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UP 5732 leads a manifest, mostly consisting of flatcars carrying auto frames, past the Amtrak station in downtown Austin, Texas. 3/31/2018
Spent another night in a Montana truck stop, much warmer than the last time. Found a little spot away from the rumbling of the big trucks, cranked up the heat and slept like a baby. Even slept in. About ready to hit the road again, set to turn south shortly. Found that I prefer mountain passes in the dark because I can't see the steep drop offs. I am excited for what is ahead but part of me has already turned back several times. Have no desire though to sit around like a slug all winter, trying to keep warm My daughter-in-law told me that it was going to be a bad winter with a lot of snow - something about the second el nina I think. Not sure because I rarely pay attention to the news any longer. Found out yesterday, right before leaving, that Zion had a snow storm...
This is another horse that was grazing at the elk ranch, though the shot wasn't taken at the same time as the last one. I had gotten down low to shoot this horse at ground level perspective against the Teton landscape but it immediately came walking over to me and began nibbling on my head, along with two other horses. Another photographer captured some shots and I have posted one on Facebook, as my page shot. Check it out with the link below. Okay, time for the road.
www.facebook.com/pages/Deby-Dixon-Photography/16390137032...
The UPY 554 is just coming off the east side of th Rock River bridge. The limestone arch beneath the tank car used to carry a CB&Q/C&NW interchange track. The site where I am standing was once the site of the Fordam Power Plant that received coal via the railroads.
Esta película es una MARAVILLA, y quien no la haya visto, de verdad, que coja y la vea. Creo que es de las mejores películas que he visto en mi vida, toda una muestra de lo bien que puede hacerse un guión sin usar tópicos. Siempre digo que parece que cuando la escribieron cogieron elementos al azar (un abuelo, un boyscout, globos, una selva, perros parlantes y un zepelín xD) y los remezclaron y salió esto xD.
Ha sido la última película que me ha hecho llorar en plan sollozos incontrolables incluso después de acabarse, te toca la fibra mucho y contiene un gran mensaje.
Pixar tiende a tener guiones excelentes, pero en esta sin duda se lucieron. Y la banda sonora es también impresionante, con un toque a años 50. La canción Married Life es para ponerla y no quitarla.
Day #1: Your favorite character: Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
Day #2: Your favorite princess: Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
Day #3: Your favorite heroine: Pocahontas
Day #4: Your favorite prince: Eric (The Little Mermaid)
Day #5: Your favorite hero: John Smith (Pocahontas)
Day #6: Your favorite animal: Tomás O'Malley (Aristocats), but actually, Scar (The Lion King)
Day #7: Your favorite sidekick: Thomas (Pocahontas)
Day #8: Your favorite villain: Scar (The Lion King)
Day #9: Your favorite original character (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, etc.)
Day #10: Your favorite song: Part of your world (The Little Mermaid)
Day #11: Your favorite love song: Can you feel the love tonight (The Lion King)
Day #12: Your favorite villain song: Mother knows best (Tangled)
Day #13: Your least favorite song: Pink elephants on parade (Dumbo)
Day #14: Your favorite kiss: John Smith x Pocahontas
Day #15: The first movie you saw: The Little Mermaid
Day #16: Your favorite classic: The Little Mermaid
Day #17: Your least favorite classic: Cinderella
Day #18: Your favorite Pixar film: Up
Day #19: Your least favorite Pixar film
Day #20: Favorite sequel
Day #21: An overrated movie
Day #22: An underrated movie
Day #23: A movie that makes you laugh
Day #24: A movie that makes you cry
Day #25: Your favorite scene from your favorite movie
Day #26: Saddest death
Day #27: Your favorite quote
Day #28: Your favorite theme park
Day #29: Your favorite theme attraction
Day #30: Your favorite theme park show
Ex Grampian RC 60 Leyland Leopard PSU4C, ORS 60R (1977) negotiates the bridge over the Caldon Canal beside The Boat Inn on Basford Bridge Lane, Cheddleton. ORS forms part of the Berresfords 'Fantasy Fleet' owned by Flickrites 'Berresfordsmotors' and 'Renown'.
UP AC44CW 5810 and SD9043MAC 8123 are rear-end DPUs on a westbound empty unit coal train sitting in a siding near the Highway 59 crossing in the Powder River Basin of Eastern Wyoming on December 11, 2008.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Tamron 75-300mm lens
George Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire
Kingston-upon-Hull, or Hull to give it its familiar name, must be one of the least visited cities in England. And yet, it is a fascinating and rather beautiful place, full of interest. It is a city built on a grand scale, the townscape often filtered by the fogs which regularly roll in off of the Humber.
The city of Hull is in Yorkshire, but in some ways not of it, having more of a feel of other East Coast industrial ports like Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth and Ipswich. It is much bigger than any of these, having a population which now falls just short of 300,000 people, making it one of the dozen biggest cities in England, a position it has held for more than half a millennium.
The urban townscape is striking for the unusual number of domes and statues. Although the last twenty five years have seen a serious ravaging of Hull's industry and economy, there has been a great revival recently, thanks partly to money from the European Social Fund, but also the energy and determination of the city to prove that Hull is Not the Same, in both senses.
Hull is said to have more museums and art galleries per head of population than any other English city outside of Cambridge and Oxford. The latest is the Deep, a huge submarium at the mouth of the Humber. The Ferens Art Gallery is, to my mind, the very model of what a provincial city's art gallery should be. The Wilberforce House Museum of Slavery is world famous.
Hull had its self-image as England's forgotten city confirmed in the summer of 2007, when the worst floods for fifty years ruined more than 15,000 homes in the city. It took nearly three days for the magnitude of this disaster to reach the national news, which was concentrating on more fashionable Sheffield.
Any serious student of medieval urban England must visit Hull. Around every corner there are relics of the past, forgotten and unrecorded by anyone outside of the city, the ghost of a great European merchant port. At the heart of it all is Holy Trinity, built in the full confidence and prosperity of the late medieval period. Inside, its vast area makes it England's biggest parish church.
A Make-Up Cake for Ella - a lovely little girl who was 12 at the weekend and had a pamper party. All her girlfriend guests did a pyjama catwalk in the hall....!!
We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw.