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A single unit manifest (AC4400CW) waits for lights to enter Salt Lake City, UT.
Shot on 120 Fuji 160 H.
Right off the bat, full credit goes to Gmoney2714 (link to his video tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btk33BH8Rn4). I only modified the top area to make it have bat like ears (if it isn't obvious enough). Hope you all enjoy!
UP SD70AH 8875 sits on display for Diesel Days at the IRM. These things look awesome when they're fresh! No, this is not a new donation for the museum either! :)
Union, IL
Model: Angelique van Dinter
MUA: Merve Kilickaya
Hairdresser: Aycha Jaiisz
Location: Koninklijke Luchtmacht Historische Vlucht
UP Northbound Local Freight Train has just departed Little Rock, AR with a pair of UP GP60’s in charge with the lead 2047 still in SP paint
The previous shot is the one I wanted to use but It went out of focus...so I had to go with this photo....
Life continues to move on and I am now sixty…how did I get there so fast?…the reality is I have! I moved into my sixth decade of life earlier this year and it has given me a renewed outlook on my cross-dressing. I do have regrets in my life, the biggest being my self imposed suppression of my transgender self. Why did I hold back? The answer is I was not brave enough. I feared the reaction of others, I feared losing my family life and I feared losing my income. I just caved in and tried to ignore it.
Well, back in the year 2000, 19 tears ago, at the age of forty one I began to cross-dress as a woman. I could no longer suppress my inner desire to appear as a woman. It caused a lot of upset with my family and though I am now fortunate enough to engage in cross0dressing, it is a compromise in regard to the opportunities I have. My family tolerate it but my moments as my female alter-ego are rare. I have no wish to jeopardise my family life and work so I accepted the limited opportunities. I do adore becoming Helene and though it is rare it is always an amazing and rather emotional experience.
Now I am older and less hung up about my cross-dressing I find myself being more confident and at ease with it and having more fun when I do dress up as a woman. Last night I had a sudden opportunity to become Helene again ad I totally went for it. i was somewhat tired and not quite as focused as I would have liked, not to mention very much out of practice, but I intended to enjoy my time en femme.
Having emerged from the bath with freshly shaved, legs, chest and arms I enjoyed plucking my eyebrows into a better shape and excitedly sat down to start putting on my make-up. Part of my excitement was a new piece of equipment I purchased in December purely for my make-up application. I’m sure many of us struggle with getting a real world foundation coverage because of our beard shadows. The dreaded beard shadow , even after a super close shave, can feel smooth but the skin is bumpy due to the underlying hair follicles and this also leaves a visible shadow (unless you are fortunate enough to have light hair colour).
I usually employ all the techniques to neutralise the beard shadow cover then several layers of heavy foundation and can usually get a successful coverage result but it is rather heavy looking compared to real women. I had been looking into trying to get smoother coverage but without the thick layer result. On my male face after decades of shaving I could never get the look I hoped for ski coverage on my face.
I have new aspirations to spend more time out in the real world as a woman. I do love make-up and enjoy wearing it but to be amongst women and men in public in daylight had me wanting nice smooth makeup coverage that successfully disguised my shadows but did not look like a heavy coating on my face. As I say, I love wearing make-up and when I cross-dress in private I have no issue with wearing heavy coatings of foundation at all. For the real world though, I realised I need to up my game if I was to be perceived as a female when out and about.
This led me to look at applying foundation using an airbrush with a small air compressor. The look and finish from foundation applied with an airbrush is very good. I bought a kit and some silicone foundation for use with the airbrush and I have been biding my time to give it a go.
Last night was my chance. I set it all p, watched the manufacturers tutorials and set about spraying the foundation onto my face. It is a very different feel to the traditional method of applying foundation. It is a far more subtle approach. as you gradually build up the coverage using a light misted spray and moving in small circular motions.
I had to laugh when I began as I soon realised this required a degree of practice and my initial spraying efforts were somewhat inept. I was getting the hang of it but I definitely need a lot more practice and..patience! You cannot rush it. I think once one gets competent with it it is possible to apply the foundation considerably faster than my first effort.
Despite my poor technique I was amazed by the coverage, your skin looks amazing! It’s like a flexible, durable, long lasting coverage but none of the thick make up appearance. My skin is unavoidably bumpy around my upper lip, cheeks, chin and neck area but this cover was unlike any previous efforts and the realisation that this was going to work for real world trips in public made me dizzy with excitement. Even on m y sixty year old skin it was as smooth as I was ever going to look.
I bought the Airbase HD kit, which is bigger than I expected. In hindsight I may have been better with the compressor and airbrush alone. The HD kit comes in a se with a lighted mirror. There are alternative kits from other manufacturers such as DInair and Luminess.
If you are serious about trying to look female and avoiding the heavy coverage look during the day then I can recommend using airbrush foundation application. I will admit I have decided to book myself onto a one day training course in the late Spring in order to learn how to use it well. As I am obsessed with trying to look as female as I possibly can I think the cost of the training is a god personal investment as was purchasing the airbrush kit.
I took a lot of selfies last night and one accompanies this narrative. It was rather fabulous to be appearing as a woman once more :-)
[23 September - 30 September]
7/52
So this concept is quite personal for me to talk about so I'll spare you the details but what I really wanted to portray is that feeling when you really need to face the facts and stop pretending. There are certain aspects in my life that are a great representation of this idea. Some things have happened that I'm not happy about, that I hate talking about and facing, but there comes a time when you need to in order to move forward. This week I've realised that and I know it'll be hard, but it needs to be done. Things are changing and often that's hard to deal with, but in the end, it needs to be faced. So, today I went outside and sprayed water in my face for a good two hours, haha. In other news I'm obsessed with Taylor Swift's new song "Begin Again" and I'm on my one week break so yay!
Also, this week I got to go to the beach with a couple of close friends which turned out to be really awesome. The weather was great and we stayed until the sun set and everything was perfect! I also got to hang out with my little cousins who are absolutely gorgeous and my family booked our American Trip, which I am beyond excited for.
P.S. I experimented with editing with this photograph too - I hope you like it :)
Also, please go ahead and like my Facebook Page if you haven't yet because at 500 likes I'll make a question and answer video!!
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We came across two females by the side of the track, they had full stomachs and were only really interested in sleeping.
Never thought I would be this close to a lioness in the wild.
Image not cropped.
Model: Nathalie
MUA: Merve Kilickaya
Hairdresser: Aycha Jaiisz
Location: Koninklijke Luchtmacht Historische Vlucht
Union Pacific Yard - Cheyenne, WY
One of only three Steamliners still around !
what a beautiful Locomotive !
Drove past this yesterday about 100 yards from the main road, couldnt resist it for todays challenge. Looking 'up' through Wrawby Mill.
WP, Milwaukee, and UP power are lined up in a dead line in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in July 1984. The Western Pacific switcher is an SW9, behind that is a WP GP40 and a UP C30-7. In the middle is UP 6900, the class DDA40X which is now stuffed and mounted in Omaha. On the right is Milwaukee SD9 no. 500 and sisters.
Kodak Retina IIa
Schneider Kreuznach Xenon 2/50mm + enlanger lens
t1/5 - f16
Ilford Delta 100
Ilford ID-11 1+1, 11 min.
CanoScan 9000F Mark II
This is one of Nico's favorite things to do. worry me to death that he is about ten feet up in a tree and just...stare at me like "nyah-nyah!"
but at least he is photogenic.