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....and if this hadn't been six minutes late it would have been in glorious sun too! This is my first shot of 90 007 on a train since it's repaint into Abellio colours. It was failed on it's first day back in traffic at Ipswich last Tuesday and had remained on Crown Point until Monday when it visited Ilford. It duly returned to Norwich services yesterday but the weather didn't clear locally until late afternoon so today saw me walk the two miles from home to here. Streaks on the bodyside illustrate the effects of the wet weather yesterday already.
Timing of the shutter is always extremely difficult here for going away trains and indeed I completely messed up the preceding down Norwich but this one was spot on!
entry for "worst of 2020"
young eagle roosted at least an hour, i'm freezing my butt off waiting for a clear shot through the twigs. finally just at sunset, she decides to leave... and i blow the flight shot.
perfect ending for a year to forget.
I hav Been gone for a month I know but the end of my sports season is coming hopefully I will stop being dead, I now have two large space ships the mds and the battle front along with the stupid fail mech that u see thanks. :)
31233 which failed at Shrewsbury was on rear of 3z01 Shrewsbury - Derby RTC,97302 was the leading locomotive.passing Cosford station on 11/01/2015
In its eyecatching livery for the Skelmersdale & Kirkby trainlink, Stagecoach M&SL ADL Enviro 300 27270 - SN65 ODK lays over in Liverpool's bus hub before operating a journey on route 20 to Tower Hill which to me can be considered a very rare working.
8F, 48431 had been dumped in the yard at Oakworth on the 9th December 1995, having failed on a Santa Special. It made quite a nice glint shot. I wonder whether we'll ever see it in traffic again.
Whilst waiting on a late running diverted Freight, not only did I get a Grand Central Power Car running north, but I also got a 67 hauling a failed 225 set.
67024 is seen hauling the failed set through Prestonpans. The set consisted of an unidentified DVT and 91102. This was running as 5G22, Edinburgh Waverley to Bounds Green
2/1/16 at 1521
1772. Dangerously close to the Diamond Shoals off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the sloop Thunderbolt, battered by a fierce storm and rough sea, catches fire from an overturned cook stove. All aboard scrambled to put out the flames while trying to keep from being tossed overboard. The shoals, sand dunes just below the water’s surface, reach out some 18 miles past Hatteras Point. Hundreds of ships have run aground here, miles from shore, to be pulverized by the relentless waves... and often, all aboard drown.
On this day, a terrified 17-year-old orphaned boy from St. Croix, on his way to an American education, is among those fighting to save the ship... he is Alexander Hamilton, who would get that education and become the first U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington. Resting against the rails of the saved ship, he watches as the shoals recede away... and vows to do something so that others would not know such fear.
There was a reason ships were drawn near the shoals... wind-driven ships also relied on ocean current, which at times can move better than 40 mph. The Labrador Current sweeps down from the north and hugs this coast to about two miles off the beach. Beyond that is the Gulf Stream that moves up from the south toward the upper tier states. Often, it was faster for ships coming to Boston or New York from Europe to work their way south to catch the Gulf Stream than it was to come straight across the Atlantic. Even back in the day, folks in the shipping business knew that time is money. The confluence of the cold Labrador Current and the warm Gulf Stream also set up perfect conditions for violent storms and ocean swells. Add to that the shoals, which extended beyond sight of land amid that confluence, and many an unwary ship’s captain left “money” to shift among the sands of these underwater dunes. Only jetsam and flotsam found on the beaches along the Outer Banks gave evidence of the fate of the ship.
As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton finally has the power to make good on his vows, and the U. S. Lighthouse Service, and eventually the U. S. Coast Guard fall under the auspices of the Treasury Department. The first lighthouses along the east coast were functional, if just barely, and were not constructed to the exacting standards you see here... there’s something to be said of building your house on shifting sand, as many of the early lighthouses here in North Carolina toppled shortly after construction. Under the supervision of Dexter Stetson, Hatteras Lighthouse rose up 210 feet from a foundation of granite, rubble, and entire lengths of pine pushed to the bedrock... and stayed up, as it has since 1870. With a focal plane at 187 feet, its light could be seen for 28 miles, well before a ship reached the shoals at night. Its conical tower is painted in black and white spirals to make it distinctive from other local lighthouses.
After his success at Hatteras, Stetson turned his attention to Bodie Island. The name of the island is in contention, largely due to revisionist historians... the name is pronounced “body” and is likely an archaic form of that word. Legend has it the name comes because of bodies washing ashore after some ship found its resting place in the of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. According to some historians, however, the name comes from a family that once lived here, though that has never been proven... the legend may not be so legendary, as such things did happen. A lighthouse would save lives here too.
There were two lighthouses located here before the one you see here. The first one leaned toward the sea shortly after it was built. That was in the day before electrical power, so the lighthouse had to be tended to every day... could you imagine having to climb up a structure so unstable that it might topple any second, at least twice a day? Me neither. It failed and was replaced, but Confederate troops blew the second one up in 1861 during a series of skirmishes as Yankee troops descended on Fort Fisher. The third installment of Bodie Island Lighthouse projected light from its first order Fresnel lens for the first time in 1872. At a height of 165 feet, its beam can still be seen 21 miles out to sea.
Though built on a land that shifts with the wind and tide, Bodie Island Lighthouse has withstood hurricanes, nor’easters, floods, lightning, heat, and humidity, but 148 years of such conditions had taken its toll. After much determination, restoration of the lighthouse began in 2010. The last of the project was the installation of the refurbished Fresnel lens... after a re-lighting ceremony, the lighthouse was returned to service April 18, 2013. Seen here in morning light 11 years since, Bodie Island Lighthouse is still every bit the historical standout with its alternating bands of black and white.
Weather in the last week flooded roads and breached dune berms in the area… lucky me. It also provided unusual circumstances for me to shoot the lighthouse, magnificent as it has been for 152 years.
So this joker deems it necessary to park in The Karcher Group employee of the month spot. He doesn't work for TKG, so after a few annoying days of this happening, Chris Chapman, left a friendly note. And covered it with water, which in this freezing weather, turned to ice.
He peeled the two off and littered them on the ground. Next up a "FAIL: You Littered" sign.
This male intruder tried to impress the female in the nest - at the end he gave up and left amidst the loud protest from the female.
After attempting to phot the Slag train in the station whilst static and failing dramatically as it was late and didn't stop, I opted for this shot looking over at Barrow Carriage Sidings. Ignore the flare as I've lost my lens hood.
Epic fail Guess this shot is what you can describe with "epic fail". Was out with my cam the night before to do some street shots and had it configured for ISO6400. The day after I went with my tripod to the woods next to my office to get some nice shots and recognised at home all my shots had been taken with ISO6400 :( Noise is there, but nevertheless I like this shot. Shot taken with #xpro2 and #xf23 1.4 Wish you all the best! Processed in #Lightroom using #vsco #ektachrome64T++ color curve and #classicchrome camera profile. Instagram: ift.tt/2cgftuS Facebook: ift.tt/2cegMFT via 500px ift.tt/2pKX6Ej
Diana+ und ein Fuji Superia Iso 100. Negativscan. Man, da ist so einiges schief gelaufen :D Nina Hagen: Farbfilm
february 26, 2012
i hate the hand and all the left part of the pic to be honest but whatever the eyes were so hypnotising
in this photo: me.
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Neubabelsberg ist eine nach der Gründung des Deutschen Kaiserreiches entstandene und seit 1939 zu Potsdam gehörende Villenkolonie. Sie erstreckt sich vom S-Bahnhof Griebnitzsee entlang des Griebnitzsees bis an den ehemals kaiserlichen Garten Park Babelsberg mit dem darin befindlichen Schloss Babelsberg. Die Societät Neubabelsberg der Architekten Hermann Ende und Wilhelm Böckmann schuf ab 1871 zwischen der heutigen Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße und dem Park Babelsberg ein neues Siedlungsgebiet wohlhabender Potsdamer und Berliner. Das Gebiet wurde in 176 Parzellen aufgeteilt, von denen die teuersten Wasserparzellen 20–25 m breit und 80–110 m tief waren. Als Ausgleich waren die landseitigen Grundstücke 40 m breit und 90 m tief. In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus wurden viele jüdische Neubabelsberger zur Emigration genötigt, ermordet oder auf anderem Wege in den Tod getrieben. Die durch Emigration frei gewordenen Häuser wurden unter Wert verkauft oder von nationalsozialistischen Organisationen genutzt. Auch viele bekannte Filmstars zogen in die Villen. Andererseits wurde in der Villa der Familie von Tresckow 1944 vom Kreis um Henning von Tresckow und Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg die Bombe für das Attentat auf Adolf Hitler gebaut.
Während der Potsdamer Konferenz im Schloss Cecilienhof 1945 wohnten in Neubabelsberg die Verhandlungsführer Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin und Harry Truman. Die Villen, in denen die drei Staatsmänner zu dieser Zeit wohnten, sind noch heute nach ihnen benannt.
Mit dem Bau der Berliner Mauer im Jahr 1961 wurde Neubabelsberg vom Griebnitzsee durch Grenzanlagen am Ufer abgeschnitten. Der Bahnhof Griebnitzsee wurde zu einem stark abgeschirmten Grenzbahnhof.
Nach Gründung der DEFA wurden – von 1954 bis teilweise ins Jahr 2000 – einige Villen in Neubabelsberg von der heutigen Filmuniversität , bevor diese ihren Neubau in der Medienstadt Babelsberg neben den
Filmstudios erhielt.
Die Stadt Potsdam hatte eigentlich geplant, den früheren Postenweg der DDR-Grenztruppen entlang des Griebnitzsees als öffentlichen Wanderweg zu erhalten. Aber, vielleicht auch wegen noch mangelnder Erfahrung mit den Rechtsnormen der Bundesrepublik, hatte das Stadtparlament versäumt, einen entsprechenden rechtsverbindlichen Beschluss zu schaffen. Und so war bei der Rückübertragung der Grundstücke an die ursprünglichen Eigentümer bzw. deren Nachkommen auch der Uferstreifen mit zurückgegeben worden. Nur wenige Eigentümer haben seither der Stadt den Uferstreifen zur Verfügung gestellt, sodass ein durchgehender Wanderweg nicht angelegt werden konnte, es gibt nur wenige Stellen, wo man punktuell zum Ufer hinuntergelangen kann.
Quelle für die Informationen: Wikipedia
Neubabelsberg is a villa colony that came into being after the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and has belonged to Potsdam since 1939. It stretches from the Griebnitzsee suburban train station along Lake Griebnitzsee to the former imperial garden of Babelsberg Park with its Babelsberg Palace. The Societät Neubabelsberg of the architects Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann created a new residential area for wealthy Potsdamers and Berliners from 1871 onwards. The area was divided into 176 plots, of which the most expensive waterfront plots were 20-25 m wide and 80-110 m deep. To compensate, the landward plots were 40 m wide and 90 m deep. During the Nazi era, many Jewish Neubabelsbergers were forced to emigrate, murdered or otherwise driven to their deaths. The houses freed up by emigration were sold below value or used by Nazi organisations. Many famous film stars also moved into the villas. On the other hand, the bomb for the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler was built in the villa of the von Tresckow family in 1944 by the circle around Henning von Tresckow and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.
During the Potsdam Conference in Cecilienhof Palace in 1945, the negotiators Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin and Harry Truman lived in Neubabelsberg. The villas in which the three statesmen lived at that time are still named after them today.
When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, Neubabelsberg was cut off from Griebnitzsee by border fortifications on the shore. Griebnitzsee station became a heavily screened border station.
After DEFA was founded, several villas in Neubabelsberg were used by today's Film University "Konrad Wolf" from 1954 until 2000, before it moved to a new building in the Babelsberg Media City next to the film studios.
The city of Potsdam had actually planned to preserve the former post path of the GDR border troops along Lake Griebnitzsee as a public hiking trail. But, perhaps also due to a lack of experience with the legal norms of the Federal Republic, the city parliament had failed to create a legally binding resolution to this effect. And so, when the land was transferred back to the original owners or their descendants, the riparian strip was also returned. Since then, only a few owners have made the riparian strip available to the city, so that a continuous hiking trail could not be created; there are only a few places where one can get down to the shore at certain points.
Source of the information: Wikipedia