Re: Photographing isolated spots on the C&TS
| September 20, 2016 07:33PM |
I have two hobbies that tend to soak up my time and my income. One is flying airplanes. The other is making photographs of steam engines. People seem to think that my train-chasing habit is my "safe" hobby. In 35 years of flying (roughly 5,200 hrs), I have never been scratched in an airplane....but I HAVE gotten hurt taking train pictures.
My mantra these days is that: There is no train photo worth getting hurt, getting eaten by a bear, having a heart attack or wrecking your equipment.
It is one thing to hike 15-20 minutes (with a friend or two) to a remote spot for a shot. It is quite another to take off solo on a 5-10 mile or more jaunt in the back-country, climbing rocks, fording rivers, and looking like lunch to some large critter.....all while carrying tripods and other assorted boat-anchoring devices. I am not a big fan of drones, but before I'd do the above to get the Cascade shot, I'd buy me the best damn drone I could afford and fly it off the west abutment.
/Kevin Madore
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/2016 09:08PM by KevinM.
My mantra these days is that: There is no train photo worth getting hurt, getting eaten by a bear, having a heart attack or wrecking your equipment.
It is one thing to hike 15-20 minutes (with a friend or two) to a remote spot for a shot. It is quite another to take off solo on a 5-10 mile or more jaunt in the back-country, climbing rocks, fording rivers, and looking like lunch to some large critter.....all while carrying tripods and other assorted boat-anchoring devices. I am not a big fan of drones, but before I'd do the above to get the Cascade shot, I'd buy me the best damn drone I could afford and fly it off the west abutment.
/Kevin Madore
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/2016 09:08PM by KevinM.
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