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BNSF 697 a faded Warbonnet loco leads CP train #484 Eastbound at Lake Forest, IL Thanks to Chazewood for the heads up!
The fade to grey on a chilly day on the very month before May on the boat heading to a bay... but the price of the ferry makes you dearly pay.
Done for Macro Mondays 'Love Songs'.
Patsy Cline is a favorite singer, and I listen to her 12 Greatest Hits often.
'Faded Love' is one of her sweetest. In 1963 Patsy died in a tragic plane crash
at the peak of her career. We miss her.
I miss you darling, more and more every day
As Heaven would miss the stars above
With every heartbeat I still think of you
And remember our faded love.
Dilemma: How to illustrate Faded Love? It took a good deal of sliding & tweaking,
soft focus and de-saturation to achieve the above image. HMM!
I saw this quote and could not help but be moved by wondering if this is how my father felt when his "one and only" was no longer able to remember due to the cruel thief of Alzheimer's dementia. It struck me so, that I wanted to try to use a photo to capture a sense of loss and fading. Again, from Kim Klassen's Beyond Layers e-Course, using techniques learned and adding a pattern, I think it captured that mood.
Out my window, out my door, Mogadore, Summit County, Ohio
St Helen, Ranworth, Norfolk
I fondly recall my first ever visit to Ranworth some 15 years ago with that great aficionado of Norfolk churches the late Tom Muckley. It was our first church of a dozen or so planned for that day, and Tom was a bit concerned it would cast all the others into its shadow. And there is much about Ranworth to be impressed by. The tall tower and long church are shoehorned into a relatively narrow churchyard set apparently among the hedgerowed Norfolk fields. A look at a map, however, or even better a view from the top of the tower (they encourage you to go up) will tell you that here we are on the southern edge of the Norfolk Broads system, the wide Ranworth Broad and narrower Malthouse Broad immediately to the north and east. Boats tie up at a staithe below the church, and the constant stream of visitors, many wearing life jackets, are a result of this proximity. They are rewarded with a café to the east of the church, and when suitably refreshed they are able to enter a typical East Anglian medieval church, missing only the clerestory that might knock its grandness into magnificence.
I came back to Ranworth towards the end of July 2019. It had been a fitful summer. The previous week had seen the hottest day on record in East Anglia, but also two days of incessant rain. Only a fool could have ignored these as symptoms of increasing global warming. Cycling from Wroxham through pretty Salhouse and Woodbastwick I passed hardly another soul. It was only coming into Ranworth that I became aware of the presence of holiday makers making the most of the fine day.
You step into a wide open space, full of light thanks to the lack of coloured glass. The plain, even austere, arcaded font stands high on two tiers, dominating the west end of the nave, the stairway up into the tower leading off behind it. The west window, by Hardman & Co of about 1900, is the only window fully filled with stained glass and is set so far back within the tower that it does not intrude. And so you turn to face the east.
The treasures of St Helen are very well-known. Two are very rare, the third the finest of its kind. The first of them sits just inside the south door, the Ranworth Antiphoner, a large singing book now in a bullet-proof glass case. This illuminated manuscript was produced at Langley Abbey. It was used in this church before the Reformation, and then disappeared for three hundred years. In the 1850s, it was discovered in the collection of the merchant banker Henry Huth, but it was not until its sale in 1912 that it was recognised as coming from Ranworth originally. By one of those miracles that sometimes happens at the right time, it was bought and returned here. Tom told me that for many years it was kept in a room on the tower stairs.
Secondly, towards the east end of the nave stands the splendid Cantor's desk. This was used for reading the Gospel, and is unusual in having two ledges, one facing east, the other west. It may originally have been in the rood loft. The eastern side has an image of St John's evangelistic symbol and the opening line of his Gospel in Latin. The west face has, apparently pasted on, a fifteenth century versicle form of the Gloria.
But all this is just a prelude for what is to come, for behind it stands the greatest Rood screen in East Anglia. It stretches right across the church, aisles and nave, being built out to form grand reredoses to the aisle chapels. The dado, the lower part of central screen, has figures of eleven disciples and St Paul, six on each side. The aisle chapels have figures in sets of four as reredoses The south aisle chapel range consists of the Holy Kinship, that is to say St Mary Salome, the Blessed Virgin and St Mary Cleopas, each with their disciple children, and the best of the reredos panels, St Margaret.
However, the figures on the north aisle chapel are rather curious. The first and fourth figures are St Etheldreda and St Barbara. The two central figures appear at first sight to both be St John the Baptist! However, a longer look tells you that something rather unusual has happened here. The third panel appears to be faded, not as richly coloured as the others. At the top, the angel leaning above all the other figures has here been partly replaced by a field of red with gold stars. And at last it strikes you - the entire screen was repainted towards the end of the medieval period apart from this panel. And when you turn your attention to the second figure, it becomes clear that an image of St Agnes has been adapted to be St John the Baptist - her joyful leaping little lamb, as on the screens at Cawston and Westhall, has been converted into the Lamb of God. She has been given a beard, but still appears entirely feminine.
What happened here? The repainting at the top of the third panel may give us a clue. At some point the panel has been covered, perhaps boarded over, maybe as a background to a statue or other image. However, it was felt necessary to retain an image of St John the Baptist, so the second panel was adapted. We know there was a chapel here to St John the Baptist, so that explains why it was thought necessary to retain his image, but why cover the third panel rather than any of the others? It is all very mysterious.
Finally, we come to what are perhaps the best and certainly most famous parts of the screen, the sides of the chapel reredoses which face towards each other across the nave. On the north side, Bishop St Felix and Martyr St Stephen are joined by one of the great medieval art survivals of the 15th century, St George. Similarly opposite, Archbishop St Thomas of Canterbury and Martyr St Lawrence are joined by a glorious St Michael. If the overall painting scheme hear doesn't quite live up to the glorious work on the screen at nearby Barton Turf, the three dragon killers here are surely the best single painted 15th century panels in East Anglia.
Who is missing? By rights, the four Latin Doctors, Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory and Jerome should be here - they seem to have been mandatory in east Norfolk. But the Ranworth screen, despite its splendour, is still incomplete. The entire rood and roodloft has been lost, and what we see now is merely the bottom two thirds of the original. Probably, the rood loft also had painted panels. Perhaps the four Doctors were among them. And surely there were doors, common enough on rood screens in Norfolk, which also would have had Saints on panels. The east side of the screen is also painted, Tudor roses on red to the north, on green to the south.
The chancel is large, and feels rather empty after what we have travelled through to get to it. The return stalls against the screen have misericord seats, their carvings mostly modern but a couple of them are medieval. The east window has a good 1950s scene of the Adoration of the Magi, apparently by A L Wilkinson for King & Son, the faces sympathetically drawn. The scene is set centrally in a field of clear glass and is very well done.
I loved coming back to Ranworth. Here, some of the finest treasures of the late Medieval English church are set in a building of great beauty, accessible to a constant stream of visitors, many with small children who might be having their very first experience of exploring a medieval church and going up its tower. The best English churches are folk museums as well as living faith communities. St Helen is clearly among the best examples of both.
ROANOKE VA: VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: Isn't it outrageous to let a historical gem like this to fade into oblivion? Well, it would have been had the Museum not jumped in, raised the necessary funds, and spiffed it up cosmetically to as good as new. I haven't been up to the Museum for nearly two years so I will be pleased to see the 'new' 1776 on my next visit.
The 1776 is a General Motors EMD SD-45 built in 1970 and served until 1974 when it was rededicated as a Bicentennial Commemorative. In 1978 the engine was repainted Norfolk & Western black and continued in service until February, 1988.
In 1991, the 1776 was donated by Norfolk Southern to the Museum and was repainted from the N&W black to the red, white, and blue scheme but the paint didn't last.
Man, I'm getting dizzy from all these paint fumes.
For more details go to the official Museum website.
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Memory fades as life goes on.
technically this picture is a pure failure : blur of moving subject, blur of misfocusing, blur of lowspeed and handheld.
But...
The roll stood undevelopped during 6 years, carefully stocked in
my fridge, because I knew there were on it some pictures from someone who left us few month later. I was afraid of destroying them with my manual process.
thanks to a good friend (God bless him), Theses pictures are safe. But this one grew on me. The movement of my little girl, the general blur with only this tiny part of shoes less blurred than the picture, appeared to me as a picture of time going on. Our memory fades, details disapear, but the mood stays.
Carpe Diem, sed habeo, non habeor.
Amici, diem non perdidi.
This homemade print has been on my wall for a few years. Don't know what went wrong, but it is not supposed to look like this. Looks more like 160 years old than less than 10...
For most of my pictures that have this silvery, reflective effect, there's some angle at which I can hold them to make the image show up normally. With this one, that's not so. No matter what angle I look at it from, no matter how much or little light it's in, The sides and top half are always just a silvery sea, very nearly obscuring these three little sister's faces. Just to get as much of their facial features as I managed too, I had to darken the exposure and reduce the highlights significantly. It makes for an interesting effect, especially along the side of the sister to our far left, but I do wish that I could see their faces.
I'll have to double check, but I'm fairly sure that there is no writing on the reverse. It's an rppc, but I don't think it was ever mailed. It's a bit hard to tell because of how much of the picture is obscured, but it looks like it might be from the early 1900's or so.
Badly-faded color photo of a well-dressed man standing behind his automobile next to a brick building.
Hand-written on back of photo: Grand Dad Thompson with one of his beloved Hudson's
Make: Hudson
Model: Unknown
Year: Unknown
For those of you automobile fanatics out there, my thanks in advance for any information you might offer as to the year and model of the car.
Fading Hong Kong
19 years after the ruling of the British colonial government, I can truly see the difference as a Hong Kong resident.
She was not only a household name, but a namesake. We spent countless hours watching her in b&w movies. R.I.P. Shirley Temple Black.
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Just returned from a trip to Singapore and Australia this morning. I have not taken that many photos but tried to focus on the best light and be at the spot when it appeared. Well it did in some cases, in others it didn't :). My companion throughout the trip was my Loka +fstopgear backpack and I love it. I also got the new Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 lens and love it as well. Complements wonderfully with the 17-55mm f/2.8. I certainly had to put it to a test and it passed! Wow, sharpness rivals the legendary 14-24mm f/2.8! Stay tuned on Google+ and Facebook. Some stunners are coming up shortly.
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I waited a few hours at this location. Actually not the worst spot to hang out. Just had to escape the rain a couple times. With long exposures it's tough, once it's starts raining the shot is basically ruined as water droplets are very visible when they are on the filter. This was my last photo of the night and took exactly 159sec at f/16 and another 159 to apply in-camera NR (which by the way is a must with any Nikon camera)
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A young girl from around 1900 with a fancy hat. No identity or photographer.
I enhanced her a bit using Aviary after I posted her here. She is still faded, but not as much.
every seven years our bodies change every cell
every seven years we disappear
so so tired lately.. especially with the rainy weather. all I wanna do is wear my pajamas and drink tea and sleep for 12 hours
this editing was actually very simple and I love the way it turned out! I used a technique I've never really used in the past.
A faded enamel fire hydrant sign on the former entrance building of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway station at Euston, The building awaits demolition to facilitate the expansion of Euston station for HS2. 19th January 2018.
Same as before: Emerald lake, Szczecin. An extremely old film (35+?), given to me by a friend. The whole roll looks like this. I cleaned only the worst scratches and dust.
I remember when I had Amber, I felt so different - like 'me' had been replaced totally by 'Amber's mum'. This time around I feel like bits of 'me' are still peeking through and I think HPAD has a lot to do with that - it almost forces me to take a bit of time for myself most days, even if it's just ten minutes. So thank you HPAD and all the HPADers, and here is a photo of me, fading back into view! I've also started my weight loss attempt today, so a self portrait seemed appropriate.
04.05.09