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The moon startled me momentarily last evening as it always does when I first spot it rising. Not sure why that is. Even when I'm expecting to see it I have a sudden wave of anxiousness. It passes immediately but it's there nonetheless. After that I'm more in awe of it than anything else, especially in those moments when it hangs low in the sky, caught up in the trees as I like to think of it. That's when the optical illusion of size is full apparent. It just looks enormous compared to the much smaller appearance it takes on as it rises high into the sky. Of course it's exactly the same size the entire time, but appearance, and more importantly, feeling, is everything for me. And watching the moonrise over a desolate cornfield and beneath the branches of an old tree made me feel utterly complete.
I did not expect this, and I have never seen this happen before either. While the photo itself is nothing spectacular the moment was jaw dropping to witness. Might have presented itself as a teaching opportunity for the colt/colts.
As I was sitting on the grass photographing this Sandhill Crane family one of the parents stepped aside into the tall grasses on the right. A second later he reappeared, holding a screaming Red-winged Blackbird in his beak! He was shaking the bird like I have seen them shake voles. While pitch black feathers were flying around and the bird was fighting for his life, the colt was observing. Paying close attention to what his parent was teaching him. After few seconds the crane opened his beak which then allowed the blackbird fly away. Now, he did manage to fly to the nearby trees but undoubtedly had some, hopefully minor, injuries.
Red-winged Blackbirds are often seen harassing cranes as cranes do forage on their territories eating their eggs and nestlings. The crane here must have spotted the blackbird peacefully resting on a reed, minding his own business and decided it was a payback time, lesson teaching time for all the sharp pokes these blackbirds have delivered! If the crane meant to kill this blackbird he could have easily done so. Mercy in the end.
... expecting the next heat wave with 35+°C during the next days
and still no rain in sight ...
Cutleaf coneflower / Schlitzblättriger Sonnenhut (Rudbeckia laciniata) in Botanical Garden, Frankfurt
Now one wouldn't expect Walter P. Chrysler's wife Della to drive to the Club or to the polo match by herself, now would we? Of course not. That's what common people would do even if they were members of the Club, which, obviously, would be impossible. And, for those occasions, why not get chauffeured to your destinations, and do so in the style that you so much deserve and have earned! And when you said "I do" you then moved up to that grand status and position. And, I might add, what better way would it be to do that then in a one-off custom bodied Imperial by LeBaron? (well, maybe in a Bugatti Type 41 Royale, but that changes the story completely!)
And from that day forth, her finely manicured hands never touched a steering wheel again!
And now the rest of the story penned by Angelo Van Bogart:
With Chrysler as her last name — Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler, to be exact — Della Chrysler’s automotive choices weren’t as limited as one might expect.
Certainly, Mrs. Chrysler drove a Chrysler automobile, but in 1937, she chose not to be carried in one of the dizzying number of production sedans and limousines in the Custom Imperial Eight or Royal Six line. Nor did Mrs. Chrysler order one of the semi-custom Derham town cars also carried in the 1937 Chrysler catalog. Instead, Mrs. Chrysler had a one-of-a-kind town car built on a Custom Imperial chassis of an art deco form that rivaled the wildest town cars built on Duesenberg and Rolls-Royce chassis.
The teardrop-shaped town car body on her 1937 Custom Imperial built by coachbuilder LeBaron dripped elegance and was perfectly mated to the new streamlined styling of the 1937 Chrysler line. The bulbous aluminum LeBaron passenger compartment was painted black and mimicked the production Chrysler pontoon front fenders. The period-perfect Chrysler streamlining began at the “ship’s prow” front-end, which was striped with horizontal grille bars and matching chrome speed lines along the hood sides. The horizontal theme was picked up by LeBaron with speed lines behind the rear door at the sail panel and with horizontally ribbed aluminum trim that circled the body from the back of one front fender to the rear of the opposite front fender. The subtle trim piece literally brought the whole car together — production chassis and front-end styling with unique town car coachwork — as it streaked from the front fender, across the running boards and unique rear fender skirts, around the back of the car and all the way to the rear of the opposite front fender.
Inside, this special town car continued the art deco theme, from the production three-spoke steering wheel with ribbed bars and elegant gauges to the unique console built into the division window. Carpet as thick as a mink coat covered the floor, and seats as plush as the softest bed cradled rear seat passengers.
his slice of wheeled heaven wasn’t available to everyone, but was made available to those such as Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler, who could afford the craftsmanship of a hand-built LeBaron body fitted with the utmost of luxury by that Detroit concern. At the time, LeBaron was not yet absorbed by the Chrysler Corp., which later relegated the LeBaron name to a model. Rather, at this time, it was an independent subsidiary of the Briggs Body Co. that built bodies for Packard, Lincoln, Duesenberg and Pierce-Arrow, among others.
Mrs. Chrysler’s 1937 town car was not the first LeBaron-built body for Chrysler family, but it was probably the last. Just five years earlier, LeBaron had built a pair of custom 1932 Imperials for the Walter P. Chrysler family: a unique close-coupled sedan for Walter P. and a speedster for his son, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Shortly after the 1937 LeBaron town car was built, in May 1938, Walter P. suffered a stroke. In August of that year, Della Chrysler passed away. Walter P. followed her to eternal rest two years later, in 1940.
Sometime after Della Chrysler passed away, her 1937 LeBaron town car passed on to her daughter, Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Her initials “BCG” were added with cast letters to each rear door. However, neither she or her chauffeur drove the car much and today the odometer has registered just 25,501 miles. Very few of those were added after the car left Garbisch’s garage and went into the collection of Long Island car collector Harry Gilbert in the 1950s.
Expecting 8-14 inches of snow late tonight and into Thursday. The feeders are full! Hopefully, this will be the last big storm of the season.
and i expect nothing less..
Looking east from Mogshade Pond nr Minstead, new Forest National Park
Well this wasn't what I was expecting when I set off at about 04:30am to go and shoot some heather with the hope of some mist. I went to Bratley View to see what was going on and was pretty disappointed as when I got there not a hint of mist and no obvious shots 'near' the parking area as light was flat and I could not spend long as had to get to work. I thought I'd go scout the area around Mogshade pond on the other side of the road whilst I was there.
Started shooting but light remained mostly flat with the odd burst of light when the sun briefly found a gap in the clouds.
However, across to the east there seemed to be some light coming through and when I glanced back the next time a small area of the landscape was really kicking off!
I quickly banged on the 70-200mm lens and forgot about heather and just started snapping away. It was just a few mins then the sun rose a bit too high but for those few mins the mixture of light generating the heat to create the mist was fabulous to see. It was no more then a few degrees on the horizon but the power of the zoom really brings the image to life. Wished I hadn't left the 100-400mm in the car!
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Once, this was expected to be the passenger motive power of the future; SDP35 at Tilford Yard in Atlanta, Georgia, November 15, 1977. For a more conventional view of this unit, see: www.flickr.com/photos/georgehamlin/49863701267/
The last thing I expected to see when I woke up this morning was to see more snow falling although thankfully it didn’t last, so I spent all morning experimenting with my Lensbaby Velvet and 100 + shots later this was the best I could come up with. I feel I need a LOT more practice .
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First, I visited a fallen tree on a hillside, but as the subject didn't work out as expected, I came down to the riverside. Here I found a more pleasing fallen tree with a nice wintry coating. Despite the photo isn't sharp from front to back, I quite like the scenery with the wild trees in the background. At the scene, the water of the river Enz was flushing and from time to time you hear the chatter of ducks.
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No, really, it was a nice Spring day. At least, the day before it was Spring, nice and warm and sunny. Of all things, it snowed over night. I bet the prairie dogs were just a bit surprised. Anyway, I made some mistakes on this trip a few years back. I had a new Sony mirrorless, adapted to my old Canon gear so it was a learning curve I wish I had left for the local park. I've been pining to rectify ever since. Not that I expect to get snowed on, or to find bison babies. Looking forward to spending some time in these Black Hills of South Dakota again.
With that adapter, the EXIF data really comes out whacked. I'm betting I had a 1.4 tele on that lens maybe. The big mistake here was shooting the cropped sensor size on the full frame camera, tossing away half the pixels. I bought 24 mp, I shoulda used 'em. Shucks, I coulda just used a longer lens. Duh ...
The deck and the bench were cleaned off three hours ago. We are expecting another six inches of snow.
I did not expect at all to meet this little dude ...
At first, I had absolutely no idea what it was, I did not know that crane nestlings were reddish like that and it was more or less swimming on the water like a duck.
I should have known though, as 2 minutes before I was secretly trying to approach a pair of common cranes in the swamp, that eventually flew away. I had never thought about where Common cranes are nesting, I was assuming it was way more in the north of Europe.
Anyway after taking a shot, I did not stay much longer to avoid creating too much disturbance :(
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I didn't get as many photos as you might expect because I was doing most of the driving on this trip and as Anita will tell you , the driver doesn't get to take photos as much as the passenger! I did alternate with my daughter but when I wasn't driving, I was in the back seat with the Granddaughter keeping her entertained and doing things. When I took this she was "reading" one of her books. :) Late in the day and back in Virginia at this point. I thought the clouds were awesome so grabbed a quick shot. Today Anita and I are off to Tangier Island. A small fishing community in the Chesapeake Bay that can only be reached by an hour and a half Ferry Boat ride! Should be interesting.
A massive intermodal cut for a future BNSF Z Train gets hauled out of Alliance Yard by a pair of unique ITSX EMDs in Haslet, TX. Leading is ITSX #2839, a former SP SD40T-2 downgraded from SD45 specs, and second is ITSX #4027, an EMD SD39. These intermodal terminal servicing crews regularly work around Alliance Yard throughout the day, with multiple sets assigned to intermodal or autorack duties. If you’d asked me what I’d expect to find when I first researched the DFW area before I moved out here, one of the last things I’d ever think I’d see was a tunnel motor taking the point of an intermodal train (7/1/23).
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Architecture one might expect to see in the Alpine region of Europe at Bang Pa-In Royal Palace.
Wikipedia: Bang Pa-In Royal Palace, also known as the Summer Palace, is a palace complex formerly used by the Thai kings.
King Prasat Thong constructed the original complex in 1632, but it fell into disuse and became overgrown in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, until King Mongkut began to restore the site in the mid-19th century. Most of the present buildings were constructed between 1872 and 1889 by King Chulalongkorn.
After waiting for a taconite train to clear the west side of Chub Lake, the daily Rapids Turn has some hefty power tonight as it makes its way past the searchlights. I was not expecting to see the Rapids this late, but I am glad I was at the right place at the right time.
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Design
Vancouver House was designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and structural engineers Buro Happold and Glotman Simpson. The design is based on a triangle that rises from the ground and gradually transitions into a rectangle as it ascends to the top.[5] The design reflects the constraints of developing the triangular-shaped plot of land immediately east of the Howe Street on-ramp of the Granville Street Bridge.[6] The east and west facades of the building feature box-shaped balconies, giving the building's exterior a honeycomb texture.[7]
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Not expecting much input re this image however when trawling through some old files I re-found this. I liked it at the time as it's such a magical part of the world.
Into the Light - Day 28 - Year 2022
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Taken through the kitchen window, which is double pane glass, so not the best for focus. We expect at least 15, possibly 18 inches of snow overnight with blizzard conditions. If so, this scene should look quite different tomorrow.
I had no idea of what to expect the first time that I saw Niagara Falls this weekend. Of course I knew of Niagara but only had waterfalls to compare it to in my mind. When I looked over the railing for the first time; I froze! I could not process the power of the Niagara as it fell below. I can still hear the water falling onto the rocks below five days later.