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A landscape photo taken at Otter Cover on Mount Desert Island, Maine.
Developed with Darktable 3.6.0.
After crossing 803 in the loop at Cora Lynn, DXC5356 and DXC5304 race across the Waimakariri River bridge with a load of coal from Ngakawau to the Port of Lyttelton at Christchurch for export as 850.
Friday 13th March 2020
We experience this Mystery in three ways: as Silence, as Word, and as Understanding. Word, in this sense, refers to all there is, since we experience it as somehow directed at us: it “speaks to us.” Word has its origin in Silence. Unless silence “comes to word,” our utterance is mere chitchat. Word aims at understanding. Understanding, in turn, is that dynamic process in which we listen so deeply to the Word that it takes hold of us and leads us back to its source—to Silence. The Cappadocian Fathers of the fourth century referred to this dynamic process as “the circle dance of the Blessed Trinity.”
-i am through you so i, Reflections at Age 90 Brother David Steindl-Rast Translated by Peter Dahm Robertson
On February 21, 1970, Santa Fe GP35 1358 and nine other small units lead a northbound bare table train around the iconic "Tehachapi Loop" at Walong, California.
Another cute find in my garden, although frustratingly I didn't get this looping looper moth caterpillar sharp! It has such a distinctive-looking, and cute, face. Any ideas on ID much appreciated... as always I've looked at loads of images online and drawn a blank!
Thanks to curiosity thrills for the possible ID of brimstone moth caterpillar.
Another from the archives that was long ago shared over on RP.
The 11AM Anchorage yard job with MP15DC 1553 seen pulling a small cut off 189 flats the US Army Fort Richardson loop area for this first time in over a decade. This test load of Strykers and other equipment will be pulled back to the ARR's main yard for forwarding north back to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks regular freight service.
Anchorage, Alaska
Wednesday February 27, 2008
A Piper Cub dong a loop. The Alabama Boys at the Florida International Air Show. Taken at slow shutter speed to show propeller spin. I like the complimentary Colors.
8217 enters Glenfield loop, with 8223 at the rear, running as 2126 to Rooty Hill with a loaded stone train from Lynwood.
Friday 28th August 2020
Between Lake City and Engineer Pass, the Alpine Loop follows Henson Creek upstream. This view shows Henson Creek and Engineer Mountain, 13,218 feet. The Alpine Loop climbs steeply to Engineer Pass, 12,800 feet, on the northeastern shoulder of Engineer Mountain.
Oddly enough, the San Juan Mountains have TWO big mountains named "Engineer Mountain". The other is 27 miles to the southwest, near Coal Bank Pass, north of Durango, Colorado.
I keep the horses' riding tack—bridle, bit, and reins—hung on brackets on the wall of the little hay barn, one set for Spirit and one for Andy. To keep the long reins from drooping down to the floor, where they would be imperiled by passing goat hooves and cat paws, I loop the lower end of the reins up over the mounting bracket, creating the droplet shapes shown here, caught in the morning light spilling through the barn door.
Camera: Vivitar 220/SL (circa 1976, with Pentax Super-Takumar 55mm f/1.8 lens).
Film: 35mm 100 ISO Arista.edu Ultra, developed in Arista Liquid Developer for 6:10 minutes @ 71 degrees, and scanned with an Epson V600 scanner.
Everyone have a safe trip getting from point A to your destination today, please.
Have a great Friday and an awesome weekend.
I've seen some strange critters through the macro lens, but maybe none so weird as this...
Movement in the mistflower caught my eye, and I took a look with the 90 mm Tamron macro (at 1:1, with 25 mm tube). It appears to be a very tiny caterpillar, with two different kinds of protuberance - the brown ones and the lavender ones. One of the brown ones, on the left is really striking. Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
Edit: turns out this is a camouflaged looper caterpillar - they put these little flowers on their backs to blend in - fascinating! Google turns up lots of information and examples, and I feel like I should have known about these. They will be become Synchlora aerata, wavy-lined emerald moth.
You just never know what nature's going to show you when you head out with the macro...one of the things I love about it...
この撮影ポイントは、ゆりかもめ線がレインボーブリッジと高さを調整するためのループの内側にある船着き場です。嬉々として撮影した後「関係者以外立ち入り禁止」の看板をみつけました。
This shooting point is the pier where the Yurikamome line is inside the Rainbow Bridge and the loop for adjusting the height. After shooting happily, I found a sign that says "Authorized personnel only".
A short eastbound manifest traverses the huge curved basallt fill bridging the gap between the western and eastern slopes of Lynch Coulee, in central Washington State. This track alignment is much better known and described as the 'Trinidad loop'.
This fill was constructed by the Great Northern in 1902 as part of a project to ease some of the tighter curves in the area, and replace a curved wooden trestle further south down the coulee. While some of the more sinuous trackage to the east was replaced, the ten degree curve over the fill remains a permanent speed restriction to this day. This track is part of the twelve mile stretch of 1% eastward grade up Trinidad Hill that begins at MP 1633 of BNSF's Columbia River Subdivision.
If this were the 1990's, I could assume the short manifest train of three bay grain hoppers and two bay covered hoppers separated by a few LPG tanks was the lowly #600 from Everett to Spokane. Today I'm not so sure. Either way, I was pleased to find anything rolling during daylight hours on the now sparsely used ex-GN mainline across Washington State.
Making your way in life in the most direct, straight-line fashion is not always achievable. Sometimes it’s because we get distracted. Other times it’s because we do not know the way. And maybe sometimes it’s just because we have the need to stop and play.
Taken with this camera.
Doug Harrop Photography • April 8, 1977
Santa Fe 5581 leads a well powered eastbound train through the world famous "Tehachapi Loop" at Walong, California.
From Wikipedia: "The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.
Rising at a steady two-percent grade, the track gains 77 feet (23 m) in elevation and makes a 1,210-foot-diameter (370 m) circle. Any train that is more than 3,800 feet (1,200 m) long — about 56 boxcars — passes over itself going around the loop. At the bottom of the loop, the track passes through Tunnel 9, the ninth tunnel built as the railroad was extended from Bakersfield."
Photography show opening tonight at the Flower of Life Art Gallery in Lockport from 6-9. I have three pieces in the show. Here is the first one:
Chicagoan Loop
Photography – Glossy
40 x 60
Chicagoan Loop is a portrait of the people out and about in the downtown Loop district in Chicago. The title also hints that the people themselves are on somewhat of a loop: any day you venture out among them, you will always see people of every race, orientation, gender and religion. You will see people in costume, being peaceful protestors, celebrating at a rally, out for errands or to meet for lunch. We are all different and all individuals and in that way – we are all celebrated as being human beings. This collage portrait of the people of Chicago is comprised of 1,014 individual portraits.
ZBRLC winds its way around Tehachapi Loop as it climbs toward the summit on a beautiful but somewhat hazy February morning.
Stuntpilot Jüri Kaljund performing in his Pitts S-2A.
Estonian Aviation Days '24.
Have a wonderful sunday, folks!
I had some time after meetings on this autumn day in the late afternoon to drive the famous Alpine Loop in Utah. The 17-mile drive is known for its bright autumn leaves, which start to appear in September, but tend to be at their best in October and into November--depending on the weather, of course.