Could it be that this Santa Fe loco is haunted…
…Or could it be that I got bored between trains one night at Needles and played around with the flash…
Playing games with us, Chad, or showing off your photoshop abilities? If not, that is a very wierd shot- was the camera on a tripod, with you standing away from it?
Well, I got a shot of a Tommyknocker when I took the Silver Mine Tour up on the Georgetown Loop RR:
OK…so actually that’s a slow exposure of a woman and her toddler (and a pretty derned good job of holding the camera steady if I may say so!). Still, I could believe that there’s some ghosts on the ATSF. Remember the Royal Gorge war? Hmmmmmm…
I will assume this is a newer picture since you just posted it…
That being said, I have no doubt what so ever that is an genuine[bow], authentic, certifed haunted engine. One, you have ghost in the middle, but the real evidence… There no PATCH!
[:-^]
Is that your reflection, Chad ?
Speaking of Santa Fe ghosts, have you seen these-
http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com/ca_atsf_fallbrook_branch.html
http://www.craigsrailroadpages.com/atsf/index.htm
No it’s not photoshop. The camera was on a tripod and I walked over to the engine and held out a handheld flash and pointed it at me and flash!!! all with the shudder open. And it was taken back in 94’ in one of the few quiet moments on the busy Needles sub in Needles proper.
Thanks, I’ll definately check those sights out.
COOL!
What’s wierd about it, even after your explanation, is that I don’t seem to see the effects of the flash on the engine. The lighting on the engine seems to be coming from somewhere off to the left. I can’t even see your shadow on the engine.
Brian, it looks like Chad fired the flash on himself in front of the other set of tracks, so he had some distance. Flash output decreases exponentially with distance, so it probably didn’t have a lot of effect on the exposure.
The loco looks like it is being lit with sodium vapor lights because of the orange color tint. Even if these aren’t very powerful, they did have the advantage of constantly being on, as opposed to the virtually instant flash. The long exposure therefore made use of the constant lighting, even if it was as dim or dimmer than the flash on Chad.
Probably because I held the flash rather close and the shadow would have been quite large. I think it’s a good night shot though an sometimes wish I would have taken another without me in it.
Shoot…forgot that obvious fact, too. Chad’s face is absorbing the majority of the flash’s output, relegating the locomotive only to the edges of the flash, where the output would have the least effect.