Loose_Grip/Pete's favorite photos

There are many sand pits around Sulejówek. Some of them are one hundred years old, remembering times when sand and clay (from numerous clay pits) were used to rebuilt Warsaw and nearby towns after WWI. Some are deep, some are shallow, all are dry with trees struggling to survive at their borders. ----- Olympus XA + Kodak T-Max 400 + Kodak HC-110 (Dil.B)

An MG TF found in a suburban Brisbane shopping centre car park. September 2018.

It is the most recognizable tree in Poland. A relict pine on the top of Sokolica in Pieniny Mountains. It is 500 years old but it is very small and grows so slowly that the growth is barely noticeable even in 50 years span. That is how I will remember it. In 2018 it was badly damaged by a helicopter used to rescue some unfortunate tourist who had collapsed there and injured their head. The pine lost its upper branch - actually the upper half of the tree. They say that it may not survive the damage. The tree was not just broken but actually twisted by a powerful whirlwind caused by the machine hovering over the peak. ----- WZFO Start Euktar lens (triplet anastigmat) This shot was taken 50 years earlier, almost to the day. The negative is in poor state, but it is one of my favorite oldies.

Good positioning given Dad's fairly basic camera. No autofocus and motorised shutter for him!

A small group of small twin prints - image size 5.7cm x 3.8cm - of the Bluebell Railway. They are not in the format that John Sutters would have used himself and they are in colour. It could have been that he went to the Bluebell on 24.8.1963 with someone who sent him some of his 'Bonusprint' extras. Bonusprint's sales pitch, in those days, was to 'give' you two extra small prints with your standard size prints, to share with friends.

This could be 5056, but as the lower half of the smokebox numberplate is obscured by the reporting number it is hard to see.

Potocki Palace in Radzyń Podlaski ----- Samsung NX10 and Silver Efex Pro 2

This started as another unattributed photo of a woman on the net. I doubt she would recognize herself from this Photoshopped version, but if she does / you do I hope it meets with her/your approval. - Oh and thanks for your beautiful image that I have messed up!

Am 14. April 2018 war 78 468 zu Gast im Eisenbahnmuseum-Dahlhausen zum Museumstag. Dieses Bild soll auch ein wenig Sinnbild dafür sein, daß gerade am Pfingswochenende wieder historische Dampflokomotiven und Sonderzüge in Deutschland unterwegs sind. H.A.N.W.E. folks! Auf der Seite des "Eisenbahn-Tradition e.V." aus Lengerich mehr über die Preußische T18: "Die Geschichte unserer Dampflokomotive 78-468 geht auf eine sehr gelungene Konstruktion der Firma Vulcan-Werft AG in Stettin aus dem Jahre 1912 zurück. Gedacht für den Fährverkehr mit leichten Schnellzügen auf der Insel Rügen konnte die Lokgattung T 18 bald ihre Stärken im schweren Berufsverkehr der Ballungsräume ausspielen. Das sehr gute Beschleunigungsvermögen und die hohe, in beiden Fahrtrichtungen gleiche, Höchstgeschwindigkeit machten sie geradezu zur idealen Lokomotive für dieses Betätigungsfeld." www.eisenbahn-tradition.de/78468.htm Die 78 468 wurde 1923 bei der Lokomotivfabrik Henschel und Sohn GmbH in Kassel gebaut und am 24.Januar 1924 im Bahnbetriebswerk (Bw) Gleiwitz in Dienst gestellt. Nach der Übernahme durch die spätere Deutsche Bundesbahn war sie 22 Jahre lang in Nordrhein Westfalen im Einsatz, vorwiegend im Raum Wuppertal. Hier bekam sie auch 1956 ihre Wendezugsteuerung, die den Einsatz vor Dampf-Wendezügen ermöglichte. Nach einem kurzen Einsatz in Hamburg wurde sie 1969 ausgemustert und kam in das Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte. www.eisenbahnmuseum-bochum.de/veranstaltungen/museumstage-im-eisenbahnmuseum-2.php