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Bubbles up, They will point you toward home!
Taken at Calivibes on the Pier
Bubbles Up- Jimmy Buffett
As a rain front pushes in from the west Big Boy 4014, a 1941 product of the American Locomotive Company, continues its charge west through classic 'Big Boy territory' on day one of its trek to California.
UP 4014 ~ PCYRW2-27 ~ Bosler, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision
09.27.2019
A pair of new EMD's swing empty coal hoppers off the Elkhorn River bridge at Arlington on a nearly perfect afternoon.
Walked all the way to the top of Berlin's Victory Column. Nice to have this view after the extremely claustrophobic spiral steps.
Roxborough St. Pk. With elevations ranging from
5,900 to 7,600 feet, Roxborough’s
landscape beautifully illustrates a
Front Range transition from plains
to mountains. On the west border
of the park, the rugged granite
of Carpenter Peak is flanked by
elegantly layered gneiss. The red
sandstone spires of the Fountain
Formation accent the foothills as
they dip away and into the scrub
oaks. The Roxborough landscape
is characterized by two more
sandstone hogbacks: the Lyons
and the Dakota, before rolling into
prairie grasslands to the east—
encompassing over 1.3 billion years
of geologic time
If you haven't been around certain water birds much, and go on vacation where they are, their behaviors can certainly burst your bubble when it comes to your mental image of their gracefulness! That happened to me years ago on a trip to visit my father on Long Island. The Island has many lovely swans which swim with all the grace and loveliness that you would expect, so it would figure that I'd take photo after photo of them until one day, I happened upon a lake in Yaphank, down the road from where Dad lived, at feeding time. Swans have a peculiar way of feeding. They go bottoms up in the water, which is not particularly attractive, but awfully funny!
This adorable pair of ducks at the McKee Botanical Gardens in Vero Beach, Florida were doing the same thing on the day I was roaming around! I'd never seen ducks do this before, either, though I've photographed a lot of them. This is a different breed, an Asian one, I think, and I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but none of the Mallards, white or Muscovy ducks I've seen ever did this! I guess maybe I just didn't hit at feeding time. Anyway, it was so cute, I had to share with you! As a joke, I've processed this rather like a fine art painting, though I can't imagine Monet painting ducks bottoms up swimming along with HIS waterlilies, lol!
Happy New Year to all of you:) Thank you so so much for your support and encouragement.
Live it up:)
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At first glance I thought it was a junkyard, but upon closer inspection, I don't think there is a vehicle in the lot that I wouldn't want to take out for a spin. Taken at 300mm, so a good ways away (err above).
Thanks for looking!
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UP 7819 leads a short intermodal train past Krieder Road last night. The clouds moved out for just about 90 minutes or so prior to sunset allowing be to get a shot of the only train that was out and about last night on the UP.
I kind of thought the clouds made for an interesting backdrop to an uninteresting train. The sun was just a tad bit muted from all the crap in the air from the wildfires out west.
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The museum of Groningen is a project of Alessandro Mendini. Together with other architects like Michele de Lucchi, Philip Starck, Coop Himme(l)blau, Dutch architects of Team 4 and Albert Geertjes and Geert Koster
It's been a lot of fun flying the DJI Mavic Air over the coastline of the Moray Firth recently. I love trying to find compositions that stick out and this one over the Portknockie end of Cullen bay was a particularly pleasing find. Is it just me or does it look like the skeleton of a human hand? Let me know if you see it too or if I am just going crazy! The weather looks like it may have turned a corner finally but it is still quite windy and cold. Not ideal for drone flights but this weekend is looking promising!
Back to June and the weekend of the first Torbay Airshow which saw several park & ride services laid on to transport the crowds of people to Paignton to see the air displays. Several of the service were barely used and proved to be a large waste of money, the one P&R service that Stagecoach operated that did carry decent numbers was the Orange Shuttle to Gallows Gate. Pictured making the long steep climb up towards Preston Down we see veteran Dennis Trident, S811BWC, 17011, with an early evening service on the Saturday. The bus along with the rest of the older Tridents in the Stagecoach Devon fleet were to move on soon after the event.
Company: Stagecoach Devon
Registration: S811BWC
Fleet Number: 17011
New: 1999
Chassis: Dennis Trident
Bodywork: Alexander ALX400 H77F
Route: Orange Shuttle (Paignon, Preston, Seaway Road-Gallows Gate)
Location: Sandringham Gardens, Preston
History: New to East London (TA11)
Exposure: 1/1000 @ f6.3 200ISO
Date: 11 June 2016
KBC has six of these Volvo B9s to strengthen capacity on the Keighley - Leeds route. Traditionally a decker route for years, it was converted to Optare Versa operation a couple of years ago but they have struggled. These were the FJ08 Coastliner buses new in April 2008. The first one out was No 2792 which was out apparently for photography purposes on the 19th, odd running West in a morning for that given the sun, but there you go.