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With a 69% waxing gibbous moon putting paid to any starfield images tonight, it was time to adapt or run for the car. I did both! :-)
The moonlit clouds speed by Hadrian's Wall, blown by a bitter wind.
Canon EOS 7D + EF17-35mm f/2.8L USM
15 secs @ f/2.8 ISO500
The slam door mk3 set continues to see use on the Banbury commuters (and occasionally elsewhere!). Chiltern now has only one set of coaches that haven't had the power door mods, although the coaches are now painted in the silver Mainline livery, albeit with one Arriva Trains Wales liveried vehicle, still on hire after a fire in the air-con equipment of one of Chiltern's own.
68015, itself no stranger to 'fire issues', leads the Banbury set through Wembley Stadium on 1U50, 7 September 2015.
No speed limitations here as it was taken on the bull cart racing of Melur , a yearly festivals of Pongal (harvest).
Date Taken: 2008-02-01
Camera: Canon EOS 5D, EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Shahbagh is a major thana in Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is a junction between two contrasting sections of the city, Old Dhaka and New Dhaka, which lie, respectively, to its south and north. Developed in the 17th century during Mughal rule in Bengal, when Old Dhaka was the provincial capital and a centre of the flourishing muslin industry, the neighbourhood was originally named Bagh-e-Badshahi (Persian for Garden of Kings), but later came to be called by the shortened name Shahbagh. In the mid-19th century, the Shahbag area was developed as New Dhaka became a provincial centre of the British Raj, ending a century of decline brought on by the passing of Mughal rule.
Shahbag is the location of the nation's leading educational and public institutions, including the University of Dhaka, the oldest and largest public university in Bangladesh. Shahbag also hosts many street markets and bazaars. Since Bangladesh achieved independence in 1971, the Shahbag area has become a venue for celebrating major festivals, such as the Bengali New Year and Basanta Utsab.
Shahbag's numerous ponds, palaces and gardens have inspired the work of writers, singers, and poets. With Dhaka University at its centre, the thana has been the origin of major political movements in the nation's 20th century history, including the All India Muslim Education Conference in 1905, which led to the All India Muslim League. In 1947, to both the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan; the Bengali Language Movement in 1952, which led to the recognition of Bengali as an official language of Pakistan; and the Six point movement in 1966, which led to the nation's independence. It was here, on 7 March 1971, that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivered a historic speech calling for the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan, and here too, later that year, that the Pakistani Army surrendered in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. The area has since become a staging ground for protests by students and other groups. It was the site of public protests by around 30,000 civilians on 8 February 2013, against a lenient ruling against war criminals.
Monday, March 6th, 2017
Between Peterborough and Grantham
Class 91 91131 speeds north with a King's Cross to Leeds express through the sunny Lincolnshire countryside.
Actually, he wasn't but the motion blur does help to give some speed to a slow driving car!
If the weather improves, I'll try and get out for some night shots, this week!!
Flickr Lounge - Weekly Theme (Week 50) ~ Motion ....
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Size: 14.99x9.46 inches at 180ppi
Medium: digital photography
editing: sharpen, color mixer, vignette, curves edit mask
This was a very awkward photo. I went up north on a clear day and set up on a bend of a street and started snapping photos. To dial in the setting was very hard, I spent a long time during trial and error. There were a lot of very nice cars that passed but I couldn’t catch them in focus. Although this is not in perfect focus it was the best one. I put it on manual mode and manual focus and focused it on the ground where the car would most likely pass. I was shooting into the sun and this was a mistake as there was a lot of glare and the side of the car I was photographing was dark. This turned out surprisingly well for the setting. I hope that if I do this again I can catch more motion in the background.
Peter Forsgard's 52 Challenge - Week 20 That Was Fast
The car went by so fast, that it just left a few streak across the frame.
He's cracked it!
He went to sleep planning. Tomorrow he's going to do "jumps, and the day after that fast spins".
Question: does the mother of the gold medallist have to buy tickets to Olympic events? Whilst I wait for the answer I'll just make sure I've got plenty of plasters in my bag.
Another long exposure visit to Allen Banks.
Canon EOS 7D + EF17-35mm f/2.8L USM
30 seconds @ f/8.0 ISO 200
Amtrak 4, the Southwest Chief, is three hours behind the advertised as it rolls east through Morris with a pair of heritage units on the point.
After our lunch at Mt Difficulty we went up the Felton Road to Felton Road Winery. March 6, 2014 Central Otago, Bannockburn, South Island, New Zealand.
Felton Road Winery. is situated on warm, north facing slopes of glacial loess soils in Bannockburn, in the heart of Central Otago. The modern gravity fed winery receives 100% estate grown fruit from its three vineyards that are all farmed biodynamically and are fully certified by Demeter. Minimal intervention in the winemaking with such practices as wild yeast, no fining or filtration, allow the unique vineyard characters to further express their considerable personality.
Since the first vintage in 1997, Felton Road has acquired a formidable worldwide reputation.
Zero waste By-products:
Winery waste is, probably more than any other substance, lees. Lees are a mixture of sediments left over from winemaking, and consist mainly of dead yeast and tartaric and malic acid. It isn’t particularly hostile stuff, but acids are a problem in any waste system, so winery waste management systems are designed to deal with this mixture. It takes a lot of money to build a waste management system and a lot of energy to run it so, in a perfect world, we’d do without one. But is it possible to do that? We have demonstrated that it is. Our solution is simple: don’t throw anything away. Nothing whatsoever goes down our drains unless we have failed to find a better use for it. And since almost all waste has some form of value, there is a better use out there. Lees, for example, get separated into fine lees (the more liquid stuff) and the solid gunk. The solids are composted. It might be tricky to compost something this acidic for some wineries, but as we make well over 100 tonnes of compost a year anyway, the lees solids are literally a drop in the manure heap. That leaves the more liquid stuff to deal with. Each year it goes to a beautiful wood fired copper still and is distilled into “Fine”: the term for brandy distilled from wine lees. Roughly a thousand litres of lees yields about 100 litres of wonderful brandy. After 5 years of aging in French oak using a “solera” type system, it is ready to bottle.
What better way to recycle something that most regard as an industrial waste product?
Taken from and for more info: www.nzwine.com/winery/felton-road/