Re: Some Afternoon Photo Ops for Oct. 3 ...

> Russo Loco Wrote:
> ===================================
> > The ONLY run-by with good light in
> > late morning will be Gravity Hill.

Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> What you mean-um ONLY, Kemo Sabe?
>
> IMHO, there's a really great location
> just a couple of miles out of town -
> between mp 283 and 284 - where Alan
> Loomis set up a run-by back in Sept-
> ember of Two Thousand Ought Nine ...


But ...  but ...  Willie -

That shot was a TOTAL luck-out!  The foreground there is actually kind of blah, and if it weren't for the fantastic clouds in the background - and the light dusting of snow on Mount Blanca - that photo would be pretty much ho-hum.   You can't count on having weather like that - a beautiful morning after a tremendous downpour the night before - to give your photos some snap.  And with almost any other conditions there's no "There" there.

But I do have to plead guilty, yer honor, of a selfish plot.   In all the years I've been foaming the D&RGW and C&TS, I still don't have a good photo of a train on Ferguson's Trestle with Mount Blanca in the background.  So, if we get off the train at milepost marker 286 and walk directly west along the crest of the hill, we should be able to get something sorta similar - but with the train moving to the right instead of the left - right across the trestle with Mount Blanca in the background.  And if we time it right - and Mother Nature coöperates - there'll be good light on the front of the engine and the side of the train, and a bit of early snow on the peaks behind.  There's plenty of room to spread out there, so if Alan backs the train far enough it should be a great location for both the videographers AND the long-lens still shooters ...    

- El Greengo Curmudgeoño de los Locos Viejos y Verdes
aka  Der DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaber

p.s.  Here are a few more places on the East End - in addition to Lava Tank - that work well in afternoon light.

S-Curve just east of The Whiplash, from Russo's Rock:*

(This would be a lot better with a westbound train, but how about that light?)

A few miles west of Sublette, early afternoon. (Near m.p. 309, IIRC):

(Not much room here, so might have to split into two groups and do run-by twice.)

Phantom Curve in mid-afternoon:

(Compare to JBWX photo on cover of Hollywood's Railroads, Volume Three.)

Rock Tunnel in the late afternoon:

(Again not much room, so might have to split into two groups and do run-by twice.)

Cliff west of m.p. 317 very late in the afternoon:

(This is a location where there's plenty of room to spread out and not interfere with each another.)

* See [ngdiscussion.net] for a crude map of the "roads" near Big Horn and the trail to Russo's Rock.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2015 11:05PM by Russo Loco.