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A soybean load out of Minnesota left UP rails a few miles back in downtown Omaha and is now on the BNSF Omaha Sub starting a trip to Hastings, NE via Lincoln, NE to return to home rails.
A long, empty covered hopper train rolls east by the signals at 182. The solo GE ES44DC will now throttle up and start pulling hard for the grade leading up to 176.
Springfield, Ohio.
At King Texas. I would have chased this to the coast if it weren't for the "Anti-railfan" sitting next to me on our way back from Phoenix. Okay, there was also a huge dust storm we had to keep in front of. But still....
Gear: Canon 5D Mk II | Canon 17-40L | ND400 | Lee 0.9 Soft Grad
Settings: ISO 50 | f16 | 180.0 | 17mm
Exhibition
Please feel free to come along to Differing Visions Photographic exhibition coming up on the 6th July at Kaliber Boutique Lounge & Dining -
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A quick Black and White from Point Cartwright.
Processing
Black and White processing.
Tools
I noticed on Patrick Smith's stream that he shares some great little applications and tools to assist with Landscapes, so here's a few I can recommend to use:
Tides/Sunrise/Sunset - Willy Weather
Predicting Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonrise - The Photographers Empheris
3 Hourly Forecast predictions - WeatherZone
Whether it was just the wind and rain overnight or perhaps spring is coming the Mill Lake Bald Eagle pair are getting the old nest cleaned up.
UP 5260 brings up the rear of loaded ethanol train CP 528. It is stopped on the Farnham Connection, awaiting a new crew. At left in the distance is an eastbound heading to St-Luc Yard via Old St-Luc.
Well yeah, this is one block up from Main Street Ventura close to where I do my laundry and about three block away from Ventura High School in a pretty rough neighborhood (not! :-))
Music: Morcheeba - Otherwise right click and open in new window/tab
INVITES ARE GREAT, BUT PLEASE IN MODERATION
All my public photos are free for personal use
In case your interested here's a sample of my convoluted workflow:
1. +2,0,-2 RAW (sometimes JPEG) files loaded into Photomatix and processed using the detail enhancer.
2. Base Photomatix Settings:
Main:
> Strength - 85 or less
> Saturation - 65
> Light smoothing - High (The further right, the more realistic)
> Luminosity - 0 (adjust based on the picture)
Tabs:
Tone
> White point - 2% (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Black point - .5% (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Gamma - 1.00 (adjust up/down based on picture)
Color
> Temp - 0
> Highlights - 3
> Shadows - 0
Micro
> Contrast - 10
> Smoothing - 15
S/H
> Highlights - 18 (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Shadows - 18
> Clipping - 18
The light smoothing is the most powerful adjustment, so play with that setting first then adjust the others until you get the right look,
If your sky is a dull gray increase the S/H tab, “Highlights” up a bit
If you have to much light “halos” increase your “Luminosity” and the “White Point” settings.
3. Save as a TIFF file.
4. Open in "The Gimp" and re-size (save as____.tiff)
5. Make a layer copy.
6. Do an auto "levels" and see what it does, if it's cool I'll merge it down if not I'll play around with the setting and opacity then merge.
7. Make another layer copy.
8. Use the "local contrast enhance" script at about 50%, then adjust the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
9. Make another layer copy.
10. Use the "vivid color" script and play with the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
11. Save (still as a tiff) and close the picture.
12. Open in Photoshop (I have and old version and only use it to run the Topaz plug-ins)
13. Run the Topaz Adjust plug-in filter and see what the various presets do.............
14. Run the Topaz Denoise filter.
15. Save (still a tiff)
16. Open the original file (unaltered JPEG or RAW) in "The Gimp"
17. Re-size this to match the modified tiff file (don't worry about keeping the aspect ratio)
18. Drag the modified tiff file in as a layer (it will completely hide the unmodified version) then merge it down, this will recover the lost EXIF information.
19. Use the "smart eg sharpen" script at default settings (it makes it own layer copy) then play with the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
20. Do a "save as" as a jpeg, and it's ready for Flickr!
After meeting the eastbound UP Z train at South Omaha siding, the loaded grain train continues west on the BNSF Omaha Sub through Ralston climbing out of the Big Papillion Creek waterway.
Union Pacific placed UP 4141 and the baggage car 'Council Bluffs', which carried President George H.W. Bush to his final resting place, on public display at the Home Plate track in Omaha for several days after it returned from Texas.
The locomotive, joined by 'Spirit of the Union Pacific' UP 1943 is currently on tour of the UP system on display at certain terminals for employees to view.
A rare for Montreal UP SD60M which has had the UP wings added to its nose (UP 2392, ex-UP 6237) is leading two NS Dash9's (NS 8978 & NS 8992) on CN 529 as it awaits its signal to enter Taschereau Yard with just 23 cars in tow.
Silhouettes of the Water Reeds
GÖLGESİ
Ağlasa da gizliyor gözlerinin yaşını;
Bir kere eğemedim bu kadının başını.
Kaç kere sürükledi gururumu ölüme
Fırtınalar yaratan benim coşkun gönlüme.
Cevapları o kadar heyecansız ki onun,
Kaç kere iman ettim, hiçliğine ruhumun.
Kaç kere hissettim ki, yine bu gece gibi,
Güzelliğin önünde, dolup çarpmadı kalbi.
Ne mehtabın aksine yelken açan bir sandal,
Ne de ayaklarında kırılan ince bir dal
Onun taştan kalbini sevdaya koşturmuyor.
Bir çiçeğin önünde bir dakika durmuyor...
A westbound manifest hits the middle of the three 2 main track sections on the Blair Sub at CP Duffy.
The reason I was out this particular day, the engineering special I caught departing a few days prior returning to Council Bluffs.
Ringrazio ghostbones e ground*floor per le magnifiche textures
Thanks to ghostbones and ground*floor per the wonderful textures
My first try at some forced perspective. This was done for my local Robotics FLL team I volunteer at for the shirt design. I think it came out pretty good for a first try. I might post some individual pics of the micro scale UP house later.
Enjoy!
Went mad and put up the tree today!
Might do some twiddling between now and Christmas, but this is basically this year's effort. I usually add another bauble or two each year (this year it was two little teddies) so it's getting a little crowded.