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ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) looks more like a very small telescope in this image! From this perspective, it is difficult to make out the silhouettes of the VLT’s four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes, which sit atop Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1713a/
Credit:
ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
I was removing my red queen's face up and I took that pic.
She looks so different with and without make up :O
Sculpt: Minifee Chloe mod.
Name: Akatsuki, the Red Queen
Face up made by me
How many glasses will you have? ;p My choice would be my favorite Asti champagne.
This was the bar at the Mori Tower in Roppongi. They also had a live orchestra serenating you while you enjoy the view.
We have snow! I'm impressed by how effecient east coast is in shoveling snow off the roads compared to seattle. We were driving all around yesterday with no problem. Walking around in slush, though, is no fun. ;p
I happened to look up and thought what a great sky I just had to try to capture it.
I've given the raw file a boost in Topaz clarity to get it close to what I saw.
A close up of Talking Barbie and Ken (in my favourite 'Town Turtle' from 1969). I searched for a decent version of 'Little Bow Pink' with the tights for years, and can't believe I forgot to photograph it! The colour is actually a much deeper pink than it looks here. They are the grooviest couple at the Barbie Family House!
Union Pacific's Sinclair local rolls into its namesake town on a sunny, albeit cold, morning in February 2015. Power for the local was provided by SD40Ns 1823 and 1865, former UP CA8 25561 can be seen in the background on display at Sinclair's 'railroad' park.
UP 1823 ~ LDA01 ~ Sinclair, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision
02.24.2015
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.
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....
Making a last cruise along the Blue Ridge Parkway after a day of shooting at Doughton Park last Saturday, the plan was to find a suitable composition for sunset photography. There was a problem, however. Smoke from the raging wildfires out west has become evident here in the east. An overwhelming pall had affected the sky, as well as the nose. So, photography shifted to highlight that.
I saw these ladies in tow along a fence as I drove by. It might have made a great image, though they huddled up when I approached for a vantage point, perhaps seeing me as a threat. Likely, the pervading smoke already had them on edge… they looked like linebackers protecting the quarterback. The “linebacker” closest to me gave every indication that she was going to rush me. I do have experience with cattle. An Angus cow once charged me as I was helping to load her onto a trailer. Gravity didn’t seem nearly as clingy in that moment as I managed to jump well clear of her, dropping a bag of silage in the process. That half-ton plus lump of bovine muscle went from seething killer maniac to ‘Let’s just enjoy a little snack break’ in an instant. In this moment, the fence between me and miss linebacker appeared as of little consequences, yet she eased up when I spoke gently to her as I managed a few shots of them. Their somewhat comical expressions are obvious here, but so is the smokey haze. This orange hue in the sky was as good as sunset was going be. Prayers up for those in harm’s way out west. Evidence this far away can only portend how bad it truly is.
These ladies are likely young Black Baldy cattle, a crossbred beef cattle obtained by crossing Hereford cattle with a solid black breed, typically Aberdeen Angus. They are a bit bigger than Angus, though they forage as well as Angus. That’s good, as you can see the ‘gridiron’ here is a bit on the rough side. They watched as we got back in the car, then ran alongside us until we accelerated past them. Rough field or not, they made hay of it… ha! I made a cow joke.
So after screwing up and not catching the M-TPTP with a standard cab GP60 leading the local back to Topeka, I had to settle for this EMD SD70ACe that looks way worse on the sides that it does on the nose. Single unit did sound nice hauling this train that appears to be the M-KSTP.
Looks like today's sunshine did a great job in melting all of the snow from "Snowmageddon" earlier this week. Too bad this was the only train that I shot in today. Something about having a job.
Maybe Saturday...
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