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Again, the scene is the medieval castle of Berkhamsted, or what is left of it, and, to the left, the gatehouse of 1865. What I am experimenting with is "sky replacement". The actual sky was boring and featureless. Now, is this an editorial 'emergency' that entitles you to take drastic steps to 'improve' the image? I wonder what people feel about it.
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Here is a photo from the archives that I may have never of posted if not for the new Photoshop "sky replacement" tool. The sky in this plane photo before the sky replacement was a very boring light blue sky. My kids got me a years subscription to the online photoshop and just getting around to see what it has to offer. This is my first attempt and there are some adjustments that I still have to learn.
I feel a little "dirty" replacing a sky in one of my photos, never really done that before. In doing this it brings a lot of questions to my photo and photography in general.
Should replacing a sky even be allowed and still call it a photo or is it now more a piece if art?
In the future do I need to acknowledge that the sky was replaced in a photo or say nothing? If I take and post a photo that has an amazing sky do I need now to say that the sky was not replaced?
Is it OK to use someone else skies in your photo or just use one that you created? This is my own sky shot in this photo.
Please give me you opinion in the comments below.
Thanks and have a great Sunday!!
It's 2026 and Escanaba & Lake Superior's FP7A 600 built in 1951 has been relegated into freight service for the power short railroad. The story that leads up to this is a long and messy one but the railroad is doing its best with new management to dig out of a big hole. Utopia for us rail fans for now as replacement power has been lined up. Built for the Milwaukee Road as number 96A it used to pull passenger cars on this line and now it runs south at Sagola leading the days train from Channing Michigan to Pembine Wisconsin.
BNSF Executive Mac number 9625 leads the day gas through the ex-Northern Pacific searchlights of west siding switch Plains. As seen to the right of the signal bridge a new Vader just installed a few months prior awaits activation to replace the searchlights and also to add PTC the Ex MRL-4th subdivision. Now days the signals have been cut over, and the power also has changed to PTC equipped units.
For a bit of fun, the same photo as the previous one but with Luminar 4 sky replacement. I prefer to keep my skies original, but thought this a good one to experiment with.
After our Dolomites hike last September, we spent four nights in Venice, staying in the Cannaregio area. On our first night not far from where we were staying.
I process my photos with Lightroom as well as Skylum's Luminar and find it easy to use with great results. Here is a link if anyone is interested in trying it out and with a $US10 discount: skylum.grsm.io/janetteasche8660
A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across desert landscape present at a roadside pullout along the main park road in Big Bend National Park. My thinking in composing this image was for two reasons. One was just to capture that look across the landscape present with the desert plant-life present and then mountains off in the distance. That's setting would then be complemented with the blue skies above. The second reason was to capture images of blue skies that I might use another day with images in Photoshop and the sky replacement tool. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
Another sky replacement attempt in Photo Shop. This juvenile male Bluebird decided to perch on my patio umbrella just a few feet away from me. Unfortunately the siding of the house was the background. This sky looks much better. Thanks for stopping to have a look.
No throwaway plastic at this Healthy Deli. Discovered these reusable straws at my local health food store. Perfect replacement for single use plastic... and colorful too.
"Eyeglasses are the replacement windows to the world!"
~ a friend
Did you ever have one of those days... where the nose piece from your eyeglasses falls into your hand? That was how (my) last Friday started... LOL...
Well, maybe my vision is not this bad... but, without wearing my glasses, there are times when looking at things is becoming a challenge!
This photo was edited with www.picnik.com/.
The former SP searchlights at Chaney Jct, just west of Downtown Houston, have served their role in guiding trains here for over 50 years. Replacement Vader signals went up in Summer 2024, but nearly a year later the searchlights still stand. The searchlights would eventually come down near the end of June 2025.
MEWWC 12 (Manifest- Englewood Yard [Houston, TX] to West Colton, CA)
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(Mid-Train DPU) UP C45AH #2731
Houston, TX
April 12th, 2025
Sky Replacement original.
This is the original photograph of an eagle fly-by with wires visible at Conowingo before the sky replacement.
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Metroline VWH2034 (LK64EHB) at Wembley Park working W817 on the Jubilee line rail replacement service JL-2 to Baker Street.
SaNaRae Dream Ocean, Junin
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Tune: Replacement by She Wants Revenge
One of my favorite catches of the 2022 summer vacations at my family up north.
SM42-349, the last of all SM/SU42 locomotives in PolRegio's fleet in the old Przewozy Regionalne's livery, was deployed for around 3 days in August to run one pair of trains on the Ostbahn between Chojnice and Tczew instead of a Pesa Link, which broke down. Here the evening train can be seen leaving Czersk on the way back to Chojnice, which once used to be called Konitz.
This required me to wake up at 4am to take a train from the tricity to the Ostbahn, spend a whole day there and return back home around 1am the next day, nevertheless I find that it was worth every drop of tear and sweat :).
Also check out the picture of the morning train in Starogard Gdański here
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
With DP274 now withdrawn and preserved, the standby vehicle has changed up a little bit.
Pictured are VW1275, VW1271 (hidden behind) and VW1293. The official Meal Relief bus will be DES799 but it's current location is unknown!
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Oxburgh Hall is a moated country house in Oxborough, Norfolk, England, today in the hands of the National Trust. Built around 1482 by Sir Edmund Bedingfeld, Oxburgh has always been a family home, not a fortress. The manor of Oxborough came to the Bedingfeld family by marriage before 1446, and the house has been continuously inhabited by them since their construction of it in 1482, the date of Edward Bedingfeld's licence to crenellate. A fine example of a late medieval, inward-facing great house, Oxburgh stands within a square moat about 75 metres on each side, and was originally enclosed; the hall range facing the gatehouse was pulled down in 1772 for Sir Richard Bedingfeld, providing a more open U-shaped house, with the open end of the U facing south. The entrance, reached by a three-arched bridge on the north side, is dramatised by a grand fortified gatehouse, evoking the owner's power and prestige, though as fortification its value is largely symbolic; it is flanked by tall polygonal towers rising in seven tiers, with symmetrical wings extending either side that reveal nothing on the exterior of their differing internal arrangements. About 1835 the open end of the U was filled in with a picturesque, by no means archaeologically correct range that recreated the central courtyard. Other Victorian additions include the Flemish-style stepped gables, the massive southeast tower, the oriel windows overhanging the moat (illustration, left) and terracotta chimneys. Four towers were added to the walled kitchen garden. The hall is well known for its priest hole. Due to the Catholic faith of the Bedingfeld family, a Catholic priest may have had to hide within the small disguised room in the event of a raid. The room is reached via a trapdoor, which when closed blends in with the tiled floor. Unlike many similar priest holes, the one at Oxburgh is open to visitors. The hall is also notable for the Oxburgh Hangings, needlework hangings by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick. Mary worked on these while imprisoned in England, in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury. The estate has a number of woodland walks, including a 'Woodland Explorer' trail. Oxburgh Hall is a popular location for film and television series, including brief appearances in the Dad's Army episode "Museum Piece", and later in You Rang, M'Lord?. It was the major setting for the 1994 television dramatisation of Love on a Branch Line, a novel by John Hadfield. It is a Grade I listed building, the highest-level designation.
The first power from the start up that WC tried to replace was the 17 ex Soo GP30's. The 1948 Alco FA trucks they rode on were a pain and the group had never been rebuilt and there was some concern about "crispy" wiring in the electrical cabinets. Only three of the group received the full WC paint scheme which was a shame because they looked damn good in it. 713 leads one of its would be replacements on an X35 at Gould City. Most of these units were retired as the GP40's came on board but due to a nearly chronic power shortage a number of them were soon back in service. Five of them managed to stay in service until 2000 and IIRC three actually operated for a few weeks after the CN take over. 713 was one of the last to go. This was shot in December 1990 and at the time I'd already made peace with the fact I wasn't going to have many more GP30 opportunities...wrong again😊. It is Thirty Thursday, a rescan.
Cardinal Buses Enviro400 TE722 is pictured leaving Hounslow Station whilst working on South Western Railway Rail Replacement to Virginia Water
“Replacement Bus Service”. Those three dreaded words you never want to hear when you’re on the train in Britain and the railway is subject to weekend engineering works. There’s a replacement bus needed here. But I wonder why there was a bus service at all on a road that went to nowhere.
Seen while exploring the FCAB railway in Atacama Region near Conchi in northern Chile.
Atacama Region, northern Chile.
December 2024 © David Hill
Enthusiasts will no doubt love this, and why not.
Punters, would rather have the class 380 train id imagine.
AFAIK, however it remained as a standby all day.
A collection of Rail Replacement buses are lined up in Aldgate Bus Station awaiting their next duties. (16/04/16)
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SM48-127 with D-train 22509 "Solina" from Warszawa Zachodnia to Bełżec, approaching Szczebrzeszyn. July 15, 2007.
If you follow this gallery for longer time, you have probably noticed, it's the third picture of this train. It was so unusual for me and my friend, that we had been following this train for couple of miles.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
SM48-127 z pociągiem pospiesznym 22509 "Solina" z Warszawy Zachodniej do Bełżca, tuż przed Szczebrzeszynem. 15 lipca 2007 roku.
Nie jest to pierwszy obrazek tego pociągu. Kto zagląda od dawna, skojarzy dwa inne. Goniliśmy z kolegą ten pociąg, wszak taki koń przy takim składzie nie zdarza się często.
Fot. Jarek / Chester