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On a day of ASLEF strikes, a dispute that's been running for the best part of two years, a service of local Basingstoke to Waterloo trains were run. 'Celebrity' unit 5868 leads classmate 5909 forming a special 1123 Basingstoke to Waterloo working and is seen here passing the lovely spring greens at Deepcut. It's unusual to get class 455's on main line services (no toilets and no first class!), in the instance of this route Desiro class 450's are normally provided. A big thank you to Bob & Jamie for the heads up.
Here's another strike from last week. In this image, I tried to color correct by desaturating everything. I think it is more realistic beside creating a tense mood.
Compare to Strike_1: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/44053602141/in/datepos....
My best shot of a storm with 80+ lightning strikes per minute! After this shot I had to stop because the wind got too strong and shook my camera around way too much to get another stable shot.
We had a marvellous electric show this morning around Cape Town. This was taken from inside my car with the camera balanced on the camera bag, with the wind blowing and the occassional squall of rain coming through. It wasn't the best conditions to shoot, hence the movement in the image.
Shooting Mode Manual Exposure
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 5
Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6
Metering Mode Partial Metering
ISO Speed 100
Lens EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Focal Length 24.0 mm
The seagull was literally posing for me to take its picture, and it also did so for others passing by although no one was feeding it. Maybe it is just sociable?
13 different lightning strike photos from last night. Combined in CS4, auto align (both horz & vertical at different focal lengths) smart object, maximize, and this was the result of the experiment.
nature gave us an incredible display last night...beth and i were up at the bedroom window trying to catch shots and we didn't do too badly either...
First lightning of the New Year
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Due to the FirstGroup (fka Mainline) bus strike in Sheffield (10th July 2009), Stagecoach drafted in vehicles from Barnsley and elsewhere in South Yorkshire
Here 22552 (YN57MXZ) waits time at a deserted High Street stop. It's running additional journeys on service 88 along Ecclesall Road. However, the 88 doesn't normally serve the High Street, so I'm not sure who they were expecting to board
About to overtake it is YN08JGO (22638) on the 120 to Broomhill and Fulwood - 22638 is a local buses on this route, unlike the interloping 22552
Window reflections in the Passage Jouffroy in Paris. Since it was built in 1836, Passage Jouffroy has been one of the most visited covered arcades in the capital.
I took a nice day trip up to Sequoia National Park today with one of my children. We spent a lot of time exploring the road that goes up to Moro Rock on this trip. This giant sequoia fell right next to the road and a lot of people were stopping and taking pictures under the roots or up on top of the fallen giant. I asked this young lady if she would mind if I took her picture and she had no problems with it. I found out that she and her partner were from Ukraine and were enjoying a visit to the park. We had a lot of fun exploring this area.
The subject of this image is a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A. They were imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, using both its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The two galaxies in the upper right of the image appear to be interacting with one another — indeed, the long trails of stars and gas extending from them both give the impression that they have both just been struck at great speed, thrown into disarray by the bowling-ball-shaped galaxy to the lower left of the image. In reality, however, interactions between galaxies happen over very long time periods, and galaxies rarely collide head-on with one another. It is also unclear whether the galaxy to the lower left is actually interacting with the other two, although they are so relatively close in space that it seems possible that they are. By happy coincidence, the collective interaction between these galaxies have caused the two on the upper right to form a shape, which from our Solar System's perspective, ressembles the starship known as the USS Enterprise from Star Trek!
NGC 7764A, which lies about 425 million light years from Earth in the constellation Phoenix, is a fascinating example of just how awkward astronomical nomenclature can be. The three galaxies are individually referred to as NGC 7764A1, NGC 7764A2 and NGC 7764A3, and just to be really difficult, an entirely separate galaxy, named NGC 7764, sits in the skies about a Moon’s distance (as seen from Earth) away. This rather haphazard naming makes more sense when we consider that many of the catalogues for keeping track of celestial bodies were compiled well over 100 years ago, long before modern technology made standardising scientific terminology much easier. As it is, many astronomical objects have several different names, or might have names that are so similar to other objects’ names that they cause confusion.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, ESO; CC BY 4.0
Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt