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Perhaps no location better typifies the Oregon Trunk than the "Twin Bridges", where the railroad vaults across the Deschutes River two times in just a quarter-mile, separated by a curved tunnel punching through the ridge which the river winds the long way around.
I've historically had poor luck trying to photograph the northerly of the bridges; on one occasion, a southbound snuck up on us while we had just parked the car by the road, leaving no time for us to get into position - a disappointing moment to say the least. The conventional photo angle most folks attempt is the afternoon view from the west side of the bridge, but to try to avoid repeating what everyone and his brother has done, I was interested in a morning view from higher up on the ridge. All it would take is a mid-morning southbound... which is a lot to ask for on a line that currently averages maybe 4 to 6 trains per 24 hours.
My fiancée and I were en route to Tahoe for a visit with my future inlaws, so I booked us a cabin in the tiny hamlet of Maupin for one night in the hopes of pulling off the shot that has long eluded me. We left home after work and arrived Maupin about 11 p.m... right as a southbound train was motoring past in the dark. The cabin met the basic need - although my fiancée really could have done without the multitude of spiders we discovered. I opted to pay an extra $15 for late checkout (as late as 1 p.m. rather than 11 a.m.) from the cabin. Experience has shown me over the years that somehow, 11 a.m. hotel checkout has a magical way of almost always conflicting with an important photo opportunity...
Upon waking the next morning before sunrise, *another* southbound was cruising by, long before the sunlight would reach down into the canyon. Now I was getting worried, as almost a full day's worth of southbounds had already passed in the past 6 hours. But all I could do was try. I scouted a few different locations in the early morning until I knew the canyon shadows had sufficiently cleared at the Twin Bridges, and I hiked up on the ridge to wait. My dad had told me about an Oregon DOT highway traffic camera near the Celilo drawbridge on the Columbia River at the northern end of the Trunk, which I could check on my phone every few minutes. This effort felt a bit in vain considering the traffic camera would only update with a new image every 10-15 minutes, but it was something to pass the time at least... and then right about 9 a.m. I saw it - lumber loads on the camera! A southbound was on the way.
Because I am a bit psychotic, I had made a spreadsheet to estimate the running time for a train from Moody to the Twin Bridges using the milepost limits of speed restrictions, plus some estimated fudge factors for acceleration/deceleration. A train making track speed should take about 85 minutes, in theory. I watched with nervous anticipation as massive cloud shadows passed overhead every few minutes. All I could do was hope and pray.
Almost to the minute of my estimate, the roaring thunder of GEs suddenly filled the canyon, and the southbound Vancouver, Washington to Fresno, California manifest freight came into view. The menacing cloud shadows played nice, and I got *the shot* at 10:31 a.m. With a few minutes to hike down off the hill, and a 20 minute drive to the cabin... yeah, that extra 15 bucks was well worth it.
From my blog (oldlenses.blogspot.ca/2015/10/signs-that-you-are-addicted...):
G.A.S = Gear Acquisition Syndrome. A disease that affects mostly men. It infects the central reasoning area of the brain and makes men vulnerable into thinking more gear make them better photographers, and thus buying gear that they don't need. There is no known cure, but there is a silver lining; some men are able to recover as the photographs they make shift from pictures of cameras, lenses, brick walls, and resolution charts to other form of pictures.
You buy printed photo magazines just to look at the ads
You have a copy of A Lens Collector's Vade Meccum
You know exactly what a "normal" lens is
You have all 5 versions of the same lens
Words like Noctilux and Otus motivate you to make more money so that you can buy them
You name your daughter Tessar, and your son's name Nokton is not misspelled, and your dog's name is Skopar
You think Hologon is the most beautiful word in the world
You scare your partner at night uttering words like "Fisheye", "Bigma", in your sleep
You justify all your gear purchases as investment
You buy similar looking cameras so that your significant other can't tell the one that you use is not the same as the 4 others in the locked closet that only you have the key to
You tell your wife it's worth the expense of the 85mm f1.2L because it would make her look more beautiful in the picture
You convince yourself that the purchase of a Leica Summilux will one day make you as good as Henri Cartier-Bresson
Every time you see a red band, or gold band, it reminds you of your favourite lens
You are a Pentaxian, and you know the word "Limited" is not a disadvantage
You have been buying K-Mount lenses for the last ten years, because you believe one day, there will be a full frame Pentax camera, like you believe in Santa Claus
You get excited when you hear words like Holly Trinity, Magic Drainpipe, The Dust Pump, Sigmarit, and you know exactly what they refer to
You use Ikea shelves to store your cameras/lenses because you can't afford better shelves since you spent all your money on cameras/lenses
Decimal numbers like 0.95, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 bring tears to your eyes
You just realized that the lens you bought yesterday is exactly the same as 2 others that you didn't know you had
You take pictures with enlarging, projection, and printing cell lenses on your mirrorless camera
You have many lenses without apertures
You have many lenses without focus mechanism
You have drawers full of lens adapters
You have a large bin of lens hoods, and most of them don't fit your lenses, but you tell yourself one day, you will get the lenses that will fit the hoods
You can't understand why anyone needs to use the aperture on the lens, since you always shoot wide open
You feel no shame when others look at your ugly self-made lens contraption in disgust
100% of your pictures contains 99% bokeh, and 1% subject that's in focus.
Your favourite pastime is to browse antique/flea market for vintage cameras/lenses
You never miss a single camera show
You created an app with a SQL database to catalogue and keep track of your cameras/lenses because a spreadsheet has reached its capacity
You remember the minute details of a lens, but forget your kids birthdays
Your wife is annoyed that you
spend more time with your gear than with the kids, or with her
You blog about your favourite lens in length, and the only picture that accompanies the blog entry is the picture of the lens
You have 9 camera bags, and all of them are full of gear
You have 8 different tripod heads, and each one has a specific purpose, and each one is used exactly once
You fondle your cameras/lenses and talk to them like they are your lover
You spend more time on Flickr and online forums than taking pictures
You carry your camera with you everywhere you go, but you hardly take any pictures
You can't understand why anyone would read whatever Ken Rockwell has to say, and you visit Michael Johnston's theonlinephotographer blog religiously
You tell your wife you paid $20 for the very beat-up Speed Panchro that you actually paid $2000 for and she believed you
80% of the photo in your Flickr stream is picture of cameras and lenses
Your wife thinks your planar is something to organize your daily tasks
Your wife can not understand why all your lenses do not zoom or focus themselves
You made your kids call you Prime Master
You have a RAID 10 storage setup to protect the terabytes of pictures you took of your cameras and lenses
You have another RAID 10 storage setup to protect the setup above
You drove 4 hours to photograph a sunrise, only to find out you shot everything wide open out of habit, and all the pictures are overexposed
You made penholders out of broken lenses
You have a box you call treasure that's full of parts from dismantled cameras and lenses.
You hope that you can use them to repair lenses/cameras, but deep down you know that will never happen because that's why they became parts in the first place.
You use a stack of filter rings in place of a hood
You have a dozen rolls of exposed film in the drawer from 1998, but never developed
You get bored of the auto focus lenses you spent tens of thousands of dollar buying, and are having a blast with a $20 enlarging lens taking pictures of your AF lenses
You know by heart the first two digits of a Vivitar lens serial number corresponds to which manufacturer who made the lens.
You love pictures in RAW, and hate those cooked in jpeg
You have thousands of tiny screws harvested from dead cameras/lenses
Fab Free, the home to all the best free gifts on the grid, and the infamous Shop&Hop Spreadsheet! Today, I'm showing some things I bought with free credit at SL22B Shop&Hop!
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"Christmas Every Day" by Simple Plan
I wish it was Christmas
Christmas every day
We could just let it snow forever
And live on holiday
There would be presents every morning
Under every tree
Oh Santa Claus, if I could have my way
I wish it was Christmas every day
School is out, no work today
So in my PJ's I will stay
Staring at this winter wonderland
The reindeer slippers on my feet
A Christmas Vacation on TV
I feel like I am just a kid again
in a pot on the patio.
Pale cream, wet looking, pollen load.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
walled garden at Rowalane
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Botanic Park Belfast.
Orange pollen load on display
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
& music if you like:
SuperOrganism Something For Your M.I.N.D.
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We bounce back, bounce back like a tennis ball
Bounce back, bounce back like a basketball
Bounce back, bounce back like a soccer ball
Or really any kinda ball, except a football
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Mans need some
Water, water, water
This room be
A sauna, sauna, sauna
Always get a fever, fever
From you
You be hotter than some
Lava, lava, lava
University of Dundee Botanic Garden
one for my spreadsheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
& a little music should you like
Amy Rigby - Dancing with Joey Ramone
I'm with the bee on this one....
...can there be a better value plant for a pot on the patio? This one is in its 3rd year and just keeps flowering all summer. Def a top 10 plant for me.
for my Honey bees on named flowers set!
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
Undertones - top twenty
I watched her and a few other bees for quite a while. Only visiting the flowers that had lost their petals at the base of the foxglove flower stem. See picture in comments for context.
We think of foxgloves as not being attractive/accessible to honey bees but clearly there are exceptions! Presumably these flowers must still produce some nectar after the petal tube has been lost.
A slightly unusual one for my spreadsheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
After tireless hours of running, collecting, unpacking and picture taking, Fab Free once again has compiled the grid's best resource to help you navigate the Shop & Hop!
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further picture of this pleasing combination....
for my Honey bees on named flowers set
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
This has been a great pot plant on the patio this summer. Just big enough for the bees to decide to bother with it even though there is only one plant. The bees working it are covered in pollen but they dont seem to collect it at all - working for nectar only on this.
Regina Spektor - The Flowers
Taraxacum officinale
Great fun to watch them on dandelions - they really get stuck in!
check out my google spreadsheet of honey bee on named flowers pictures here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Didnt have my macro with me so took this at a bit of a distance with the 750. Pictures would have been better with the 50mm lens and the Raynox.
I certainly didnt notice the little solitary bee at the base when I was photographing the honey bee. It popped out for me just now as I am posting it on Flickr! I quite like little surprises!
for my Honey bees on named flowers set!
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
Hope Sandoval - Suddenly Beside You
not a great picture but it is a new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set! so I am posting it.
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
Lou Doillon - Devil Or Angel
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?
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The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one, number one
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear 'till it's my turn
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
pollen load much smaller and less clear in this one
aka black parsley - impressive big flowers.
At University of Dundee Botanic Garden
a new one for my spreadsheet!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Cirsium arvense beside my wildlife pond
A nice dark bee with pollen loads are clear to see - cream coloured.
Lovely to see the summer weather back for another while!
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
REM - Indian Summer
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"21 and Invincible" by Something Corporate
And woah, we're twenty-one and invincible
Woah, can't wait to screw this up
And woah, we're twenty-one and invincible
I'm in power for the hour
I guess today's gonna blow us away
Kew gardens
....will go on the spreadsheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
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"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" by The Beatles (although I love the Pearl Jam cover too!)
Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone, I can't go on
Feeling two-foot small
Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
Tower Bridge, London
Last year a bunch of us arranged to meet up in London for a social outing with the odd stop off for pics. It was a great day out and much banter has passed in the intervening months about doing it all again, although we can't decide on where. So, taking the bull by the horns here is another call out to all you reservoir togs (see tags... you know who you are) about a second meet up, again in London. Several missed out on the first trip so why not London again!
We went on 8th April last year, just before the Easter weekend and so to gauge the interest this time around, here are some preliminary dates to get the ball rolling... 25th March, 7th, 14th April.
It would be great to grow our numbers and so if I've not tagged you in, it's because I don't know everyone personally, but it's an open invitation so just comment your interest to this posting and I'll add you to the tags list. Having just seen Gary Oldman's Oscar winning performance in Darkest Hour (nailing my colours to the mast here!) this could be our finest hour!
No pressure to commit if this isn't your bag or the dates don't suit, however, the spreadsheet is ready, it just needs you lot.
Blue Grape Hyacinths - Muscari armenicum
Rowallane in the walled garden yesterday.
The bees were loving them!
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Some poppies result in very dark pollen loads. These ones were resulting in light cream loads as seen in this picture.
University of Dundee Botanic Garden
one for my spreadsheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Early Yellow Bidens
a new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set!
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
A real gem of a plant I think - grown into a very big plant in a large pot on the patio - I was surprised at how spectacular this has been. Great to see the bees find it!
& talking about real gems :
Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
I believed initially that that this is an Albatross, but I have been advised that it is most likely an Australiasian Gannet (even though its in NZ), fittingly captured over water with a boat behind in the background. Please let me know if my identification of the bird is still wrong (I hope it's not just a seagull with long wings...)
Shot on Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand.
From the web: (NZ Birds Online): "New Zealand holds the bulk of the Australasian gannet breeding population, with about 13% of the population breeding in Australia. The New Zealand population was about 46,000 pairs in 1980-81 and continued to increase at about 2% per annum".
EDIT - A quick bit of spreadsheet magic suggests that this means there should now be just under 100,000 ("99,578") breeding pairs in 2019 unless things have gone very wrong for them.
at Rowallane in the walled garden
a new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Matthias Church
(Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle)
Budapest, Hungary
09-11-2024
Processed: 03/05/25
I create spreadsheets before I leave on any trip, filled with information on what I want to photograph, and when, so I can keep moving, and get the most out of my time. I had the Matthias Church listed on my spreadsheet for the second of two days in Budapest. It's on the site of one of the oldest churches in Budapest, founded in 1015. It's been remodeled many times since then. In the 13th and 14th century undergoing massive redesigns. The last major redesign, restoring it to an earlier version, was in 1893.
I snapped some photos as I advanced up the street leading to the church. Here is a view from about a block away.
When I got to the site, and angled my camera for multiple shots, I noticed something familiar. I'd photographed so many cathedrals and churches in three different cities in a little over a week. I'd actually photographed THIS church the previous evening. It's flanked by the Fisherman's Bastion fortress, but I couldn't see that from this view. What was familiar was a little model of the church over near that blue gazebo. So I've got shots of this particular church at night and during the day.
It felt really weird when I realized I'd already been there, but had scaled the steps leading to the other side the previous evening, and had taken the bus down the hill.
I completed a couple of projects last year. In January 2021, Larry and I started a project to achieve 65 summits in the year I turned 65, and we completed that one in September. Over the years, we have travelled throughout Canada, and recently we were thinking about whether we had visited each and every Province and Territory, there are 13. With our trip to the Yukon in 2021, we realized we had indeed visited each one. This year, I thought I would keep track of the different birds I see over the year, and see what kind of number that brings. For me, different means different, and so it won't be an exact species count, as in some species, the males and females are more-or-less identical, and in others they different, and so I will count the males and females in those species as different birds. With Northern Flickrs, there are distinct variations, based on under-feather colourings, with Red-shafted, Yellow-shafted variations, and a hybrid of the two. For this project, I'll count each variation if there is one, and each of the different genders if they are visually different, as different birds. As with my summit project, I'll maintain a thorough spreadsheet. Wish me luck! PS I may turn it into a post-one-a-day project, except the photos won't necessarily be taken on different days. Today I have already four different birds done, but will post the rest over the next few days...
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Basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court
Just like I'm the King on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks take me to the hoop
My favorite play is the Alley Oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
'Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow
My tiny girl Tabitha is only 7 weeks old and has been diagnosed with a Grade 4 heart murmur affecting both sides of her heart, with the right side being significantly worse. She is also much smaller than she should be for her age, raising concerns that there may be an underlying congenital heart defect. She is 300g+ lighter than her siblings, which is a huge difference for a kitten of only 7 weeks old
On 23rd July she will be travelling to the Small Animal Teaching Hospital to see a specialist cardiologist for a heart scan. The scan will tell us exactly what is wrong and whether she will need medication, ongoing monitoring, further treatment or if we're very unlucky, surgery. Because she is still growing and so tiny, even if her condition is treatable there's a good chance she will need continued specialist care as she develops
To help raise funds I have decided to run a raffle.
🐾 How it works
• Every L$500 donated = 1 raffle ticket
• Every additional L$500 = another ticket.
• Donate L$5,000 and you'll receive 10 entries, and so on.
All Lindens should be sent directly to me (IW: ghoreo).
To keep everything completely transparent, I will be keeping a spreadsheet recording:
• Every donor
• Amount donated
• Number of raffle entries earned
When the fundraiser closes, every entry will be added to a wheel. I will record the draw and post the video so everyone can see the winners were chosen fairly
💗 Prizes
1st Place – One free edited photo every month for 6 months
2nd Place – One free edited photo every month for 3 months
3rd Place – One free edited photo
This is a total of L$65,000 in prizes combined
Every Linden raised will go directly towards Tabitha's specialist cardiology care, heart scan and any treatment she may need afterwards
If anyone wins but would rather gift their prize to a friend or loved one, that is completely okay! Just let me know first. The prize has to be gifted as a whole though and cannot be split between multiple people
Whether you donate, share this post or simply keep this tiny girl in your thoughts, thank you. It genuinely means the world to me. She is the smallest of the litter but she is an incredible little fighter and I am determined to give her the best chance possible
I will also be sharing updates after her cardiology appointment so everyone who supported her can follow her journey
If you would like any reassurance before donating I am more than happy to provide proof of Tabitha's specialist appointment and referral. Just send me a message.
I know times are tough for everyone so please don't feel any pressure to donate. Even sharing this post would mean the world to us
I went to try to get a decent picture of a honey bee on Himalayan balsam for my bees on named flowers spreadsheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
The Himalayan balsam has taken over the banks of the Lagan and is beyond control now I think. It does a lot of damage but the bees love it.
A good picture of this combo has eluded me. ...And continues to do so. Weather and light were not great. There were honey bees (our association apiary is about 800m away) on the balsam flowers but I managed no postable pictures.
This is what you do when it’s bucketing it down with snow and your feet are almost solid ice from a couple of hours scrambling around at dawn on a winters morning. You head for the shelter of a pine forest and crawl around in frozen vegetation till you come up with a composition your happy with. Mind you, I must have looked a real sight making this image. I was hovering very low over a frozen puddle (not sure how deep it was, but I desperately balanced myself in a contorted position to ensure that I didn’t find out). Whoever said that landscape photography was a serene, calming, romantic experience? Who gave the impression that it was an existentialist pastime? I wouldn’t have it any other way!
I did consider cropping this to a square (before anybody suggests it), I also considered posting my landscape version, but for some subtle subconscious reason, this version just had the edge.
Out of interest, I’m giving a talk this Thursday evening and I’m going to do a questionnaire to solicit phrases that best describe good landscape photography and I’ve made a questionnaire that if you have five minutes I'd appreciate you filling in , cheers in advance! P.S. I’ve made the form anonymous so unless you want to make your views known to me or anybody else you can always put your name on your results (o:
UPDATE: View the results here
So you wanna know something interesting about me and Summer? We've owned a house together for over four years, been married for just over three years (yes, we lived in sin for a year...GASP!), and we still don't have a joint checking account. We probably won't get one anytime soon either. So twice a month I bust out the handy-dandy monthly expenses spreadsheet and split all the bills down the middle. I then tell Summer what she owes me, she cuts me a check, and I pay all the bills. Might not be the easiest system in the world, but it works for us...
also called the white rose of York,
At Kew
Orange pollen load on view.
for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go (eventually!) on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Not far behind train 291 was train 499 with a single CP GEVO up front. It's seen crossing the North Fork of the Crow River just west of Regal, slowing as the 291 is taking the siding up ahead at Murray to meet an eastbound out of Glenwood. At least these 8800 series GEVO's were still pretty clean at this point. I actually kept a spreadsheet to track how many of CP's fleet of GE's I photographed leading trains along here from 2008 to 2015. The 100 units of this 8760 to 8859 order were definitely the most common. According to those records, I have pictures of 77 of them leading trains, many of them multiple times, including the 8802 on three separate occasions.
another one in the herb garden within the walled garden at Glenarm Castle.
Who needs to go any further than a few miles from home? ...
with this lovely sunny weather - lovely short staycation on the North Coast
for my Honey bees on named flowers set!
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
At this point my lens jammed and was stuck on my camera until I got back from the trip and worked out how to unjam it (brute force).
I developed in caffenol but my clever spreadsheet that works out the quantities of chemicals was wrong - so the negatives were clearly underdeveloped. But thankfully all was salvagable in the end.
Just at the entrance to Othello Tunnels , textures were so beautiful that I was going back and forth … shooting gorge and shooting rocks . Such a different view from same place.
I really needed something different than looking at the spreadsheets and bunch of papers. Last few weeks were busy , so was rest of the year and year before. I think we do way more than we used to do, I think it started with Blackberries … I don’t think there is way to go back
In the early 1900s, the Canadian Pacific Railway decided a route was necessary to link the Kootenay Region with the BC coast by rail. The railway was built over three mountain ranges. In the Coquihalla Gorge – the river cut a 300 foot deep channel of solid granite. A straight line of tunnels were built through it which are known now as the Othello Tunnels.