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Today is another bush edit, because I'm off out to turn Manchester upside-down, buy all the props and then shoot shoot shoot this evening! My workload is substantially smaller, my apartment is clean and smells like Pina Colada, and I might even be able to squeeze in a workout. Which means I get all the gold stars today! Ahh yes! So here I am, being all blissful in a bush.
Porsche 917-001
Chassis 001, assembled in early March 1969, was the first of the twenty-five 917s completed for homologation. This chassis was used for a multitude of events, though never raced. Its workload consisted of testing at the Nürburgring and display duty in places such as the Geneva Motor Show in 1969 or Frankfurt International Auto Show in 1970.
By October 1970, 917-001 was part of the Press Department of Porsche and painted in the now famous Salzburg paint scheme of the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans winner.
Porsche Rennsport Reunion V
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Trying some kind of photo essay, here are the result of a 1800 to 0200 shift on L536 job, based out of Coteau-du-Lac, QC on a stormy December Sunday.
Coteau terminal dispatch three job on a daily basis going either toward Valleyfield or to Cornwall,ON.
L536 is a daily roadswitcher assignment staffed by a crew of three with their main purpose was to satisfy the carload needs of the huge Glencore zinc treatment plant located in Salaberry de Valleyfield,QC at the end of a 2-plus mile long spur branching off the Valleyfield subdivision at Cecile, milepost 39.5.
Adding to the daily workload was five other customers to serve, all within the Valleyfield wharf area.
Switching was now done, an hour and a half under freezing rain condition, despite weather prediction, not a single snowflake fell from the windy sky - yet. Brake test and SBU test were done in Coteau's track Four and the diminutive train was pulled toward the office.
While the ground crew headed inside in order to do a few spin in the CN dryer, I used that free time to hit the icy ground and made a good use of Nikon product, using the ambiant light and that high ISO capacity only digital photography can done without a tripod.
Just take a look of the icy target on track QO40 switchstand !
By the time I was back into the warm engine cab, rain turned in snow. I opened up my thermos topped with an homemade beef and barley soup and waited for my crew to came back from the drying session.
Wet snow started to accumulate fast everywhere. The 10 miles trip to Valleyfield wharf will be interesting.
CN L53621-04
GTW 6226, CN 4778
Milepost 46.9 Valleyfield subdivision
Coteau-du-Lac,QC
December 4th, 2023
Festivities tomorrow then it's immediately back to work. Theatre seems to have had developed more than the expected amount of workload initially anticipated. I'd like to get it out of the way before the end of this weekend considering the holiday next week.
I wish all of you a pleasant weekend!
- Honore de Balzac.
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Hi all hope you all had a great Easter. It’s been hectic for the past couple of weeks for me and I was going through a lot of stuff at work and did some wedding shoots for the first time and I have been a bit overwhelmed by the workload that I neglected flickr a bit. So last weekend my lovely wife and I packed our bags and headed up the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Lake Tahoe and spend an awesome weekend there exploring and photographing the beautiful lake and the mountains surrounding it.
This shot was taken during the second day when the strong winds were clearing the clouds just as the sun was setting. This was taken at the Sand Harbor beach which is a pretty popular destination, so I was surprised to see it completely deserted during sunset. Anyways I really had a blast running around and trying various compositions. This particular one is a 4 shot Panorama with a Lee Big Stopper and Lee 0.6 ND grad and a Singh-Ray warming Polarizer.
Hope everyone likes it. Will post more pics as I process them, thanks for looking have a great Monday.
Captured at Durdle Door in Dorset when the sun pops through the arch, this image is one of the highlights of my year.
The weather was horrendous on the way down with rain for 3/4 of the journey and arriving on dense fog, but the early start was well worth the end results of this iconic location.
Why 'Lucky -Hole in One'? Quite simply I was extremely lucky to get this shot because I had to let my sister get the train from Heathrow to where I live (she's staying with us for Xmas with her family), the weather cleared just as dawn broke and I had the pleasure of three great photography friends, one that brings us luck every time we go out shooting together. Lastly, because this was my first every visit to Durdle Door and I'm immensely grateful to Paul Reiffer for setting up this shoot for us, especially given his workload at the present time.
I hope that you enjoy this image as much as I do.
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This is an image of the male long-tailed tyrant bringing home nesting material. both male and female share this responsibility and they both work tirelessly !!! A privilege to have been able to witness this.
Wishing you all a great and blessed Tuesday !
This year I got an Advent Calendar from California! How neat is that!? Father Christmas there seems to know how to spend December. No sight of the tremendous workload his European cousin has, no freezing his butt of, no worries about Rudolph, no climbing up and down them dirty chimneys and probably he hasn't had to stuff a stocking in years.
The number 5 door of the advent calendar measures 1 x 1 cm
September 29, 2014
"Autumn's the mellow time." - William Allingham
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A fairly standard Monday, reality hits and you're off running. I really don't know how work manages to pile up over the weekend, but someone how it always seems that the to-do list when I arrive Monday morning has grown since I left Friday afternoon. Oh well, a heavy workload makes the days go quickly.
After work I let Fyero out for a bit since the sun was shining and the temperature was warm and after she'd eaten enough grass, rolled in enough leaves and chased enough reflections she went back in the house and I went for a walk in the neighbourhood to find a picture for today.
The weather has been so nice these past few days; I have my fingers crossed that it lasts. I'm not ready for what they're predicting to be an awful winter so as long as the weather stays nice, I'll be spending as much time as possible outdoors.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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Doesn't this look like 3-D?
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Visibility was reduced this week, and the surge made macro shooting a challenge, but I embraced the workload and came home with some decent slug shots.
Something of a rare breed these days.... a Carlisle Kingmoor Yard DB Cargo driver !
With a massive reduction in workload just nine drivers are now on the books at Kingmoor Yard TCD for DB Cargo along with two junior drivers who are based wholly within the yard itself for shunting.
The traincrew depots mainline work has dwindled down to the Peel Ports contract train running containers from Liverpool (Seaforth) Docks to Mossend and return. Other than that we still cover the lime empties from Warrington to Hardendale Quarry for Tata Steel. A far cry from when I transferred to the depot 22 years ago from down south when there were over 50 drivers and more work for EWS than there were drivers to cover it. At one stage we had 15 drivers on loan from other depots just to move the volumes of mostly coal. How times change !
Here yours truly gets a brief leg stretch and some fresh air at 03.42 having arrived 40mins early into Carlisle with 4M35 the 02.10 Mossend Euro Terminal to Seaforth Docks container train.
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Paddy Fields.
A paddy field with some of thousands ducks that fulfilled their purpose after eight weeks in the new rice field & are now being transferred back to the duck farm.
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
This is from a family portrait shoot I did back in December - I'll post the before/after/making of of this shot onto my Facebook page!
Originally this wasn't the concept I started out with, but some days I fancy drifting off for a bit, and it turns out to be a good thing for my workload - when you let go of the original plans, which may not work, then you have so much more potential to create something better. Plus who doesn't love to drift.
What a lovely day it was. Thankyou Susan for letting me work with your beautiful children!!!
Fiddlenecks and Blue Dicks from last year. Will the flower power of last year return? Will places like this remain accessible after the hordes invaded these areas, broke fencing, dropped trash? Somehow I doubt it. I will unfortunately be reluctant to share locations of finds like this because of the unintended mayhem that can follow, especially if these places turn out to be private land. Oh well, hoping for the best. Enjoy the shot for now!
p.s. I'll get back to commenting soon -- crushed by workload again.
Update: front page of Richard's for March. Thanks!
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Duck Marathon.
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
My 2010 World Cup workload is about to reach it's crazy peak. It will probably take me awhile to comment and reply your comments, but will try my best not to miss all the fun and great creative work of yours.
God bless and happy snaps!
Jaime
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Paddy Fields.
The last rice seedlings for the new crop are planted before the ducklings are released into the rice fields for the "Aigamo Method" for eight weeks.
On the right in the photo the bundled rice seedlings that still have to be planted individually.
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
Having to find a plan B after SFG took a last minute day off, thanks to shortline's unpredictable kind of operation, I made the almost two hours drive to New-Brunswick beautiful east coast in order to capture Campbellton-based job 564, hoping to catch it on it's return trip over the scenic Newcastle subdivision.
A quick check at his workload for the day tells me they only need to make it down to Irvco that day, in order to satisfy the never ending appetite of the Chaleur Bay sawmill for center-beam railroad cars.
Rolling into's super elevated curve by the former connecting point between Newcastle and Dalhousie subdivision, CN L564 have 16 loads on the drawbar, all of them from Chaleur Bay sawmill in Belledune and bound for Campbellton yard.
The former Dalhousie subdivision, once extending 6.2 miles to Dalhousie, NB in order to serves the huge Abitibi-Bowater paper plant along with Dalhousie generating station, closed respectively in 2008 and 2012, can be seen disappearing into's thick forest at left.
Half a mile of the trackage are still in use to serve one remaining customer, just north of Dalhousie Jct.
CN L56411-04
4912, GTW 6226
Milepost 164.2 Newcastle subdivision
Dalhousie, NB
October 4th 2023
finally got out again this morning after a few weeks break .due to home workload .
three shots across the spectrum as i have done a micro adjust on the lens while at home ,seems to have worked across the board . the redshank wasn't to happy with the avocet and saw it off ,it looks like it tried to pull some tail feathers out to
The Erickson "Goliath" Skycrane has been back up and running after a two week shut down due mainly to weather. Seen here is the Skycrane lifting one of the remaining pylon's from the Drummuir site near Keith in Moray. This is one of two sites and this particular site was emptied of all remaining pylons yesterday so the remaining workload will be from the second site near Dufftown in Speyside.
Trying some kind of photo essay, here are the result of a 1800 to 0200 shift on L536 job, based out of Coteau-du-Lac, QC on a stormy December Sunday.
Coteau terminal dispatch three job on a daily basis going either toward Valleyfield or to Cornwall,ON.
L536 is a daily roadswitcher assignment staffed by a crew of three with their main purpose was to satisfy the carload needs of the huge Glencore zinc treatment plant located in Salaberry de Valleyfield,QC at the end of a 2-plus mile long spur branching off the Valleyfield subdivision at Cecile, milepost 39.5.
Adding to the daily workload was five other customers to serve, all within the Valleyfield wharf area.
Work almost done there, I changed ends somewhere in the wharf after spotting boxcars and tankcars. We're now deep into the CEZ plant, a mix of snow, rain and acid fumes made up the surrounding air. Only three cars released from Glencore tonight, all of them empty gons bound for a Zinc mine in northern Manitoba for reloading.
My crew are already wet again, tired and wanted to call it a day.
It's totally understandable in those conditions.
I lighted up the number boards on GP38-2W 4778 for a few quick photos while our brakeman walked the application on those three WFRX gons.
Number lights could not be light up on this unit but only on our trailing one, GTW 6226.
Our work authority, still active until our return to Coteau, was written as "536 GTW 6226". OCS rules proscribed using the wrong engine number lighted. There's nobody around, it's Montreal-area first snowstorm of the season and we will not meet anybody enroute back but rules are made to be observed. Once I get back onboard, I flipped the "number lights" switch open and the two 4778 plastic board made back into the dark, just as us leaving the Glencore plant.
Week-end is now only an hour away. Road conditions will suck a bit of our off time in order to get home safely but who cares.
Customers had their requested cars, the workload was completed in style and in a safely manner.
This was a night on the L536.
CN L53621-04
GTW 6226 CN 4778
Glencore CEZ plant
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield,QC
December 4th, 2023
Explore # 270 May 17, 2009
Good Night Gothenburg! Sunset over Gäveskär Light House On Black
Good Night Gothenburg! Sunset over Gäveskär Light House
Passing the Gäveskär Light House outbound from Gothenburg. Gothenburg is the most important seaport in Sweden.
I wish my Flickr friends an awesome SUNday
Trying to keep up commenting when the workload permits.
Comming back to the space walk soon :-)))
I bought this machine 4+/- years ago. This machine does it job really well. Its not a powerful machine, really. But the quality of hardware can support 24/7 workloads & idle for the whole year. I not even think of shutting it down, even in lightning. And it pays me :(
Afterall, this machine still standing. It can survive the lightning strike few times. Only a few weeks ago, a very strong lightning strike up on my roof which cause my modem, switch, and sub-woofer died. My on-board network card also suffer the consequences. Other than that, its still up and running.
Current Specs:
Abit AN8 Ultra (Silent OTES™ Technology)
AMD Athlon 64 3000 1.81GHz
512MBx2 Kingston DDR
MSI MSI NX8600GTS 512MB
7.1-channel AC97 AudioMAX™
500GB WDC, 250GB Maxtor, 160GB WDC.
Samsung SynMaster 997MB 19" + Hewlett Packard 71 17"
Acrox Egronomic Mouse
Mobile Gear Keyboard.
found on my daily workload . work ............ aaaaaaaah.. somebody has to take photos while whistling and working..
this one is dedicated to a friend of mine, going through some hard times with her family not quite understanding her new spiritual path in life.
she has a a big heart , and a heart that hurts the little things.. that yes, are important, so here is a boost to her ...... yo my friend. rock on sista..
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Duck Marathon.
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Duck Marathon,
sitting on the embankment…ready tor the duck marathon take-offf.
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Duck Marathon
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
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The Cedar Rapids to Waterloo (Bryant Yard) train on the former Rock Island RR main that was once an integral part of a Chicago to Twin Cities route. Account workload and winter weather they were running late and needed a relief crew on this day.
I was so desperate to post something, I miss photography so much. This was taken last June, but I had to post something anyway. I hope I'll go out shoot with my camera soon.
I don't know if I am being lazy, or just feelling uninspired, or if it is only the workload...
Anyway.
Hope to see you soon...
And I'm planning to buy a new lens... to photograph wide cityscapes and landscapes. What do you recommend?
(Now I noticed that this photo looks completely different if it is seen on internet explorer or firefox... I wonder how it looks on safari. But firefox version is so much better, at least in my pc.)
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Paddy Fields.
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
Here's a throwback to just over four years ago, near the end of my high school career, and on the threshold of adulthood.
With Friday and Saturday off, LTS71's week always began Sunday afternoon at Adams, with a 1400 call time. On a section of the former Omaha's mainline which was almost entirely nocturnal at the time, it was a refreshing opportunity.
With ever increasing business along the line by the winter of 2013-2014 the local could no longer make the run from Adams to Altoona, or the return trip in 12 hours. In the spring of 2014 the decision was made to create a dedicated job running out of each terminal. A west turn local out of Adams with an 1100 call, and a east turn local out of Altoona with a 1500 call, thus breaking up the workload considerably.
While it lasted, it was damn hard to beat.
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Duck Marathon.
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Backwaters. Paddy Fields.
The Paddy fields in the Kerala area are below sea level. Bunds around the rice fields keep out overflowing water into the fields. After harvesting the paddy fields, they are used for ducklings where they will thrive on locusts & fishes.
The paddy fields will be used for duck farming where they will live & thrive up to 20 to30 ducks a hectare & the moment when the ducks should be removed from working in a paddy, after 8 weeks, so as not to eat the rice & …the dams will be opened at some strategic points & the shared duck marathon will begin following the farmer in his canoe to the duck farm.
In 1989, the Japanese farmer Takao Furuno, after learning about traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method”, he was able to identify the optimal age at which ducklings should be released into rice fields, 7 days after hatching from the egg & developed this new-traditional rice growing technique. In the meantime, it has become established in every country of Asia some European rice-growing regions & others like Cuba are also experimenting with this method.
The waterfowl turned out to be a perfect alternative to expensive pesticides, other insecticides & chemicals while protecting the soil from chemical pollution as they eat plenty of insects, weeds. The ducks also help to oxygenate the water & their droppings are the ideal fertilizer for the soil.
The "Aigamo" duck is a cross between wild & domesticated ducks. These animals are apparently optimally suited to this method of rice cultivation. They ducklings will be placed in the paddy field about two weeks after the seedlings have been planted. The ducks grow up in the rice field & eat insects, snails & weeds. As a result, the farmer does not have to laboriously remove the weeds & vermin from the fields himself; neither does he have to spray any pesticides & chemical fertilizers can therefore be saved.
After one season in the rice fields, the ducks are kept for up to 3 years to lay eggs or because they have eaten their fill in the rice fields, they can be sold profitably as ducks for roasting & other recipes.
The adoption of this method boosts farmers income by eliminating chemicals, fertilizer etc., by commercializing the ducks later & decreases their workloads by 200-250 human work hours p/hectare.
The system actually seems to work: a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization recently showed that crop yields are increased by 20 percent with the "Aigamo Method".
📌….The unique backwaters are a network of interconnected five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade, fed by 38 rivers & brackish lagoons extending nearly half the length of Kerala state. A labyrinthine system formed by almost 1.000 km of waterways lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, known as the “Malabar Coast”.
The backwaters have an exceptional ecosystem; freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea, formed by the action of waves & shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
YAY - At Long Last!!!!
Yes I know its a couple of ducks, but they are very important ducks as they are the first proper outdoor picture I have taken in what seems months. Yes I've done some model pics which were mostly commissioned, but my workload returned to ridiculous so my thoughts on taking December off evaporated. I was still working Xmas Eve and this week, so I will lose 20+ days holiday and no doubt will get the annual mark of "must try harder..."
Well to be fair no I haven't had that, though this last year has been very difficult and may all come to an end early in 2016 - we shall see. Merry Christmas everyone anyway.
The Erickson "Goliath" Skycrane has been back up and running after a two week shut down due mainly to weather. Seen here is the Skycrane lifting one of the remaining pylon's from the Drummuir site near Keith in Moray. This is one of two sites and this particular site was emptied of all remaining pylons yesterday so the remaining workload will be from the second site near Dufftown in Speyside.
FEC 905 stops a few hundred feet short from the end of the tracks and the beginning of the Palatka-St Augustine Rail Trail. This line was once the original FEC mainline until the Moultrie cutoff was built in 1927, the East Palatka branch was pulled up in 1988. [I recommend reading Dave Blazejewski’s write up on the line here](www.flickr.com/photos/151111185@N04/52009452779).
As for when they work, they typically run Monday-Thursday.
Per Bob Pickering “it depends on the workload where they have to go and the way the sidings are oriented largely they work south and straight shot back home from Dorena sometimes they go to Harwood rarely they go to New Smyrna.”
If you see boxcars sitting on the on the siding when you cross over the interstate they may be working but it’s not a guarantee. 905 typically works mid to late morning spotting boxcars and hoppers for Titan Industries and boxcars for Conagra Foods.
In the past couple of years the Toyota logistic center of Chignolo Po has significantly increased the workload.
Beyond the regular import services from Valenciennes and Kolin, both managed by Mercitalia from the border stations till the destination, a new domestic service has been now activated in order to transfer the brand-new car southbound to Piedimonte San Germano (Cassino).
The new train is managed through an "unprecedented" cooperation between Dinazzano Po (Diesel traction from Chignolo to Piacenza) and CFI (Electric traction from Piacenza to Latium.)
Here DPO D744.106 has just left Chignolo running eastbound towards Casalpusterlengo were the branch from Pavia will join the mainline from Milano.
went to an amusement park last Sunday.
I'm feel tired and uninspired lately. School's been giving me workloads. gah.
Yes there are still watch repairman making a living today, and this one keeps very busy as evidenced by the workload on his workbench. I’ve read where a messy desk is the sign of a creative mind; well I guess my watch repairman friend is exceedingly creative. He also happens to be a really nice guy and a great watch repairman. It’s always a pleasure to stop in with one of my old timepieces to get a tune-up. There’s something about a mechanical watch that transcends the mere keeping of time. Yes, a $20 Timex keeps time as good today as the most expensive Swiss watch, but there will always be something magical about the mechanical watch with all of its gears, springs, levers, and pure human ingenuity that a quartz or digital timepiece can never compare with. John Harrison spent a lifetime perfecting the mechanical timepiece to eventually solve the problem of determining longitude at sea by creating the first reliable marine chronometer in the mid-18th century. A feat the British Parliament paid a reward equivalent to about $5 million in today’s value. It’s amazing to think how far technology has come since then. But it's good to see the old traditions still living on.
March 04, 2015
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." - Charles Dickens
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Another exhausting day at the office; followed by a quiet evening. I've found that these past couple weeks after leaving work I've been completely drained and just without energy.
I can't tell if that because I'm done with winter weather and am just longing for more sunshine and warmer days or if the larger than usual work load is getting to me.
Either way I find myself returning home at the end of the day without much motivation to get things done. Of course, I still force myself into getting things done but am dragging a lot more than I regularly do.
I think I'll attribute the lack of energy to the weather because a busy workload doesn't usually have this effect on me.
It's my Friday tomorrow and I'm looking forward to the extra day off!
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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The wagon repair workshop at Monceau still uses vintage motive power to shunt the workload in and out of the building. 7337 pauses with a few Infrabel wagons behind it on 17/09/2019.
@ Pixel Rehab.
Come check us out, still accepting clients, though getting a little heavy on the workload so please be patient. <3
SUFC standby point.. A brief respite from the normal workload.. Time for a cuppa and chat - then off we go again!
I work for Yorkshire Ambulance Service on the RRVs in and around the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
It’s a great job and I feel very honoured to be able to help people at their point of need.
Check out the website for all sorts of info re YAS and the work we do.
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, today celebrated the first Connecticut-built CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter that will be delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps. This helicopter, which moves more troops and cargo more rapidly from ship to shore, was the first all digitally designed helicopter.
The CH-53K’s digital thread runs from design through production, maintenance, and sustainment, increasing mission availability while reducing pilot and crew workload.
This King Stallion™ helicopter will be stationed at Marine Corps Aviation Station New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina where Marines will conduct training flights and support the fleet with heavy-lift missions with the aircraft in preparation for the CH-53K’s first deployment in 2024. This heavy-lift helicopter is part of a 200 aircraft Program of Record for the Marine Corps with a total of 33 aircraft currently on contract and an additional nine on contract for long lead parts.
The CH-53K is the only sea-based, long range, heavy-lift helicopter in production and will immediately provide three times the lift capability of its predecessor.
The CH-53K will further support the U.S. Marine Corps in its mission to conduct expeditionary heavy-lift assault transport of armored vehicles, equipment and personnel to support distributed operations deep inland from a sea-based center of operations, critical in the Indo-Pacific region.
The new CH-53K has heavy-lift capabilities that exceed all other DoD rotary wing-platforms, and it is the only heavy-lifter that will remain in production through 2032 and beyond.
Additional information: www.lockheedmartin.com/ch53k.
Right: time to make a start on 2021 regardless. And it seems I have quite a few old and untouched pics to get processed!
Starting in 2018 here: I miss being able to go to Wales. But it'll still be there when we can move around again, I guess!
This one is from being on a day trip to Snowdonia and just happening to come across WHR's Garratt No.143 on its way up into the hills. Built in Manchester, working life in South Africa, preservation in Snowdonia. And probably a good choice of loco for the length of the line and the workload!