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The sand which cast the termites out
Marked the drag of a scaly myth,
Trailing into thick, low tangle
'A pangolin! A pangolin!'
We cried,
Jolting at its heels!
Plated like a Legion Soldier
It rolled up tight into a ball.
While spearing eyes poke the armour
For face, for nose, or eye!
But special secrets will keep low
When lingering shadows cast their teeth
So dropping
down as if to lie
Breathing...
Ceasing...
Laying low to softly pry,
I draw a little telling eye.
Pinhole take with Altoids tin on 6x9.5 Kodak Polymax paper, slightly cropped. Exposure about 2 min. Developed in D-76.
Model : Michael Bluemoon
Sim : Rotterdam
I remember moments of grace when we were in the cloud, before you decided to force me down. Oh, I do not blame you. I did not see any malevolence there, it was undoubtedly an all masculine, rational clumsiness. When you are faced with a question, you have an answer. When you are faced with desire, you find the shortest way to fulfullment. When a door opens, you get up to see what is on the other side. That's how you are programmed to conquer.
We had good times together. I was chilled, and you made me warm. We could talk for hours about important things: music, the habits of my cat, the disturbing brutality of the world, the schedule of the next train, the intensity of our emotions when we were sitting on a park bench, our bodies touching each other, holding hands in the moonlight. You often appeased me by saying nothing, not a sound, not talking about yourself, your piano, your life beneath the cloud, your age, your past, your projects. It was so much better when you did not say anything. I remember that whole evening spent watching the waves on the beach and, a little further away, the lighthouse of the cape that swept the horizon with its brushes of light. Silence is the language of clouds.
But it was necessary that you impose yourself, that you dissect yourself as one would autopsy a corpse, and even that you compose an ode in my honor. But why such an honor? What honor should be mine, I who asked nothing, who did nothing, who said nothing, who stayed there, alone with you, alone with what I alone imagined of you? I have nothing to do with these honors and these grand declarations which have suddenly conquered our great spaces of silence. In a few hours, your love became so heavy that it broke the clouds and you fell. Do not rely on me to join you. For a love to be so heavy, it had to be love for yourself.
You inflicted your reflection into the mirror, and it was not the one I had imagined. Why would this be the case? How lucky could it be for me to be desirable? At all ? So, why did you break my mirror?
Now you are down, and I am still in the cloud. Sometimes I see your ghost pass. I do not love you anymore, because I never loved the real you. Here love is light and fragile like a soap bubble. It has the face, the body, the texture, the taste, the smell that we want to give it. It's wonderful to love something so evanescent. To make it last, you have to take a lot of care to do nothing and say nothing. You just have to live the moment. It takes a lot of humility to accept being loved for what you are not here in the cloud. It's very delicate, it's very educating, it's very intense.
We had good times together. You were my Ludwig and then you died. “Muss es sein ?”
Wilson Botanic Park has a number of lakes. This one has a walkway that allows you to get down to the level of the lake and photograph the water plants, insects and detritus on the lake. For the Through the Lens week 46 theme of "Low Angle". The water plants were reflecting into the lake.
American bullfrog captured in nice light, at Wildwood Lake, along Towpath Trail.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." - Charles Lindbergh
Nikon SB-800 at 1/64th power. You can see the flare from the flash that was just barely out of the left frame.
Camera: cylindrical coffee can
Film: old ortho photocopy sheet film, 8x21 cm
Exposure: 1 min or less
Developer: D-76 1:1
Scanner: CanoScan 9950f
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The incredibly talented and beautiful Magic Marker www.flickr.com/photos/142427509@N05/ captured in the wilds of SL:
This was 2-day solargraphy (2016-07-16 --->17). Initially I thought that each path of the Sun represents one day. I even showed it proudly for my wife "look how 2 days appear", and she asked "really?". Then I realized that the second of two days was mostly overcast, and the space between two solar paths appeared suspiciously wide. I have looked into pinhole of the camera in front of direct light and found a tiny crack close to it. This crack was responsible for additional solar path.
Conclusions are as follows. Don't make pinholes in extremely thin tin because it cracks. But if you want to replicate solar paths, make additional holes close to the main pinhole.
Taken by Altoids tin on 6x9.5 cm orthochromatic photocopy film. Developed in old D-76 1:1. Without fixation.
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Ashtabula's evening industry local L355 makes its monthly stop at Interpak in Mentor, OH to make a one for one swap of plastics hoppers inside one of the trucking docks.
I made reference to this joint yesterday as part of the story on how I ended up getting my shot eventually at Lincoln Electric, and was the primary driving factor for me going two plus hours west of home to shoot this job. Interpak is one of those very sparsely worked customers, the once a month, twice in a good month kind of deal. I've found businesses who deal in plastics, at least out here in the east, tend to be rather slow with unloading their cars. I'm not sure what it is about these places or the chemicals they deal with, but they don't move very fast out of the rail cars. Once a month is kind of the standard for these types of businesses, and Interpak as the old saying goes is certainly no exception. I had a good three months to study their car consumption habits before finally attempting them, it was simply a matter of waiting. Initially, I thought they were only switched on Tuesdays as those were the only days of the week cars ever showed as being spotted. Come to find out through a CSX friend who found the customer service schedule that their days are in fact Tu/Th. They just happen to release the majority of their empties on Mondays and Tuesday mornings, hence L355 usually spotting on a Tuesday.
In late May this year, utilizing my best automated friend CSX TouchTrace, a car I had been waiting on finally came back as empty one Tuesday. I would have driven out to attempt to shoot them on that occasion save for some mechanical troubles with my car telling me not to go long distance. When all the repairs were said and done, it was too late in the day to think about driving out. A friend of mine Anthony who lives out in Ohio was also interested in getting this shot. I passed the info along in the hopes he would be successful when I could not. Well, lo and behold with it being near Memorial Day, the job didn't run. This left the question of what would happen in regards to serving them? Would they do it the next day? Would they wait till Thursday? The following week even? I've known some jobs to be very strict on service days and won't even touch certain customers till the next scheduled day arrives. Such is not the case with L355, as my guess is the car was built into their train Tuesday afternoon assuming they would run that night. Instead of taking any non-service day cars out, the yard job at Ashtabula leaves them all in and just piles more on as dictated by the other M/W/F customers. The following day Anthony went out again and found them running this time, with stops at six of their nine customers that night due to the combined Tuesday and Wednesday customers, along with Lincoln and Lubrizol which qualify as daily. They worked in a rather strange order that night, not making it to Interpak till close to midnight. I was busy so I couldn't make the trip out myself that day either. In the least, I had another car number to go off of for the wait till my next chance.
Jump ahead to late June. I kept my Tuesdays open as normally I have band practice at night anyhow. Suspecting a car would be released soon, anticipation was growing. Once more a car was released on a Tuesday, and I would get to make my first trip out to attempt this job. Wanting extra time built in to fuel up and grab a bite beforehand, I showed up in Ashtabula a little after 6:00. I backtracked from the yard to the local Chipotle, quickly returning in time to wait for the crew to go on duty, not really knowing what to expect. And so I waited. And waited. And waited. And walked 50 ft into the yard to get a look. Multiple engines idle and tied down, not a worker in sight. Their train was built it appeared, one hopper on the head end, three tank cars, and a buffer/shoving platform at the end. I texted one of my CSX contacts and they revealed there was no crew even on duty, let alone called late. So much for that. Another stop at a truck stop convenience store for some hydration and it was straight back home. The following day I played things safe. I drove part way out to Dunkirk, NY then got word from a CSX contact on whether or not a crew was called. The news was good and all things were a-go.
Another trip to Ash with better hopes in store. Upon arrival, I found three cars for Lincoln Electric in their consist which was a plus since I was hoping to get both in the same trip. I guess my idea of minimizing trips out there wasn't one I'd stick to in the long run given my troubles with redoing Lincoln. Since the previous day's train had been sitting for more than 24 hours, the conductor had to walk the train first and perform an air test. This thankfully wasn't the case in the future trips with the yard job normally air testing and arming the marker for them. Even if the marker wasn't armed, they could do that quickly when pulling out of the yard at Tower W. L355 was off and going by quarter to 8:00 with their first stop at Lincoln. As stated in my post on them, I fudged my initial money shot idea. Walking back to my car, I met a local railfan named Eric who it turns out I was already in a group chat with. I made sure to tell him about the crew's next stop at Interpak. With a drop only at Lincoln, work there was decently quick and there was still plenty of light as they pulled down to the next closest control point. For milepost references, Lincoln's switch is at 158 on track two, Interpak is at 160 on track one, and the closest control points are CP 154 or CP 162. The crew elected to pull west to 162, cross over, then shove back the two miles to the Interpak switch. In order to access their spur, their first tie their train down on the main, then pull west down a half mile switch back, before shoving north another couple tenths of a mile to the building. I've walked that distance combined just to get to a couple customers here around Buffalo. Back in the '90s a couple other businesses also branched off of the switchback closer to the mainline switch, but those spurs haven't been used in ages it seems. I think one of those former industrial buildings is now an indoor sports complex. Unless they're getting tennis balls by rail, that track won't see service again. Not shown in this shot, the crew initially shoved in with the new load as the empty car was 2 of 2 inside the plant. There is only room for two cars at a time inside the dock, so really some cars spend as long as two months here sometimes. Doing things this way means that pulling all three cars back to the switchback would result in dropping the rear empty car, then shoving the two loads back in, combining the pre-existing load from whenever they last worked here and the new car being spotted on this night. The shot shown here IS that final result with two cars back where they belong inside. While the east was in the midst of a heat wave, the early summer heat seemed to work to my advantage with all the dock doors open to keep things cool inside the building. Before moving any cars, the conductor had to seek out someone working inside, who happened to be the forklift driver, just to double check the car they were pulling was to be pulled, and set off a flashing alarm which stated the rail dock was in use (as if the huge GP40-3 wasn't enough evidence of that). With the summer solstice having just passed, daylight length was at its peak, also aiding in the lighting as blue hour set in. Getting a healthy mix of twilight with the internal plant lighting came out pretty well I'd like to think.
While my success on my first trip out to Interpak was satisfactory, in my fervent attempts to get my redo at Lincoln I stumbled into a second Interpak run in late July. While not on my list to shoot again, I wasn't gonna turn down something as infrequent as them. This would actually be their second stop that month as they switched the plant once between my shot in June and the one I was about to get. They had a very short five minute stop at the GRRY interchange in Painesville at 154 to pick up a single two bay hopper, before shoving back out and continuing west down track one for Interpak. Sunset in late July was still around 8:45. Having stopped at GRRY right at 8:00, there was still light to spare for this go around. Even my lad Anthony was able to join me at Interpak for this shot, getting his own redo after shooting the mid-July run well after sunset and long hood. To say this new run was an upgrade for him is a major understatement. Mayhap I'll post one of the shots from that run some time, but this will do for now.
With their work done at Interpak on that night, I couldn't help but look at Anthony and say that this would probably be their last time there in daylight this year, given the closest they'd come was pretty much last light in late June. I think if the crew had been on duty on that Tuesday I went out there instead of marking off, they would have went straight to Interpak since the Lincoln cars didn't appear till the next day. I got pretty close to straight there will the July encounter though, so all's well that ends well. Even a father and son showed up there with us on that day, recognizing how rare it is for them to make it there in daylight. Nice to see I'm not the only one who appreciates the rare shots. Difference is I drove two plus hours for it after only learning of it this year. The father and son probably lived nearby, but I'm sure they've waited a lot longer than I did for their opportunity. Differences aside, we're all in it for the same reason at the end of the day, quite literally speaking for this customer.
Trying a different composition with this one. The photo was taken at a very low angle in overcast light which gave the water a soft white reflection. And the snow in the background helped maintain the minimalist look.
West Sheley schoolhouse in Callaway 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/11.0 with a 1/20-second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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