jgunning Wrote:
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> Not sure where you come into this. Quoting you:
> "I'm no photographer of any kind".
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I am a photographer of some sort. You are free to debate what
sort that is. I have been taking pictures of trains for 49 years;
as soon as I take a railroad photograph in 2016 (if "the creek don't
rise and the Lord don't come"), I will have taken a railroad picture
for each of 50 consecutive years. I had been taking pictures for
some time before then, before a show by Jim Boyd at the Purdue RR Club
made me realize that the railroad world I knew was changing,
and my camera was a tool that would help me capture the present
before it became the past.
I am grateful to Russo for introducing us to the term Phraud-O-Graphs™,
because it so well expresses what is happening. The trains of fifty
years ago can be replicated, but they are not those trains. If I had
taken a picture like that in 1965, I would have filed it in my system
under "DRGW"; if I had been there for this adventure and taken a picture,
I would have filed it under "CATS". They are not the same, and cannot
be the same.
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> I can assure you that the ruined photos were
> deleted if they were digital and tossed if film.
> Why would anyone need or keep that "evidence".
>
> The folks on that charter were all photographers
> and paid a lot of money to PHOTOGRAPH and RECORD.
> They would not have been there otherwise. They did
> not want their shots ruined by someone that
> doesn't play well with others. There were no "sour
> grapes", just a lack of common courtesy.
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and apparently they were there to get a particular shot,
the picture they would have taken fifty years ago
if they could have.
I would have
loved to have been there - getting a shot
of a "new fangled" drone pacing an "old fangled" steam train
would be a priceless juxtaposition of two centuries, a priceless
shot that you could have gotten at no other time!
As I've said several times in the middle of these heated exchanges
"some of you need a hobby".
