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“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” - Dalai Lama XIV
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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.
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
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
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
Cuba, Havana
Havana have a tragic beauty. The capital of Cuba is alive, endearing but literally, it collapse on its inhabitants ... The beautiful Spanish palaces fall into ruins. The balconies are supported by beams. Whole sections of walls are reversed on street corners. Cuban, are human survivors. How do they live in this chaos? How can a whole capital crumble ? This is the mystery of Havana, sad, poetic.
La sorgente carsica di Su Gologone nel territorio di Oliena.
La maggiore fonte carsica della Sardegna, perennemente sommersa, è situata alle falde del Supramonte, presso la riva destra del fiume Cedrino. Offre uno straordinario spettacolo, con l’importante massa d’acqua (300 litri al secondo) che sgorga da una vertiginosa e complessa gola calcarea, esplorata dagli speleologi fino a 107 metri di profondità.
Con le piene, le acque creano un vero e proprio torrente molto impetuoso che, dopo un breve percorso tra la vegetazione lussureggiante ed i massi levigati dalla corrente, confluisce nel Cedrino. La sorgente costituisce per il fiume, durante il periodo estivo, pressoché l’unica fonte di alimentazione.
Tratto da : www.paradisola.it
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.
Taken during a sunrise shoot yesterday at Bar Beach, NSW, Australia.
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Sometimes I like to turn upside down certain pictures, especially when some reflections are involved. Not sure why I do that, but it is all part of the fun.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.