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Last week I had to be in Calgary for not the happiest of reasons. Most of my Calgary trips are strictly business, up on Monday back on Thursday. Sometimes I’ll vary them though so last week was up on Wednesday, back on Friday. While the intervening Thursday had some light snow flurries, both the flight in and the flight out had crisp, clear, dry air. My preferred seat is the window seat. Ahead of the engines if I can get […]
In Dawn at Morro Bay, I captured a fleeting moment in time of surreal light. The effect lasted five minutes or less and then it was gone. I was with James Brandon and some friends and we’d been spectacularly unsuccessful in capturing clouds at sunset along the mid-California coast. Perhaps the California weather is back to normal now after the recent years of drought but the drought was still very much in play when we visited. Successive cloudless early mornings […]
“Welcome to Katy” says the sign on the water tower in the background at right in this image of the UP 5950. The red logo on the side of the water tower is the logo of the Katy Tigers, eight-time winners of the state high school football championship. In the foreground sits two Union Pacific locomotives, the UP 9590 and the UP 9698. Both are GE C44-9W model locos. The UP 9590 was built in June of 1994 while the […]
A couple of weeks ago Super Bowl 51 was played at NRG Park in Houston. In the years I’ve lived in the area, the Houston skyline has changed quite a bit. Despite the downturn in the local economy caused by the collapse of the oil price in late 2014, construction has continued across the city and more glass towers have recently been completed downtown. Houston is a classic western US city with a (mostly) grid-based street layout and a massive […]
Growing up in rural, southern England, I got used to narrow, winding roads. My first exposure to long, dead straight roads was in Libya, but I would usually fly deep into the desert so it was during my time in South Africa that I really started to become conscious of them. The long, straight road was at first liberating. Free from the twists and turns I could see just where I was going. But they soon became tedious, because I […]
The Bass Harbor Head Light is perhaps the most photographed of the Maine lighthouses. Built in 1858, this lighthouse marks the entrance to Blue Hill Bay and warns mariners of the Bass Harbor bar at the eastern entrance to the harbor. Located at the southwestern point of Mt. Desert Island this lighthouse is easily accessible. I took a marked trail from the parking lot that leads down to these boulders but I had a bit of a scramble to get […]
