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Random Photo thread

DaveR said:
The old building obviously has history Grimly. What are we looking at?
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It's the old trackbed of the railway line that ran from Waterford to Dungarvan. This is the old signalbox in Kilmacthomas.
The old track is the dotted green line.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2036501,-7.4306655,15z

About 25 years ago I became aware of the abandoned railway line and made enquiries about purchasing the station building in Kilmacthomas. The railway company couldn't release any of the trackside property because the local authority had their eyes on it to make a country walkway / cycle route. It took many years before they pulled their fingers out and finally got it done.
 
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Thanks, I can see it now. Scrolling around the map reading the place names there are many that were brought to this part of the world by homesteaders a hundred or so years ago.
 
Nice moon shot.

I'm also enjoying the birdfeeder shots. My parents had one, along with the suet for the woodoeckers, but generally only fed them in the winter.
I was in Northeast NJ yesterday and a very vivid yellow (not an Eastern Goldfinch) was flying around and landed on my passeger side mirror a couple of times, but I couldn't get a picture.
 
marvinsc said:
. . . . . caught the Indigo Bunting ........
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Our granddaughter is something of a birdwatcher too.
Yah she is just two years old, can be sitting there looking out the window, and hollers " pecker - pecker - pecker ".
Yep, was a woodpecker there in view.
 
Went back to Escanaba Park, to get a current shot of the mast reflecting in the granite plaque.
Had to go in morning when sun on the mast but plaque is in the shade.
35degF and quite windy, I thought I was prepared for that, but was hard to operate the camera when laying on the ground shivering.

P1070842 by Dave Redman, on Flickr

P1070864 by Dave Redman, on Flickr

Need to decide which posing/framing is more appealing.

Was late enough in the morning that sun was high enough to be in my eyes, made it hard to see what I was framing.
Maybe need to go back earlier in morning, maybe can get more complete view of the mast arm in frame.
And maybe get the plaque itself to be softer focus, with mast/reflection in sharp focus. But, ah, I got other things to deal with.


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