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A quick overnight at Penmon with the promise of 100% high cloud which never really took on much colour meant an early night. Alarm set for 4am and the forecast cloud had come in so I decided to leave early enough to not have to pay another fiver on the way out.
Sunrise never happened at the lone tree at Llyn Padarn so drove up to Pen-y-Pass and could see some breaks in the cloud further North. Last chance was to hope the breaks were over the Ogwen Valley and thankfully they were.
Arguably the best fiver I've ever spent. Thats the price of the car park (free if you arrive out of hours) - A truly fantastic place walking through the forest, over the sand dunes, along the large expanse of beach towards the arguably the most photographed landmark in Wales.
Only accessible at low tides Llanddwyn Island is truly a fantastic place, with pilot cottages, historic ruins and the Twr Mawr Lighthouse marking the entrance to the Menai Strait. Oh & of course the stunning backdrop of the Snowdonia Mountains in case that wasn't enough.
The weather was brutal, the wind was insane, but to experience such a gorgeous place was stunning. An amazing place and most definitely a photographer's dream....I'll be back when hopefully I don't have to grip the tripod with both hands whilst trying to stop my camera bag from blowing over the cliffs and to take a photograph with the cable release in my mouth...
Besides the obvious, there are certain benefits to being what some of my former colleagues would refer to as "careful" with money. The more kindly former colleagues that is, I should add. Others wasted no time in coming up with rather more abusive terms for my steadfast refusal to throw away my hard earned on fast cars, champagne lunches and visits to Monte Carlo, but I would just smile and remind them that they'd still be working long after I'd retired. That tended to either stop them in their tracks with dumbstruck expressions, or had the opposite effect of exacerbating the tirade. Still, I'd just smile as I opened my home made cheese salad while whichever friend it was lavished another fiver on a disappointing looking sandwich and an overpriced coffee.
I often earned similar brickbats for refusing to join in the incessant charge along the highways and byways, driving at a benign pace rather than hammering along the outside lane at eighty-five miles an hour. I prefer to watch the fuel consumption reading rather than the speedometer you see. When I was younger, and very probably heading for a midlife crisis, I owned a white Vauxhall Astra GTE. It was very fast and it made me drive like a fool. It also used a lot of petrol. Now I have a modest Skoda that can get halfway across the country and back to Luton Airport without me having to refill the tank.
So there are aspects of Iceland that suit me, despite the fact that things are generally quite expensive in comparison to where I live. The jaw dropping landscape is something of course that very much ticks my boxes, but while many visitors seem to struggle with the fifty-five miles per hour speed limit, I don't. I simply pop the rental car into cruise control, set the speed and steer contentedly through the beauty around us - trying to concentrate on the road of course - the scenery can be distracting.
Other aspects of Iceland can be a trifle worrisome though. Last time we were here, we parked freely and quite legitimately on a patchy pull in, before walking the short distance to the triple waterfall of Kirkjufellsfoss. It was close to midnight under the twenty-four hour daylight glow, and only a small number of togs were around to compete for position with. On the other side of the pull in was another bit of scrubby ground beside the beach where we could also have parked for free. But three years on, things have changed. A brand new car park with number plate recognition cameras awaits the visitor, and swiftly relieves them of a thousand krona, regardless of how long they're planning to stay for. Needless to say, the waterfall was surrounded by a large number of visitors, many of them armed with tripods and cameras, all after that classic shot of Kirkjufell that looks so familiar. Admittedly there was still a pull in nearby, but there was also a sign that suggested our car might get towed away if we parked there, so we didn't stop for long.
But on the plus side, this aversion to parting with money for no good reason eventually added some unexpected shots to the catalogue, including my previous post, "Night Traffic." Our irritation at the prospect of coughing up the cash had taken us to a generous lay-by overlooking the sea. From there it was a leisurely fifteen minute amble along a footpath back towards the waterfall, and directly past the lake, where Kirkjufell gives away mirrorlike reflections on still days without charging a bean. And when the sky is doing interesting things at the end of a wet and grungy day, that seems like a reward worth grabbing with both hands.
We took a number of shots here, starting well before sunset and pushing on into the blue hour. I'd had a plan to revisit a patch of marshy ground I'd found the previous evening, but the presence of a growing number of togs along the bank of the lake appealed to my better nature as I wondered how easily they'd be able to clone me out of their sunsets. So here I stayed, enjoying the fact that I hadn't paid a thousand crowns for the privilege. It wasn't a bad spot from which to watch the day ebb away.
This abandoned motor court is located on the east side of Phoenix, Arizona. It would appear as if the cottages are still used at least for some sort of storage. Image taken in March, 2018
Running with a reduced consist of five carriages, XP2006 leads the Casino-bound XPT service into East Maitland as NT33.
The XPT carriage fleet are having ongoing cracking issues with old welds, resulting in carriages being swapped out or removed from service to carry out the necessary repairs.
The special "candy" liveried XPT has six carriages painted to match, however, on this day one was out of service for repair. In recent times, if the service does require six, a normal blue liveried carriage will substitute.
Monday 13th July 2026
EC2528 leads the Sunday midday Explorer service from Griffith/Canberra away from Bargo as SP34 to Sydney Terminal.
Sunday 16th August 2020
There is is in black and white on the Aussie five dollar note: our Parliament reflected behind our Head of State. Keeping an eye on us:)
It seems that this week is all about selfies !! I missed a challenge the other day that was Bargain and in my quest for my Get Pushed image (if you haven't seen it be warned it's scary!!) I went on the hunt round the charity shops to see if I could find a suitable dress....I found 2...yey any excuse ey ! So as I didn't actually end up using it for that photograph I thought I could fulfil the missed challenge today. I am also just about to start striping all the walls in the dining room as well so thought I would make the most of the empty room and practise my flying at the same time.
ODC2 Challenge Bargain (Green Dress only £5 at Cancer Care Shop)
I'd better switch back into normal mode and go start the striping......decorating that is !! Will be back later to mooch around all of your fabulous streams !
Thanks for stopping to view, comment and fave all are very much appreciated :o)
Following her full rebuild and sporting a five-bladed prop on her Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, racy looking Supermarine Spitfire LF.XIVe RN201 seen taxying out at Duxford sometime in the mid 2000's
Originally delivered to the Belgian Air Force as SG-31, she became G-BSKP after completion of the re-build in 2002
Then flying as RN201 until 2007, she was sold as N201TB in the USA
Scanned print
Some time ago I bought from EBay, for about a fiver, a little Panasonic TZ4, which I converted to photograph in infra-red. I had forgotten that until I came across the camera yesterday. After charging up the battery, here is a shot from the Wildlife Café this morning. As usual, Maisie has to photobomb it...
Its the year 1989 the FRV has just started up operations after buying the line from Milwaukee to Fond Du Lac and Green Bay the old Air Line division. We were hoping for the GP-30's to be in the lead but the going away shot is just as good .This section of the old CNW is no longer here comes to a end at West bend Wis
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DUNKY FIVÉREK
fényképészete
KOLOZSVÁRTT
főtér 10 szám alatt
Dunky Kálmán (1858-1935) és Dunky Ferenc (1860k.-1941k.)
1897-től császári és királyi udvari fényképészek /tehát a kép korábbi/
Kolozsvár Mátyás király tér 10. Gróf Wass-ház /1886-1914/
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Gabinál Dunky:
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Mezei úrnál:
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nálam:
BERGHAMMER JÁNOS
fényképész / Photograph
MUNKÁCS
Önkéntes fényképész szövetkezet a Millenniumi Kiállításon / VARGA KATALIN
"...A kritikusok általában tisztelettel említették meg Schmidt Edét, Waitznert, Schmidt Józsefet, a Dunky-fivéreket, Ferenc és Társát, Oroszy Lajost, Plohn Illést és Kiss Ferencet, és nem mulasztották el szóvá tenni, hogy Berghammer János munkácsi fotográfus installációként alkalmazott bőségszaruja elnyomja a belőle kihulló képek hatását, a miskolci Zitkovszky Béla viszont jó képeit a bécsi kirakatok „japáni stílusában” állította ki. Zelesny Károly kvalitásos arcképei mellől egyesek hiányolták közismerten jó belső felvételeit...
"Nagy millenniumi érmet nyertek: ifj. Divald Károly új iparág meghonosításáért; Goszleth István jó munkáért; Klösz György kiváló működésért és elismerésre méltó versenyképességért; Keglovich Emil (Szeged) versenyképességért, jó ízlésért és jó munkáért; Plohn Illés és József (Hódmezővásárhely) tanulmányképekért a magyar népéletből; Rupprecht Mihály (Sopron) versenyképességért és jó munkáért; Weinwurm Antal kiváló versenyképességért, egy új iparág meghonosításáért és jó munkáért; Váncza Emma (Miskolc) tájképekért, kitűnő munkáért és nagy előhaladásért. Kiállítási érmet nyertek: Calderoni és Tsa (fényképészeti szükségletek) az iparág fejlesztéséért; Eisenschiml és Wachtl (fényképészeti tárgyak) ezen téren való munkásságért; Divald Károly fia [Adolf] (Eperjes) kitűnő munkáért; Ellinger Ede versenyképességért, jó ízlésért és jó munkáért; Elb és Pietsch versenyképességért, jó ízlésért és jó munkáért; Fekete Sándor (Nagyvárad) jó munkáért; Kossák József (Temesvár) jó munkáért; Schmidt Ede jó ízlésért és jó munkáért; Zelesny Károly (Pécs) jó ízlésért. Elismerő oklevelet nyertek: Berghammer János (Munkács), Dunky fivérek (Kolozsvár), Funk Antal (Fiume), Ferenc és Tsa (Kolozsvár), Jelfy Gyula (Budapest), Kiss Ferenc (Debrecen), Kalmár Péter (Budapest), Markély János, Lojanek [János] cég (Nagyvárad), Oroszy Lajos (Nagybecskerek), Stern M. és Fia (Trencsén-Teplitz), Singer Sámuel (Zombor), Schabinszky János és Tsa (Miskolc), Aichinger Sebestyén (Magyaróvár), Uher Ödön (Budapest). Munkatársi érmet kaptak a Koller tanár utódai cégnél: Brunhuber Béla, Ostó Lajos és Wünsche Emil arcképfestő; a Mai és Tsa cégnél: Kofmann Gusztáv [!] és Buzay Ödön; a Mertens és Tsa cégnél: Eisermann Richard arcképfestő; a Goszleth cégnél: Fridery Béla, Kövér Ferenc és Pichler Ferenc; a Klösz cégnél: Gemm Károly, Havelka Ernő, Kohn Gyula és Ligeti József; a Strelisky cégnél: Jaronek Bogumil festő, Marton Miklós; a Weinwurm cégnél: Majoros Miklós és ifj. Weinwurm Antal; a Rupprecht cégnél: Kindler Karolina; a Keglovich cégnél: Weber Ferenc. A XX. B. csoportban (műkedvelő fényképészet) kiállítási érmet nyertek: Bohus László báró (Világos) művészi ízlésért, technikáért; Juhos Ernő (Budapest) művészi ízlésért, Pattantyús A. M. dr. (Illava) kiváló technikai ügyességért, Reisinger N. János (Budapest) művészi ízlésért. Elismerő oklevelet nyertek: Georgevits Pál (Újvidék), Janovitz Zsigmond (Budapest), Marsovszky Gyula (Budapest), Miklósy Andor (Trencsén), Rácz Károly dr. (Budapest), Vajna Vilmos dr. (Budapest) és Zombori Rónay Jenő (Nagybecskerek)
The Eastern Fivering in Nymphalidae family.
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Carrying faint British Railways logo on it's tender, former GWR Churchward 2800 Class 2-8-0 '2861' pauses for the off on Old Oak Common's Roundhouse 'out road'
This is a static model only, bought for a fiver (£5GBP) at a recent Model Railway Club show
Originally weathered by another party, I've upped the ante and re-weathered it plus I've added extras as in a few pipes, those angled struts on the front buffer beam, extra pipe-work, 3D printed 'Modelu' crew and of course - real coal
Now also with 3D printed 'GWR' lamps
There's also an added scratch-built awning covering the cab to tender area used to protect the crew from adverse weather
Weathered as per a published photo of a working '2800' Class taken in 1964 just prior to the end of GWR Steam
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