It’s worth having to be there at 0630…
(sorry about the quality, I left my tripod at home!)
[tup]
(No, I dont lurk around here all day…I just happened to check after lunch!)
Now, as long as you dont often get a great sunrise AND a great SUNSET shot WHILE AT WORK on the same day…
Once while heading to school at 6:00 am, I saw a pair MRL’s leading a coal train here in Georgia, I don’t mind that at all!
…Know exactly what you got into Ed, trying to hold it steady with it being on the dark side yet…
Just a few days ago I tried to hand hold our littlle digital as it was way past sundown…and we were at our Mc D’s parking lot here in Muncie where the NS track is positioned right beside it. Without being on a tripod one can not get a precise clear sharp pic. In my pic. there was a NS headlight about a mile and a half away, incoming and I shot down the track but just couldn’t be still enough. Pic’s were not sharp. Plenty of light as the shutter stayed open long enough.
I have a little tripod about 10 - 12" high that can do a nice job of making it sharp if one has a place to set it…But it wasn’t with me.
How romantic for our gentlemen on the forum. “Look honey, a full moon, an engine and you!”
[:X]
Ed
nice moon shot.yesterday it was trying to break thru the clouds at 5am break.
stay safe
joe
I don’t believe either of those shots are of the Sun. We are currently experiencing the ‘Harvest Moon’…Full moon that rides low on the horizon in the early evening and in the morning just before Sunrise.
Those photos are awesome!
Nice work, Ed. Very Nice!! [tup]
Ray
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Also the advantage of having your camera with you…
Nice shots!
I have a little bendy-legged tripod in the camera case. Works OK for minor stuff (as long as you remember to shut the engine off before you set up on the car). Throw in a time delay on the shutter and you have something to work with.
Of course, if you play with it a little in a photo editing program (PhotoStudio), you get this:
Nice shots, Ed! Working days, I don’t get the chance to see a good full moon very often. It’s nice-looking out there right now, and I’ll have some moonlight while biking to work, but it will be too light once I arrive. (The yard lights in my area tend to drown it out, anyway.)
I have many good memories of railroading by moonlight, and gorgeous moonrises over the city. Used to be a guy at work who’d try to be the first to see the moon come up, just so he could let out a howl.
Something worth staying up late for…
We had the opportunity a few years ago to ride the Moonlight Special on the Cumbres and Toltec out of Chama. Stopped for dinner at dusk in Ozier, then night time ride back to town. Would have missed the moon, too, if the last car hadnt have busted an air hose. (The train was traveling so slowly, it wasnt really an abrubt stop when that happened…)
It took a couple of hours to change the air hose, but it was worth the wait…spectacular moon, lots of stars, no light pollution…but I didnt have a camera capable of taking reasonable pictures in those conditions…
The moon light rides used to be scheduled on full moon weekends in the summers…not sure if they still do that.
From the three furry guys at my feet: aAROoooooooooo!
Nice shots Ed!!! I’m guessing you were doing the “Moon Walk” from your car.[;)]
Our “Furry” didn’t go off at that, (just F.D. Sirens) but why do I feel the need to shave again?![%-)]
Walt,
Standing under the yard tower, holding the camera against one of the legs…
That’s downtown Houston in the back ground…about 5 minutes later, after I had put the camera back in the car, the moon managed to set right between the two tall buildings…my luck we were headed inside for a safety briefing, so I couldn’t snatch another shot or two.
I was kicking myself that yesterday morning when the harvest moon was setting in the early hours of the morning, and I was about halfway through the field and I stopped to take a picture of the moon setting over the prarie behind a drilling rig that was still all lit up and they were actually flareing some gas at a well not too far past it, but it looked as if they were flaring from that rig, so the perspective made it look kinda cool. So I opened the back door to the truck, and I forgot to grab the dang camera when I left the house… [banghead]