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I twiddled by thumbs all morning. It was a blue/gray day with clouds everywhere (except to the west, behind the forest) and almost no contrast in the sky. It was too windy to work on my blue-morning project (it’s a surprise) so I just sat there.
I only knew sunrise had happened because I looked at my watch. But I sat there talking to some friends until, suddenly, God-beams started shooting out into the valley. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t expecting that.
From the overlook at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
300mm
F8@1/640th
ISO 400
Cropped
ROD_3431.JPG
©Don Brown 2023
I expect that most visitors begin their day on the BM&LP much like I did, sitting in the truck along highway 98 waiting for when and if the train runs. When there was no action for hours I admit leaving the shot to peak into the power plant for any hint of activity and even going back to the motel to recover the drinks I forgot in the fridge. Fortunately that didn’t kill the day like it often does. They started unloading the night train just after 9:00 and were ready to leave just after 10:00. Of course 10:00 on Arizona time in May is getting to be pretty high sun but at least they ran. The reason for the railroad is the Navajo Generating Station in the background. Along with the need to supply power to growing populations in Arizona, Nevada, and California, a major factor in building the plant in 1970 was the power requirements to pump water from the Colorado River to Central Arizona. The current operators own other alternate fuel plants and have decided not to renew the lease at the end of 2019. For now no other operators are stepping forward. The Navajo Nation voted against taking over operation. The power plant and railroad are likely to close. In case things don’t change I made a one day effort to get a look after a Phoenix business trip and was rewarded with a slow start but then a full day of juice chasing. Can’t remember ever doing that before and likely won’t again, at least in North America. May 4, 2019 just outside Page Az. Thanks to FIREMAN424 and steve55126 for background on this operation that gave me enough confidence to give the trip a chance.
This was taken on the corner of Spring & Mott Street, in the SoHo district of Manhattan.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
not totally as i expected. A little disappointed in tonight's photos, think it all went wrong as i walked down the stairs into the living room and started to set up the camera only to hear my wife following behind.
"what are you wearing" came her words followed by "if i wore something like that you would have something to say"
A reply did go through my mind but it stayed put lol.
instead i said "it's not like I am going is it"
"NO" she said followed by "just taking photos to share with the world" I let her walk off at that point it wasn't worth the hassle she was in one of those moods where i wasn't sure if she was messing around or looking for me to bite.
And so the shine was kind of taken off the evening. revenge will be sweet just need to wait for the next time her short skirt comes out lol.
I often wonder if our women folk actually understand just how much like them we are and the words that hurt them, hurt us too. out actions that upset them also upsets us when they do it to us.
Saying what are you wearing when you think you look ok and are happy in yourself is like taking a 9mm to the temple. being disinterested in you showing them new shoes, a dress, or just talking about a day out makes us feel as un needed as it does them when we say "yes dear" when we haven't taken in a single word.
Problem is with me it's not wise to push to much for i am way to indepenant and very likely to step up a gear.
But then i could just be being a little emotional and needy. It's a shock but it does happen. Right where is that PVC maid uniform???
Gotten pretty good at recognizing the moment when folks start trusting me.
They'll relax a bit, they'll laugh a little bigger, they'll move more.
The key is to TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT MOMENT! Now that they trust you, you're a team! Take it farther, get weirder!
Lead them away from what they were expecting from a photographer, show them what you can do. Dazzle them.
Even better, bring them into the process. Dazzle yourself!
Stagecoach is expecting higher demand than ever this year from Christmas shoppers looking to travel between the retail hubs in Liverpool and Cheshire. In order to accommodate this, the company has swapped out some of its Alexander Dennis Enviro300 single deck buses on its 1 service for ADL Enviro400 double deck buses.
Beach volleyball on Manly beach, Sydney, spring 2018. The heavy grain was quite a surprise - I expected grain but not this much. Reminded me of Seurat and Pointillism.
Camera: Olympus XA4
Lens: Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 macro Film: Kodak TMAX P3200 (old version)
Developer: Kodak TMAX.
Scan: Epson V700 @4800dpi
Postprocessing: Lightroom 6
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission. © copyright 2022 Lynn Burdekin. All Rights Reserved.
Little did I expect that following the Humko local back into Champaign would lead me to a triplet of IC SD70s that were set to take off in just a few minutes. My earlier temptation to leave the house had certainly paid off nicely...
IC1022/IC1000/IC1036 took off from Champaign and barreled through Tolono and Pesotum both plenty quickly thanks to the still semi-recent manifest speed increase (up to 50mph now!). Here at the latter village, the trio is found racing past the old Illinois Central depot in town, one that has been very nicely kept up. It and the rest of Pesotum offer fine views of trains like A408 as they book it down the original Mainline of Mid-America.
An IC trio to close out the year was about the perfect way to do it, I reckon. Not to mention, starting my year with the IC1000 and ending it with it? Sorta perfect, even if it wasn't up front. At least 1022 is home from the Bessemer at last! You could almost believe CN hadn't taken over here if it weren't for the yellow sill, stolen and replaced numberboards, and the second batch of SD70s cheap nose logos done during the transition. Still, close enough for me!
I think Peter expected to have a picture of the war memorial in the centre of Abergavenny and a Leyland National, but a grubby gold Mini scuppered him. The June 1974 Morris Mini's last liability was due 4th December 1985.
KDW 353P, the Leyland National, belongs to National Welsh, it has a DP48F body and it was new in October 1975 to Red & White (ND775). It carries the number ND 1407 and later with Wyedean livery it was numbered ND4575 when at Cinderford Depot.
The memorial is to the fallen of the 3rd Battalion of the Monmouthshire Regiment who were killed in the 1914-1918 war at Remmel, Yser Canal and The Somme.
Peter Shoesmith
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved
Halfway through "Black and White Week", and I expect this shot will be the least popular of the lot. It's also the oldest. I like it because it captures the feeling, the atmosphere, of every small arena in Canada in the 1960s.
I didn't play hockey but I was in my share of rinks, often to photograph my brother's games. That's him - David Page - on the right, flying down the left wing, trying to corral the puck and evade the big defender who would like to dump him on his butt if possible. It looks like I'm on the ice, but actually I'm standing by the end boards, where the plexiglass ends. I guess they ran out of money when building the arena.
Kids still play on rinks like this across Canada, maybe a little more upscale now. We also played outdoors in those years, on frozen ponds and flooded backyard rinks. Now kids get channeled into the nationwide hockey factory at an early age, lesser players weeded out at each successive level. David is 17 here, and whatever level this was called was the highest he reached. In a few short years he went from being the biggest kid on his team to average size.
But it isn't the sports action that primarily interests me here, but rather, the ambiance. That haze hanging over the ice. The few, shadowy onlookers. I can feel the cool air in that building, wherever it was - Sainte-Thérèse? Sainte-Eustache? - on a winter day in Quebec. I can even smell it. It was such a huge part of my childhood.
A few years ago my friend Madonna was in Quebec and brought me back a t-shirt. It's white with blue lettering: La vie est simple. Manger. Dormir. Jouer au hockey. (Life is simple. Eat. Sleep. Play hockey.)
Photographed in a small city arena in Quebec (Canada); scanned from the original Tri-X negative. Pentax Spotmatic, 50mm lens. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1969 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Expecting over a foot of snow today with the whole state of West Virginia shut down, so I thought we'd try and make the most of it. We had a lot of fun but little Dolly seems to be enjoying it the most.
With how unlucky this 254 was, you'd expect that moon above the power to be full. 254s bum run started when they broke a knuckle around mile 71 of the Hamilton sub. I gather the break was way back in the long train, as it halted them for hours. A rough day for that crew, but it gets worse...
Upon arriving at Kinnear, somehow 254 hit a low (and apparently live) hydro wire, which you can actually see in the shot above (not something I realized until after I took these shots). Hydro One had to be called, so the crew tied the train down and called it a night.
The next day, after Hydro One sorted out the wire situation, the same crew (now rested) did their work at Hamilton and took the train to Welland and tied it down. Here the Welland Road Switcher (TE11) hopped on the train and made the lift and set off for the next crew. Around mid-day the next crew arrived to take the train across the boarder, but were halted for a few hours with PTC issues.
254 eventually did make it to Buffalo, almost 24 hours late, after breading a knuckle, hitting a wire and fixing PTC issues, an endeavor that too 4 crews when normally 1 would do.
While walking to class this morning I glanced up the street to see Via 70 arriving at Brantford with P42 907 on the point.
I wandered a couple blocks past campus to snap a few shots on my cell phone, no hell but not bad either!
Kingsdown.
I wasn't expecting to see much today so I took the small lens for my walk around my "Lockdown" patch. Everything was going as expected until I was walking up Bay View Road when a red kite drifted south over my head. As I followed it I saw 2 more floating around then realised there were another 4 on the ground near the huge muck heap. As I tried to get a little closer another mob of around 14 birds appeared from the south west and then another group drifted in from the north. In the end I counted 39 circling around.
They were mainly distant but the odd one came closer.
They then all moved towards the sea then north out of sight; I they went over Deal.
A very pleasant interlude in an otherwise uneventful walk.
Wasn't expecting to find these near Maidstone!, and the ex Ipswich Buses vehicle on the left is now used by Rumwoods Gardens Farms to transport Farm workers around Langley Heath, and is used along with many other vehicles, including many ex Stagecoach Vehicles, and acording to recently updated Google Maps Satalite Imagery many other Farm Workers Buses can be found around Five Wents, Langley, Sutton Valence, Coxheath and Mereworth, all near Maidstone in Kent.
A Thank You to the Yard Owner who gave permision and allowed me to take this shot and the other shot I did here: www.flickr.com/photos/77145939@N08/51934388706/, and any truck or van registrations are blurred Out and not shown as requested, and the Leyland E228CFC on the right is in Non PCV Use and has lived in Kent for several years.
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw Today!!
'Expect the unexpected' is what I have learned from three of years of landscape photography, especially on Dartmoor where the weather can be so unpredictable. Today there was no obvious sign of what was about to happen and I almost wondered if I’d sacrificed my sleep yet again. However, I had my suspicions that the early sun would provide some light and colour but perhaps not quite as impressive as this. Thank you for taking a look. Mk
The weather has been poor; we have had lots of rain, but this gent is obviously expecting things to get even worse!
I wasn't expecting The Wave.
The sculpture, by artist Lucy Glendinning, weighs 17 tonnes and is 10.3m tall.
Expecting a fine day with clear skies, I got up early to set up a long exposure star trails photograph. Ten steps out the front door of our apartment block, I looked up, only to see almost complete cloud cover. Oh well, I'm up now so I may as well head down to the lake and see what photographic possibilities present themselves.
The NightCap Pro camera replacement app on my Phone 6s Plus has become my favorite app for taking long exposure photographs over the past few months, supplanting Slow Shutter Cam. This image was the product of using NightCap Pro in "Long Exposure" mode to stack (i.e., average) the many individual frames that were acquired with an exposure length of 1/3 seconds over a total period of 93.93 seconds. This stacking process had 3 obvious benefits when I look at this image - (1) to dramatically reduce the level of high ISO (i.e., an ISO of 5000) random speckle noise, (2) to give the water surface a satin smooth appearance, and (3) to produce a lovely sense of movement for the clouds.
I felt a deep sense of satisfaction to have overcome my initial disappointment at seeing clouds in the sky, for still heading outside, and for coming back with a shot that actually benefitted from the overcast conditions!
Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPhone 6s Plus - Photograph taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6s Plus.
NightCap Pro - This camera replacement app was used in Light Trails mode, with a total exposure length of 93.93 seconds, a manual white balance of 3400K, an aperture of f2.2, a frame exposure length of 1/3 seconds, and an ISO of 5000. The output image had 4032 x 3024 pixels (12MP).
Snapseed - Cropped the image to 16:9 (panoramic) aspect ratio. Output an image with 4032 x 2268 pixels.
Photoshop Express - Applied the Sharpen filter.
ExifEditor - Transferred the EXIF data from the original photograph to the final image.
Just won an eBay dress for £0.99. Woo Hoo! That's 2 new things to try soon. A top and a dress. And another dress. No....! 3... it's 3 new things. A top and a dress and a flirty dress... and another dress. 4! 4 new things. A top, a dress, a flirty dress and a sparkly dress. And another top..... I'll come in again.
. . of the nine month journey . . . so to speak.
Well, here we are, in the last couple of weeks of our pregnancy, and the doc says everything's going as well as we can expect, with the possibility of an early delivery!
We've not wanted to bother you with our preggy pics until now, but we are in happy mode at the imminent arrival of our third.
So whilst we've left you alone, we didn't know which version to post - I like the main one, my wife prefers the version below.
Hope your weekend is going great.
More little cootlings with their stubby wings. Well at least today I can view peoples 'streams ! There are so many niggles about the new Flickr but I hope it doesn't make people quit, I couldn't just leave all the great people I've met on here, although I didn't really believe it when I joined it really is a wonderful community and I hope that's not spoilt. It is annoying though not being able to post a series in the comments, I really don't know why they did that.
PS I'm not having the problems that others seem to be experiencing with Flickr being slow ( although it was yesterday ), makes a nice change !
“Good things aren’t supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.” - AH
www.keepinspiring.me/audrey-hepburn-quotes/
Audrey Hepburn - Restyled, Repainted and Re-Rooted by artist Noel Cruz of ncruz.com/ in a diorama by Regent Miniatures and featured are animals by Mr. Z! Mr. Z Animal Model MRZ036 FC005 1/6 Felis Black White Domesticus Cat& 1/6 Mr.Z Animal Model MRZ027-003 Japanese Shiba Inu W/Replaceable Heads Figure.
Audrey is also featured in the 1Sixth Winter Hardbound Edition available in Hardback/imagewrap or paperback cover. Also as a PDF or eBook.
Order here: www.blurb.com/b/9320555-1sixth
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Photos by Steve McKinnis of stevemckinnis.com
Super sport version
On Volkswagen’s Ehra-Lessien test track just outside of Wolfsburg, Bugatti’s official test driver got the new Veyron 16.4 Super Sport to hit a two-way average speed of 268 mph. That terminal velocity eclipses the original Veyron 16.4 coupe’s by 15 mph. It’s faster, all right, and conditions on Saturday allowed a top speed higher than the Bugatti team was even expecting—they forecasted a conservative, and utterly tame by comparison, 264 mph.
according to www.caranddriver.com/news/bugatti-veyron-news-bugatti-vey...
Well this panoramic of the short lived rain storm at sunset turned out better than I expected!
ISO 200 | 1/15 sec | f/5.6 | 7mm | 12 photos
I expect this photograph to become my motivation in the future, on those weekend mornings when the time I've squirreled away for photography arrives and I think, at the last minute, that I'd rather stay in bed. Standing on the riverbank and waiting for the sun to peer over that treeline is such a great feeling, and watching for those few seconds where the first rays spill onto the water is pure photography joy. Yep, I'll turn to this one again and again for motivation when I need it.
Sunrise over the Maumee River as viewed from Side Cut Metropark in Maumee, Ohio
Featured as cover photo of Flickr Group CSSS: Earth - Sunrises & Sunsets (Ohio) on March 1, 2026.
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