Re: Railfan sighted steering w/ knees while "shooting" train . . . 
| July 10, 2017 06:40PM |
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Bill Scobie Wrote:
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> That's what I do when chasing trains find a place
> I like park out of the way and maybe get one or
> two shots and move on after the nut jobs charge
> up the hill.
AMEN, Bill – That's the way I've (almost) always done it, and I'm still here looking forward to next year's charters!
> The photo I don't get today – well, there is
> always tomorrow. The nice thing about the
> C&TS, I have found many of the good spots.
True most of the time, Bill -
Especially on the C&TS. But sometimes there are 'one-off' events in unfamiliar territory where you just have to make the best of it, as was the case when I followed the AFT in 1975-76, the Royal Hudson's visit to L.A. in '77, the N'Aw-Leens Daylight in '84 and #2472's trips to L.A. in '92 & S.L.O. in '94. At least I was somewhat familiar with the general lay of the land for these last four, and was able to get ahead and wait at pretty good spots more often than not. IMHO, three or four decent shots per day – and, with luck, one pretty good one – are worth WAY more than three dozen blurry pacing shots with slight differences in the backgrounds. IMHO, this also goes for video – though some folks may disagree with me here.
- Roosso (MUY) Loco
p.s. A couple of times - as with #844's trip home from L.A. in November, 2011, I've waited overnight for an early morning shot, and then most of the day at a second location normally less than two hours further on (see [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net]).
pps. The horde chasing #844 up the narrow, two-lane road from Kelso to Cima on 11/20/11 is too far away in the highly-cropped super-telephoto shots below to tell if any of the drivers were holding cameras with two hands and steering with their knees à là Festus J. Shaughnessy, but IIRC two or three of them were pulled over by the rangers patrolling the Mojave Preserve for either exceeding the 45 mph speed limit, careless driving, or – most likely – both:
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2017 07:23PM by Russo Loco.
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> That's what I do when chasing trains find a place
> I like park out of the way and maybe get one or
> two shots and move on after the nut jobs charge
> up the hill.
AMEN, Bill – That's the way I've (almost) always done it, and I'm still here looking forward to next year's charters!
> The photo I don't get today – well, there is
> always tomorrow. The nice thing about the
> C&TS, I have found many of the good spots.
True most of the time, Bill -
Especially on the C&TS. But sometimes there are 'one-off' events in unfamiliar territory where you just have to make the best of it, as was the case when I followed the AFT in 1975-76, the Royal Hudson's visit to L.A. in '77, the N'Aw-Leens Daylight in '84 and #2472's trips to L.A. in '92 & S.L.O. in '94. At least I was somewhat familiar with the general lay of the land for these last four, and was able to get ahead and wait at pretty good spots more often than not. IMHO, three or four decent shots per day – and, with luck, one pretty good one – are worth WAY more than three dozen blurry pacing shots with slight differences in the backgrounds. IMHO, this also goes for video – though some folks may disagree with me here.
- Roosso (MUY) Loco
p.s. A couple of times - as with #844's trip home from L.A. in November, 2011, I've waited overnight for an early morning shot, and then most of the day at a second location normally less than two hours further on (see [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net]).
pps. The horde chasing #844 up the narrow, two-lane road from Kelso to Cima on 11/20/11 is too far away in the highly-cropped super-telephoto shots below to tell if any of the drivers were holding cameras with two hands and steering with their knees à là Festus J. Shaughnessy, but IIRC two or three of them were pulled over by the rangers patrolling the Mojave Preserve for either exceeding the 45 mph speed limit, careless driving, or – most likely – both:
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2017 07:23PM by Russo Loco.
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