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An inbound Metra train passes a BNSF container train at the Metra station in Berwyn, Illinois, on the Chicago Raceway. (Scanned from a slide)
It may not be obvious, but both of these trains are westbound on the NS Chicago Line in Chesterton, Indiana. I was able to capture both thanks to the empty steel coil cars on the local on Track 2.
A substantial BNSF manifest freight train grinds uphill as it passes Cameron Road.
Led by 7642, a General Electric ES44DC locomotive
A tram for Beckenham Junction skirts round the edge of Beckenham Cemetery.
Beckenham, Bromley
17 January 2021
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
Ivatt '2MT' 2-6-0 no.46521 passing Kinchley Lane with the Loughborough-Leicester North train.
Remember that pictures look better if viewed using Lightroom (L key).
A group of 3 light engines heading to Portage La Prairie on the Carberry Sub. While a oil tanker train passes with a KCS engine on the rear going bye.
I've had these water images up for some time; however, I didn't include any information regarding the subject matter or the methods used to create the shots. So, even though no one has asked for the information . . . here it is anyway :-).
General Information:
If you have read this part in one of the other "water" images: you can skip down to Image-Specific Information: because this is the same stuff.
For the most part, the water images are the reverse of the "water drop" images in high-speed photography. Instead of droplets spreading out into the air after bouncing off the top surface of water, these images show air pockets spreading out through water after an object has penetrated the surface.
The shooting perspective is an underwater view of the water's top surface (actually the under side of the water's top surface). Interestingly, due to the angle, the images actually look more natural when viewed upside down (which is how they are displayed here).
Another interesting effect of the shooting angle is how the under-surface of the water acts like a mirror. The under-surface reflects the surroundings --as determine by angle of incidence-- with such great efficiency that light above the water is virtually invisible until an object penetrates the water's surface --at which point, the disruption acts like a sort of "wormhole" to the top, allowing light from above to travel through the water and reflect off the surfaces of the air pockets created by the falling object.
Finally, another cool effect is the multitude of reflective surfaces created by the air pockets and the ripples after an object breaks the water's surface. By placing colored gels outside the initial angle of view, the new surfaces created by air pockets were able to reflect different colors of light. Additionally, disruptions at the water's surface occasionally allows light from above to travel through the "wormhole" and reflect off of the surfaces created underwater.
The color in these images results from the reflection of colored gels and/or colored paper placed at various points around the set, not from Photoshop.
Image-Specific Information:
This is an acrylic ball traveling through the water. It has completely passed through the surface, and has completely shed its air envelope. The bottom of the ball has been captured just before it passes from the field of view. A blue-cyan gel was used to reflect color from the under-surface of the water, the rest of the water is transmitting light from the white diffuser in front of the micro-flash.
Dave Newsham powers along the National Pit Straight.
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Union Pacific B23-7 No. 139 leads a northbound local past UD Tower in Joliet, Illinois, and across tracks used by Metra and Iowa Interstate. (Scanned from a Kodachrome slide)
Passing by.
My fetish for feet and shoes isn't passing by though...
This is a video clip. You can watch it on Vimeo.
Photo taken with a Colorsplash camera (see the complete set here)
Cades Cove | GSMNP | July 24, 2011
Title: Passing Through
Camera Info:
Nikon D700 | Nikkor 200mm Æ’/2G ED VRII | Handheld
On Black (Press L)
Thanks for viewing!
Jim
©2011 Jim Servies Photography
All Rights Reserved.
Sorry for the lack of updates, folks. With Christmas happening and visitung, there hasnt been much time for anything but some mobile photos. We got quite a bit of snow in the last 24 hours, though, so hopefully I can get some new photos up soon.
In other news, I bought my (first) very own guitar 2 days ago (i'll upload something of that later on as well). I hope all has been well!
A pretty smart thing to do. This young lady pulled up a doggy bed to sit on and read her text book as she waited for her Mom to try on clothes.
Collett Goods 3205 passes the distant signal for Buckfastleigh.
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Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
This 4th generation Ford F series truck sits in the front lot of an Sogn shop in Genona, IL. Shot on a Pentax 6x7 using Kodak film.
Nick passes the "baton" (laminated 24 Hours of Moab business card) to me with a flourish on our second run through the batting order. This time, I was ready to go and not in the tent applying sunscreen.