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Cheap Camera Morning Ride

Lookin like rain moving in this morning. Took cheaper small camera and a zipper bag Justin Case. And took previously unexplored canal-side path. Man seeing me bicycle in hollering "that road don't go through." Me back "that's the best part." 

Well, it does. Go through. It's a loop from a failing-neighborhood dead-end street to around the north side of a trash transfer station. Well traveled by County vehicles, judging by compaction.

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I Was Downtown In Vero Beach

Beneath The West End

Short ride back behind and underneath. Path goes beneath Barber Bridge on the west end. And other stuff.

Other Stuff

Decent Enough Pics

Double hibiscus from a morning dog walk. And a couple of pics from back in what used to be the Kale Bird Sanctuary. There's a back way to get into this area. Often the trail from e.z. parking is a mud hole. So, tends to be uncrowded back there. 

I'm taken by this "large format" digital photography. Not at all the largest "film" available, but quite a bit larger than what I'd been using. I guess a little bit like making the discovery that one's decent-enough 35 mm camera ain't nothing compared to the 6x6 and the like. And inch size big cameras are a whole 'nother world.

More Snaps

Up/Down Side/Side (X,Y,Z)

I Think I'll Put Some Pictures Here

Vantage Point

Pile 'Em On

Just a bunch of pictures of what I'm seeing going on around me. FPL is building a large gas-fired power plant about twenty-five miles west of Vero. Industrial stuff coming in to Vero by train for trucking to the site. I've been watching the operation of moving that. 

Also not filtering foreground objects when I'm looking around. And thinking about harmony in tone. Good film will make ya do that. 

Push and pull. A surprising number of drivers didn't seem to get the part of lots of cops and conspicuous flashing light stuff meaning stop. Wait. - While 330,000 pounds isn't the same thing as a railroad train, this rig did need a little time to come to speed and to stop. 

An issue for moving large loads is how heavy the powered vehicle must be to stick to the ground, rather than sit there and spin its wheels. Railroad locomotives are built this way; they could be much lighter, but need the weight to remain coupled to the rails. These Kenworth cabs carry a fair amount of "stuff" over the drive wheels where weight isn't a bad thing.