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One of my friends is expecting a little baby, so of course, we had to do some photos.
Blog post there -> daydreamincolors.blogspot.fr/2015/05/little-bird.html
After years of procrastination I finally put my name down a few months ago for a Scottish Region Class 24/1 from Sutton's Loco Works. The loco selected is D5132, which comes in BR standard green with a yellow warning panel. Delivery is expected sometime next year but meantime I've been giving some thought as to where it will go. Being displayed on a shelf is not an option being considered - especially as the loco comes with the full-monty regards sounds and effects, including the 'stay-alive' feature.
Given that usable space is at a premium I've come up with the idea of a loco shed, theoretically located somewhere in the Borders area, during the steam-diesel transition period of the early 1960s. While D5132's home was Inverness 60A (making it a shoo-in for the Kyle and Far North Lines), seeing as I'll be the Operations Manager, I've decided the occasional trip down to Carlisle is a possibility, where it might encounter some ex-LNER and LMS friends.
The sketch attached is how it's currently visualised - it isn't to scale, but I do have a scaled plan. Use is made of a 3-way point and a double slip to save space. The shed is two-road with pits just in front of the entrance, and a water crane The well turntable is currently sized at 32 foot - which will turn a 3F Jinty but nothing bigger, so I may end up rethinking that.
The backdrop will be a brick retaining wall with a street scene above together with houses and shops. Just in front of the retaining wall will be a coaling stage - the line behind the shed used to access the coaling stage is long enough to hold a class 24 with a couple of mineral wagons, which will then be propelled back. I may well put a diesel-oil tank and another water crane there, to make it a 'one-stop shop'.
Entrance to the shed yard will possibly be through the bridge at bottom right. However, thoughts subsequent to this sketch are to have it from a small two-platform station currently being designed which, if it comes off, will also provide a circuit for continuous running.
This foray back into railway modelling is very simple after 50 years away so we'll see how (or even if) it goes. I have acquired some rolling stock - a covered van, three 16T mineral wagons (two with coal added), and a brake van, all of which are secondhand. I've also acquired enough of the track pieces (Peco Code 75 Bullhead) to start work on the Shed yard, although the baseboard and supports are still being researched so construction will have to wait until that's resolved and installed. Likely layout size will be 1.0m by 2.5m.
Imminent steps include acquiring a DCC controller - probably the Digitraks Zephyr Express - but, whichever it is, it's a steep and often confusing learning curve for someone who's only ever known the simple bi-directional analogue controllers of the 1960s.
It should make for some interesting fun over the next few months - if it does indeed get off the ground.
Apologies for the lack of responses lately. This coupled with Christmas prep, family, elderly relatives, and other personal commitments has made big demands on time. I will be however catching up over the next few days. Cheers, David.
12th December 2022
"Last judging I recieved third. I was expecting higher since I showed by far the most connection and chemistry with my male model but whatever, I'm still at the top and slaying. This week we had to do a beauty close-up and we had to think of everything ourselves - all the other girls were like, covering themselves in paint and crap like that and I thought they all looked freaking ridiculous so I decided to keep my shot classy and glitzy. I obviously rocked it as per usual!"
I'm sorry this is late! I actually found this theme really difficult even though it was only a beauty shot, I struggled thinking of a concept and eventually I ended up with this. I kinda went with a Beyonce/Glitz and Glam sort of shot.
I hope you like it anyway! :)
CALLED: 03/08
I wasn't expecting to phot 37610 until tomorrow night and had only intended on getting the two Anglia 90s making a Crew change on 4M11 tonight, but as I arrived this was parked there. This is apparently the 3z57 Mossend Down Yard-Carlisle Yard, which for some reason terminated at Carlisle. I think the DBSO may have failed in this case as the 37 was piloting it and not on the rear where the tool-van is.
This being in the way put pay to a shot of the 90s, although I shan't complain. 37025 was also here ready to leave shortly after, along with thunderbird 57308 and 37521 & 37667 in the High Wapping Sdgs.
Well, the photo didn't turn out how I expected at all ^^;.
My idea was to have a romantic photo with a little surprise..but I don't think it turned out very romantic.
I didn't plan on having it be in silhouette, but it didn't seem as effective the way I was thinking of doing before.
I probably should have used obitsu bodies in retrospect, since it took hours to get the posing right :x. The type 2 arms look a little weird.
I wanted to do a few macabre photos in honour of Halloween, so here's hoping the other ones turn out better...if I manage to conquer laziness and actually do them ^^;.
The interior corridors of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Niagara on the Lake is exactly what you would expect a grand old hotel to be. It takes you back in time (but there's also a good wifi signal)
TTN13-9 Edinburgh Trams - Tram 271 near Newhaven Tram Stop - 11th May 2023
This was photographed on a daytime testing day on the extension from Picardy Place to Newhaven. The tram has just come off Melrose Drive.
The expected opening to public travel is Wednesday 7th June 2023
Hardly what I expected; all I can liken it to is running to the Christmas tree to open your presents and having someone set them on fire. Thankfully, I have what matters - family, friends, and the opportunity to try harder, strive for more, and do better.
Keep onnnn truckin'
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Found a sizeable mining bee colony near Morpeth where part of the south facing riverbank has collapsed exposing the soil, there were dozens of mining bees there of several species and all the associated Nomad Bees. I wasn’t though expecting the appearance of a female Red Mason Bee.
Fortunately I’m quick off the mark with the camera and fired off a couple of shots before it was off again.
We expected something
Something better than before
We expected something more
Do you really think you can just put it in a safe
Behind a painting, lock it up and leave?
Do you really think you can just put it in a safe
Behind a painting, lock it up and leave?
Walk away now and you're gonna start a war
Music Monday today features another "Take-Away Show" by Vincent Moon, this time Start a War by The National. I'm only going to link one version of the song, because I think this particular version is more emotive than any other: the band members and a few others, sitting in a dark space around a long table, picking at guitars and tapping out a beat on the wooden surface of the table and on glass jars. So simple, and yet it works so very, very well.
This image was made in Ireland, with a Holga, and features those magnificent Beech Trees again... which, from what I understand, will be making an appearance on this season's Game of Thrones.
St Peter, Ousden, Suffolk
I always forget how hilly this part of Suffolk is, where the last gasp of the Chilterns lifts its head between the Stour Valley and Newmarket Heath. We are also close to the Cambridgeshire border, which winds in a most curious way around the town of Newmarket, so that you find Cambridgeshire villages to the east of Suffolk ones, and so on. It can be a little confusing if you aren't an East Anglian, I expect.
And the villages around here are very pleasant. Wickhambrook, one of my ancestral villages, is to the south, lovely Lidgate just off to the west, and the rich, horsey Cambridge commuter belt of Gazeley, Moulton and Dalham to the north. Ousden is a large village, its parish church about a mile from the centre beside the Hall, which sits in the meadows below the village to the west. all.
A track leads up to the church past a large dovecote in a field to the east, and here you may be surprised if you did not know, for St Peter is that rare beast in Suffolk, a cruciform church, which would be much more at home across the county border in Cambridgeshire than it is here. The Norman tower is also unusual, because it seems to have been very little altered over the centuries, common enough in other counties, but rare in Suffolk. As ancient as the chancel is, there must have been an earlier one, for the former roofline shows on the east face of the tower, at the same height as the nave. Beyond the church, the graveyard is fenced off for sheep to graze, but you can climb over and take a look at the south side which is equally interesting and lovely, with a rather extraordinary north doorway, and a memorial to Peragrine Clackett. Mortlock thought that the Victorians had extended the nave, but it is all done very well indeed. A pretty little 18th century chapel, which Mortlock tells us was the family pew for the Hall, is the finishing touch.
Ousden is most famous for its memorial to Laeititia Moseley, which features Suffolk's finest and scariest skeleton. She wears her shroud and grins wildly. Quite what generations of Ousden children have made of her I couldn't say, but I bet she has been the catalyst for more than a few bad dreams. Laeititia died in 1619, and her inscription above her skeleton reads, in part:
Three tymes five yeares a virgins lyfe she tryed;
three tymes ten yeares a wyfe & then she dyed.
of Daughters seven, sonnes three she was the Mother,
To poore and rich a freind, they all did love her,
who at her Death rejoyct, & yet were sorrye,
Sad to recount her losse, glad for her glorye.
I love stepping into churches like this - they are so out of the ordinary. I always think it must be very curious to worship in one, since there is a sense in which the church is actually three separate buildings that just happen to be joined together. Sometimes, this feeling is alleviated by enlarged archways, as at Pakenham, but here, the low Norman arches survive into the area beneath the tower, making the vistas very tight and narrow. It is a salutary reminder that the nave and chancel were built for different purposes, and not for congregational Anglican worship at all. This is a lovely church, full of interest, and well worth the long climb back into the village afterwards.
When I left the shaw tower from some camera work, I walked past the convention center and had a talk with the construction manager at the Cactus club being re-designed.
He informed me that there would be a little fireworks show at 8 pm.
I was the only one near my place that was out with a tripod and looking for them.
I didnt expect it to be so easy to photograph people in Kashmir.
We were walking by the lake very early morning when we saw him do his morning walk.
Srinagar, Kashmir
Surprise !!! Clowesia warscewiczii. Il y a des plantes que l'on ne s'attend pas á rencontrer car on pense qu'elle vivent dans une autre région et tout d'un coup elles apparaissent in situ durant un tour de 11 jours que j'ai guidé. dans les départements du Valle del Cauca et du Cauca, Colombie. en plus c'est un genre que je n'avais jamais vu fleuri en milieu naturel !
Surprise !!! Clowesia warscewiczii. There are plants you don't expect to find because you think they live in another region and suddenly they appear in situ during an 11 days tour I guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca departments, Colombia. Moreover a genus I had never seen blooming in its native habitat !
Sorpresa !!! Clowesia warscewiczii. Hay plantas que uno no espera encontrar porque piensa que vienen de otra region y de repente aparecen in situ durante un tour de 11 dÃas que guié en los departamentos del Valle del Cauca y del Cauca, Colombia. Además es un género que nunca habÃa visto florecido en su hábitat natural !
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that
I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do
it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Happy Bokeh Wednesday my Friends!
Well, the weather forecast for Kananaskis for yesterday, 24 September 2019, was not exactly accurate - sun, with cloud in the afternoon. They kind of forgot to mention the strong wind, light rain .... and SNOW! For a few minutes, it was one kind of weather, then a few more minutes of a different kind, repeated throughout the afternoon.
Our temperatures are falling - forecast for rain tomorrow, rain and snow the next day, then two days of snow with temps down to 0C and -1C. What a way to celebrate the first few days of fall. The expected snow will probably remove quite a few of the golden leaves, so I wanted anther chance to see and photograph them while I had the chance.
The sky was blue when I set out yesterday morning and I felt quite hopeful. When I go to Kananaskis, I always go south from the city. I had no idea where I would be going, but I knew that it wouldn't be as far as I would have liked. As it turned out, I had a few surprises along the way, so it was a real mixed day of photo opportunities - my favourite kind of day.
After stopping to take a few scenic shots on the way to the main highway through Kananaskis, I eventually reached the area where the American Pikas live. I really lucked out almost straight away, as the only few photos I took were when one Pika showed itself, and that was within maybe ten minutes. By this time, the wind was strong and it was snowing, and it was cold! Time to get out of there, as the scree slope is treacherous enough on a calm, clear day.
Driving further north, I was delighted to see a convoy of maybe a dozen beautiful old cars heading in my direction. Couldn't resist, so I followed them when they turned off into a small picnic area. I asked if I could take a few quick photos and they were happy enough for me to do that. One car owner did comment about blurry photos because of the falling snow, but surprisingly my photos came out sharp enough.
Further on, I made a quick stop at another pull-off and was happy to notice a few mushrooms. When I turned around to head for home, I was even happier. I pulled over to take a photo of one of the mountain peaks. One tiny white speck in the distance, just off the road, caught my eye. When I went to check it out, I found myself staring at a little group of Shaggy Mane/Ink Cap mushrooms. The largest one had already started the process of curling up the rim of its cap and dripping a black ink. So much rain this year has resulted in such an amazing fungi season.
Much closer to home, I decided to take a side road that has such beautiful hill and mountain views. An old wooden barn was a welcome surprise - I don't remember seeing this one before.
So, a lovely day out, driving 320 km, with such a mixture of weather and sightings. So glad I did decide to go - as usual, a very last minute decision, but basically, I just need to grab my cameras and go : )
Those fern trees are what I expect to grow in a land populated with dinosaurus. Fortunately or unfortunately, there were not there. Just the fern trees. But they made my day anyway.
Canadian Pacific 2816, "The Empress" is seen on a reverse move back to CP's Nahant Yard after spending the day at the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America in Silvis, IL, to celebrate the return to operation of Union Pacific "Centennial" 6936. 2816 is seen passing the iconic Williams White & Co. factory, which has been the backdrop for many a famous photo in the Quad Cities area. I expected this area to be swarming with people, but in the end, there were just 2 of us. Instead of battling other railfans, the only thing we had to battle was tall grass.
I didn't tell these three people fishing that I was about to take their picture, so I can't expect that they would stand still for my 25 second exposure, but two of the three did pretty well!
I actually de-saturated the color because it was so strong in the long exposure.
Explored...September 19, 2012...Thanks, friends, for the views, comments and faves!
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma 10-20
Focal Length: 20 mm
Aperture: f/20
Shutter Speed: 25 seconds
Filter: Lee 0.6 (2 stop) ND Grad hard edge
Processing: Nikon Capture NX 2 and Photoshop Elements 9
Tripod: Benro Travel Angel
Flash: none
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I think only people with young kids that live nearby know his object exist. I never heard of this place before. I saw a picture of it , taken by an Hungarian photographer. When I was "in the neighborhood" earlier this month I knew I wanted to do a blue hour-shot. I really like those odd looking creations.
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We got up early expecting a beautiful sunrise, but overnight the cloud cover had descended. One bonus though, the promenade lights were still on.
This is the beachfront in Zarauz, east of Bilboa in Spain. Super Atlantic rolling waves for surfing, but calm here under a steady rain, as you can see.
Photographed in my back yard. I was ready for him this morning (Nov. 5). I expected him because I have seen him several times recently and yesterday he landed on my birdbath. He arrived a little latter this morning but may have been confused about the time because we went from daylight saving time to pacific standard time. I say this as if the bird knows the time. He tried for a quail, junco, and sparrow breakfast but as far as I know he failed. I enjoyed watching him for about 15 minutes while he sat from 15-30 feet from me between trying to catch a sparrow that was in a shrub next to him. He flew around the shrub and even jumped at it 4 or 5 times which was fun to watch. I will post more photos tomorrow.
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I'm not expecting many views or comments as I know people hate creepy-crawlies. But this is the first Scorpion I have ever managed to photograph. We had been on a night drive lamping for wildlife at Awash in Ethiopia when we spotted this Scorpion running about in the road. Someone shone my torch while I tried to capture a photograph, though it never stopped running. From claws to sting it was about 30cm, so quite a big one, though I didn't actually measure it. Despite having a formidable sting in the tail they are preyed upon by many species from Mongooses to Hornbills. That's why they usually only emerge after dark, having spent the day under stones.
I certainly wasn't expecting to see this on Berks and Hants on the last summer Saturday of the 1985 season. I knew there were some diverted Freightliners due that day, expecting them all to be 47 hauled, but 33 056 The Burma Star loomed up out of the fog with the first of them, seen here at Beech Grove Lock foot crossing just west of Great Bedwyn. If anyone has the details of those diverted services, I'd love to know please
A great start to what turned out to be quite an extraordinary day on the B&H, even for the 80s
Apologies for the picture quality, the fog hasn't helped but 33s, and liners were not everyday events on the B&H
My wife moved to our cabin in 2002 and put the owl box up in 2006. The photographer moved in in 2010, and up until 2017, the owl box was only occupied by our red squirrels. In 2017, we were surprised by two Boreal Owl chicks poking their heads out, (one at a time,) but rarely saw an adult.
This morning, went out to do some chores and seen a movement out of the box. Sticking her head out was an adult Boreal Owl! Hopefully, this means a summer of watching the owl chicks and adults from our front porch! More to follow!
...we expected Spring but were given a return to winter!
Yes, the line that starts T S Eliot's "The Waste Land" sums up the month so well. A month when the sub-zero nights kept blighting the Spring buds, and low rainfall slowed any attempts at Spring growth. Skies have been grey and overcast, making outdoor photography difficult. Our first trip of the year to the coast was so welcome, but the opening up of local travel has not been as liberating as we had hoped.
As I assembled the shots I've posted this month, to make the usual collage, I realised just how many of them have been in black and white. An unconscious reflection of the persistence of winter!
But the talk is all of opening up .... opening up the economy, opening up the social world, opening up our horizons so we can move around without restrictions! Together with our 2nd vaccine shots, that is all good news. But so far we have not been able to take advantage of our new freedom. We await the warmer weather that older bones appreciate 😊
The 'opening up' is an experiment too, and one that has us holding our breath, to see whether it is wise or premature. This coronavirus has taken us by surprise in so many ways, and continues to mutate and spread with alarming speed, given the chance. Letting our guard down is scary!
And so we step into May, wondering what the month will bring. Hopes are high, but who knows where we'll be when May moves 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 April.
All my collages are collected here: At a Glance
Amsterdam Centraal was designed by Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers and first opened in 1889. It features a Gothic/Renaissance Revival station building and a cast iron platform roof spanning approximately 40 metres. Since 1997, the station has been continuously undergoing reconstruction works because of the development of the North-South Line of the Amsterdam Metro, which was originally planned to be completed in 2014. Due to several setbacks, some at the Amsterdam Centraal building site, the line is now expected to open fully in 2018.
Apologies for anyone expecting something Star Wars related - the doctor has landed!
Having uploaded a photo of my TARDIS exterior, I just had to have a go at building an interior to go with it (or should I say inside it? ;) And having made the hexagonal console for the 11th Doctor's TARDIS more than 3 years ago, I felt it was about time (pun intended) to finally put it to use.
Its hard to think about building this incarnation of the TARDIS without Xenomurphy's incredible recreation coming to mind. So instead of attempting to make the full blown room as he has, I opted to do a condensed version, incorporating all the essentials but not aiming for total accuracy. That said, I have borrowed many design ideas from his model most notably the curved section of wall which is more or less a direct copy. I doubt this would of turned out even half as good without his incredible model so be sure to check out if you haven't already! :)
At some point I want to take some photos of this illuminated, with LED lights shining through the floor... once I figure out how to actually put lights in this thing that is...
Until then though, please let me know what you think and if anyone has any advice about how to use and photograph LEDs effectively I'd be really grateful :)