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Deep in the quiet hills and flats of northeastern California a southbound manifest roars down the BNSF’s Gateway Subdivision. Leading the way is BNSF 7695, which is referred to as the “Golden Swoosh” for its unique yellow variant of the H3 logo. BNSF rosters two of these locomotives, BNSF 1050 and 7695. These units were both experimental for different paint schemes with the 1050 being H1, the company’s original scheme, and BNSF 7695 which was an experimental H3 as previously mentioned. Ultimately, the H1 scheme would end up with a green logo and H3 would end up with black which is still being used today. However, the yellow logo on the H1 scheme would later be used on H2. Despite the experimental schemes not ultimately working out, these locomotives were never repainted and can still be seen hauling trains today.
We decided on a quick trip out to the nearest stone circle to where we live, only an hour away but I had never visited it. I have always thought that it would be difficult to photograph as it is hemmed in by trees. We were however pleasantly surprised at how dark it was.
This is experimental as I am still playing around with flash for night scenes, also I have had a go at a duotone.
Expensive as my favourite night lens, Samyang 14mm, apparently is softer than one of the standing stones.
I don’t collect many things but I have long held a peculiar attraction to boxes. I particularly like unsophisticated carved wooden ones. These days I am not allowed to acquire more because of lack of space (though I do slip the odd one in under the radar every few years - Shhhh, don’t tell now...).
This box was hand-crafted in India and bought from a fair trade charity. It is of particular significance to me because it was an essential part of a parenting experiment that we did.
When my daughter was young we didn’t give her any pocket money. Instead, we had this box which was alway kept topped up with coins. She could take whatever she liked from it and spend it on what she wanted, though the agreement was that she would put any change from her purchase at the shop back in the box.
We did this because we hoped create a learning experience for her. In our society money is immensely important and I have always felt that being able to budget and manage money is essential for a young person to learn. Self-control in spending money is an important lesson too.
And values are particularly important as the ones we hold largely determine what we do with our lives and the impact we have on others. So we wanted to stop money being a control issue and an addictively desirable object for acquisition.
And the sorts of values we wanted to instil were ones like money only has value when you spend it and that it is meant to be useful or enjoyable, it’s for sharing, it’s a responsibility to be stewarded wisely, that the value of a person is not measured by their wealth but by the quality of their character (to borrow some famous words) and their integrity, that contentment is a better aim in life than success, that financial security does not mean having lots of money but that your income exceeds your expenditure, and, finally, that there is a tremendous amount of fun to be had in giving money away.
And with that rather lofty aim, we could only fail.
Except we didn’t. But I suspect that was more to do with our daughter’s personality (which parents don’t really control) rather than our experiment.
So that’s the story of this particular box. It’s still in use today as a change store, but in these days of contactless pandemics even that is on the decline.
I wasn’t feeling very imaginative today so you have a straight-down shot of the lid. I did try some other viewpoints but nothing was working. To add a bit of interest I used a lighting filter in the processing to add two lights top left and bottom right.
This is for the Smile on Saturday theme Money Box
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday :)
At BrickFair Va 2019, where I was displaying Cold War models as part of a collaboration, we started discussing what to do for the 2020 event. My X-29 (front and centre in this picture) prompted the idea to build experimental military models. I started building my models for the collaboration in February, with my Sukhoi S-37, at a time when COVID-19 seemed to be something happening in Asia. I subsequently built the YF-23 and X-47, even though it seemed less and less likely that the event would take place, due to the developing pandemic, and indeed, it was cancelled. The hope now is that I will be able to travel to the US next year and that we will have our collaboration then, so I continued building, adding the British Aerospace EAP and lastly my M-21 Blackbird/ D-21 Tagboard.
These airplanes are different: Experimental, LSA (Light Sport Aircraft), Home or Amateur-Built, Lightweight. Some have the propeller in the rear.
July 23, 2019
Oshkosh Airshow, Wisconsin
Continuing a series of experimental photos with a Kodak No. 2 Folding Cartridge Premo (circa 1919). All settings are mentioned as they appear on the camera. If you are lost, I suggest starting with the first photo in the corresponding album.
I was testing out the focusing. I took several photos of this scene - one at 100ft, and the other at FIXED. They both turned out relatively the same, but in this case, 100ft gave me a slightly clearer image. Moving forward, however, I may stick with FIXED.
Shutter: 50
Focus: 100ft
Aperture: 3
124 ASA
I have so many challenging shoots planned in the weeks ahead, like building impossible props and digging a 10 foot long trench. It seems unlikely that all of my ideas will work out but I sure will give it a good try. I hear that digging in the rock desert requires heavy machinery...we'll see.
Another addition to my "Sac" series here...freaked me out! I have a silly fear of bathtubs ever since the Rugrats episode where they thing they are going to get sucked down the drain. Bleh.
A new prop is up for sale...http://shadenproductions.com/blog/2010/07/16/the-prop-project-tutus/
Roman Signer, Kitfox Experimental, 2014.
Avion, ventilateurs, câble.
Suspendu à un cable, l'avion tourne lentement sur lui-même, comme à mi-course dans sa chute. A la fois humoristique et inquiétante, cette installation de l'artiste suisse Roman Signer, s'inspire d'une frayeur d'enfance de l'artiste : lorsque, assistant à un meeting aérien, un pilote mit brusquement son avion en piqué, l'enfant crut alors que l'avion allait s'écraser sur lui. Rêve, liberté, mais aussi danger des "machines volantes".
Exposition "Dans l'air Les machines volantes"
Hanger Y, Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine
For the first shot the lightening was yellowish from the electrical lights they have to light up the ice rink during the evenings. Yesterday the lights were very different. Low sun and also a lot of water on the ice as it was + 7 C.
I turned it around and set clarity to minus 55. Also added some warmth. I liked the textures in the reflections here.
If this is popular I will upload another.. Not sure if it has so much interest but it good training for me:p