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The Loop, from parking garage at West Lake Street and North Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois
The Loop is a 2.88km circuit of elevated railroad that forms the hub of the rapid transit system in Chicago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loop_(Chicago_Transit_Authority)
Life is on a madman's loop-de-loop lately, which is much better than a loup de garou, since I'm not keen on being eaten by werewolves.
This is not a picture of werewolves, but it is a picture of a loop. Yesterday, it was raining and misting just so--everything sparkled with teeny little orbs and droplets.
43302 seen at Ranskill loop with the 1S27 1730 London Kings Cross - Edinburgh 20/7/19. (Taken using a pole)
Unfortunately my car was in for servicing, so my movements were restricted when it came to seeing GB IX today. So it was a train to Donny and later back to Wakefield and go to Kirkgate for the returning ‘Jube’.
Stanier 'Jubilee' 4-6-0 no.45690 'Leander' brings the final days running of “Great Britain IX”, Carnforth-Doncaster, into Doncaster Station’s goods loop. ‘Leander' came off here and 2 Class 47’s top and tailed the last section of the journey to Kings Cross.
Shot on my hike of the Hogback Loop Trail in north Boulder, Colorado. The hill in the foreground is in a cloud shadow.
Strobist Info: LP160 1/8th power handheld (by my sweetie) about 3 feet behind the yellow fruit loop.
All the fruit loops were harmed in the making of this picture. Yum.
nuttnbunnyspunme
Loop Babycakes
28 yards
DK weight
from these baby batts:
www.flickr.com/photos/nuttnbunny/3119438244/in/set-721576...
the two dark batts wanted to be a couple
Useless Loop Set - Colour or Black and White?
There's no doubt this is an image full of colour. I like to think it is appropriate colour and many agree with me. However, I also know that others do not. My good friends Richard and Lyn Woldendorp and Lyn Whitfield-King attended the opening of our ND5 exhibition in Perth last week. All three have been involved in photography for a lifetime and they, like me, have been brought up on a diet of film and darkrooms.
However, unlike me, they (generally speaking) don't like the colour in photographs to be too bold. Richard's amazing book of aerial photographs, Out of the Blue (it would make a great Christmas present for yourself) shows the depth and artistry of his work. I greatly admire his photography and I love the way he composes his work, but perhaps not surprisingly, I think his colours could be a little stronger! So, we have different aesthetics.
At 80 years of age, Richard had the right to pull me aside at the exhibition and congratulate me, with a comment that too much colour can get in the way of the shape and structure of a photograph. He referenced the great black and white photos of the past and how we, as a society, think of these as great examples of our art. I hope I am paraphrasing Richard correctly.
He asked me, would my photographs be as good if they were reproduced in black and white? That, he suggested, is the mark of a strong photograph.
Well, being an arrogant, ego-fueled photographer, I thought my images would work okay in black and white. But I have also heard people say the best black and whites are often created once you have the colour right!
The image above of a Useless Loop sand dune, taken at sunset, certainly didn't start out with so much colour. In fact, the original file which has been lightly processed in Capture One has only a hint of the colours in the final edit. Yet, that hint is there and that hint is what I responded to.
So why does my raw file look so neutral in comparison to my blood red rendition? One answer is auto white balance. Our wonderful automatic cameras are constantly trying to bring our photographs back to a neutral position, one that they are programmed to produce by some faceless workers in white lab coats (whom I love dearly). So the auto white balance changes what is actually there with no regard to what you might want to capture. Certainly the camera didn't know that I was circling 500 feet above Shark Bay a few minutes before sunset, watching the most amazing pinks and yellows caress and enfold the shapely curves of a finely chiseled dune. It just automatically corrected all that problematic colour away!
So, back in my studio, working on my Wacom Cintiq 24HD touch, I've put the colour back because that's the way I like it.
And while I agree with Richard that many of the great photographs we look back on with great affection are black and white, I think that is also a reflection of history and the technology of the time. What photographs will people be looking back at in another 50 years time? I think colour will have a much stronger representation, but not necessarily on aesthetic grounds.
You can see the original file out of the raw process and the black and white rendition on the Better Photography website - www.betterphotography.com.
I think Richard is correct when he says a great colour photograph will also work well in black and white. Whether or not this is a great photograph is for you to decide, but I think it does hold up in monochrome quite nicely. Whether it works better in black and white than colour, hmmm, I'm not so sure! But I do enjoy the discussion!
Colas 70 815 rolls into the up goods loop at Hellifield with 6J37 Carlisle New Yard - Chirk Kronospan "Logs" where it waited to cross over onto the Blackburn line. I only had my phone with me as I was cycling that day.
Copyright Stephen Willetts - No unauthorised use
Just a snapshot of a lone traveler with his phone, not a DSLR photo!
Event: Fairwell Hieu Huynh
Location: Banh It tower
Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh, Vietnam · Spring 2017
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Classic action in May 1982 on the famed Tehachapi Loop. with a total of 10 six-axle Southern Pacific EMDs, all wide open as this heavy manifest climbs the 2.2 percent grade. There was nothing like the thunderous EMD turbocharged sound back then. This was how the SP would attack the Tehachapi Mountains: Four SDs up front, led by SD45T-2 #9232. Then, as you see in the picture, four more SDs emerge from Tunnel 9, with #9365 leading this 4-pack, this about 1/3 of the way back. Then, about 2/3 of the way back, 2 more EMDs would enter the scene (see my other pic posted here). Of course, the head of this train is starting to circle over itself. Likely, most of the 10 engines were "Tunnel Motors". Memorable sights and sounds, to be sure!
SBB Cargo Ae6/6 11485 enters the loop at Yvonand with Regional Freight 61535 conveying vans from Lausanne Triage for delivery to Estavayer-le-Lac.
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My wife takes in the view from above Tower 18 as a green line train exists the Loop.
Tower 18, Chicago IL
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The first report has finally come in over at Calphoto and in 1 week fall officially begins. I've seen some really beautiful black oak displays here in the Santa Cruz Mountains and cant wait till fall creeks big leaf maples change. The big show is of course over in the E'rn Sierras and so far I'm guessing we're going to get a little bit better display than last year but not like 2 years ago, that was insane. I found fall in California by accident in 2006 and I got really lucky because I went in late October and everything was a brilliant yellow with not that many dead leaves at all! Last year was ruined by some early season storms, this year there are a couple of disturbances with one relatively strong one that could impact the region within the next week..heres hoping it doesn't verify or at least not be windy/cold.
I definitely suggest going before November this year....here is a good resource if you are looking for hydrological data.
