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Iowa Interstate QJ 2-10-2 6988 gets ready for it's trip to Silvis IL. at the newton IA. enginehouse.
"How close can you get" serie
"Sigma 50-500mm f4.5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM",Bigma,Nikon,D7000,"Nikon D7000"
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Le (ou la) plus fort(e) des 3 a pris la proie, les 2 autres aurnt les restes !
The strongest of the three (he or her ?) took the prey, the others will get the remaining pieces !
Right now I'm working on Charcoal portrait job
I still have quite a few left to do and I have to get cracking.
Once I sit down and start drawing.. I get into the zone. that's when I feel most like myself and entirely in the moment. Everything around me fades away.
Day 32 of 365 Days
Leicaflex SL
50mm Summicron
Fomapan 100
Rodinal 1:100
60 mins (30 secs agitation, 2 inversions at 20 & 40 mins)
Deland, Florida
Google Review:
" I had entrusted Quality Taxidermy to mount my 10.5 ft gator head to commemorate a fantastic animal and one of the greatest hunting experiences of mine. When I got the gator head back I was shocked at how bad the quality was. It did not look real at all (looked fake) and it had cracks all over it and in places chunks of it were falling out. Worse of all it smelled horrible (not a chemical odor - like bacteria ridden putrid rotting flesh)! The smell was so bad that the gator mount could not be kept in the house, so it was relegated to the garage. However, the smell was so terrible that it was too much for even the garage, so it went into the outside tool shed, basically a waste of money and trophy. When I called to complain they told me "well, it stank when it got here..." no joke. Two years later it still stinks."
Maybe there's a reason they went out of business?
Iowa Northern Railway train BUWA has IANR 4100, 3809, 3802, and 3803 for power on this December Sunday to make the run from Butler Yard near Shell Rock, Iowa to Bryant Yard in Waterloo. The train had 75 cars out of Butler, but have brought the head 15 into the CN Waterloo Yard for interchange. In the background EJE 667, still in orange, is paused in between it's duties as the yard switch engine, and a few other motors are laying around at the engine facility including EJE 658 in CN paint.
The CN is in the process of purchasing the IANR but is still awaiting STB approval, and so this is perhaps a bit of a look into the future. Meanwhile the past is well represented in this view too, as the Illinois Central Roundhouse here in the background has been present in at least in some form, (it's had stalls added and removed over the years) back to as far as 1901 (and possibly longer, it was hard to pin down a good date for the roundhouse construction from just some quick online research).
The Iowa Northern Railway uses the CN Mainline in Waterloo and Cedar Falls for a few miles from Waterloo West to Cedar Falls Junction as part of an arrangement going back to the 1980s and a highway project that saw the consolidation of some lines in Waterloo to make room for US 218. Normally from what I've seen the interchange work is typically done by the IANR in either direction at some siding tracks just west of Waterloo West and so they don't come into the yard like this. But occasionally when traffic warrants the CN will have the IANR come directly into the "A Yard" here at the Waterloo Terminal to make their setout and pickup as seen here. They would tie onto a cut of cars and shove back out of the yard to the rest of their train waiting on the mainline.
I had gone out after this BUWA even though it was likely to be a cloudy day because IANR 4100 on the point is one of the road's newest units (arrived to the IANR in August 2023 per some online notes, though it's originally a C&O unit) and still looks pretty sharp. But it was a nice bonus to get them making this less-common move, and this angle normally would be a heavily backlit-view if the sun were present.
Day two of the Paparoa Track Great Walk on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island - last few before we arrived at the hut.
The photo challenge of week 41 was GET PUSHED. Another participant of the Challenge looked at my profile and gave me an assignment to take a picture that I had never taken before, or at least something that I would not normally take a picture of, so out of my comfort zone. He asked me to make a photo of something blue…….
I was on a short break in Belgium, in Ieper and the weather was not always good. A lot of rain, and luckily also a sign of a blue sky! So I made this abstract photo of the raindrops on the window, with a little blue sky in the background.
Group: 52 Weeks: The 2021 Edition
Weekly Theme: Week 41 Get Pushed
Title: Get Pushed - Blue
Getting wet in The Gorge. From a fun day last spring hanging out with friends Jared Atencio, Will Shieh and Jamey Pyles.
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BeSpoke Minotaur Head in the front , in the back what you see is coming soon to warehouse this month
Sorry for being MIA lately, I have just moved back to Sydney and I'm only now starting to unpack and get my things sorted. I've started working on my doll display shelf too, which I am very excited about. It does seem, however, that I am short of 5 clover stands. Does anyone have any spare, lol?
My Nanny always called them this..They are from Spiderwort family..The feathery plumage of the stamens are amazing to me..The Bumble Bees love them as well as other nectar gatherers..
James shoots Y164 as it comes up 4 track at HX. Personally, I had already been feeling awful that morning, and the unusually cold and damp weather added to the overall shitty atmosphere. I had to get away.
I could make you happy
Make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends
Of the Earth for you
To make you feel my love, To make you feel my love
An alternative for my push from Heather (quarter.century) in Round 9 in the group Get pushed.
See the one i chose, here.
Ohh, and - HSS!!
A trio of Delaware-Lackawanna MLW/ALCOs was sitting out a hot Sunday afternoon at Bridge 60 in Scranton.
M630 3007 is a recent arrival that was used by General Electric for testing purposes. It was built by MLW in 1970 for Pacific Great Eastern before becoming a British Columbia motor and then to GE in Erie.
The old gray motor found its way to Scranton in 2017 and was about to get quite a bath as a thunderstorm rolled into the Electric City.
I fell into a funk this winter. The best medicine? Grab my camera, drive around town randomly, and grab some photos. More on the blog.