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'The Harry Potter Tree', Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire.
This took me totally by surprise as I rounded a corner on the narrow winding footpath around this part of the lakeshore. (And it is quite scary).
Very few people around despite the promise of decent weather, and I had the place to myself.
This amazing Cedar of Lebanon had role in the 2007 film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and stands overlooking the lake and bridge, close to the place I took a recently posted image of them.
Now sensitively fenced off by a wicker fence to avoid over-excited children (many now adults) doing any damage it is probably part of the original planting by Capability Brown when he created the lake and landscaped the park between 1763-1774.
The tree is only a few yards from the bridge on a very beautiful, unsigned and easily to miss path that winds along part of the lakeshore and woodlands and can be part of a very attractive series of looping walks.
It can also be accessed FREE OF CHARGE as it is one of the public footpaths that cross the park.
(The Blenheim Palace website doesn't mention this annoying gap in their extraordinary commercialisation of the estate. Unless I've misread it there is a very hefty entrance fee of £28 that says 'Park and Formal Garden Only'. Fine(ish) if you want to visit the formal gardens which I wouldn't recommend at this time of year.
However I suspect by the amount of people strolling around, this is not policed, and a friendly blind-eye is turned to locals and dog-walkers.)
There are two free public footpath entrances quite close to each other just on the outskirts of Woodstock on the Chipping Norton road. As the road drops down to the little river as it leaves Woodstock, there is an entrance through a green gate that looks like a driveway entrance (painted ubiquitous Farrow and Ball 'Lichen' green as is the unspoken law in this part of the world.)
The other entrance is about 100 yards up the hill at the end of the raised pavement...
Both completely legal, loved and well used.
SP AC's in the swing bring an Axial, CO - Kings Mill, TX coal load through the Crater Loops. Air temp was -15 degrees F.
12.23.04
With 40 loads in town, the Port Harbor Job rolls around one the two different loops that the railroad uses to shuffle cars around the Port. This was part of a 70 unit grain train that was delivered to the PHRR to be unloaded here in Granite City and transferred to barge, which is right behind me. The crew ill pull clear of two crossings, tie the 2758 down and then head back to the shop area to grab the MP15 number 1296 to spot the other cut.
UP 4686 leads a long southbound intermodal train around Tehachapi Loop. At the time Walong siding still existed at the loop. Today this view would include a second main track (Main 2) where the access road is located to the right of the train. This effectively eliminated Walong siding and replaced it with two main tracks through this area.
UP 4686 SD70M
66779 'Evening Star' seen heading into the loop at Kilby bridge with the 6F93 1106 Churchyard Castle Cement - Ketton 19/5/20.
Someone looped this wire back at a break in the fence. To the right of the fence post is an animal trail frequented by deer, feral cats and occasional runaway chickens.
There was nothing quite like the SP on Tehachapi. Plenty of scarlet and grey on this train as they look around themselves at Walong as they climb towards the summit at Tehachapi. Growing up in Southern California I visited here many times even after first moving to Colorado and then Alaska I always long for my next visit.
Just south of Park City, UT is the Alpine Loop, Miles of trees and especially Aspen groves. A must see when in the Park City area.
Recently popped to the Mach Loop to photograph military aircraft that fly through. Took this while it was quiet.
Looking through an arrow loop on the roof of Dover Castle's Great Tower. You can see St. Mary Church, the ruin of an old Roman lighthouse and the sea behind.
I hope they were never forced to shoot their own church through this loop...
The Cygnus Loop
50+ hours of integration time. 28 different image panels. 3 years in the making!
Found directly overhear in mid to late summer in midnorthern latitudes, the Cygnus Loop spreads its gassy tendrils across the sky. It can be found in the dusty lanes of the Milky Way just by the wing of Cygnus, the swan, glowing in various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. The nebula complex is located about 2500 LY from Earth and spans 130LY and contains several named "objects" like the Eastern Veil (Witch's Broom). Pickering's Triangle, and the Western Veil. These gassy wisps are all that remain of a star that went supernova about 21000 years ago, spreading its enriched guts across the galaxy.
The bulk of this project was shot in the summer of 2019. I've now revisited with fresh eyes, new tools, and an improves post processing skillset. I've added more data to it than the original, going back and finding other images I'd previously shot of various parts of the nebula, and integrated them into this new image. This image combines nearly 50 hours of integration time with over 20 individual panels to complete the mosaic. The result is a large 56 Megapixel size image of one of the largest deep sky objects in our night sky.
- TECH DATA -
Scope: Explore Scientific ED80 @ f/6
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filtre: STC Duo-Narrowband
Guide Scope: Orion Mini Guide Scope
Guide Camera: Orion StarShoot Autoguider
Integration time: Unsure - over 50 hours total for the entire pano
Stack: Astro Pixel Processor
Process: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, and the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, both in Lennox and Addington County in Eastern Ontario.
Toothed belts /timing belts are available in different sizes even in loops (which sometimes can be of corrrect length for tinkering).
Went to Ruthven Park for some birding and to tour the inside of the mansion today with Bea and Len...the stairwell didn't disappoint. No flashes allowed and it was quite dark... hand held at ISO1600, F8 on a Nikon 16 to 35mm at 16mm...not many birds around the park either but worth the trip and great company of course!
My first spontaneous spinning batt from Loop, spun up in an evening, two-plied, somewhere under 200 yards. Boy was that fun.
March batt of the month from Steph (Loop) It's just incredible!!!
It's greens, and coppers and these rich teals and burgandys.. with copperishgreenish sparkles and shredded money!! She even sent a little bag of sequins to spin in with it!! It's really breathtaking!
I'm SOOOOO excited to see what next month brings!!
A set of EMD's escaped from the Iron Range to power rock trains for the CN. The CN is busy adding about 4 miles of double track to the old EJ&E between Sutton and Spaulding. Here is O49081 getting the ballast unloaded using older conveyor belt technology and manual operation (neat to watch it unload). This once was a sleepy belt loop around Chicago for the EJ&E, now is a main artery for the CN. Power 6254,405,6256, too bad the sun was not my friend here.
This is the view looking west near the Loop of the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park, MT. Check out my other photos of the park...
On one of the horseshoe curves on the Loops of the Clinchfield, the Marion local is returning northbound on March 30, 1972. This is just RR south of the grade crossing at Camp Two.
custom spin. spun single, sport to DK in weight. was able to get 348 yds. out of 2 sets of batts.
batt by Steph of Loop.
This is actually known as the "Yurikamome Loop" as there is a train line called Yurikamome that runs on this loop and over the bridge.
In order to get this angle, I had to walk along a slanted path less than a meter wide. On one side of the path, a 4 meter wall. On the other side, the murky waters of Tokyo Bay. One false step, and into the water I go!
Lens: Tamron 15-30mm F2.8
***Shutter speed***
The shutter time was recorded as 30 seconds, but that's only because I masked in an underexposed photo to retain detail in the bridge which was blown out in the long exposure. So this photo is actually a 220 second exposure, with only the two towers of the bridge at 30 seconds.
The elevated Loop railway structure through and around the Loop area in Chicago. Amazing steel work and pillars supporting the public transport system built above the roads and traffic.
all washed and dry now. custom spun singles. separated the colors in the batt and added angelina.
batts by Steph of Loop.