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Action photos from Providence Day's varsity track and field meet on Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020. {Providence Day Photo / Mike McCarn}
On my way home from work on Friday 6th July, 2007 I just missed the action when this grey car skidded off the road through the wooden fence onto the railway tracks. This happens quite a lot. People drive too fast, but I can't work out how they manage to smash through the same bit of fence onto the railway at just the same spot.
The umbrella was shielding the injured woman driver from the rain until the ambulance arrived.
At March 2008, the County Council have at last erected crash barriers at this point.
Shot this one last fall. Got nice color to the foliage off in the distance. I have a fascination with railroad tracks. Maybe it's the little boy inside me.
Taken at the end of the Piako County Tramway in Waiorongomai Valley. All of the forest around this tram track and back up the slopes of the valley were cleared back in the early 1880's in the hopes of mining the gold in the Kaimai mountain range. Didn't work out so well for the miners apparently. The rock proved too hard to mine effectively so it was all shut down in the early 1900's. Fortunately for us the forests have regenerated quite fast and we're left with all these mining relics strewn across a valley clad in native bush.
Two of the break heads and 5km of the track are still in tact. Well the bit in the photo is looking pretty rusted though. If you're reasonably fit and its not too wet you can walk/climb/crawl up Butlers incline, one of the three inclines on the track.
6 exposures (no idea why 6 instead of my usual 7 or 9)
Photomatix
Deghosted in Photoshop and fixed the sky.
Andrew loved Test Track, but he only got to ride it once. It's pretty clever for the 'on ride' photos to be linked to your PhotoPass.
One of my other ideas for the background assignment (my first will be my actual submission). This is just my sb-24 bounced into an umbrella at camera left, balanced with the sunlight coming from behind her and to the right. It kills the harsh shadows on her face pretty well, and the sun serves as a hair light.
The same issue exists here with color balance - I didn't have a light enough gel at the time to get somewhere between daylight and CTO. I don't think this one is as noticeable, however.