{"id":1215,"date":"2009-10-04T20:21:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T00:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2009-10-04T20:21:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T00:21:17","slug":"october-2nd-a-gondola-and-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/october-2nd-a-gondola-and-geese\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2nd – A gondola and geese"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Friday was a beautiful day – sun, and a pretty much cloudless sky.\u00a0 Still no changing colors on the trees, but it was a nice fall morning.\u00a0 How could I pass that up, especially when I had a hole in my schedule?<\/p>\n

By the time I headed out of the office, I didn’t know where NR-2 was on their trip south.\u00a0 So I figured I might aim high and head for Stoddard Cove again.\u00a0 Maybe I could perfect my blurred truck shot from the 1st<\/a>.\u00a0 But just as I was heading past the Sub Base, NR2 reported that they were south of MP12 and about 15 minutes from the base.\u00a0 OK, that would be cutting it a bit close – I might have time to get out there and set up, but I figured it was too close for comfort.\u00a0 So I went to my usual fallback plan – Mill Cove.<\/p>\n

Well, when I got to the bottom of Long Cove Road, I was greeted by a smooth-as-glass Mill Cove.\u00a0 OK, this would be worth it – if <\/strong><\/em>the wind doesn’t decide to kick up.<\/p>\n

After a bit of a wait, NR-2 called the dispatcher to report that they were south of MP5.\u00a0 So I moved down to the south end of the still calm cove, and waited for them to appear.<\/p>\n

Moments later a very short – as in one gondola – NR2 appeared, and I got a couple standard reflection shots.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10399] [cpg_imagefixthumb:10398]\n

But next up, I used a bunch of Canada geese hanging out in front of me as a part of the shot<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10397]\n

Finally one shot of the train going over the inlet to the cove<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10396]\n

Not too bad.\u00a0 Next up should be Fairview yard.<\/p>\n

Well, I did get there just before NR2, so I got a couple more standard shots of the train heading south to the Groton wye<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10395] [cpg_imagefixthumb:10394]\n

And at that point I called it a morning, put the gear away, and headed to the office.<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday was a beautiful day – sun, and a pretty much cloudless sky.\u00a0 Still no changing colors on the trees, but it was a nice fall morning.\u00a0 How could I pass that up, especially when I had a hole in my schedule?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,67,68,21,25,22,8,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-1215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-fairview","9":"tag-groton","10":"tag-ledyard","11":"tag-mill-cove","12":"tag-nr-2","13":"tag-providence-worcester","14":"tag-thames-river","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}