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This was a potential shot for Macro Mondays .i.e. Until I started wondering about whether 'knicker elastic' as it's known to me, would qualify as 'flexible' in this context . Anyhow, not one to waste a shot, I give you an old trick of the trade, passed down to me by a church organist and which I found useful myself in my piano - playing days. It's knicker elastic used to wrap around a hymn book to hold the pages open. I kid you not.
Brown pelican from the west coast of Florida. When I was a kid growing up on the Florida beaches, you would see groups of 20 or 30 pelicans flying down the beaches in formation all the time. My father called them the Floridian Airforce.
Macro photo of a bunch of colourful scrunchies. This is my contribution to Macro Mondays theme FLEXIBLE.
Watch out streets, here I come :) Now that kids are back to school, I have some free time during the day... Working at home, my work schedule is very flexible. I've decided it's time to explore the streets a little bit and learn to look at things and people a little differently, apart from my backyard and around the neighborhood's gardens. Yesterday, I took the metro without any intentions as to where I'd go... I just wanted to go to the metro and took some photos.... So, don't be surprised if you will find more of these in the near future :) Have a great weekend everyone! Thank you as always.
Pulicat is located on the Coromandel Coast, about 60Km north of Chennai. As a prominent Dutch settlement in the seventeenth century, this small town boats of a vibrant and diverse cultural tradition. However, the history of this region is not limited to the Dutch colonialism alone; the Arabs, the Portuguese and the British established their stronghold in Pulicat at different times.
Apart from the historical and cultural importance, this tiny seashore town has an amazing scenic beauty. Pulicat offers an invigorating and thrilling experience of expedition. Among travelers, Pulicat is best known for two things: Pulicat Lake and Pulicat Bird Sanctuary. The lake in Pulicat is regarded as the second largest brackish water body in India and attracts thousands of tourists every year.
Want to make your ground flexible and have some subtle angles in your terrain? With this technique, inspired by Ralf Langer, you can :)
It's really quite flexible and sturdy enough to be bent without anything falling out. Convex bending is pretty much unlimited, but at a certain angle the gaps between studs will be so big it just doesn't look good anymore. Concave bending is much more limited as it presses the bricks closer together, and with too much force things will start to pop. Still, there is some room for concave bending, and it's possible to accomplish more, if some plates are removed and replaced with other odd sized parts, like plate with door rail or such.
Compared to using nets for bent surfaces, this technique is stiffer and less flimsy. This generally means it's sturdier, but it also doesn't follow an underlying topology as closely as a net construct would.
This can also quite easily be fixed into a certain shape, so that it holds the desired shape without support from below.
More testing to follow... and again, this is based on the idea that Ralf Langer presented, to use flexible leaf elements to achieve shapeable terrain :)
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(In case this is the first time you're "checking in" to this theme week, here's an explanation. Otherwise, skip down to "#1"!)
There's no doubt that 2020 was a challenging year due to the pandemic and economic shutdown. It's therefore been pretty surprising that this ended up being one of the best years of railroad photography I've ever had. What's more surprising is that--if January was any indication--it was going to be a slow year for railroad photography considering I didn't shoot my first moving train of the year until January 30th! So, certainly some of the success that came was because a more flexible work schedule due to working from home more and doing meetings via Zoom rather than in person. However, at the end of the day, it was just one of those years where everything fell into place.
So, though I don't do this every year, I thought it was worth sharing with my friends on Flickr what I think were my "Top 5" catches of the year. With my favorite, end-of-the-year slide show having been cancelled this year, it seemed even more appropriate.
Before I introduce the #1 catch of the year you see here, I think it's worth recounting the "honorable mentions" of the year: CP heritage SD70ACU leading CP 252, D&H-inspired SNEX Alco RS-36 #5012 pulling trains on the Batten Kill, NS detour trains with NS GP38-2s on the NS D&H, GMRC, and CLP/former D&H Rutland Branch, my first-ever chase of the New England Southern (which ended up being their second-to-last revenue run before VRS ownership), an incredible day in St. Lawrence County, NY that included catching VTR GP18 #801 on the New York and Ogdensburg and catching the Massena Terminal for the first time (I already shared some shots from this day in a "theme week" dedicated to that day), a pair of CP SD70ACUs on ST 11R in perfect light, shooting the CLP 203 on VTR's BD-2 local for my first time shooting Vermont Railway between Vergennes and Middlebury, a double Sangerfield run for NYS&W's UT-1 train on a perfect October day, a couple different catches of the Mass Central with both of their "bluebirds," and finally MA&N Alco C425 #2453 pinch hitting on NYS&W UT-1 (which I shared a shot of recently).
So, with all that said, onto the "Top 5 Catches of 2020":
#1: D&H 5019 "Rescue Mission":
I've already shared a couple photos and longer stories of this event, but--for me--the hands down #1 catch of 2020 was Raven Rail LLC's July 18th move over the former D&H Adirondack Branch between Corinth, NY and North Creek, NY to rescue former D&H Alco RS-36 #5019. First, it's a catch that almost didn't happen for me. At the time, restaurants had recently reopened for dine-in service, and my wife and I had plans to have my mom come babysit our son that afternoon so that we could enjoy a late lunch out together to celebrate my birthday. Well, my wife woke up with a little bit of a sore throat, and not knowing for sure what it was, she thought it was best we cancel or plans so as to not expose my mom. To say I was disappointed would have been an understatement. Meanwhile, that morning, a friend of mine had messaged me asking me my plans for the day, upon which I told him about my date with my wife. With my plans now cancelled, I circled back with him that I was now free, and he proceeded to pass along the info about the secretive move: Raven Rail LLC would use former Alco plant switcher S-1 #5 to retrieve former D&H Alco RS-36 #5019 from North Creek, NY. Suddenly, my disappointment turned to excitement. Ever since the Saratoga & North Creek closed its doors, I had given up hope on ever photographing a moving train on the former D&H Adirondack Branch again. When I photographed the last revenue freight--a train of previously-stored empty tank cars--between North Creek and Saratoga Springs on July 18, 2020, I had assumed that was the last moving train I'd ever photograph on that line. Boy was I happy to be wrong!
It's tough to describe how I felt this day, but the closest thing I can compare it to is being able to have one more, great time together with a loved one, knowing that it might be the last time you get to see them. It was a blessing, but it was also bittersweet. I chased the light engine move north, then chased the equipment move back south to the very end. It truly felt like a rescue mission, with other friends and acquaintances involved. My friend Colin Buckowski alternated between being on the flagging crew and being on the train crew, my friend Brad Peterson followed the equipment move south from North Creek in his hi-rail truck, and I assisted Batten Kill owner Bill Taber with flagging crossings in the middle of the night for the final leg of the train's journey south of Hadley. What else can I say? It was the most memorable railroad event of 2020 for me, easily #1.
In this shot, #5 has the 5019 and a former Upper Hudson River Railroad coach in tow as it passes Riverside Station in Riparius, NY on the way south.
Raven Rail LLC "Rescue Train"
Riparius, NY
July 18, 2020
COVID cancellations
It’s an uncertain world. Whenever I commit to plans, there’s a part of me that expects it to be canceled due to COVID.
The past two years have made me even more comfortable with flexible plans. I’ve also grown to appreciate the slower pace. Sometimes it takes a pandemic to appreciate a walk in the winter sunshine and the simple joy of watching a stick wash through a flooded culvert.
Sweater, Minkpink (consignment). Tank, Stella Laguna Beach (consignment). Skirt, Urban Coco. Boots, Corral.
A Mississippi State University cheerleader demonstrates amazing balance and flexibility during pre-game warmups before the Egg Bowl game
Personal work with model Caroline Anne - yogi and gymnast. Shot upstairs at the Peacock Gym, East London.
Setup: Key light is Profoto D1 through a beauty dish, with a grid, to cmaera left. The backlight is another D1 through a 60cm square softbox (a zoom reflector in a couple of shots), mounted at the very back of the room, and aimed down at the floor. The clip lights are a B1 each side of Caroline, one with a zoom reflector (back left) and the other with a strip softbox (back right).
Photoshop: Bit of cleanup to remove things from the walls/background etc, played with lookup tables, and hue/sat colorise adjustment layers, plus a bit of desaturation. Burned around the edges to focus attention on Caroline. Some work on skin with curves to add a bit of sculpting.
Not very good setup shot here.
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Edvardas Matas Riomeris
Edward Mateusz Römer (1848-1900)
Vilnius Picture Gallery
Vilnius, Lithuania
Notes:
1. The museum's label gives the English title of this piece as The Forger.
This is a mistranslation, since in common parlance the term "forger" denotes an individual involved in counterfeiting, not someone who work with forges.
Since nothing in the image or the larger context suggests this man was a counterfeiter, I have renamed the piece The Blacksmith.
At first I thought about calling it The Smithy, but that term connotes old English village life, whereas the painting has its roots in Lithuania. Thus, I opted for the more geographically flexible title The Blacksmith.
2. For reasons I cannot explain, the museum's label gives the artists's name in Lithuanian and in Polish.
Now, at one time, there existed a polity known as The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, also known as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. I suppose it is possible the state had two official languages and that individuals might have gone by the Polish version of their Lithuanian name or vice versa. I have no doubt that someone more culturally fluent here than I would be able to tell by the name whether the person was ethnically Lithuanian or ethnically Polish.
However, that state ceased to exist in 1795, well before the birth of the artist who executed this work. As far as I know, Polish is not an official language in Lithuania, so what reason could there be for giving the artist's name in Lithuanian and Polish?
I'd call this an art history mystery because it rhymes so well, but it is actually a museology mystery, that is, a mystery having to do with the field of museum management.
If anyone has an answer, please do tell!