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Aurizon loco 2847 leads intermodal service Y776 through Meadowvaleon its way south to Acacia Ridge, Brisbane.
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Non-HDR shot of the Sea Paradise rollercoaster. Cool in that about 1/3 of it is over the water.
Yokohama, Japan.
today we took on the big one Shambhala 76 meters of rollercoaster mayhem. it's the fastest and the tallest coaster in Europe and Logans 3rd ever big rollercoaster
taken with my GoPro using my new wriststrap housing
7113 leads a loaded coal train through the undulations around Strathfield, QLD, with 7132 and 7124 as DPU locomotives.
I always used to doodle in my school books. More often than not they were tiny sketches in the margin where I drew World War II fighters or bombers, naval destroyers or army tanks and armoured cars. Or futuristic supercars or fighter jets. Or I might do sketch plans of my dream house, or a map of a paradise island. I didn't draw people, flowers or animals. But I might have drawn roller coasters.
I was first hooked when my father took my younger brother and I to Battersea funfair. That might have been almost fifty years ago. And then in 1979 I landed in Long Beach on a banana ship and spent a night enjoying the white knuckle thrills at Knott's Berry Farm. The memories never left me and it was my joy to take my two sons back there, and to Six Flags Magic Mountain in 1997 on an amazing road trip around the South West of the USA. And it was so good I took the whole family back there year after year.
But I always loved the thrill of rollercoasters. I would love to design one. Starting with a pencil sketch on an empty sheet of white paper. Light touches with the point at first, shapely curves and dips. A high, over the top, dashing down to a low. The mind starts to imagine, the thrill, the emotion, the quickening heartbeat, the shortening breath. Then firmer strokes, the hand works harder, curving over those smooth shapely esses. The eyes close, imagining, nostrils flaring to take in the air: no, the scent of danger. This 'thing', this ride, she's dangerous, a heady addiction. Thrilling. Sexy in a strange sort of way. She's the ride of a lifetime, this rollercoaster with her ups and downs, twists and turns.
But you'll never want to get off. So when the ride comes to an end there is a certain finality and sense of sorrow. Like death. The fun is over perhaps for a lifetime, unless of course you want to go to the back of the queue and wait for your chance again, one day.
See the people on top?
BTW the sky wasn't grey enough for my liking so I have added a little 'shape' to it. The rollercoaster is real. I was on it.
Shoot Walterboscomplex Apeldoorn with Susan.S., Eddy Blokhuis and Joel Tjintjelaar.
Thanks Susan, Eddy and Joel for the great day!
L view in light box
Technical info:
ND110 - 10 stops.
f/13
ISO100
10 mm
45s (0min45s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5
Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2
Nik Software Dfine 2.0
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© 2011 Kees Smans
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Shoot Walterboscomplex Apeldoorn with Susan.S., Eddy Blokhuis and Joel Tjintjelaar.
L view in light box
Technical info:
ND110 - 10 stops.
f/13
ISO100
10 mm
45s (0min45s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5
Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2
Nik Software Dfine 2.0
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© 2011 Kees Smans
Please no awards/banners/images in the comments.
Links to my websites can be found on my flickr Profile
Life is a rollercoaster,
A guarantee for a bumpy ride,
Once it starts rolling,
There is no way you can hide.
At times,
It will go up steep,
At times
It will plunge down deep.
In places,
You will laugh out loud,
In places,
You will cry and shout.
No matter how high the rise,
No matter how deep the fall,
After your given period of time,
There is an end to it all.
You’ll be back at the same level,
Where life’s ride took off.
Once again you’re frail and vulnerable,
Only surrounded by unconditional love.
Poem: Jan Elemans
2011
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Vliegende Hollander
Flying Dutchman
Efteling
Kaatsheuvel
The Netherlands
R1057
At the highest point of the rollercoaster at Great Yarmouth's Pleasure Beach is a globe that apparently lights up at night. It makes a perfect minimal and sky shot.
The rollercoaster at the New York, New York Hotel in Vegas circles the building and at one point passes through it.
The telephoto lens exaggerates the gradient changes along the arrow straight Hull and Selby line at Gilberdyke as Hull Trains 180111 passes on it's way to London.
The impressive range of semaphores on this stretch of line greatly enhance the scene.
10th March 2017.
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No, not me... never... %-)
I took this shot out of the excursion train. Speedy enough for me... :)
Cyclone rollercoaster (ca. 1927) in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYC.
Legend has it that in the 1940's a rural miner who had lost the ability to speak for several years, came to visit Coney Island. He screamed on the way down the Cyclone's first drop, and muttered "I feel sick" as the car returned to the station. Then he promptly passed out when he realized he had just spoken.