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The autumn blue sky seen through the golden leaves at Normanby Park in Scunthorpe, UK. November 2010. Laid out on my back taking this image looking up into the tree canopy of autumnal coloured leaves and a deep blue crystal clear sky. A classic autumn day.
The sky was amazing! I have never seen clouds like this. Was the wind doing this? This was just stunning.
awning up, camp shower rigged up, kitchen ready for dinner, and most importantly, the camp oven cooking away with a Victoria Sponge in it!
THis morning.. just me, the LSD board and that monster wave are spending some quality time.
P.S. I LOVE THIS BOARD
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This drawbridge has me irked lately! It has been closed for most of the the summer for repairs. And it 's now been stuck in the up position for the past of couple weeks. Meanwhile, I never see any work being done on it. The Bascuale Bridge connects the west side & east side of Lorain. We live walking distance from this bridge on the west side of town. We used to regularly drive over this bridge to Lakeside Marina and the Lorain lighthouse area (2 minute drive). Now we have to take a 20 minute detour over the Henderson bridge to get to the other side of town; or to head into Cleveland and the suburbs. Many businesses near this bridge are losing a good deal of revenue as a result of this closure.
I'll continue to deal for the next couple of months until it re-opens. And since it has become more difficult to go & take photos of the Lorain Lighthouse, I figured I'd snap a photo of this bridge after the sunset instead.
Yesterday was my birthday, yay!
Whilst in London, we explore the markets in Camden, there are so many fun shops there!
I've got lots of fun things up & planned on my blog
© JCH 2016
The girls are all dressed up and ready for Valentines Day. Time for me to do the same. Happy Valentines day!
IET units with pantographs raised at Reading have become a more common sight, as more GWR drivers learn how to drive them on AC power.
800031 whines into P9 2 minutes early with 1C20, the 1530 service from London Paddington to Weston-Super-Mare.
I have named this house the UP house after the film, looks so similar, and is slowly vanishing behind tower blocks and buildings, originally this was the Enoch Sales house and all along this road there were many such houses, this one is going to be part of a park I believe.
Here's some South Dakota Badlands close up, from a hike up into the hoodoos near the Visitor Center. The horizontal bedding planes are striking.
An impressive Leyland Titan line-up graced the 2017 Wiston Steam Rally near Steyning in West Sussex (UK) on 8th and 9th July 2017. From left to right (after the LT AEC on the end) we have former Southport Corporation Transport GFY 406, a PD2 built in 1950 with a Leyland body.Next is 1951 PD2 NKT 896 new to Maidstone and District. Third from the left is Salford JRJ 281E, a 1967 Metro-Cammell-bodied PD2. Fourth from left is DEK 3D, a PD2 with Massey body new to Wigan Corporation. Completing the line-up nearest the camera is CJN 441C, a 1965 PD3 new to Southend Corporation and preserved in the livery of subsequent owner Fowlers of Holbeach Drove.
We discovered this old, abandoned farm near here recently. Two men were standing in the driveway and we asked if we could take some pictures. With their OK, we started working our way back through the property. Back behind the empty house, and the falling down barn, we found this old 40's or 50's era Chevrolet dump truck.
The truck's back tires were sunk deep into the earth while the front end was blocked up to keep it from sinking away. I was looking into the sun when I took five exposures at varying exposures that later were blended into a HDR shot in NIK HDR Efex Pro 2. Then, I ran it through NIK Color Efex Pro 4 and got it the way I wanted it to look.
About HDR shots: I like them. I like the realistic ones and the ones that are over the top. I did push this one a bit towards over the top---but I like the way it pops. HDR is a great tool for getting the exposure correct under wide dynamic range situations---like this one.
I made this image with my Pentax K5 and Pentax 18-135 lens.
Camera settings: ISO 900, aperture f/9, focal length18mm
blue dump truck
a relic from the past
out behind the barn
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
So much has worn me down health-wise this year & I’ve felt so far from myself because of stress.
I’ve finally been able to verbalize and admit to myself that this has been the hardest year of my life since 2010 when my mother died. I knew selling a home & buying in another state would be stressful no matter what. What I don’t think I could have anticipated was a year like 2024 where we both got Covid for the first time (which had lasting impacts) and the genocide in Gaza ravaging the world. I fundamentally changed and that year left me a different person than who I have ever been. Physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Following that with a year that started with 70 days of varying degrees of headache to all encompassing migraines (leading to an MRI and medical action plans).
Then we started in earnest to do the home dance. Allowing people into my home repeatedly with no real control turned me inside out. My agoraphobia sky rocketed and everything felt impossibly hard.
From the start of the year we’ve had to face a new type of nightmare in our news, US domestic government, and life overall. Everything feels surreal most of the time.
I’ve had such a fog in my mind while I more or less had to shut entire parts of myself down and compartmentalize until I could get through other more immediate needs on my energy and time.
The stress, the uncertainty, the discomfort lead to me more or less giving up on having a human body. I rarely drank water, I stopped moving my body entirely, I spent every moment I wasn’t actively doing The Things I Had To Do™️ (or occasionally taking photos) laying down or crying. I could barely wash my face, brush my teeth, or take a shower. I know my photo stream gives one of those picture perfect storylines of how the last year has gone because I am pretty ok at composition and framing (and admittedly take good self portraits).
The reality is I’ve struggled more overall than I had ever let on.
This week I’ve been sorting photos & found some that dusted my brain off. Photos that reminded me of how even when some years like 2017 (the photos with just my torso) when I had just bought my first house with my ex and realized the relationship may not last because my sobriety hadn’t really changed anything between us. Or 2020 (the photo of me lying down in a Skeletonwitch tshirt and the 3 photo collage) the year of Covid and the year I finally ended that relationship after giving it everything I had for 3 more years while that global pandemic was happening.
Both were unimaginably difficult I was still able to lean into reflection, listening to my body and mind, and working to find the life changes I needed to be a happier and more balanced Nix. The photos feel like a talisman or a magical catalyst to remind me of my power. My routines are returning to me and I can feel the joy they bring. I am waking up.
If you’ve read this far, thank you. This is stuff I usually keep for my online blog, but I was feeling verbose and brave and wanted to share here too. I really value the connections I’ve been making being back on Flickr and the site and the people have been one of the bright spots for me through all of this.