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A loaded BNSF grain train departs Yardley in Spokane while a mixed freight with mostly grain heads east on the former Northern Pacific mainline.
As before. There is only one bird - I used a mirror to try getting 2 different views. I quite like the abstract shapes created but am still unhappy about the photo quality.
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Clearing storm above Greenstone Lake in the Hoover Wilderness at sunset. Taken a little earlier than my Passion shot, the cloud formations moving across the sky just blew my mind. Canon 350D, 17-40mmf4.0L, 3-stop hard gnd
HDR attempt of sunrise over the new henderson bridge in Singapore.
Camera: Nikon D300
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 12 mm
The main waterfall at Ballaglass Glen is a visually impressive spectacle with the river being funnelled powerfully down a narrow gorge. However I’ve never felt that it was all that photogenic, with it potentially being a classic example of a nice sight that doesn’t automatically translate into nice photographs. That being said the incredible autumnal colours in the glen this year has I feel lifted the main waterfall scene to a whole new level. This is a square crop image captured from the bridge which crosses over the gorge. Composed to eradicate all traces of the distracting sky creeping into the shot, with the huge lush fern providing a nice foreground counter balance to the waterfall. After visiting this place for the last 17 years or so, I’m pleased to finally have a shot of the main attraction! 😅
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Paraiba river is in the border between the States of Minas Gerais and Goiás in the municipality of Cachoeira Dourada de Minas!
The distinctive “whale tail” funnel of Carnival Cruise Lines, as spotted aboard the Carnival Triumph.
An oil-fired boiler plant built in 1963, nick-named "Tratten" ("The Funnel"). The plant supplied surrounding homes and "Frölunda Torg" ("Frölunda Mall") with heat and hot water. The shopping center, built in 1966, accounted for more than half of the heating demand. The mall was then the largest mall in Europe under one roof (it has now around 200 shops).
The plant has been replaced by a district heating system (with a mix of energy sources) so the plant is no longer in use.
The plant was designed by Västra Järnbrott architectural office (Sven Brolid, Nils Einar Eriksson, Stig Hansson and Walter Kiessling).
This simple image sorta reminds me of a funneling effect or a plinko machine.
Here I am again with a blue toned image of the Death Valley Badlands. Taken right after the sun dropped below the mountains.
Death Valley National Park, California
March 2021
Abstracting at the West Thumb Geyser Basin. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2017
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Malaysia International Shipping Corporation was incorporated in 1968 and is the leading international shipping line of Malaysia. In September 2005, Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Berhad adopted its present corporate identity and changed its name to MISC Berhad. So that's the original funnel logo that they used about 37 years ago before they changed it to the new brand.
It's also the first company I started my career as a seaman and the last company I served and left my seaman world for ten years. Too many memories here, but to survive, I need to move on and shall never regret it. Thank you MISC for such a memorable journey.
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For We’re Here! We have invited ourselves to join the Chimneys aficionados: “For chimney, smokestack and funnel images.” I guess this qualifies, but I have been wondering for a while just what this this is?
Came across this photo which was taken back in 2017 in Portugal.
When one's mind set changes, everything looks different. Guess this photo is the case.
This is a panorama along about 60° of the northern summer Milky Way from Cepheus at left, to Cygnus at centre and at right. It frames the great variety of bright and dark nebulas in this region of the sky, notably:
- the circular IC 1396 nebula at left in Cepheus with the orange Garnet Star,
- the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) just left of centre,
- and the IC 1318 complex around Gamma Cygni just right of centre.
The dark Funnel Cloud Nebula, aka Le Gentil 3, is at left between IC 1396 and NGC 7000, while the dark region to the right (south) of NGC 7000 is the Northern Coal Sack, though to the eye, as here, that area does not appear as dark as the Funnel Cloud area.
The bright Cygnus Starcloud is right of centre, where we are looking down the Milky Way's spiral arm we live in. It is bordered below by the Cygnus Rift of dark lanes in the Milky Way which continue south into Aquila.
The small (on this scale) Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) and Lion Nebula (Sh2-132) are at far left in Cepheus.
The small round red Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, is at the end of a thin lane of dark dust, B168, or the Dark Cigar, at bottom left, while the tiny green Dumbbell Nebula, M27 in Vulpecula, is just visible at bottom right.
This is a stitch using Photoshop's Photomerge function of 10 segments, each segment a stack of 8 to 10 exposures of 1-minute each with the Canon RF135mm lens at f/2 on the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera at ISO 800. All on the Star Adventurer tracker.
The camera was turned to portrait orientation to align the long dimension of the frame across the width of the Milky Way for greater east-west coverage. This required moving the camera by only 5° from segment to segment to ensure enough overlap. I used a ball head with an additional panorama azimuth motion with degree gradations on it to faciliate panning along the Milky Way following the galactic equator using just one simple motion.
The lens had an 82mm URTH Night broadband light pollution reduction filter on it to help increase contrast and bring out the nebulas. No narrowband filters were used here. Even so, most of the contrast enhancement was in processing with the application of a Nik Collection 6 Pro Contrast filter, plus curves with luminosity masks, and a Nebula Filter action in PhotoKemi Startools actions.
Taken from home on a fine though not fully transparent night on May 14/15, 2023 when the time for shooting this area was limited due to the short spring night. Two more segments shot to the right farther down the Milky Way were too blue and struck by dawn twilight to be usable.
Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Design (1960): George Kenyon.
Fact: On 6 May 1977, the Civic Centre was visited by the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter, who delivered a speech famously containing the Geordie phrase "Howay the lads!"
Ultimate Northwest Photo Adventure 2016
Soft pre-dawn light on the walls of a large mesa in central Utah. You're looking at approximately one thousand vertical feet of shale here.
This is a wider version of my previously posted image, Firewall. I normally don't ever post more than one image of the same scene, as I think showing many slightly-different variants just dilutes the images, making none of them particularly memorable. However, this wider, more all-encompassing composition, and the softer light, better show off the form and abstract patterns of the wall - and the color (I thought) helped make it different enough to warrant another look. At the moment, this is my favorite of the two images. Plus, this view includes my little boulder-bro in the lower left!
One more of my favorite images from this trip will be posted before the Thanksgiving holiday (less abstract and more "epic", for those wondering if I gave up on that style of photography)!
The Penmon lighthouse also known as Trwyn Du Lighthouse was one of the later lighthouses to be constructed in this area, and was, like many, built after a major loss of life nearby. It marks some rocks that are on the end of land going out towards Puffin Island, but also marks the north entrance to the Menai Straits.
Penmon lighthouse was built following a major loss of life, on 17 August 1831, when an old steamer, 'The Rothsay Castle', ran aground and broke up on or near Puffin Island.
The old steamer was on its regular passage between Liverpool and the Menai Straits, and to be described as "old" in 1831, must have meant it was really quite ancient, or perhaps not in the best of condition. The ship left Liverpool with 150 passengers aboard and ran into very difficult sea conditions beyond the Mersey Bar.
It struggled against the headwinds and had not reached the halfway point of her journey after 4 hours and according to passenger accounts, passengers wanted to turn back but the the Captain refused their requests. It struggled on.
The Rothsay Castle had left the Mersey at 11am and it was now midnight, 13 hours had passed, and she still had not reached her destination. About an hour later 14 hours out, at about 1am she struck the Dutchman Bank, bounced off and continued without much control along the channel. A further series of collisions with the sand banks and appalling sea conditions resulted in her starting to break up.
Survivors recount how there was total chaos on deck even before the funnel broke off and pushed the Captain and his officer overboard, deteriorating more from that point. Of the 150 passengers on board, 130 were lost and 20 survived, being rescued by the Beaumaris Lifeboat, supported by a pilot boat from Penmon.
Hololena santana, Araneae: Agelenidae. Funnel weavers are active and agile hunters, relying on both their vision and movement speed as well as web mechanisms.
Excerpt from jproc.ca/haida/40mm_bofors.html:
The Bofors 40 mm gun, is an anti-aircraft cannon designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. It was one of the most popular medium-weight anti-aircraft systems during World War II and used by most of the western Allies as well as some captured systems being used by the Axis powers. A small number of these weapons saw action as late as the Persian Gulf War.
These 40 mm, Bofors anti-aircraft guns were installed between 1946 and 1947, on top of the original twin 20 mm OERLIKON power mountings. This was an RCN innovation. The mounting operated hydraulically, with the fluid being supplied by the pumps forward of the after funnel on the Bofor deck, and aft of the helm at the Emergency Steering position. The mounting moved in response to the movement of the fire control "joystick". These guns used to have a Mark II Gun sight, but they are missing.
The design of the gun is such that it had a very high rate of fire due to the fact that the vertical block in the breech, opened upon recoil of the gun, so that the casing was ejected almost immediately after firing. This resulted in a rate of fire of 120 rounds per minute. The rounds were loaded into the breech in "clips" of four and by a crew of four. They were: Trainer/Aimer, Breechworker, Layer, and Loader. The ammunition used was high explosive, and was not fused. The gun could elevate to 70 degrees, and could depress to 0 degrees which allowed it to be used against close in surface contacts which were below the arc of fire of the twin 4 inch guns. The Boffins was very useful in Korea for blowing up floating mines.
HAIDA was fitted with the Mk VII Bofors. In Wikipedia, Mk VII is defined as "a single barreled, hydraulically powered mounting that superseded the Mark III and entered service in 1945.
Saw several of these webs scattered along the salt-grass. This one measured about 5 inches by 16 inches, and was very coarse and strong. The funnel at the center was about an inch wide. Managed to coax one large female out but not long enough to get a shot. San Louis National Wildlife Refuge.
This was one of the craziest marine layers I've ever seen, it went for miles off the shoreline of Fort Worden Historical State Park hugging the land and water.
Smash the "L" key to enlarge.