Rocket
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Flock of Cormorants on the Atlantic coast, Langebaan, South Africa
Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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Analogica con Pentax S1A ( 1963 ), Takumar 105 mm 2.8 F, Fomapan 200 asa, sviluppo con Rodinal. Nessuno riferimento a Donald ( ma non mi piace nemmeno Joe ), sono stanco, questi sono gli oggetti che raccolgo nelle case abbandonate in campagna
I grew up with cats. Even when I was a baby they were always around and I observed early on how different their personalities were. And that is why, when I found out that much of the food I was eating was animals, I realized I had to stop that. Going vegetarian at 13 always made sense to me, though I am not sure why I didn't start even sooner. Why would I eat a cow, a chicken, or a pig if I wouldn't eat a cat or a dog?
Rocket is very different from his brother, Ollie (who I posted a photo of last week) even though they share both nature/ genetics (they are brothers from the same litter) and nurture (adopted as kittens by my neighbors). Rocket is one of those cats that is an observer and needs additional time to warm up to you. Once he decides you are safe, he is loyal and affectionate but he lets Ollie be the charming life of the party right away.
Basically, Ollie is the cat who is instantly intoxicated and dancing on top of the countertops with a shrimp cocktail in his hand/paw while Janelle Monae blasts out of the speakers while Rocket prefers to listen to Tom Waits and think about life and his place in existence. You're going to dance with Ollie first and let him take you up to the rooftop to dip you below the moon but you're going to talk to Rocket at 3am about why is it we are all still here after Ollie has collapsed into an exhausted heap to dream about swimming with fishes and flying with seagulls (I think that's what cats dream about).
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Britney jumping down from the perch like a rocket :-)
Coffee, the dog, watches the scene in astonishment :0)
The peregrine falcon - one of the fastest and one of the most beautiful falcons I know. Fantastic bird!
Seen at the falconry of the bird park Walsrode, Lower Saxony.
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Another view of one of the F-86s (Okay okay, the Australian CA-27 variant, so you purists will stop yelling at me!) in that location I was asked not to divulge by the owner (that I also respectfully ask you to not divulge) from the "Boneyard" book, but never shown online. Shot a few minutes after yesterday's post, facing the other way, just after midnight in March 2011. Stormy, cold, and camera-killingly windy. 3:13 of broken full moon, with red and white LED flashlight. Someone should put some wheels on it and see how fast it'll do a lap at Daytona.
Reprocessed and replaced, May 2025.
Steam Locomotive and tender, Liverpool & Manchester Railway, replica, 0-2-2 "Rocket" 0-2-2, designed by Robert Stephenson, built 1979 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Rainhill Trials.
Credit : National Railway Museum, Yorkshire, UK
The Real Deal...
Rocket was built to run on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world’s first inter-city passenger railway line. In 1829, Rocket won the Rainhill Trials, which was a competition to decide on the best mode of transport for the railway.
Rocket was the only locomotive to successfully complete the trials, averaging 12 mph and achieving a top speed of 30 mph.
Designed by Robert Stephenson, Rocket’s win proved once and for all that locomotives were better at pulling trains along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, rather than stationary winding engines.
The technology applied to the design of Rocket was soon extended across the entire railway network, paving the way for the modern rail network and shaping the course of the history.
This is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to see an iconic symbol return to the site of the world’s oldest surviving passenger railway, the terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which is now home to the museum.
(Science and Industry Museum, Manchester)
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The Gallatin Rocket rips through a river curve with a neat set of clouds high above. Leading this train is the rarely shot MRL 250, THE MRL locomotive. On October 31st, 1987, on the eve of MRL ownership, "vandals" set a 3 unit consist up Bozeman Pass at full throttle, of which the BN #6377 was part. After reaching over 80 mph. the train finally buried itself into the earth at West End. Not originally part of the sale, the BN then sold the #6377 to the MRL where it was rebuilt as the #250. It would become, and remain, the only SD40-2 the MRL would own. 34 years later, still earning its keep.
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Monstrously huge cubic capacity road rocket...very butch!
Over 300kg when fuelled up...let’s just say you better not drop it!
Bumpy Rocket Frog (Litoria inermis) from Mataranka in the Top End of the Northern Territory. Taken with a vintage Yashica 55/2.8 1:2 ML Macro lens for Contax/Yashica from the late 1970's. Shot wide open @2.8 with a 20mm extension tube incorporated for a little added magnification on a Canon 5D Mark III body.
Doug Harrop Photography • April 2, 1995
As the sun sets on 9,716 ft. Mount Ben Lomond, UP 9209 pulls a NASA customer special through Roy, Utah.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shipped solid rocket boosters from Thiokol Corporation in Corinne, Utah to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 12-foot-wide, 150 ton segments were shipped by rail for 30 years.
Doug Harrop Photography • November 1989
Union Pacific's Clearfield Switcher shuffles a cut of heavy haul rocket booster cars on the Syracuse Branch wye in Clearfield, Utah.
UP 175 is a former Missouri Pacific B23-7 No. MP 4675 and UP 910 is former Western Pacific GP40-2 No. 3555.