Recent content by Sandpatch

I've done the same with trains @Clovishound, looking to see at what time a train passed by the last time I visited an area. It helps me better the odds of finding a train. (y) Checked my D5100 last night. It tends to slip several minutes in six months, so I always correct the clock while I'm...

Thank you once again Marilynne. I mentioned this task on a railroad forum a year of two ago and some guy thought it was dumb. I disagreed. Most of us who enjoy photography shoot with care and precision. Why wouldn't we also want to take a moment two times a year to be sure our date and time...

April 1995 at Asheville, NC [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Someone has suggested that with UP running the show, NS's much diminished steam program might be reenergized. It'd be great to see 611 and 1218 back on the mainlines.

Thank you Chuck. Looking at the picture again, I need to go back when autumn colors are present. Those trees would look great then.

Coal train 786 from today at Blythewood, SC. A third locomotive was pushing at the rear. [D5100]

I struggle with the metering settings on my unsophisticated D5100 and have settled in with Matrix as being the best, but it still fails me at times. With my favorite subject being trains, locomotives have extremely bright headlights and regardless of setting, the camera then closes the aperture...

Caught this at Hazel Patch, KY located about 70 miles south of Lexington. [March 1996, Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

I've also been to Danville a few times. This is the former Southern Railway station there. It's still in use today by Norfolk Southern. [March 1990, Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Thanks! I definitely need to find my way there some day. I think the closest I've been is Lexington where I shot the Southern Railway station in June 1978. Sadly, it burned in May of 1991 and was demolished in July 1992.

I want to return here on a sunny day. [Kings Mountain, NC, 09/07/2025, [D5100]

Such a serious face! :D I enjoyed this set of pictures.

I've done a deep dive on this and find that most LCD screens to not provide black contrast adjustment, even by accessing the video card drivers. My wife checked her new Apple laptop and there's no adjustment for it there either. I think the answer is technical and has something to do with LCD...

Thank you. I took a look, but found that "Contrast Themes" change or reverse colors to make tools such as Excel and Word easier to see. Each of the options produce a radically different screen not intended for adjustment. Sigh. There's also a tool to adjust text readability, but that doesn't...

Looking around on the Internet, I'm not the only one who's noticed what I have. It's a Windows 11 thing some say.