Post your Train shots!

[crashton]

+2 Nice shot Marilynne.

 

[Marilynne]

< Won't let me delete this post! >

No problem -- your awesome wildlife shots are welcome anywhere. Do the 'gators ever eat the birds that often seem to be standing in close proximity?

Thanks SP. Sometimes they do, sometimes they miss.

 

[Marilynne]

+2 Nice shot Marilynne.

Thanks Chuck!

 

[Chrissthelittlesnapper]

Nice! Love the creative style of them.

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[Needa]

Updated photos of new Ft. Lauderdale station.



Looks like the freight won't be going through the station.

 

[crashton]

Good thing that would have upset folks in the waiting room. Nice looking station.

 

[Needa]

Just some shot of rail work. Taken waiting for a southbound FEC at the New River bridge.







Loose Screw?

SB seen heading toward port one hour after I was gone.

 

[TKC_D500]

Stumbled across this little guy at the Monnett Ohio Co-op. Looks like half a GE center cab. All shiny & ready to shunt cars around the elevator for harvest season.

Now my daughter wants her car painted that color!! Lol.


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[crashton]

This is the W&LE yard in Carey Ohio at the large quarry. Stone trains originate here & go east on the old Akron Canton Youngstown right of way.

 

[Sandpatch]

From today at CSX's yard in Cayce, SC.

 

[crashton]

Nice shot Sandpatch! It sure looks warmer in SC than it does in Ohio today. Freezing temps with high winds here.

 

[Sandpatch]

Thanks Chuck. Nice here, but windy like OH. Meanwhile at NS's Andrews Yard in Columbia, the train from Macon, GA arrived:

 

[crashton]

Another nice shot of railroading Sandpatch. I'd guess the last thing the SE needs right now are winds to fan the flames. Hope it rains on the fires.

 

[Sandpatch]

Does anyone on this thread edit out large, irritating items in their pictures that spoil composition? Here's a case in point with the CSX photo I took today and posted above. There's a tall silver light tower that bisects the frame and detracts from the image I think. To keep it promotes authenticity and to delete it promotes better imagery. Does anyone have guilt after working such edits? I remain puzzled as to what is the right course of action.

With light pole:



Without light pole:

 

[crashton]

I've been known to do that on occasion. Mostly I'll clone trash out of a picture if it bothers me. It also has to be something easy to do. No hard work on photos for me, I'm a lazy old fart. layful:

 

[Needa]

Does anyone on this thread edit out large, irritating items in their pictures that spoil composition? Here's a case in point with the CSX photo I took today and posted above. There's a tall silver light tower that bisects the frame and detracts from the image I think. To keep it promotes authenticity and to delete it promotes better imagery. Does anyone have guilt after working such edits? I remain puzzled as to what is the right course of action.

Never feel guilty about it, when I do it.

 

[Sandpatch]

Thanks for your thoughts. I don't get too crazy with edits, but in the east it seems that phone poles, wires, billboards and cell phone towers are everywhere. I do my best to compose my pictures without them, but sometimes (as in the case above), I take a grab shot and find later that I also captured a distraction.

 

[Needa]

It not like shooting people, can't have the tracks move a step to the right or left. Agree on the phone lines most of the time they are a distraction. Although occasionally they enhance a picture. We a photographers seem to notice these things more than others.

 

[Lalam]

A passenger train skipping wayside station.

 

[Sandpatch]

Just a shot of CSX at a rural crossing taken this afternoon. When I arrived, barking dogs and neighbors emerged to see what was happening. I stayed very close to my truck and held my D5100 high so that everyone could see that I wanted to take only a picture of the train. Nervous, I didn't venture to stand at the best spot, but rather just took a quick snap and left.