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Feels good to be back where I belong: at the throttle of a steam locomotive. It has been about two weeks since I ran a steam locomotive, the last one was a little smaller than my favorite which is good old reliable number 90.
The dog turned 13 on friday and I spent most of the weekend lounging around with the old guy and relaxing on the balcony in the cooler weather. I was supposed to take him to the Vet sunday at 5pm to get his nails cut and a few of his annual tests and shots out of the way but by 3pm with heavy clouds and periodic rain drops, I figured I'd give him a full weekend of no stress. I also was hoping to maybe head out somewhere to shoot what seemed like an inevitably great sunset. Well, I didn't make it anywhere. I had considered Venice but with high surf conditions (see? i learned my lesson from last time) i knew reflections would be tough and I'd simply end up in the exact same area as always. I drove the 10 minutes to Hollywood Bowl Overlook and found a line of cars and tourist vans waiting to enter the approximately 5 parking space lot. After a few u-turns, I decided to just head back down Mulholland Drive and go home. From what I could see off the balcony, the sunset was nice with plenty of layered clouds and pink and purple hues. Basically like so many East facing sunsets I saw when I first arrived.
The forecast shows mostly cloudy with some light rain possible over much of the next 2 weeks so I wasn't too bummed out to miss sunday's sundown even if it would've looked amazing from the overlook with the hollywood sign to the left and downtown LA straight ahead. I planned to go to Laguna Beach for the first time today but when I finally set out, many of the streets right around the apartment were blocked off and traffic was nearly stopped in all directions. The GPS said i'd arrive 25 minutes before sunset and it seemed pretty silly to spend almost 2 hours in the car going somewhere I'd never been for such a short period of time. There's a lot to explore over there and as usual, poor planning and traffic forced me to change my plans.
I spent 20 minutes driving towards Santa Monica Pier before changing course for Hermosa Beach Pier. The one time I went to Hermosa was back in early January, about 10 days after Scotch and I arrived here. After a sleepless night, he and I set out just before sunrise and explored the areas between Dockweiler beach all the way to Rancho Palos Verdes and the only time I came back over there was a few nights later for that sunset at Manhattan Beach. From photos I've seen, Hermosa pier has some similarities to Venice and since it's adjacent to Manhattan Beach Pier, I had a good idea where the sunset would line up.
I didn't move more than 15 feet from this particular spot and this was still before the sun set below the horizon. I moved only when the glare was bad or the view semi obstructed. The sunset itself was less impressive that I expected and a few other photographers near echoed those thoughts but it was still a beautiful sight and a nice deviation from Venice Beach. The colors lingered a while and my intention was to head up to the pier for some nice symmetrical shots from that vantage but i got wrapped in a conversation with a older gentleman who's been photographing here since the mid 1960s and it turned out to be a real eye opener for me. He claimed to be a luddite when it came to technology but he spoke of photography like an expert and explained some things to me I never learned in the first place or even realized I needed to understand. By the end of the conversation, I felt like I owed him money for the valuable information and perspective he provided. Maybe in the future, I won't be so closed off when I'm shooting around other people. It's a successful night when I can get some sunset shots and learn something new about photography or get a few questions answered.
▪️WHEN & WHERE▪️
•Hermosa Beach Pier
•Hermosa Beach, California
•October 24th, 2016
▪️SETTINGS▪️
•Canon T4i
•EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
•@24mm
•ISO 100
•f/13
•25 seconds
•ND1000
•CPL
祝大家連假假期愉快~
Climbing the stairway to a hilltop of green grassy meadow & beautiful cherry blossom trees (Sakura) in springtime, in Saitama, Japan ~ Spring scenery of idyllic Japanese countryside ( Low angel view )
MC 2009, an EMD GP28 rests in the yard at Hyannis, MA. Thanks to the folks at the shop here for letting me walk around and take some photos.
Taken at Boundary Bay, Delta, BC, Canada on April 18 2015.
The northbound shorebird migration is beginning, so I decided to check out Boundary Bay today. It still is very early for migrant shorebirds and not surprisingly only the wintering Dunlin and Black-bellied Plovers were to be seen. This particular Dunlin was very cooperative, and I spent a while photographing it. The tide was far out, so I walked over 1.1 kilometers out on the mudflats before stopping to photograph this guy, according to the GPS in my camera! After a while of slithering around in the mud on my belly, I left this bird to feed and headed back to shore, soaking wet!
Shorebird photography workshops are available! If you want learn how to shoot the migrant shorebirds at Boundary Bay, go to: lironsnaturephotography.com/workshops.php
Jane has found a new spot for napping. She is on a box on some model trains on a table. Thus, she is not technically breaking the rule about not being allowed on the table, and she's in a box. To her, this is a win-win. Plus, this gets her up high, and she loves that aspect, too.
Captured with a late 19-teens lens from a VPK: Vest Pocket Kodak. Based on the patent info on the lens, mine appears to be from the later series called: Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak (1915-1926), and this was known as "The Soldier's Camera" due to its use in WWI. Selling nearly 2M units in that decade of production it was a very popular compact camera. This "Autographic" version sported a small door on the rear of the camera that allowed the photographer to scribble a little onto the reverse of the film thus making for effectively the first "data back" camera. They effectively scraped off some of the emulsion on the film.
My lens has been removed from the VPK camera and installed into a M42-mount lens shell. The lens shell happens to be from an Asahi prime and retains its aperture. The original Kodak lens has its aperture, too.
The lens is somewhere in the 70mm range and is somewhere around an f/7.7, so a lot of light is needed for decent exposure.
The lens was never meant to be a close-focus lens, but with the new mount, I am able to focus this close to the cat.
This is what you see when you eat the wrong kind of mushrooms. A fanciful take on this week's Looking Close... On Friday Challenge, Mushrooms.
With a pair of EMD SD40-2s for power and 51 cars on the drawbar, Wisconsin & Southern train no. L863 winds along scenic Devils Lake on its way to Madison, WI.
Goose, ducks and swans around the shore by Lake Windermere. I had great fun photographing them as they where used to the people, giving me opportunities to capture some urban habitat. I used a shallow Dof to isolate the Goose in the foreground. I also like the mood giving with the Dof. I took lots of this and there's more to come. Happy weekend to you all!
A good friend and former baseball teammate of mine (who's a diehard Boston Red Sox fan) texted me from Baltimore Monday night with the message "first row behind home. Camden". For the better part of my life, baseball was my passion and obsession, both as a fan and a player. My dad and I had 2 tickets about 15 rows behind home plate for the Baltimore Orioles even for a couple seasons after he retired and moved 1,200 miles away. They had a losing record for 14 straight seasons until 2012 and during that time, I often ended up going alone--unable to convince anyone to devote 5 hours to see a lousy team play--but I really didn't mind. The sounds of the game always relaxed me and for a long time, I didn't think there was much better than a evening of baseball with nice weather.
When I got into photography a couple years ago, my interests began to shift a bit. I started to spend more and more evenings away from baseball, often in the middle of the Maryland countryside shooting the sunset with the game broadcast playing on my phone and Scotch by my side.I've been in California for nearly the entire baseball season now and I went to just 1 Dodgers game all summer though I've spent probably 40 nights standing by the ocean's edge with my camera and tripod.
The sounds of the ocean have now supplanted the roar of the crowd and the crack of the bat though I always seem to have a radio broadcast of the Orioles playing on my phone or if it's sundown, Vin Scully telling his amazing stories during the Dodgers games. This shot was right after arriving when it was just beginning to get dark but well before the rich colors of the sunset appeared. There wasn't much wind at all which is another reason I mostly skipped long exposures until after sunset. I would've wasted a ton of time to get very little cloud blur. These cloud formations barely moved at all it seemed until it was too dark to tell otherwise. I'm angled more South here than West which accounts for the color of the sky. Once I turned and saw the sunset, my direction of focus changed immediately.
I texted him back tuesday with yesterday's sunset panorama post and the message that while he was at the game, I was at Venice Beach shooting this sky. I think we both were probably a little jealous of how the other got to spend their Monday night :)
Venice Beach
Venice, California
September 19th, 2016
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/5th second
CPL
Grain elevators in Chariton County, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/2.8 with a 1/2500-second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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A tightly closed poppy bud rises from a low angle, its fine hairs catching the light as it prepares to enter its next stage of life.
Behind it, a fully opened red poppy fills the frame in a soft blur — the mature phase glowing like a preview of what is to come. The image captures two life stages side by side: the tension of becoming and the fullness of being.
The theme on June 2, 2026 is: "LOW ANGLE”
In the heart of the Canadian Rockies, Lafarge’s Exshaw Cement Plant is abuzz with activity as heavily dusted EMD GP38-2 FURX 5510 works to switch cars for delivery to CPKC’s nearby mainline.
The harsh midday sun only accentuates the gritty atmosphere of this heavy industrial operation, set against an otherwise pastoral mountain landscape. It’s a contrast that never fails to strike me whenever I drive by. This time, though, after passing it up on several previous occasions, I finally decided to stop and take a photo.
It was very sad visiting Martin Place after the Lindt Café siege.
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