Hi
Thanks to Ed for our trains photo today.I hope Bergie can use mine.[:)]
stay safe
Joe
Ed I forgot to write down your email address. So if you will send me another pic or two I will send you some “stuff”.
Thanks
Jim
check your email jim:0)
stay safe
joe
Thanks Joekoh, I will write it down this time so I won’t forget it. [:(] [;)]
You da man Ed[:D]
Looking forward to more pix.
Thanks Guys,
Either Bergie likes my work, or they dont get a lot of photos.
My bet is both.
A little hint, look for the unusal when your shooting photos.
I would bet Trains archives has a million photos of a SD40.
I would bet they have very few of a SD40 with a work crane in tow, or a odd shaped or oversized load.
Tons of photos of Amtrak out on the open plain, but not to many of Amtrak crossing a high open truss bridge with the sun setting behind it.
Take the photo of the E unit.
Early morning soft light, and even though it is a wedge shot, I made sure you could see the passenger cars curving around in the background.
And the angle is higher than if I had stood on the ground, because I am standing on the tailgate of a pick up, to better make the locomotive’s lines merge evenly as they receed away from you.
All of us have boxs of train photos shot from the side of the tracks at ground level.
Try taking photos from a bridge, or other high place.
How many photos do you see that shows the top side details of a SD90MAC in action?
Bet you send one in, and Bergie would look real hard at it.
Take Quinten’s photo form a few weeks ago.
Not only did it show locomotives, but it included the track structure, and the highway in the background.
The photo placed the locomotives at a certain point, you could see they were going downhill, and being light motors, the photo made you wonder what they were doing there without a train behind them.
It captured you attention by making you think about what it was showing you!
The photo from last week, with the CN power, how often do you see GP9s, and in that paint scheme?
Take a hint from O Winston Link’s work.
He took fantastic shots of the workings of steam locomotives, but he excelled at shots where you could see what the locomotive was doing, and where the locomotive was.
Rare was the basic ground level head on wedge s
I liked Links work.I didn’t have a chance to get 2 CSX trains running side by side(both westbound this weekend.But I did get one coming round a curve.
thanks again ed. good luck
stay safe
Joe
Hi all. Where do you find the photo of the day? ( For idiots like me) Are they archived as well? Thanks, Richard
I wouldn’t bet my life on it but they might be talking about the one on the main train.com page on the left side. The most recent one I remember is of the U P 's E units.
Just Scroll all the way down, and it will say “Photo of the day” it’s pretty hard to miss.
You can also do search, i think it’s on the left side- under “Resources” it’s photo, audio, video. Then select a " photo of the day" category.
They have like 200 pix there.
don’t call yourself an idiot either[:)]
Leave that title to people who deserve it.
Hi Alex, well You know who I would nominate [}:)] but I won’t go there.
Like you wanted, we were almost on the same thread at the same time.
Some people can real a-holes sometimes, excuse my French.[}:)]
Go to the top of this or any page, click on the TRAINS.COM title or logo, then scroll to the bottom left side.
Got to view some of Link’s work and others at the Houston Muesum of Fine Arts a few years ago, left the checkbook home on purpose!
Stay Frosty,
Ed
I sometimes look at the photo as I rush into the forums. Usually I am in such a hurry to get into the forums that I don’t read the writing about the print. After the posts tonight I took a few seconds and did look. Low and behold the photographer was Ed. Very nice pic, Ed. The E units are one of my all time favorites. Of course the Alcos are my very Favorites–especially the RS 1 s, RS 2 s, and the RS 3 s. The RS series had something few other locos had or will ever have-- C H A R A C T E R. Nothing GE makes has character. EMD had some.
So I take it we e-mail our pics to Bergie? I just got some nice pics of a Wisconsin Central with both WC and CN power crossing a 100+ year old swing bridge in
Sault Saint Marie, Ontario.
You want to see some really well composed photos, go to the posting by the young man ICEtrain, and click on the link he gives.
Lots of really well done Canadian equipment, the guy has a good eye for composition.
I really liked his shot of the nose of VIA #915, I think the photo is #29613.
Instead of trying to fit the entire locomotive into the shot, he framed the cab section with the station shed.
You dont need to see the entire loco to get the sense or feeling he was after,
of a train ready to depart.
Captured enough detail of the nose to keep your eyes busy, and also captured the clean lines of the machine.
The kids good.
Stay Frosty,
Ed
Ed , funny thing, I looked at these photos just a minute ago. I thought they were good. I thought it was neat how they rotated with the other pics. He is a natural or has had alot of practice. [:)]
practice makes perfect.need to go out this weekend and practice some more!
stay safe
joe
SIR, YES, SIR [:D] [:D] [:D]
Camera ready, check
Film ready, check
Batteries oh no, dead batteries [xx(]
Oh so Ed doesn’t send me the pics…
thats fine…
Heyjoe you should submit your pics to the pics of the day… lots of them would be winners!