Photo-A-Day August 2018

gene_mcgill

ggbutcher

Gene, nice sky.

From a recent trip to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, highly recommended:

WestEndFoto

Rider in the Sunset

mhedges

ggbutcher said:

Gene, nice sky.

From a recent trip to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, highly recommended:

Very nice!

There is a good train/transportation museum here in NC too. It's at what used to be the shops for the Southern Railway.

jimo

framer

WestEndFoto said:

Rider in the Sunset

I'm sorry but have to ask, was that real or photoshop. In either way, nice.
framer

WestEndFoto

It is real. All I did was increase contrast, decrease highlights and tweak red, orange and yellow in Lightroom. I had a rider ride back and forth and let my D850 rip at 9fps when she rode in front of the sun. It took 3 tries.

GPDen

D810 & 24-70mm f/2.8G @ 33mm 1/200s @ f/6.3 ISO 1250 + SB800.

HipShot

I'm back in Colorado again. I don't want to go home...

ggbutcher

@mhedges, your shot reminded me of this one from a few years back:

gene_mcgill

ggbutcher said:

Gene, nice sky.

From a recent trip to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, highly recommended:

Thanks. Your photo brought back a nice memory of my father and I going up to the Moffat Tunnel to watch the last Rio Grande California Zephyr go by. That back in 1983.

This critter visited our yard tonight:

spraynpray

@framer : Looks like @WestEndFoto has shot into the sunset with the usual resultant burn-out then turned down the highlights a tad too far resulting in greying of the paper-white burnt out area.

It is the placement of the sun and its reflection that make this a good shot IMHO.

CEBlueclouds

..common bulbul...

mhedges

@ggbutcher I certainly see the resemblance! Cool. They had locomotives under steam? When I went to the NC museum they were steaming up a small 0-4-0 but I couldn't get close to it.

If you are into trains you may recognise this fine machine. Not the best picture in the world but still it was neat to see it in person.

Searcy

Here's my train shot. It's old but I dig it.

jimo

ggbutcher

Searcy said:

Here's my train shot. It's old but I dig it.

@Searcy, which is old, the train, the shoes, or the picture?
I like it...

@mhedges, the image I posted is from the Cumbres and Toltec, the Chama, NM end. They let you wander the yard, as long as you don't lay on the tracks or stick your head in the firebox... My all-time favorite shooting session is to show up at about 7am and follow the locomotives through their servicing. You can do that from home, they have the world's best webcams, found here: http://www.coloradonewmexicosteamtrain.org/yard-cams.htm

Photobug

Looks like we are on a run of train photos.

Ton14

GPDen

To compliment my post on MTaR (More Than a Rainbow)...

D810 & 24-70mm f/2.8G @ 27.5mm 1/320s @ f/9.0 ISO 500 + SB800.

LMallory

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Bride waiting for her wedding. Shot with a Df and 24-70 lens around 90. Photoshop used to convert to B & W, some noise added to make it look more like film. I notice when I reduced the size of the file for this post, it made her skin look a bit blotchy.

CEBlueclouds

...Woodland Kingfisher....

jimo

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LMallory