Re: Favorite Photos from 2010

drgw0579 Wrote:
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> Let me use this as a chance to advertise a project
> just announced earlier this week:
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> We are now accepting photos for the 2010 Colorado Railfan Yearbook.
> Send them to railphoto2010@comcast.net
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> Complete rules, terms, and suggestions are at: [drgw0579.home.comcast.net]
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> - Deadline for submit[t]als is midnight January 31, 2011
> - We really want the stuff that railfans don't often see.   We want them to say, "Why didn't I do that?!"
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> Bill Kepner


Hi, Bill -

Don't you mean 2010??

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Not that it matters, as I won't be submitting any - none of my 2010 photos even come close to those posted by JBWX, Michael, Matthew and Stephen et al. I got better shots in 2009, and even most of those are really more like good snapshots than real photographs.

I've already posted most of my favorites from 2010 here on the forum at [ngdiscussion.net] et seq, [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net] et seq., but here are just a few that really mean something to me:

Another "trainless train picture" - taken from Windy Point about 30 hours before the scheduled departure of our "Springtime" excursion.
I'll leave it up to your imagination as to what I was saying to myself while taking this as forty fellow foamers were converging on Antonito ...


Luckily, the following day turned out to be exceptionally sunny, but the planned "Moonrise Shot" near m.p. 317.5 was a bit of a disappointment - and not just to me. We arrived about an hour early, and the moon was much farther to the left than I had estimated - actually, well behind the mountain:


As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it's really the people that make a railroad. Here are two of those who helped make 2010 a great year for all of us - Dave Schaaf of the RMRRC and Rich Millard of the D&SNG. The grumpy Curmudgeon behind Rich is Steve Forney, also a major contributor to the year's activities:


My daughter Cindy (aka Jackelopette) introduced her boyfriend - now fiancé - David to Narrow Gauge Railroading (and Foaming) during the 40th Anniversary Weekend in Chama. Here she is taking a picture of me as they ride Goose #5 through Apache Crossing on August 27:


Michael Ripley also helped a lot to make 2010 a really special year for a great many of us. Here he is in the middle of things on August 27 - the first of three night photo shoots he set up for the C&TS in August:


Thank you ALL for a fabulous 2010!!

- Russo