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The finale of the mini show the Fountain of Nations puts on every so often at Epcot Center. For what I hope are obvious reasons this image makes me think of Star Trek.
a little something I made…
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40 page full color photo zine
100lb gloss cover
8.5” x 5.5”
full bleed pages
saddle stitched
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each zine will come with all of the following items:
a 4” x 6” photo print from film (randomly selected), a sheet of unused vintage railroad stationary (randomly selected), a TRUE2DEATH owl vinyl sticker & and more.
I rented the 200mmL oh my goodness I have fallen in love. This is straight out the camera. I'm all about my primes even more now :)
Shortly after sunrise at the big curve at Krieder with the long shadows off the empty coal train rolling west on the Kansas Sub.
With 4500 HP more on this train than it had last night when it stalled, they got it going again, but it still wasn't a perfect liftoff. The last GP40 slipped a couple times and then took off wildly creating a spectacular show in the process.
I wanted to take a pic "looking up" at something for Maelia's fun 7DWF group, so I put a Star-6 filter on the lens and went for it. I'd never used a star filter before and was surprised at how the pics came out!!
Some lights had no star effects, others looked like this pic. Not really a "star", but you can see the 6 star-ish flares coming from the light. (It's a 5 fixture LED lamp, so the other flares are spilling over from the other LEDs.) Interesting. I'll have to experiment some more. Such fun. :-)
p.s. I was just reading about star filters.. so interesting!! I think I got this effect because I was so close the the subject. "Subject-to-lens distance: The closer you are to the light that is producing the star effect, the larger the star effect will be in your frame." Plus using a smaller aperture, plus etc!! I'll have to print the article to read more. ;-)
Saddle Mountain, part two - from Hikes of 2024.
Last year I hiked Saddle Mountain during the peak of yellow monkeyflower bloom, and it was fantastic. You could see the color high up on the side of the mountain - all the way from the trailhead.
Also interesting - there are no photos of the two hikes prior to this one (between this one and Coyote Wall), despite the fact that those two hikes were Dog Mountain and Table Mountain. If you add those two hikes together, I went almost 24 miles and gained 7100 feet of elevation without making a single film photo. The conditions for both of those hikes were bright, sunny days with harsh overhead light and minimal wildflowers around (I was too early for the Dog Mountain bloom). So sometimes it happens - I lug ten pounds of cameras around and never make a photo.
But that means I don't have a photo that directly prompts me to comment on those hikes. Dog Mountain is one that likely needs no comment, and we'll see lots of that one in the future.
Table Mountain, though - that deserves a mention. Prior to this spring, a hiker had to start near at the Bonneville TH along the PCT and slog up 16.5 miles and 4300 feet to the top. It's a long haul, with an absurd boulder field (highly recommend going up that and not down) and a section of trail literally labeled "Heartbreak Ridge" which gains 1400 feet over the course of ONE mile. That mile is of the steepest sections of trail in the gorge.
As of this spring, you can once again park at the Bonneville Hot Springs (for a fee), which brings the mileage down to 8.5 miles but still nets you 3300 feet. It's on my tentative "to do list" soon.
Image made with my Nikon FM.
I'm getting to that point where all the clouds I grew up with are getting married and having little cumuli and posting pictures on Stratusbook of their first hover and I'm still single and I used to be bummed out by this but the truth is Goldie is one of my best friends and we have this deal that if neither of us have found someone by 2015, we're getting hitched and spending the rest of our lives together so it's a win/win(d) situation no matter what happens.
Originally built as an SW7, UP #96 was one of 55 older EMD switchers (NW2s, SW7s, SW9s and TR4As) rebuilt by the railroad in the late 1970s and early 1980s as an SW10.
From Utahrails.net "The SW10 rebuild program included 645-power assemblies in place of the original 567-assemblies. Also included were all new cabling and wiring, and updated electrical gear, which included a couple module cards with some solid state circuitry. A new consolidated equipment rack for the water tank, oil filters, and other mechanical components was built using parts from retired GP9s. A new radiator section using twin 36-inch electrically-powered cooling fans, also taken from retired GP9s, was installed to replace the inefficient and expensive to maintain belt-driven 54-inch fan that originally equipped these units. The new design also included a large sandbox occupying the front of the unit in place of the original radiator fan intake and radiator shutter assembly. This new, external sand box design did away with the two original, internal sand boxes, with their four difficult-to-access sand traps. The cab interior layout and design also received attention. The new design included a modern control stand, electric cab heating, an electric refrigerator, and other features to bring it up to the FRA-mandated "clean cab" standards. Also as part of the rebuild program, the original friction bearing trucks were converted to roller bearings. The finished, operating weight for the SW10s was 251,200 pounds."
#96 (originally #1243) as retained by the Union Pacific as part of their heritage fleet, where it served as the steam shop switcher in Cheyenne. It was finally retired in 2014 and subsequently donated to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR, where it is displayed today. The engine remains operable and sees some occasional use.
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This is probably the longest flight that I have ever taken with my drone with just at 2.15KM flown there and back with my little bird. It would have been a lot easier to fly from the grade crossing north of Eudora but the UP MOW trucks had all the parking spots taken.
Nice to see what is now an older EMD leading a train and being trusted as the only unit on this short manifest.
This shot is in between Linwood and Turkey Creek and right in the heart of where the EF4 tornado removed enough trees a few years back to make this shot possible. We just need a few more EF4's to clean more of the right of way off.
Since I just posted the Little Blue Heron (juvenile) I thought that I would stick with the theme and serve up a Snowy Egret just for good measure. I thought they were the same type of bird at first until someone pointed out the differences to me a few years back. I like the reflection in this capture that was taken on Horsepen Bayou at very low tide in the early morning light.
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The one time I've caught 1943 with something in tow (so far) was on the short hop across town from Heritage Park in Council Bluffs to the Omaha display at the Durham Museum.
This just makes me smile. What a happy looking flower, stretching out and up towards the sun. Looking ahead now to summer...