View allAll Photos Tagged quick
My first video. I didn't want it to be just me staring at the camera, so I edited it into a little story. The full video is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=27F9kTGfwMU
Update: I just realized I didn't fade the music at the end. I should have just stared at the camera.
A quick 'belt' up the A90 and I was able to take a lineside at Glencarse - Morayshire comes through on her way from Perth to Dundee. 19/4/81.
This shows the rack attached to the basket. Or vice versa. There is a black plate that is welded into the rack that was meant for the original rack mount. I drilled a hole for the lower mount hole on the bail buckle. This is the most critical part. If the hole is too low, the buckle won't have enough tension to stay latched. For the upper hole, I just sandwiched the rack between two short pieces of aluminum. I will paint these black eventually, but left them silver for the photos to show what's going on. The slight "sproing" I created with the front tongue holds enough tension.
BNSF 2745 leads the Buck Local north through Louisville on a late August evening. 2745 was only on the Buck for about 3 days before being pulled off due to loading issues. Its replacement would be a Dash-840BW.
I was late for an appointment so took this as I was heading to my car. I thought this could be a good test of how the camera handles the sun in the frame. Really pretty good I would say. Just a dot of flare and little loss of contrast.
Steam-heat memories - swan song 1986
A station stop quick photo opportunity at Ladybank station! This would have probably been either 47017 or 47018 on an Edinburgh-Dundee 'Circuit' service - location forgotten in the mists of time, but locoman1966 has kindly fixed it :) see comments section below.
Logbook update! - now confirmed as 47018 on 2J60 Dundee-Edinburgh, photographed at Ladybank, taken from Leuchars to Aberdour :)
Steam-heat was coming to an end, and my close bashing friends Tim & Llew and I made the trip north to see what we could sample, aiming mainly for the Class 27 Tip-Tops on Edinburgh-Dundees - otherwise known as 'The Circuit'. As seen here, if a dreaded steaming Duff turned up, we still took it, to get as much steam as we could!
I was never a fan of the the ubiquitous and hugely annoying (in their day) Brush Type 4s or Class 47s. Known in the bashing fraternity as Duffs (unpopular locos), Strummers or Strums (engine sound on acceleration) or Spoons (source unknown - possibly the sound of the horn ;) - they appeared with such regular monotony on both passenger and freight trains, it became a fine art trying to avoid them 😄. It was certainly quite a challenge to cop them all for sight - something I didn't achieve until well into the 1980s (with the exception of the early casualties). Now, of course, in the 21st century, they have acquired a certain aura of nostalgia - as most of the original BR locomotive classes have - and some are still in mainline service some 60 years on, mostly in the guise of re-engined Class 57s.
Locomotive history D1572 / 47018
Built - BR Crewe. Originally delivered to British Railways as D1572 in 1964. Into traffic - 13th Apr 1964 to 55A
Numbers carried:
D1572 - April 13th 1964
47018 - renumbered March 1974
Liveries carried
D1572
BR: Dual Green (Yellow warning panels)
BR: Dual Green (full yellow ends)
47018
BR: Monastral Blue (Standard)
BR: Monastral Blue (Grey/silver roof)
BR: Railfreight (Grey+large logo)
BR: Railfreight (Grey+large logo+red solebar)
03/94 withdrawn at HQ
03/94 cut up by Coopers Metals Sheffield
More on the locomotive here: www.class47.co.uk/c47_numbers.php?index=0&jndex=0&...
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera using Kodachrome slide film. Scanned from the original slide with no digital restoration.
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
ELEGANT WRITER PEN..QUICK SNOW SCENE SKETCH
This was completed entirely with ONE pen...The Elegant Writer Pen.
I have been using this Pen for at least 6 years, incorporating it into almost 200 of my Mixed Media Paintings..and have even painted some entirely with it, like this one.
VUELTA CICLISTA A ESPAÑA 2009: 7ª Etapa: Contrarreloj Valencia.
Algo que pretendÃa ser un barrido... de un ciclista, que una vez más, no se de quién se trata.
Gracias a Jobro: se trata de Matteo Tosatto
Never underestimate the cunning, drive and guile of these little green monsters! They will do ANYTHING in order to catch a fish! While attempting to approach this Greenie without frightening him off he repeatedly dove into the water to snatch a fish and then few back to his favorite perch in this old tree lodged in the open area of Horsepen Bayou! These captures are not sequential but will give everyone some idea of just how far these extremely entertaining birds will go for a catch! Sorry for the multiple posts but you'll get the picture! I might also add that my reactions and ability to anticipate his moves lag far behind his actions!
DSC_9214uls
I hadn't took the pen out for a while so i figured i would switch it up and take out the epl-1 for a quick session :-) Was a fun, last minute and random shoot that went very well except for the fact that i got home and realized i was shooting in jpeg the whole time! lol Oh well!
Zuiko 35-100mm f2
Olympus epl-1
Shot @ 90mm (180mm equivalent )
f2
Quick category sort is complete. Will fine sort what needs fully sorted for next month and put the rest to the side and sort that out if there is time, other wise it will be put on hold for a bit.
JJ and I made a quick visit to day one of the America's Cup festival in Portsmouth.
This is one of the biggest hosting events in Portsmouth, and a 'village' has been set up for it. There is a big ferris wheel on the Common, and plenty of places to get food, plus a big stage for a musical event Saturday evening. This road has been closed off, so that people can safely watch the activities in the sea.
I hope you've enjoyed these 6 shots from the first day - there will be much better versions on Flickr, but I just wanted a record for myself!
Almost on the spur of the moment, I decided to join friends yesterday afternoon for a birding walk. The weather was so perfect, especially compared to the two consecutive snowstorms we had on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, that damaged thousands of trees in the city! After a quick look for birds along the avenue of trees near Fish Creek Provincial Park headquarters, we drove down to the Boat Launch area and from there we walked south along the Bow River. The Ospreys were flying near the river ad we saw one of them carrying a fish to take back to their nest. We saw 30 bird species, but nothing close enough for photos. After an enjoyable walk, a few of us called in at Tim Horton's for coffee and a snack.
From there, I called in at a different part of the park and watched a family of Beavers swimming in their pond. While I was waiting, hoping that they might appear, so many American Robins flew from branch to branch in the nearby trees and bushes, sometimes landing, like this colourful male, on the rocks at the edge of the pond. I always feel that Robins are so much taken for granted. Eventually, after a long wait, the Beaver's appeared - this adult, who crossed the path where I was standing, took me off guard, as I had my camera well zoomed. This huge animal walked faster than I was expecting, so it's not the greatest photo. Better than almost all my photos taken of them yesterday, though, as the light was quickly fading and the pond area was too dark. Hope your photos came out much better than mine, Phil! Such a treat to watch this family, especially the young ones. We were amazed, at one moment, when an old wooden pallet started moving in the pond and blocked a small passageway between the banks. One Beaver was pulling this discarded structure all on its own. I wonder if they had originally found it washed up nearby, after the Alberta Flood of the Century last year (2013).
A 4-man reconnaissance team was compromised and large groups of insurgents began to surround them. As they withdrew, a quick reaction force (QRF) from the Special Operations Regiment was dispatched to assist in the recon team's extraction.
The QRF arrived by helicopter and immediately took fire. The QRF was able to get on the ground, however the helicopter had to return to base after one of its engines was damaged from enemy fire. The QRF fought their way towards the recon team as they peeled towards them. The QRF and the Recon team eventually met up at a riverine.
To be continued...
A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic locomotive crew takes a quick break atop Cumbres Pass after helping the daily passenger train climb the four percent grade. In a few minutes, the crew will cut off their helper locomotive, turn on the wye, and head back for Chama.