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Following the traverses 20m above the river this is one of the more secure locations the team found!
Despite DB Cargo securing a new contract with Imerys minerals for the conveyance of China Clay (Kaolin / Hydrated Aluminium Silicate) from various Cornish clay pits, loadings have declined steadily over the years. The week ending 12 September 2020 saw one working a day to Fowey Carne point where much of the bulk dried clay is exported. These had originated from Goonbarrow Junction (4 off ) and a single service from Parkandillack (north of St. Austell).
66020 is seen passing the highly picturesque Golant Harbour working a very early (2 hours 20 minutes early) 6G05 Fowey Carne point to Goonbarrow junction empty service on Tuesday 8 September 2020, running in a STP path.
This location has to be one of the top spots to watch the world go by at a sedate pace. Many different varieties of wading bird were evident along with a quaint Cornish village and a water front pub within a few yards of this shot.
Many thanks to my wife who sat patiently with me for this shot. Research had shown this to be a consistently early runner, but we waited an half an hour after hearing it shunting at Carne point before it came into view, and that was after an initial 40 minute wait.....
Taken on the Joseph Conrad, an 1882 square rigger training ship located in the Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut.
Oberyn Martell, The Red Viper of Dorne (right), must battle Gregor Clegane, The Mountain (left), in Tyrion Lannister's trial by combat.
Based on a scene in S4E8 of Game of Thrones. It's only a week old, so let's avoid mentioning spoilers! *Non-purist note: used tape to secure The Mountain's pauldrons.
Secure Airparks are now operating at Edinburgh Airport with a new Wright Streetlite. SN15ABX is seen here heading back towards its car park after a run to the airport. 03rd June 2015.
This was the highlight and reason for my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024. This is stage 8 of 9.
I was lucky to secure permits for the once monthly photography tour of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park strictly forbids any cameras or cellphones in the Caverns. Except for one trip per month for 12 to 15 photographers currently $125. I planned a 4 day 3 night road trip around Southern Arizona anchored by my Kartchner Cavern permit.
I was expecting dark conditions. The State Park turned on all the lights in the Big Room. They don't like turning on all the lights since it can cause an increase in algae. This is the reason they only have one photography tour a month.
I found myself adjusting my histograms to not clip the highlights. Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome. Next time I am going to bracket my shots. I almost wish I had brought a ND filter or tried a handheld GND filter.
I don't know speleothems so I won't even try to identify. If anyone can help me with the identification, I will appreciate it.
www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/speleothems.htm#:~:text=The%20...)%20when%20needed.
The features that arouse the greatest curiosity for most cave visitors are speleothems. These stone formations exhibit bizarre patterns and other-worldly forms, which give some caves a wonderland appearance. Caves vary widely in their displays of speleothems because of differences in temperature; overall wetness; and jointing, impurities, and structures in the rocks. In general, however, one thing caves do have in common is where speleothems form. Although the formation of caves typically takes place below the water table in the zone of saturation, the deposition of speleothems is not possible until caves are above the water table in the zone of aeration. As soon as the chamber is filled with air, the stage is set for the decoration phase of cave building to begin.
The term speleothem refers to the mode of occurrence of a mineral—i.e., its morphology or how it looks—in a cave, not its composition (Hill, 1997). For example, calcite, the most common cave mineral, is not a speleothem, but a calcite stalactite is a speleothem. A stalactite may be made of other minerals, such as halite or gypsum.
Classifying speleothems is tricky because no two speleothems are exactly alike. Nevertheless, speleologists have taken three basic approaches: classification by morphology, classification by origin, and classification by crystallography. All three of these approaches have their problems (Hill, 1997), so cavers often take a more practical approach that primarily uses morphology (e.g., cave pearls) but includes whatever is known about origin (e.g., geysermites) and crystallography (e.g., spar) when needed.
nocache.azcentral.com/travel/arizona/southern/articles/20...
The Kartchner Caverns, rated one of the world's 10 most beautiful caves, is an eerie wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites still growing beneath the Whetstone Mountains 40 miles southeast of Tucson.
The limestone cave has 13,000 feet of passages and hundreds of formations built over the past 200,000 years, including some that are unique and world-renowned. It's a "living cave," with intricate formations that continue to grow as water seeps, drips and flows from the walls and slowly deposits the mineral calcium carbonate.
The caverns were discovered by amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen in 1974 on land owned by the Kartchner family. They kept the cave a secret until 1988, when the Kartchners sold it to the state to become a state park.
The highlights of the Big Room tour are a stretch of strawberry flowstone, which has been colored red by iron oxide (rust) in the water, and a maternity ward for 1,800 female cave myotis bats, with black grime on the ceiling where the bats hang and piles of guano on the floor. Visitors who look closely will see a bat's body embedded in one of the cave's formations.
Though not all are available on the tours, the caverns' unique features include a 21-foot, 2-inch soda straw that's one the world's largest (Throne Room), the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk (Big Room), the first reported occurrence of "turnip" shields (Big Room), the first cave occurrence of "birdsnest" needle quartz formations (Big Room) and the remains of a Shasta ground sloth from the Pleistocene Age (Big Room).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartchner_Caverns_State_Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Kartchner
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
আমি তখন রাতের ট্রেনে করে ঢাকা থেকে বাড়ি আসছিলাম। আমার মতো আরো অনেকেই সেরাতে আসন বিহীন টিকেট নিয়ে ট্রেনে উঠেছিল। ছবির যাত্রীরা (খুব সম্ভবত মা - মেয়ে) আমার পাশেই দাঁড়ানো ছিল এবং ট্রেন ছাড়ার বেশ কিছু সময় পর ওনারা ক্লান্তিতে ট্রেনের মেঝেতেই বসে পরেন। তুলনামূলক বেশি ক্লান্ত হওয়ায় মেয়েটিকে মা নিজের বাহুতে শোবার জায়গা করে দেন। ট্রেনে ভিড় ও প্রতিকূল পরিস্থিতির মধ্যেও মায়ের কোলে নিশ্চয়তা ও নিরাপত্তা পেয়ে ঘুমিয়ে পড়ে মেয়েটি।
NS Southbound Freight Train 385 ( Birmingham to Mobile, AL ) holds at West End, AL to let 219 & Amtrak P019 around, 385 secured their train here & ran light engines to get 384 that went on the hours of service on the 3B District, they secured 384 at Bessemer, AL & ran back light engines to their 385 to take it back south
I swear I saw a troll tonight!
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A lot of you told me a couple of days ago, that I should take advantage of all that new snow. So I went out along the Oslo fjord to chase those motifs, this was one of the shots I got home with. I had to leave shorty after this shot, because I'm sure I saw a troll in the woods.... they can get kinda grumpy at night...
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Comments and critique are as always welcome. Let me hear your opinion, why do you like this, or even better, how would you approach this scenery. Give me your thoughts... not just a Wow!... only then I can improve :))
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I asked for critique and I got it, thanks a lot :))
I can see that those bushes to the right is messing the shot up a bit. I tried to get a shot where that funny looking dead tree was isolated, but I couldn't find any good angels.
The tree is standing on a small top, so if I had moved more to the left I wouldn't have had the water in the shot...
Tammy had a good point: "Where else will the troll hide to get away from the camera?"
But thanks a lot for pointing that out, now I have to go back and see if it is possible to find a better angel :))
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Rene pointed out that the foreground should be more dark. I often get carried away in post process trying to get all that dynamic range out of the shot. This time I think it would have been better to let the foreground stay in the shadows...... I tried a few things on the shot, but I think I'm gonna l leave it as is ... it feels strange to do the same shot all over... I do take all your thoughts with on the next photowalk :))
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To secure instant deployment, „dipteria class“ airships like the „Firefly“ could stay skybound for a month on end. The original paddlewheel-based propulsion had recently been updated with two massive 'Brickerton' engines with adjustable platinum-coated six-blade rotors, allowing for a top speed of 50 knots. Four smaller engines could, theoretically, add an additional ten knots, although their primary use was to allow for steady hovering of the vessel when in action. Nine water cannons – two of them massive with ranges of up to 250 meters, could extinguish any flame. The gargantuan water tank in the ship's hull can hold up to 400.000 liters of water, yet even this feature had been updated. A recent invention employed basic physics: Compressed air was shot out of the cannons which then condensed over the burning fire site. This not only made for less water spillage but also drastically reduced weight and power consumption, thereby increasing speed, range and duration of deployment.
To effectively and safely operate in smoke-filled dizzying altitudes, the firemen carried special breathing apparatuses and security goggles with nighttime vision. A state-of-the-art infirmary allowed for the performance of emergency operations with a high-tech ICU specialized in treating burns.
Additionally, three self-propelled service vessels, among them the blimp 'Sparkle' could be deployed to assist in the rescue of people floating on life-preservers, rafts or smaller airships.
All these brave men adhered to a simple yet catchy mission statement: „WE KICK ASH!“.