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Looking rather tired after many years of preservation use General Motors Electro-Motive Division F7A number 274 which dates back to October 1950 is seen passing through typical misty Oregon coastal scenery with a Friday morning 10.00 Garibaldi departure for Rockaway Beach.
This locomotive has seen service as Great Northern Railroad 274, Burlington Northern Railroad 610, Seattle & North Coast Railroad 101, a Lewis & Clark Railroad unit, Doyle McCormack/Daylight Locomotives and Machine Works Incorporated 274, and now as Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad 274. I have seen photographs of this locomotive on this line ten years ago when it positively sparkled.
Incidentally there was one other rail Phottor at the same location and he was blowing his top as in his mind this was supposed to be a steam hauled service. He had travelled many hours for his shot.
After a rather warm day there was a thunderstorm and much rain in the evening. I took the shot - as always - through the window. Though it isn´t sharp either clear I post it as I found the colours amazing.
Maybe you will watch it in full size.
Nach einem ziemlich warmen Tag kam gegen abend ein Gewitter und es regnete stark. Diesen Sonnenuntergang habe ich, wie immer, durch die Fensterscheibe aufgenommen.
Obwohl das Foto nicht scharf ist, wollte ich es trotzdem hochladen, weil ich die Farben faszinierend finde.
Vielleicht schaut Ihr es "in gross" an.
RATHER DUMPY and short tailed woodland bird, famous for its habit of descending tree trunks head-downwards in a jerky manner. The chisel-like bill is used to prise insects from tree bark and to hammer open acorns wedged into bark crevices, and peanuts pushed into tiny crevices, by photographers like me, so they dont make a more rapid retreat.
Just love these birds to bits.
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Rather unusually this view looks inland towards a lighthouse. The lighthouse in question is the 1890 built Trinity House managed Southwold lighthouse. Normally I associate lighthouses as being located righto in the seafront. This particular example is situated in amongst the old town of Southward.
Looking rather tattered, NS eastbound loaded coal train 812 grinds into Welch, WV, past an almost equally worn Chevrolet pickup truck, yet it's not quite as burdened as the monstrous 200-car coal train that must battle its way over the Elkhorn Grade on the afternoon of May 25, 2022.
A rather special plant located in only a few sites in the UK. This one bizarrely chose a site alongside a busy dual carriageway in Somerset. This stunning orchid is definitely a favourite of the 'firsts' I've had this week, mainly for being so photogenic.
Shattered and Hollow- First Aid Kit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3XB5lva4sA
I am in love and I am lost
But I'd rather be
Broken than empty
Oh, I'd rather be
Shattered than hollow
Oh, I'd rather be
By your side.
Now I am tired but resolute
That I'd rather be
Striving than settled
Oh, I'd rather be
Moving than static
Oh, I'd rather be
By your side...
Blog Post
Rather than something weird and wonderful this week I thought I would give you something warm and arty (and wonderful too, of course ;) ).
These are two painterly versions both done with Topaz Studio based on the same edit of a picture I took in the local woods last autumn.
I think pictures of trees and woods lend themselves to a painterly interpretation, especially if there is a bit of colour and some sort of composition focus.
These two are quite similar but I’d still be interested to hear if you have time to say which you prefer. I tend to choose the one I am currently looking at! The commentary is the same for both and I’ll post a link to the in-camera version (or at least a plain conversion of the raw file) in the first comments.
The two versions take different approaches using very different filters in Topaz. After correcting some perspective and developing in Capture One for a vibrant colour mix (always a good starting point if you are copy and artistic approach), Topaz Studio did the biz and then a slight dark vignette was added in Affinity, and that was it.
The first variant uses the Impression filter starting from the Watercolor II preset, and building from there. I love the dreamy look this gives - walking in the autumn woods is quite a dreamy experience!
The second uses the Abstraction filter.
I have a great fondness for this particular filter because we go back a long way. Before Topaz took it over it was called Buzz Simplify (and originally in Topaz it was called Topaz Simplify). It was written by a programmer in England as a filter for photoshop.
I first came across it in an exhibition by a photographer-artist and it was the first time I had really seen a filter produce painterly results like it. I’ve been using it for over twenty years.
Interestingly the artist then used it primarily for scenes of woods and trees. It produces great results with pictures of buildings, landscapes and street scenes too. Or you can use it as a starting place for further painterly attention.
Ok. Enough of me babbling. I’ll use the watercolour version for Sliders Sunday this week.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
…..A rather fancy & ornate wall from the 1880’s on the side of what was the Ear Nose and Throat Hospital in Shrewsbury! An amazing building that closed in 1998 - I remember being treated there a couple of times as a young lad. It is now called Kingsland Bridge Mansion Apartments - very nice they are too!! Looking at the scene depicted I thought of the Blues song by John Lee Hooker with Santana ‘The Healer’ see link if you have the time. A few ailments have been 'healed' here during its time as a Hospital. Happy Wall Wednesday folks, Alan:-)…..
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I would rather shoot blindly into September light than any calculated shot. The golden light in my eyes and the warmth on my face are so fleeting that I'll take my chances on capturing even a tiny bit to remember.
A rather simple shot today as I'm feeling a little brain-dead at the moment. I watched the memorial services for Jack Layton today on TV and while i feel saddened at the loss of a great man, I feel inspired to keep being a better person and to help change the world for the better.
Tomorrow I'm setting off on a solo cycling trip, nothing major just a 4 day, 500km jaunt around the interior mountains of British Columbia. It should be fun and I'm looking forward to the alone time to clear my scattered brain. I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to post tomorrow so if I don't, you'll see me on either Wednesday or Thursday :)
Rather few and far between this year, compared to previously when I've seen dozens on the plants. But it's inevitable with the woundwort having fared so badly this year...
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Our rather overgrown, but very productive, polytunnel with Polly the parrot staring out wondering what on earth I'm doing crouched down in the meadow in the drizzle (I was wondering the same thing myself 😂).
My first upload for Saturday Self-Challenge group. This week's theme is "tunnels".
Looking rather forlorn and unloved, Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) 201 Class locomotives 204 - (Abhainn na Bearú - River Barrow) 202 - (Abhainn na Laoi - River Lee) 212 - (Abhainn na Sláine - River Slaney) sit on long term storage or scrap line at Inchicore Works, May 2022.
Built between 1994 (IÉ) 201 Class are the newest and most powerful diesel locomotives operating in Ireland at present. The class were the forerunner and passenger version of the Class 66 presently used on British and European railways.
10 of the original 34 class members are now withdrawn to long term storage and a source of spares presently at Inchicore Works.
- Northern Dock or, rather, West India Quey on the right. The former warehouse is now a row of cafes and restaurants ( also houses a museum of the Docklands and a hotel). The Dock itself (the water space seen) is home of the recent addition to Canary Wharf leicure: barbeque boats and hot tub boats, which you can rent, self-drive and do what the name says on the nearby waterways. Who said it's a boring business district?
#MacroMonday
#Reflection
So I seriously debated with myself if I could / should upload this or rather skip... It's the typical "I wasted a sunny Sunday (and half of a free and equally sunny Monday) at home trying to get my MM shot right capture" (arrrrghrrrrrrrr!)...;-) My idea behind this was that there are two sides to every coin, thing, debate, person... The side everyone sees, and, at least when it comes to a person, a more private, sometimes even hidden side. So you see I was getting very philosophical with this - when everything could have been so easy, simple and straightforward. But just like it is with so many other things: they are easy when they aren't required (and I have quite a few nice and easy reflections in my MM gallery). But when they are... I started off with a very simple take on my idea, the "Sun" and "Moon" cards of my tiny Tarot deck of cards (I Tarocchi Più Piccoli del Mondo - The Smallest Tarot in the World by artist Antonio Lupatelli) glued together back to back with modeling clay and then fixated on a small black tile with modeling clay as well at an angle that would allow a nice reflection. So far, so good - or not. The image turned out well, but of course the "La Luna" print on the "dark side" of the card was, you've guessed it, mirror-inverted. Not exactly unexpected, but I think the image didn't work with the "La Luna" label the wrong side round. So what to do? The easy thing would have been to rotate and flip that part of the card in Photoshop back to a readable "La Luna". But that would have been cheating. So I decided to add another reflective surface (an old, scratched pocket mirror - that ugly "line" you can see is the edge of the mirror) and re-reflect the "La Luna" - and by doing so also mirror the "Il Sole". Four sides of a coin, if you like. Before all of it gets too confusing, I'd rather stop (and have I mentioned the dust? I'd rather not...). I don't recall the processing steps, but there were many, because I did a manual focus stack to get both the Sun and reflected Moon card sharp and sort of equally well exposed (which wasn't easy, because the Moon card, reflected by the black tile, was always either too dark or the rest of that single shot was far too bright). One thing: I took the focus-stacked image into Analog Efex and added a very big, dark vignette. I realise that this would have been perfect for Sliders Sunday as well ;-)
For size, please check the image in the second comment. I'd already used these tiny tarot cards for two other MM themes, and in that image you can see how small the cards really are.
Thank you most sincerely for viewing and reading, a Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a relaxed week ahead!
Liebe Flickr-Freunde, da ich mal wieder sehr spät dran bin, würde ich Euch bitten, Euch den obigen Text in DeepL übersetzen zu lassen, falls Interesse besteht. Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche :-)
A rather dark example of the spring Epistrophe hoverfly which I think means it was cold when he was a larva. Photographed warming up on the garden Mahonia before starting his airspace patrols. Like Eristalis pertinax he tries to intimidate anything that gets into his space, including me.
I'm fascinated by the profile of his frons which looks to me like a human face.
a rather rare sight of trees in Iceland, here at the foot of the Skaftafell mountain range. Loved this little spot.
Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!
A rather invigorating Sunday morning constitutional, on Burnham beach.
It’s wooden lighthouse was built in 1832 and is a Grade II Heritage listed structure. Incidentally, in 2014, the lighthouse was named on a list of the world’s top 10 most beautiful lighthouses.
Smurfs don’t have horses. They pull their wagons with snails. Apparently Smurfs live a very laid back lifstyle and are never in a hurry. If it had been up to Smurfs to settle the West, they would just now be making it to Oregon.
ODC I’d rather be a cowboy
Another rather gloomy image from Cambois beach, although I rather like the industrial side of this area. Pending another storm, high tides bringing so much driftwood and sadly so much plastic on to the beach.
This photo were taken back in March 2012. I am just catching up with them. I had started to put up our trip to Northland but for some reason never got them all up.
We took a ferry trip over to Waiheke Island for the day. Sadly It rained most of the time and tourist bus had stopped running the for the Winter months the day before. We walk to a winery for lunch. In the afternoon we took the local bus for a short trip around the island.
Waiheke Island is the second-largest island (after Great Barrier Island) in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. Its ferry terminal in Matiatia Bay at the western end is 21.5 km (13.4 mi) from the central-city terminal in Auckland.
It is the most populated island in the gulf, with 9,390 permanent residents. Another estimated 3,400 have second homes or holiday homes on the island. It is New Zealand's most densely populated island, and the third most populated after the North and South Islands. It is the most accessible island in the gulf, with regular passenger and car-ferry services, a helicopter operator based on the island, and other air links.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiheke_Island
This rather striking and unusual war memorial on the village green in Over Kellet in the north of Lancashire features a broken column that represents the lives that were lost prematurely, initially in the Great War and then in WWII. Ten men from the village gave their lives in WWI, and a further two made the final sacrifice in WWII. The memorial was constructed locally in 1921.
I always look at local war memorials as I travel around with my camera. At a rough guess, I would say that, on average, we lost up to three times as many men in the Great War as we did in WWII. How our towns and villages managed to survive this huge loss is beyond me.
A rather splendid cataract waterfall that is easily reached from the small settlement of Motu along a gravel road for approx. 5km's. Once parked it is a short walk to the falls with best views afforded from a suspension bridge over the river or below the bridge where this shot was taken after a little scramble in the bushes!
SONY ILCE-7RM3
SEL1635GM Lens @ 33mm
ISO 100 / f8 / 1/3 Second
Bracketed Exposure -2/0/2+
Lee Landscape Polariser
Lightroom CC
(c) Dominic Scott 2019
Some days you'd rather be lucky than good... After following the previously posted NS S0N up to Iager, WV, on the Dry Fork branch we backtracked to the town of Cedar Bluff, VA, late in the afternoon along the Clinch Valley main. When we arrived NS empty train 815 was in the process of splitting their train with a new S1N crew for Weller. Splitting the train is the process by which one long empty coal train is split into two trains for different destinations. This particular 815 came out of Norfolk with a Weller, VA, bound empty set, and a Toms Creek, VA, bound empty set. In Cedar Bluff, at Dry Fork Junction, the Weller bound crew boarded the DPU's of 815, detached from the rear of 815, attached the EOT to 815, brake tested, and took the turn up the Dry Fork side for the second train that day. When we arrived at Amonate again there was a brief glimmer of setting sun that illuminated the trestle and quickly disappeared. After hearing that they were stopped I figured we may have made the hike up again to come up empty handed. When they did finally get on the move again I was happy to at least know they'd make it in daytime. Just before S1N rounded the curve on the far side of the bridge the sun broke through the cloud deck, and illuminated the bridge just far enough to bathe the train and mountains in sweet golden hour sunlight. Before the end of the train passed, and we reached the bottom of the steep hike down the clouds had covered the bridge for the day. From wondering if we were going to have a shot to getting complete sun on the train was a sweet turn of events. This was made especially nice by the great location, and the overall rarity of getting a single train up there, much less two.
Thanks for looking and enjoy!
We have become rather addicted to owls recently., but it's easy to see why
Yes of course they are birds., but I always think of them as being in another category... owl category
I looked it up and amazingly there are 255 species of owls worldwide., so if you started at a young enough age it may just be possible to get to see them all!
And ever wondered why you never hear one coming? Well owls are able to fly virtually silently because of a fringe on the leading edge of their primary feathers that helps muffle sound
Very useful if you're hunting for a mouse in the grass!
A rather clean CP 8172 on point of train 101-04 passes the set of Sunalta searchlight signals on the west edge of Calgary’s downtown, this making the start of the trains westward trip along Canadian Pacific’s Laggan Subdivision. February 7, 2022