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Not long after arriving at Iron Junction for the morning, we found a loaded taconite train swinging off the wye heading for Two Harbors. With temps still around 28 degrees, a small amount of steam was still coming off the fresh pellets.
Maybe my favorite of the ice photos from my walk by the Plover River. Such fleeting beauty to behold.
entranced. verb. past tense: entranced; past participle:
fill (someone) with wonder and delight, holding their entire attention.
A shot of the entrance gate to Charles Fort just outside Kinsale, in Cork.
"Charles Fort is one of the finest surviving examples of a 17th Century star-shaped fort, and much of the construction begun in 1678 remains. The fort has two enormous bastions overlooking the estuary, and three facing inland. Within its walls were all the barracks and ancillary facilities to support the fort’s garrison. The fort continued in military use until 1922."
These two fat Indians seem to have lost weight since the restaurant was closed due to earthquake damage
October 1st. Saturday. Laurel Homecoming.
This right here is Andre. He's one of the best people I have ever met.
I love him more than life itself and I don't know what I would do or where
I would be with my life without him. One of my best friends forever and ever.
Tonight was so much fun, honestly. Being with my friends and them alone.
I met a lot of people and smiled a lot - even cried too. Christy's was a good time.
All of my friends looked so beautiful - I love you all so, so much. I hope your first
homecoming was just as lovely as my third. You're all the best people ever.
Preview! Had a photoshoot with sarah & cliff this afternoon for their senior homecoming. Super fun.
More to from this shoot tomorrow.
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Two Dv12 locomotives 2521 and 2617 with freight train 55281 from Ykspihlaja to Talvivaara arriving in Ylivieska.
Mount Rundle reflects in Two Jack Lake in Banff National Park, AB.
Check it out large to spot the lucky fly fisherman with the lake to himself.
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This youngster was hanging around with two adult does. They were curious as I slowly approached......they were in the woods but close to a parking lot. They never did run away, but slowly walked off after a couple of minutes.
Hard to believe that these two German classics are separated by 19 years. The elder of the two, the IIIa, was manufactured in 1939, The IIIg is from 1958.
Yes, there was a war in between. Even taking that into account, it's surprising how small the changes are. There are many of changes, all of them rather insignificant.
Both cameras have a fastest exposure time of 1/1000 seconds. Both have a separate dial for long exposure times, long meaning everything above 1/20 s (IIIa) or i/30 s (IIIg) and up to 1 s.
Both require the first 10 cm of the film leader to be trimmed with a scissor. And both require unmounting the bottom to load the film, which has to be fumbled onto a metal spool. That used to bother me, at first. I doesn't any more, I'm used to it now. No point in grumbling about such things. If you don't like it, a Leica isn't the right camera for you. No problem with that - there are plenty of other cameras.
No thread-mount Leica really is a rangefinder camera. The finder is physically separate from the range measurement. You peer into the little viewport that's more to the left, which gives a magnified image of the scene, focus, and then switch other other viewport to do the image compo. With the IIIa, the two viewports are about 3 cm apart. With the IIIg they're right next to one another (this can be rather tricky if you use them alternatingly).
Yes, that is ante-diluvian. It was obsolete in 1939 and it certainly was obsolete in 1958. No question about it. I mostly don't even use the range-measurement. I guess the distance and use hyperfocal DOF for focusing.
Zeiss-Ikon offered a real viewfinder in 1936 on Contax II that Leica introduced only with the M3 in 1954. In terms of ergonomics, the Contax ran rings around the Leicas. Apart from the rangefinder with a much longer baseline, the Contax offered a back-opening body, and a bayonet for fast lens exchange.
But hey, the reason why people use Leicas is the reason why I use Leicas. Because they are so well engineered that they just go on working, every single bit of them, decade after decade after decade.
Both of these two ladies make a wonderful, round ker-lick sound on shutter release. The sound of a well-made mechanical device. And both feel good in your hand, really good. The almost 80 year old IIIa even more than her younger sibling. Two good reasons for me to go on taking pictures with them.
The IIIg has a larger viewfinder and shows a parallax-corrected frame for a 50 mm or 90 mm focal length. The IIIa doesn't offer that feature, and its finder is rather arbitrary anyway. It's calculated for a 50 mm lens, but I use her with a 35 mm Summaron, so what I want to be in the frame mostly is in the frame, erratic finder notwithstanding.
The IIIg has a self-timer. It works fine, but I never use it. The IIIg also offers an M-sync for a bulb flash unit. I never looked into how to sync the flash because I only do available light.
I saw these two tumbleweeds kissing the east Mission Bay water here at San Diego, California during my last walk for the year 2020 and this photo claims to be my last one also for 2020. When walking by the beginning of the movie The Big Lebowski came top of mind as an appropriate answer to the Our Daily Challenge topic of:
ENDINGS is the topic for Wed Dec 30 2020
*Here is the song 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds' as preformed by Roy Rogers and The Sons of The Pioneers:
Happy Trails and Happy New Year!
She eventually decided to go up into the tree.
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The area around Bardon Mill still has a number of semaphore signals. These are operated from Bardon Mill Signal Box. The box is not normally manned with all running signals pulled off for through working.
With the speed limit sign failing to guess the class of locomotive approaching, 67016 trundles towards Carlisle with an 0Z10 route familiarisation run, prior to the traditional autumn ECML diversions which will be taking place on a couple of weekends during November.
The spring snowstorm we had three weeks ago created lots of photo opportunites. This country lane is probably used by hunters now but decades ago this would have led to a dance hall called Silver Pond. Linda's parents had their wedding reception there in 1936. I found remnants of a small dam and a concrete slab down there when I explored about 25 years ago.
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Fun with reflections in central London, just around the corner from The Cheesegrater.