Following on from yesterday: With reference to yesterdays photo, the train is just crossing it as the video begins. Was in Broadway with Kelly when I took the photo and this video and was very excited to hear the horn a ways off. Initially I was just going to take photos, but I was surprised to see it moving as fast as it was.
Filmed with the S9600.
OK, this is from a few weeks ago. It’s a private crossing in Broadway, VA, across the Harrisonburg/Mt. Jackson branch of the Norfolk Southern.
Nothing really interesting to say about the photo, I just like the contrast, and that it includes the 3 primary (light) colors – Red Green and Blue.
Taken with the S9600.
A while ago I did a stop motion video using our whiteboard, don’t think I ever got around to posting it for the world to see:
During my final days in New Zealand I spent a few driving around the Wellington Area in particular taking photos of the landscape that I hadn’t thought to photograph before. While being rained out at the south end of the airport runway I happened upon this cute little toy duck sitting on a bench, wistfully looking out to sea as it were.
Taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S9600 Digital, Shutter Speed 1/170s, a Focal Length of 66.7mm and an F-stop set at F/4.9, on ISO400.
Continuing from yesterday’s shot, DFT7226 is again seen hauling the same freight Northbound still, this time at the level crossing at the North end of the town of Otaki.
On May 15th, 1988, a Southbound excursion train hit a milk truck on this same crossing. Fortunately noone was injured, including my dad, who was driving the train. It is also significant because it was my second birthday, and my mum had the joy (end sarcasm) of receiving the ‘dreaded’ phone call from the company, saying he’d been in an accident.
Again, taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S5600 Digital, Shutter Speed 1/613s, a Focal Length of 6.3mm and an F-stop set at F/7.1, on ISO200.
I remember showing this photo to a friend at work once, and he said “That looks like a Honda. About 1990, an Accord?”
It was taken while driving (no, don’t do it) a Honda Ascot (based on the Accord), 1992 model. 4 Cyl 2.0L, 4 speed Auto, very nice car to drive. In the mirror is one of my loves, a train. This a Northbound Freight, headed by DFT 7226, somewhere between Waikanae and Otaki (I believe! I know it’s South of Otaki, North of Paraparaumu).
Taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S5600 Digital, Shutter Speed 1/320s, a Focal Length of 10.8mm and an F-stop set at F/4.5, on ISO64.
One of my personal favorites, this shot was taken late on a Friday evening, at the Ava Rail Bridge near Lower Hutt, New Zealand. This is a Wellington Commuter train, heading North towards Upper Hutt.
Standing on the Eastern bank of the Hutt River, the train comes towards the camera. It will then continue, turning a curve North under two road bridges, meeting the Gracefield Industrial Siding and stopping at Woburn station, before continuing.
Taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S5600 Digital, Shutter Speed 10s, a Focal Length of 6.3mm and an F-stop set at F/3.2, on ISO200.
A particular day trip with some friends found me at the top of Paekakariki Hill, standing at the lookout on a brokenly clouded day, with a camera. What better opportunity? This is one of the dirtier sea-lines in New Zealand, naturally to the Australian side 😉
To the left of frame is Mana Island, and mid-frame is Paekakariki town. One can fairly easily make out State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk rail link heading south towards the camera.
Taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S5600 Digital, Shutter Speed 1/613s, a Focal Length of 6.3mm and an F-stop set at F/6.4, on ISO64.
Taken over the beach at Petone, near Wellington, New Zealand, the sun sets over the Horokiwi hills.
Not much to say for this one. The wharf is visible near where the water meets the land.
Taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S5600 Digital, Shutter Speed 1/653s, a Focal Length of 6.3mm and an F-stop set at F/6.4, on ISO64.
To the left of frame, is a street. About 150m down this street, to the right, is another street. Another 200m down this street is a house. This is where I lived for just shy of 22 years. To the left is visible a bus shelter, where I would wait having missed the first bus I should catch in the morning. Often missing the second one also.
This is Wellington Road, in Wainuiomata, New Zealand, looking roughly South, I believe.
Taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S5600 Digital, Shutter Speed 0.8s, a Focal Length of 14.8mm and an F-stop set at F/8, on ISO200.