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Mood today....lazy Sunday and narrow focus
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Went over for a little visit with my friend Vi and coming home I got a few shots at stoplights and stop signs.. This is down the block from her house.. Happy Fence Friday, Everybody!!
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I am attempting to shake off the 'tyranny of perfection' which abounds - not least within myself - but also in camera club competitions. Going more for the emotional/atmospheric content and also technical competence - but not necessarily in the same image!
The potpourri of square crop images continues, this one from the tail end of last year. I was returning with my pal Madonna from an outing in Grasslands, with the last light of day lingering on the horizon. As we approached the turnoff from gravel roads onto Highway 18, I had to stop. Something about the purity of the prairie light. I left the car headlights on, and they reflected nicely off the stop sign and added a few highlights to the frozen pebbles in the road. The silence itself was beautiful.
By cropping square, I de-emphasized the long flat horizon and made the image more about the great clear sky above. The sense of space works in both directions. A friend from Ontario who is here this month told me yesterday that this is something he never experiences back East - the vastness of this landscape, open to the human eye and the imagination for miles in every direction. Here, we are looking up a very slight rise, but a couple hundred metres down the road the land gently drops away and allows that sweeping 360-degree view. What a powerful experience, to be reminded of our smallness, via immersion in this enormous space.
Photographed at the turnoff from Hwy 18 to Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
UP westbound freight #117 stops for the stopsign at the Rock Island Colorado Springs line crossing behind a U50 and other unit[s]. These eight axle GE behemoths were used quite often on Union Pacific's "KP" route, and the pair of first class KC-Denver hotshots 117 and 118 ( First Class meaning they were superior to trains coming at them OR in front of them) were still obligated to make the stop where the Rock crossed; just beyond this stop would be a signal governing the power switch where Rock trains to and from their own line from the east crossed. Control of that one switch was in the hands of the operator in the depot to my left. There was only one regular pair of Rock Island freights serving Colorado Springs while the majority of their trains used trackage rights on the EwePee to the east side of Denver. When these U50's took off from the stop sign, the 60mph speed limit was immediately in effect and their hoggers notched out to the max to attack the hill going up to Cedar Point. The sound they made left no doubt as to why these units were nicknamed "whirlybirds"! Yes it's handheld and I've no idea why this is the only picture I got of them...maybe work (as a brakeman for Rock Island) got in the way? But I do remember the rapidly increasing cadence of those wheels hitting the diamond.
Stop sign and mounds of gravel - Canon EOS Rebel G - Fujifilm 400 - Phillipsburg, NJ - scanned on Epson V600.
The small town of Fredonia, has an estimated population of 1,300 people and a large number of stop signs & abandoned cars in front yards.
Fredonia is the gateway to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. The town was established in 1886.
I finally sold a bunch of lenses I rarely used, and bought a lens that I've always wanted, but never really owned. It's not even an expensive lens, just for some reason- I don't know.
I finally took it out on a quick random photo walk in my corner of Chicago.
Helpful street sign along Buena Vista Street in the Mexican War neighborhood. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Útil cartel sobre la calle Buena Vista en el barrio de la Guerra Mexicana. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, EEUU.
Ashland Railway GP38 2023 crosses Township Road 1426 a couple miles west of the railroad's namesake city.