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"Sometimes I try to forget about the specific subject and
just look at what I'm seeing in terms of light." Arthur Meyerson
The theme for week 27 is 'Numbers or one specific number' The number is on the side of a small boat in Peel harbour. I was hoping for a better reflection but there has been just a bit of wind that with the natural movement of the water combined to form ripples. Had a play in Topaz adjust to see if I could get the numbers clearer so posing for Sliders Sunday as well!
A shady afternoon idyll under the spreading branches of a giant beech tree, watching the birds and insects idle by.
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Wearing lingerie is a specific invitation to intimacy. Nothing is as sexy as desire and with full on intent as a woman dressed for seduction like in this Wellmade Nyx Lingerie. It is clearly telling that she is planning on having sex with you and that her desire to do so is plainly evident.
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The image represents a year's worth of research for my MRes project entitled, ‘A Property Comparison of Cold Formed and Hot Finished Steel Conveyance Tubes’ sponsored by Tata Steel Tubes, which I completed (and passed) last year.
The main image is made up of all the key sections of my MRes thesis, in order of how they appear in the finished document, from the title page to the literature review to the conclusions and further work. The border is made up of painted, galvanised and uncoated tube samples that I have acquired throughout the last year – I omitted the rusty ones from salt spray testing as they would have stained the carpet!
The image reflects how there are many different aspects to a scientific research project and successfully putting all the pieces into place makes for a good picture, a good story and ultimately a good thesis.
Picture credit: Nathan Cooze, SPECIFIC, Swansea University
Garden dahlia/ Dahlia pinnata
It was impossible for me find the specific ID among more than 3000 species.
I rarely go out with the specific goal of shooting the hind end of a train. While locomotives have always been the primary focus of railroad photographers since the earliest days of the genre at least a couple generations ago the rear ends were nearly as interesting. Until the mid 1980s every freight train was punctuated by a caboose each dressed in the unique colors and style of the owning road, of which there were far more in the pre mega-merger era. Go back a generation or two further than that to the pre Amtrak era and the rear end of passenger trains were just as interesting often brought up by observation cars of varied styles and colors and frequently adorned with neon logos or stylish nameplates befitting the status of the train.
Alas those days have been relegated to the history books and if you want to photograph a caboose rolling you have to visit a heritage railroad or participate in a photo freight reenactment. Similarly you won't find an observation car on any modern Amtrak trains so unless you want to travel north to see VIA's classic Canadian, you have to visit a museum or be lucky enough to catch a private car or executive train out on the line.
However in recent years the New Jersey based United Railroad Historical Society has begun running regular excursions along the Hudson River (and even a few as far as Chicago!) with their trio of original New York Central Railroad cars that they add to regularly scheduled Amtrak trains.
Bringing up the rear of Amtrak train 233 (Empire Service from New York Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer) are NYC tavern-lounge number 43 (Budd built 1947), Pullman bedroom lounge 'Swift Stream' (Budd 1949), and observation lounge car 'Hickory Creek' built by Pullman-Standard for the 1948 refit of the flagship 20th Century Limited.
All three cars would have regularly traveled these rails on their original trains, though originating at Penn Station instead of Grand Central would seem blasphemous to those old Central men! The Hickory Creek looks right at home as she splits the classic and unique New York Central era small target GRS type SA signals that still serve here at MP 99 on Amtrak's modern day Hudson Line.
This legendary route opened between New York and Albany in 1851 as the Hudson River Railroad, and in 1864 was purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt along with the New York and Harlem. Meanwhile in 1853 Erastus Corning had assembled a plethora of small local lines as the New York Central Railroad running from Albany to Buffalo and in 1867 Vanderbilt merged it with his road to create the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and the rest as they say is history. The line passed from the NYC, to Penn Central, Conrail, and ultimately CSXT until December 2012 when Amtrak took over control and dispatching of the line from Poughkeepsie to Hoffmans (where it joins the busy Mohawk Subdivision) under a long term lease agreement with CSXT.
Alas this was the final weekend for these popular trips which is why I wanted to make sure I got a couple shots. To learn why, check out this link to the URHS site here:
www.hudsonriverrail.com/keepusrolling
And for an in depth history of each of these three cars check out these links:
www.urhs.org/rolling-stock#/nyc43
Tivoli, New York
Saturday March 1, 2025
Very organic feel that I just can't seem to capture with my camera.
Contemporary baby, non gender specific. 42x35. Kona cotton, Kaffe, Linen, Japanese Linen/cotton, Yardwork from Etsy and Linen Binding.
There's no specific blog post for this photo, so here are your credits!
Hair: Truth, Beatrix — This hairstyle inspired the photograph, of course, with its vintage look.
Body: Maitreya
Head: Lelutka, Spencer Bento Mesh Head
Skin: Lumae, Lelutka Deia, Tone 1
Makeup: All from Cazimi!
Essence Eyeshadows
Flirt Lipstick
Too Cute Nails
Necklaces: Short: Cae, Simplicity Pearls
Long: Maxi Gossamer, Pearls
Ring: Earthstones, Mystic Ring
Top & Skirt: Belle Epoque, Good Golly, Miss Molly, Top 2, Skirt 4
Wall Background RAMA retro cafe
Mirror: Starlight Designs, Light Up Wall Mirror
Pose: Imeka, LookBook, Pose 8
But enough about me. That is the actual name of this artichoke-like thistle.
A spineless cardoon is a variety of cardoon (botanical name Cynara cardunculus), which is a hardy, edible perennial plant related to the artichoke. This specific variety, often named 'Porto Spineless', is bred to have soft, silver-gray, deeply lobed leaves and stalks without the sharp spines found on other cardoons, making it easier and safer to handle for culinary purposes. The plant is grown for its tender, artichoke-flavored stalks, which are blanched before cooking, and also for its dramatic ornamental appearance with large, thistle-like purple flowers and architectural foliage.
It is adapted to dry climates, native across a circum-Mediterranean area from Morocco and Portugal east to Libya and Greece and north to Croatia and Southern France; it may also be native on Cyprus, the Canary Islands and Madeira. In France, the frost-tender cardoon only occurs wild in the Mediterranean south.
Native lanceleaf coreopsis wildflower, May-blooming in...
Trailhead Community Park, of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
5 May 2024.
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▶ "Coreopsis lanceolata —commonly known as lanceleaf coreopsis and lanceleaf tickseed— is a species of tickseed in the aster family (Asteraceae). It is native to the eastern and central parts of the United States, growing in open woodlands, prairies, plains, glades, meadows, and savannas.
Coreopsis lanceolata is a perennial plant sometimes attaining a height of over 2 feet (60 cm). April through June, it produces yellow flower heads singly at the top of a naked flowering stalk, each head containing both ray florets and disc florets. Each flower measures 2 to 3 inches across (5–8 cm).
The genus name 'Coreopsis' means 'bug-like'; it —as well as the common name, 'tickseed'— comes from the fact that the seeds are small and resemble ticks. The specific epithet 'lanceolata' refers to the shape of the leaves: narrow and lance-shaped."
— Wikipedia.
▶ "Sepals are the green leaf-like structures composing the outermost part of a flower. Sepals often enclose and protect the bud and may remain after the fruit forms."
— American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.
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There's no specific blog post for this photograph: it's just something I had a great time making.
Thanks so much to Geryn Sloane for giving me a tour of her shop, and for a great conversation.
Credits:
Body: Maitreya
Head: Catwa, Lona
Feet: SLink Pointe
Eyes: Mesange, Sanford Eyes
Ears: Lumae, Leevi Long Ears
Skin: Lumae, Ella (Catwa Applier)
Hair: Analog Dog (natch!), Onus (Available NOW at The Epiphany!) -- this is the exclusive you can buy with points after you've turned in your un-needed gachas!
Wings: Fable Workshop
Bracelets: The Plastik, The Aeliora Cuffs (Available NOW at The Season’s Story!)
Dress & Leg Ribbons: G Sloane / The Seamstress, Enchanted
Shoes: ChicChica, Fairy Pointes
Photo Backdrop: Inspire Pose, Studio Street RARE
WAMX #3531 crosses Fulton St northbound after working Padnos. The Grand Elk crew is on their way to the Grand Rapids Eastern interchange.
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If you are interested in specific locomotives, trains, or freighters, please contact me. I have been photographing trains and ships for over 15 years and have accumulated an extensive library!
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
This was not one of my 'usual' Mountain Bluebirds, and I was so happy to notice it, perched on a fence post. Managed to take about four rapid shots before a man, walking along a path leading from his property, caused it to fly. This handsome little bird made such a nice ending to my drive.
The weather forecast for yesterday was a risk of a thunderstorm in the afternoon. My plan had been to start out early in the morning and be home before any storm could arrive. However, as tends to happen, it was late morning before I finally made it out the front door. I enjoyed seeing the build-up of clouds, but was fortunate that the storm stayed away.
It had been a while since I last drove out to the area I wanted to explore; maybe eight months or so. I was curious as to whether I was going to be able to find a bird that many people had been reporting recently. A species that is rarely seen in Alberta, though I had seen a number of them on a trip to Texas in March 2019. I did also see one at a different location, at Frank Lake,but the extremely distant bird looked the size of a pin head.
My hope was that most people who wanted to see this bird had already been out there. My waiting till later paid off, as there was just one couple there. The bird was far away across on the other side of a pond, but my eyes eventually found it. I noticed two people walking fast towards it and I first thought they were unethical photographers. When I zoomed in, I could see that they were fishermen! The bird was flushed and fortunately flew that much closer to where I was standing, yet still quite a distance away. It was so interesting to watch this bird search every inch of the ground, several times catching a tiny fish. Suddenly, it flew, and I wondered what had spooked it. When I saw a photographer walking back through the trees closest to us, my question was answered. Am I really the only person who is not intent on getting inflight shots, even if the bird has to be flushed in order to get them? Anyway, I was so delighted to get the chance to watch it for a while.
On the way home, I drove the long way through my 'usual" area. I was surprised that I didn't see many birds, not even a Snipe. One Mountain Bluebird was so welcome.
Becoming Marni is a site-specific installation conceived as the concluding act of the whole Marni Prisma program. It consists of one hundred wooden sculptures created by Brazilian self-taught artist Véio, distributed around the cloister and inside the rooms of the Abbey, drawing an ideal landscape of organic forms. The sculptures are installed in different groups, indoors and outdoors, their presence marked by a tactile path, the color of Venice’s water, drawn on the floor: an irregular surface with translucent spots, creating continuity between the outside and the inside. A small cabinet in the cloister housed Véio’s workshop, enabling him to create artworks on site. Furthermore, as the San Gregorio Abbey is usually closed to the public, this exhibition presented an opportunity to enjoy a unique space.
Consuelo and Carolina Castiglioni discovered Véio at a collective exhibition in Paris. Through Galeria Estação, which exclusively represents him, they entered in contact with him and Carolina tracked him down to Nossa Senhora da Gloria, the small village in the north East of Brazil where he lives and works. Here Véio creates his enigmatic sculptures by giving new life to pieces of wood, clogs and branches he finds along the river. He immediately identifies a being in each piece – an animal, a resting human, a fantastic bird. By a process of artistic transformation – clipping, shaving, adding a final layer of color – he makes the same beings visible to the public, removing them from the raw material and thereby restoring to the wood a meaning that exceeds pure physicality.
This is the complete album of the photos of my visit. --- --- --- www.flickr.com/photos/136891509@N07/albums/72157661202999340
This stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in the constellation of Lupus (the Wolf). Looking this good isn’t easy; 30 different exposures, for a total of nine hours of observation time, together with the high resolution and clarity of Hubble, were needed to produce an image of such high level of detail and beauty.
NGC 5643 is about 60 million light-years away from Earth and has been the host of a recent supernova event (not visible in this latest image). This supernova (2017cbv) was a specific type in which a white dwarf steals so much mass from a companion star that it becomes unstable and explodes. The explosion releases significant amounts of energy and lights up that part of the galaxy.
The observation was proposed by Adam Riess, who (alongside Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt) was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in 2011 for his contributions to the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamani
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foto a mano libera.
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God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
- Peter Marshall
Arachnophobia is a specific phobia brought about by the irrational fear of spiders and other arachnids.
The Zosterops japonicus, is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. The specific epithet is occasionally written japonica, but this is incorrect due to the gender of the genus. Its native range includes much of east Asia, including Japan, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines. It has been intentionally introduced to other parts of the world as a pet and as pest control, with mixed results.
The Zosterops japonicus is olive green on its back, from anterior to posterior, and is pale green on its underside. Its feet, legs, and bill range from black to brown. It has a green forehead and a yellow throat. The white-eye has rounded wings and a long, slender bill – both of which indicate this bird to be very acrobatic. Its wings are dark brown, but outlined in green. Like other white-eyes, this species exhibits the distinctive white eyering that gives it its name . Adults range from 4 to 4.5 inches in length, and weigh between 9.75 and 12.75 grams.
綠繡眼 是一種小型雀形目綉眼鳥科鳥類，台語稱青笛仔、青啼仔.
體長約11厘米；背部羽毛為黃綠色，胸和腰部為灰色，腹部白色；翅膀和尾部羽毛泛綠光；明顯的特徵就是眼的周圍環繞著白色絨狀短羽，形成鮮明的白眼圈，故名繡眼。
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Oranienbaum Park is a most valuable example of garden and park art from the second half of the 18th to the mid-19th century. It covers an area of 162 hectares. Until the 1770s, the main artistic technique in the park's design was the formal layout, which was later replaced by the landscape style. The park consists of several historically developed sections, each formed during specific periods of the palace and park complex creation.
Upper Park: 18th - 20th centuries - formation of the general landscape, 1710 - 1720s - development of the water system, garden masters: L. Lamberti, D. Bush, L. Meinecke.
For me it is often less about where a specific place is than it is about what a place is... if that makes sense or not.
Fuji G617 / Kodak Ektar 100
The specific origin of the Generals of the Ulla cannot be assured with certainty, but, due to the common characteristics of these masquerades, it is necessary to look for it in the different armed confrontations that occurred in the region throughout the 19th century: first the fight against the French invasion and, later, the revolution of 1846, which ended with the battle of Cacheiras, with the troops of each of the sides crossing the spaces in which this carnival is kept alive today. The different Carlist wars that took place in Spain during the nineteenth century would undoubtedly help create a collective astonishment that led to their ridicule.
First of all, I should probably point out that this is not a composite shot. This was taken last June on an evening when about 30 of us all converged on Glacier Point on the same night, eager to catch the Milky Way with just a touch of moon glow in the foreground. I hadn't planned on staying an extra day, but after feeling somewhat successful with my Milky Way shot from the night before on the Big Oak Flat Road, I thought I would stick around and try to get the Milky Way from Glacier Point. After shooting what turned out to be a very decent sunset, I went back to the car to grab my jacket, and when I returned, I was somewhat surprised to see an entire LINE of photographers stretched out across the section of trail opposite Half Dome waiting for the promised Milky Way to make an appearance.
Well...the Milky Way never showed up. High clouds had moved in during the afternoon hours and the entire sky to the South East was now buried behind a thick layer. It was moving fast and it looked like it might be breaking up, so I joined the throng and set up my tripod in the middle of the fray.
Even though the Milky Way never made an appearance, I thoroughly enjoyed myself that night. In the distance, you could hear a church youth group singing songs of worship as we waited, watching the clouds drift across the stars. I loved the sense of community as all of the photographers who were lined up that night had one specific objective. We were from all over the country and as we shot, we were surrounded by people from literally all over the world who were headed back to their cars at the end of a long day.
After shooting toward Half Dome for quite a while, I decided to shoot further toward the East and was shocked to find that there was an eerie glow on the clouds. Was it a fire? I asked around and no one knew anything about a fire, so I assumed I must be looking at ambient light from the cities and towns far to the East of Yosemite. It's hard to believe that amount of light would be coming from Mammoth, but maybe from Bishop? Either way, I couldn't believe that much light would be caught in the clouds from that far away.
I also managed to grab some of the moonglow I was after as the moon was only about 20% on the night I was shooting. The light on Half Dome is from the moon, which was pretty low at this point.
About 11 PM, I finally gave up and had to conclude that the Milky Way just wasn't going to happen that night. It was then time for the brutal 6 hour drive back home. I've gotten better with pulling over when I'm about to nod off, so I ended up pulling over at least 5 times on the way home to grab a quick nap, arriving home somewhere around 5:30 AM. It was a bit rough with only about 3-4 hours of sleep over 48 hours, but I can't wait to try again.
For the specific history of these two magnificent trees(yes, there are only two trees in this photo!) : www.pbgfl.com/270/Banyan-Trees
Hoar frost is one of nature's wonders. It requires very specific conditions to develop, and with a gust of wind, it can all disappear in moments. This tiny tendril comes off some hops we have growing on the back fence, but nature has decorated it with lovely petals of ice.
Becoming Marni is a site-specific installation conceived as the concluding act of the whole Marni Prisma program. It consists of one hundred wooden sculptures created by Brazilian self-taught artist Véio, distributed around the cloister and inside the rooms of the Abbey, drawing an ideal landscape of organic forms. The sculptures are installed in different groups, indoors and outdoors, their presence marked by a tactile path, the color of Venice’s water, drawn on the floor: an irregular surface with translucent spots, creating continuity between the outside and the inside. A small cabinet in the cloister housed Véio’s workshop, enabling him to create artworks on site. Furthermore, as the San Gregorio Abbey is usually closed to the public, this exhibition presented an opportunity to enjoy a unique space.
Consuelo and Carolina Castiglioni discovered Véio at a collective exhibition in Paris. Through Galeria Estação, which exclusively represents him, they entered in contact with him and Carolina tracked him down to Nossa Senhora da Gloria, the small village in the north East of Brazil where he lives and works. Here Véio creates his enigmatic sculptures by giving new life to pieces of wood, clogs and branches he finds along the river. He immediately identifies a being in each piece – an animal, a resting human, a fantastic bird. By a process of artistic transformation – clipping, shaving, adding a final layer of color – he makes the same beings visible to the public, removing them from the raw material and thereby restoring to the wood a meaning that exceeds pure physicality.
This is the complete album of the photos of my visit. --- --- --- www.flickr.com/photos/136891509@N07/albums/72157661202999340
Specific intensity is the radiance of a surface per unit frequency or wavelength.
The conservation of specific intensity has two important consequences:
1. Brightness is independent of distance. Thus the camera setting for a good exposure of the Sun would be the same, regardless of whether the photograph was taken close to the Sun (from near Venus, for example) or far away from the Sun (from near Mars, for example), so long as the Sun is resolved in the photograph.
2. Brightness is the same at the source and at the detector. Thus you can think of brightness in terms of energy flowing out of the source or as energy flowing into the detector
I rarely go out with the specific goal of shooting the hind end of a train. While locomotives have always been the primary focus of railroad photographers since the earliest days of the genre at least a couple generations ago the rear ends were nearly as interesting. Until the mid 1980s every freight train was punctuated by a caboose each dressed in the unique colors and style of the owning road, of which there were far more in the pre mega-merger era. Go back a generation or two further than that to the pre Amtrak era and the rear end of passenger trains were just as interesting often brought up by observation cars of varied styles and colors and frequently adorned with neon logos or stylish nameplates befitting the status of the train.
Alas those days have been relegated to the history books and if you want to photograph a caboose rolling you have to visit a heritage railroad or participate in a photo freight reenactment. Similarly you won't find an observation car on any modern Amtrak trains so unless you want to travel north to see VIA's classic Canadian, you have to visit a museum or be lucky enough to catch a private car or executive train out on the line.
However in recent years the New Jersey based United Railroad Historical Society has begun running regular excursions along the Hudson River (and even a few as far as Chicago!) with their trio of original New York Central Railroad cars that they add to regularly scheduled Amtrak trains.
Bringing up the rear of Amtrak train 233 (Empire Service from New York Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer) are NYC tavern-lounge number 43 (Budd built 1947), Pullman bedroom lounge 'Swift Stream' (Budd 1949), and observation lounge car 'Hickory Creek' built by Pullman-Standard for the 1948 refit of the flagship 20th Century Limited.
All three cars would have regularly traveled these rails on their original trains, though originating at Penn Station instead of Grand Central would seem blasphemous to those old Central men! The Hickory Creek resplendent in her Henry Dreyfuss designed two toned grey livery splits the Central era small target GRS type SA signals as she sails north up Main1 at MP 99 on modern day Amtrak's Hudson Line which opened between New York and Albany in 1851 as the Hudson River Railroad.
In 1864 the road was purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt along with the New York and Harlem. Meanwhile in 1853 Erastus Corning had assembled a plethora of small local lines as the New York Central Railroad running from Albany to Buffalo and in 1867 Vanderbilt merged it with his road to create the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and the rest as they say is history. The line passed from the NYC, to Penn Central, Conrail, and ultimately CSXT until December 2012 when Amtrak took over control and dispatching of the line from Poughkeepsie to Hoffmans (where it joins the busy Mohawk Subdivision) under a long term lease agreement with CSXT.
As for these trips check out this website to learn more about what the URHS offers:
www.hudsonriverrail.com/experiences
And for an in depth history of each of these three cars check out these links:
www.urhs.org/rolling-stock#/nyc43
Tivoli, New York
Saturday October 26, 2024
Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief screams geographically north past the siding at Rowe, NM. Leading the train is Amtrak "Phase III" heritage P40 #822.
Interested in purchasing a high-quality digital download of this photo, suitable for printing and framing? Let me know and I will add it to my Etsy Shop, MittenRailandMarine! Follow this link to see what images are currently listed for sale: www.etsy.com/shop/MittenRailandMarine
If you are interested in specific locomotives, trains, or freighters, please contact me. I have been photographing trains and ships for over 15 years and have accumulated an extensive library!
Projetos Escalares
PASSAGEM - Site Specific - SESC de Presidente Prudente - 2016
Galhos secos, cimento, terra e grama, 3 x 5 x 18 metros.
Márcio Diegues
Foto de Thiago Ferri.
I got to this specific location below Hamilton, MT thanks to a dear photo-buddy a few autumns ago and was, and still am, very grateful for the tip. By the fall season, the Bitterroot River is usually very low, owing to many factors, and its usual vibrancy is reduced to a crawl. Nonetheless, that natural and seasonal transformation does nothing to reduce its beauty and its charm.
Being surrounded by the colors of autumn, and backed by the majestic Bitterroot Mountains, does not hurt the cause either. Quite the contrary.
Two watco GP40s head south along the Pleasant Valley Branch on there way back to Endicott to tie up for the day.
The PCCs crew that morning started along the western portion of the line while we started out eastern, driving from Mockonema to Endicott. When we got to Endicott, there was no sign of any of the three WAMX locomotives assigned to the line. So we asked around the NWGG elevator and they suggested we head north to Sunset as PCC was supposed to pick up a couple loads there sometime soon. Instead, we ran into the 4043 and 4046 curving around the wye at Winona and onto the PV branch. They grabbed a fairly long cut of PCC/CWW/WAMX hoppers assigned to this specific line and headed north. Originally, I thought they might be headed all the way north to Sunset but instead, they only went as far as Willada before dropping the whole train off and heading back south as just power. We chased them back south, however the lighting was not ideal, if they had went all the way to Sunset, we may have got better light for the SB journey. I did end up getting lucky with this shot though. I hadn’t originally seen this spot but as they were headed away I decided to grab a shot anyway and the clouds and train lined up perfectly to give me this shot.
6/16/22
A Terminal Railroad of St. Louis mother and slug set shove a string of cars over the hump while various TRRA power (including a pair of leased HLCX GP40-2s) lays over on a quiet Sunday morning in Venice, IL.
Interested in purchasing a high-quality digital download of this photo, suitable for printing and framing? Let me know and I will add it to my Etsy Shop, MittenRailandMarine! Follow this link to see what images are currently listed for sale: www.etsy.com/shop/MittenRailandMarine
If you are interested in specific locomotives, trains, or freighters, please contact me. I have been photographing trains and ships for over 15 years and have accumulated an extensive library!
For Monochrome Monday here's another view of these New York Central time machines.
I rarely go out with the specific goal of shooting the hind end of a train. While locomotives have always been the primary focus of railroad photographers since the earliest days of the genre at least a couple generations ago the rear ends were nearly as interesting. Until the mid 1980s every freight train was punctuated by a caboose each dressed in the unique colors and style of the owning road, of which there were far more in the pre mega-merger era. Go back a generation or two further than that to the pre Amtrak era and the rear end of passenger trains were just as interesting often brought up by observation cars of varied styles and colors and frequently adorned with neon logos or stylish nameplates befitting the status of the train.
Alas those days have been relegated to the history books and if you want to photograph a caboose rolling you have to visit a heritage railroad or participate in a photo freight reenactment. Similarly you won't find an observation car on any modern Amtrak trains so unless you want to travel north to see VIA's classic Canadian, you have to visit a museum or be lucky enough to catch a private car or executive train out on the line.
However in recent years the New Jersey based United Railroad Historical Society has begun running regular excursions along the Hudson River (and even a few as far as Chicago!) with their trio of original New York Central Railroad cars that they add to regularly scheduled Amtrak trains.
Bringing up the rear of Amtrak train 233 (Empire Service from New York Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer) are NYC tavern-lounge number 43 (Budd built 1947), Pullman bedroom lounge 'Swift Stream' (Budd 1949), and observation lounge car 'Hickory Creek' built by Pullman-Standard for the 1948 refit of the flagship 20th Century Limited.
All three cars would have regularly traveled these rails on their original trains, though originating at Penn Station instead of Grand Central would seem blasphemous to those old Central men! The Hickory Creek resplendent in her Henry Dreyfuss designed two toned grey livery splits the Central era small target GRS type SA signals as she sails north up Main1 at MP 99 on modern day Amtrak's Hudson Line which opened between New York and Albany in 1851 as the Hudson River Railroad.
In 1864 the road was purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt along with the New York and Harlem. Meanwhile in 1853 Erastus Corning had assembled a plethora of small local lines as the New York Central Railroad running from Albany to Buffalo and in 1867 Vanderbilt merged it with his road to create the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and the rest as they say is history. The line passed from the NYC, to Penn Central, Conrail, and ultimately CSXT until December 2012 when Amtrak took over control and dispatching of the line from Poughkeepsie to Hoffmans (where it joins the busy Mohawk Subdivision) under a long term lease agreement with CSXT.
As for these trips check out this website to learn more about what the URHS offers:
www.hudsonriverrail.com/experiences
And for an in depth history of each of these three cars check out these links:
www.urhs.org/rolling-stock#/nyc43
Tivoli, New York
Saturday October 26, 2024
It's a very small cave which disappoints you when visiting it. You can hardly squeeze in through the entry, before it, there's a small natural arc. In the interior there's specific fauna, so also this cave is a part of the Natural park Lahinja. The water source on the other side of the hill is connected with this cave.
A little different than my more recent posts, isn't it? After some discussion with a Facebook friend who posted images of a Eurofighter Typhoon from an airshow in Northern Ireland yesterday, it occurred to me that I hadn't posted this image from earlier this year at the airshow from Langley AFB in Virginia... there was a reason why. This Hornet was flying by so fast and so close that I clipped its nose in the original image... "Rats!" No such luck for a retake, so I combined two images in Photoshop. Sounds easy, right? The angles and lighting were different throughout the series of images, however, so it took a bit of work... of which I will not bore you with the details.
I grew up in a military environment, closely connected to aviation, particularly fast movers like this one. Back in that day, it wasn't unusual to hear the occasional explosive sonic boom... we called it the "Sound of Freedom". Times are different now, though there are some places where it still occurs... for a reason. There's a corridor where my parents once lived (and where my oldest brother now lives) where F-15 Eagles that have undergone repairs and upgrades at Robins AFB in Georgia transition to supersonic speeds and high Gs to make sure parts don't fall off. You can see a tiny arrowhead shape in the upper atmosphere, likely around 8 miles up, moving much faster than commercial aircraft... then you'll notice a puff of vapor around it. As it is with thunder and lightning, depending on how far away it actually is, you'll feel the shock wave as it moved into supersonic speeds seconds later, which is impressive on its own... but the sonic boom afterwards sounds like 10 sticks of dynamite going off, even from so far away. I brought a girlfriend on a visit to my parents many years ago. The whole family was there and we had all just sat down to breakfast when a shock wave occurred that rattled everything in the house... we knew the boom was coming, but acted like nothing had happened. My friend was already wide-eyed with concern to the shock wave, but when we didn't react to the sonic boom, she said, "Am I the only one who heard that?" Our response: "Heard what?" Wish I could have filmed that!
This aircraft is real close to punching through the speed of sound here, in a condition known as transonic... two specific shock waves are made evident in the vapor. Here's the text I used on a previous image of this same aircraft: This is a U.S. Navy F/A-18C Hornet, flown by Lt Scott Lindahl, callsign "MacGruber", with Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (VFA-106) out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. A Hornet looks fast even when it's parked on the ramp... here, MacGruber is pushing it at just under the speed of sound, Mach .96 at sea level, or 730 mph. The jet is condensing the vapor in the air around it by decreasing the air pressure and density along some of its structure at this high speed.
That Mach number isn't consistent along the Hornet's curves... some of the curved parts force the air moving over them to supersonic speed, while linear parts are still subsonic, creating a condition known as transonic... transonic speeds form troughs of lower pressure than the ambient air along the airframe. The rapid pressure change also lowers the temperature around the aircraft enough to reach the dew point... instant clouds on a humid morning such as this. That's the scientific explanation, but here, I'm just as happy that it's making it appear to be doing what it actually is in a still shot... moving fast! Try tracking that in any viewfinder... blink and you've missed it.
I'm former Air Force, and had spent some quality time right here at Langley AFB, in Hampton, Virginia... it was a great show here highlighting airpower at its best, but it was also nice to show my wife some good stompin' grounds from the past. I can't close this without a big thank you to Lt Lindahl for his service in troubled times.
de Allegri & Fogale bring Mise-en-abyme to a site-specific adaptation at the Oxo Tower. Lit at night by lighting manufacturers Innermost
I needed a break from studying so I set out to create a very specific image. The result was something entirely different, but to me that is what's so beautiful about creative expression. Intent is important when creating a photo but being open to new possibilities, to truly living in the moment and reacting fluidly to what is around you...Responding to the forces that surround you while you're creating - that is just as special.
This photo is rooted in two thoughts...The first is from one of my favourite movies, Chronicles of Narnia (I read the book a long time ago, I'm sure it's amazing but the visuals in the movie are incredible <3)...The image has to do with the scene where the little girl meets Mr. Tumnus and learns that winter has lasted for a long time. So that connects to the whimsical aspect of the photo. The second part is that this looks like an ad for something. It has that element of sexuality and smoking. The materialism that is symbolized represents how obsessive we have become over consumer goods, over trivial nonsense. The two girls face the same direction, and one even looks straight at the camera. The earth behind them is warm, green and lush but there is no way of knowing whether or not they are aware of this. They are huddling together for warmth. Ultimately, they are immersed in the lifeless cold of winter but there is always hope for summer and what summer represents :)
BTS shots are on my blog
In a strikingly specific instance of mimicry, the patterns on the wings of this moth (Macrocilix maia) appear to resemble two flies feeding at a glistening bird dropping. This, coupled with a pungent odor that the moth emits, may be enough to dissuade a predator from considering a meal. Although flies are certainly edible, they nevertheless sometimes serve as models for mimicry because they are so quick and agile that most birds won't bother pursuing them. Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo).
Blotti à l’intérieur du mur d’enceinte qui entoure le site prestigieux de l’abbaye de Villers, le vignoble est installé dans un clos de 20 ares, répartis sur 5 niveaux : la « plaine » et 4 terrasses.
C’est en 1990 qu’un groupe de passionnés, à l’origine de la Confrérie du Vignoble de l'Abbaye de Villers-en-Brabant asbl, a décidé de défricher ce clos et d’y replanter de la vigne. D’après les archives de l’abbaye, un vignoble y existait déjà dès 1312. Les moines cisterciens de Villers ont toujours consommé du vin. Il leur était nécessaire pour le service divin, le réfectoire, la pharmacie, l’hôtellerie et la réception des grands personnages à qui ils servaient un «vin d’honneur.»
La culture du pinot noir, qui était chère aux cisterciens, est très délicate sous notre climat. En outre, elle nécessite l’utilisation de produits phytosanitaires et une main d’œuvre importante. Les vignerons de Villers-la-Vigne ont donc choisi de planter des cépages interspécifiques, c’est-à-dire issus de croisements entre cépages nobles et cépages résistant aux maladies cryptogamiques mieux adaptés à nos contrées : Regent, Phoenix et Muscaris, des cépages interspécifiques d’origine allemande.
Le vignoble de l’abbaye de Villers-la Ville, avec ses 1000 pieds répartis en terrasses, est un patrimoine naturel et génétique qu’il convient de préserver.
La vigne y est traitée selon des principes empruntés à l’agriculture biologique et à la permaculture, afin d’enrichir encore la biodiversité impressionnante du lieu.
L'appellation Villers-la-Vigne regroupe des produits originaux et uniques par leurs caractéristiques de vinification et leur terroir spécifique : le Villers-la-Vigne se décline en rouge, blanc et rosé.
Nestled inside the perimeter wall that surrounds the prestigious site of the Abbey of Villers, the vineyard is set in a 20-acre enclosure, spread over 5 levels: the "plain" and 4 terraces.
It was in 1990 that a group of enthusiasts, at the origin of the Confrérie du Vignoble de l'Abbaye de Villers-en-Brabant asbl, decided to clear this enclosure and replant vines there. According to the abbey's archives, a vineyard already existed there as early as 1312. The Cistercian monks of Villers have always consumed wine. It was necessary for them for divine service, the refectory, the pharmacy, the hotel business and the reception of the great personages to whom they served a "wine of honor."
The cultivation of Pinot Noir, which was dear to the Cistercians, is very delicate in our climate. In addition, it requires the use of phytosanitary products and a significant workforce. The winemakers of Villers-la-Vigne have therefore chosen to plant interspecific grape varieties, that is to say from crosses between noble grape varieties and grape varieties resistant to fungal diseases better suited to our regions: Regent, Phoenix and Muscaris, grape varieties interspecific of German origin.
The vineyard of Villers-la Ville abbey, with its 1000 vines spread over terraces, is a natural and genetic heritage that must be preserved.
The vines are treated there according to principles borrowed from organic farming and permaculture, in order to further enrich the impressive biodiversity of the place.
The Villers-la-Vigne appellation brings together original and unique products by their winemaking characteristics and their specific terroir: Villers-la-Vigne is available in red, white and rosé.