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With impeccable timing these little yellow stars spot exactly the right time of the year to rise and shine.
the southern california timing association (SCTA) has been hosting land speed racing meets at el mirage dry lake in the mojave desert since 1937. racers come from all over california to test their skills, to see who can go the fastest in 1.3 miles from a standing start. the event is full of colorful cars, bikes and characters.
nikon D7000 + nikkor 18-200mm, photoshop CS6 + nik color efex pro.
Timing can mean everything when it comes to taking an image. A blink, a glance, a change of direction..... it all happens at a critical time.
Sometimes we press the shutter at that precise time - here's an example of that - hope you like it!
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Wishing you a fantastic day and week!
Never been to a Cricket match before, Don't understand it but by the reaction of the crowd... this is a very good thing for 1 Team and very bad for the other...lol
Nice one. I think my youngest took this shit. This is the beauty of film. It is what it is, I moved and have my eyes shut. Could have been perfect, because Sietske is all sharp. This is life. I love this.
Lomography CN400 @ 200 ISO
...it really is everything. I'll explain. It's almost impossible to tell here, but that's Nickel Plate 765 crossing the Cal-Sag Channel bridge in Blue Island, Illinois. My grand plan for the last run of Nickel Plate 765 on the Rock Island District of the weekend- the deadhead move to the 47th Street shops- was to show up at Western Avenue right after sunset and grab a twilight view of the steamer emerging from the Cal-Sag bridge. The railroad being the railroad though, delays cropped up, meaning it was awfully dark by the time 765 showed up here. Okay, no biggie, I'll get artsy and try a 1/20th or so long-exposure, giving what I hoped would be a dramatic blur of smoke pierced by the twin headlight beams. Well, the crew had the throttle to the ceiling, going through here and across Vermont Street faster than anything I'd ever seen in Blue Island. So on the next click of the shutter, that dramatic blur was halfway under the Western Avenue bridge, and the whole scene was out of focus.
So this is the shot you get. I wish I had recorded some video, as it truly was a spectacular sight.
A half-second earlier and I'd have gotten that fizzboat in the clear and not cut the cab of the DX in half. Still, one can't go back and take it again. DC 4110, DX 5500 and DX 5195 cross the inlet at Paremata, north of Wellington, NZ. Probably a Sunday afternoon train in the early 90s, when triple fruit salad combos were all the rage.
Standing at the side of old US-90, leaning against my ride, watching the sun fade out. Best time of day. From the northwest, headlights. A celebration of turbocharged internal combustion inhaling West Texas asphalt at 80+mph...Showtime! Prefocus. Wait...wait...CLICK!
The season the sunset would like to take a picture, and when it's a sea,
I go to the coast where it's still quiet in front of .
The surfer who are several as it was expected.
By the degree the tourists who are or need, a beach is zen.
Quiet!
The time when I have arrived at the site, already, already, the sun
It had begun to tilt to west, but I was used to going.
It was a beach, so the photography point was also decided.
Empty cloud goes off with dusk, just like, movie
It's clear in blue little like the screen which is so.
The light will be soon burned already in the surrounding building,
I take the wave which presses against a sandy beach delicately.
It's decided especially and is it dim rich of feelings in the setting sun?
It's pushed towards the twilight time tenderheartedly,
It's seen at the timing of wave until it becomes dark.
It was delivered.
This toucanet paused on the tree branch before hopping down to get something to eat below. I was ready as he was in the bushes before, so I was able to catch up just before he hopped away.
Timing is everything. This image is over 40 years old and has been processed to remove noise and sharpen
Timing going up into Tenby for lunch perfectly for an encounter with the 351, I wasn't sure what the vehicle offering would be as it's a company I'm unfamiliar with.
Lo and behold, the newest bus on the books emerged under the railway viaduct. Unfortunately I didn't see it was a Hanover display fitted so only a portion of the display is visible....
YY74RYM enters Tenby on a short 351 from Amroth, Pleasant Valley and Saundersfoot.
Thrilling Wonder Stories / Heft-Reihe
> Joel Townsley Rogers / Through the Blackboard
> D. D. Sharp / Children of the Gods
> Frank Belknap Long / Wobblies In the Moon
> N. R. de Mexico / The Devil's Fiddle
> Arthur K. Barnes [Kelvin Kent] / Grief of Bagdad
> Thaedra Alden / Two-Timing Man
> Ray Cummings / The Golden Temple
> Wilm Carver / World of Living Dead
cover: Earle Bergey (cover illustrates "Wobblies In the Moon")
Better Publications, Inc. / USA 1943
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
It's all about timing. I was waiting in my car for the electric shed gates to open at Loughborough when I heard a whistle and a rush of steam. As the gates opened BR Standard 2 2-6-0 78019 was revealed slowly heading off shed.
A moment in time. Pity about the parked car but otherwise perfectly framed for this grab shot through the windscreen.
This lunar image is about at good as its going to get for my location for two reasons. First is because of weather conditions, and second is because of the extremely fortunate timing of the Moon reaching its First Quarter phase at the vernal equinox.
My location is in central Maryland, where clear skies are rare, and clear skies with good seeing are even rarer. This image was taken on an exceptional March evening when the sky was crystal clear and the seeing was the best that I have seen here in a very long time.
In addition to having a great sky for imaging, the Moon was exceptionally well-placed for my location of 39.14N latitude. I captured this image just twelve minutes after the First Quarter Moon had transited the meridian at N25 degrees declination. This declination is about 14 degrees south of my zenith. At this high elevation above the horizon and with my observing site being 151 meters above mean sea level, the Moon's light passed through just 1.035 air masses.
The geometry of the celestial sphere that created this high-elevation transit is fascinating, and worth exploring.
The trace of the Sun's annual orbit among the fixed stars defines the ecliptic. The Moon’s orbit is inclined to the ecliptic by about 5.14 degrees, so it never wanders more than 5.14 angular degrees from it.
The reason for high-elevation lunar transit on the day of this image has to do with both the Sun’s and the Moon’s position on or relative to the ecliptic, and the Moon's position relative to the Sun. The Sun had arrived at the vernal equinox point on the ecliptic on this day, thus marking the first day of astronomical spring. In a quarter of a year from now, the Sun will have moved one quarter of the way around the ecliptic to arrive at the summer solstice point. This will be the day that the Sun passes overhead at its highest elevation each year.
The Moon, which is always situated near the ecliptic, was at First Quarter on this same day. This means that the Moon is one quarter of the way around it’s monthly orbit about the Earth since it was positioned in conjunction with the Sun just a week prior. This quarter orbit of distance from the sun put the Moon near the Sun’s summer solstice point on the ecliptic, which means the Moon was near its highest point of the year when it transits the meridian on this night.
This image is centered on the prominent crater Agrippa, which is located in the central lunar highlands between Mare Tranquilitatus to the East, and Sinus Medii to the west. Also present in this image are three extensive rille systems that stand out under the low Sun angle: Rima Ariadaeus to the north, Rima Hyginus to the northwest, and the extenisve Rimae Triesnecker to the west. Additional rilles can be found by zooming in and panning around.
ZWO ASI290MM
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G-11
Autostakkert! (best 10% of 3,000 frames)
Timing the evening walk along the River bank to catch some colour. Orange mostly.
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Thanks to JQ and MM, I knew that NS 8098 (Conrail Heritage Unit) was leading train 112 westbound from Louisville to St. Louis. Originally estimated into the Lou for 0715, I had hoped they would fall down. After checking my work schedule, I learned I had a meeting at 0900! Then I hoped the train wouldn't fall down too much...
Listening to the feed while getting ready for work found the Southern West District was really busy around 0700. 239 was holding the main at New Baden. 168 was coming west behind 239. 167 was heading east to clear up at New Baden. 112 was getting permission from the CN at Centralia and D76 wanted to enter Centralia Yard Limits and also head west. Whew!
112 took a short delay from the BNSF at Centralia so I figured my only hope was for 167 to meet the first two at New Baden then run east to Shattuc for 112 and D76. That was not to be as 112 got a warrant west to catch up to 239 and 168.
I went to work continuing to listen to the feed and anxiously listening for 112 to call signals. Eventually, 0830 rolled around and I left the warehouse to spend 15 minutes trackside. Luckily, everything kept moving and by 0845 I heard 112 call "Clear MP 19". Within a quick moment, the 8098 popped around the corner and under the former L&N (now Metrolink) and passed the platform for the long gone Southern depot in Belleville. 112 was clearly forwarding some power west but Big Blue certainly stood out from the 8 normally dressed sisters.
Got the shot and back to work in time for the 0900 meeting!
01-27-2016
They were setting up their camera to catch the sunrise. I was looking for something to use for composition. I hope they don't mind my quick snap portrait sunrise of them.
After seeing the sunrise at Maebongsan mountain park, I looked around Namsan mountain where one of Seoul's landmark, and rooftop park in downtown.
DB tug 60011 arrives at Swinton on a pathing stop , running to amended schedule meant the 6M99 Immingham SS - Wolverhampton ST appeared before the station lights went out.
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SP#152 -"Le temps file, le temps n'attend personne.
Le temps guérit toutes les blessures.
Tous autant que nous sommes nous voulons plus de temps. Du temps pour se relever, du temps pour grandir, du temps pour lâcher prise.
Du temps."
Grey's Anatomy
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Yesterday, I got up before Sassy, and decided to cook the breakfast sausage that I picked up the afternoon before at the QFC on my home from work. Also on my breakfast menu was three eggs over easy and some toast. Sassy woke up just as I was getting started and being the wonderful wife she is, ran me out of the kitchen and finished preparing breakfast. She wasn't real excited about the menu I selected but she was a real good sport about it. Food is a gender thing I figure. This afternoon we went grocery shopping together. I wanted to run to the store for some beer and she said she needed some things at the store also, so off we go together. It was a date! I found my beer lickety-split. (It's a well worn path), and the next forty five minutes we were wandering up and down every isle finding pimentos, oystery juice, dry cooking sherry, crab meat, etc, etc. Before we left together I had volunteered to go up by myself and get everything she needed if she made me a list . I had NO idea, when I made that offer, what I was volunteering for. About half way through our shopping I asked, " is that it"? Being the wonderful wife she is she said she could come back tomorrow and get the rest of the things on her list. Not wanting to seem too anxious to get back home and start, getting my Sunday afternoon buzz on, quenching my thirst, I said, "no, that's ok,let's finish getting what you need." When we finally get to the cashier and unloaded everything form the cart onto the conveyor belt to the cash register, I said,"God my, you got a lot of stuff". Sassy said that she usually get's enough for three meals when she goes up to the store. I said, "that would be three cans of chili, shredded cheese, hot dogs, and the buns." ............. It's a gender thing.
After breakfast we headed out the door to the Mt Rainier area. Stopped at NW Trek to get some pictures of animals, hoping that this time of year, there wouldn't be too many family's with loud, out of control, little kids. Nope...... one is too many when you get to be a old sourpuss geriatric and the kid's not your grandchild. After NW Trek we decided to head for the Mt. Rainier National park gates just past Ashford WA to have a late lunch at our favorite little restaurant there, Copper Creek Inn. As we were driving by Alder Lake, (above), I thought about stopping to get some shots of the stumps, but decided to continue on for our late lunch. When we got to the Copper Creek Inn the place was only half full and by the time we got our plates, it was packed full, not to mention the people standing at the door waiting to be seated. I told Sassy, "We got here just in time". The last thing we ordered before we paid the bill was their FAMOUS blackberry pie to go, A whole pie, (gonna have some of that tonight). Instead of going into the park we decided to head back home after we left the restaurant. Not much daylight left. As we drove, I kept looking at the sky hoping we could make it to this spot at Alder Lake before it got dark. It was overcast most of the day. I wasn't expecting any color in the sky so when we got there and encountered this scenario I was out and running as soon as I stopped the car, changed lenses, moved my ball head from my monopod to my tripod, attached my wired shutter release, made sure I had the right ISO and aperture, and set up the exposures for seven bracketed shots. I was frantic that my opportunity would disappear but everything worked out perfect except there was no lag time and I was running. (I hate running). I got a bunch of great, different comps to work on. This is a semi pano. Two shots merged together as a pano. I cropped the left side a bit because of the distortion but am still happy with it.
Crap! Tomorrow's Monday. Got to work to pay for Christmas, and all the other crap I keep getting billed for. Thankful I've got a job.
Have a fantastic week ahead!
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Perfect timing, managed to quickly snap this photo as I entered the park just before the sun began to go down.
my timing was off this afternoon, we had sunshine, but I managed to get caught in a Hailstone Shower and Gales ... it was horrid ;(
It was perfect timing today at the Fontaine de l'Observatoire.
But anyway this Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux fountain is one of the best in Paris. It was designed in 1873 and shows allegorical figures representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America, while the female figures support a large globe with a ribbon decorated with zodiac signs. And there's those wild horses.
Watched the first dragon boat race of the day at the Arundel festival. As can be seen the paddlers were inexperienced and had difficult keeping time.