Back on the 4th of July I headed up to the Double Nickel Ranch in Granby, CT to shoot one of my favorite non-railroad subject to photograph – a sport known as Cowboy Mounted Shooting. The Connecticut Renegades were hosting a four stage match on the 4th, and I was […]
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Here’s Part II of the Connecticut Renegades‘ 4th of July match in Granby, CT. This post covers the second stage of the Independence Day match.
Here’s part five of the CT Renegades’ 4th of July match in Granby, CT. The final set of shots features the little girl who was going through each stage with her father, practicing with a cap pistol on horseback. For this final set, though, she got an opportunity to actually handle and […]
FYI, I’ll be putting on a presentation for the Mass Bay Railroad Enthusiasts‘ annual trackside picnic as the featured presenter for the event. I’ve picked out a couple dozen photos that span the past decade or so that have interesting “backstories” to them. And what I mean by backstories is […]
Last Friday was a pretty good day, photographically speaking. I ended up taking the day off from work for a couple reasons – first, later in the evening I was putting on a presentation about the railroads along the Thames River for the Northeast Prototype Modeler’s Meet out in Collinsville, […]
Back on May 18th, I met up with a few other fans at the Old Saybrook Amtrak station over lunch for a little shooting & conversation. Despite the cloudy weather (which never really bothered me), it was a good lunch hour of shooting from the station platforms. And of course, […]
On the 17th of May I was able to get out for a few minutes to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 over lunch. It was a quick trip out, and I was only able to catch them at a couple spots. But while out, I noticed one of my […]
Going back a little bit for this post, filling in some of the gaps I didn’t manage to get out on the site. This was a quick trip I took one morning to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 heading south through Groton, CT with some special power in the […]