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December 26, 2015. We went to see Star Wars today. It was exactly what I expected it to be (that's not praise). This is what the house looks like when we arrive home at night. I do love the lights. Next year I will put up Chistmas lights with a bit more expertise.
It needs some improvement. To become a photo piece. A background and some small additional light. Just t present quit sober trains.
From making it, I learned. As expected and needed. Working in a small scale requires more eye on the general impression, the atmospheric concept. Details? well this comes a the border of the human eyes
This photo is meant atmospheric. just a try. About a could be scene, somewhere in the mid sixties. That is where the train lay out is abut
It is about that time on a common single line, a main line. Lets say in rural West-Germany . adds? holiday trains to come with some international coaches from France, Italy, Switzerland , the Netherlands. Lots of goods traffic. Cargo was an unknown word then.
And not too many trains running. A lot of preparation is now in progress.
The running machine Is a Fleischmann model of some years ago. the V100 1186. .A V100.1 , Later 211 baureihe. The first series of the program. With a bit less motorpower, and some slightly changes at the dashboard, like 1 gear less. For model train makers still a hard model. There is not much space beside the motor. A digital decoder is possible. But not recommended to add later, unless you are expert in adding decoders.. Sound is also a problem.The latest model version is from minitrix. It has no sound. That is understandable.
As I don't drive digital, this is beyond my scope. For digital drivers, this model is a challenge or a bully when sound has t be included.
Lots of digital tracks works with complete trains. A suggestion can be to add somehow a sound module in a (closed) car or a coach. But best option maybe is accept no sound. As f.e. a V60 handles the same problem; with as add lighting is also difficult.
All V100 trains in N has roots in the seventies. Fleischmann and Minitrix has models that define N as modeltrain. Lead away from the toy train imago. Arnold stepped in too and used the model to intoduce the simplex coppling. Meaning uncopple rails could be past. As these all have a bit unrealistic appeal. V1000's defining a weird gap late 70s : no toy model. Lima entered it in 1979. It did not look that bad. Just ran as crap. Given the prices, a second hand Minitrix, Arnold or Fleischmann is worth money. on Arnold be aware Arnold use a slithy different rail width. Usage on non Arnold tracks could lead to derailing. My personal choice is this one.
In April we expected Spring but we had a return to winter! And May has just repeated April weather patterns. Our coldest May on record!
By the end of the month some warmth and even heat has crept into the mix, and as May ends with the Bank Holiday Monday we have sunshine and blue skies.
The garden is beginning to bloom, and there is a feeling of 'catching up' and 'making up for lost time'. And I feel the same! The constant cold has kept us indoors too, and now we want to catch up and see how the world around us has fared during the long 8-9 months of winter. We had a week earmarked for outings in May, but never managed to brave the cold and the rain. Maybe we can try again in June? Fingers are crossed!!
In pandemic terms the talk is all of the new Indian variant. "We'll be led by the data not by dates" was the mantra of the last few months, but it seems that the dates are ruling everything, as England looks set for a June end to restrictions. Here in Scotland we have beaten down a local flare up in our neighbouring county of Moray, but are struggling to contain the new variant in Glasgow. Maybe a summer of vacations and sun is not to be? 'On a knife edge' probably sums it up as we move into June....
Once again, thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves. I hope the collage gives an enjoyable look back through May.
All my collages are collected here: At a Glance
There are thousands of objects you'd expect to find in a hardware store, far too many to list here. The list of known and unknown things that are not associated with hardware stores is infinitely longer.
One such thing is seen here. It's a cross-section of what must have been a historic, specimen sized tree.
In other settings this object would have been converted into a calendar on which different rings represent key dates in history: the Fall of Constantinople, the Diet of Worms, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Articles of Confederation, the first daily Peanuts comic strip, and so on.
Unlike a date on a calendar, which is a two-dimensional ink image, each ring in this piece of wood is an actual contemporary of the events that took place when the ring was formed. The same sun and moon shone over them both.
Here, the visible part of the slice is mute. If there is an explanatory label and a ring chronology it must be hidden behind merchandise.
Long Beach, Washington.
“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”
~Unknown
I am leaving for my annual winter photo trip to the North Shore. This is my favorite trip of the year. In the winter each and every time you visit, the conditions and scenery change sometimes by the hour. You never know what to expect!
See you all when I get back!
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Expect different photos from me from now on. My concept of things has changed. I started caring about what other people would think of my photos way more than I should. I am back to taking photos that make me happy. Not other people. I don't really care what anyone says about my photos, because they are for me, and I'm fine with that.
Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compassion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.
Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.
Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
After a long slow crawl and getting soaked to the bone in a downpour . Finally managed a few frames of this stunning expecting mother.
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This photo wasn’t something I expected to create today – all I wanted was a Medlar flower but things had a way of evolving from there! Read on for all the details, but don’t forget to check out my macro tutorial book on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/donkom/macro-photography/ - it covers this type of photography extensively!
Medlars are a fruit of antiquity, rarely seen today. This is in part to the way they look (the French translation of the name basically means “the dog’s behind”), and partly because of how they have to be eaten. In late autumn when the leaves fall off the tree, the fruit is still not ready to eat. It requires bletting, which is a fancy word for rotting, before you can consume it. With an applesauce-like texture, it’s apparently quite the treat! Anyhow, I had a suspicion that the flowers would fluoresce – I was right!
While selecting a flower to bring into my studio, I noticed a leaf of a nearby plant with a ladybug, apparently being harassed by three ants. I wasn’t surprised as ladybugs love to eat aphids, and ants love to protect them for their “honeydew”… which is essentially sugary aphid pee. “What unpredictable element will this ladybug add to the photo?” I thought, while I set up the flower.
Pro tip: whenever there is an element of chaos in your work, try to make everything else a “known quantity” as best as possible before tackling the one thing that is difficult to control. In this instance, four UV flashes are set up at point-blank range just outside of the frame, focus and exposure is tested and adjustments made. The shot looks good – it’s just missing the actor. Using the stem of a discarded flower, it wasn’t difficult to get the ladybug to climb onto it. These insects like to climb upward, so keeping a slight incline on the 8-inch stem allowed me enough time to guide the red-shelled beetle to the flower, waiting patiently with my finger on the shutter.
Almost immediately, the ladybug took a chomp at one of the pollen-covered stamens! This was the third image taken, and the only one where the beetle was actually in focus. Pure, dumb luck – everything else was buttoned down, and I was hoping for some type of interaction like this. The actor here was moving quickly, as evidenced from the blur on its front left leg (camera right). This is a flash exposure with no ambient light, albeit with the flashes at 1:1 maximum output so the flash duration is longer; motion has to be considerably fast to blur when using flash! All the more reason why I consider this shot lucky – and instant before or after, I wouldn’t have this.
Once I saw this image on the back of my camera, I knew I could build on it. The first step was to shift the focus slightly to get another frame with more of the stamens in focus for stacking purposes – this is a two-image focus stack. I didn’t need them all sharp, just a little more to work with. The stacking was done manually because of all the overlapping areas of detail. The image was cropped and edited for colour, contrast, texture, all the basic stuff that you should do to such an image with local adjustments removing unwanted fibers and distracting specks. The ladybugs shell was surprisingly fluorescing very close to its natural red colour, and that was nudged a bit closer to help the image feel partly familiar, partly an otherworldly fantasy.
Shot on a Lumix S1R with the 24-105 F/4 kit lens – a great performer for macro work even though it isn’t a macro lens! ISO 2000, F/9, 1/250sec.
Want more details to create images like this? You’ll find every technique and “secret” all spelled out in my upcoming macro photography book currently on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/donkom/macro-photography/ - If you enjoy my work, I’d appreciate your support and you’ll get one of the best macro photography books ever written in return. :)
P.S. The Medlar (Mespilus germanica) has a few mentions in literature over the years, the most famous from the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet:
Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
O Romeo, that she were, O that she were
An open-arse and thou a pop'rin pear!
Just as the French called the fruit a “dog’s behind”, the English called them “open-arses”! The play is often found re-written to be a little more polite. Trust me, the fruit is nowhere near as beautiful as the flowers.
Expect the unexpected! I had time in the garden at Bamburgh with different lenses to try at some insect life.
Canon 1Ds Mk III + TSE90 f2.8 + 25mm focus ring - ISO 400 - 1/640th @ f8 Full forward tilt
Another outtake from my maternity shoot back in November.
Shot with natural light on the beach in Ventura, Ca
New realease! Hello mums, this is a special release for all of you who are expecting a little one and love to show how sexy you feel that way. Be proud of your pregnancy, strip & show them all how beautifull you are!
XoXo ♥
In the three years of watching the BLE in PA i never expected to see a tunnel motor or even a 38 pull autoracks so close to where i grew up. I had shot the 910 several times hauling ore and saw it countless other times at North Bessemer while we exchanged trains with them.
Saturday night i was experimenting with an old liqueur recipe from my mother. She made this kind of liqueur for Christmas using oranges, cinnamon and sloe. As I have no idea where I could get sloe I used pomegranate instead. I love pomegranate, it is a beautiful fruit with an extraordinary color and it tastes good, too. They are just difficult to clean, everything looks splattered afterwards. So, now I have to wait 6 weeks until I can try it – in the mean time I expect the best.
Sorry for the blurry pic on the left.. it was past midnight.
Here is the original
Yeah. You just don’t expect a Japanese tea house (and garden) on top of a mountain in Huntsville, Alabama do you? Yet, here is is. In Monte Sano State Park.
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
18mm
F16@1/4th
ISO 400
Polarizer
White Balance on Flash
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©Don Brown 2025
HBM! One of two photos featuring benches. This was taken on a stretch just before the Humber Arch Bridge in Toronto. The new tile work done by the City of Toronto is exceptional
Best seen large by clicking on the photo.
Thanks for visiting, enjoy each day
This beautiful couple is Annie & Josh, two very very close friends of mine.
They are expecting their first little one in just a few weeks. :)
You might want to note that the chick has Brown feathers where we might expect to see Red feathers.
I'd hazard a guess that this is natures way of attempting to help the chick to blend into it's cavity better than if it had the adults coloration?
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BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE,
i'd like to just thank Shandi-lee and Hey Summer for
their tearjerking testimonials (': You two are amazing,
those came out of nowhere-I wasn't expecting anything
like that at all. I wish I could hug you guys right now (x
They really made my day. Ahh, lol. :D <333
Second, i've been 'tagged' a few times since last time I
logged on and I think i've got a few questions to answer
as well, but if you dont' want to read everything, at least
read the last small paragraph. here we go (:
hey summer: what is your favorite thing in the world?
lol girl yu kiddin' right? seriously there is not just ONE thing
that is my favorite :3 but, if I honestly had to choose, it'd be...
being in a peaceful state, just reminiscing on my life and
daydreaming about my future. It's even nicer if i'm laying on
the grass under a cloudy sky. (:
aishia capture: where's your favorite place to be?
!n ur r00m, cr33p!n und@h y0 bl@nk3t$..lol oh god what if I
actually typed like that? you all would leave me D: ok, ok
errg, i'll act mature about this! This really nice park in a town
three hours away from where I live. It's really peaceful and
the trees there have big, beautiful pink flowers. AND they
have ducks. DUCKS. In a LAKE.
Light in The Air: If you could see yourself anywhere in
the future, where would you be? What would you be doing
and where?...stripper. lol. Okay, don't ROFL at me, but
I would like to be an actress, even though i'm kinda shy. I do
daydream about that more often than I actually just realized
right now. BUT if that never comes true, i'd either be an anchor
for the valley's (area where I live with a bunch of cities with a
ton of Mexican culture/influence) best news channel because
I do the news at my school, OR i'd own a sweet little indie
looking camera shop where I'd sell modern and vintage cameras,
film, camera straps, take pictures, give lessons, work with little
kids..that'd be pretty cool 'cos there's nothing like that here.
OROWN/DESIGNACLOTHINGLINE,
I'VEREVEALEDTOOMUCH.
alexa: What's your favorite song?
oh noes, the impossible question D: damn you -.- lol uhm,
at the moment my favorite song is 'Turbo Swag' and 'Smokahontas'
by Attack Attack! Oh, and that only girl in the world song by
Rihanna..it's catchy. :3 Eh, couldn't choose 1. :c
brooklynxX: Do you like your long hair?
YES. I love the length, but it's still not as long as I want it,
BUT i'm satisfied 'cos I had a bob about three/four years
ago and it's taken me THAT long to grow it all out. The only
cons are that I don't know how to style it up, and even though
I don't straighten it everyday/weekly I manage to get dry ends.
)': I'm happy you like my hair but please don't be jealous of it!
lol. it's very tedious to maintain n_n
Taylor;through a lens: Where does the inspiration behind
your photos come from? There is no secret to this. I do not
meditate. I do not ask Jesus to bless me with magical fingers
upon which I molest photoshop or my camera. It's when i'm really
bored in my class and start daydreaming weird stuff that become
ideas for photos lol. That's how I came up with the idea for my last
photo. c:
under.the.radar.: I am not gorgeous or talented!!!! I don't
say that so people will protest, honest o: I'm actually earnest
about that. but thank you morgan c: Actually, just two days ago,
I had to take my snakebites off because I was going to talk with
the principal..and..in the few hours they were off, the holes closed
so I no longer have my piercings )': lol I cried for 30 minutes. I miss
them a little, but it's less worrying now but when I had them they
never hurt (: Only when I bit the metal part on the inside by accident
while eating food. >_<
Sorry everything was so descriptive, I guess that's what happens
when i'm gone from flickr for a week. You've got my utmost respect
if you actually read all that junk lol, but even if you didn't i still love you
:D Meaning behind this photo? I've been fine for a while now, but never
in a true state of complete happiness. Reasons? Stress from school,
stress from boyfriend. Mostly stress from boyfriend. Ugh. I hope you
guys are enjoying life and watching adventure time. You. BETTER. be.
watching. adventure time. |: why haven't you guys come to mow my
arms??? I will pay you GOOD MONEY. $$$
Sometimes life doesn't give you what you want. It gives you what you didn't know you needed. Not as a reward, but as guidance.
⁛ What blooms in silence often has the deepest roots.
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Well, she arrived much sooner than I expected! (Tracking showed that she was still stuck in Germany.) Deluxe Quick Curl Cara! Her hair is perfect and untouched, as you can see (and will stay that way!) I actually have a nostalgic connection with her, (well… her and the version that came before her, anyway!) I was visiting my favourite ‘Mom and Pop’ toy store one Friday night in 1978 a few suburbs away, as I saved up all my pocket money so I could buy my first ‘real’ Barbie, as opposed to years of parent-bought clones. I remember staring at those ‘Barbie Fashion Centre’ shelves for ages, trying to decide which one would be my first, and I was immediately drawn to this gal and the earlier 1975 Quick Curl Cara, with the multicoloured outfit. I also remember that gal was the Canadian version, as it had that mysterious ‘Frisse Vite’ on the box, which I assumed meant ‘Quick Curl’ back then! LOL This being Australia in the 1970s, there was only one of each amidst all the blonde smiling Barbies. Though ultimately, I decided that my first Mattel doll shouldn’t be a Barbie ‘friend’ and went for I think a Superstar Barbie instead, vowing to come back for Cara when I had saved up for her. Alas, I didn’t know at the time that these two were old store stock and they were both gone by the time I went back for her, and even though I searched for her in other stores for another year or two, I never saw her again for decades…. Until I became an adult collector, that is! (Also gone was the one Deluxe Quick Curl Barbie that I also had my eye on. I never saw her again either until I started collecting as an adult. She was the very first Barbie I bought when I started collecting and you can see her in that lovely GUAG fashion next to Cara there.) Cara is looking sleek and chic here in a 1976/77 Best Buy fashion, but can’t wait to dress her in lots of other things from that era!
Raven's Claw forces recently moved out of Germany, and striaght to Scotland, getting word from the inside that NHE forces are planning to take it over. Not anymore.
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This was taken on the freeway from the bus going to a dinner river cruise. It was a very fast shot and I really didn't expect to get it at all. Bangkok, Thailand
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There you stood
on the edge of your feather,
Expecting to fly.
While I laughed,
I wondered whether
I could wave goodbye,
Knowin' that you'd gone.
By the summer it was healing,
We had said goodbye.
All the years
we'd spent with feeling
Ended with a cry,
Babe, ended with a cry,
Babe, ended with a cry.
I tried so hard to stand
As I stumbled
and fell to the ground.
So hard to laugh as I fumbled
And reached for the love I found,
Knowin' it was gone.
If I never lived without you,
Now you know I'd die.
If I never said I loved you,
Now you know I'd try...
Babe, now you know I'd try.
Babe, now you know I'd try,
Babe...
Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield