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This was captured in a garden. It was a glass orb with this spiral pattern on it. I have cropped to keep within the 3" rule. I used a filter to help define the edges.
Lite helpers head west toward Johnstown to match up with a train and shove back east over the Allegheny Summit.
Over the last few years of photographing hundreds of old Minnesota barns, there are some that stand out in my experience. Almost any round barn qualifies for that distinction as well as other very old barns that are simply spectacular in that they made it through a hundred years and are still standing strong.
Barns that are accompanied by unusual silos are also memorable like the one in the photo that has a wooden silo. Wooden silos help date barns as some rectangle ones were first built back in the late 1800s. A decade or so later, round wooden silos were built that resembled large barrels and were held together by adjustable steel hoops.
The silo aside this barn has long vertical boards which is a little more uncommon and without talking to someone who owns it today, I would guess this dates back to the very early 1900s.
Someone years ago did a nice job of repairing and maintaining this historic barn and silo eventually putting a tin roof on the barn to add years to its life. It would be an interesting to learn more about the background from someone who lives in that area.
A nice overall touch is the guy wire anchored to the barn and attached to the upper part of the silo as if two old structures were giving help to one another as they endure the testing of time.
Many of us who are nearing the end of our own life’s journey know what that companion help is like.
(Photographed near Nowthen, MN)
Doug Harrop Collection • November 12, 1977
A Santa Fe GP35 idles near the ATSF freight depot in Victorville, California. This helper terminal is about 25 miles below Cajon Summit in San Bernardino County.
Tree mushroom in Toronto
Mushrooms are actually the fruiting body of a fungus and late-warning signs that a tree is unwell. By the time there is a mushroom on the bark of the tree, the fungus has already built a network inside and is in the process of consuming the tree from within. Who is asking for help?
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends...
I would just like to extend an honest, heart-felt thank you to everyone that has been there for me over the past two weeks. Especially, Jennifer and Florian, Gwyn, Bernat and a special thanks to Jimmy, who had his Sunday school class praying for my mother. I was blown away.
I was never a big believer in technology bringing people together, or making friends over the net but damn if there isn't a whole bunch of your Flickrites that I would do anything for!
I found the above photo at the bottom of my mother's drawer while cleaning things out for the big move. My mother will be moving her bedroom downstairs, and we will be moving our apartment to the top two floors.
Who says you can never go home again.
By the way, thats me. Guessing about 4 or 5 years old. I'm messing around on my favorite jack in the bay of my father's repair shop. I still have the jack. And, yes I do occasionally ride it and jack myself up...just for the hell of it!
Al Chione duplicate
While negotiating a curve at Horse Creek, WY, C&S 2-10-2 902 ran into a spot of trouble. With the loco off the rails, the crew (and a few spectators) wait for some help in getting 902 back on the track. In the background are some of the dwellings that made up the town of Horse Creek.
Horse Creek, WY
October 25, 1957
Train of the Day
9/9/22
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Highest Position: #200
*** turns out it cut this at 1:30. to watch the last 15-20 seconds check it out on youtube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOvUDuMAmLI ***
took a nice long drive down to my cousin's grad party, thought a little video would help pass the time.
A trio of CN helpers navigate back to Pokegama passing over the Oliver Bridge between Duluth and Superior. The bridge also carries Minnesota Highway 39/Wisconsin Highway 105. This view is courtesy of the Bardon Peak Overlook along Skyline Parkway.
This is only about my second attempt at waterfall photography because there are not many down this way. This is a lovely spot called Osmington Mills on the Jurassic Coast. We were in Weymouth yesterday for an event. I knew it was going to be a cloudless sunset so I had an idea of coming here and filling the frame with the waterfall with some early evening light.
And I think its paid off with the help of my KASE circular polariser/6 stop filter.
I will definatly return on a more atmospheric day, lots of interesting rock ledges too.
Larry & Rebecca dreamt of having Disneyland all to themselves and watching a private showing of Magical from Main St. With a camera, a lot of patience, cooperative security guards and little help from Photoshop, we made it happen.
A group of seven Rio Grande tunnel motors cut into a 105-car Savage, Utah - Los Angeles, California export coal train in Helper, Utah the afternoon of March 13, 1999.
Helpers shove hard on the rear of a westbound freight as it crosses over the WM's Thomas Sub, and the north branch of the Potomac River into Bloomington MD. The concrete marker denotes the MD/WV state line. The train is now starting up 17 Mile Grade up to Altamont, one of several hard stretches of railroad that make up the B&O's formidable west end. Once the through route to St. Louis, much of the freight activity is a memory today. Taken presumably the summer of 1969, no photographer listed. JL Sessa collection.
The vast majority of images I do these days are macros, so just taking this photo felt strange in itself. For me, these tweezers are invaluable when I'm picking up and arranging tiny objects like the stiletto shoes in this image. The shoes are as light as a feather and only ½" long. I frequently knock them over! I find these cheap plastic tweezers are much easier to use, and far more accurate, than metal ones and I wouldn't be without them now. The background is a modern dolls house carpet.
For this week's Crazy Tuesday group theme, Hand tools.
Concord helped by tugboats at Johor Strait. Pic taken from Northshore Cove.
Ship name: Concord.
Flag: Indonesia.
IMO: 9274006.
MMSI: 525119166.
Vessel Type: Chemical/Oil Products Tanker.
*Note: More Ships, Boats and Watercraft pics in my Ships, Boats and Watercraft Album.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a shot from July 2017.
The slogan on the bag reads "Every Little Helps" but a well placed crease is hiding the 'E' for a slogan that best matches the position I am in right now.
I'm struggling. Having to pack and downsize means losing things that are precious but not essential. It hurts. I know that I hold on to the memories but the objects related to those memories have been such an important part of my life. Having to do this on an ever decreasing time scale while getting breathless just walking up a flight of stairs still and suffering fatigue from lack of sleep. It's all a bit too much and there is not a lot that helps.
I just needed to share. It helps just a little to let it out. My head is spinning with so much to do.
I wish you all a very wonderful weekend of photography my dear Flickr friends.
Take care and take photos.
A few days ago, the above art work appeared overnight on an outside wall of Reading Prison which has stood empty since it closed at the end of 2013. There was immediate speculation it was the work of the street artist Banksy whose identity has never been confirmed despite the fact his numerous works have appeared at various locations over a long period of years.
The paintings often form a social message and can be controversial. Reading Prison is very much a controversial place – it is owned by the Ministry of Justice who have been trying to dispose of it for the last 7 years. For them one of the problems is the property is designated a grade II listed building which means it cannot be demolished or substantially altered without prior consent from the Local Authority – Reading Borough Council. There have been calls for it to be used as a public amenity such as a theatre or arts facility and a deal to redevelop it has fallen through so in effect there has been little or no progress for 7 years.
Yesterday Banksy confirmed it was his art work although he did not shed any light on who the figure was supposed to be. Much of the local view is that it is a representation of Oscar Wilde, the Victorian actor, writer and poet who was incarcerated there from 1895 to 1897 – probably the prisons main claim to fame.
It is questionable as to whether the painting helps or hinders the current deadlock although it has provided some amusement for local residents in what is otherwise a depressing time!
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During the last days I've visited six beautiful Austrian lakes ... I just love the blue and quiet hour at the waterside ~ can't help myself.
Could this be the Red-thighed Epeolus - Colletes marginatus form (Epeolus cruciger 'marginatus')? It was seen on 2nd July in a sandy heathland area with no heather in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Any ID help gratefully received.
Help!! I'm not sure what kind of bird this is! Identification is welcome. Thanks!
Taken August 21, 2020 at 7:09 AM
Three ex-Southern Pacific SD45s and three ex-Burlington Northern F45s are mid-train helpers on a Utah Railway Wattis Plateau to Intermountain Power coal train in Price Canyon the morning of March 24, 1990.
When these clouds moved in to position, I did as well. They add a certain extra to the image that helps complete it. This rail line has been shot by all of my cameras over the years, and this one is a little more complete than the rest with the addition of the clouds. They fill that distant draw in the hills that is in need of a finishing element.
The Cathedral.
The astronomical clock of the cathedral, the Horologium mirabile Lundense, was made around 1424. After having been in storage since 1837, it was restored and put back in place in 1923.
When it plays, one can hear In dulci jubilo from the smallest organ in the church, while six wooden figures, representing the three magi and their servants, pass by Mary and Jesus. The clock plays two times a day, at 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. every day, except on Sundays when the earliest playing takes place at 1:00 p.m. in order not to interrupt the morning service.
On top of the clock there are two knights that mark the hours. The upper board of the clock is the astronomical clock. It shows, among other things, the different phases of the Moon and where the Sun sets.
The lower board of the clock is a calendar. With the help of it one can, among other things, calculate when different mobile religious holidays will fall and on which weekday a certain date will fall. In the middle of the calendar stands Saint Lawrence, the Patron Saint of the Cathedral, and by his side the Symbols of the Four Evangelists. The present board of the clock goes from 1923 to 2123, after that a new one must be obtained so that the clock can be used.
A fresh Southern Heritage Unit leads ethanol loads east under the C&NW coaling tower. A nice sucker hole of light helped with the scene.
In a light rain, a Bozeman Pass helper set rolls out of the east end of Livingston Yard. After clearing the control point behind me, it will shove backwards onto a train out of sight to the left to help it up the east slope of Bozeman Pass.
MRL Helper Set
MRL SD70ACe #4400
MRL SDP40-2XR #290
MRL SD70ACe #4401
Livingston, MT
May 1st, 2022
Sheridan, WY hosts a population of about 20,000, and many of them find employment with BNSF at this northern Wyoming terminal. All trains change crews here, there's a small yard, and this town hosts a manned helper base. There aren't many manned helper operations left on BNSF, but heavy trains (primarily coal) receive assistance from Sheridan Helpers for the grades up Parkman Hill to the west and Ulm Hill to the east.
Here, a helper set departs West Yard Sheridan as it heads east to Dutch to assist a loaded coal train coming off the Dutch Sub. Several BN-era signal bridges still protect the control points around Sheridan Yard.
K SHWSHW (Helpers- Sheridan, WY)
BNSF ES44AC #6219
BNSF ET44C4 #3740
Sheridan, WY
August 24th, 2025