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The UP 'rock job' rolls down the Kenosha Sub into the namesake city on a hot summer evening, with an SD40N doing the honours ( albeit long hood forward) with a string of brand new VULX Ortner three-bay open hoppers trailing behind.
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.
Three rebuilt UP geeps have train LTC 17 southbound on the Albert Lea Sub. I'm a sucker for mini wings on UP standard cabs.
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
Mpumalanga
South Africa
Melbourne, Australia
The brick building is the old R. M. Williams building built in 1932. It has been integrated into a mall in the area.
It was a blustery day at the coast and the waves were crashing in at high tide making shooting conditions quite challenging. It wasn't easy keeping a long zoom on the tripod with an ND32 stable in the stiff wind and having to wipe the seaspray from the filter every few seconds!
Remains of an old pier in line with the defunct Domtar smokestack.
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72/100 Paddles, 2016.
One of the great joys in life for me and my wife is walking the beach. For her, it is finding the perfect shell(s). For me it's all about the birds!
One of my favorites is the brown pelican. If I see one, chances are there will be a few (or more) clicks of the shutter involved. They are very graceful in the air, gliding along singly or in groups. Graceful is not the way I would describe a typical pelican take-off. It's more like lumbering - lots of splashing, wing flapping and I guess running to get their bulk into the air. This one started his run in front of me so I could get various poses as it was getting into the air.
Needless to say, I have LOTS of pelican shots to rummage through. They all make me smile!
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What are the chances???
I was taking a whole bunch of photos around the outside of this old menswear manufacturing plant, and I decided to go for a steep angle. I got close to the wall and pointed the wideangle nearly straight up. I could hardly believe what I saw. The wind was carrying off the letters pretty quickly. I started shooting like a madman. This was the one with the least lens flare.
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Added to CotC as my most "interesting".
Continued confirmation that I have a "thing " with mixed, light and dark high contrast image taking .
The light through the window blind provided a nice pattern.
I wish it would warm up here ! 😌
Warm morning light covers UP 7019 working at track speed out of the sag between Mohawk and Stoval Az. The sanitization of the Gila Subdivision continues with the loss of H2 Searchlights and now with the removal of the classic code line poles which use to line the right of way on the left side of this image. Progress is not a very photogenic thing.
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 Red Winged Black Bird was sitting on the seeds and wouldn't let any other birds come near it. As is typical it puffed itself up and it was very effective!
I didn't know that Kenny Rogers was a conductor for the UP, but you can clearly see his doppelgänger in the left hand chair of this EMD SD70AH-T4 as it rolls east on the UP Kansas Sub just after sunrise this AM.
It was a Tier IV morning around these parts. Shot 2 EMD Tier IV's on back to back trains.
EMD > GE
birthday girl dressing up
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When I first moved here to the Pacific Northwest, I met this old man that would always look up with his hands outstretched. He would say, "Isn't it wonderful". Back then, I didn't really get the message. As I have lived here longer, I have come to appreciate the beauty in the sky, especially the morning and the evenings! :)
In a few days I will be traveling down to Southern Utah and Arizona. I am looking forward to photographing the great Southwest. It will be a very big change from the Pacific Northwest. Can't wait for the challenge! :)
I will be away from flickr for awhile, but I will catch up with your photo streams when I get back. :)
UP 2696 (ET44AC) charges through the Jordan Narrows with 15 passenger cars in tow running under the symbol PGJSC1.
This is a close-up HDR photo that I just took of cod liver oil capsules. I placed the capsules in a shallow wine glass that is also reflecting the light from the windows.
A series of wooden ladders inside the Hubbard Mine. I spent almost an hour setting up the colored lights.
The Hubbard mine was started in 1874 and was jointly operated with the Redman and Ready Relief mines. Together they were one of the largest mining operations in the Julian district. The Hubbard mine profited $200,000 during its years of operation.
The workings include a crosscutting adit which is 300 feet long, plus a 275 ft. shaft connecting to the surface. Due to this shaft the mine was always well vented. There is one drift that connects to the Ready Relief Mine. The vein is approximately 1 ft. wide, is about 200 feet below the surface
There are impressive rolls of gangue quartz found here and other mines around Banner, including one ore called blue ribbon quartz. The rocks are highly siliceous mica schist.
This mine is home to a colony of rare Townsend’s big-eared bats. This species is very sensitive to human disturbance and therefore the mine should not be entered during the breeding season from May to September. -- Hidden San Diego