by Aaron Hockley on July 20, 2006
Tonight I spent a few hours in the gorge and got several decent shots. Here’s a teaser with the rest to be posted in the coming days.
I found this new looking-up angle from the Port of Klickitat. This train is sitting at West Bingen. It was stopped here for quite a while due to an open tank car hatch that was discovered on a rollby. Since it was hot, I gave the conductor a ride to the back of the train (and back forward) for him to check it out. He seemed grateful for the ride… it was a tad warm. The 70.7 detector was annoucing an ambient temperature around 108 degrees at the time.
More Gorge treats to come this weekend…
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by Aaron Hockley on July 19, 2006
A quick trip to the center today led to a stack train departing from a crew change just as I arrived. First, it comes around the curve onto the yard lead as a group of safety-vest-laden recruits walks near an adjacent track:
As the train came around the corner, I did a double-take trying to identify the second unit. And here I present the foamy picture of the day of MRL 680, an ex-NW high-hood SD45.
And that’s the train of the day…
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by Steve Eshom on July 19, 2006
You probably saw the announcements this morning about Adobe’s Lightroom Beta 3 for Windows. So, what is Lightroom? Lightroom is a workflow and editing package which is one part Photoshop, one part photo organizer, and one part import tool. Adobe calls it a ‘project’ at this point because as they describe, the software is being ”built from the ground up by photographers, for photographers”. According to Adobe the goal is to provide a flexible streamlined work flow adaptable for any photographer or photographic style.
As a Windows user, this is my first opportunity to get my hands on this and see what it can do for me. I’m excited about this because from what I’ve heard from my Mac friend this software is spectacular and really improves the import functions. My current photo editing tool is Photoshop Elements 3.0. This software is certainly adequate for the amateur photographer and has served me well. I’ve long been thinking about jumping to CS2, but on the average foamer budget that isn’t necessarily possible. According to what I’ve read, Lightroom is supposed to be priced somewhere between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. So, if the price is right and the features are focused to photographers this could be the right thing for advancing the state of the art in my room.
If you are serious about your digital railfan photography and digital processing, go check out the 20 minute overview video on the Lightroom site and see what you think.
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by Aaron Hockley on July 19, 2006
I’m excited to announce that a second person will now be posting here on Dogcaught. Steve Eshom is another Pacific Northwest railfan with a good photographic eye and some interesting thoughts on railroading. I’m looking forward to his participation here and have updated a few things on the site to reflect this is now a two-man effort. To see some of Steve’s past photography work, check out his gallery.
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by Aaron Hockley on July 18, 2006
If you haven’t checked out Trainfoamers, you should. It’s where a lot of the decent ex-Trainorders members (photobob, Don Winslow, MargaretSPfan) have gone, and it hasn’t yet been invaded by the immature teenagers that seem to be taking over RailroadForums.
The other site worth monitoring at the moment is RailroadPhotoEssays – it’s a bit slow, but the quality of the material and discussions is usually pretty good.
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