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With this image, my stories of the events that occurred between 1985 and 1987, will come to an end. The posts were meant to be one continuous story that began with the first Portugal post. Thank you so much for looking at the old prints and taking time to read of their significance.
This last image of a murky lily pond was taken somewhere in Thailand and sometime in 1987. It symbolizes in many ways the period of time I spent away from the United States, living in other countries.
The countries were picked in quite a random way, almost as if I had cast my fate to the wind. I guess I had wanted to do this all of my life, but not at a time of grief or so I thought. It is commonly thought that one must stay with one’s support group during such times. What I discovered, however, is that one’s friends can easily tire of your sadness, but strangers do not as your meeting is a fleeting thing.
A lily pond has layers much like countries and societies. As a tourist, one sees the beautiful flowers and lily pads. Growing deeper in the murky water are the roots and perhaps a few pieces of discarded garbage. Obviously, the roots are so important to the life of the plants and the garbage is a huge distraction.
One only scratches the surface of a place and its people when visiting for short periods of time. One sees only the face of a nation that is shown to the outside world. One also sees through a limited perspective that changes as we grow and experience more of life.
These months of my life, for example, were spent carefully parting with every penny I spent, sometimes living in run down hotels like the Miami Hotel. It is, however, the time I sent at the decaying Miami Hotel that I remember the most because of the rich rewards. It is here that I met folks from the far corners of the world, each traveling for unique reasons. We forged feelings of unlikely camaraderie because we were all in unfamiliar surroundings.
I learned in Cascias Portugal and again in Bangkok Thailand that Americans are way more kind to each other when they are expats trying to navigate the strange ways of a foreign country. I learned that it is then quite common to stay in groups of people who are familiar to you and understand why people do this when they immigrate into the United States.
I found Portugal’s rather closed society, where people lived in the past, difficult to understand until I returned and felt it very familiar and comforting. I never returned to Bangkok, only to Phuket. Phuket had changed beyond recognition and not for the better. Comments from some of my friends, who know Thailand well, make me believe that the Thais are now rather tired of trying to emulate the West as they see the consequences of this quest.
Their streets and concrete and glass buildings do not suit the weather, nor the marshy land of Bangkok. Foreigners perpetuate the underbelly of Bangkok, by indulging in drugs and in the sex industry. The police are cracking down on tourists by stopping them and searching for drugs. All of this adds more confusion to a country that has seen unrest for years with many different factions vying for power. The new King may not be able to continue to quell uprisings even by continuing to clamp down on any criticism of the State. I have chosen not to see this new Thailand.
On a cold cloudy early winter day CSXT's Readville based local L010 (formerly B731) is heading out on its daily round trip to Framingham and back.
After shooting these guys at Norwood Depot I had enough time to get ahead of them as they paused momentarily on Main 1 of the Keolis/MBTA Franklin Line hear at MP 14.6 at the end of the Guild St. overpass just east of the tidy little brick suburban station built by the New Haven in 1899.
Inbound train Keolis/MBTA train 748 from Foxboro has made their stop and is accelerating past on Main 2 with an MPI HSP46 shoving on the rear. The pair of GP40-2s are already notching up to get their nearly 20 cars moving again west towards Walpole where they'll peel away for the dozen mile run up the freight only Framingham Secondary.
Only a half mile apart these two stations, Norwood Depot and Norwood Central have served as active passenger stops continuously since 1849 and 1852. Built as the Norfolk County Railroad and ultimately becoming the New York and New England mainline until that road merged with the New Haven in 1898, in the modern era this was known as the Midland Division and today is the MBTA's Franklin Line. CSXT as the direct corporate successor to the New Haven (by way of Penn Central and Conrail) continues to provide freight service on this route.
Norwood, Massachusetts
Tuesday December 27, 2022
Even at night, with only the feeble photons of atmospheric airglow to light the landscape, you can see that the water in this agricultural dam is a very unappealing colour. The still air on the night left the pond's surface undisturbed, offering me a mirrored but muted view of the treeline, the Milky Way and the light coming from the planet Jupiter. Despite the dirtiness of the pool's contents, you can still see some hues of starlight reflected in the water.
The Magellanic Cloud galaxies are conspicuous in the top-left corner of my panorama, keeping station as they travel through the Local Group of galaxies with our marvellous & majestic Milky Way. I've mentioned that Jupiter is one of the lights shining from the dark mirror, and you can see the source of that light in the sky above the dusty stretch of our home galaxy, as well as the planet Saturn up and to the right of Jupiter's bright beacon. It's frustrating that the clouds conspired to keep me from photographing the stars and planets during last weekend's New Moon period. With very few chances left to shoot the Milky Way's core region as the year draws to a close, so I'll be relying on my trove of shots from previous expeditions–like this one–to keep me posting here.
I created this panoramic photo by shooting thirteen overlapping single-frame images, then merging them using stitching software on my Mac. For each of those individual shots, I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera set to an exposure time of 25 seconds @ ISO 6400 and fitted with a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/2.4.
Always wanted to do this, so now I have. Simple setup, bulb, white paper as background and using natural light from my kitchen windows. Then "some" Photoshop work.
934 bowling along the Katiki Beach this afternoon. Caught up with Darryl on our return home. Jumped ship here to ride in the Audi. Thanks Darryl.
Kirkjufellsfoss and Kirkjufell mountain.
Kirkjufell is a 463m high mountain on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður.
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Stanier designed '5MT' 4-6-0 no.45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' crosses Lochy Bridge on a very 'murky’ morning, as she heads the morning Fort William-Mallaig 'Jacobite’ service.
2020 Jacobite
With early morning mist just starting to clear, BR 37668 and 37371 approach West Drayton Junction in May 1992 with the 6A15 23:55 Waterston Sidings to Colnbrook tanks.
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I've been posting mushroom pics from this walk for almost a week now, and the colours on these are very autumny. But in fact the whole day was drab, dark, very oppressive. Even at midday it looked like the sun had already set.
It's hard to capture it in photographs, as most modern cameras have a tendency to 'correct' the image into something lighter, but I gave it a shot anyway.
50049 and 50007 nearing Gargrave with the "Cotswold - Eden" Didcot - Carlisle, running about 12 minutes early when the sun started to appear about 10 minutes after they had passed !
Ustka, Poland
Decided it would be a good idea to get on the pylons and shoot...hmm, not so great. Didn't expect the sudden rush of Baltic ocean...well, untrue, I did expect it, but not while I was there. Cold.
Watch out! A dangerous predator stalks the murky waters along the shallows of the Pantanal water ways...
|| Untamed Jaguars of Pantanal Expedition ||
Delighted to get some Mooniness tonight!
Conditions: Beautifully clear, quite crisp out - gentle breeze
Setup: Canon 600D attached to Maksutov 127mm telescope
Prime focus single shot
Long exposure from Sharpness point at Tynemouth.
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