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This is for Macro Monday's "Crack" theme. I'm finding these challenging, but really good to stretch the imagination & photography skills.
So this is a crack in one of the bricks on our house. Rotated horizontally for easier viewing. A couple of things this made me think about:
My wife is going to kill me because the first time I post a photo of the bricks that make our house, I post a cracked one. With a weed growing out of it. 😬
Isn't it cool the way nature takes over manmade items eventually, our house being 25 years old (this is probably more a testament to what a lazy handyman I am looking after the place). I love those old temples in Cambodia where the trees have consumed the temples. They look amazing! 😮 Must dig out some old pics of that.
Rotating the pic to horizontal made me wonder what if we lived in a horizontal world, you know if there wasn't gravity & stuff, what would humans look like? Would we be horizontal instead of standing/sitting vertically as well? Would we have 2 legs& 2 arms on the same side of the body? Would we watch TV sideways? We would look at contact's photos on Flickr laying down, in which case this photo would be the right way up. Or would it. Too hard to think about for this tired brain 🤔😵💫
Anyway I digress sorry, have a fantastic week ahead ✌😀
An emerald damselfly very early morning a few weeks back. Was great to watch it wake up with the first of the sun and start to drink the dew on its legs. Damsel and dragonfly season is almost over and I barely have any of them this year! I have to find the time next year. Hope you all had a good weekend :)
BLOL 7591 (ex NP GP9) & BLOL 7504 (original IC GP9, now a GP10) loading grain cars for the CN up in Charolette, IL. This was back in 2017 when it seemed to be easier to catch matching set of Bloomer power & catch bigger trains. Still to this day, I love shooting these guys.
A westbound Union Pacific double stack train approaches Norden as fog begins to roll in. Looming over the scene and above the fog bank is Mount Judah, under which Union Pacific's Sierra crossing tunnels under the mountain by way of the 10,365' tunnel #41.
UP 6839 ~ IOGOA ~ Norden, California
Union Pacific's Roseville Subdivision
01.15.2017
With the meet complete at Chaska, UP 1943 has no trouble hauling empties west to Buffalo Lake. You know its spring when there are lost of puddles around, and some make for reflections, seen here in the foreground.
Margaret Falls from the bridge right in front. I decided to best illustrate the thunderous sensation of the falls by getting up close. This is glacier fed runoff, freezing cold, and pounding down in a torrent.
Rounding Stanford Curve a clean UP 8018 leads the charge out of 'the flat' and towards Andover with a westbound Z. Searchlights and SP era signal bridges still watched over the Overland Route within Coldstream Canyon in the summer of 2013.
UP 8018 ~ ZG2LT ~ Coldstream Canyon, California
Union Pacific's Roseville Subdivision
08.10.2013
Fog was the name of the game this AM and it was crazy thick in spots and in other places like here at 26.5 there was a sucker hole that you could shoot through.
AC4460CW convertible leading a train into the bright morning sun over on main 1 as the rear of the train is still socked in the pea soup fog along the Kansas River.
Another fun morning of balloon watching / chasing. The Up balloon landed in this field in Long Ashton.
The Union Pacific classic E unit, UP 949 shines even on a cloudy day.
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'Hastings' (Hunslet, 1888) and Isibutu (Bagnall, 1945) start making their way up the short gradient to Statfold Junction.
On a typical hazy morning, UP 8251 brings ZPBHO 09 past Englewood Yard on the Houston Sub main. The train will turn north here at Tower 87 toward the Settegast Intermodal Facility.
This traffic originates at Global 4 in Joliet, IL. With the ZG4HO symbol having been abolished for a few years now, this train runs as a block of ZG4MQ and is set out at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, hence the PB origin symbol. 9/10/2022
Ballast train putting on an impressive show of climbing up the hill with a snoot tunnel motor in the lead.
Still hate that pole line.
3-11-07
Male Eastern Bluebird getting spruced up for the little ladies close by. Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, Lancaster County PA.
Looking up at the sky from the marina area at Llandanwg beach.
Llandanwg Beach sits between the towns of Barmouth and Harlech on the southern side of Tremadog Bay. It is also part of the wider Snowdonia National Park and situated close to the pretty Afon Dwyryd estuary.
The sand dunes to the back of the beach conceal the tiny church of Saint Tanwg which dates from the 13th century. A small path winds through the dunes and leads you to the beach from the central car park area or you can take a trail from Cardigan Bay. As you sit on the pristine sands you will also be able to enjoy vistas of the rugged Rhinog Mountains in the distance.
The beach here shelves gently into the sea making this a good place to swim, although there is no lifeguard so care should be taken. When the tide is low, it reveals a causeway out to pretty Mochras which is also known by its local nickname of Shell Island due to the plethora of different hued shells found on the its beach.
Due to its strategic position, Llandanwg Beach is shielded from the well known Welsh winds which can be a little fresh at times meaning that you can enjoy this area even in the off-season. The beach is also well-loved by locals including fisherman who come here for the plentiful supplies of bass, mackerel, flatfish, and dogfish. With that in mind keen anglers will find plenty to do here, or you can explore dainty rock pools or simply go for a stroll on the soft, pristine sand.
Amenities at Traeth Llandanwg include disabled access and the village is also home to the quaint Y Maes Cafe close to the beach which operates from June to October.
The DPUs of a UP trackage rights train pass another UP trackage rights train at Halls on the BNSF Saint Joe Sub.
I had no plan to shoot any Union Pacific on a trip to the Pacific Northwest wine country but decided to take a quick look at the railroad along the Columbia Valley on the way back to the hotel in Walla Walla. When UP ran a train, I felt obliged to find a shot. This is in a scenic section just east of Wallula Junction where the railroad and highway curve along the edge of Lake Wallula. With all the hydroelectric dams, the river is really just a series of controlled lakes. The railroad does curve around in the front of the shot and the pole is part of the railroad;s code line.