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Mother of Pearl

Mother of Pearl
Roxy Music
1973

youtu.be/hHKFDPsaASg

‘Oh lonely dreamer
Your choker provokes
A picture cameo
Oh mother of pearl
So so semi-precious
In your detached world’

The song comes from the album ‘Stranded’, which reached number 1 in 1973. The song has many lines that have stuck in my memory for no particular reason.

‘Melancholy shimmering’ came to mind as the headlight pierced the fog.

‘Just out of reach, glowing, very Holy grail’ was very true on my first attempt at the picture when the breeze blew the cobwebs out of focus at the last moment!

‘But the search for perfection
Your own predilection
Goes on and on and on and on’
Seemed apt too as I made my fourth (and final!) attempt at the picture in two hours whilst standing in freezing fog!

I didn’t quite manage to get ‘Serpentine sleekness
Was always my weakness’ into the picture, but nice to have something still to aim for!

68022 ‘Resolution’ arrives in a foggy York with 0B61 0900 Scarborough to York TransPennine Express driver training run of Monday 25th February 2019.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / York (show map)

Taken on: February 25, 2019

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Sets appears in: • Scarborough Bridge • Class 68 more » • York station « less

Groups appears in: • Progressive and Artistic Railway Photography • O yeah, and there's a train in it! (Invite Only)

Camera: Apple iPhone X, f/1.8, 1/390 sec, 4mm, ISO 20 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Apple iPhone X
Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/390)
Focal Length:	4mm
ISO:	20
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	12.1.4
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