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After my previous visit to the USA, my first locomotive photograph on my return was of a class 60 of Brush works, Loughborough. This time a pair of Doncaster built 56's had the honour. It's always nice to be welcomed back to home soil with some heritage British Railways traction! 56113 & 56078 storm pass Great Strickland working 6J37 Carlisle - Chirk. This train is normally handled by a GE class 70, and I'd seen more than enough GE products over the previous few weeks in California! 10 March 2023.
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Looking at my previous image, you can imagine that past this point in time the moon would move away from the Ankeballe to set further to the right. But while taking these images I started to notice some illuminated specs right below me: probably better prepared photographers, showing up on time for their predetermined composition. Since I felt I got my shots from the current position, I rushed downhill and a bit to the left. Result: the supermoon was lining up with the Ankeballe again, and this time much closer. So I took a couple of shots, this being one of the last ones where the moon was cradled by the trees of the Ankeballe. Notably, by this time most other people there already packed their gear… All in all, it was a night to remember. Only minimal planning panned out greatly for me this time. And sitting for hours in a moonlit landscape in Baselland, Switzerland was just ❤
The previous post was from my favorite night of shooting in California (and perhaps anywhere) and this was is as well, only about 16 minutes later and facing the other direction.
I was thrilled after arriving when I realized the long sloping shore and low tide made for perfect reflections. I had never shot a reflection before and didn't have much to go on so I did a mix of both long and short exposures for the next few hours.
As I shot, the sky became more and more vibrant and the intensity of the sunset was unlike anything I've ever seen. The colors changed rapidly and the concentrated crimson sky in the previous post seemed to appear out of nowhere and faded not too long after. For about a half hour, people slowly gathered around the area I was shooting, watching the sky and taking videos and photos with their phones.
After the crimson began to fade away, the people left and I was all alone on the beach again, shooting until the last dot of color was gone from the sky. A bit of that fiery red is still visible in the far right and the colors were still very bold at this point, but it wasn't long after this that the only light between me and the pier was the the flashlight on my phone and the planes overhead.
I arrived here in no hurry and with very little expectations other than the hope for a nice sunset and a new place to shoot. I ended up being the last person to leave the beach and I returned a half dozen times over the next month hoping for a repeat sky that never came.
Venice Beach Pier
Venice, California
January 27th, 2016
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@24mm
ISO 200
f/10
10 seconds
CPL
Sem fotos, com preguiça pra tirar novas, e ainda quero uma maquina decente ;X Vou responder os comentários da foto anterior, (:
Amor, te amo hihi.
I'm without pictures, and i'm lazy to take news. I will answer the comments of the previous picture.
Baby, I love you hihi.
Contrary to my previous image where Jebel Misht was seen from the height, this time the POV is from the bottom, again with haze, although significantly less.
Nikon D850
Nikon 19mm f/4
1/50s at f/8
RAW ISO 100
09/10/2019
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Previously, the mighty Nooksack River emptied into the Salish Sea at this point. It was redirected in the 60's and now empties into Bellingham Bay. Old pilings used as a breakwater are still in place here.
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After the road train from the previous photostream post had left, the local rolls east coming off the branch as only a caboose hop. This was back in the day when locomotive variety was still a thing on Class 1's. As if two C-628's that just left weren't enough, the local has two varieties of Baldwin rebuilds for power. Lead unit #1489 is an ex-MKT Baldwin/EMD AS-16M while second unit #1507 is a C&NW original Baldwin/EMD DRS-6-6-1500M. Not only can you not imagine these type of oddballs being assembled by today's railroads, it's even harder to imagine one road buying them from another. The C&NW owned 13 of those ex-MKT things. The branch remains partially in service under the CN, but in C&NW days it stretched as far as Wisconsin, and at one time was a source of relatively heavy ore traffic.
The area previously served as a wood production plantation for matchstick making. Now flooded again for their original inhabitants, the waterfowl. (Het Vinne, Zoutleeuw, Belgium)
[Explored, Mar 22, 2023]:
1931 built 99 222, the only survivor of 3 built, climbs away from Schierke with the 10.25 service for the Brocken
Note, re-edit of a previously posted picture from 2020
Previously grouped with the Ibis genus, the Milky Stork is now part of the genus Mycteria, together with e.g. the Painted Stork and the American Woodstork. It is listed as an endangered species due to loss of habitat throughout Southeast Asia but also due to extensive inbreeding with the Painted Stork. I saw two birds during my visit but I am not 100% either is a pure Milky Stork as not all of the plumage conditions can be seen in my pictures. The likelihood is however high as there are several confirmed sightings for this species in Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore, where I found these birds.
As I was driving up the road from shooting the train in a previous location, I was looking for a quick spot to grab a shot as the train was fast approaching. Seen here the CSXT 1776 rounds the final curve into Millville, WV and provided for a nice elevated shot of the engine.
Finally the weather was fairly good on a weekend. I got a chance to go shooting. Teamed up with Skarpi and my wife and we went to the Borgarfjörður area. Out objective was to shoot mountain scapes near Skarðsheiði but cloudy weather covered all the peaks. We drove further inland to a beautiful area near Húsfell. Instead of stopping at the popular Hraunfossar waterfall (would have stopped there 2-3 weeks ago when the foliage colors where at peak) we drove even further to a river that I had previously spotted while driving over Kaldidalur mountain pass.
The cold weather of fall has changed the usual brown color of the glacier rivers to a much nicer blue color. The narrow gorge recently cut through a lava field was really interesting as was the color contrast between the cold water and the warm colors of the sky.
Here decided on a average exposure length of 2 seconds which created a sense of motion while still keeping the nice structures in the water visible.
Seen and taken on a walk around South Melbourne with the Famous Flickr Five+ Group.
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Previously spotted by Neil Potter i knew where this was located as i used to work around this area of NW London, it still took me ages to go and have a look and it is pretty rough but has survived!
A Few Frames on from the previous shot posted...
Red Deer - Cervus elaphus
Hinds scrapping for herd position?
London Royal Parks
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor, Iran, parts of western Asia, and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa. Red deer have been introduced to other areas, including Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. In many parts of the world, the meat (venison) from red deer is used as a food source.
The red deer is the fourth-largest deer species behind moose, elk and sambar deer. It is a ruminant, eating its food in two stages and having an even number of toes on each hoof, like camels, goats and cattle. European red deer have a relatively long tail compared to their Asian and North American relatives. Subtle differences in appearance are noted between the various subspecies of red deer, primarily in size and antlers, with the smallest being the Corsican red deer found on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and the largest being the Caspian red deer (or maral) of Asia Minor and the Caucasus Region to the west of the Caspian Sea. The deer of central and western Europe vary greatly in size, with some of the largest deer found in the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe.Western European red deer, historically, grew to large size given ample food supply (including people's crops), and descendants of introduced populations living in New Zealand and Argentina have grown quite large in both body and antler size. Large red deer stags, like the Caspian red deer or those of the Carpathian Mountains, may rival the wapiti in size. Female red deer are much smaller than their male counterparts.
The European red deer is found in southwestern Asia (Asia Minor and Caucasus regions), North Africa and Europe. The red deer is the largest non-domesticated land mammal still existing in Ireland. The Barbary stag (which resembles the western European red deer) is the only member of the deer family represented in Africa, with the population centred in the northwestern region of the continent in the Atlas Mountains. As of the mid-1990s, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria were the only African countries known to have red deer.
In the Netherlands, a large herd (ca. 3000 animals counted in late 2012) lives in the Oostvaarders Plassen, a nature reserve. Ireland has its own unique subspecies. In France the population is thriving, having multiplied fivefold in the last half-century, increasing from 30,000 in 1970 to approximately 160,000 in 2014. The deer has particularly expanded its footprint into forests at higher altitudes than before. In the UK, indigenous populations occur in Scotland, the Lake District, and the South West of England (principally on Exmoor). Not all of these are of entirely pure bloodlines, as some of these populations have been supplemented with deliberate releases of deer from parks, such as Warnham or Woburn Abbey, in an attempt to increase antler sizes and body weights. The University of Edinburgh found that, in Scotland, there has been extensive hybridisation with the closely related sika deer.
Several other populations have originated either with "carted" deer kept for stag hunts being left out at the end of the hunt, escapes from deer farms, or deliberate releases. Carted deer were kept by stag hunts with no wild red deer in the locality and were normally recaptured after the hunt and used again; although the hunts are called "stag hunts", the Norwich Staghounds only hunted hinds (female red deer), and in 1950, at least eight hinds (some of which may have been pregnant) were known to be at large near Kimberley and West Harling; they formed the basis of a new population based in Thetford Forest in Norfolk. Further substantial red deer herds originated from escapes or deliberate releases in the New Forest, the Peak District, Suffolk, Lancashire, Brecon Beacons, and North Yorkshire, as well as many other smaller populations scattered throughout England and Wales, and they are all generally increasing in numbers and range. A census of deer populations in 2007 and again in 2011 coordinated by the British Deer Society records the red deer as having continued to expand their range in England and Wales since 2000, with expansion most notable in the Midlands and East Anglia.
My previous post of Pine Lake showed it completely painted with autumn reflections. While admiring the reflections I noticed three Wood Ducks in the center of the lake. They never moved close enough for a detailed shot, but it was a beautiful scene nonetheless. Here I singled out one of the males as it moved across the multi-colored reflections.
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As written previously some strange encounters and experiences only hit the full impact mark with some delay.
On a recent event I was viciously struck, once again, by the fact how people are trying so hard to stand out from the crowd.
Clutching for recognition haunted and conforming to some distant paradigm.
In an almost perverted way of begging for attention, they act just merely all the same…
Waiting for a miracle to get noticed, dwelling around (could be a side effect of too many mojo-cocktails though) with eyes closed to their own originality.
Peculiar fact: they want to stand out and simultaneously being simply slightly different from the crowd terrifies them …
Exhausted by too much conversation, by all those attempts to come up with jokey and lively epigrams as the hours and the evening evolve, they seem to fill less and less the room, a kind of emptiness silently surrounding them. Awaiting some miracle solution or advice on how to navigate the crowd.
Wouldn’t it be more simple, every now and then, just to merciless avoid the crowd and just stand tall, against the wind …
Previously the State Mosque of Sarawak and an integral part of the Kuching landscape, the Kuching Mosque; affectionately known as ‘Masjid Lama’ (Old Mosque), the present structure was built in 1968 to replace an original wooden one built in 1852. Best seen from the river, its gilded cupolas make it one of the city’s most striking landmarks, particularly at sunset.
Note: Visitors to mosqu
Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia
In my previous two images I showed 2 highly skilled Indian artisans from Agra working on different steps in the hand-crafting of Indian marble inlay tables. In this image I show one of their beautiful finished masterpieces. It is amazing how well the the inlay stones fit into the marble table top.
We were told that the same techniques were used to craft the beautiful inlay work on the Taj Mahal (see below).
Photographed from Eastcheap, opposite Rood Lane, with the massive building at 20 Fenchurch Street looming over St Margaret Pattens church.
The 38 storey 20 Fenchurch Street, also known as the "walkie talkie" building, is 525 feet tall. Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the three-floor "sky garden" was opened in January 2015.
The building gets it's "walkie talkie" nickname because of it's shape and is not without some controversy. It won the Carbuncle Cup in 2015, awarded by Building Design magazine to the worst new building in the UK during the previous year.
During the building's construction, it was discovered that for a period of up to two hours each day if the sun shines directly onto the building, it acts as a concave mirror and focuses light onto the streets to the south. Spot temperature readings at street-level including up to 91 °C (196 °F) and 117 °C (243 °F) were observed during summer 2013, when the reflection of a beam of light up to six times brighter than direct sunlight shining onto the streets beneath damaged parked vehicles.
In July 2015, the building was criticised in having an unexpected impact on wind strength at street-level. The City of London Corporation received an increased number of complaints about draughts around 20 Fenchurch Street following its completion.
St Margaret Pattens church was first recorded in 1067, at which time the church was probably built from wood. It was then rebuilt in stone but fell into disrepair and had to be demolished in 1530. It was rebuilt again in 1538 but was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The present church was built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1687. It is one of only a few City churches to have escaped significant damage in the Second World War.
A previous coal mining location that was used in its last years as a place for old vehicles especially Fords.
Last minute 48 hour trip taking in a few new spots and some old locations. 17 hour days and mixed weather added to the fun.
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Better Large-A re-cut of a previous picture that needed to be brought up to date. Driving through the US, I could stop and take pictures everyday, summer, winter, spring, and fall. Personally, I try to take pictures that represent a particular area. The northern Midwestern states bloom in the summer with the wheat fields! 0030
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Every Season Has Its Own Glory (JHWatkins)
Every season has its own glory,
Every purpose has its own time,
Every moment has its own story,
Every story has its own line.
I have walked deep into cities,
Shining brightly never to fail,
Listened to heart cries,
Lost in the morning,
Standing on corners
Stagnant and stale.
Where is the hope
That brought forth the laughter?
Where is the song?
The music unveiled?
Why are the choices so
Wasted and bitter?
Gathered in hatred,
Broken and pale.
I have seen (new) stars on the mountains,
Fed on the movement of heaven and earth-
Free on the framework
Of perfect perspective,
Fueled by the turning of terrible truth.
Come now and sing of mists in the forest,
Sensual sonnets of songs in the dirt-
Come and behold the delicate balance
Of seasons and reasons and rhythms
And birth.
There are the voices lost in confusion,
Crushed in the thriving, deepening swale-
Calloused and cold the circling conveyance,
Crippled emotion commotion prevails.
Beacons in quiet of last true performance,
Heralded nature in singular cause-
Perfect and pure
Though wasted and slandered.
Washed by confession
In smoldering awe.
Severed connections, squandered projections-
Revered reflections of stammering tongues-
Coined by controlling contriving convections,
In different directions now written in stone.
Now is the time to look to the heavens,
Now is the moment to take up the cause,
Now is the voice of blazing amazement,
Borne on the winds of the gathering storm.
Listen to stream, listen to forest,
Listen to flower, and staggering fawn-
Listen to voices rolling like thunder,
Come drink of the waters
And dance with the dawn.
Wrapped in the garments of natural beauty,
Facing the force of the burgeoning call-
Strong in the seasons of life and creation,
Firm on foundations that never will fall.
James Watkins 09-01-08
Previously uploaded & poorly dealt with at the time, I've had another go at doing this 'moment' justice. I'm marginally better at bringing images to life than I was 2 years ago, so I've spruced this one at bit.
Picking up where I left off with my previous two posts, Gregg, Ryan and I arrived just after 4 AM at Mono Lake. Gregg and Ryan opted to stay behind at the car and catch some ZZ's as they were going to be driving home, but I had only been down next to the lake for about 10 minutes before both of them came down with their tripods. The sky looked very promising and it looked like out luck was about to change after a tough night of getting shut out at Glacier Point and a four hour delay in trying to get across the Tioga Pass.
This was my fourth time trying to shoot Mono Lake. On my previous three attempts I had either gotten up at 3:30 to make the drive over from Yosemite or had driven down from Reno and on all three tries, I had NO clouds whatsoever when I arrived, so I was more than a little excited to finally see partly cloudy skies above the lake when I arrived.
After shooting the Milky Way for a bit, I turned the camera on the lake and shot for about 90 minutes before the sun finally broke through the clouds. There were about 20 of us at that point, and we shot right up to 7 AM which was the time I had set as a deadline as I needed to get back for a birthday party. We then set off for the six hour drive back to Gregg's house, arriving exactly at 1 PM, 25 hours after we had set off the day before. All three of us were exhausted but had a great time shooting. I told the guys as we were leaving that I was hoping for a great sunset, good Milky Way shots, and a great sunrise. Two out of three ain't bad. We are already looking forward to our next excursion.
Previously released on Fotopedia.com (closed website) and geo.fr (in a smaller sized version)
Photo précédemment publiée sur Fotopedia.com (site fermé) et, en plus petit format, sur geo.fr
Previously known as Hokkaido International Airlines based in Sapporo
A different yellow / orange Pokemon livery on the other side
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I had previously unloaded this image on the day it was taken being probably the first person to obtain one on this biomass turn but it has now been deleted in order to upload the image in date order. So apologies if you previously favoured this image but you were warned not too. Sorry. Anyway.......
No 69012 had just arrived in the area early morning on 6M08 with 66718, was Class 69, No 69012 'Falcon' in its two tone retro green livery and allocated for the biomass drags. I made the decision early AM and to take a chance to see if it appeared on a biomass at this known location. To complicate matters, there was numerous clouds about, so sun was not guaranteed either. Regardless, if you not there to begin with, then no chance of getting it.
Arrived at Derby Road bridge about 10:00hrs and five minutes later, a rumble of loco was heard being 0E17 from Tuebrook Sdgs, thinking it sounded like a Class 60! Much to my surprise, it turned out to be No 69012! Yay! Just a question now of waiting for the departure but hoping it will operate to time at minimum as early operation would mean no sun! Much to my relief, it (6E10 11:00 LBioT to Drax biomass) turned up on time and in sun too with 'Black Underground' No 66718 on the rear giving the train a good shove and smoke to go with it! Yes, I am happy chappy as no revisit required.
However, word of warning, there is no guarantee that No 69012 will appear on all the drags as a number of drivers at Tuebrook are not passed on Class 69 as well as some who preference to use a Class 66. So, you got to take a chance and good luck too!
Copyright: Doug Birmingham (8A Rail).
File: 2016003-0053
Previous scaled down size replaced with full resolution 3872 x 2592, the maximum size of the Nikon D200.
Portmeirion, a tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales, United Kingdom. Photos were taken on Wednesday 20th April 2016.
Portmeirion. Pentref twristiaeth yng Ngogledd Cymru. Wedi’I gymryd ar ddydd Mercher 20 Ebrill 2016.
NOTE: I apologise if the Welsh language is misspelt as I’m using Google’s translation.
About the photograph.
Am y llum
The photograph was taken from the footpath between the Amis Reunis boat and the Observatory Tower on the southern part of the village, right next to the River Dwyryd, and looking toward north.
In the photograph, the tall building is known as the Bell Tower, and parts of the buildings to the right of the photo is known as The Watch House. In the background, you could see The Dome.
About Portmeirion.
Portmeirion is a tourist and historical coastal village located on the estuary of the River Dwyryd, about 2 miles south east of Porthmadog, in North Wales, and owned by a charitable trust.
Some of the buildings already existed around the middle of the 1800s, such as the hotel, along with Castell Deudraeth.
Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the chief architect bought most of the buildings. Between 1925 and 1975, he designed, built, and improved the area into an exquisite village, in the style of a Mediterranean feel.
It had since become a most popular tourist location, and often used as on-location filming site for various television shows.
Nowadays, most of the buildings are used as hotels or self-catering cottages, while tourists have a day-out looking around.
About the television show called The Prisoner.
Ynglŷn â'r sioe deledu o'r enw The Prisoner.
The Prisoner is a 1967 British television series about an unnamed British agent who chose to resign from Intelligence services.
In the series, he was imprisoned in a mysterious retirement village at a secret location. Although the village was used for retired secret agents, he was placed there because his superiors and bosses wanted to know why he chose to resign.
In the show, his name was never used, and he was referred to as ”Number Six, as everyone else were given numerical codenames. The mysterious village was overseen by an administrator whom was often referred as Number Two.
Number Six was played by the actor Patrick McGoohan, whom also created the show, as well as writing and directing some of the episodes. He played the main character in 16 out of the 17 episodes. Only played his character in a minor role in one episode, because at that time, he took time off from The Prisoner, to attend a filming of a movie.
In each episodes, different actors played Number Two, and each tried their own attempts to get Number Six to reveal his reasons for resigning. This was often done by means of tricks, drugging, brainwashing, identity theft, and so on.
The usual plot of each episode would have Number Two attempting to use their own means, bring Number Six close to the breaking point, where Six could finally reveal his reasons, but often in the end, Number Six often saw through the attempts, and rebuffed the attempts.
Portmeirion was used as a stand-in filming location for the mysterious village due to its unique style.
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See previous post about these lightrays. I thought it would be good to view the previous image with this one that encompasses the entire scene and shows the context of those rays and that massive, blanket of cloud from which they escaped.
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The previous version of this shot seemed like it was tilted to the left, which even though it wasn't, the leaning trees gave it that impression. I made some corrections to make everything seem a bit more leveled out.
This snow photo was taken in early November of this year in the Puget Sound area, which is very rare. We usually don't get any snow this low in elevation, let alone so early in the year. I had originally planned on picking mushrooms this day in my favorite chanterelle picking spot, but the early snow made that plan go out the window. The spot you see in the photo is actually where I can get a full limit of picking done around that time of year. I only had my iphone 4s with me, which even being ancient by tech standards was able to capture this scene well enough in panorama mode. I can only imagine how amazing the images look coming out of the newer phones. I hope to upgrade to something new and with RAW capturing soon. It's great having a camera system that fits in my pocket.
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- Johan
In a similar vein to my previous post, in retrospect I regret not giving this girl any currency for her effort in rowing out to our boat on Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia, in a ... tub?
We were warned by our tour guide not to give money and even though we heeded that advice, sure enough we were soon approached by other craft bearing small children and snakes. It is nevertheless difficult to resist the pleas of a young child for "dollar, dollar".
If I had this time again, I would prefer to ignore the guide's advice and pay the dollar(s), rather than feel guilty for the rest of my life that I didn't.
As mentioned previously,the downpour of rain and the prospect of more to follow had made my mind up to head home.to rub salt in the wounds this magnificent rainbow had appeared and i had little chance to get a shot of it before leaving.Having packed up i set off to the car only to find the rain would suddenly stop.
yes.........quickly out with gear,set up the tripod,get the camera mounted and snap away.
by the time it had stopped raining i was on the track that leads to the 'Bathing house'.this acted as a nice lead in and i included the house roof and chimneys,roughly on the third,for a bit more interest and depth.
hope you enjoy the result. :)
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I previously posted close-up and better detailed pictures of the belted kingfisher. I purposely did not want to crop too much this image. I like the vast decor typically west coast that this bird occupies. One big give away is the arbutus tree that frames the right side of the image. The arbutus tree is native to the western coastal areas of North America, from British Columbia to California. It is an evergreen tree with rich orange-red bark that when mature naturally peels away in thin sheets. In British Columbia, Arbutus (Arbutus menzeisii) is found in the dry southeast regions of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and bits of the lower mainland. They are very distinctive trees that frequently grace artists renderings of the area. These unique and striking trees live in quickly drained, shallow, nutrient-poor soils on rocky outcrops. In these locations trunks commonly split into several main branches close to the ground, creating massive canopies of red, orange and chartreuse coloured twisted branches. Arbutus are sun loving trees. The dogwood and the arbutus trees are two of my preferred trees that I discovered when moving to the west coast, More information about the arbutus treee can be found here vancouverislandbigtrees.blogspot.ca/2010/12/arbutus-canad...