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Made a random turn onto a nearby county road the other day, one I have driven numerous times over the years. Only difference this time was I just happened to be traveling opposite my normal direction. Halfway up a hill I came upon this stunning scene. At first I wondered how I could have missed it after so many passages. After stopping to check it out, I soon noticed that it was all but invisible for a westbound motorist (my normal direction of travel on this road). The dramatic sightline only opened up in the eastbound lane.
Thought this was a wonderful metaphor for life. I tend adopt a singular view of things over time. This happens all the time in driving. I often see things as I expect to find them rather than how they truly appear. The human brain has a remarkable tendency to connect the dots in this way. Driving the road in the reverse direction forced my brain to reset and see the landscape from a new perspective.
Back in the moment, the dead tree was the personification of pure evil. It loomed over the old barn as if guarding it. Tons of weight, precariously balanced, and capable of dropping black shards of dead wood without notice, ready to impale the unsuspecting. Even the comforting softness of early spring could not ameliorate this scene.
Soft blue sunset with boats, clouds and reflections at Koolewong and Tascott on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
Probabilmente questa era ancora l'ultima angolazione possibile che mi mancava del meraviglioso ponte di Grahovo ob Bači sulla Transalpina.
A dire il vero non è stata l'ultima che ho scattato, ma solo oggi arrivo a pubblicarla.
CERES Community Environment Park, East Brunswick, Victoria
The Merri Table is a restaurant in CERES and I was sitting right beneath the sign so couldn't resist a shot. I hope you can all read backwards!!
For more information about CERES and all the wonderful activities there, go to: ceres.org.au
Typically photographers stand on the hill behind, however the odd morning train throws a spanner into the works.
Running 26.5 hours behind their original schedule, NR74 and NR75 navigate infamous curves at Yorkeys Crossing nearing Port Augusta on a one-off timed Ghan to Adelaide from Darwin as 4DA8.
Owing to a wash away near Katherine, trains were rescheduled approximately 1 day after their intended time.
Saturday 29th February 2020
Taken during a sunrise shoot yesterday at Bar Beach, NSW, Australia.
As always, thanks for any comments, views or favorites, they are much appreciated!
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WRA001 and WRA002 put the foot to the floor through Leslie with empty Watco grain 6H34 from the port at Fishermans Island to Thallon.
Sunday 10th July 2022
This is the first photograph of the Reverse/Reverso series. It was while taking and processing this photograph that idea to create a series of photographs around the “reverse” theme started.
C-GIWD, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, rolling out on runway 33 at Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport in Markham, Ontario. It was arriving from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec and Charlo, New Brunswick.
Serial number 721 first flew on October 27, 1980. It later operated in the United States, Kenya, Australia, Seychelles, South Africa, Algeria and Mexico before returning home to Canada. The 40-year-old looks magnificent.
This chap skated everywhere in reverse gear showing off his backward driving skills. Picture was taken on ‘Wheels Sunday’; the Sunday of the ‘Manchester Pride Week’.
A Bougainvillea flower just past its peak.
#52 Weeks: the 2022 edition
#Week 7: Colourful
Meopta Belar 75mm f4.5 enlarger lens (4 blade version), reversed and with 36-90mm helicoid.
From a sunrise shoot at Chalky Beach, Swansea Heads, NSW, Australia.
I had hoped for some cloud cover, but as they say, "be careful what you wish for" because as it turned out there was no colour in the sunrise at all.
None the less, I hope you like these images from this location.
In this shot I tried to highlight the water flowing back.
Thanks for any views, comments or faves on these or any of my images.
Created with Dream Wombo
Prompts: Rusty damaged alien flying saucer inside abandoned barn, rusty farm tools and equipment, hay, ultra realistic details, dusty misty atmosphere
Style: VFX v2
A texture was used on "normal" to enhance color
Looks like they gave up on this project!
Much appreciation for all your views, faves, comments and invitations!
Not quite Mont Blanc (in fact the reverse) but still, for creaking joints, wheezing lungs and ancient limbs it can be a challenge.
I use it as benchmark for my general wellbeing and lung capacity…the climb is worth it for the views over Cromford and Matlock as well as the local quarry. I’ll upload one of those at some point.
Meantime here’s the side elevation which, when you’re close up, is quite impressive…I hope I’ve captured a little of that here.
Lumix S5ii : S20-60mm : Snapseed edit (ergo the mangled EXIF data)
Cliffs of Leura on the Grand Clifftop Walk. We did the walk west to east this time, so the light was different and the views looked fresh.
1107 and 1106 round the sweeping bends at Sodwalls, with a 12 hour late running 9865 empty ore train, bound for Blayney to load.
Climbing the Blue Mountains near Bell, 1108 suffered a collapsed axel, causing the train to be stopped and requiring immediate repairs. The bearings were subsequently held up with blocks of wood and the train was moved at 5km/h until Lithgow, where the locomotive was finally detached from the lead and put into a siding.
The 1100 class typically only leads with the cab facing forward, however on this occasion, with no turning facilities available, the train continued on "long end leading" at a top speed of 50km/h to Blayney.
Sunday 5th May 2019
Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8478 leads the ZDVSC 21 through back to back three degree curves at Castle Rock in Echo Canyon, Utah the afternoon of Oct. 21, 2021.
I found no way to produce a b&w version without losing the complete mood, so I'm very very sorry, but I can show you only the colored version... ;)
LTWI661 twists through the reverse curve just east of De Graf, Minnesota on the former Great Northern main, now BNSF Morris Subdivision. Acting as the de facto caboose is a scale test car seen on the left; something of a rarity in 2025 now. 661 was a Wilmar-Aberdeen local that took the GN main to Benson. From there, they would hop on GN's branch to Watertown, continuing west to Appleton where, they would hop on the former Milwaukee Road transcon for the rest of the trip to Aberdeen. BNSF has combined the Benson-Appleton part of the GN Watertown branch with the Milwaukee Appleton-Aberdeen main and this whole line is now known as the Appleton Subdivision. The well powered local will need every horse they can get to lug heavy stone loads up the eastern flank of the Coteau des Prairies; 13.5 miles of 1% grade starting near Twin Brooks at MP618.5 and ending east of Summit at MP632.
This was my first little taste of the Minnesota-Dakota tristate area. Back then I was fascinated by BNSF's Watertown local. At the time they were using sets of geeps and usually had large trains making 2 trips a week. So our initial goal was shooting them west of Appleton. However, a TCWR west end job with four CAT motors parked in town peaked our interest. We had heard they would have a 1500 crew to head west. But as the sun set lower to the horizon it was becoming more clear that would not be the case. Also concerning was that the Watertown local hadn't shown up yet.
Instead of waiting, we hightailed it to Willmar, finding the place in a meltdown mode that was typical of the oil-boom era. LTWI661 got kicked out first, so we chased them towards Benson before doubling back to shoot LTWI675, the Watertown job, until the sun set into developing tunderstorms. It wasn't what we wanted but at least we got some shots.
We still wanted those 4 CATs on the TCWR west end job. So we camped in our car by Appleton's water treatment plant while severe thunderstorms popped off to the north and south of us all night. It was a miserable muggy night "sleeping" in a puddle of sweat. I was awoken at 0330 the next morning by the sound of 4 CATs beginning their trek west to Milbank. This would occupy us the rest of the morning. I'm glad it worked out but that would be THE LAST time I would ever sleep in my car.
It's really funny looking back now with the perspective of hindsight. The 2731 was a neat geep with the large Wagon Wheel. But back in the day we thought the RV camper air conditioners looked ridiculous. Man...if only I knew what BNSF was capable of only 5 or 10 years later.