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Some nice skies and light yesterday afternoon so had a little drive around and ended up at Saxstead Post Mill. Luckily the crops were starting to show, sails were turning and the light played ball, perfect for a bit of IR.
I've been spending lots of time recently taking shots of dogs, horses, cows and all things rural. Just need some time to get on top of processing them.
This is my brother in law and nephew in the countryside near Glossop. He has lots of cattle which will feature soon too.
Didn't know I was so gray until I saw this shot... I like gray, I was hoping that I could grow my beard out BEFORE I looked like Santa!
A Eurasian Bittern seen from the observation tower at the Lee Valley Wildlife Discovery Centre in the River Lee Country Park near Cheshunt.
The autumnal colours are starting to appear but are probably a couple of weeks away from being at their optimum over the border in Scotland.
This image was taken late afternoon at The Hermitage; a National Trust for Scotland site near Dunkeld, Perth & Kinross.
After a fabulous day touring around with my wife and a great friend of ours, we made our final stop of the day here before wending our way home for a much needed meal and a couple of 'light ales'
In the late 19th century, Ludwig Ernest Wilhelm Leonard Messel, a member of a German Jewish family, settled in England and bought the Nymans estate, a house with 600 acres on a sloping site overlooking the picturesque High Weald of Sussex. There he set about turning the estate into a place for family life and entertainment, with an Arts and Crafts-inspired garden room where topiary features contrast with new plants from temperate zones around the world.
Ludwig's son Colonel Leonard Messel succeeded to the property in 1915 and replaced the nondescript Regency house with the picturesque stone manor, designed by Sir Walter Tapper and Norman Evill in a mellow late Gothic/Tudor style. He and his wife Maud (daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne) extended the garden to the north and subscribed to seed collecting expeditions in the Himalayas and South America.
The garden reached a peak in the 1930s and was regularly opened to the public. The severe reduction of staff in World War II was followed in 1947 by a disastrous fire in the house, which survives as a garden ruin. The house was partially rebuilt and became the home of Leonard Messel's daughter Anne Messel and her second husband the 6th Earl of Rosse.
After a little over 15 years of posting photos on Flickr, I am approaching 1000 photos uploaded… so I finally “turned pro.” Will I post more often again now that I don’t have the file limit in mind? Time will tell I suppose…
But for now, here’s a favorite frame from last summer I hadn’t gotten around to posting yet. It also ties back to being one of the first "out of town" places I convinced my Dad to take me to back in 2004 specifically to catch a train for photos, the first in what would become many, many such adventures.
A warm, sunny June Sunday evening has brought a lot of boats out on Lake Wisconsin to enjoy the long evening. Amongst the roar of boat motors and the hum of the nearby Merrimac Ferry, Wisconsin and Southern WAMX 4223 ambles across the bridge at Merrimac with the L463 local. This Madison to Baraboo turn forwards traffic for the L863 to deliver to local customers throughout Sauk County. They've got an unusually short train this particular day.
The train is passing over two of the newest spans of this bridge originally built in the 1870s. The summer of 2024 saw contractor Michels Construction along with subcontractors gradually swap out many of spans, assembling them on the far shore out of frame to the right and then floating them out into the Wisconsin River to change out in short work windows. This work has been the reason this train has been running in the late evening and overnight for the last few years, to allow day time work windows for the construction crews. The job site is quiet for now, but come Monday morning crews will be back prepping for the next span swap.
The WSOR along with the State of Wisconsin (and FRA via a grant) have undertaken an extensive rehabilitation of the former Chicago and Northwestern Bridge here at Merrimac, Wisconsin. Once a double track gauntlet bridge with an interesting history that’s too involved to get into too much about detail here, it’s always had a bit of a hodge-podge look of different types of spans. But Phase III of the more than $25 Million project conducted in 2024 brought a pretty dramatic change. Piers from the original bridge were mostly left as is with new concrete caps poured, but many of the classic lattice truss spans and smaller girder spans have been replaced. The project will be completed in 2025 with some final efforts. If you’re interested, here’s a DOT website with some more overview information: wisconsindot.gov/Pages/projects/multimodal/merrimac.aspx
“Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life.”
Good Riddance | Green Day
I came across this old railroad crossing sign while exploring a section of abandoned train track that runs along the Chattahoochee River, in the historic district of the city of Columbus, Georgia. Seeing it brought to mind those times I myself was at a proverbial crossing in my life. Standing in front of it, I ponder what if anything it may be trying to show me, and what direction this sign may lead me.
Number 250 of my 365 photo challenge - A slightly split-toned, macro image of some leaves on a tree in the sun, starting to turn to Autumn colours.
Remnants of the Lyons Turning Mill and grounds, today home to the Quincy Quarry & Granite Workers Museum.
A large car/estate from the 50's turns the corner in Centro Havana.
This is a typical scene in this district of the city - an old car, people in colourful clothing, food waste on the floor & rugged buildings/homes in the distance.
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Looking along the Champs-Élysées towards Place de la Concorde in Paris.
You can see more pics in my Paris set.