Some Photos taken at LOCOMOTION, Shildon - part of the National Railway Museum.
Photo 1 is Steam locomotive and tender, North Eastern Railway, 4-4-0 No.1621, designed by Wilson Worsdell, built at Gateshead in 1893, withdrawn in 1945.
Photo 2 is of Steam locomotive and tender, Stockton & Darlington Railway No.1, 0-4-0 "Locomotion" originally built by Robert Stephenson & Co. in Newcastle and used on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway on 27th September 1825. The worlds first passenger railway.
The third is of Steam locomotive, Hetton Colliery, 0-4-0, built by G. Stephenson and N. Wood at Hetton Colliery, Durham, withdrawn in 1912. Built in 1822.
Steam locomotive and tender, North Eastern Railway, 4-4-0 No.1621.
I've been doing on creative blurs for years and recently started working on adding some special ones to my collection. One of these will will be a large mettle print on my wall.
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Fuji X-T3 + Fringer Pro II adapter for canon + Sigma 150-600 C on tripod with gimble @ 600mm, 1/125, f6.3, ISO 2500
Taken late afternoon on a cloudy December day here in New York City.
gunmetal wrote:
Whenever I miss my daughter who is away at College, I go back and revisit some of our shoots. This was at a dry farm near where we live.
When I arrived on the Long Island beach there were 6 others photographers set up facing a dune. I spotted the owl from the distance and walked behind the photographers who were about 100 feet from the owl. I had observed the direction the owl was facing and that was into the wind so I continued till I had the wind at my back as I was confident this would be the direction the owl would take off and possibly fly. After I planted my tripod, I adjusted my exposure and the owl started to move around and I got ready for it to launch which it did in less than a minute. I caught the second photo as it passed me. It landed on the top of a sand control fence, an ugly spot and I will not share the photos of it on the fence yet a little while later it blasted off again and I captured the owl in bright sun with a dark cloud in the background.
All images: Fuji X-T3 + Fuji 1.4x TC + Fringer Pro II EF-X adapter + Sigma 150-600 C
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After it blasted off it landed on the walkway railing it was on the other day and with the sun setting into clouds I headed home looking forward to seeing my photos on the big screen.
This very unusual lighthouse resembling a sci-fi movie space craft is located on a small groyne in the river mouth at South Shields.
It was built in 1882 and was at the mouth of the river before the north and south piers were built. It still acts as a navigational aid to ships entering the River Tyne.
