1/7/19

It feels like spring out lately.  I like it but worry that it is not good for the plants and my Daffodils that think it is spring and are coming up already.  I took this image on a day like we have been having several years ago out in San Francisco California, a place I would love to revisit.  I went to see the Pacific Ocean and then walked along the coast past the Golden Gate Bridge, the subject of this photo, to the piers and saw Sea Lions there.  My feet were tired by the end, it was several miles I walked that day.  I gave this a B&W treatment to make it appear like a vintage photo and never shared it so here you go.  

6/3/18

So last week I was riding and photographing the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad for the 4th time, at least.  I tried to get some new shots from places I had not photographed it from and this is one of them.  I took this image of locomotive 488 with it's train on it's way out of Chama New Mexico just as it left the station and headed over the bridge by the RV Park I was staying in.  People from the park go out and wave to the train every day as it leaves and returns to the station.  On this morning the engineer even blew a special whistle to us, the famous Shave and a haircut, 2 bits which i had never heard from a steam train before.  Quite fun.

1/12/15

So I finished my Wildlife Challenge.  It was fun to do.  Today I am dipping into the archives again and posting an image that I re-worked from several years back on an outing to see covered bridges in Pennsylvania.  This was a fairly long one in central PA called Adairs Bridge.  All of the bridges we saw that day were painted red, it was just that they were in varying states of decay.  This one has seen some work done to it.  It's nice to see this bit of history still in existence.  

12/31/15

Well, here we are at the last day of 2015, Happy New Year's Eve!  Let's hope next year is better than this one has been at times.  Especially the way it ended with all the stress.  At least we are ending it on a sunny day.  I have been rather uninspired to shoot photos lately except of birds and some of those have not been my best shots.  :-)  I have been looking at old albums and reworking some images and this is one of them.  This is Waggoners Bridge that I shot in Pennsylvania a few years back when on an outing to shoot covered bridges with my brother.  This one is privately owned and one of the more picturesque that I shot that day with the waterfall in the background that can be viewed underneath it.

11/25/15

Well, looks like our last nice day for a while.  I need to get out and do some things.  Anyway, today's image is one I went 16 miles out of my way to see in Lincoln County, Kansas, west of here.  It's a historic double arch limestone bridge that was built in 1908.  This is a 2 shot panoramic image of it.  It spans the south fork of Spillman Creek which was dry on the day I was there in October.  When it was built they used wooden arches to support the rocks until the final Key Rock, the uppermost center one in each arch, was set in place.  It originally had stone banisters on each side but they were removed to widen the bridge.  In 1946 it was part of a state highway.  In 1993 it saw it's last use when the highway was moved a bit to the west to straighten out some sharp curves in the road.  I liked the textures and color the limestone has taken on, not typical and made me wonder if it had been coated with something.

11/25/14

I decided to try another split tone and I liked how it turned out so I am sharing it here as well.  i thought the process lent itself well to this type of image.  This is the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge in Pennsylvania.  This is the longest multiple arch concrete bridge in the world, 6,657 feet including the spans over land.  This was a split of red and yellow on a B&W image giving it the sepia look.

3/25/14

I don't usually post this kind of train photo here on the blog.  I took this in Pennsylvania at the historic Rockville Bridge which is the largest stone masonry arch bridge in the world.  I was photographing just the bridge but then got lucky when a train started across it as well.  Norfolk Southern still uses this bridge and crosses it very slowly.  I would guess to keep vibrations to a minimum so as not to cause damage.  This image has a slight HDR effect added to it.  I also cropped it to a bit panoramic view.