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An EMRPS/Timeline Events photo shoot with D832, Onslaught at the Great Central Railway on loan from the Bury Hydraulic Group.
This is also from Colorado; my family and I took a train up to this mountain called Pikes Peak.
The ride up was so much fun but really frightening also.. there were 3 'rail carts' and since we were going up vertically instead of around the mountain in swirls, the 1st cart was around 3 stories higher up than the 3rd cart that I was on D:
OH YEAH! This mountain was up as far as one could climb Mt. Everest without needing an oxygen tank. (15.000 ft elevation I believe)
We got to stop at the top for around an hour which was super fun but sooo SCARY!
Let me know what you think! PRESS 'L' :)
Artist at Work
Sprucing up the wall mural at the Boom Boom Club.
This photo was taken from a KIEV-60 medium format film camera with a МС BEГA-26B 2.8/120mm lens using Rollei CN 200 Film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized by Photoshop.
Sigh . . . Where did the days go?
The weekend is over and we start another new week. Those days off were good, right? I hope yours was just as relaxing and rejuvenating as mine.
The chess board of another work week awaits.
The players are ready.
Set it up.
Game on.
— at Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco
EMD's CP 2209 and UP 4324 lead CP 253 past Lasalle Yard, a nice break from the usual GE's on this and other CP trains.
Just a few lingering Hummers are around - hopefully a few more will show up after the storm passes tomorrow. I got up early (really!) to get a few shots in. I decided to try for an "extra" close shot. I didn't want to use the macro and risk scaring them.
I used a 300mm lens with a 2X TC and about 56mm of extension tubes for this shot. Starting with decent light which deteriorated with each thing I added to the lens left me with 1/60th of a second at f/13 even at ISO 640 from a distance of about 2 meters. This bird is in flight and you can see all the little blurry wing action. No crop.
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USAF Northrop F-5E Tiger II 74-01560 from the 527th TFTAS leaps away from Greenham Common during the International Air Tattoo held on the 24th June 1979.
Based at RAF Alconbury, the 527th provided dissimilar aerial combat training to USAFE crews simulating Soviet Block aircraft, all painted in schemes that represented the then current Mig type camouflage and lettering.
Survivalbility of crews entering combat zones was extremely poor in the Vietnam war so the US Navy set up Top Gun to train pilots in typical aerial combat techniques used by the North Vietnamese Air Force. It worked so well, losses reduced significantly and other assets decided it was a great model to use right across the military forces.
With the end of the 'Cold war', RAF Alconbury is long gone as a USAF base, but this type of unit exists in the USAF, US Navy and US Marine Corps as do designated exercises using similarly painted F-15 & F-16's out at Nellis AFB in Nevada, where regular 'Red Flag' week-long range based combat exercises are held to test and train crews from across the Air Arms of the 'free' world.
See more here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/527th_Tactical_Fighter_Training_Agg...
Scanned 35mm transparency
Right on the Windmill Trains heels was the VBLUSBD127A (Vehicle Train: Blue Island, IL - San Bernardino, CA) which had an ex SP (UP 6377) leading the train. I caught it swinging around the big elevated curve in Canyon, TX
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Friday at last, and after a long week (month, year, etc) this is where the madness for me starts. Tonight, I’m off to Argentina. Then I’ll have a super busy work week before spending a few days relaxing and checking out Buenos Aires with a side trip to the Iguazu Falls. Then I fly home before heading off two days later for a week of photography in Jordan. I’m very much looking forward to it all…apart from the work aspect :)
BUT, you’re not here to read about all that, I’m sure. Instead you’re here to see my images and read about where they were taken and how they were processed…right?
What do you mean ‘no’?
Well in that case, this one was taken in Newcastle somewhere, and I processed it in black and white. So there.
Hope you have a great weekend, I’ll be back on Monday on the blog only (unless I find time to update elsewhere during my work week) with the first of many scheduled posts.
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On this day, Amtrak's Sunset Limited has a Union Pacific leader. UP 4657 leads AMTK 6 and AMTK 10 on train AMT2-23, taking the connecting track at Belt Junction onto the UP Houston East Belt Subdivision. The track in the foreground is the UP Houston West Belt Subdivision. Not sure what the issue was with the Amtrak power, but UP came to the rescue to move this train eastward to New Orleans.
It never ceases to amaze me how they stacked and packed houses up the steep hillsides along the Monongahela River a century ago. Nowhere is it more dramatic than in Pittsburgh's South Side district. It's evidence of the severe housing shortage these communities faced when steel mills appeared and waves on new immigrants arrived to find employment. Men were practically sleeping on top of each other in crowded hotels and boarding houses until housing became available.
Looking up at the tips of the hoodoos through the narrow slot canyon between them. Navajo trail, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
Taken, today in Largs - we had a great day up there and the boys ran all over the place. It was really quite cold although Lewis didn't feel it but James was wrapped up nice and warm.
It's a stretch but they (James in particular) were wrapped up in nice warm colours!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Warm Colours ....
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Had to drop my lady friend off at the airport this morning at 5:15 am and I figured I hadn't been up that early in a while so I would walk down the beach and take some pictures. I'm glad I did.
Ceiling of the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Normally non-card holders and photography is not allowed in this room but twice a year the Library hosts an open house in which the public and photography is welcome.
If you want to do research, anyone 16 or older may sign up for a library card. The Library of Congress is a research only library so books are not checked out.
In the heart of the night you come on like fire
In the light of dawn leave me cold and tired
When you think of love
Tell me what you see
You want some lovin' but your heart's tied up
Try to run but you can't say stop
Now the truth is out, can't you see
I'm tied to you and you belong to me
But when we get too close I feel you push away
Nothin' I do's gonna make you stay