Instagram Loves A Square

Image Description: A large red structure fills the entire frame. In the center is a cone, but from this angle it appears to just be a circle. It is surrounded by 10 blades in a fan formation. They stretch to all edges of the frame. It is a railroad rotary snowplow.

Thunder Rolls and Trails Black Clouds

Image Description: A close-up image of a very large steam locomotive. The main drive wheels and a large silver coupling rod is the primary subject of the photo. At the bottom, a rail is visible. A leaf spring is visible behind the wheel in the center.

America, Our History is Exceptionalism

Full Poem: https://medium.com/@wdibble/america-our-history-is-exceptionalism-551d2c0a359c Image Description: A close-up of the side of a cattle railroad car. The wood is painted red, but faded almost to pink. It is chipped in many places. There is a small metal pipe from the bottom center to top-right corner. Near the top is a gap in the wood, through which darkness and a blurry bit of light is visible. "KEEP OFF" is stenciled in white lettering on the car.

Breathe, Work, Thrust

Poem: https://medium.com/@wdibble/breathe-work-thrust-6c88d6d6d47a Image Description: A close-up of a large steam engine locomotive piston. The piston and its connecting pipes are black steel with streaks of blue on them. There are bolts connecting various plates and endcaps. To the lower right, extending off-picture, is a silver steel component that drives the wheels. One of the wheels is partially visible. A leaf spring is visible behind the wheels.

An Ode to Civility

For full poem: https://medium.com/@wdibble/an-ode-to-civility-4c97bdea12c5 Image Description: The picture is of a highway at night. The lower third of the picture is dark. On the left edge of the horizon, you can see city lights. The horizon extends to the right edge, with silhouettes of trees. Coming toward the foreground and disappearing off to the right edge is a streak of headlights from cars, extending into the city in the distance. The top two-thirds of the photo is made up of dark storm clouds in the sky. In the center of the photo, blue and purple lightning bolts thread from one cloud to another, leaving the sky glowing from there to the right edge.

Zippers Stretched From One End of the Valley to the Other

Will You Walk the Path With Me?

Image Description: A black and white photograph of a mountain valley. There is a road traveling from the bottom left to the top right, disappearing around a mountain bend. A winding river follows alongside the road. The mountains are covered in evergreen trees. Above the treeline, the mountains are barren. The sky is cloudy.

When Will We See Our Destination?

The Last Wild Places Were Saved For Tourists

Happiness is the Road

Have I Seen You Before?

We Called Out to Our Gods, But They Weren't Real

Sunday Drive

The weather in South Park, Colorado is amazing for driving during the summer. Anywhere from ten to twenty degrees cooler than the surrounding land outside the mountains, it stays cool throughout the summer. On this day, two couples decided to make that trek on their motorcycles.

Pike's Peak Cog Railway Departure Platform, Winter 2016

I think I can, I think I can... But the little engine that could... Couldn't. Cog railways are interesting. They exist in places where the rails are too steep for traditional friction rails. Instead, a central toothed rail interacts with a drive cog in the train, which pulls the train up the mountain. In places, the Pike's Peak Cog Railway has a grade of around twenty percent, with a severely tilted horizon line.

At the Top

Cog railroads are fairly rare. They are built in places where the friction from the rails and wheels will not be enough to keep the train moving. This one is at the top of Pike's Peak in Colorado.

Steam Engine 250

Pre-Flight

Road Iron

Taken at the 2016 Special Olympics Plane Pull at RDU International Aiport.

Transit

Taken from Charlotte's transit system near the Hornets stadium. Infrared monochrome.

Displacement

This is the anchor room of the USS Yorktown, which is a 41,000-ton Essex-class aircraft carrier. Each link in the chain weighs around 227kg, if I recall correctly. I'm particularly fond of the symmetry of this shot. It doesn't work quite so well in color, as there are two color splashes on the left side that distract the eye from that, but it works here.

The Clipper Atlantis

There's something nostalgic and romantic about propeller airplanes. In our world of turbine jet engines and high-speed takeoffs, the propeller plane has been forgotten by all except for the personal craft. Faster, more efficient jets have replaced all of the old designs. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying we need to go back. I'm not one of the rose-tinted "past is better" types. I just like looking at old propeller airplanes, which have fallen into a smaller and smaller niche of uses every year.

Sunk

I passed this with my parents on the way to Aurora, NC, years ago. I totally made them stop while I got a picture. What amuses me even more, though, was what I found at last year's auction for projectredlight.org. I found a painting of the exact same boat and building, just about 5 years prior to my photograph. It was interesting comparing the two with the artist, and how the boat had faded and sank further. Awards and Recognition: roguemark Gallery October 2014

Super Sport

Chevelles are so common as to be mundane. Finding a unique picture of a Chevelle is like trying to take a unique picture of a neighborhood house built from a blueprint. Yes, its possible, and yes, the car might look good, but its so common that everybody's already done it. I decided to get in closer, and focus on this one's stamp of power.