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Posting old photos..have not been in SL for over 2 months. I hope you all are having a grand St. Patty's day. Thank you for stopping by and peeking in.♥
This replaces an earlier posting: a Rock Island SW1 (537) heads an eastbound local over Santa Fe Ave. In a little more than three years I'd work for two months as a switchman out of Harter Yard, to which this crew is probably headed to tie up. We had two jobs that headed west out of Harter in the morning, went by here and past Union Station, and then worked industries to the west of downtown OKC. The "West Yard" headed into an area that contained spurs off of what must have been the Rock's original mainline through OKC, before Union Station was built in 1931. The "OK Rail" went further west and then switched into a spur that went north to NW39th Street, and then headed east along 39th to industries including a lumber yard. I never asked about the origin of the name "OK Rail", but it appears from what I can find that those tracks were along the remains of the Oklahoma Railway, an interurban that had a pretty extensive reach in central Oklahoma into the '30s. And that nifty little Nash "Rambler" was an attempt by the Kenosha (Wisconsin) based auto manufacturer to break into - or more likely to INVENT - the compact car market. I believe this is about a 1950-model, and like many other older cars down there it was in great shape - no road salt in use.
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Late posting today. I was up and down from the roof getting the swamp cooler (evaporative cooler) ready for warmer weather.
It's been up into the 70sºF (20sºC) lately. It won't be long before we get a lot warmer.
Knock on wood, I only had to go to the hardware store once.
It was pretty funny there. All of us on the checkout line in this small mom and pop store were 2m apart, but when new customers would come and talk to an employee, they'd be brushing shoulders with us. The employee gave me a dirty look when I mentioned that to him. He also had a full beard scraggling out from the mask that didn't cover his nose. I didn't mention that to him. I needed the filter screen for the swamp cooler pump.
Well, that's the adventure for today.
Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!
Sorry for posting and running - I haven't been feeling too well for the past couple of days. I've got a fever one minute and am freezing cold the next!
I'm going back to my sickbed for now, but I'll try and catch up with everyone over the weekend...
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Posting this image in honour of World Elephant Day 2017.
Image created on May 25, 2015 in Etosha National Park, Namibia Cropped for composition.
So, after posting the picture I called "Gateway to Narnia" I had to go back and see where that road led. The Pink Gateway led to a Pink House!
I could have been arrested though.
It leads to an untenanted, but in-use farm belonging to Mrs. Coggins.
There is a security system there, and apparently my presence was detected. I was met on my way out by a burly fellow in a truck whose main concern was that I wasn't hunting, but the two cameras told him the story and he waved and continued up the driveway.
When I got to the gate, Mrs. Coggins herself was there and challenged me. She was quite gracious however when I explained what I was doing and I gave her my card and told her I'd send her my shots.
Nikon D7000 wearing my Nikon 16-35mm VR lens, shot handheld.
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Posting a couple of images of Pangolins again to raise awareness of a change in the status of two African Pangolin species. The White-bellied and Giant were moved from "vulnerable" to "endangered" by the IUCN; the planet’s most comprehensive information source on the global status of animal, plant and fungus species.
Also, the Philippine pangolin in Asia was moved from "endangered" to "critically endangered". No changes for were made for the species that these images show, the Ground Pangolin, but they're still listed as "vulnerable". You can read more here:
www.pangolinsg.org/2019/12/23/iucn-red-list-update-highli...
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Posting for Tony's once over in the group "I am no expert". Image just converted to B&W, played with tones and cropped to 16:9.
Still posting old material until new adventures arise.
This is Real Madrid's Bernabéu stadium in 2015 which is being rebuild right now (2021).
Great game yesterday in EURO2020: Portugal - France (2-2). Incredible amount of quality on the pitch. Karim 2x and CR7 2x, like in the old days.
Who will win the tournament? The French probably have the best players but I like England too. Very fresh and dynamic.
posting Pixinsight flow, capture data in previous posts
work flow Pixinsight
batch preprocessing LRGB
registered LRGB
Dynamic crop LRGB
Linear fit
create super lum pixel math mean (LRGB)
LRGB combine with superlum
crop
Histogram stretch, mulitple
(extract LUM for seaprate processing)
curves
MMT chromatic noise
MMT lum
exponential transform smoothing 50 x2
split RGB
LUM:
deconvolution (maybe a litle too much)
unsharp mask
curves
New LRGB
exponential transform .5/50 smooth
HDR w range mask for just nebula
curves w range mask
color calibration
histogram stretch final
histogram stretch final w range mask
star reduction
Photoshop
tweak color channels, saturation etc.
This is my submission for approval to join National Geographic Your Shot Group on Flickr. Sorry I missed a screenshot of my front page but this is a screenshot of one of my first postings
I posted this earlier and it was darker and more dramatic looking. I happen to look at it on a different screen and found it to be too dark and on some screens might be almost back. I reprocessed the image and lightened it up and while on my computer screen I prefer the first version, some may find this easier to view.
Posting a shot from summer, on this winter's day.
Sunset. Somewhere beautiful.
I wish to you warmth and sunshine.
Cheers!
A teenage boy holding a guitar poses as his father takes his photo with the latter's smartphone camera.
When I asked the father what the occasion was just after I showed this shot to him and to his son, he said that he just wanted to post his son's picture on Facebook. His son, he further said, is a member of a choir at a village Methodist church.
Captured at a gas station in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
Just posting to let all followers know I am still here. My move up to Northern Germany is complete, new job sorted and at last I can get back to my Photography. The weather as to be expected here up North is just a deluge of rain but still it can produce a photo.
Good to be back, have a great weekend all.
Posting some more old stuff... of Al Khazneh... till the next adventures.
Petra is probably Jordan's biggest attraction. In the afternoon it's crazy hot and crazy crowded. Be like Gilbert, take a hotel in Petra and make sure you are there when the gates open in the morning.
Look at this picture. Where are the tourists? Sleeping and eating breakfast. Not Gilbert. Gilbert was taking pictures but Gilbert was hungry.
This place was believed to be created in the 1st century AD and discovered in the beginning of the 19th century. Tourism started after WWI.
Posting and running this morning! Will catch up with your beautiful streams later this afternoon. :)
We arrived in Tahoe early in the afternoon, did the whirlwind tour of Tahoe. What a pretty day, sunny, warm and party cloudy. Our first goal was to scout out the location of known photo ops, but also to find some new ones. We found several areas that we are going to go back to when the weather is better. A few parts in the back country, which I am really happy about. Since I have been trying to get Jim to go on a back packing trip for years.
Our scouting led us into Nevada to look for the elusive bonsai rock. Luckily, I had a GPS with the coordinates. So I set the GPS to navigate, so we would know how close we were to the parking/trailhead as we drove south. I looked over the edge of the cliff and could see bonsai, but the GPS still said 4.2 miles, then after another minute of driving the GPS beeped to illustrate that we were there. Oh well, just goes to show that technology still has a way to go.
We took the long straight down, boulder hoping route to bonsai. With camera gear, wading boots and extra warm clothes in tow... it was a bit of a journey. Luckily, we spent a few hours there, so the trip was worth it.
I posting an image from twilight, since Jim's sunset can not be beat.
Nikon D300
Tokina 11-16mm @ 13mm
f/16 for 100.4s
ISO 100
Lee .6 soft GND
Singh-Ray 3 stop reverse GND
Posting two panoramic stitched shots taken the same morning at Acadia National Park. The blue hour photo was taken about 30 minutes prior to the red hour photo. Easy to tell which is which. It was amazing watching the sky change colors that morning, and the effects on the lighting to the landscape there. It was a very magical morning.
Still posting from the archive! I do rather like this one though, it was taken late summer last year up on Ramshaw Rocks overlooking the mighty Roaches. She can't really see our house because she's facing the wrong way - if she did a 180 deg turn she might stand a chance!
Lola does like an adventure - she loves these rocks and big open spaces - will be going again very soon - no excuse as it's only a few miles away from home!
Christmas gift from family to see Cirque Stratosphere at SOH.
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
The Barred Owl (Strix varia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_Owl
Photographs taken at the Dinner Island Wildlife Management Area south of Clewiston, Florida: March 27, 2010
Posting every day, I find naming the images the hardest part. Having thousands of Snowy Owl's on file, one runs out of ideas...
The coast cleared earlier than expected and this tawny kestrel was keeping watch on Pierce Point Road.
A window of the Institute of Social Buildings in Garbatella district in Rome.
Una finestra dell'Istituto Delle Case Popolare del quartiere Garbatella, a Roma.
Mikey is posting one of my 80s pix! Fittingly, my fam gave me a pic scanner today, on Father"s Day.
This is a photo of Conrail WAMI-2 (taken 3-17-87). Unfortunately, this job was one of the first that Conrail began operating with a two man crew (no brakeman). MI-2 worked out of Middleboro, heading to N. Bedford M-W-F and Fall River Tu-Th days. (MI-1 went to Attleboro Sun-Thu nights, MI-3 to Braintree Mon-Fri days).
Posing for the pic that day was my late Dad, conductor Bill Matta Jr (Left), who originally hired out w/ the New Haven RR at Taunton Yard) & his engineer, Hubba Ryan (Right), who trained as a fireman with my Grandpa, Bill Matta Sr., on the New Haven RR, A couple of months later I would begin my own railroad career.
Happy Father's Day to everyone!
posting sketches from recent trip. ink wash over ink line drawing.
(oops didn't realise I mirrored the scan apologies . rectified now)
This shot is from the archives, I always meant to post it but I had been posting a lot of Elvis (Red-shouldered hawk) and somehow missed this one.
Currently, I am looking through the archives for a couple of reasons, one because I'm going to have pillows made from a couple of my images for the living room and the other is because I just haven't had time to get out and shoot lately.
Anyway, on this magical day a few years back, Elvis had come to visit. He landed in a branch of oak one just above where I was standing with the camera nearby, while watering some plants. He allowed me to take several shots while he was surveying his prospects for lunch.
After taking several shots, I had decided to leave him to his business and go about mine. After all, my chores weren't going to take care of themselves. So around oak one I went with the camera and water hose in tow.
Suddenly Elvis dropped from the branch into the yard within about six feet of me. I chatted with him a bit as he starting hopping towards the pond. I backed up and took several shots just because he said I could.
In this image he had been checking out the pond but apparently heard something of interest behind him. It was a lizard, Elvis became quite twisted up in the game of hunting for a moment. I thought I was going to get a few action shots.
However, he didn't go for the lizard. Once again, he began checking out the pond as if he were interested in something more substantial than a lizard. Perhaps he was in the mood for a frog instead. Elvis eventually gave up and left the yard with an empty belly.
Oh how I miss this particular RSH. He was so friendly and always allowed images to be taken. Others visit but they leave as soon as I enter the yard and they rarely stop by when I am out.
Magical moments come and go, I hope I am always able to appreciate them. Taking images sure helps me remember them.
Have a fantastic Friday and a wonderful weekend. Happy snapping.