[timw4mail]

A rather crooked tree I stumbled across during a holiday in Cornwall, England:



Camera: Mamiya C220 Professional F
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 80mm F:2.8 Blue Dot with yellow filter
Exposure: 1/125 @ F/5.6
Film: Rollei 200 Superpan dev. in Xtol 1+1 in the Jobo ATL-1500 film processor

Looks like a Japanese maple. The crookedness strangely seems to actually improve the tree.

[LaHo]

Looks like a Japanese maple. The crookedness strangely seems to actually improve the tree.

I believe you are right, and I suspect the twisted shape is the result of active pruning.

[sculptormic]

Thank you again for your continuing coastal tour emphasizing structural variety (and plasticity). Can you comment on why the grass is brown instead of green in July? Is this area suffering from drought?

It didn't rain for more then 6 weeks. We are enduring an extreme heatwave. All the grass is burned. Can't deny climat change anymore

[texandrews]

Can't deny climat change anymore

OT: Sure you can, if you're an American politician of a certain sort. And this sort doesn't care at all about the future, just how much money is coming to themselves and their buddies right now. You know, It's funny how the views of these sorts align with the views of the Taliban and other fundamentalists, even as they despise each other. And it's funny how they all use the fruits of science and engineering, yet selectively deny the science behind climate change. Just follow the money, IMO.

[sculptormic]

OT: Sure you can, if you're an American politician of a certain sort. And this sort doesn't care at all about the future, just how much money is coming to themselves and their buddies right now. You know, It's funny how the views of these sorts align with the views of the Taliban and other fundamentalists, even as they despise each other. And it's funny how they all use the fruits of science and engineering, yet selectively deny the science behind climate change. Just follow the money, IMO.

Sad times in the US for sure. 4 years can be very long at times.

Another strange building from Calais.
P645Z 28-45

[timw4mail]

Sad times in the US for sure. 4 years can be very long at times.

Another strange building from Calais.
P645Z 28-45

What do those yellow jagged pavement markings mean?

[kaseki]

...

Another strange building from Calais.
P645Z 28-45

Fabric mills in the northeast US (ca. 1900) used large double pane windows to provide light while keeping the needed interior humidity from condensing on the windows when it was cold outside.

[LaHo]

Multiexposure. Not intentional, but somehow it works ...
Tree and sheep on Exmoor - Chalet from Penstowe Park Holiday Village



Camera: Mamiya C220 Professional F
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 80mm F:2.8 Blue Dot with yellow filter
Exposure: 1/125 @ F/9.5 - 1/125 @ F5.6
Film: Rollei 200 Superpan dev. in Xtol 1+1 in the Jobo ATL-1500 film processor

[Ed Hurst]

The Winter of 2004/5 was the final time steam worked over the Jing Peng pass on the world's last steam-operated main line railway, the JiTong line in Inner Mongolia. Never again would we see large loads being hauled by steam hundreds of miles just as a 'job of work'... The end of an era in human history.

This is leaving Tunnel 4. A very hard picture to get right. Apart from having to climb a snowy mountain side in -30 (Celsius) temperatures, the trains ran to no timetable because they were freight trains running as required. The scene is lit properly from the side for about 30 mins a day in the Winter, so you had to be lucky to get a train in the right window. Even when you did, the prevailing wind was from the west, which would almost always ruin it by blowing the steam down over the train. Each attempt meant giving up several other easier pictures because of the climb up the mountain (if you chased it from the road and aimed for simpler locations, you could get a few pictures of a single train and do so avoiding the wind/sun angle problem). So it was a gamble - try for one awesome picture but probably fail, or try for numerous easier pictures that were likely to succeed. This was my very last day on the line before steam finished forever. I had attempted the shot often before and never succeeded. On this day, when we climbed the mountain, we were in cloud (but large sections of the line we could have been on were in sun)... So the gamble seemed even more reckless...

On this final attempt, it came together. Can you imagine the sight of a small group of men, wearing numerous layers, jumping up and down in excitement, knowing we had finally nailed this shot on the last morning we would ever be able to try?

Then I must mention that our friend, Ian, was at that very moment lying in a hotel bed because he had dislocated his knee, so he missed the shot. In fact, we would all have missed it had he not injured himself - we had been due to leave the area already, but had had to stay on slightly longer until he was fit to be moved. So we have Ian's knee to thank for this picture, even though he could not get it himself. That must have hurt more than the knee... Though he would never admit it.

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Pentax 67ii with 105mm lens, Velvia 100F.

[texandrews]

The Winter of 2004/5 was the final time steam worked over the Jing Peng pass on the world's last steam-operated main line railway, the JiTong line in Inner Mongolia. Never again would we see large loads being hauled by steam hundreds of miles just as a 'job of work'... The end of an era in human history.

This is leaving Tunnel 4. A very hard picture to get right. Apart from having to climb a snowy mountain side in -30 (Celsius) temperatures, the trains ran to no timetable because they were freight trains running as required. The scene is lit properly from the side for about 30 mins a day in the Winter, so you had to be lucky to get a train in the right window. Even when you did, the prevailing wind was from the west, which would almost always ruin it by blowing the steam down over the train. Each attempt meant giving up several other easier pictures because of the climb up the mountain (if you chased it from the road and aimed for simpler locations, you could get a few pictures of a single train and do so avoiding the wind/sun angle problem). So it was a gamble - try for one awesome picture but probably fail, or try for numerous easier pictures that were likely to succeed. This was my very last day on the line before steam finished forever. I had attempted the shot often before and never succeeded. On this day, when we climbed the mountain, we were in cloud (but large sections of the line we could have been on were in sun)... So the gamble seemed even more reckless...

On this final attempt, it came together. Can you imagine the sight of a small group of men, wearing numerous layers, jumping up and down in excitement, knowing we had finally nailed this shot on the last morning we would ever be able to try?

Then I must mention that our friend, Ian, was at that very moment lying in a hotel bed because he had dislocated his knee, so he missed the shot. In fact, we would all have missed it had he not injured himself - we had been due to leave the area already, but had had to stay on slightly longer until he was fit to be moved. So we have Ian's knee to thank for this picture, even though he could not get it himself. That must have hurt more than the knee... Though he would never admit it.

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Pentax 67ii with 105mm lens, Velvia 100F.

An excellent shot, with an even better story.

[Richard Longseth]

What a fantastic story and results Ed. I suppose you could have added as part of your tale the tight exposure and dynamic range limitations of your pre-digital Velvia film. Great job.

[sculptormic]

What do those yellow jagged pavement markings mean?

No parking

[Mike L]

Great story Ed, the shot is testament to your persistence.

[Jonathan Mac]

The Winter of 2004/5 was the final time steam worked over the Jing Peng pass on the world's last steam-operated main line railway, the JiTong line in Inner Mongolia. Never again would we see large loads being hauled by steam hundreds of miles just as a 'job of work'... The end of an era in human history.

This is leaving Tunnel 4. A very hard picture to get right. Apart from having to climb a snowy mountain side in -30 (Celsius) temperatures, the trains ran to no timetable because they were freight trains running as required. The scene is lit properly from the side for about 30 mins a day in the Winter, so you had to be lucky to get a train in the right window. Even when you did, the prevailing wind was from the west, which would almost always ruin it by blowing the steam down over the train. Each attempt meant giving up several other easier pictures because of the climb up the mountain (if you chased it from the road and aimed for simpler locations, you could get a few pictures of a single train and do so avoiding the wind/sun angle problem). So it was a gamble - try for one awesome picture but probably fail, or try for numerous easier pictures that were likely to succeed. This was my very last day on the line before steam finished forever. I had attempted the shot often before and never succeeded. On this day, when we climbed the mountain, we were in cloud (but large sections of the line we could have been on were in sun)... So the gamble seemed even more reckless...

On this final attempt, it came together. Can you imagine the sight of a small group of men, wearing numerous layers, jumping up and down in excitement, knowing we had finally nailed this shot on the last morning we would ever be able to try?

Then I must mention that our friend, Ian, was at that very moment lying in a hotel bed because he had dislocated his knee, so he missed the shot. In fact, we would all have missed it had he not injured himself - we had been due to leave the area already, but had had to stay on slightly longer until he was fit to be moved. So we have Ian's knee to thank for this picture, even though he could not get it himself. That must have hurt more than the knee... Though he would never admit it.

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Pentax 67ii with 105mm lens, Velvia 100F.

A superb shot and a great story to go with it.

[Ed Hurst]

Thanks so much, guys. Glad you like it (don't tell Ian though!)