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The replica Spanish Galleon, Andalucía, turns in front of London City tower blocks to prepare to go back under Tower Bridge. It is moored at St Katherine's Dock until the 6th October and open to visitors. The ship is currently on a European tour including various points in the UK.
A U.S. Navy pilot prepares for action. The Battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific and at the the time the Grumman F4 Wildcat was the only Naval fighter aircraft capable of holding it's own against the Japanese Zero.
I've always wanted to drive the Natchez Trace, and was finally able to do so. Just north of Jackson, Mississippi this lone bald cypress in the water caught my eye. If you ever get a chance to drive the Trace, it's a two lane road of gorgeousness, actually through a national park, with a 50 mph speed limit. There are miles and miles of destruction, too, where a tornado tore through and left the forest stripped and haunting. And, you might also see the occasional deer. Make sure you have your favorite music available, sit back, and let the beauty feed your soul.
Texture from Filter Forge.
EXPLORE Worthy, Challenge 61 - YELLOW, ORANGE & GOLD (Art from 2014)
Art Museion's Contest "Autumn Colors" (3rd Place)
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I saw these Turkey-Tail mushrooms in Barn Wood, not far from my house about three weeks ago. A quick search on Google has just shown me that I could have sold them for quite a bit of money if I'd foraged them and advertised them as organic. But I'm glad I left them undisturbed for others to enjoy.
Fleetwood Mac ~ World Turning ~ Live 1976
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One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "Battery".
HSS!
Shot with a Leitz "Summicron DR 50 mm F 2" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Sporting and meditative. Everyone wins.
The lighting, stillness, evening sounds and warmth lend to a wonderful time outside, on the water.
Star Lake, Minnesota
August 2015
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This was the morning last August when I went for an early drive, but the fog turned me back although it doesn't look too heavy in this photo. This scene was beside the parking lot where I turned around.
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After a few days of rain I got out to explore College Woods again and found this little pool under an old oak where the water was remarkably spiraling in these foaming eddies. Luckily I'd brought my variable ND filter... annoyingly no polariser but nether mind. I think in hindsight I'd have liked some longer exposures but I was pretty pleased with the effect anyway.
Ju Raku En, the Japanese Gardens at the University of Southern Queensland, are the largest, most traditionally designed Japanese Gardens in Australia and a delightfully peaceful retreat to spend a few hours while in Toowoomba.
They have a big lake in the middle with a number of traditional bridges making for camera friendly scenes.
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Vlog of this one here youtu.be/h-qoRW-uOI4
Just as I was about to pack up and leave this location yesterday, I turned around and saw that the waves were rushing around and spilling over these rocks, creating a really interesting composition that I had disregarded earlier. Sometimes a great shot can present itself to you when you aren't looking for one. I love moments like these and it tends to sum up landscape and seascape photography for me. Things are always changing and you just need to be ready. Taken at Tronach Head near Portknockie in Morayshire, Scotland.
Took this last year in NZ at Lake Wanaka, fairly famous and much photographed tree.
Wanted to give this a faintly japanese look. Hope it came off.
The birds sat in this tree overnight and took off not long after this shot to catch grubs and food i guess :-)
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Carmine skimmer Costa Rica ( I think it's pink but not sure as I'm colour blind) Not often I get one turning it's head in flight
The Harz Railway or Trans-Harz Railway (German: Harzquerbahn) was formerly the main line of the Harz Narrow
Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) and runs north to south right across the Harz Mountains from Wernigerode to Nordhausen. However, the tourist attraction of the Brocken, the highest mountain in the Harz, is so great that the Brocken Railway is effectively the main line today. The Trans-Harz Railway joins up with the Selke Valley Railway to Quedlinburg at Eisfelder Talmühle where all trains are organised to make good connections.
Route
The line begins at the HSB's narrow gauge station in Nordhausen (Nordhausen Nord). It lies in northwest of and parallel to the standard gauge railway station. After passing the link line to the Nordhausen Tramway that joins it from the right, the railway bends towards the north and runs for 7 km to the station of Niedersachswerfen Ost almost parallel to the standard gauge line from Nordhausen to Ellrich (the South Harz Line). The Harz mountains begin beyond Ilfeld (km 10.7). Behind Netzkater (km 14.0) lies the station of Eisfelder Talmühle (km 17.3), where the Selke Valley Railway branches off in a curve to the right.
The Trans-Harz Railway continues to follow the B 81 federal road as far as Tiefenbachmühle halt (km 19.5) before turning in a westerly direction in order to reach the request stop of Sophienhof (km 21.0), the last stop in Thuringia. The line runs through spruce forests over the state border with Saxony-Anhalt. At Benneckenstein station (km 29.8) the line crosses the ridge at 530 m above NN, its highest point so far. It then runs downhill into the valley of the Warme Bode, where the halt of Sorge (km 33.4; 449 m above NN) is located. Next the route climbs to its next summit at 557 m. After Elend (km 41.6) the line reaches the junction with the Brocken Railway at Drei-Annen-Hohne station (km 46.4). In 2009 the construction of a new stub line from Elend to Braunlage was discussed (see South Harz Railway Company).
Behind Drei-Annen-Hohne the line runs steeply downhill and the railway reaches the 58 m long tunnel below the Thumkuhlenkopf. It is the only tunnel in the Harz Narrow Gauge Railway network. On emerging from the tunnel Wernigerode Castle can soon be seen in the distance. In the vicinity of the station at Steinerne Renne (km 54.5) the line enters one of the HSB's tightest curves with a 60-metre radius, before reaching the station of Wernigerode-Hasserode (km 56.3). The next stations en route are Hochschule Harz halt (formerly Wernigerode-Kirchstraße) and Westerntor station (where the Wernigerode-Westerntor Bahnbetriebswerk is found) at Wernigerode. Its terminus is the station at Wernigerode (km 60.5).
The first section of the Trans-Harz Railway to go into service on 12 July 1897 was the line from Nordhausen to Ilfeld. On 7 February 1898 it was extended as far as Netzkater and on 15 September that year to Benneckenstein. From the north the section Wernigerode to Drei-Annen-Hohne was completed on 20 June 1898. The remaining section between Drei-Annen-Hohne and Benneckenstein was finally opened on 27 March 1899 along with the line up to the Brocken, the highest peak in the Harz mountains. The original operating company was the Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company. After the compulsory acquisition of the line in 1949, the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn ran it until 1993.
From 1899 the Trans-Harz Railway crossed another metre gauge line at Sorge. This other line was operated by the South Harz Railway Company (SHE) and ran from Walkenried via Brunnenbachsmühle and Sorge to Tanne. A link line, initially just for passenger trains, was laid in 1913. In 1945 services between Sorge and Brunnenbachsmühle were closed, because this section crossed the Inner German Border. The section from Sorge to Tanne continued to be worked until 1958. The tracks were left on the border bridge until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Railway traffic has sharply increased in recent years on the section between Nordhausen and Ilfeld. Since 2004 Nordhausen hybrid-trams have run directly from Ilfeld into the tram network at Nordhausen. Other trains run to Eisfelder Talmühle and continue onto the Selke Valley Railway. Apart from one pair of steam trains, all services are worked by diesel railbuses. The only remaining goods trains on the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways work the line between Nordhausen and Eisfelder Talmühle. These regularly transport standard gauge ballast wagons from the Hartsteinwerken Unterberg on rollbocks to Nordhausen. A number of converted diesel locomotives are available for this, which have couplers and buffers at the right height for handling standard gauge goods wagons.[3]
After 1993 daily trains services between Eisfelder Talmühle and Drei-Annen-Hohne were restricted to four pairs of trains. Only two pairs were hauled by steam locomotives. In addition, between Drei Annen Hohne and Wernigerode through trains run on the Brocken–Wernigerode route, the majority being steam-hauled.
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