Cool shot Ryan! Very nice work.
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| Posted by on October 21, 2006 | |
This has PCA written all over it. You've got my vote - what a stunning shot.
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ooooooh, one of the better night action shots lately..
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Excellent Ryan, a complete opposite of shamu on the pit!
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WOW!!!! unbelievable shot Ryan
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WOW!!! My vote for PCA. Great Shot!!!
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| Posted by Tom Michele on October 22, 2006 | |
Great photo! Nighttime and how you used the subject to light another part of itself, silhouetting itself, loco and conductor who are STILL and SHARP and plenty of light on the flyby train and that STILL enough to make out what it is. Nice with the switch and bloc signal for dimension. Congrats!
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Holy crap this is a great photo!!! Nice work!!!
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Excellent, Ryan!
(Where have I seen this before, neighbor)
Anyway, a well deserved PC.
Very creative and perfectly executed.
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hey, thanks for the PCA votes guys. Really appreciated and I'd like to a little time to explain the set-up to the shot. In honesty this was a total grab shot after battling for 10 minutes to find the UP 1996 at the West end of Oroville siding. Got lucky with the UP EB stacker taking it's time. Basically I'm standing close to someone's backyard (just to the right) with the conductor in this shot not knowing I'm there (yet). The house owner actually at first came out to see the stopped Heritage units up close (possible railfan). He then cautiously began to approach me standing there motionless in the dark with camera and tripod (caught in a time elapse photo frenzy) and after putting two and two together quickly gave me the friendly wave and returned back to his home. As the story goes, this was actually one of my last shots of 300+ from the long day of chasing the SP/WP Heritage Duo West over Feather River. As noted, after 60+ miles of canyon pacing, I was actually called in to the Dispatcher by the UP 1996's conductor as a "suspicious photographer pacing their train in a pewter Toyota Tundra" (for the record "Pinky" my truck is actually painted Thunder Gray). He of course knew I was a foamer after saying "Foamer go home" and "I think that's enough photos Foamer" a few times earlier in the chase over the radio. My visiting vacationing Dad really got a kick out of this sitting there shotgun thew whole trip. In the end, the conductor spotted me after this photo was taken and we shook hands and shot the s--t for 15 minutes about the days events, the RR, Union stuff, railroaders we both know, etc.. He apologized for the Dispatcher call-in but said he was just following the rules as per the first security warning in the day's track bulletin. Talk about one paranoid Uncle Pete. Thanks again guys for the votes!
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Terrific! Maybe it was a grab shot then, but now it is a "technique" we can all copy!
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Sweet!~
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