the aforementioned curve. Maximum train speed through the 102 degree arc is 35 mph, even for passenger. To add more fun, eastbound trains immediately hit a 1.14% compensated grade at the speed restricted curve, extending 24 miles to the 6,842 ft. summit at Wahsatch.
Echo Lake in the Frankonia Notch taken from Kinsman Trial heading up Canon Mountian in New Hampshire
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It's that magical time of year at Echo Ridge. Fires are lit and cabins are warm as the snow starts to fall on the evergreen forests. Hear the ice sing under the setting sun and make a wish upon a shooting star.