Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

The ERJs were supposed to come in 2006 but we didn't see them until the following year. Flew on them a couple of times down to Malaga, they were very nice. 2+2 seating which seems so civilized compared to the sardine can of most low-cost carriers. Embraer came up with some special configurations to allow them to fit into Southampton's fairly small runway.

Back in England Southampton was my home airport. It's really quite small. For the longest time FlyBe ran these BAE-146 'jumbolinos' that were pretty quiet (for their time...) but they were inefficient by the time of this photo in 2006. That year they'd be replaced with the much bigger Embraer 190.

Delaware Bay, Cape May NJ, 2014. I do miss the ocean. Something about it on a warm evening with the sea breeze running over you. #photography

The locomotive shop at Juniata, Pennsylvania. This massive facility stretches through most of downtown Altoona, and does all the rebuilds and conversions for Norfolk Southern's fleet.
#photography

Via @Pipski

The lighting on the buildings was great. The Young Sheldon thing..a bit less so.

Four years ago, 0520 in the morning and I couldn't sleep because of a fire alarm in a building next door, so I went for a stroll in Downtown LA. The Marine Layer coated everything in this mist. I had an image-stabilised lens and full frame sensor so I could go handheld, I was pretty pleased with what I got. #photography

The Fedi is not immune to excruciatingly poor hot-takes. The 'root cause that led to the attacks' in this one is the telltale of the edgy revisionist.

Me misbehaving at brunch, 1 WTC Windows on the World in 1978, in the cream-coloured 70s splendour of that restaurant.

From Birdsite. Supposedly written by a bot. Scorchingly funny, either way.

Waiting in Malaga at the baggage carousel. Nobody told us that if we're checked from the US we're on a completely different area, so the bags would never come on this belt, which we figured out after about, oh, 40 minutes.

Dublin Airport, around five in the morning. Absolutely deserted, the only people were from our flight. I couldn't even get a coffee. I had the novelty of getting back on the same aeroplane I'd arrived on. This would repeat coming back.

Somewhere off the coast of Ireland, descending toward Dublin. Everyone's awake and the mood lighting is trying to match the sunrise.