In my August 10th blog, I discussed the heartbreaking reality of historically priceless images being lost to time forever. Specifically, slides, negatives, and prints that disappear when the photographer passes on. However, once the image is digitized and put on the net, the chances of preservation improve infinitely. Buying the image and not uploading it […]
I picked up this spectacular gem of an image on eBay for a surprisingly nominal sum. I then had it scanned, uploaded it to Flickr, and made it available to all for download. By doing so, its existence is safeguarded for the foreseeable future. It was an all-too-common scenario, and just heartbreaking. One of the […]
I turned 66 today. Fifty years ago, on 10/24/76 I took my first “serious” railfan photo. Kodachrome. God bless that film. I was a junior in high school. What you can’t see is that by a bizarre twist of events, I found the Indiana University Railfan club. They accepted everybody. To my right and left […]
A northbound Thoroughbred approaches the iconic, and rail fan favorite, Bridge E-8 on my old Monon layout. The sky I cropped in was taken across a farm field in Maryland. Note the light blue to dark blue color transition at the horizon. I also experimented with slightly warmer hues. Photo editing is a lifelong learning […]
Work continues with my program of re-shooting The Downtown Spur layout. Shown above the local passes Family & Son, a food processing company that is still active to this day. I used to fly to Miami annually for a one-day photo shoot. On one of the trips, I photographed the industry at ninety-degree angles for […]