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Taken from our stoep where a family of Kudu visited our waterhole every day.
As you can imagine I had to take quite a few photographs to capture the synchronicity between these two Oxpeckers.
Kudu Private Nature Reserve
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Made a quick trip to Grand Teton National Park, but allowed some train time to and from. First one I photographed was this manifest in the Portneuf River canyon east of Inkom, ID. I love this shot, and it may be my favorite from the trip, even with the amazing views at GTNP.
A little climb up the side of this hill and I thought this might just work for today!!
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Through the morning mist the sun begins to get the better of lingering morning clouds as Union Pacific's hotshot Brooklyn trailers snake up the western slope of the Tehachapi grade leaving Marcel.
UP 8067 ~ ZBRLC ~ Marcel, California
Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision
03.25.2016
'We will deliver...'
A trio of EMDs, led by SD9043MAC 8028, sail off Ansel Hill and towards the floor of the Antelope Valley, an extra auto tied to the drawbar.
UP 8028 ~ AOASPX ~ Ansel, California
Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision
05.13.2012
A visit over to the local Middletown Park in Middletown, Maryland got me to a place where some maple trees were in peak autumn color. And, as always, my favorite position when capturing these beauties is to stand under them and shoot upwards.
This was a late afternoon photograph and, after about a dozen or so photos, enough to get a "best of the group", I went off to shoot some ducks in the proverbial nearby pond and then was off to see about grabbing an ice cream cone for my efforts.
What I especially like about the shot is the two nearby trees coming into the composition from the two corners, upper left and lower right. As such, we have three dark features in an otherwise bright scene, making for some magical contrast. Darks and lights make a wonderful marriage most times with, of course, some very pleasant exceptions.
With the Loadmaster keeping an eye out of the forward door, Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook HC.6A ZA704 makes a low approach up the River Adur towards Shoreham Airport
Using call-sign 'SHF454' she made a very low pass across the field before disappearing up-country
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'Route of the Streamliners' via the 'Mainline through the Rockies'.
17 of Union Pacific's finest hold-outs from the 'Streamliner' era are surrounded by the Pagodas Canyon's ruby red cliffs on the former D&RGW Dotsero cut-off. The special train is making a round trip run between Denver-Dotsero-Denver and is now returning eastbound having just highballed Dotsero, CO a few minutes previous. Today the breathe-taking scenery found on the former Rio Grande in Colorado (and Utah), including this narrow passage in the mountains which the Colorado River and railroad share space, can still be viewed daily from onboard the California Zephyr….albeit Amtrak's California Zephyr.
UP 8952 ~ PDVDV1 ~ Red Canyon, Colorado
Union Pacific's Glenwood Springs Subdivision
05.29.2015
We caught up with the 29G we saw at Salem earlier for this seen in the middle of Christiansburg Grade. Still gloomy, but the fog on the hills added some ambience.
In the Teutoburg Forest, there was a hunting station where, luckily, the only hunter present was the one hunting with a camera. I find ladders and stairs to be a rather fascinating subject, one that I haven't given much consideration to before.
Image taken with the Helios 40-2 lens.
Here is my redemption shot from the air of this train as it worked east at Loring. Not too shabby. Wish the background looked better but this is the brown wasteland that we get here in Kansas from November to March.
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
— Ella Fitzgerald
UP Troy Grove job heading south past the NB distant approach signal for the BN Aurora Sub diamond. The train is about to pass through the tiny little town of Shabbona Grove, IL, on a day where the temps struggled to get to 5 degrees.
Eastbound tonnage bound for North Platte, Nebraska climbs the Sierra just below Troy. The center foreground was once the #2 main track right of way that pierced Sierra granite via tunnel 40. After the decision was made to abandon tunnel 40, the new alignment followed the original CP (track 1) alignment around the outside of the mountain.
UP 8907 ~ MRVNP ~ Troy, California
Union Pacific's Roseville Subdivision
07.15.2023
IM FAT AND I DONT CARE!! Look at me and my paper men!! LOL!!
Photo by Raven Girl Studios
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Hair...Tausha "Cut Above" (guelph)
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UP 8091 (C45AH...I think) brings two visitors to town in the form of CSX 748 & 522.
This eastbound City of Industry to Global1 (ZCIG1) is about to stop in Salt Lake City's North Yard for a crew change.
This squirrel was sunning his backside on a maple tree branch. It was about 30 feet up the tree.
Taken through the window of the house.
Expecting the Saint Paul Turn to make their usual late morning arrival, turns out it was a DDG train first. They must have been told to wait at Hopkins until this train passed, so they were way later than usual getting to St Paul. At least the ACe was leading.
I call this " Up The Track" because from where we are staying in the United Campgrounds in Durango, Colorado, this is just up the track from our sight.
You just have to wait for the last train of the evening, spray plenty of bug spray and walk up the track on the Animas River to see this gorgeous reflection.
These blue flowers were the hot-spot for several Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at Brookside Gardens. It was fascinating to watch several of them work the flowers over time, occasionally flying off in pairs as they "fought" over territory, and resting on the nearby branches from their exhausting flights. This female checks this flower for nectar as both benefit from the interaction, she gets the nectar and the flower gets pollinated.
Taken 6 August 2016 at Brookside Gardens in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The Stairs in Rotterdam. Celebrating and commemorating 75 years of the reconstruction of Rotterdam after the devastations of the Second World War. 180 steps leading up from the Stationsplein, outside Rotterdam Central Station, to the rooftop of the Groot Handelsgebouw, an iconic building in the history of the post-war reconstruction of the city.
As you drive towards Portland, you will end up in a parking lot quite close to the lighthouse and beyond which you will not be able to proceed...Portland Bill Lighthouse is one of the most beautiful lighthouse locations I have ever been to...I have always dreamed of going well into the ocean and framing the lighthouse with the adjacent rocks and water. This is one place that offers this unique vantage point.
Although I had shot this almost a year ago, I somehow had overlooked one of the best places I had been during my trip to the Jurassic Coast. I can still feel the bitter cold that was that morning. The hues in the sky were just there for a brief moment after which the sun came out fully well and eclipsed the colors that were there on display.
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