Study of the Middy part 4

Even with the fire, and all that heat, a steam engine is not immune to the snow.


Although that is not to say it will not fight it off.


Powering through a snow covered landscape,


Fighting hard against the cold.


And sometimes, as the train passes by,


We get clear skys,


And silhouettes from from the setting sun.


Other times it is overcast,


Or the snow does not cease,


But still we battle on,


Across the frozern landscape,


And across that setting sun,


Ensuring that the train will run.


Past the hedges,


Through the feild,


Along the little line we run.


Steaming here,


Steaming there,


Until the light begins to fade.


At which time things slow and stop,


And over the cover of darkness, we pack away.


Leaving only the Ghosts of the Middy to play.



It is worth noting that the Night shot with the blue sky was a 3 second exposure shot, held freehand. I am very impressed with how steady I was able to hold my camera - quite possibly because I was frozern.
Also worth noting is the Ghosts shot, there is a lot of detail that can be seen, such as the smoke box door being both open and shut.


Other Images I liked:
Mainy just edited and cropped versions of those above, but good enough still to be shown.

Night Shoots from Lowerstoft Firework show (after air show)

FireWorks





Long shutter speed at the fairground

New Magazine front cover

This is the front cover!

Terms used in the Media Industries

AUDIENCE
The audience is the gathering of spectators or listeners at a usually public performance, such as a concert, play or T.V program. They are the people who buy, watch and read the pieces created by the media industry.
In short, they are the reason we do anything in the industry.

ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY (ASA)
The ASA is the self regulatory organisation of advertising within the U.K. They cannot enforce legislation, rather they have a code of 'Advertising Practice' (which does actually reflect legislation in some areas). They are funded by the advertising Industry, by means of a levy that all companies must pay. Their role is to make sure that all advertising, regardless of where it is, meets high standards. The purpose of this is to make sure that all advertising is created to the same high standards and to regulate, which stops things like false advertising from occuring.

BROADCASTERS AUDIENCE RESEARCH BOARD (BARB)
BARD is the organisation which provides information and audience figures about programs that are on T.V. These figures are however based on estimates. As of time of writing, BARB have around 5,100 homes participating in act of acquiring data.
The households that take part have a box fitted to their T.V/s which tracks the programs which are viewed on that T.V. The results are then rounded up to 6million, giving a (very rough) idea of what the country has been watching. These results are obviously of great importance to advertising companies, as it shows the best times, and channels to advertise products, and also defines the cost of advertising at that time. For instance, if 3 million people where watching ITV1 at 18:00, and 4,000 watching channel 5 at the same time, it would cost a far greater amount for the airtime on ITV, and would be deemed to be of more use to the company advertising.

BRITISH BOARD OF FILM CLASSIFICATION (BBFC)
This is the organisation which is legally responsible for the classification of films, video's, and games within the U.K. It is this organisation which decides what is suitable for each age range.
Any video/DVD or game classified by the BBFC, receives a certificate (U, PG, 12A, 12, 15, 18, R18) along with 'consumer advice', which informs the reader to the instances of taboo subjects within the film, including sex, violence and language (as in swearing).
By Law, a citizen who is under the age which has been deemed appropriate by the BBFC may not watch or purchase that piece of media.

BROADCASTING
To Broadcast is to send information over a network. It originates from radio, but can now apply to the internet as well.
A person or organisation in deemed to be broadcasting when they distribute video or audio signals which can be received simulation by many other sources connected to that network.
The term Broadcasting is also the opposite to Narrowcasting, which means the media being broadcast appeals to a large group of people, for Instance one of the popular soaps like Coronation Street.

COMPANY SIZE: MAJOR COMPANIES (TNC)
A Major company is a huge organisation with many buildings and an empire that spreads through countries, and quite possibly the world. To be classified as a 'Major Company' the net worth of the company should be over 11.4 million, and the turnover should be over 22.8 million.
Examples of Major Companies would be the BBC, Fox and Wal mart.

COMPANY SIZE: BIG TO MEDIUM SIZED
These are companies which are pretty big, having many buildings in different parts of a country. In order to be classified as Big to Medium, the net worth should not exceed 11.4million, and the
turn over should not exceed 22.8 million.

COMPANY SIZE: INDEPENDENT
Anything that is not incorporated in any requirement. The company is only responsible for themselves. They are free to do as they please, as they do not have to please the head office. The magazine IP one is an example of this.

CROSS MEDIA COMPANIES
These draw T.V and written media companies to start using the Internet and mobiles phone technolgy more often in their media. This includes ways of communicating with the mass media, with mediums such as E-mail, and webpages.

HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION
This is a type of ownership or control. It is when companies own more than one building or firm, typically of a similar size, and in the same industry.
For instance a magazine company could have a building in another town where their magazine is printed.

INSTITUTION
An Institution is an organisation that is heavily organised and regulated, like Banks, Loan companies, big film companies, and the BBC. It doesn't have to be a money making company, it is just the element of control. It could be argued that a college, such as Suffolk New College, is one.

NEW MEDIA INDUSTRY
The term 'New Media' is meant to apply to digital, computerized, I.T, and communications which emerged in the latter part of the 20th century, with products within it being manipulative, net-workable and interactive. Companies have been able to take advantage of this, advertising is easier, costs less, and can be broadcast to a larger audience.
It has also allowed companies to communicate quicker, and with more organisations on the other side of the world, meaning products can be created quicker.

NARROWCASTING
Narrowcasting is when a certain channel targets a particular audience by the type of media they broadcast, like Sky Sports – appealing to people who enjoy sports, Sci–Fi channel – appealing to people who enjoy Sci-Fi. Adverts on these station can be tailored towards the specific audience, and are of more use for specialist products
Because people can choose what they want to watch on internet streaming sites such as BBCI player, it could be argued that this is also a type of Narrowcasting.

NATIONAL READERSHIP SURVEY (NRS)
This is the company that records and estimates the readership of the major newspapers and magazines. It works on a very similar principle to BARB (see above). It allows publishers to know whether they are doing too much or too little.

OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS (OFCOM)
This is the Independent regulatory body which makes sure that big communication companies based in the U.K are doing as they advertise, and that they offer a fair service to the general public.


PRESS COMPLAINTS COMMISSION (PCC)
This is the regulatory body for printed media in the U.K, and it consists of representatives of the major publishers. It is not funded by the government, but by an annual Levy that it charges newspapers and magazines – however this is voluntary. The organisations involved with it adjust the rulings of it, which makes the industry self regulating.
It has not legal power, it is more of a set of codes and conducts that should be adhered by.

PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
A Privately owned magazine is owned and funded mainly by one person or an organisation, which acts as the owners decree. This can lead to the stories being more biased, and investigate what the owner wants, which is not necessarily what is in the best interests of the public.
Having a good owner will obviously make the difference between a good publication, and a poor one.

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
This is a owned and funded by the buyers of the magazine and by shareholders. They have a duty to report and investigate stories that the public decrees and wants. They are funded primary by sales of the magazine and advertising.
(I.e. a steam locomotive owned by a society)

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
This is a broadcasting organisation which gets at least some of its funding from the public. It is controlled by the public for the public. ICR, Ipswich Community Radio is a good example of this.

REGULATORY BODY
A regulatory body is an independent organisation that was established by the government which regulates the activities of a company in an industry.


SELF-REGULATORY BODY
This is an organisation that exercises a certain amount of regulatory authority over an industry or profession.


VERTICAL INTEGRATION
This is the process in which a company which owns all the parts required to produce its products, and thus does not have to go through a third party.
For instance, Games Workshop has a division that comes up with the designs for the models, It owns the factories which create and mould the product, as well as the warehouses to box and store the product, and the marketing department to advertise it, as well as the shops to sell the product in.

Lawrie Rose

Study of the Middy Part 3

Even when it rains, the sun still shines,

and when it shines, it shines so bright,

silhouetted against a winters sun,

A little railway that runs from no where,

and ended up in the middle of a field,

But still it runs

More published work

http://www.mslr.org.uk/drive.html

More of my work has been published, see the above link.
Lorry is happy. :D

PUBLISHED!!!!

Hey all,
I've managed to get one of my photos published in the quarterly magazine for the railway I volunteer at, so rather happy.

Tangmere pictures

Showing Battle of Britain class locomotive Tangmere passing Bourne Park


Second shot of Tangmere approching Ipswich


Edited version of the first shot.



Tangmere running through Ipswich station, 55 minutes late.



Not Tangmere, just a class 66 I liked the lighting of.

First Class Disapointment

First class disappointment.

No doubt you remember the work that was carried out on the tunnel at Ipswich station in 2004, causing huge headaches for those trying to commute. The work was carried out to lower the track, allowing room for the new 'continental standard' containers to pass through the structure.
Now, long after the work has been completed we can reap the benefits; the larger loading gauge means larger trains can run through.
This has been very good news for rail enthusiasts, as now several steam locomotives that were once deemed to large to fit through the tunnel, are now free to travel through. One such visit is to be that of Bittern, one of the 34 streamlined A4s designed by Sir Nigel Gresley in 1935, which was due to make its first ever run through Ipswich on Tuesday the 8th of December. This would have been the first time one of these locomotives had ever run through this part of the country. Something truly great for rail enthusiasts.



Bittern is truly one of the greatest steam locomotive designs, her sister locomotive, Mallard, holds the world record for steam traction, 126mph. This has never been beaten.
However, three days before this event, issues where raised over gauging. The problem that has been identified is whether Bittern will fit through the tunnel, obviously something that is not going to be be left to chance.
For this reason, Bittern is no longer going to run along this route. It is sad indeed, for it would have been amazing for this locomotive, at 72 years old, to run somewhere she had never run before.
She has been substituted for Tangmere, One of Bulleid's Battle of Britain classes, which is had the Southern railways equivalent to A4, being 'air smoothed'. She is without doubt beautiful, but fails to capture the magic of an A4.
My query is to why Bittern is has been deigned access through the tunnel. Surely before allocating a locomotive to a train, one would check whether the locomotive is suitable to the route?
Obviously I'd prefer a cancellation to an engine striking or becoming stuck within the tunnel, it just seems very amateurish to have to change the plans for something that wasn't considered beforehand.
I also ask to what the exact problem is, Tangmere is lighter, but a similar shape and size to Bittern, and that has been granted permission to run though, as was the brand new A1 locomotive Tornado, which would have run on similar routes to the A4's, thus if one can fit, so should the other.
We have also had Oliver Cromwell running through, which is the zenith of British passenger express steam locomotion, and she is a giant of an engine. I would suggest that if this locomotive could fit through, then surely Bittern could.
When the LNER ran over the rails of Ipswich, there was an express known as the 'East Anglian', which ran from Liverpool street to Norwich. Following the success of the A4's two of regular class of locomotive that ran the route, B17's namely, City of London, and East Anglian were clad in a streamlined case to give the appearance of an A4. Whilst this did little for performance it did look very good. I am not saying that a B17 is the same size as a A4, but surely with the cladding, if they could run through the tunnel before it was lowered, an A4 could do now?

Lawrie Rose