OK, running a bit behind with the blog posts. Been busy at work, and now I’m down in Hershey, PA on a mini-vacation with the family. Yes, that means I missed the swap out of the Thames River drawbridge. Oh, well…you can’t win ’em all, I guess. I did get […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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A few days old, but finally here it is. This past Saturday Bob LaMay & I put on the fifth annual Night Photo Shoot at the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum in Willimantic. Well, it almost didn’t happen because of the heavy thunderstorms that were rolling through the area on Saturday […]
Pea soup on Monday morning. Yep, a foggy start to the week, but that didn’t really keep me from heading out and trying to catch some rail action. I did get lucky, though – caught New England Central train NERWNE heading back north in Waterford & Montville, then bagged Providence […]
Today started off with me thinking that I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the gorgeous weather today. I had meetings scheduled this morning, and by the time they’d be over, I would have missed Providence & Worcester train NR-2. Well as luck would have it (even on such […]
I had to go into work late today for a doctor’s appointment, so I swung by to check out the Thames River drawbridge, and of course play with the new 40D. Then after I got home, I had to go into Willimantic to get something at the hardware store, and […]
Well, I couldn’t wait to try out the new 40D. So I broke out the telescope (Celestron Super C8+, 8″ 2,000mm f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope) and took a shot of the moon.
Well, at just a hair over 80,000 frames, I’ve officially shelved my venerable Canon EOS 20D body. To be totally truthful, this wasn’t a voluntary move. My 20D decided to die yesterday – the shutter button is stuck in the half-press mode, making some functions impossible (like viewing anything on […]
Damn it’s hot…I managed to get a few shots in yesterday – I had to come in late to work (kids were sick), and I bagged a sub leaving for sea, as well as a heavy crane that was brought in to remove the counterweight on the existing bascule span […]
Phew, finally caught up completely! Shot these this past Tuesday the 3rd – I ended up catching Providence & Worcester train NR-2 at Mill Cove, and again crossing the Thames River, and sandwiched in between was a westbound Amtrak Acela crossing the Thames. And something I mentioned in the post […]
Some interesting reading from across the pond about photography, the misguided perception the public has for us, and where they got it from. Head here… Glad someone gets it… -Tom