Archive for February, 2006

A bit of exploration this morning led me to a new location to shoot a wedgie. Do I get any credit for shooting a vertical wedgie with a bit of thought to the composition? I need to re-do this shot when the high-noon white-sky-haze hasn’t yet set in…

• Used Lens Buying Guide
  Quite a bit of information about what to look for when purchasing a used SLR lens
  (tags: cameras lenses photography)
• buch@n: How I Moved to IMatch
  (tags: iMatch imaging)

Today I caught a nice surprise as the American Orient Express train came south through Vancouver. The weather was pretty much crap as you can see from the photo. I didn’t realize it at the time but once I started looking at the photos tonight it’s obvious that the AMTK 186 clobbered something in its path.

Dented, tarnished Amtrak. What a shock.

• DSLRBlog | Adventures in digital photography
  (tags: photography blog dslr)

This afternoon we caught a little sun break for a few hours around sunset and I was able to get a couple decent photos. The prize of the day for me was this grain load with an unpatched BN 3-window SD60M on the point. Shown here about to cross over I-5:

• Southern Pacific Railroad in the Cascades of Oregon, By Joel Ashcroft
  (tags: railroad photographers photos southernpacific unionpacific oregon cascades)