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Calatagan, Batangas, Philippines ||
Starburst being reflected by the water, resulting in a "dual starburst effect".
Had I been late by a couple of minutes or positioned differently, I would not have been able to capture this. Indeed, everything is about the Perfect Timing.
My wife sent me out to get her a bowl of chiil from Steak & Shake just as #145 was passing thru Starne Interlocker on the east side of Springfield. This gave me just the right amount of time to get down to Cockrell Lane, nail a shot of the train in gorgeous late summer light, get the chilli, and then return back home with my wife none the wiser. Perfect timing indeed!
BNSF 6652
NS 9630
This is a shot I've been after for years. Just couldn't get the timing right until just now.
Juvenile Great Blue Heron ( Ardea Herodias)
Cottonwood Park, Richardson Texas
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The weather was glorious during a summer holiday taken on the Isle of Wight during July 1990. Seen here en route to Alum Bay is Southern Vectis 510 (VOD 595S) . This Bristol VRT/SL3/6LXB / ECW was new in July 1978 as Western National 575. It later served for Devon General before joining the Vectis fleet in 1987.
I always have my camera on the seat next to me, ready for anything! Today, I'm heading south on I-57, about to go under the KB&S former Big 4 viaduct, when I see the KB&S Kankakee turn headed to Kankakee. The odds were in my favor to capture this shot!
Photo by John Eagan
One of the fabulous Swiss Air Force ' Patrouille de Swisse' Aerobatic Team's Hawker Hunter F.58's, J-4027 - caught during the 1979 International Air Tattoo at Greenham Common
Replaced by the Northrop F-5 Tiger, even those are now in the twilight of their days.
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency taken with a Zenith E using a pre-set 250mm Soligor lens
Just as a cloud moves over the sun, X31 leads B75 and B80 through Mywee as they head South to Vic Dock in Melbourne for unloading as 9374 from Tocumwal in Southern NSW.
Saturday 18th February 2017
After letting a couple Z's around them, a westbound vehicle train throttles up at Edelstein just moments after the storms subsided and the sunshine returned. The timing was impeccable.
The timing of Tim Davie’s resignation couldn’t be worse for the BBC.
Discussions on the renewal of its charter have just commenced, while the licence fee is expected to rise to £181 next year. In a world of increasing competition, the BBC looks vulnerable. It could all now get very, very messy.
In his resignation statement, Mr Davie, the director-general, insisted he was going because of “the very intense personal and professional demands of managing this role over many years in these febrile times”.
BBC sources were adamant – though the claim is scarcely credible given the timing – that his departure was not linked to The Telegraph’s reporting on bias exposed in a 19-page memo including the doctoring of a speech by Donald Trump, anti-Israel reporting and downplaying gender-critical issues.
But Deborah Turness, the chief executive of BBC News, admitted the Telegraph disclosures had done for her. She told staff in her resignation email: “As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me – and I took the decision to offer my resignation to the director-general last night.”
The resignations of two top executives at the BBC, in part over a misleading edit of a Donald Trump speech, have catapulted the UK’s most important creative and journalistic organisation into one of the most serious crises in its history. A gleeful US president has threatened to sue the broadcaster for $1bn, and is celebrating the “firing” of “very dishonest people” from what his press secretary calls a “leftist propaganda machine”.
The Daily Telegraph
Good timing was the reason behind this photo, I had been after an AR8 for a considerable time so was very pleased to finally see one. Lots and lots of older vans in Palermo, all still working as well.
Anyone out there photographing trains wishes for the appropriate lighting conditions for their approaching subject. Having the sun shine on your subject can be a good a thing or a bad thing depending on many variables. I was happy to see the sun poke its nose up over the mountains on the east bank of the Hudson River as this train approached my perch. Its 6:17am on a Saturday morning as Q156 brings its train over Doodletown Bight Trestle and onto Iona Island at Bear Mountain N.Y. C40-9W 9048, AC44CW 275, ES44AC 3092. 05-18-2013. Howard Kent Jr.
Such is the draw of the temples within the Angkor Wat complex that they become overrun at times. Yes, it was great to see such distinctive old ruins that I had read about since a youth but and as can her seen on the left hand image you often have to learn to be patient and share your visit with tourists from all over the world. Go off the beaten track a little and alter your timing and hey presto you can find solitude as seen in the right hand image.
Had a little fun recently of trying out different shutter speeds at very low ground angle. Water movement is probably the most important element of a seascape composition IMO, even more so than a great sky because it reflect on what action the author is trying tell the viewers. This was shot at 1/4 of a sec. I got all soaking wet after this shot, but at least the water is always warm in Hawaii.
Timing is everything.....the sun had just risen when this unusual cloud came along and just obscured it.....off shore at Winterton on Sea, Norfolk.
Dandelion seed head and buttercup bokeh in the hedgerow near Whorlton Castle, Swainby, North Yorkshire.
“If you are frightened, be Silent! Whining is for prey. It Attracts Predators!”
Robin Hobb Fool’s Assassin
After heading on over to CP Valley for an enticing JR1 yard job with an SD45 duo and OI16 heading through, a headlight comes into view. B115 which was let out of Teaneck an hour ago glides through. Right place, right time.
A bit of luck, here, as having just got off a train from Lichfield at Crewe and immediately presented with a pair of 'Choppers' and a 'Grid' on this barrier wagon move. The train is 6Z26 0901 Crewe CS - Leicester LIP, hauled by Class 20 Nos. 20901 & 20118, and with Class 56 No. 56091 'Driver Wayne Gaskel' at the rear, which I think had worked an overnight from Crewe to Kirkdale CS conveying a pair of Class 777 EMUs (see Tom Adams comments below). Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
And maybe soon there'll come a day
When no more tears will fall
We each forgive a little bit
And we both look back on it
It's just bad timing that's all
~ Blue Rodeo
After weeks of effort, I finally got the shot I was after... entire windmill within the sun! I'm pretty happy with this one!
I find taking night shots of the boardwalk amusement rides to be both fun and challenging. There are several things to take into consideration. The boardwalk is crowded with onlookers and riders. This makes it difficult to find a spot with enough room to set a tripod, which is in alignment of the ride, and with limited onlookers and line waiters.
For years I have watched these rides spin, swirl, twist and turn upside down. Now I find I watch with the sole purpose of timing them. At which point will the ride flip, creating a full circle? Once I have the found the proper settings and place with the best angle, I am ready to press the shutter release. This is generally the exact moment someone decisions to walk directly in front of the camera and stop to say, “oh sorry”.
Yes, timing is everything.
submitted to ODC/ topic ~ timing is everything
The morning I took this photograph was the same morning that my sister passed away. I find it to be quite interesting that I happen to take this shot around the same time of her leaving us, especially considering her beliefs.
NS C23 rolls through a perfectly timed sucker hole in a solid cloudy fall sky at W. Calvin Rd. near Stoney Point, PA on their way to Meadville. Just happened to stumble across these guys while driving through Greenville, and really lucked out with a little golden sun at just the right time.
Also see HERE.
And, GOTTA go LARGE
Driving along down I-15 south towards St. George, Utah, I hoped to be able to get some good shots of the sunset. At the time I mentioned this out loud, there were thunderstorm clouds overhead, and so I didn't know if the sun would ever peek out. Luckily, we went to get some gas (and ended up not), but when turning back realized that the side road we were on offered the perfect view of a truly serendipitous moment for us; the sun had dropped below the ceiling of thunderheads and shot its last rays of the day through the gap between the clouds above and the mountains and horizon below. Lucky us.
The men getting a little inside air as they head on to the main straight.
Speed Energy Stadium SUPER Trucks at Sydney Motorsport Park, Round 8, overall first three placegetters.
(1/2) #47 Jeff Hoffman.
(2/2) #1 Paul Morris.
The Robby Gordon Series is contested at various venues around the United States and Australia.
Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek, New South Wales, Australia.
In a rare moment of good timing, a westbound NJ Transit Raritan Valley Line train passes the hind end of a slowly moving NS 18N at Hillside, NJ.
NJTR 4129 F40PH-2CAT
We were at a spot where the guide was talking about bats.
"There aren't any here right now, but many overwinter in this section of the cave."
She went on to talk of the first explorer of the cave who when he came to this section in the gloom was suddenly touching soft fur instead of wet rock.
And then a bat flew by us to the amusement of some and the consternation of others.
© AnvilcloudPhotography
When I'm running late, I usually blame my "tardying angel" for throwing obstacles in my way, but maybe should blame Murphy's Law from my Murphy bed for bed timing.
This is a spring from the retracted bed, for FlickrFriday's "Timing" and Macro Mondays' "Spiral" challenges.
Einstein predicted that time slows down the faster you travel and the time-dilation hypothesis has since been proven by flying atomic clocks on aircraft.
The three fastest human beings at the moment are NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques (pictured) and Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Kononenko who are orbiting Earth on the International Space Station at a speed of around 28 800 km/h.
They are travelling so fast that they will return home to Earth after their six-month spaceflight 0.007 seconds younger than if they had stayed with their feet on the ground.
But how do astronauts perceive time in space? Space Station crew report that time seems to speed up in microgravity so European researchers are trying to find out more by immersing astronauts in virtual reality and testing their reaction times.
A virtual reality headset is used to block external visual cues that could influence the results. The experiment focuses on how astronauts estimate time duration as well as their reaction times. They are asked gauge how long a visual target appears on screen. Their reaction times to these prompts are recorded to process speed and attention.
The astronauts run the experiment before flight, on the International Space Station and again when they land to compare results. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst was the first test subject to take part in this experiment in 2018. Anne and David did a session in February in ESA’s Columbus laboratory.
Understanding how time is perceived in space is important as astronauts are often required to conduct precision work where timing is everything. This research in microgravity will help reveal clues as to what helps keep our brains ticking the seconds accurately.
Credits: NASA
UP's "Powered By Our People" SD70ACe is on the point of UP train MASNP-26 as it roars west through Knob Noster on the UP Sedalia Sub, former MOP territory.
Unveiled in 2019, this specially painted locomotive was intedended to be dedicated to the hard working employees of the Union Pacific Railroad, but as Precision Scheduled Railroad reigns supreme across the entire system resulting in employees being furloughed by the hundreds, the timing couldn't be any worse. What could have at least been a nice gesture has been mostly received as a sick joke. 9/26/20.
At first glance it appears that 6A60, the 08:32 Whatley - Oxford Banbury Road might be composed of both box wagons and hoppers behind 66541. In actual fact, the hoppers belong to 6C42, the 09:00 Theale - East Usk Yard empties hauled by 66604 (which can be seen to the left of the tree on the left side of the frame.
Taken at Uffington, the 2 trains have just crossed and 6C42 has only just cleared in time