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Darwin's floodplains, waiting for rain.... This was the first storm of this season, really. It made it all the way to town!
Not the best bolt in the world, I spent 3 hours running around in circles and getting lost in the rural area (d'oh). Then after another half an hour trying to set my tripod up inside my car (and still getting spots all over my lens from my open window.... grr), the storm had moved quite a distance away from me. Still, I managed to get out of the car when it dried up and got a few little bolts. I need to get my storm swing back on again - I shoulda trusted my first instinct on choosing a location!
Exciting news for me too over the last couple of days - my 2014 calendars, and my first coffee table book are now in stock! :)
Check them out here - wp.me/p3zwhm-3u
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.
67/365 I've been thinking a lot about the way humans measure themselves.
I'm feeling really good about this.
I stayed up late to take my day 67 because I work at 3 and want to sleep in and be a lazy jerk.
An art installation just sitting in an obscure courtyard, right in the middle of Girona.
The city is full of beautiful little gems like this, just off the beaten path.
I bought this little rose bush to sit on my desk, giving me something nice to look at while working.
After capturing this I come back to home and do my stuffs but more that 4 hours this cat spent its time there and come with a squirrel.
When you targeting something to achieve Never give up, sometimes Miracles Happens in the last minute.
TT's climb the massive grade at Ardglen, being assisted by 82 class bank locos at the rear of the train.
Redlands, CA - 29 SEP 2022
UP 7868 at the head of four locomotives, including CSX 5208, pulling an eastbound intermodal train up San Timoteo Canyon.
Many thanks to Freightcarkid for showing me around on this day.
Catching a brief break in the clouds a pair of eastbounds, an 'I' train on main one and a hot 'Z' on main two, nearly have the 8015' summit of their endeavor up Wyoming's Sherman Hill within sight.
UP 3911 ~ ICIG1 ~ Sherman, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision
04.15.2019
Always nice to catch a clean motor leading a train, bonus points for being a clean EMD and being able to hid the POS GE that was trailing.
MP 16.5 on the UP Kansas Sub.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
A poem written by Martin Niemöller, which criticized German's unwillingness to stand up to the Nazis as the regime cracked down on the political freedoms of socialists, trade unions, Jewish people, and, finally, "me."
Such a poignant poem that even in today's time {when you think we should have learned from our mistakes in the past) is very much relevant with a demagogue trying to seek the higher office by demonizing minority groups to invoke nationalist, xenophobic fervor.
// "When Trump came for the Mexicans, I did not speak out ---
Because I was not a Mexican.
When he came for the Muslims, I did not speak out ----
Because I was not a Muslim.
And then he came for me--- and there's no one left to speak for me."
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I toyed around with this (these) shot's forever tonight. I'm pretty sure I like it, but I am definitely sure I don't like looking at it anymore. You ever get to a point where you're sure if you do anything else to a picture, you won't be able to tell if you're screwing it up? That's where I am.
Tonight was pretty cool though. Not too hot and I was able to keep dry which is a big plus. I did some long exposures for the most part but I didn't get around to editing any of them. May tomorrow I'll put one up if any of them came out (haven't even looked at them yet).
I just wanted and tried hard to get something very different from my "norm". Isn't that the reason I started this hellish project again after all?
Canon 5D Mark II | Canon TS-E 45mm f/2.8
looking up at model Monica vdM, MM # 3944325, posing in the historic center of Gouda, The Netherlands. from a recent multi-day collaboration with Richard Von Trapp, www.deviantart.com/vtphoto and assistant Emanuele. infrared converted camera, 720 nm filter. more to come - we appreciate comments and faves!
Following running repairs in the workshops at Rheine depot, oil-fired Class '043' 2-10-0 No.043 381-3 is lit up and its burners are in operation in order to bring up steam pressure, ready for it to work out its last days in DB service. Despite its poor external appearance here on 3rd September 1977, the 1941-built 'Jumbo' was not only to work until the end of steam on the Emsland line at the end of October 1977, but also survived the cutter's torch, and is today on display at the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen as 44 381.
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It seems like I keep doing pin-up images. I'm bored by my own work, that's why I don't do it very often.
I'd like to picture some scene, with more people, but I find it very difficult to have a good lightning with more characters on screen....
....not mention making all mods work together...today for example my papyrus was not good, must have overwritten the good one with some other mod, so I couldn't give a pose to another character.
On the second to last day of the August, 2021 "Victorian Iron Horse Round-Up" at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, the featured excursion of the day was this doubleheader, with the two oldest and smallest locomotives at the event. The 1875-vintage Eureka & Palisade #4 "Eureka" and Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Co. #1 "Glenbrook" teamed up to pull a special passenger trip out of Chama, NM, destined for Cumbres Pass. This was probably the most watched excursion of the entire event, not only because of the extremely rare equipment involved, but also because there were questions as to whether or not the pair could haul three loaded cars and actually make it to the summit. In her only previous appearance here many years ago, Eureka was only able to haul a caboose to the summit by herself. This consist was more than three times that weight. Fortunately, the Glenbrook, with her smaller drivers, larger cylinders and 2-6-0 configuration proved to be a capable road engine this day and the pair was doing quite well when they passed me here at Dalton (MP 338.91) on the vaunted 4% grade. In fact, the train likely would have made it to the top had Eureka not suffered a blower pipe malfunction during a water stop at Cresco, about 3 miles up the line from here. In the end, the excursion was not successful, but some valuable lessons were learned, and the passengers all seemed to have enjoyed themselves, which made the trip worthwhile none the less.
We're supposed to get a big dump of snow tonight. There's nothing like warming up in front of a hot fireplace.