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These beautiful maple leaves in Bright's Park Street were just on the turn as I was visiting, offering a beautiful and more subtle palette to the brilliant reds, golds and oranges found elsewhere in the township
Bright, a town in north-east Victoria, is situated in the Ovens Valley and is part of the Alpine Region of Victoria. 210 kilometres from Melbourne, Bright was one of the towns in the Ovens Valley where gold was discovered. Gold was found near the junction of Morses Creek and the Ovens River in the 1850s. Established in 1862 and named Bright, most likely after John Bright (1811 - 1889) an English publicist, reformer and parliamentarian the township thrived. With the Gold Rush in full swing, Bright soon had Catholic, Wesleyan and Presbyterian churches, schools, three hotels, three quartz mills and two bank branches. As the yield of gold declined in the 1870s, so too did Bright’s population, yet by the 1880s, it became an alpine tourism town. The Bright Alpine club was formed in 1887 and a community library was started there in 1889. In the following year Bright was connected by railway to Myrtleford and Wangaratta, bringing with it much needed tourists from Melbourne. In 1910 a grand chalet was opened at Mount Buffalo and Bright ran a hire car service for visitors, who often stayed there overnight at a hotel or guesthouse. In 1919 a secondary school was opened in Bright. It also had a tourist progress association and local angling, bowling, racing, tennis and golf clubs amongst its many attractions. By the mid 1920s the people of Bright began planting exotic trees partly for landscape improvement and partly to lay the summer dust. The street tree plantings produced extraordinary autumn colours. By 1933, Bright was described as the “Tourism Capital of the Ovens Valley”. Bright’s train line continued until 1983 when it was finally discontinued and replaced with coaches. By that time, it was a well established tourism town with people flocking there all throughout the year for different reasons. Bright is a base for exploring the peaks of Mount Buffalo National Park and Alpine National Park as well as Mount Hotham, a popular ski resort. Bright is a starting point for the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail, a hiking and cycling path. Bright Museum, in the town’s former train station, documents rail and gold rush history. The region is also known for wineries and of course its amazing display of autumnal foliage.
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Two of my favorite EMU classes were the 310 and 312 derivatives.
Being local to Birmingham helped and saw them all in quick order.
However it was not until they had been split between Network South East and Regional Railways that I started to travel on them and photograph in earnest.
By 1994 Regional Railways had aquired 11 of them for West Midlands Local services ahead of the introduction of the 323's and aquired 2 more by 1997.
They were reduced to three cars to allow them to be used on the Birmingham to Liverpool trains, a route reliqished by Inter City and this is where we see 310109 at Wolverhampton heading to Liverpool with one such service.
This unit still carries the bland Mid-Line livery which only these trains carried which was unique to Birmingham.
31st August 1996
the mid train DPUs of an eastbound union pacific intermodal train completing its journey over the donner pass are seen here at quiici ranch, very near to the california-nevada border.
Wadebridge on the Watercress line.
The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacifics or informally as Spam Cans, are air-smoothed 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid. Incorporating a number of new developments in British steam locomotive technology, they were amongst the first British designs to use welding in the construction process, and to use steel fireboxes, which meant that components could be more easily constructed under wartime austerity and post-war economy.
Units from CSX, BN/SLRG, UP, BNSF & KCS populate the tracks outside of Kansas City's Mid-America Car shop.
My favorite bit of 2021 has been hanging out with you fmspadsters all year long. I feel like I’ve revived some of my old Insta friendships from my last year long run and made some new Insta friends too. You’ve made me get out of the house, most of the time, to hunt down a picture for the day. So here’s my effort for today. This building was built as a Key Savings & Loan Bank branch. It was designed by Charles Deaton and completed in 1967 which puts it two years inside the official mid-century modern time period. It is now a listed on the National Register of Historic Places for architecture. Charles Deaton was the architect that built the house featured in Woody Allen’s movie Sleepers. I’m not sure when Key Savings and Loan went away but now the building houses a Community Banks of Colorado branch.
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Video editing: © Hans-Peter Zürcher
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Eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion mit der Komponistin und Musikerin Macky
A co-production with the composer and musician Macky
Mittherbstmond - Mid-autumn moon
中秋の名月
Eine kleine, herbstliche Meditation mit einem Haiku von und mit Hans-Peter Zürcher
untermalt mit Musik von und mit Macky
A little autumn meditation with a haiku by and with Hans-Peter Zürcher
accompanied by music by and with Macky
Mittherbstmond
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Nachtschatten wandeln
Lächelnder Mittherbstmond
Weisser Mondhase
© Hans-Peter Zürcher
Mid-autumn moon
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Walking nightshade
Smiling mid-autumn moon
White moon hare
© Hans-Peter Zürcher
Idea, haiku, film
and photography:
© Hans-Peter Zürcher
Composition and Music:
Harvest Moon looking up in Japan
© Macky
Dear Macky my friend, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this little, magical melody...
Scene of mechanics in what seems to be changing the spark plugs of that beautifull Jaguar E-Type while the driver talks with another driver.
First time visiting Crammel Linn waterfall near Gilsland. Nice to see it in full flow after all this dry weather we have been having.
Mid-century Chair available in 4 color options, Chevron Rug, and Stacked Magazines.