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Some equipment of the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum making photography runs prior to the takeover of this short branch line by WATCo. The museum guys ran a limited amount of revenue freight on the line with WATCo hoping to develop additional sources in the future.
These are the big chicks, getting ready to fledge. I've been watching them for a few days, but they've either been flapping on cloudy days or sitting in the nest like bumps on a log on sunny days. I finally got them flapping on a sunny morning even if with the distance away, the partly cloudy sky behind, and the shady nest, the photos aren't the best. This may have been my best chance given that they'll leave soon and cloudy conditions are coming up do to frequent thunderstorms. Great Blue Herons, Siskiyou County, California
Thought you might enjoy this one. I was looking through the archives and I don't think this was ever posted. Taken in 2010 before I had a membership to Facebook or Flickr.
I forgot to mention that this shot was taken from about 150 feet away with a flash and a radio controlled shutter release. It didn't always work and the timing was challenging.
The adults would not feed the chicks if we were near the nest so our equipment is much closer than we actually were.
It took several tries over a period of a couple of days.
This was probably the clearest shot that I could get with the equipment at that time.
Tripod mounted downside. Focusing rail. Self made 3d printed feeding unit with embedded adjusting screw. Feeding steps of round about 0,05mm can be achieved. Tamron 90mm Macro lens is mounted. But also my old lenses are usable for the focus stacking purpose. Sony A7II is used.
Photos shot with this lens can be found here --> Mushroom - Focus Stacking or here --> Tiny Tree Fungis - Focus Stacking Details
What ever this piece of equipment was/is must have been pretty heavy as it is place on a cement structure. Maybe a part of a heavy-duty motor?
The pilot's face is clearly visible in this shot. Also, just visible through the blue tinted front screen is the circular reflector gunsight. This was, arguably, the most (only?) technically advanced piece of equipment in the aircraft. The gunsight was calibrated or 'harmonised' to show the pilots where his bullets would hit, and took account of the effect of gravity on the bullets (which start to drop as soon as they leave the guns), and the distance the target aircraft would have travelled before the bullets reach it. The pilot had to dial in the estimated distance of the target, and an illuminated circle was projected from a small lamp-holder and lens assembly up onto the circular reflector visible in the picture. The idea was to get the target in the circle - easier said than done. Without an effective targeting system, fighter aircraft were pretty much useless, so this small item of equipment, more than anything, was the very heart of the Spitfire. Spitfire cockpits had a small rack on the right-hand side containing 3 spare bulbs for the gunsight, should one fail in use. I seem to recall being told that the gunsights were 'top secret' and that pilots of downed aircraft were to destroy them to prevent them falling into enemy hands, but looking at some illustrations of the gunsights, they have 'patent' numbers clearly marked on them, so evidently full details were published - so not secret at all!
Despite what we see in movies, Spitfires carried about enough ammunition for only 20 seconds of continuous firing of their guns.
before the performance
Sina on Kamancheh and Mashid on Oud.
Tirgān, an evening of Kurdish & Azari Folk Music and Persian Traditional Classical Music
An NJ Transit equipment extra is shoved east through Hillside behind a pair of geeps. Today, 4149 is out of service and 4210 is the Erie heritage unit.
NJTR 4149 GP40PH-2 (ex-PC/CR 3132 GP40)
NJTR 4210 GP40PH-2B (ex-PC/CR 3182 GP40)
Equipment=Canon EOS 6D (Canon 6D)
Lens Used=Tokina 17-35mm F/4 AT-X Pro FX Lens
Exposures=7
Location=Madrid Spain
Workflow= LM
Adobe Light room 5