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Stanier 'Royal Scot' 4-6-0 no.46100 'Royal Scot’, now with the pick up goods train, passing through Moorgates.
NYMR Matt Fisher 46100 Charter 2017
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PASSING STORM, by Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra
Pérgola, at Foz do Douro, on the Atlantic coast of Porto, Portugal. (View On Black)
Sara and I had gone down to Foz because I wanted to capture this pérgola in Foz at sunset. It was the sunset that wasn't. It was a cloudset. Clouds everywhere! And windy! We stayed though, and I'm damned glad we did. I started off by taking more long exposure shots of waves crashing in on the rocky shores of Porto, and I soon found out that I'd had my 28-135mm lens's Image Stabilization (IS) turned on. Here's a lesson for you: if your lens has image stabilization technology—I believe it's called Vibration Reduction (VR) on Nikon lenses; doesn't matter what it's called, the principle I'm about to share is true regardless of the camera brand or what they call it—make sure it is turned off if you've got your camera mounted on a tripod. When a camera is mounted on a tripod VR or IS will actually induce the appearance of camera shake into your images. Turn IS or VR on only when handholding your camera.
This—THIS!—is the sort of photography that I love! I've been wanting to get a photo like this, or reasonably similar to this, of this pérgola for four years now. I first saw it in a photograph before my first trip to Portugal, and now that I've done this and taken a photograph this damned good, I'm just completely overwhelmed with emotion. Seriously. As far as I'm concerned, this is by far the best photo I've ever taken!
Look at this architecture! How could I not be inspired here in Portugal!? Mon Dieu! I want to go back to this place and take more photos of it, and maybe, just maybe, I'll get one with a good sunset, too. :P Maybe next time I'll aim a wide-angle lens at this thing, so you can really get a good look at it. This time, there were clouds. Lots of clouds. Fabulously shaped clouds. And that breeze was strong and wouldn't stop, and when I saw how fast the clouds had started to move, I started to take photo after photo after photo, trying different compositions, different shutter speeds, knowing that the clouds would blur, and looking for something that would just pop out at me. This was my penultimate photo of the evening. After that, 30 seconds wasn't enough to bring out the colour of the sky. Longer shutter speeds were necessary, and I hadn't picked up out of my camera bag the gear necessary for me to take photos with shutter speeds longer than 30 seconds.
Exposure: 30 sec (yes, that's 30 SECONDS!)
Aperture: f/22.0 (small apertures like this give distant lights that starburst effect)
Focal Length: 28 mm (Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM)
Effective Focal Length: approx 45 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Shooting Mode: Aperture-Priority AE (camera on tripod)
Note: Cropped, colour-balance adjusted. Straight out of the camera, this pérgola was sooo orange-red because of the lights used to light up the columns and trellis-work. This was a pain-in-the-ever-lovin'-arse to get the colour-balance corrected to be as close to correct as possible. This was the best I could do.
One of those spots on my way that each time, for years, screamed for it's picture to be taken but never quite yielding anything... until now, that is ;)
Nickel Plate 765 blows off steam while passing a freight train on a slight downgrade, after climbing out of the Wabash Valley at Logansport, Indiana.
On a splendid October morning, 60063 on the
Robeston Sdgs to Westerleigh Puma Dbc,is seen passing 66147 on Round Oak to Margam T.C. at Churcham.
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8-10-15 While the MS Veendam sailed through the English channel on it's way to Amsterdam it passed many gas or oil platforms.
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Edinburgh Trams No.951 seen passing Haymarket 14.07.2022, en route to its St Andrews Square terminus, the present Eastward limit for the system.
08:59am in Taunton town centre, day 7/365 of my picture a day challenge!
The Castle Hotel at Taunton is a hotel with two restaurants, Castle Bow Restaurant and BRAZZ, located in the centre of Taunton, Somerset, England. The business is located in a Grade II listed 18th-century reconstruction of the former 12th-century Norman fortress, Taunton Castle. The building incorporates Castle Bow a Grade I listed building which originally formed the east gate to the Castle precincts. It still has 13th century chamfered arches, and corner buttresses with setoffs
QBX006 & QBX001 haul QUBE's 3962 loaded grain past the silos at Gidginbung. Saturday, 26th November 2016
JS8167 locomotive is seen reversing past rows of Hutongs with a rake of empty wagons en-route to the open pit at Sandaoling to collect coal for the return journey to the wash plant. The traditional Chinese dwellings that line the Hutongs have largely been abandoned as a result China’s re-housing modernisation policy. Xinjiang Province, People’s Republic of China. ,
Hull Trains 180111 and Freightliner 70007 pass Whittlesea Signal Box on a glorious afternoon of the 5/2/17
This was from last August while visiting the Apache Junction area. What a storm this was, I got maybe 50-60 good lightning strikes in. The bad part is that the camera sensor was so hot from shooting all day, the images were super noisey. So bad in fact that this was the 2nd shot from that night, and he only good one with little to no noise.
Have a great weekend.
Kudu and warthog seemingly oblivious to each other passing on a remote track in Namibia's Etosha National park
One of the things we girls struggle with is the question of "do I pass or am I passing". Of course I have had this thought too but I prefer to look at it as to whether I look ok and m dressed appropriately for what I am doing and where I am going. Sure I have had plenty of people tell me I look good. Of course that feels good but you don't really know if you are passing as a female. As I said I am not thinking, and never have, that I am passing so I will just do my best to be the best woman I can be! I put together a few photos of some of the times I "felt" passable but that is just in my feelings, not trying to fool myself.
(Left to right starting on the top left.;
1- Going out to dinner at a fancy place with a good friend.
2- Shopping at the mall. The skirt was mine and to top was form the store and thought it was really sexy! Sales girl in the photo agreed! YAY!
3- In South Beach Miami having drinks, dancing, and just having a good time. One of the best nights of my life!
4- In a local bar partying with people I had just met after I sat down. The girl next to me kept saying "show off those legs"!
5- Halloween badminton girls in costume. Dare I say what is in some of your minds "we were looking for cocks.......shuttlecocks !".
6- At the Guess store in the mall. Posing with much younger girls in hoping to make myself look younger! LOL
7- Blues sisters. Out with my GF having drinks at a high class restaurant. We had drinks sent over from 2 guys at the other side of the bar. My GF said " I guess you're passing as a genuine girl!". Music to my ears!
8- At the Marciano store the day I bought my red floral dress. This sales girl was so hot with the sexiest legs in her short shorts! Took her half an hour until I needed help zipping into a dress when she saw my breast forms to realize I was a crossdresser. Wow
9- I went to a singles mixer in Ft. Lauderdale, very crowded. It was there that I met my friend Marisol. She was total fun and agreed to be each other's "wing girl" for the night.
10- LBDs. At a club. $20 cover but ladies free before midnight. Guess who went in free? ME!!!! Hung out with this pretty girl for a while after telling her how much I liked her dress. This was another GREAT night out in my sexy strapless leather mini dress!
I took this shot a few weeks ago when I saw a large flock of birds passing Lindisfarne Castle.I think they are Pochards but if anyone knows different can you let me know.
Nikon D90 Nikkor AF-S DX 18-105mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR
As I was shooting the small falls in front of me I heard a noise behind me. I was able to get turned around and set up just in time to capture this person passing through the small window at the end of the stream.
I was so caught up in shooting the small falls I almost missed this shot. Always remember to look behind you, you never know what you could be missing.
From the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage website (www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...):
History:
The railway from Wentworth Falls to Mount Victoria was opened in 1868, passing through what was to become Katoomba. The Great Western Railway was intended to initially reach Bathurst but, beyond that town, its terminus was not stated.
The station opened in 1874 as 'The Crushers'. A sandstone quarry suitable for producing ballast for the construction and maintenance of the line was developed just to the north of the line, and from 1874 The Crushers was a stopping-place for trains with quarrymen, equipment and wagons for transporting ballast. A platform was provided in 1877 close to the level-crossing keeper's cottage (demolished in 1902).
In 1881 a new timber platform and station were built, to the west of the level-crossing. The goods yard between the stations and Bathurst Road (then the Great Western Highway) was developed in 1883-4. This expansion was necessary because of Katoomba's growth in the 1880s and 1890s as a tourist and local commercial centre. The goods yard contains a valuable collection of traditional railway structures, including the 5 ton jib crane (no. T171), the goods shed 54’ x 12’ dating in part from 1881 and an unusual curved timber loading platform. There is also an office for the yard gatekeeper and for a signalman, all dating from the early 1900s.
In 1891, the 1881 station building was moved to the improved goods yard to the south. The Katoomba Times reported on 10 October 1891 that 'the old Katoomba station building is to be the goods shed, and was put into position last Wednesday (7 October 1891)', with the 1884 crane adjacent to the east. Around 1921 the goods yard was altered, the siding was realigned and the goods shed (the former station of 1881) was moved 18 metres to the east, where it still resides. The 1884 five-tonne crane was moved along with the shed to its present position.
The present island platform and building at Katoomba date from 1891 and was constructed for £6,922 (including the subway) by Quiggan and Kermode, builders. They are unusual for two reasons. Firstly, the timber building is curved and, secondly, the building design was only used in the Sydney metropolitan rail system. It is the only such building constructed outside the Central to Parramatta line. It is one of 4 such structures remaining extant from a number of stations containing Type 10 buildings including Newtown, MacDonaldtown, Ashfield, Lewisham (all demolished - possibly other examples) and Summer Hill, Homebush and Croydon (extant). Extensions to the building in the same style were carried out in 1913 for £216. Its dominant feature is the extension of the roof bearers to form awnings on both sides and the position of small ornate brackets under the awning beams, marking a transition from the use of posted verandas to cantilevered awnings. The platform was reached by the use of a pedestrian subway constructed in 1891, which were rare outside Sydney.
The other main platform building is the elevated, timber signal box, which was commissioned in 1903. The signal box contains a cam and tappet 40 lever interlocking machine that was installed in 1945. It is typical of the construction time and is similar to boxes at Mount Victoria, Newnes Junction, Lithgow Yard and Exeter.
The line was duplicated in 1902. A two-room timber building was built on the western end of the platform in 1909 for an inspector and an electrician and this building was extended in 1945 for use as a staff meal room. An 'out-of' shed completed the platform structures.
At the entrance to the Station are the ‘Progress Buildings’ which are shown on a plan as part of a new ‘Booking and Parcels Office Building’ dated 20/12/1938. The buildings are a single storey group of three shops facing south to Bathurst Road with an additional shopfront facing east to the exit from the railway station subway. The eastern most shop, 283-285 Bathurst Road, retains its original brass shopfront, albeit with some modification, and tiled piers between, the shop entries are recessed from the street with splayed shopfront reveals. The tiled and marble threshold records the name "MARX" an early Katoomba businessman who used the premises. The Progress Buildings are still owned by RailCorp and leased for private business.
The railway residence at 8 Abbotsford Rd was sold in 1964.
Why significant?
Katoomba Railway Station and Yard is of state significance as a unique railway site in NSW developed around a former ballast quarry and is significant for demonstrating Katoomba’s growth in the 1880s and 1890s as the first tourist and local commercial centre in the Blue Mountains, before the duplication of the Western line in 1902.
The 1891 station building is significant as one of few surviving timber railway station buildings known as ' Standard Eddy', designed under Commissioner Eddy, and demonstrating the introduction of island platform buildings in NSW. Katoomba station building is the only known example of this station type outside the inner city area and is unique to the other examples for its curved form along the platform. The adjacent signal box with its garden beds and planting is also an important and integral element within the station group and is a rare example of a timber on-platform signal box.
The site of the goods yard is of particular significance as it was part of the original Katoomba station precinct dating from 1878, which was used for locomotive turning and minor servicing and stabling of trains. While fulfilling a minor railway use at present for per way maintenance, it contains two relatively rare items, which are the former 1881 timber station building as its goods shed and the 1891 crane.
The station group comprises a homogenous collection of timber structures adding significance to the townscape and streetscape with direct relationships to both. Situated at the focal point of Katoomba, the station is connected visually and physically to the town's commercial heart by the pedestrian subway and landscaped surrounds. The adjacent Progress Buildings from part of the station group and contribute to the early 20th Century character of the commercial precinct of Katoomba with their largely intact shopfronts.