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Don't Give Up
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail
No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my name, I've changed my face
But no one wants you when you lose
Don't give up
'Cause you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good
Though I saw it all around
Never thought I could be affected
Thought that we'd be the last to go
It is so strange the way things turn
Drove the night toward my home
The place that I was born, on the lakeside
As daylight broke, I saw the earth
The trees had burned down to the ground
Don't give up
You still have us
Don't give up
We don't need much of anything
Don't give up
'Cause somewhere there's a place
Where we belong
Rest your head
You worry too much
It's going to be alright
When times get rough
You can fall back on us
Don't give up
Please don't give up
Didn't get to go out and shoot this weekend, so I headed to the PC instead.
Was out for a walk this morning to clear the head after a hard week at work, and even though it was 8:00am, it was quite hot already.
As I was ambling through the streets, everything looked so dry, even in the suburbs of Sydney. For anyone reading this from overseas, Australia is in the middle of a catastrophic drought at the moment, really affecting our farmers in our regional areas.
So, with this in mind, I decided to process a shot from country NSW.
We went to visit some family friends back in 2017, and they kindly allowed me access to their farm. It went on for what seemed like forever, with old worksheds and machinery scattered throughout. I captured this old wagon in the late afternoon light, and the original image I posted back then turned out rather well. Griffith is one of the lucky areas, as they seemed to get quite a bit of rain, and it was lush green. However, this is one of only a handful of rural country images I have in my collection, so, I had to manipulate it, to suit the lyrics of the song I wanted to post with it.
So, this is a 3 image blend.
The wagon is from Griffith in 2017, the pink sky on the horizon is from Potter Point in Sydney in 2016, and the Milky Way is from Cathedral Rocks earlier this year.
Blended together to give my final drought image.
Hope you like "Dont Give Up"
Cheers, Mike
10/27/2021 Caprock Canyon
Looking back at the top portion of the John Haynes Ridge trail where we had climbed up from the North Prong Spur trail. You can see evidence of dust in the air, the wind was blowing through the night before and continued with gusts up to 50 mph. Trails were getting scoured of any loose dirt.
I often take my camera with me when I go to fill the feeders up - just in case. On this occasion I struck lucky, there was a squirrel already feeding when I went out, so I stood back and waited for it to move away which it did after 5 minutes or so, having given me the chance to get a few snaps.
I then filled the feeders up and stayed close by to photograph the small birds hoping for the Nuthatch to appear.
I don't know who was the more surprised when the squirrel reappeared on the branch less than 12 feet away from me. It looked me up and down a few times shaking its tail and then went to the feeder.
This is one of the shots I managed; many of the others are not full body as I was too close and in some I can see my reflection in the eyes of the squirrel.
Still wearing its 'as delivered' red frame stripe, UP 5444 and a trio of SD70Ms, drop down grade between Allard (Bealville) and Caliente with westbound tonnage bound for Roseville, California. This photo was taken from above tunnel 1, in the distance a sharp eye will spot the train's rear DPU which is approaching tunnel 2.
This was an early attempt at getting away from the more 'traditional' Tehachapi locations that I had grown up with :}
UP 5444 ~ MWCRV ~ Tehachapi Pass, California
Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision
07.31.2010
Nice to see how the guardian is watching the crane and holds his watch up as if to say, the deadline is near.
:-)
The fireman of 12A gives me a friendly wave as its wood collection train rips into the climb to Emerald.
Puffing Billy's Young Volunteers Representative Team regularly organise special trains to pick up firewood, which has been cut from fallen trees into logs by the Way & Works crew. These logs are then split, dried, and used to light the fires inside the boilers each morning.
I was lucky enough to get to meet Suzy and her lovely family today including Queen Pen :) We had lovely afternoon slushy drinks, cheese cake and then photos on the beach. It was the perfect day weather wise and just such a wonderful meet up! It was so great to me you and your lovely family Suzy!
This is the top 2 cms of the total 12.5 cms length of a telescopic, pocket magnetic pick up tool.
Macro Monday theme; Desk
Happy Macro Monday folks !!
EWS stickered 60078 works 6M96 05.48 Margam-Corby loaded coils past Up Hatherley on 05/04/07.
PENTAX 67, PENTAX SMC 165mm, Fujichrome PROVIA 100F