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The helicopter trimmers opened up the shot at Grantville and made this spot just a little bit more photogenic. UP 8780 West hustles an intermodal train through the 1905 truss bridge at MP 61 on the UP Kansas Sub.
They missed one branch. I may have to see if Cade can get out there and fix that for me.
Iguana sunning in a narrow band of rays through the trees, created a natural vignette look. Observed in the Wakodahatchee Wetlands (FL) this week.
This is another shot of the famous staircase at Heals Department Store on Tottenham Court Road with the changes made last year. The notable new feature is the chandelier going from top to bottom. There has also been an extension of the part of the staircase accessible to the public to the lowest floor but not the highest floor. This is a shot from the ground floor not previously open to the public.
The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle lens at 17mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing. As it was a bit dim down there I created an additional image by using the +2 EV image in Camera Raw and increasing the exposure by 2EV. Opened in Photoshop first and each image noise reduced with Noiseware Pro and saved as tiffs.
The picture was enhanced with HDR processing, Topaz and Photoshop to bring in more detail. The Real Estate setting was used in Photomatix for a natural look.
was used in Photomatix for a natural look.
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Unexpected 3 day weekend for a number of reasons so why not go somewhere unexpected? Hit up Athens Georgia today (home of the University of Georgia) and walked around. The staircase in the garage we parked in was cool. Got yelled at by security guard for "loitering" taking pictures so told the guy one more shot and then decided to pull out the tripod and go HDR a few times. Got a dirty look as I walked away but got a cool shot too, so win-win.
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Obligatory family shot:
With motors at full throttle, Q581 slugs its way up the grade into downtown Kennesaw, Georgia. The manifest was a nice late afternoon surprise on the way home.
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
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.
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....
This amethyst is amongst the minerals in a collection inside the main house at Audubon's Habitat Center in Belmont. I've been meaning to do some focus stacks of them, but I wish I'd dusted them off first. This image is a 140-frame stack, blended with Helicon Focus.
After meeting the CSTN in Clare, doing a quick swap of cars between them the ONTN is cooking back south and working up hill at Erwin road between Clare and Rosebush.
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!
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.
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 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.
Gear: Canon 5D Mk II | Canon 17-40L | ND400 | Lee 0.9 Soft Grad
Settings: ISO 50 | f16 | 180.0 | 17mm
Exhibition
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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
Purple Gallinule ~ Florida Wetlands
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Purple_Gallinule
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Purple_Gallinule/id
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Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
Industrial grime at its best! A JS locomotive loads up with coal in the western (active) part of the open pit at Sandaoling. Xinjiang Province, China.
Eu sou apaixonado por Lua, então como já tenho uma lente 400mm Canon, juntei o útil ao agradável , usando mais 2 tcc canon 2x iii (extender) e aos poucos fui desenvolvendo uma montagem para conseguir mais aproximação, porém a câmera só consegue gravar até 4094mm isto é o que mostra nos dados do exif, depois disto não mais, a estimativa é que conseguimos chegar até 8000mm.