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Perhaps I've had too many gin and tonics, but these marine parts seemed to resemble a mountain range to me … perhaps even with the sun going down on them!!!
Perhaps one of the greatest victories in railfanning is a well-timed hole in an otherwise cloudy sky revealing the sunshine.
Flurries were flying most of the day when an 86-car St Cloud local came out of Northtown.
As you can tell, the sucker hole lined up perfectly with the train's arrival. I wasn't originally going to set up in downtown Big Lake, but when I saw a hole in the clouds, I just had hope and went for it, so glad I did.
Leading the local on this day is BNSF 2240, a GP38-2R. What's fascinating about this unit is when it was repainted in the late 2000s to its current paint, the headlight was moved from the cab to the nose. Yet within the last couple of years, that was reversed when PTC was installed.
High-headlights are a weird fetish of mine when it comes to older BNSF power these days, I like it. In fact, the geep being a cab-mounted headlight is why I went out for it.
Anyway, another victory thanks to the sucker-hole magic I apparently possess. They call me sucker-hole king now, not sure I'd go that far, but I have been really blessed with good luck lately.
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BNSF 2240 - GP38-2R
BNSF 2649 - GP39-3
Perhaps my favourite from this day of gorgeous "photographer's" light. Again, I marvel at the wonderful position of that Scots Pine, standing apart from the others, and here also being separated by the light.
(Taken the day before my previous upload of "Castle Light", a few days ago.)
Perhaps a two to two and one-half year old bird. Photographed at a nesting site in Tiishomingo County, Mississippi, along with friends Shelby and Stephen.
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Perhaps a bit too pretty for some but a revisit to the Lune valley on Referendum Day prompted a shot from the Fairmile Road which sees a Virgin Voyager working the 11.43 London Euston - Glasgow (9S65) service, and running 27 minutes late as it happened.
Luckily the height of the Fairmile Road hides the worst excesses of the M6 motorway, and interesting too that despite being electrified the railway cuts a pretty small visual footprint in this stunning setting. As always good to see the pink and white foxgloves making an occasional stand in the rampant bracken.
23rd June 2016
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You dont associate Q1 locos with passenger. Do they have steam heating perhaps summer only ?
A valiant attempt! I liked this pose even though it wasn’t the one I hoped to get. After this she decided to rush in to the bag & straight out again - so fast that my photo only showed blurred fur. Bella needs to practise her technique for playing with bags & I need to practise taking action shots! Happy Caturday.
Perhaps one of my better photos of this medieval church, located just a short walk from where I live.
Perhaps this photo is not technically perfect, but those who follow me know that I can't resist take couples pics !! I was coming home and they were just coming to this park in Monza, I would think that they had a beautiful Sunday in autumn !!
Perhaps this old chestnut has been seen one too many times in the previous posting on my old account.
Minolta XD7 with Rokkor-X 55mm f/1.7 on Portra 400@400
April 14, 2013
Perhaps one of the busiest ports in the southern hemisphere in the mid 1800s Merriman Street is at the end of Millers Point - where Jack the Miller had his windmill. Hence Windmill St where we now live. - Thank you Jack. the "S" shapes hold the walls together - the corrugated iron water tank is where the lift comes up from the old stables below - very clever design in the renovation of this old sandstone building. Late afternoon Sunday with kids playing in the park opposite.
EXPLORE - Oct.12, 2014 - #278
T. E. Lawrence
“perhaps the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world.”
"Certainement le château au monde le mieux préservé et le mieux conservé dans son entité" Laurence d'Arabie
Le Krak des Chevaliers, ou Krak de l'Hospital — krak dérive du syriaque karak signifiant forteresse ,
Qal`at al-Hosn (La forteresse imprenable) ou
Hisn al-Akrād (forteresse des Kurdes)
La forteresse est construite sur une colline de 750 mètres de haut aux flancs abrupts
Les chevaliers de l'Hôpital (ou Hospitaliers) gérèrent le fort de 1142 - offert par Raymond II, Comte de Tripoli - jusqu' à 1271, date de sa conquête par Az-Zâhir Rukn ad-Dîn Baybars al-Bunduqdari - Baybars Ier - sultan des Mamelouks. Il ne put malgré tout s'emparer du krak que par la ruse : il envoya une fausse missive, émanant prétendument du Grand Maître des Templiers, enjoignant aux assiégés de se rendre.
En 1157, un important tremblement de terre ébranla le château et Raymond du Puy, le grand maître des Hospitaliers, le fit restaurer et agrandir, nouveau tremblement de terre en 1170
Saladin (mort en 1193) eut beau infliger de nombreuses défaites aux croisés, ne put s'emparer du krak des Chevaliers
un des châteaux médiévaux les mieux préservé au monde
13 tours, écuries, salles, magasins, citernes, passages et ponts
à 40 km à l'ouest de la ville de Homs, proche de la frontière du Liban, à 30 km à vol d'oiseau de la mer
Le 20 mars 2014, le château, jusque-là tenu par la rébellion, est repris par les forces gouvernementales
surface totale de 2,5 hectares protégée par deux enceintes concentriques entièrement indépendantes.
13 tours, écuries, salles, magasins, citernes, ponts et passages. Le krak hébergeait une garnison de 2 000 hommes et possédait des vivres pour cinq ans.
Krak des Chevaliers - Crusader castle - one of the most important preserved medieval castles in the world. The site was first inhabited in the 11th century by a settlement of Kurds; as a result it was known as Hisn al Akrad, meaning the Castle of the Kurds;. In 1142 given by Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, to the Knights Hospitaller.
Due to an earthquake in 1157, followed by another one in 1170, the castle was restored and enlarged,
It remained in their possession until it fell in 1271.
after a siege lasting 36 days, supposedly by way of a forged letter purportedly from the Hospitallers' Grand Master that caused the Knights to surrender.
It became known as Crac de l'Ospital; the name Krak des Chevaliers was coined in the 19th century.
could house up to 2.000 men and food for 5 years
located 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of the city of Homs, close to the border of Lebanon, 30 km from the sea, the castle sits atop a 750-metre-high (2,130 ft) hill
13 towers, cisterns, barrracks, shops, stables, bridges
The Syrian Arab Army recaptured the castle and the village of al-Hosn from rebel forces on March 20, 2014
perhaps my favorite lens....Takumar 1:1.9 85mm
fitted with #1 extension tube. Aperature priority and
mid morning sunlight
Perhaps you'll remember the original Piscialetto rulez serie.
This is the same meadow 12 days after. Enjoy!
Perhaps the 15th October 1992 was a mainly cloudy day, and the typical happens when you are wrong side for the sun !
58024 departs Bolsover with empty HEA's.
Bolsover colliery is the back drop, with lines into the Coalite plant going off to the right.
Eroded gullies and ridges in soft light, Zabriskie Point.
In the right light (and perhaps with a certain amount of post-processing) the geological patterns in a place like this can be drawn out and emphasized. But most of the time they are actually rather subtle, with low levels of contrast and pastel colors. This is especially true early and late in the day when the formations are not in direct sunlight. In this series of photographs from Zabriskie Point I decided to go with the low contrast light and allow subtleties of shape, texture, and color to predominate.
In another post I mentioned that I ended up here because in the predawn twilight I thought I saw the potential for a spectacular sunrise sky. You can rarely predict such things with certainty, and this time the colors did not develop as I hoped. Since I was there and set up to make photographs, I decided to use a long lens and focus on smaller details of this area’s landscape.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.
Perhaps the young wildlife of Africa think this with some joy, but I bet it is usually with great fear. Trust me this young zebra was surrounded by its mother and many others as they searched for water and and a place to graze in Nairobi National Park.
I love how their main is brown in some places and their tails are so pretty too. It is often somewhat of a feat to isolate them in a picture because of how close they stay to the adults.
Perhaps I am a purist but it always baffles me when I see the delicate beauty of natural species and compare them to the often awful monstrosities cultivated by those who seem to think they can outdo nature.
Begonia sutherlandii at Buffelskloof Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga.
We used to have Canada Geese here only in warmer months, but now they are here all year. Perhaps these individuals spent the summer farther north.
Taken on a dark, rainy morning, this 100 metre long natural chasm in the Staffordshire Peak District is known as Lud's Church. Formed eons ago by a landslip, it is believed to have been used for pagan worship as only on midsummer's day does sunlight penetrate it's very lowest depths. More certainty is given to the story that the Lollards worshipped here secretly during the early 15th century, when they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs by the Catholic Church. Indeed, Lud's Church may have got it's name from Walter de Lud-Auk who was captured here by Royalist soldiers during one of the meetings.
Western pygmy blue (Brephidium exilis)
A wingspan of 12-20 mm makes this the smallest butterfly in North America and one of the very smallest in the world. Shown here on one of its hostplants (atriplex semibaccata) at the Don Edwards NWR at Alviso California.
I have a sharper image of a butterfly of this species at www.flickr.com/photos/25673579@N04/28730652937/in/datepos... but yesterday I could not find one in ideal light, and the only one I found more than 8" [20 cm] off the ground flew off when I approached.
* Unattributed quotation found at www.pinterest.com/pin/451134087649939090/
These days, everybody needs something to hold on to...
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Coimbra, Portugal
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Location: Coimbra (Portugal) - 2008, June the 1st
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Scream all you wish. Hold your breath until you turn blue. Clench your fists and stomp your feet. Lay on your back and kick your legs. Cover your head with a pillow and yell "enough already with the snow!"
Mother Nature will decide when Spring hath Sprung. And, how it will look. Not you. Not me. Not us collectively pleading. You cannot bargain with or demand of Nature. She has no calendar. No need for one. And, yours is meaningless.
Did you not know that, dear Humans?
"The insufferable arrogance of human beings is to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit." - Cyrano de Bergerac
A few days ago it was 61 degrees at 7am with delicious southerly breezes. Today it is 32 and snowing; a beautiful, light, graceful and fluffy snow that lays gently upon all that it falls. Don't see the beauty in that? In a postcard, painterly snow. Your loss.
“Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” - Doug Larson
For most of us, today's snow will be gone by tomorrow, and the Daffodils and Forsythia will recover, stand up straight and flirt with us again with their luscious bumblebee and lemon yellow colors. Or not. Did you miss it? Did you blink? Did you pass by nature's subtle spring awakening these past few days without notice?
Did you have better things to do?
"When Spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest." - Ernest Hemingway
Textures courtesy: www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica
I visited the goats after tending to the chickens at Wright-Locke Farm today. Will was enjoying a snack before bedtime.
There are a few things going on this image which may not be immediately apparent to the viewer, but having been so intimately involved in the process of creating this photograph, I have some insight on to share. If you are a regular follower of my feed, you'll likely know I do a lot of long exposure work. As in, super long. Typically I work with at least a 9 stop ND filter but often combine it with a second or go to a standalone 15 stop ND. Over the years, and thousands of photos, I have learned that film responds in some unusual ways when such strong ND filters get combined. Color film is not terribly IR sensitive, so the fact that my filters don't have IR-blocking coatings on them seems less like the issue. My working theory is that these filters pass more UV light than visible light and color film does have sensitivity that dips into the UV end of the spectrum. So in a sense I am getting some degree of UV over-exposure. The non-technical way of describing this is that my super long exposure color photography can get some funky colors to it. At first I worked to correct this back to "normal", with "normal" of course merely being the subjective benchmark I applied based on how my eyes and brain saw the world. Over time though I became less interested in normal. Part of that is because I don't need the photos to show me normal. I can see that with my own eyes. Rather, I enjoy seeing the alternative perspectives. What does the world look like if one can see a bit farther into UV, for example. The second thing going on is I am using a new color film put out by Silberra. I have not shot much of this film, so its behaviors and qualities is still unexplored ground for me. And I do like my unexplored ground. And lastly, I am always a bit fascinated at our own brain's ability to adapt to changing color temperatures and filter them back to what we call normal. This image was made late into sunset, and while the clouds were getting painted with some nice light, the beach itself had descended into a deep blue dusk. I couldn't see this blue of course because of the aforementioned workings of my brain. In fact, the beach looked more like it does in this photo, with a neutral sandy color, but reference photos made on my phone with the white balance set to daylight showed me the blue.
That is the backdrop for this photo. Once scanned I started doing some light processing to it, mostly cleaning up dust marks or the occasional film scratch. I balanced the exposure across the scene a bit but largely didn't touch the color too much other than some global corrections. And this image is the result. The colors that came out are a bit surreal. It is a subtle surrealism for sure, no crazy juxtapositions going on here, but one I enjoy.
Hasselblad 500C
Silberra Color 50