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I have kept every original-file frame that I have ever shot over the last 15-years, both bad and good. Digital storage is cheap, and I find that it is fun to go back over some of the 4.2Tb of images that I now have and re-develop some with a new eye and modern tools. I also find that I remember shooting all of them. This is an example of a recently developed image that I had originally passed over at the time I shot it.
I like football, and I watch it on TV all the time, but even before my first game-shoot ended, I was looking for a subject more interesting than just helmets and numbers. This was intended to be a sideline portrait, so that is where I put the focus, but I also wanted a play to be underway to generate engagement. To get the whole sideline in at this focal-length, I had to go to the top of the away-team bleachers on the other side of the field (there were no away-team spectators. This is a small college). As I have observed before, when the subject is engaged, the viewer becomes engaged. The majority of the development work was done in Lightroom from a SOOC-JPG original file.
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Looking quite forlorn after being placed in the siding due to another technical issue. CoBo Locomotive D5708.
Loco is by Heljan and is a limited edition exclusively available from Hattons which sold out.
British Railways D5708 in green with full yellow front.
The model has been professionally weathered & Detailed.
1:76 scale, OO gauge.
Resident Derby Litchurch Lane 'Gronk' 08682 'Lionheart' is stood next to 08602 'Bombardier 004'. The two are seen sat OOU on 24/08/19.
Dak Twitty making a 3 quarter grab during Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy's 42-14 homecoming win over Cherryville High School.
Vicksburg, Mississippi (est. 1825, pop. 23,542) • Facebook • MS Delta • The Town & the Battle —NY Times
• aka Pemberton House, Mrs. Willis's House • 2-story Greek Revival brick residence • double-tiered portico added later • built by wealthy businessman William Bobb (1802-1871) • newly widowed Martha Patience Vick Willis (1796-1856) purchased the house in 1823, moved in w/son John • Mrs. Willis was the niece of Vicksburg founder, Newit Vick
• bldg. served as one of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's two Vicksburg headquarters during the 1863 Siege of Vicksburg, a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1861-1865), fought over a bid for independence by slaveholding states in the agricultural South • the North’s attitude toward slavery —Quora
• by the 1860s, the Mississippi River had become crucial to the U.S. economy • to strangle northern commercial interests, Confederate forces closed the waterway to navigation • the blockade was enforced at Vicksburg, called the "Gibraltar of the West" because of it's strategic location on bluffs overlooking the river —National Park Service
"See what a lot of land these fellows hold, of which Vicksburg is the key! The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket... We can take all the northern ports of the Confederacy, and they can defy us from Vicksburg." —President Abraham Lincoln
• in the spring of 1863, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, a former slaveholder, launched the Union Army campaign to capture Vicksburg, with a force that grew to 77,000 men
• Confederate Gen. Pemberton, a Northerner (Pennsylvania) who had fought along side Grant in Mexico, commanded the 33,000-man Army of Vicksburg in defense of the city
• the Federals under Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman attacked 19 & 22 May • when repulsed with great loss, Grant decided to lay siege to the city
• Pemberton's urgent requests for reinforcements were refused by Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston • had earlier urged the outmanned & outgunned Pemberton to abandon Vicksburg in spite of his orders to hold it at any cost • Johnston's 24,000-man "Army of Relief" remained on the sidelines while half-starved Confederate soldiers & Vicksburg citizens suffered the privations of siege warfare for 47 days —Civil War Trust
Marker:
Debate and Decision
From his headquarters in this grand mansion, Confederate General Pemberton followed the movement of enemy troops during the siege. He watched his men suffering from lack of food and the relentless Union bombardment. After nearly 7 weeks, he gathered his commanders together. Did they have the will to keep fighting? Debating late into the night of July 2, 1863, Pemberton made the difficult decision to surrender.
At 10 AM to-morrow I propose to evacuate the works in and around Vicksburg, and to surrender the city and the Garrison under my command, by marching out with my colors and arms, stacking them in front of my present lines, after which you will take possession.
General John Pemberton
July 3, 1863
• Pemberton surrendered his forces on July 4, 1863, American Independence Day • the Mississippi River was now in Union hands & once again open to the North's commercial traffic • Rashomon at Vicksburg —NY Times • The Unconditional Surrender Continues —HistoryNet
• the humiliating defeat exacerbated the cross-cultural antipathy toward Yankees that had pervaded the South for generations & would continue to do so well into the future • the devastated City of Vicksburg did not officially celebrate the nation's birthday again until 1944 (though unofficial celebrations were not uncommon)
• the victorious Union (U.S.) Army, which sealed the fate of both the Confederacy & slavery in America, was desegregated — in 1948 —How Liberals Invented Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt
• blamed by many Southerners for the loss of Vicksburg, Pemberton was accused of incompetence & because he was a Northerner, labeled a traitor • he accepted a reduction in rank & continued to serve the Confederacy as a colonel
"This brave officer has suffered more from traducers than any other in the Southern Confederacy. He happened to have been born in a Northern State, and although he had married in Virginia, had reared his children as Southern people, had resided many years among us, and had rejected the offer of a large fortune to cast in his lot with the North, there were not wanting men ungenerous enough to impute his Northern birth to him as a crime, and to 'foretell' that upon the first opportunity he would prove a traitor to the cause he had espoused at so great a cost." —Richmond Times Dispatch, June, 1863
"He was accused of being a traitor to Vicksburg. He was not a traitor to Vicksburg. He was a loyal man fighting a losing battle." —V. Blaine Russell (1890-1980), historian & columnist, "Vicksburgesque," Vicksburg Evening Post
• despite his refusal to come to Vicksburg's aid, Johnston retained his command in the Confederacy • after the war he became friends w/Union Gen. Sherman, later serving as an honorary pallbearer at his funeral
• Pemberton requested a court of inquiry into his controversial role at Vicksburg, but was refused • he & Joe Johnston continued blaming each other for decades —Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg, by Andrea Warren
• the house was purchased in 1890 by Mary Frances Harris Cowan (1849-1914), whose husband, Confederate Lt. Ludwell Blackstone Cowan (1828-1892) is said to have participated in the building of the electric spark underwater torpedo (naval mine) • on 12 Dec, 1862 it sank the USS Cairo, the first US warship ever destroyed by this type of weapon
• the building later housed Sisters of Mercy Catholic boarding school St. Anthony's Hall, then a tour home/B&B • acquired by the National Park Service as part of the Vickburg National Military Park, August, 2003
• Pemberton's Headquarters —National Park Service • Historic Structure Report —National Park Service
• HABS: MS-266 (1972) • National Register 70000319, 1970 • Uptown Vicksburg Historic District, National Register 93000850, 1993 • designated National Historic Landmark, 1976
A trio of uploads from last Saturday, and two more 'lasts' make up today's uploads.
First off, and something a little different! On arrival at the bus station on Saturday, my attention was immediately drawn to the white Scania L94UB/Wright Solar which was sat on the sidelines...
A quick think, and I decided it must be the 47! One dash to a cash machine later, and I wasn't disappointed when NC06PCC pulled onto stand for the 1505 47 to Newark - and it's seen here in Carlton Le Moorland, whilst waiting for time. A fantastic journey, providing something rather more interesting than the usual Enviro400H!
Normally confined exclusively to the 4 between Lincoln and Nettleham, and the 551 school bus between Cherry Willingham and Washingborough, the vehicle has been seen escaping a couple of times recently - more than once on to the 47, and even making an appearance on the Castle Shuttle!
A final note about the livery - it was repainted into the plain white at the beginning of the year, but there appears to have been no reason for this. It's certainly being kept spotless though!
A tribute to all the little brothers and sisters who are dragged along to their older siblings' football matches.
Yellow filter.
Film: Ilford FP4+
Developed in Rodinal 1+50
Scanner: Epson Perfection V750 Pro
Shot taken during the TJCA JV home football game against Blacksburg. The Gryphons came up short falling 15 to 13.
The same eastbound I saw at Port Chicago ended up delayed at Holt for a westbound train of covered hoppers.
One of the TTI's B36-7s that hasn't made it into their paint scheme soaks up the natural artificial lighting at the Paris engine facility. Thanks to everyone for the opportunity to capture this.
This is BA273 from London, just after landing in San Diego. It sat here on Spot 1 for an hour because its arrival gate was occupied by ANOTHER 747. For whatever reason, the first jet was unable to take off for its regular departure and spent the night in San Diego. It was supposed to take off before its stablemate landed, but there was some confusion over the flight plan, so for a short while San Diego had 2 747s on the ramps at once.
At the city center terminus of the Bergen tram, Line 2 ends on a platform besides the street while Line 1 continues on and crosses the next intersection.
Being the ball girl on the sidelines for the soccer game is not much fun if the ball never comes to your end of the field
The 103rd BAY TO BREAKERS RACE in SAN FRANCISCO with over 40,000 registered runners. Lots of fun. Lots of costumes. and some nudity !
OVERHEARD: "I can HEAR you!', older running nudist to the whispering & snickering of the crowd.
OVERHEARD: "Nudity fail. The folks who should not run nude, always do.",
Woman to her hubby after seeing yet another nudity fail.
OVERHEARD: "'Oh they run around the house naked, so it's no big deal seeing the naked runners in the Bay to Breakers:', mom with her kids on the sideline to some other attendees.
OVERHEARD: "The corn tortillas are easier to fling than the flour ones.", Jeffrey Eise , Bay to Breakers runner discussing the art of the flying tortilla at the beginning of the race.
OVERHEARD: "The cheaper the better, so, no to organic, at least when it comes to tossing tortillas.", Jackie Slade.
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Condensation rolls off D21 at Belgrave on a cold winter's morning.
D21 has spent a good portion of 2015 sidelined, sitting off its wheels on blocks next to the yard gates.
I wanted to convey the motion of the marathon runners in contrast to those of us on the sidelines who remained more-or-less stationary as we clapped and shouted our encouragement ...
So I used a shutter-priority setting on my camera, with a shutter speed of 1/8 second, and a very low ISO setting of ISO 90 to force the camera to select a reasonably good DOF aperture setting of f/10.
Because it was hard to control the exact moment when the shutter would actually click, as the runner was racing downhill on this road, I used a fairly extreme wide-angle setting on my Sony RX-10 camera ... and then cropped as tightly as I could...
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Once upon a time, I had serious intentions of running the New York marathon. It was back in 1979, and the whole thing was much less formal than it is now. Indeed, it was sufficiently informal that Rosie Ruiz was accidentally given a “finished time” of 2:56:29 for the New York event that year, which qualified her for the 1980 Boston marathon. It was later discovered that she had not run the entire NYC course (nor did she do so up in Boston on April 21, 1980), and her time was ultimately rescinded in both races. Had her times stayed in the record books, her Boston time of 2:31:56 would have been the fastest female time ever in the Boston marathon and the third-fastest female time ever recorded in any marathon...
Informal as the New York marathon was in those ancient days, you still couldn’t just show up at the starting line and expect to be welcomed. On the other hand, all that was necessary to get an official invitation was going down to the main branch of the U.S. Post Office on 34th Street at midnight on some long-forgotten summer night,and waiting in line with a bunch of equally crazy people. I got my entry ticket (or letter, or certificate, or whatever it was) a few days later, and began following a fairly serious training regimen, working my way up to a modest 10-mile race … until a business trip took me to Sydney, Australia for most of the month of August, 1979. Between business and social events, and the cold, wet weather of Sydney’s winter season, I didn’t do any running at all for that whole month … and with my training regimen broken, I wisely decided not to run the marathon at all.
But since then, I’ve always had a fondness for the NYC marathon — especially considering how much it has grown, and what a city-wide celebration it has become. I missed the event in 2013 and 2012, so it has been three years since I watched on the sidelines in 2011. With the promise of cold-but-sunny weather this year, I decided to return once again — and, as in 2011, I positioned myself at roughly the 24.5-mile point, at the beginning of a downhill run at roughly 78th Street, at the side of the Central Park “inner roadway.”
The runners pass by all afternoon, and well into the evening; but it’s a little more difficult to anticipate when the lead runners will reach any particular point. There are now so many participants in the marathon (about 50,000) that the runners are released in “waves,” beginning with those on hand-operated wheelchair/bicycles, and the “elite” women, the elite men, and three or four waves of mere mortals. There was an additional delay this year, because the headwinds were so strong that the initial wave had great difficulty propelling their wheeled vehicles up over the “hump” of the Tappan Zee bridge. So if you’re standing somewhere along the route, at the 10-mile mark, or the 20-mile mark, or (as I was) the 24.5 mile mark, you can only guess at the moment when the lead runners — or a friend or family member whom you want to cheer onward to the finish line — might be coming near you.
On the other hand, there are some clues. Helicopters hover above the lead runners, low enough that you can hear the roar of their blades; and there are two or three waves of police cars and motorcycles zooming ahead of the runners, pushing people back to the sidelines, and ensuring that there are no disruptions or obstacles to slow them down. Then — and it’s always an adrenaline rush! — you see the official race car, driving just a few feet ahead of the lead runners, with a huge race clock mounted on its roof, showing those fast-moving runners the exact number of hours, minutes, and seconds since they started their journey back at the edge of Staten Island.
The lead runners, of whom there are often two or three or four even up to the last mile, are often several minutes ahead of the next ones; but those who are in positions three, four, five or ten, and who will get no recognition at all from the press, the media, or the crowd when they finish … well, they still run as if their lives depend on it. And the crowd cheers them on, clapping and calling out their names and urging them onward.
One of the differences I noticed this year was the widespread use of bicycle horns and cow-bells that the onlookers used to create a cacophony of merry noise; I don’t know if the runners took it as a sign of encouragement, but it sure sounded that way to me …
I stayed longer than I had intended, and took several hundred more photos that I had planned … but they’re all just bits on the camera’s digital memory card, so it doesn’t really matter. One might argue that I should have stayed for eight or ten hours, until the last runner had straggled by. And perhaps I should have photographed each of the 50,000 runners, for I’m sure they each had their own story to tell. But after a while, it gets overwhelming — and the faces and bodies and brightly colored shirts and tights and shoes begin to blur…
I think I got a representative collection of photos; and the video clips will give you a sense of the noise and the motion of what seemed like an endless stream of humanity racing past … but to really understand it, you need to be there in person. Barring a crippling storm (like Hurricane Sandy, which forced the cancellation of the 2012 marathon), you’ll find another crowd of 50,000 runners racing through Central Park at the end of next year’s marathon, on the first Sunday in November. And with any luck, I’ll be there with my camera …
Who knows: maybe even Rosie Ruiz will be there, too. It turns out that she was arrested in 1982 for embezzling $60,000 from a real estate company where she worked; after a week in jail and a sentence of five years’ probation, she moved back to south Florida, where she was arrested in 1983 for her involvement in a cocaine deal. But as of the year 2000, she still insisted that she had run the entire 1980 Boston marathon. C’est la vie...
Sean Lamont is consoled by Kelly Brown after injuring ligaments in his right knee during Scotland's 19-17 loss to France at Murrayfield.
Disconnected rail and abandoned engine. Sepia seemed to suit
Maenofferen slte quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog
The 103rd BAY TO BREAKERS RACE in SAN FRANCISCO with over 40,000 registered runners. Lots of fun. Lots of costumes. and some nudity !
OVERHEARD: "I can HEAR you!', older running nudist to the whispering & snickering of the crowd.
OVERHEARD: "Nudity fail. The folks who should not run nude, always do.",
Woman to her hubby after seeing yet another nudity fail.
OVERHEARD: "'Oh they run around the house naked, so it's no big deal seeing the naked runners in the Bay to Breakers:', mom with her kids on the sideline to some other attendees.
OVERHEARD: "The corn tortillas are easier to fling than the flour ones.", Jeffrey Eise , Bay to Breakers runner discussing the art of the flying tortilla at the beginning of the race.
OVERHEARD: "The cheaper the better, so, no to organic, at least when it comes to tossing tortillas.", Jackie Slade.
At the opening game, 9/3/11, the Razorbacks played and beat the Misouri State Bears. This capture of the pom pom squad in the middle of a routine is from that game. These gals dance, spell out cheers and look very good while doing it. Here's to the over 400 students that perform on the sidelines for the football team!
The 103rd BAY TO BREAKERS RACE in SAN FRANCISCO with over 40,000 registered runners. Lots of fun. Lots of costumes. and some nudity !
OVERHEARD: "I can HEAR you!', older running nudist to the whispering & snickering of the crowd.
OVERHEARD: "Nudity fail. The folks who should not run nude, always do.",
Woman to her hubby after seeing yet another nudity fail.
OVERHEARD: "'Oh they run around the house naked, so it's no big deal seeing the naked runners in the Bay to Breakers:', mom with her kids on the sideline to some other attendees.
OVERHEARD: "The corn tortillas are easier to fling than the flour ones.", Jeffrey Eise , Bay to Breakers runner discussing the art of the flying tortilla at the beginning of the race.
OVERHEARD: "The cheaper the better, so, no to organic, at least when it comes to tossing tortillas.", Jackie Slade.