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Imagine a slow sunday morning with a nice cup of coffee in the early sunlight that shines through your windows.
Seeing what I had to work with for early morning light, I set myself at Vettleson Road crossing just west of Hartland, hoping to get some sun glow off the north side of the train. Without my scanner, I had no idea that CP #647 led by CP 8747 - CSX 4545 had been hit by the MP108 detector for a elevated wheel temperature. They slowed their train through Hartland and would end up coming around the bend at Hartland Hill (Milwaukee Road speak....) and stopping. The engineer dropped his conductor and pulled forward about 20 cars to make his walk shorter. Culprit: a brake chain that was binding, causing the shoe to warm up the wheel via friction, which was easily released.
Here the conductor is walking to the head end as the engineer shoves back a bit to get him. Some morning mist is in the air on this cold but calm start to the day.
Nothing but 100% pure dumb luck for this scene.
The Lourdes basilica, seen in the morning enshrouded in mist, from the lower Stations of the Cross. In the foreground is the station of Christ meeting his blessed Mother.
©2012 Laura Palazzolo
Terrible light, camera problems and Voila...poorly exposed, noisy image..so I tried to make Lemonade out of Lemons...you want to be gritty looking well ok then.
I liked the look of the horse, feelin' gritty himself, perhaps because he was forced to wear that stupid striped hood that matched his jockey's striped shirt..LOL
Looks like he is saying.."If he pulls on my mouth one more time..it's to the moon!"
Textures with thanks to Skeletal Mess.
Saturday, August 12th, 2017
Morning Routine
This week's prompt is "Morning Routine" for the Instagram project #portraitsofme. After a month off from blogging for this project, I am excited to be back! One very special part of my morning routine is taking a cup of fresh, hot, black coffee to my mom. I love that she lives a few steps away from us and that I can do this special thing for her most mornings. It's such a darling routine... the dogs hear the keys jangle as I take them off the key rack and they start prancing around my feet. As I pour a cup of coffee to take over, I have to hush the dogs because they go so excited to go to Nana's house. I quietly open our dining room slider and notice the breeze, the sunshine, and the morning sounds of the birds chirping. After unlocking her front door, I turn off her front porch light and creep into her room. Cricket and Kitty McGee are always arranged in some form or fashion around mom and they blink at me blearily as I set the cup down on my mom's little bedside table. Some mornings, she is still asleep and I try to leave quietly without waking her. Most mornings she is awake already and singing "Coffee Angel" as I enter her room. Sometimes we chat for a few minutes, sometimes I'm so foggy that I mumble a quick "good morning" then stumble back home for my own cup of coffee. It's a tradition that I love and adore and will always remember the rest of my life.
Before work I dropped off my car at Superior Auto on Main Street to have him check out the AC and faulty fuel gauge, and this abandoned building is next door... (It was $68 to re-charge the AC, but it's going to be $3-400 to replace the sensor for the gas tank, so that's gonna wait!) :-o
Pentax K-S2, SMC Pentax-A 70-210mm f/4
For the Pentax Forums Single in September Challenge
Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ~Jeb Dickerson
Unprocessed photo taken in a mirror, using a Contax carl zeiss 135mm 2.8 on my K5 thanks to the Multi-mount PK+MM for Pentax weather sealed DSLR.
First steps with my multi-mount K-WR kit ! 8 days only after I did my internet command !
I wanted to use three carl zeiss contax lenses of AE mount Distagon* 35mm F2.8 ; Sonnar* 135mm F2.8 ; and a Planar* 50mm F1.4 ... (not the MM mount also possible for these lenses) but I was first a little disappointed since they would not fully mount and could not be secure enough to use since moving the focus or changing aperture would make it dismount immediately if not held in place with hand so I slept on that... and this morning I had that great idea : since it would go far enough to be tight on just one or two millimeters, I took the opportunity of drilling a little hole in the lens mount ring in the right place for the pentax lock (to define precisely the best place for that hole I just used some red permanent marker to paint the tip of the locker, mount the lens tight while holding pressed the lens release button and release the button when the lens is at a maximum in it's course. Doing that a few times gave me a precise idea where to drill ... And it works perfectly !!! ... even better than for a nikon tokina 28mm which mounts but trickily and we can feel it is forcing a little on the springs as it is well explained elsewhere on the adapist site.
I did it for my three carl zeiss and it is just perfect !!! ... they are tight and secure !!!
trick 1) match the train's speed
trick 2) don't let the cops see you doing this while you're driving
TGIF - Have a great weekend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ienv1rBZFyc <-- sets the proper mood
Walking with a friend this morning in a natural area called The Weaselhead ... the dogs had a blast by the water ... this is only about 5 minutes by car (15 by bike) from my house in inner-city Calgary. This is one of those photos where the image really looks like what the eye saw naturally - lovely colours on a fall day.
"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce."
~Oliver Wendell
Happy International Coffee Day to all...!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Coffee_Day
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morning person speaking <3
i love morning time , every one is in a good mood
and enjoying there cup of coffee :D
(L)
6:30 A.M. on my desk. Two Kuan Yin statues. Everything is getting re-grouped for packing. This really struck me.
Nicer on Black