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  1. smb
    Super Train!! N-700 Shinkansen "Bullet Train" at Hakata Station

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    With the guard looking down the platform
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    White Shinkansen Bullet Train!

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    I really must get into the habit of uploading photos before I have forgotten all the details...
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    'Not too much time for painting in recent years... I have a portrait of my youngest daughter on the go - and I will definitely finish it one day. (I started it when she was 16. She is now 19 - so I will have to finish it while she is, technically at least, still a teenager!) Photography... Well, this little blog of mine is also supposed to be about some of my attempts at photography, so here are a few snaps I took of the Shinkansen, on a recent (work-related) trip to Japan. Welcome, to the Shin-Kan-Sen!! (You have to pause for a very brief moment after "Welcome" - and say it with pride!!) The photos I posted on Facebook created quite a few comments and I have reproduced some of these below: Vic Rolfe I was talking about the Shinkansen to a friend in Kokura. He said he couldn't understand what was so special about the Shinkansen! "It's just a train, right?" Just a train??!!!! Well... I suppose - for Japan, yes!! Luis Reyes Ordinary train lng sa kanila FB Friend:" Beautiful, wish we had those here in Australia. " Vic Rolfe Ideal country for it... Japan has spent a stupendous amount of money over the years building that network. At least, you wouldn't need too many tunnels, for a start off! Vic Rolfe City center to city center, all over Japan. Every station on the Shinkansen network is surrounded by hotels, so you just get off the train and walk for two minutes to your hotel. In Japan, unless you are going from one end of the country to the other, it is actually quicker than flying, by the time you get stuck in a traffic jam just getting to the airport. Then you have to check in and get through security. Luis Reyes Ganda ng train Vic Rolfe These things don't spend all day in the station, either. They arrive on time and they have to leave on time - exactly to the second. Hence the announcement as you slow down on the approach to Hakata (Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan) "If you are planning to get off at the next station, then you need to get all your stuff ready NOW and start making your way towards the doors.." (or words to that effect!!) I am not sure how long they stop for - but it can't be very long! That's for sure... 1 minute? 2 minutes max!!
  4. smb

    Wow! Long time, no see at artfreaks.com!!!

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    Well... That was back in 2005, when I started this topic!!! ...And how things have moved on now!! In 2018, search engines actually work - and now we just take them for granted!!
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    You've got to love it!! (If you haven't got adds blocked on your browser,) you may well see an advertisement for frying pans, with this post!!) ?
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    Beautiful Beast! Japan Railways West JR-500 Shinkansen Bullet Train
    I'm going to have to buy myself a Shinkansen train set, or something!!
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    Smooth, sleek - and fast!! East-bound high speed train on the Shinkansen
    I'm getting Shinkansen withdrawal symptoms already!
  9. smb

    Hi! Long time, no see! I didn't realize, you were still in the New Members group... Anyway, welcome to the Full Members group now. You should find that any posting restrictions that you may have experienced as a New Member have now been removed.

    If you can edit your uploaded images to give them titles/descriptions and maybe a few key words, that will make your images searchable - both within the site and, of course, via external search engines.

    1. sexybbw4u

      sexybbw4u

      Thank you very much....   xoxox

  10. smb

    smb

    It turns out the problems I was having with uploading images were related to the Internet Service Provider that I was using at the time - not the site. Anyway, I managed to improve a few things along the way, so you should find that your images upload a lot quicker now - ISP notwithstanding!!

  11. smb
    A crowded Hakata Shinkansen station - 博多新幹線駅

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    Lots of people getting off the "Bullet" train at Hakata
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    "We will be making a very brief stop at Hakata"

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    Lot's of people getting off here and the Shinkansen trains run on time... To the second - unless there is an emergency! So you need to have all your stuff together and be ready, waiting by the doors to get off as soon as the train pulls into the station.
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    Wizzing along in the Shinkansen - at 300km/h!

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    View from the window when the Shinkansen winds up to full seed!! I have no idea what this was!!! ??? ??
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    Northern Kyushu countryside viewed from the Shinkansen whilst travelling at speed

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    Looking out of the window whilst traveling at "full chat", somewhere between Kokura and Hakata on the Shinkansen
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    Northern Kyushu countryside whizzing by on the Shinkansen

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    新幹線の窓口から外え見る。新幹線の速さが十分に一杯
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    新幹線の N-700 は速さが十分です - (The N-700 Shinkansen train is travelling at full speed)

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    ...or something like that!! Something or other whizzing past the window whilst traveling at high speed on the Shinkansen between Kokura and Hakata. Don't ask me what it was - I don't know!! (We were going too fast!!! ...Bracing wires for the gantries that support the overhead power cables, at a guess!!)
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    新幹線の窓口から外え見る。美しの景色です (Looking out of the window on the Shinkansen)

    From the album: Welcome, to the Shinkansen!

    Beautiful Japanese countryside, viewed from the window of a train on the Shinkansen ("New Trunk Line"), travelling at speed between Kokura and Hakata.
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    Aircraft

    Images added to a gallery album owned by smb in Members Albums - Index Page

    Photos of some aircraft, taken on my travels.
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    NAIA T1 - Manila Airport in the sunset

    From the album: Aircraft

    Just after landing on a Philippine Airlines flight from Bangkok and swinging around past the old Terminal 1 at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport, on the way to Philippine Airlines Terminal 2. A Saudia aircraft and one belonging to Philippine Airlines can be seen silhouetted against a brilliant sunset.
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    Lights

    smb commented on Jiří Antonín Votypka's gallery image in Night shots

    Lights
    Where is this?
  21. smb
    Man on top
    A co je to název?
  22. smb
    Man on top
    ?
  23. smb

    How's tricks? 'Good to see you managed to pay a flying visit!

    1. FunkyBoy

      FunkyBoy

      Hey man, I do check from time to time, life sucks but what's new? :D Sadly I've not done art in the longest time but hope to get back in the swing of it once again and get some new content up. Cheers for the comment.

    2. smb

      smb

      Haha! Well, you are probably more active on the site than I am, then! Hopefully, 2019 will be a better year - for both of us...
      I look forward to seeing more of your work when you are ready!

       

    3. FunkyBoy

      FunkyBoy

      Aye, lets hope it is my good man! Cheers!

  24. smb

    Welcome back! It's good to see you here again!

  25. smb

    'Good to see you back at artfreaks.com!! :D

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