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Another photo from our Sunday walk along the Dawlish beach with it's lovely colourful pebbles. I did not have long to take some shots as it was pretty cold and we had to keep on moving. However, I was really lucky that moment as that couple was walking to the end of that pier just when I was ready to take my shot! I really liked that they were holding hands looking towards the horizon - quite romantic really!
A detailed, low-angle macro shot of a small cluster of Lawn Mower's Mushrooms (Panaeolus foenisecii) rising delicately through the grass at the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen (AWD), Netherlands. Captured at 100mm macro with f/11 and a 1/25s exposure, the photo highlights the warm reddish-brown striations on the conical caps and fine, slender stalks set against a backdrop of fresh grass and fallen autumn leaves.
Another impression from last weekend and a sunny day spent at Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve. Let's see what this weekend holds in store for us...
A low angle on Wisconsin Central train 50 curving through Rugby, Wisconsin, on a sunny April 14, 1997—powered by a pair of EMD cowls—F45 No. 6656 and FP45 No. 6652.
Happy Halloween! This giant jack-o’-lantern glowed like a furnace, with a wide jagged grin and angry slanted eyes beaming fiery light from inside. Its wrinkled, melting-looking skin loomed over the yard as if it were about to swallow the neighborhood whole. It’s a real decoration photographed with my iPhone 17 Pro Max. I edited it heavily in Luminar, with a boosted inner glow, deep shadows, rich color, and a stormy sky with lightning added for extra drama.
Damp, and slippery narrow "boardwalk" at Troy Nature Center. Only inches above the ground, it will be very welcomed in the Spring when this area will become a vernal wetland.
Explored 11-22-16
A view of Rannie Road which leads to Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: I hadn't been to Pitt Lake in so long, so I packed up my 2 dogs and drove to Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows near Vancouver, BC, Canada. This area is so beautiful and out here you feel like you are in the middle of nowhere as there is hardly anybody around and hardly any cars around even though you are only about 15 minutes away from a fair size town. On the way there I just had to stop on the side of the road to take a photo of the road that leads to the mountains because I love this view! There was some low hanging clouds as well.
I hope you like this photo?
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony DSC-RX10M4
*Focal Length: 220mm
*F-Number: F/8
*Exposure Time: 1/320 sec.
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual Mode (M)
Thank you for dropping by!
Ann :)
Some information on the Pitt Lake area: Pitt Lake is located in Grant Narrows Regional Park in Pitt Meadows which is about 45 minutes east of downtown Vancouver. Pitt Lake is the second-largest lake in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, being about 53.5 square km (20.5 square mi) in area. It is about 25km (15.6mi) long and about 4.5km (2.8mi) wide at its widest, and is also one of the world's largest tidal lakes, its confluence with the Fraser being only a few miles upstream from that river's estuary into the Strait of Georgia. Its southern tip, where the Pitt River resumes, is 40km (25mi) east of downtown Vancouver.
The upper Pitt River valley is a typical U-shaped glacial valley in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. The over-deepening of the lower end of the valley over the span of the Wisconsin glaciation created a trough over 140m (462ft) below current sea level. After initial glacial retreat at around 13,000 years ago a saltwater fjord occupied this basin when relative sea levels were still ca 120m (396ft) to 140m (462ft) above current levels in the region. Unlike neighbouring Indian Arm and Howe Sound farther west this fjord basin became cut off by sedimentation of the lower Fraser River by ca 10,500 years ago and is now considered a tidal fjord lake.
The community of Pitt Meadows occupies the marshy lowland at the southern end of the lake, some of which has become drained and is known as the Pitt Polder. Just southwest of the lake is the community of Port Coquitlam, which is across the Pitt River from Pitt Meadows. At the north end of the lake is a locality named Alvin, which is a transport and shipping point for logging companies and their employees. The Upper Pitt, meaning the valley upstream from the lake, is considered BC's best fly-fishing rivers and one of its best steelhead streams.
The lake is popular with boaters and canoeists, but is prone to heavy winds and rains as well as big waves (due to its great depth). The mountain range on its east flank comprises Golden Ears Provincial Park, its basin to the north is in southern Garibaldi Provincial Park, while the mountain range on its west, northeast of Vancouver's Coquitlam Lake watershed reservoir, is Pinecone Burke Provincial Park. The waterfront and foreshore of the lake and river are public-access and include extensive migratory wildfowl habitat. There is a destination golfing resort in the Pitt Polder area called Swan-e-set.
The area along the east side of the lake is somewhat famous for being the reputed location of Slumach's lost gold mine, the location of many failed and sometimes disastrous searches for the alleged murderer's lost gold mine. (Info from Wikipedia)
A Saturday extra L035 running as U035 out of Niagara Falls spots four box cars, at Smurfit Westrock in North Tonawanda on a beautiful summer Saturday.
With the 4th of July falling on a Thursday back in 2024 when I shot this, L035 didn't run for a couple days that week, thus a holiday weekend extra was called to go switch all the customers who were howling to get their cars. Of all the places around WNY served by rail, this is probably the one I've watched get switched the most, just inherently from shooting this job so much. Incredibly it took me four years to finally nab what I deem to be my favorite shot here, despite the not as photogenic leader. Westrock has been a staple of the community for years now, previously under the name RockTenn. In the '90s this area was filled with clients such as International Filler, Lawless Container, a company called Tondisco, and just across the tracks behind the point of view, Tonawanda News once had a single door for box cars. However some 30+ years later, Westrock is all that remains as far as rail service goes for this particular neighborhood. My first encounter of a local switching here was back in the height of the pandemic, April 17th, 2020. Kenmore Yard south of here still had jobs based out of it such as Y234 who covered this area and the other Niagara Branch customers nearby. That was also my first time seeing the legendary Rodney Kantorski, a whole two years before we'd really befriend each other after lots of days out shooting him working this job.
At that time, I didn't even have my camera yet, only my phone and a scanner. I didn't even bother to cover Westrock getting switched that first time as I was so enamored with the idea of seeing this job go down to the end of the line, utilizing all these unique crossings I had passed over my whole life, but never once got stopped by a train at them. The first customer I technically ever documented was Battenfeld Oil further down the Lockport Industrial Runner. Who could have guessed at the time this would become my obsession in the hobby? Certainly not I. Because I don't have any actual camera shots from that day, the story of my very first local chase probably won't be viable to tell anywhere else. There's not a lot to explain, but it was an eventful day nonetheless. I had nothing to go off of as far as schedule time for Y234 running to where I wanted to catch them. As previously mentioned, the pandemic was in full swing, and as a result my working hours were cut in half but thankfully still with full pay. The days I was working were not my normal days, so my days off were quite varied at the time. With a random Friday off for once whereas I normally worked every Friday afternoon to close, I decided to take advantage and go see if I could catch this local traversing areas I'd only dreamt of seeing used by rail. One such area was the huge Niagara Falls Blvd crossing (Rt 62) on the industrial, a four-way traffic intersection bisected by the railroad diagonally across, protected only by the traffic lights which are tied into the crossing circuit. A second crossing just like that goes over Twin City Hwy as well. Scenes which are uncommon to the world of large scale railroading, and you can only find them in your backyard so to speak. That part aside, since I didn't know quite exactly when I'd get to see this move, my best friend and I left the house around 12:30 that afternoon and went and sat in North Tonawanda right near Westrock at a park, and waited it out. It was a chilly spring day, so we stayed in the car the whole while. Not too long after we arrived, a cop rolled up and asked what we were up to, a very nice older gentleman with gray in his beard and hair. As he walked up my best friend jokingly said I should tell him we were bird watching, so I committed to the bit thinking nothing of it. That was the story I gave, and the officer said have a nice day. Another two-ish hours passed, we played my magnetic checkers game I had in my back seat pocket, and a few hands of cards. Funnily enough there was an abundance of birds and various species of birds in the surrounding area. And at times we did stop what we were doing to observe them. My fib had become somewhat of a truth. So when another cop rolled up on us, and I stuck to my story, he was not so kind about it. Unbeknownst to me, my best friend took a full audio recording of the exchange we had over the course of two minutes with this officer... about bird watching. He wasn't believing us for a second, but he had no way to prove we weren't. The audio can be found in a YouTube video he made documenting our day out, on his channel MaxiumumGoose. If you search for Y234 it should come up. It was honestly hilarious the way it all played out. In the end after the dude finished grilling us over bird watching, he stated he was only there because some nosy Nancy probably in one of the houses close by called about a suspicious vehicle. We weren't doing anything illegal though so, tough luck dude. Not wanting to risk another law enforcement run-in, I decided to head down to Kenmore Yard and see if anything was actually moving around, as somehow I instinctively knew that this job would probably be coming out of there. A little after 4:00 p.m., Rodney came on the radio asking to open up at Woodward Ave, use the crossover from track two to one, and head north to get in the clear at Robinson St, light power. His engine that day was fittingly CSXT 2020, the pandemic engine if you will. The rest of the day following the lengthy wait and police interactions went smoothly. We got takeout from Applebee's for dinner that day after the chase was over and the sun had set. A bit over a month after that very first local chase, I'd get my camera in the mail from BestBuy and set myself on a course for success.
Four years and a couple months after my first time seeing Westrock switched, this shot is the culmination of years of shooting Y234, then Y203, and now L035 serving this spur. The switch into Westrock rests right next to the crossover switch from the industrial onto track one of the Niagara Branch. Often times when the crews are switching here, they initially leave the crossover open for their headroom moves before eventually locking up in the clear. Often times this causes traffic backups as directly behind the point of a view is the Robinson St crossing. I've watched countless cars get frustrated and turn around, or honk their horns at my friends up in the engine which does nothing except make the moves take longer. Back in 2021 and 2022 when I was shooting this area a ton, Westrock was getting up to eight box cars at a time some nights. These days the spur seemingly sits empty for half the week. At least they're still taking cars, that's more than I can say for some of the other area customers who've fallen off of this strip. I was told by one of my conductor/engineer friends who's spent a lot of time switching this place that apparently they have a pulley system to move the box cars, as only two can be unloaded at a time at the dock there. The spur reaches pretty deep, but any cars beyond the head two can't be opened. He told me he saw a string of cars super close to the road crossing one day while passing by outside of work hours, and the pulley wire is actually in the tracks underneath the cars near where they're spotted. He's almost tripped over it a couple of times. Can't be seen in the shadows of this photo, but a cool little tidbit about how they unload cars when they have so many at one time. I thought maybe they had a front loader to push them hiding out somewhere; a pulley system was definitely not something I could have guessed. Although this may not be the coolest looking spur or building area, it's an important piece of local rail service around here, and a part of my own personal journey as a railfan. Westrock is a bonafide stalwart customer, and hopefully they're here to stay for a while longer. The last thing we need is more customers leaving a region which has seen enough close up shop already.
The vintage ALCO RS-1, rolling over the bridge and heading toward me, is leading a passenger train through the beautiful New York countryside.
Nikon D850 & Nikkor 24-120mm Æ’/4 @ Æ’/8
Happy Halloween! This horned red devil glared out from a neighborhood yard, yellow eyes glowing and his mouth wide open, wrapped in a tattered red hood of gauze. I shot from a low angle against a deep blue evening sky so the horns tower overhead.
This is a real decoration photographed with my iPhone 17 Pro Max. I edited it in Luminar with a warm red color grade, deep shadows, and extra texture and contrast. Nothing was added to the scene.