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Seemingly "on-hire" to the publicity department, Stagecoach South East Trainer, 34658 GX54 DXJ is seen skirting the Kent Coast on Coast Drive near Lydd-on-Sea stopping at every stop to update the information boards. Thursday 30th July 2020.
TransBus Dart SLF 10.7m - TransBus Pointer
The seemingly cylindrical tower of the Liberty Mutual Tower at 157 Berkeley Street as seen from along Stuart Street. Opened in 2013, it incorporated the adjacent and historic former Salada Tea Building at the corner of Berkeley and Stuart Streets. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
La torre aparentemente cilíndrica de Liberty Mutual Tower en 157 Calle Berkeley vista desde Calle Stuart. Inaugurado en 2013, incorporó el antiguo e histórico edificio Salada Tea adyacente en la esquina de las calles Berkeley y Stuart. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
A seemingly lost macaque on the steps of the Swayambunath temple complex, Nepal. Like most of my images, including all those in this album, this one is in the public domain and free for anyone to re-use without giving me credit.
PHOTO NOTE: Minamata tells the true story of how at the end of his long career a seemingly washed up photographer (albeit a truly great one) would find the courage to create his most moving and socially important work. I’ll let you read the blurbs for yourself and recommend you watch the trailer, but this is a film that shows how photography - perhaps more so than any of the other visual arts - still has the power to change the world.
MINAMATA Official Trailer (2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3pKTssw_E
“Available light is any damn light that is available!” – W. Eugene Smith
If there’s one quote that gets to the essence of Gene Smith as a photographer, than that’s it. Straight to the point, no nonsense, and it’s all about the light. William Eugene Smith was born in Kansas in 1918. At 13 his mother bought him a camera and he never looked back. He is regarded by many as the best photojournalist of the 20th century and "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/06/w-eugene-smi...
He was Life Magazine’s greatest ever photographer and also their most troublesome. A notoriously prodigious artist, who when fully engaged in a project became obsessive. The best example of this was in 1955, soon after joining Magnum Photos after being fired by Life Magazine. His assignment was to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh photographing the steel mills. Two years and 13,000 photographs later he gave up the project. But the photographs that have been seen are truly astounding.
He made his name in Life Magazine as a war correspondent. While photographing the battle for Okinawa he was seriously wounded and repatriated to the United States. His war photos are full of real pathos, like the one where American soldiers rescue a dying baby in the fields. As he once said, “What use is having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?”
But it would be a mistake to think of Gene Smith as a mere photojournalist. The range of his work is almost unparalleled in the history of photography.
Lovers of music often think of him as the greatest photographer of jazz there ever was. From his Bohemian loft apartment in New York City in 1957, he played host to jazz musicians as legendary as Thelonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans and the emerging genius John Coltrane. Not only did he make nearly 1,500 recordings of these sessions, but he took an estimated 40,000 negatives. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/J/bo198266625.html
From the same loft window high above the street he took some legendary street shots – all in black and white because Gene Smith wouldn’t take colour seriously. Smith once said, “In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.”
The light coming from the dark. It was a technique he was renowned for: Chiaroscuro. Painters have used it for centuries, including Caravaggio.
So when in 1970 Smith’s final great assignment came to him, after years of substance abuse and professional neglect, he used all his immense technical skills to produce work that would change forever the way people thought about the social responsibility of corporations. In the fishing village of Minamata in Japan, people were dying of mercury poisoning from toxic wastes being discarded directly into the sea.
The fishers were catching and eating the highly toxic fish, children were born with gross deformities and people were dying in scenes reminiscent of the post-atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Smith joined the community and photographed their desperate plight and protests. He also found love again and his heart warmed especially towards the children. But these were not just any photographs one might see in the World News pages. From these dark images there emerged a light of hope, love and true compassion.
I will provide a link for you here to what I consider one of the greatest photographs ever taken (worth ten thousand golden hour sunsets) – possibly Smith’s finest and a true distillation of a life’s work. Only the hard of heart could not shed a tear of empathy at this purest form of a mother’s love that one could ever imagine. It is a modern equivalent of Michelangelo's Pieta. Truly the climax of the movie Minimata.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoko_and_Mother_in_the_Bath
This is what photography should be! I’ll leave the final word here to Gene Smith himself:
"A photo is a small voice, at best, but sometimes - just sometimes - one photograph or a group of them can lure our senses into awareness. Much depends upon the viewer; in some, photographs can summon enough emotion to be a catalyst to thought."
W. Eugene Smith died of a stroke on October 15, 1978. He wasn’t quite 60.
SOME MORE RESOURCES TO STUDY:
www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/w-eugene-smith/
www.life.com/photographer/w-eugene-smith/
The Genius of W. Eugene Smith
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjUyOJs69pQ&t=49s
Masters of Photography, W. Eugene Smith
A square format view of County Hall and the London Eye, as seen from Westminster Bridge late on the first afternoon of this years #Photo24 event back in July.
Click here to see more photos from this and previous years Photo24 events : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157667520181380
From Wikipedia : "The main six storey building was designed by Ralph Knott. It is faced in Portland stone in an Edwardian Baroque style. The construction, which was undertaken by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts, started in 1911 and the building was opened in 1922 by King George V. The North and South blocks, which were built by Higgs and Hill, were added between 1936 and 1939. The Island block was not completed until 1974.
For 64 years County Hall served as the headquarters of local government for London. During the 1980s the then powerful Labour-controlled GLC led by Ken Livingstone was locked in conflict with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. Since the Parliament buildings were just across the river from County Hall, the façade of County Hall frequently in more than one year of her tenure served as a billboard for opposition slogans. When the government of Margaret Thatcher abolished the GLC in 1986, County Hall lost its role as the seat of London's government. Talk soon became of what was to happen to the building, and plans to relocate the London School of Economics to the site from its Westminster campus were overruled by Mrs Thatcher, seemingly disapproving of further slogans from students. The building remained in use by the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) until its abolition in 1990 when the building was transferred to the London Residuary Body and eventually sold to private investors. On 21 October 2005, the High Court of England and Wales upheld a bid by the owners of the building, Shirayama Shokusan, to have the Saatchi Gallery evicted on grounds of violating its contract, particularly using space outside of the rented area for exhibits. Today, the majority of the building, including the entire fourth and fifth floors, remains empty since the dissolution of the GLC. Another small section of the building is occupied as a Premier Inn."
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Fleabanes, this one is Erigeron annuus. This genus is one of the most common weedy plants in the mid-atlantic. A native seemingly able to handle the competition. Its generically attractive to a bees in color and form, but nothing to write to your mother about for food and drink, a flower way down the list of popularity. Probably has to do with ethnically being a composite. Extra credit portion of this post: How many thrips can you find in these 2 pictures? This reminds me of the Highlights magazine that in the Pleistocene was governmentally required to be in every dentist and doctor's office in the country. Picture and specimen by Helen Lowe Metzman.
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Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
The i360 Observation tower in Brighton is incredibly slender and elegant as you can see here. Seemingly there was also quite a campaign against it when originally proposed but was presumably it was deemed acceptable because like the same Architects London Eye it is a temporary structure.
Click here for more of my Brighton photos : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157711496500242
From Wikipedia : "British Airways i360 is a 162 m (531 ft) observation tower on the seafront of Brighton, East Sussex, England at the landward end of the former West Pier. The tower opened on 4 August 2016. From the fully enclosed viewing pod, visitors experience 360-degree views across Brighton, the South Downs, the English Channel and on the clearest days it is possible to see Beachy Head 27 km (17 mi) to the east and the Isle of Wight 66 km (41 mi) to the west.
British Airways i360 was designed, engineered, manufactured and promoted by the team responsible for the London Eye. It is estimated by the developers that the i360 will generate more than 440 permanent jobs; 160 posts at the attraction, and additional jobs from the spin-off benefits to other businesses in the city. The attraction cost £46 million, with £36 million being funded by a Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) loan through Brighton and Hove city council.
Formerly known as the "Brighton i360", the project aimed to attract 739,000 paying customers every year. The owner of the site, the West Pier Trust, hoped in 2014 that a successful i360 would lead to the rebuilding of the historic West Pier. The i360 carried its 1,000,000th passenger on the 11am flight on 11 March 2019."
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Burros returned to Custer State Park on Thursday with seemingly bewildered looks on their faces. When their corral gate opened, the animals looked tentative, perhaps wondering why a group of humans was staring at them. Eventually, the burros ambled and sniffed their way across a gravel road to a hillside, where they began munching on green grass that had popped up recently from blackened earth. The release of the burros occurred at the park's buffalo corrals. What the event lacked in excitement, it made up for in emotion, especially for those eager to see the park return to normal after December's Legion Lake Fire. The blaze burned across the state park, into Wind Cave National Park and onto private land, consuming 84 square miles in total. All nine of the state park's burros suffered injuries from the fire, including burns, dehydration, facial swelling and hoof damage. Three of the burros were euthanized, and the other six were taken away to receive veterinary care. Two of those burros are still receiving care and are expected to eventually return to the park. Thursday, the other four burros were brought back to the park, along with four more that were recently donated by Beaver Creek Buffalo Co. of Jefferson, S.D., which had purchased burros from the park in the past. Kayla and Dustin Brown, of Fall River Veterinary Clinic in Hot Springs, nursed the injured burros back to health and were pleased to see them return home. "Just give it a little time, and they'll be back in car windows," Kayla Brown said with a laugh. The burros are famous in the park for approaching vehicles, sticking their heads in the windows, and snatching food from visitors. The park's history with burros — which are really just small donkeys — dates to at least the 1920s, when they were used as pack animals to transport tourists from Sylvan Lake to the top of Black Elk Peak. After that practice ended, some burros were turned loose in the park, and a small feral herd has shared the park ever since with bison, antelope and other wildlife.
Seemingly imported in 1989; this looked quite tidy. I like the Beetle for some reason, although I wouldn't have a soft top. Black's good though.
Seemingly disorganized limbs creating a natural staircase up to the top. Beauty is all around you, you just have to look closely
Seemingly a permanent feature of the same estate as the blue Carlton lives on, this one just seems to survive perhaps even more so against the odds given the slightly eventful MOT history it has.
Little surprise to see this is in long term ownership too, with the same person since 1990.
Less than 8k covered in a decade.
Another from the tops of 2018 folder I'm dropping here on Flickr. This is truly something that will never be seen again!
On this Dec. 2018 weekend I, like seemingly every other railfan in the northeast, made the trip to the Southern Tier of New York to chase and photograph the annual Toys For Tots special train that ran from Binghamton to Delanson, NY on NS. In conjunction with that, were opportunities to shoot the returning deadhead equipment heading south on the old Erie Mainline.
Many fans lamented the fact that Norfolk Southern chose (for entirely rational public relations reasons) to put two of their modern locomotives on top of what were the stars of the show (to railfans at least).
But, I didn't care. Just a chance to see them, even coupled at both ends was worth it to me. So I headed out on Fri taking my time on the long 5 hr drive to Binghamton. I railfanned my way west and south...quite unsuccessfully I might add, but then had a fun night in Bingo catching up with an old railroader buddy.
Fri was a long fun day in pretty poor weather. It was good to be on the old Delaware and Hudson again after more than two decades and great to see so many familiar faces in the hobby. While the owner has changed, the "Bridge Line" is still as gorgeous as ever.
On Saturday was even worse weather, but an even rarer opportunity. Not only is this train exceedingly special, but seeing ANY train on the old Southern Tier east of Binghamton is a treat these days, account it normally only hosts 6 nocturnal freights a week operated by the NYSW railroad.
Here is a favorite shot of the stars of the show without those pesky SD60Es blocking the view! And for the uninitiated who read my ramblings these stars are original Pennsylvania Railroad EMD E8s 5711 and 5809 built in Oct 1952 and Jan 1951 respectively by EMD.
I'd seen these stunningly restored classics that are owned by Bennett Levin's Juniata Terminal only once prior, when they went to Streamliners at Spencer in 2014. Well, correct that. I'd only seen them that one time in their restored glory. I did shoot these locomotives in the 1990s when they wore Pullman green and led Conrail's OCS into New England many times and in fact the first photo I had published in Trains magazine was of the these Es running on the Northeast Corridor in Rhode Island!
Discarded by NS and CSXT after the 1999 unmerger, they have enjoyed a remarkable second coming in their as delivered glory, often running on home rails leading excursions and special trains around the east. But the rumors are those days are coming to an end and there might not be another chance to see these stunners on the high iron so weather and miles be damned!
And the reason I took an unplanned vacation day and stayed to follow the deadhead was a chance for THIS. NYSW Engineer Dan McCarthy arranged with Casey Thomason, Marc Glucksman and railroad management for a brief pause to cut away the NS units during the deadhead move to pause for photos at one of the most famous places in all of railroading.
Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Built at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $9,065,846 today), it was at the time of its construction thought to be the most expensive railway bridge in the world. It was the largest stone rail viaduct in the mid-19th century and is still in use. It is just over 1000 feet in length and is 100 ft high consisting of seventeen 50 ft wide arches.
Lanesboro, Pennsylvania
Sunday December 2, 2018
Seen here at the Old Warden Evening Display on 26th September 2009, the Shuttleworth Collection’s authentic reproduction Bristol Boxkite seemingly flies off towards the moon, as the day’s airshow culminates with a sunset finale by a number of ‘historic Edwardian aircraft’.
One owner, and seemingly about as original as a Lanos can be. These were still fairly easy spots about a decade ago, but time is not kind to budget cars, and even less so when the brand ceases to operate, so Daewoos dwindle toward eventual obscurity.
A seemingly disembodied head tilts upward, fixated on someone or something unseen to us. Meanwhile, at left ... a whitish, somewhat androgynous figure stands in profile and stares passively ahead. What causes such rapt attention on the part of one, and such cool indifference on the part of the other?
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Locale: Estabrook Park - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
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Tech Note 1: The image consists of a single, highly processed photographic exposure. (There is no superposition of elements from other exposures.)
Tech Note 2: The image results from inverse-linear processing ("ILP") in Lightroom. ILP begins with inverting the Tone Curve (by setting it to fall from the upper left-hand corner to the the lower right-hand corner). In ILP the sense of most, but not all, Lightroom controls invert. Proficiency in ILP requires patience and experimentation, but the results can reveal extraordinary imagery hidden in otherwise lackluster exposures.
Dog Day Monday again, and seemingly so soon. Maybe I don't have archives that will last me through 2025, but then there have been so many canines that I keep finding so many adorable pups hidden away from before my Flickr days. Today, maybe the best juvenile, is Archie, my brother's last of four Norfolk terriers.
Wayback story: My brother and sister-in-law came for a visit seems like yesterday, but it was it was in 1990. My brother, the "rational one," had always been suspicious of dogs, a trait that he got from my mother who was, for whatever reason, afraid of them. My father loved dogs and having nothing to do with DNA, I was determined to have a dog. I brought some "free" kittens home one day, and I found out what a kitten fit was and having a dog of my own would take another 24 years.
Move ahead to 1990 when Bob and Jan visited us in Northern California. At the time, we had Max, our Norfolk terrier. Max loved two things, people and food. And, of course, the first person that he was obsessed with was my brother, Bob. The night of "The Great Visit" he spent six or more hours wheedling his way into my brother's heart by licking his head which, if it wasn't bald when he arrived, was by the next morning. (My sister-in-law, Jan, had gotten Max to sleep with them, which was the Great Dog Plot of the Great Visit.)
Giggling. All night long, giggling. My brother. Giggling. And Jan seeing me in the hall the next morning, beaming, and saying, and I quote, "We got him!" Two weeks later, after some research, they were back having driven 450 miles to pick up a Norfolk puppy whom my brother named "Duncan." (All four of their now four terriers have been named after Shakespearian characters or English Kings or both.)
How lucky that their first was an adorable, sweet-as-can-be Norfolk. Mt brother certainly had brand loyalty. The other Norfolks that followed were Richard, Arthur, and now Archie. As you can see from this photo, Archie, who is now seven, was naturally adorable. Archie, upon seeing a camera, which was daily, would assume the "Archie Pose" that you see here. Archie has been the smartest, most stylish (supposedly, he picked out his own vest), most adorable, dog that has ever lived in a Winning household. My Dad would have loved him, and maybe, just maybe, he would have won over my mother's heart.
(Our Sealeyhan, Perky, tried very hard to be friends with my mom when we lived in Oregon and my parents came to visit. Evidently, sneaking into the bedroom where my folks were spending the night, jumping up on the bed with a ball, and even saying "Hiiiii" was not the way to do it. When we had our first daughter whom my mom cherished, but who came with a guardian named "Perky," a truce was declared and I think Mom actually "petted him" after five years. Since Bob and I had two girls, my dad had from day one, already designated him as his "first grandson.")
sometimes i imagine i'm looking out into the endless ocean…
i think living in a landlocked state eventually takes its toll.
With a mile-thick hide, horns seemingly made of granite, and a snout that rivals the front end of an F-350, the great American bison is the ultimate winter survivalist. With powerful neck muscles and the swish-swish-swish of their heads, bison forage for food in up to four feet of snow during Yellowstone’s harsh winters.
I took this self-portrait a few years ago when things in my life seemingly matched the image. Now a few years later, things are so much better than they ever were and new opportunities are presenting themselves.
How fitting that on my last day of one chapter of my life Donna and I literally stumbled upon a Goo Goo Dolls concert, and watched them play this song live. It reminded me of this image / song pairing I did a few years ago that never saw the light of day.
It's important to remember these days and how far we've come.
And even though the moment's passed me by
I still cant turn away
I saw the dreams you never thought you'd lose
Tossed along the way
Letters that you never meant to send
Lost and thrown away
And now we are grown up orphans that never knew their names
We don't belong to no one that's a shame
You could hide beside me
Maybe for a while
And I won't tell no one your name..
And I won't tell your name
Scars are souvenirs you'll never lose
Past is never far
Did you lose yourself somewhere out there?
Did you get to be a star?
Don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are?
We grew up way too fast
Now there's nothing to believe
And reruns all become our history
A tired song keeps playin' on a tired radio
And I won't tell no one your name...
And I won't tell your name
I won't tell your name...I won't tell your name
I think about you all the time
I don't need the same...
It's lonely where you are, come back down
And I won't tell your name
I recently went on a quick trip to Colorado to shoot pictures with Dan Ballard. We came across this small pond between the towns of Marble and Crystal. I took this as the sun was setting...it was difficult to get a good balance of lights and darks...but I used lightroom to bring things back into balance.
Canon EOS 550D Rebel T2i
Canon EF 10-22mm lens
Aperture f/14.0
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 400
Having seemingly had a partial repaint, a damaged Class 315, possibly 315811, sits on Ilford EMU depot. Photo taken sometime during week ending 13th January 1990.
The Great Falls seemingly hasn't been as charged up as it has in the past, but still always a great place to get shots. Again, in retrospect I should have done something more in Lewiston area, but with a Dunkin on literally every corner now, traffic is irritating to the point where this is about as far into Lewiston I make it.
RUPO makes it from Lewiston into Auburn right before noon on a great day in mid-August 2021
The seemingly never-ending open sea is a symbol of unrestricted freedom.
A small part of Singapore taken together with the open sea, taken from the top of the Marina Bay Sands observation deck.
Seemingly nothing was wrong with the engine, T356 & A66 are seen pressing on to make up for lost time as they pass over the level crossing on Summerhill Rd on approach into Craigieburn on route to Melbourne. 17/1/26
Cows seemingly keeping out of the sun as the day was warming up as we left Le Bleymard and commenced our first climb of the day to Col Santel at 1,195 metres. A mere blip on the way it would turn out to be.
Day 8 of 12 – Le Bleymard to Le Pont de Montvert: Walking the Chemin de Stevenson (GR 70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail) in the south of France.
The Milky Way is seemingly eternal, while those of us here on Earth are all too mortal. We aren't here for a long period of time compared with the stars. Neither are the plants and trees around us, including the fire blackened whitebark pine and its fellow timberline species shown in this image taken from the top of Lookout Mountain in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon. The elevation here is just over 6,500 feet, and these are the last trees left before your each a barren, rocky summit. Thank you for viewing my work!
When your seemingly in the only gallery where the sun dips in,...Photoshop therapy is the only answer when you get home...so indulge me a little as the day was rapidly turning into a nightmare.....37025 "Inverness TMD" passes the Bishton Flyover at Llandevenny with the 4B20 0837 Barry - Swindon East Loop colas crew trainer which unexpectedly turned up on the fasts at the same time as a bit of haze on 30th Jan 16
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Nizam. Ud Din
New Delhi
Photography’s new conscience
Spotted this seemingly abandoned, burned-out house on a road I've driven 100 times before. It did •not• want to be photographed. And even though there was no glass left, something kept reflecting (peeking?) back at me through the windows....
Happy Halloween!
(Digital composite: sky. Obviously.)
2 Way seemingly have a few of these Neoplan Euroliners; a vehicle type I haven’t really seen anywhere else but they seem to have carved out a niche for running them. This photo dates back to 2018, at a time when I’d have been totally clueless regarding most of the Lincolnshire operators. Luckily I at least had the sense to take a snap of the random coach outside the railway station, to record my one and only sighting of this one.
St Mary’s Street, Lincoln, 20.10.18
YN04 AVF
iss073e0175732 (May 27, 2025) --- The New Moon is pictured seemingly beneath Earth's atmosphere during an orbital sunset in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 259 miles above Mauritania on the African continent at approximately 9:59 p.m. local time.
Seemingly a favourite with geologists everywhere. This day was no exception. While I was stood with my camera amongst lots of other tourists (Lulworth Cove is always busy), they were also milling around. Twenty or so geology students with hard hats hi-vis jackets and clipboards. Not sure if they needed those for safety or just so people wouldn't think they were tourists, too.
Seemingly a very contented meal. I loved the sound of the grass being chomped.
Nikon D750
Sigma 24-105mm F4 DG OS HSM Art
‘Schplendid’ decline, a natural going away with the waveforms of sunlight, winds and rain slowly eroding everything seemingly diligently taking all of what is til nothing will remain. All the while the guardian stands watch making memories of even older dread ghost of man's tormented slaves free expressions of intricate passions delivered for sensation rather than for continued ‘rememberation’ all woven in light and in shadow, woven into so many songs on the winds and embroidered in fine worked detail with the rain til only the rocks and their hollows remain.
Too many reflections loaded and here I am loading more. These are the end to the reflections as the personal intrusion was the end my friend. No worries about being personally intruded, it is just the way it is, was and hopefully will be. Please step in, out and walk all around my pictures, your pathways are more important than my pictures. When everything else is in balance I try to take an image and create a picture hopefully in harmony.
There are some good links below. My reflected images don’t get many views, here they are though. Some pictures I take I see the reflection opening up the scene. Here the dark cross caught my eye and the potential to extend the original image from a landscape orientation and then from a portrait orientation fired my mind and then, and then someone rose from their lower perspective photography and stood in my scene. Suddenly I was woken from my image making dream. They were a great photography companion and the only reason that I was there and out and about with a camera. No shade on them for elevate themselves from a close-up photography Yoga pose focused on a flower I believe. They can puncture my composed dream frames anytime, also in any place and in all space and none, even if their puncture power means the dream scene has gone.*
The Sun will shine and cast shadows and in inspecting them we can tell the time. We can see line and with a care we can watch the minutes and hours pass as the line moves. If we wish we can look at light as the generative creator of life and we can see shadow as an opposition a place that will not respond to the clarion call of the Sun. Shadow and shade bring about their own distinct wonders and Shadow is created and directed in constant movement by light of varying intensity. We humans have considered good and bad omens from the force of the Sun and from the reaction of shade, shadow and subterranean sunless places as well as the phase of the Moon displaying reflected radiance of the Sun and at times the Moon shrouds the Sun in eclipse of amazing exactness gifting sight of the edge the immediate crown of the star that illuminates us and leaves us to the further distant view of the other stars and planets by night. All this to say Sun and Shadow, direct light and reflection and refraction all the time in world seemingly making and recreating signs and symbols that we divine as the language of light and the symphony of dark. Light is light and lack of light is either less, or even total darkness with no need to try to read the light and to listen to the dark. After this mention of omen and even prediction everything below this is information about the absolutely stunning location.
Hawthornden Castle stands atop several layers of caves that have been extended into amazing chambers visited by many famous people on their Scottish tours. The castle is one of three close together all taking advantage of the steep escarpment that offers natural rock protection above the North Esk river flowing swiftly below. Roslin Glen is home to Rosslyn Castle and many believe the Holy Grail resides here too, there are wonderful legends and fantastic natural formations throughout the glen, plenty enough to enjoy even beyond the quest for the Holy Grail.
Linked below are Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth from the Google Art Project and both Roslin Glen cared for by Rosslyn Chapel Trust, as well as Roslin Glen Country Park and also Wallace’s Cave, the other cave and prehistoric rock carvings.
The Hawthornden Foundation is linked below they are a part of bigger project with events and hosting writers to stay in places such as Hawthornden Castle for a month of focused literary working days.
*The Dream Scene Puncture Repair Kit is currently available from the Akashic Records at wherever you usually Yoga access them. They can help you achieve stone solid results and icon Sphinx like waking scenes and also avoid all frame puncture at every photographic juncture. Higher State close lens search for Dream Scene Puncture Repair in Khemtastic Pack IV Pharaoh Awakes near potential pyramid lakes. If you have not found The Dream Scene Puncture Repair Kit then join the rest of us that either have to recompose and take another dream scene, or move on literally figuratively and even spiritually if your dream close to fulfilment was such a wondrous scene.
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Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Nasmyth_-_Hawthornde...
Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM6825
ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/GDL00327
Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
'Wallace's Cave'
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600000778
The monument known as Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
Now seemingly in the final months of their Freightliner lives, the sight of 4 Class 86's at the head of a service in 2020 is extremely welcome!
I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure what the story is here nor the actual headcode. It would seem that 4M42 ran in to difficulties at Shenfield in the early hours with 86613 and 86610. It looks as though 86608 and 86605 (which were probably allocated to 4M45) have ran light from Ipswich and recovered the service. 4M45 did leave Felixstowe but was cancelled at Ipswich Yard in it's normal path.
Any help on headcode and confirmation of the above would be great! :)
86608 86605 86613 86610 Halebank. 04:55 Shenfield - Garston FLT.
Seemingly everlasting these sedimentary rock layers are actually quite fragile especially when exposed to the pounding surf.
This seemingly sylvan setting is actually on the edge of The Black Country, and the West Midlands Trains Class 172 DMU is crossing the Birmingham Canal Navigation's Old Main Line at Smethwick Galton Bridge. The train, service 2K25 0926 Stratford-upon-Avon - Kidderminster is slowing on the approach to Galton Bridge station on 30th April 2022. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Onion Flowers - little white flowers that spring from seemingly nowhere, and which smell like onions when the lawn mower rips through them, but when left alone, can produce a lovely carpet of White...
Granddaughters Grace (aged 3.5 years) and Olivia (aged 2) are cousins, and over the last week or so, they've had a lovely time on our long driveway picking bouquets of these little flowers. Never mind that the stems are all different lengths; there's something special about hearing a little voice proudly proclaiming, "Here you are Gwanddad; dees are for ooo!" as a little hand passes over the little bouquet...!
Anyway, inspired by the photo that recently appeared on Andrew's site (www.flickr.com/photos/ajhaysom/48928507917/in/dateposted/),
I paid a visit to our church yard cemetery which (unlike our driveway) still has lots of Onion Flowers blooming!
Unfortunately, the wind was blowing strongly through the cemetery, but I was never-the-less reasonably pleased with this shot (above). So thanks for the Inspiration Andrew; I had a lot of fun in an old graveyard this morning!
Thanks so much for visiting my Site Folks, and thanks especially for taking the time and trouble to leave a Comment; it's always nice to hear from you...!
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At last I have found a picture of HOM 699D, previously my only seemingly unpictured vehicle. This was my second Reliant, bought from Grey's on Coventry Road for 399 guineas. Greys used to price their bikes and 3 wheelers in guineas (£1.05p in today's money) the advantage to Greys is 399 guineas sounds a lot cheaper than roughly £529!
The picture was taken in August 1968 at Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire, my future wife, Jean, is holding the door on. The van was about 2 years old and as is obvious it had been highly tuned, it had stick on front number plates and a trendy drivers door mirror which clamped onto the quarter light upright. Unless regularly tightened the mirrors would work loose and fall off, generally under the wheels of the Foden following behind. I had fitted Austin A35 chrome hub caps to it and, to hide the 'flying A' motif, a couple of Lucas orange side reflectors were drilled and bolted on, regrettably not quite in the centre so that when the wheel revolved the reflectors kind of oscillated, a thing of wonder to the drivers of cars passing in the next motorway lane. The van came with a boomerang drivers wing mirror, this was removed and a parking light (a legal requirement back then) was fitted in the hole. Whereas most motorists clipped their parking lights over the drivers door window I just had to flick a switch on the dashboard and my light came on, neat!
I was so proud of that car, today I can't even be bothered to clean the Euro blob I now own.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 08/1968: All rights reserved