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a song by Don Mclean, have a listen if you have the time.
An Empty Chair
by Mechelle McCarrell
An empty chair still sit's there
Where it alway's was
Never to be moved
To keep your memory close
Because out of anyone else
I loved you the most
You cared for me from your chair
Held me on your lap till I took my nap
Watched me, loved me, and taught me
To be loving like you
I remember your big beautiful eye's of blue
Looking, caring into mine too
You loved me more than life itself
And I cherished you so much
I was beside myself
An empty chair still filled with care
Eventhough you're not there
I still know in my heart
We'll never be apart.
Empty shops and business premises are a common sight on UK High Streets, but many vacancies are relatively short lived - the shops are soon in use again although in these difficult times, the new business only have a limited life.
This collection portrays retail outlets that have been empty long-term, some for many years. In the past, all these have housed thriving businesses. Yet now, for some reason, they are empty and some are falling into a state of disrepair and dilapidation.
Each has its own story to tell. Some are completely empty, others seem to have stopped trading suddenly and appear like the Marie-Celeste, still with stock in the windows. In many cases, we can tell easily from the faded signage what business last operated from the shop. Others are a complete mystery with faded blinds or shutters and all signs removed.
An interesting one this, and a tad frustrating.
A Sellafield - Barrow Ramsden Dock appeared in RTT on Sunday for today, as did a path for the return working.
These workings would be transporting the out-of-guage Japanese nuclear flasks but unfortunately I didn't know in which direction the train would be loaded.
That was a pain as I was unable to get the day off and had to make do with swapping a shift in order to phot' it.
With the outward travelling mid' morning and the return mid' afternoon it was either get on a back-shift and shoot the morning train or an early shift and do the later return.
I took a punt on the later train after checking the weather forecast and that turned out to be the wrong option as this was the unladen journey!
Weather was crap anyway so it didn't really matter in the end. I used the exercise as an opportunity to try out my new "L"-series 70-200mm lens.
The result's a bit grainy as the rainy gloom meant ISO 800 was called for.
For the record No.37606 leads the empty KXA at Gutterby with No.37602 on the rear as 7C24.
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I came up empty-handed this morning (and misery loves company) so here’s another one from Madison County Lake a few days ago.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
500mm
F5.6@1/1,000
ISO 2,800
Cropped
I’m still in the learning stage with birds so in case you’d like to know, I have the camera preset (on a Nikon D7200 it is the U2 button) for shutter speed. I actually did it for rodeo but it works okay for birds: F5.6 (widest aperture for my big lens) with a shutter speed of 1/800th and the ISO set on Auto. You can reset the shutter speed just by turning the thumb wheel and you can see I cranked it up to 1/1,000 here. The one thing that works for rodeo but not for birds is the auto-focus preset. I have it set on AFContinuous but I had the focus point set on a limited range (9 points?). It’s pretty easy to get the focus point on a horse at 100 feet. Not so much with a bird at 100 yards. I’m currently trying the 3D setting where the computer finds the bird but I’m not settled on it yet. It works great with the sky as a background. Not so much with a forest.
(RD1_0099)
©Don Brown 2021
Fiery light illuminated the early morning skies. The crimson glow lit up the horizon and lasted only a couple of minutes.
A year later, almost to the exact date I shot a very similar looking sunrise few feet from this spot. www.flickr.com/photos/lexpix_/30571837576/in/dateposted-p...
One of these times I was glad I had a camera on me.
852 running long end leading hauls a short string of empty container flats to the Port Flat yard from Dry Creek North on 27-7-1999
This was amazing, an empty hallway in Versailles. No people!
As I remember it, the palace was packed with wall to wall people.
I just happened to catch a lull in the procession.
The scope of Versailles is beyond my imagination. Room after room, art piece after art piece. So much history. A several hour visit doesn't do it justice, but longer would be information overload.
I was very glad to get outside to the gardens and away from the crowds.
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Your views, favs and comments are greatly appreciated!
When I put a grid across this image it looks close to true, but the slight angle of the shadows across the floor makes it look skewed to my eye.
A Great Northern GP35 hauls a cut of empty ore jennies back from the steel mill.
The locomotive is by Athearn; the taconite ore cars are from Walthers. The models are owned by NAPM member Greg Ryan.
Photo by Greg Ryan.
Visit the HO scale club on-line at www.napmltd.com.
A tribute to all my neutered friends!
Our Daily Challenge - Empty - December 14, 2010
If I have offended anyone, I am very sorry!
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60085 "Mini - Pride of Oxford" passes New Mills South signal box in late summer 2003 with an empty rake of Peakstone wagons for Tunstead or Peak Forest.
Slide Dated September 2003.
Photo: Rob Clark
A frozen Swan Lake can be seen in the background as CN 2621 leads a load of empties south towards Vernon.
Hazleton, PA. August 2016.
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Empty shops and business premises are a common sight on UK High Streets, but many vacancies are relatively short lived - the shops are soon in use again although in these difficult times, the new business only have a limited life.
This collection portrays retail outlets that have been empty long-term, some for many years. In the past, all these have housed thriving businesses. Yet now, for some reason, they are empty and some are falling into a state of disrepair and dilapidation.
Each has its own story to tell. Some are completely empty, others seem to have stopped trading suddenly and appear like the Marie-Celeste, still with stock in the windows. In many cases, we can tell easily from the faded signage what business last operated from the shop. Others are a complete mystery with faded blinds or shutters and all signs removed.