Yup its exactly what it looks like. Over the last few months I've determined that photography is basically 99% luck. The shot isn't perfect but I really like this one!

Cartagena, Playa de Mar

I met a young lady that was playing her dogs in a park and I had as much fun as the dogs did!

Temsa Diamond / Travego 17 give pose.

Cams getting timed, verified later by slowly turning engine over by hand several times and inspecting valves and pistons (timing) for proper sequence and clearance.

An Irish dance promo shoot that I did. This is probably my favorite indoor shot ever.

Timing from arnala is 6 am

You can't see the lever but there is one on the left side of the steering wheel that controls the timing.

So much in life is about timing.....

Blue Crab takes a swipe at a passing Black Skimmer!

Forsythe NWR

Oceanville, New Jersey

Expired Fuji Velvia 100

66018 WBAT DOLLANDSM 894E26CE17 4 * SCUNTHPRS N 8D A

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;

Dollands Moor Sidings .....0911..........................0906........................5E

Saltwood Junction..............0913.........................0907........................6E

Ashford International.........0925........................0921 1/4...................3E

Maidstone East [MDE] 1.....0958........................0948........................9E

Otford Junction[XOT]........1019..........................1013..........................5E

Swanley [SAY] 1...................1030.........................1024 3/4..................5E

St Mary Cray Junction.......1035.........................1030.........................4E

Bickley Junction[XLY]........1038.........................1033 1/4...................4E

Bromley South [BMS].........1041 1/2....................1038 1/2...................2E

Shortlands [SRT]..................1043 1/2...................1041 1/4.....................1E

Shortlands Junction...........1044.........................1042 1/2....................1E

Bellingham [BGM]...............1049 1/2...................1045.........................4E

Nunhead [NHD] 1................1054 1/2...................1053 1/4....................1E

Peckham Rye [PMR] 3........1058.........................1054 1/2...................3E

Crofton Road Junction......1100..........................1056 1/2...................3E

Denmark Hill [DMK] 1..........1101...........................1057..........................4E

Voltaire Road Junction......1105..........................1102..........................3E

Wandsworth Road .............1107..........................1102 3/4...................4E

Latchmere Junction...........1122..........................1120 1/4.....................1E

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2......1126..........................1123...........................2E

West Brompton [WBP] 4....1128 1/2....................1125 1/2....................2E

Kensington Olympia ..........1132..........................1128 1/2....................3E

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2...1133..........................1131 1/2......................1E

North Pole Signal Vc813...1134..........................1133 1/2....................RT

North Pole Junction...........1134 1/2....................1133............................1E

Mitre Bridge Junction........1136..........................1135 3/4...................RT

Willesden Junction 4.........1139/1141..................1140 1/4/1142.............1L

Kensal Green Junction......1143..........................1144.............................1L

Brondesbury Park 1............1146 1/2....................1146 3/4...................RT

West Hampstead 2.............1149 1/2....................1148 3/4...................RT

Hampstead Heath 2...........1153..........................1152 1/2....................RT

Gospel Oak [GPO] 2...........1155..........................1155 3/4...................RT

Kentish Town West 2.........1156 1/2....................1158 3/4...................2L

Camden Road Junction....1158..........................1200 1/4...................2L

Camden Road [CMD] 2......1158 1/2....................1200 3/4..................2L

Holloway South Jn..............1206.........................1206.........................RT

Finsbury Park [FPK] 6.........1209.........................1208 3/4..................RT

Harringay [HGY] 2...............1212..........................1211 1/4.....................RT

Hornsey [HRN] 2.................1214..........................1211 3/4....................2E

Alexandra Palace 3............1217..........................1213 3/4...................3E

New Southgate [NSG] 4....1219..........................1216 1/4....................2E

Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4.......1221..........................1218 3/4...................2E

New Barnet [NBA] 4...........1222.........................1219 3/4...................2E

Hadley Wood [HDW] 4......1224.........................1221 1/2....................2E

Potters Bar [PBR] 4.............1226 1/2...................1227..........................RT

Brookmans Park [BPK] 4...1228 1/2...................1229 1/4.....................1L

Welham Green [WMG] 2...1229 1/2...................1230 1/2.....................1L

Hatfield [HAT] 3...................1232.........................1233 1/4.....................1L

Welwyn Garden City 3.......1235.........................1237 3/4...................2L

Digswell Junction...............1237/1248...............NoRep/1248...........RT

Welwyn North [WLW] 2......1249 1/2...................1250.........................RT

Woolmer Green Jn.............1252.........................1252 3/4..................RT

Knebworth [KBW] 3............1253 1/2...................1254.........................RT

Langley Junction.................1255.........................1255 3/4..................RT

Stevenage [SVG] 3.............1256.........................1256 1/2...................RT

Hitchin [HIT] 2......................1301..........................1300 1/4...................RT

Arlesey [ARL] 2....................1306 1/2...................1305 1/4....................1E

Biggleswade [BIW] 4..........1311...........................1309 1/4....................1E

Sandy [SDY] 2......................1314..........................1311 3/4....................2E

St Neots [SNO] 1..................1321 1/2....................1320 1/2....................1E

Huntingdon [HUN] 3..........1329.........................1328 3/4..................RT

Holme Junction [XHO].......1340 1/2/1350........NoRep/1348 3/4.....1E

Fletton Junction..................1358.........................1358.........................RT

Peterborough [PBO] 5.......1400.........................1402 3/4..................2L

Helpston Junction..............1410..........................1414............................4L

Tallington Junction.............1414 1/2....................1419 3/4...................5L

Stoke Junction.....................1433 1/2/1435.........NoRep/1434 3/4....RT

Grantham [GRA] 2...............1442.........................1440 1/4....................1E

Claypole Loop.....................1454 1/2/1509 1/2..1451 1/4/1508...........1E

Newark North Gate 1..........1515..........................1514...........................RT

Newark F.C. [XNK]..............1516..........................1515...........................1E

Carlton On Trent Loop......1523 1/2/1531 1/2...1519/1532................RT

Retford [RET]........................1545 1/2...................1544 3/4..................RT

Loversall Carr Junction.....1559.........................1557...........................1E

Doncaster Decoy Sth Jn...1601..........................1600..........................1E

Decoy Nth Junction...........1604.........................1601..........................3E

Belmont Down Yard...........1609/1713................1608/1748.............35L

Doncaster [DON] T.............1722.........................1756 1/2.................34L

Hatfield & Stainforth 2.......1801..........................1808 3/4...................7L

Thorne Junction..................1804 1/2...................1811............................6L

Crowle [CWE] 2...................1813 1/2....................1819 3/4...................6L

Althorpe [ALP] 1...................1820.........................1828 1/2...................8L

Gunhouse Loop..................1822.........................1829 3/4...................7L

Scunthorpe [SCU] 1............1826.........................1833 3/4...................7L

Scunthorpe West Jn...........1827 1/2...................1834 1/2....................7L

13.05.11

really good or really bad, depending on how you see it

Please view in black

I had to break into my 365 project and upload one of my favorite shots of all time taken 27 years ago with an old Vivitar 35mm film camera and a Hanimex 80-200mm lens. The print image was scanned to digital years ago, so the resolution enlarged is very pixilated and Seurat like. Please forgive the imperfections.

The birds are ospreys, sometimes called sea hawks or fish eagles. Their wingspans can reach 6 feet (2 m). This decaying wharf is located near Point Lookout, a peninsula at the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in Maryland, USA. The image was shot just before sunset on a very hot and hazy day. There was only one osprey in the nest when its mate decided to join it. For a brief second I had the shot.

I’ve heard many times “timing is everything” in photography. - - - But it isn’t everything. We need luck, having a serendipitous event create the opportunity for a perfect image. We need passion, which gets photographers up at ungodly hours, makes us go unto nearly unbearable conditions for long stretches and keeps us at this craft day after day, all so that your finger is actually on the shutter button at the right time. And we need talent, i.e. the ability to artistically sense the kind of image we’re after, as well as to recognize an actual potentially captivating image and then talent to use our equipment properly to actually do the capture.

Lastly, can't ever forget the need for understanding and supportive families. My wife and three small children waited twenty minutes for me to capture this image, bless them.

On a side note, Point Lookout was a Federal prisoner of war camp holding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War 150 years ago. I imagine (without any proof whatsoever) this wharf being the disembarking point for tens of thousands of souls whose fight using weapons was over, but whose battle to endure continued.

Forgive also the ramblings of an old man with some fond memories of this image.

Published: winner of a magazine photo contest

Dynamic Automotive Timing Belt Job - dynamicautomotive.net

What timing

Exhibit at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2005

Judging by the shadows and the harsh blue sky, it's right about noon time in Lubbock, Texas. The West Texas & Lubbock is in town making the transfer with the BNSF in the old Santa Fe yard downtown. I don't envy the engineer this afternoon, his ex-Katy GP7 has the railroad equivalent of 4-40 air conditioning. That won't do much on 10 mile-per-hour track. At least he can count on the wind; it never stops blowing in Lubbock.

Arles, France

Working The 6E84 08.30 Middleton Towers Gbrf To Monk Bretton Redfearns Gbrf According To Realtime Trains The Route And Timings Were

Middleton Towers Gbrf 08.30 . 08.34 4L

Kings Lynn T.C. Gbrf 08.50 To 09.14 N/R 09.14 RT

Watlington 09.25 . 09.25 1/4 RT

Downham Market 09.38 1/2 . 09.35 1/2 2E

Hilgay Ahb 09.45 1/2 . 09.41 1/2 3E

Littleport 09.53 1/2 . 09.50 1/2 2E

Ely North Jn 10.01 . 10.00 1/2 RT

Ely West Jn 10.03 1/2 . 10.04 RT

March Down R.S. 10.28 1/2 To 11.40 1/2 10.26 N/R 2E

March 11.43 1/2 . 11.37 6E

March West Jn 11.45 1/2 No Report

Three Horse Shoes 11.53 No Report

Whittlesea 11.58 1/2 . 11.48 10E

Peterborough East Jn 12.09 . 11.54 3/4 14E

Peterborough [PBO] 12.11 To 12.13 11.56 3/4 . 11.59 3/4 13E

New England Nth Jn 12.16 . 12.03 3/4 12E

Werrington Jn 12.18 . 12.05 1/2 12E

Helpston Jn 12.21 1/2 . 12.08 3/4 12E

Tallington Jn 12.26 1/2 . 12.14 3/4 11E

Stoke Jn 12.47 1/2 . 12.47 1/2 RT

Highdyke Jn 12.49 1/2 . 12.51 1L

Grantham 12.54 . 12.55 1/2 1L

Nottingham Branch Jn 12.54 1/2 . 12.56 1L

Barkston South Jn 12.59 . 12.58 3/4 RT

Claypole Loop 13.06 1/2 To 13.17 1/2 13.07 3/4 . 13.19 3/4 2L

Newark North Gate 13.24 . 13.27 3L

Newark F.C. 13.25 . 13.27 1/2 2L

Carlton On Trent Loop 13.30 1/2 . 13.32 3/4 2L

Retford 13.45 . 13.46 1/2 1L

Babworth Loop 13.46 No Report

Retford Crossover 13.46 1/2 . 13.47 1/2 RT

Ranskill Loop 13.51 . 13.52 RT

Loversall Carr Jn 14.01 1/2 . 14.00 3/4 RT

Doncaster Decoy South Jcn 14.03 . 14.03 1/2 RT

Doncaster Down Decoy Gbrf 14.06 To 14.32 1/2 N/R 14.34 1L

Decoy Nth Jn 14.34 1/2 . 14.34 3/4 RT

Bridge Jn 14.36 1/2 . 14.37 3/4 1L

Doncaster 14.39 . 14.40 1L

Donc. Marshgate Jn 14.39 1/2 . 14.40 3/4 1L

Arksey Loop 14.42 . 14.42 1/4 RT

Shaftholme Jn 14.45 . 14.46 1L

Haywood Jn 14.47 1/2 . 14.49 1L

Norton Level Crossing 14.52 . 14.53 RT

Knottingley South Jn 15.03 . 15.08 5L

Knottingley West Jn 15.04 . 15.09 3/4 5L

Pontefract East Junction 15.06 . 15.11 3/4 5L

Pontefract Monkhill 15.08 1/2 . 15.13 3/4 5L

Pontefract Tanshelf 15.09 1/2 . 15.15 1/4 5L

Featherstone 15.12 1/2 . 15.18 1/2 6L

Streethouse 15.14 1/2 . 15.21 6L

Crofton East Jn 15.17 1/2 . 15.25 7L

Oakenshaw South Jn 15.20 No Report

Royston Jn 15.27 No Report

Monk Bretton Loop 15.35 To 15.55 No Report

Monk Bretton Redfearns Gbrf 16.05 . 16.05 RT

Removing the Timing Cover.

70806 COLO HOOJNUPYD 886L37CF22 C * WHITEMOOR N 5D A

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;

Hoo Junction Up Yard ...................0958...........0958.................RT

Gravesend [GRV] 1...........................1006............1005 1/4...........RT

Springhead Junction .....................1008............1008 1/4...........RT

Northfleet [NFL] 1..............................1009 1/2......1010...................RT

Swanscombe [SWM] 1.....................1011..............1011 3/4.............RT

Greenhithe Bluewater 1..................1014 1/2.......1014 3/4............RT

Stone Crossing [SCG] 1...................1016.............1016 1/4............RT

Dartford [DFD] 2...............................1020 1/2......1022 1/2............2L

Crayford [CRY] 1................................1025............1027 1/4.............2L

Bexley [BXY] 1....................................1029............1030 1/4.............1L

Albany Park [AYP] 1..........................1032............1032 1/2...........RT

Sidcup [SID] 1.....................................1034 1/2......1035 1/4...........RT

New Eltham [NEH] 1.........................1037 1/2......1038 1/2.............1L

Mottingham [MTG] 1.........................1039............1040 1/2.............1L

Lee [LEE] 1..........................................1042............1044 3/4............2L

Hither Green [HGR] 5......................1051 1/2.......1050...................1E

Parks Bridge Junction.....................1054 1/2......1055 3/4............1L

Lewisham [LEW] 1.............................1058 1/2......1057 1/2............RT

Nunhead [NHD] 1..............................1103 1/2.......1103 3/4............RT

Peckham Rye [PMR] 3.....................1106.............1106...................RT

Crofton Road Junction....................1107..............1108 1/4..............1L

Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.......................1108.............1108 1/2............RT

Voltaire Road Junction...................1114...............1114....................RT

Latchmere Junction.........................1123..............1121......................1E

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2....................1126.............1124 1/4...............1E

West Brompton [WBP] 4.................1127 1/2.......1126 3/4............RT

Kensington Olympia .......................1130 1/2.......1129 1/2............RT

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2................1131 1/2........1132 1/2...............1L

North Pole Signal Vc813.................1133..............1134 1/2...............1L

North Pole Junction.........................1133 1/2.......1134...................RT

Mitre Bridge Junction......................1135..............1136 3/4..............1L

Willesden Junction 4.......................1139..............1139.....................1E

Kensal Green Junction...................1143..............1141......................1E

Brondesbury Park 1..........................1146 1/2.......1143 1/4..............3E

West Hampstead 2..........................1149..............1146 1/2..............2E

Hampstead Heath 2........................1152 1/2.......1150 3/4.............1E

Gospel Oak [GPO]............................1154 1/2.......1153 1/2.............RT

Upper Holloway [UHL] 2.................1158 1/2.......1158 1/4.............RT

Alexandra Palace 4..........................1223/1225..1212/1212 1/2..12E

Bowes Park [BOP] 2.........................1227.............1214 3/4...........12E

Palmers Green [PAL].......................1228 1/2......1217...................11E

Winchmore Hill [WIH] 2...................1231..............1219 1/2............11E

Grange Park [GPK] 2........................1232............1221 3/4...........10E

Enfield Chase [ENC] 2.....................1233.............1223 3/4............9E

Gordon Hill [GDH] 3.........................1234 1/2......1225 3/4...........8E

Crews Hill [CWH] 2...........................1237 1/2......1230 1/2............6E

Cuffley [CUF] 2..................................1240 1/2......1234...................6E

Bayford [BAY]....................................1247.............1240 3/4............5E

Hertford North [HFN] 2...................1252............1244...................8E

Langley Junction..............................1302............1253...................9E

Stevenage [SVG] 4...........................1303 1/2......1255...................8E

Hitchin [HIT] 2...................................1309 1/2......1301 1/4..............8E

Letchworth [LET]...............................1314..............1307 3/4............6E

Baldock [BDK]...................................1316 1/2.......1309 1/2............6E

Ashwell & Morden ...........................1322............1313 3/4.............7E

Royston [RYS] 2................................1326 1/2......1317 3/4.............8E

Meldreth [MEL]..................................1330 1/2......1320 3/4............9E

Shepreth [STH]..................................1333 1/2......1323.................10E

Foxton [FXN]......................................1335.............1323 3/4...........11E

Shepreth Branch Junction[XSP]...1341..............1329 3/4...........11E

Cambridge [CBG] 4..........................1346.............1334.................12E

Coldham Lane Junction..................1349 1/2......1335.................14E

Ely [ELY] 1............................................1419..............1421....................2L

Ely North Junction[XYE]..................1422 1/2......1424 1/2.............2L

March [MCH]......................................1439.............1442...................3L

Whitemoor Yard L.D.C GBRf.........1446.............1444...................2E

Lighting is always a major issue but timing ranks right up there too!

St. John's, NL

(l-r: Aaron Hancock, Sade Ali and Yakov Langer appear in 'All in the Timing' at CCBC Catonsville March 14-18, 2014 (Photo Credit: David Frey)

It’s “All in the Timing” for CCBC Catonsville Academic Theatre March 14-18 in the Center for the Arts

Playwright David Ives’ collection of short, comic plays allows ensemble cast to take on many roles

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (February 26, 2014) – Take eight one-act plays add 13 versatile student actors and you have the recipe for a great evening of fun and laughter when CCBC Catonsville Academic Theatre performs playwright David Ives’ collection of short, comic plays produced as “All in the Timing.” The plays will be presented 8 p.m. March 14 and 15, 3 p.m. March 16, 10 a.m. March 17 and 1 p.m. March 18 in the Center for the Arts at CCBC Catonsville, 800 S. Rolling Road. Tickets are $8 general admission and $5 for seniors, students, faculty, staff and alumni. For tickets and information, call the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-ARTS (2787).

Since the incredible success of the first performance this collection, playwright David Ives has written additional short plays, which are regularly produced under the title “All in the Timing.” This production features the six original short plays, plus two more recent additions:

•SURE THING is a classic of contemporary comedy: Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love.

•WORDS, WORDS, WORDS recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce HAMLET and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters?

•THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love.

•PHILIP GLASS BUYS A LOAF OF BREAD is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery.

•THE PHILADELPHIA presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for.

•VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head.

•SPEED-THE-PLAY is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under seven male-bonding minutes.

•ENGLISH MADE SIMPLE starts when a young man and woman meet at a party, and their immediate romantic attraction is translated into comically unromantic grammar lessons as they struggle to free themselves from the banal constrictions of party talk.

The ensemble cast (in alphabetical order) includes: Sade Ali of Pikesville, Md., Robert Gaskins of Gwynn Oak, Md., Charles Gearhart of Baltimore, Md., Aaron Hancock of Baltimore, Md., Aris Hines of Reisterstown, Md., Timothy Johnson of Towson, Md., Lavonne Jones of Baltimore, Md., Paris Brown of Windsor Mill, Md., Yakov Langer of Owings Mills, Md., Devin McKay of Baltimore, Md., Ashley Saville of Edgewood, Md., Randi Seepersad of Randallstown, Md. and Naomi Steven of Catonsville, Md. The cast plays multiple roles in multiple plays. The production is directed by guest director Jessica Garrett of Single Carrot Theatre with set and lighting design by G. Maurice “Moe” Conn and costumes by James J. Fasching.

The Center for the Arts at CCBC Catonsville is an accessible facility. Please request special accommodation when purchasing tickets from the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-ARTS (2787).

Pre-start: This is a photograph from the 2023 Mullingar Half Marathon which was held in the town of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Friday 17th March 2023 (St. Patrick's Day) at 10:00. All proceeds of the Mullingar Half Marathon go to the charity T.E.A.M. (Temporary Emergency Accommodation Midlands). The race starts and finishes in Mullingar town and takes in some rural roads and the Royal Canal Greenway before finishing in the town park. Overall, the route is fair and reasonably flat. Today's weather unseasonably mild but very very wet from the start until the finish with many runners remarking that it was one of the wettest races they've ran in years.

The full set of photographs has the link: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72177720306781730 The majority of the photographs in this set are taken before the start, at the 3 mile mark and with 800 meters to go as the race leaves the Royal Canal Greenway path near Pipers' Boreen. The electronic chip timing and event management was delivered by Irish company MyRunResults www.myrunresults.com/.