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[Anonymous]

ED,

I was trying not to break the camera [:p]

And we had to take the shot and run if you know what I mean. The girl who took it wasn't familiar with the camera and had to take it fast so she could get back to the aircraft she was working on. We had planned to take more but "things" didn't work out.

And you know LC was my (pardon the pun) role model. ha, I kill me.

(Trivia question--WHO said that?)

[edblysard]

Cant answer the triva question, but understand the "take the photo and run" concept.
Wasnt trying to knock the photo, the though that you couldnt spend the time, or were forbidden to take photos in the first place had crossed my mind.

I was trying to explain, using that photo as an example, how to take what is a snapshot, and by just paying attention to a small detail, where the photographer is standing and whats behind the subject, and make it into a better photo.
I have yet to find one of my own photos that, in hindsight, couldnt be improved.
Sometimes you use gotta take what you can when you can get it.

Got your Duchess's photos, what kinda dog is she?
Looks like a mini doberman.
Stay Frosty,[:D]
Ed

[edblysard]

Cant answer the triva question, but understand the "take the photo and run" concept.
Wasnt trying to knock the photo, the though that you couldnt spend the time, or were forbidden to take photos in the first place had crossed my mind.

I was trying to explain, using that photo as an example, how to take what is a snapshot, and by just paying attention to a small detail, where the photographer is standing and whats behind the subject, and make it into a better photo.
I have yet to find one of my own photos that, in hindsight, couldnt be improved.
Sometimes you use gotta take what you can when you can get it.

Got your Duchess's photos, what kinda dog is she?
Looks like a mini doberman.
Stay Frosty,[:D]
Ed

[Anonymous]

Duchess is full blood Doberman, AKC.

As was said in previous post Little Red Princess Sasha was a much better dog. Duchess Von Levy might still turn out to be a good dog but she has a long way to go to walk in Sasha's paws. Right now Duchess is restless and want to chew everything including me. She is 15 months old and I hope she grows out of it soon. She has destroyed 2 couches , 1 coffee table, untold books, mags, mail, clothes, $ 12 a pair socks, pencils, ink pens, silverwear, 2 or 3 billfolds, one of my collector cars, even candles, pillows--can't keep em, and I can't remember all she has gotten ahold of and torn up. Sasha was never this way. If I sit down on a couch Duchess starts chewing on me. When she decides its time to get up, you might as well get up because she will not let you sleep. She is stuborn and pigheaded. Sasha never was. Duchess will do exactly like a kid, you tell them no and the second you turn your head she starts doing what you told her not to do. Sasha minded so well, Duchess doesn't. If Duchess would have been my first Dobby there wouldn't have been a second. But Sasha was SOOOOOOOOO good. Duchess has been to Obidence School, Sasha didn't need it. They are as different as night and day. They are not the evil dog as seen on TV. They are very loving and want to be with you every second. They usually take well to people and are very, very smart. With Sasha I knew who was at the door before I ever opened it. Duchess is hyper, but she likes the kids in the hood here. She will sit down and wait on them to get to her. But once they pet her she is all over them jumping and wanting to play. She plays real rough, scratching and nipping. She has the whitest teeth you have ever seen. lol. Hopefully, she will settle down and I can get some new furniture and not have to worry about it. Until then, heck no.


Now back to the original post that started this thread.

No one has commented on the second story about the funeral and the engine. I first read that story years ago and thought it was very nice. When I was in the graveyard I remembered it. As I typed it it really sunk in and touched me. You can read it quickly but it takes much longer to think about it and type it. As I mulled it over in my mind I could see a high hood geep slowly coming down the track and stopping in the clearing. Without rehashing the story I thought that calling in the flagman was very touching. Maybe I am just getting to soft in my mid age.

[Anonymous]

Duchess is full blood Doberman, AKC.

As was said in previous post Little Red Princess Sasha was a much better dog. Duchess Von Levy might still turn out to be a good dog but she has a long way to go to walk in Sasha's paws. Right now Duchess is restless and want to chew everything including me. She is 15 months old and I hope she grows out of it soon. She has destroyed 2 couches , 1 coffee table, untold books, mags, mail, clothes, $ 12 a pair socks, pencils, ink pens, silverwear, 2 or 3 billfolds, one of my collector cars, even candles, pillows--can't keep em, and I can't remember all she has gotten ahold of and torn up. Sasha was never this way. If I sit down on a couch Duchess starts chewing on me. When she decides its time to get up, you might as well get up because she will not let you sleep. She is stuborn and pigheaded. Sasha never was. Duchess will do exactly like a kid, you tell them no and the second you turn your head she starts doing what you told her not to do. Sasha minded so well, Duchess doesn't. If Duchess would have been my first Dobby there wouldn't have been a second. But Sasha was SOOOOOOOOO good. Duchess has been to Obidence School, Sasha didn't need it. They are as different as night and day. They are not the evil dog as seen on TV. They are very loving and want to be with you every second. They usually take well to people and are very, very smart. With Sasha I knew who was at the door before I ever opened it. Duchess is hyper, but she likes the kids in the hood here. She will sit down and wait on them to get to her. But once they pet her she is all over them jumping and wanting to play. She plays real rough, scratching and nipping. She has the whitest teeth you have ever seen. lol. Hopefully, she will settle down and I can get some new furniture and not have to worry about it. Until then, heck no.


Now back to the original post that started this thread.

No one has commented on the second story about the funeral and the engine. I first read that story years ago and thought it was very nice. When I was in the graveyard I remembered it. As I typed it it really sunk in and touched me. You can read it quickly but it takes much longer to think about it and type it. As I mulled it over in my mind I could see a high hood geep slowly coming down the track and stopping in the clearing. Without rehashing the story I thought that calling in the flagman was very touching. Maybe I am just getting to soft in my mid age.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by Alaskaman

Its funny, but i din't notice that pole too. I had my mind concentrated on the headstone.

WELL, did you see the helicopter? [:p]

Check your e-mail.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by Alaskaman

Its funny, but i din't notice that pole too. I had my mind concentrated on the headstone.

WELL, did you see the helicopter? [:p]

Check your e-mail.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone else link us to a picture fitting of this thread? If so please do. [:)]

[Anonymous]

Can anyone else link us to a picture fitting of this thread? If so please do. [:)]

[Anonymous]

Go to www.genealogysource.com/PDR_0009.jpg to see a really bad picture of a UP train going past a cemetary. I don't think this one was trying to convey a certain image or anything. It's just a bad picture. They could have at least waited for the train to get a little bit farther past that tree. But this wasn't a picture taken by a railfan anyway, I don't think.

Sometimes though, a bad picture is better than no picture. There are some pictures I have that are anything but photographic masterpieces because that was the only picture I could get. There have been times when there's been a fence in front of a railyard and I've had to get pictures through it. Some of the pictures ended up with lines from the fence in them that I couldn't see because the camera was so close to them. Another case was when I saw a CN frieght with two E9's on it. The only picture I could get was from an overpass with part of the truck mirror visible in the picture, but it was the closest picture I could get of them before the train was gone. In both of these cases, however, a bad picture was better than no picture. Under normal circumstances I would be sure to try and make the picture look good and try to avoid having any other junk in it.

[Anonymous]

Go to www.genealogysource.com/PDR_0009.jpg to see a really bad picture of a UP train going past a cemetary. I don't think this one was trying to convey a certain image or anything. It's just a bad picture. They could have at least waited for the train to get a little bit farther past that tree. But this wasn't a picture taken by a railfan anyway, I don't think.

Sometimes though, a bad picture is better than no picture. There are some pictures I have that are anything but photographic masterpieces because that was the only picture I could get. There have been times when there's been a fence in front of a railyard and I've had to get pictures through it. Some of the pictures ended up with lines from the fence in them that I couldn't see because the camera was so close to them. Another case was when I saw a CN frieght with two E9's on it. The only picture I could get was from an overpass with part of the truck mirror visible in the picture, but it was the closest picture I could get of them before the train was gone. In both of these cases, however, a bad picture was better than no picture. Under normal circumstances I would be sure to try and make the picture look good and try to avoid having any other junk in it.

[Anonymous]

Mitchell [:)]

The pictures I smail mailed you of the Clinton Library under construction were taken through a chain link fence. I was lucky in the fact that I was able to get the lense through the chain link and it didn't interfear with the pics.

I know what you mean about sometimes being able to get one shot and it might not be exactly what we wanted but it was the only thing we could do.

[Anonymous]

Mitchell [:)]

The pictures I smail mailed you of the Clinton Library under construction were taken through a chain link fence. I was lucky in the fact that I was able to get the lense through the chain link and it didn't interfear with the pics.

I know what you mean about sometimes being able to get one shot and it might not be exactly what we wanted but it was the only thing we could do.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater

Go to www.genealogysource.com/PDR_0009.jpg to see a really bad picture of a UP train going past a cemetary. I don't think this one was trying to convey a certain image or anything. It's just a bad picture. They could have at least waited for the train to get a little bit farther past that tree. But this wasn't a picture taken by a railfan anyway, I don't think.

Sometimes though, a bad picture is better than no picture. There are some pictures I have that are anything but photographic masterpieces because that was the only picture I could get. There have been times when there's been a fence in front of a railyard and I've had to get pictures through it. Some of the pictures ended up with lines from the fence in them that I couldn't see because the camera was so close to them. Another case was when I saw a CN frieght with two E9's on it. The only picture I could get was from an overpass with part of the truck mirror visible in the picture, but it was the closest picture I could get of them before the train was gone. In both of these cases, however, a bad picture was better than no picture. Under normal circumstances I would be sure to try and make the picture look good and try to avoid having any other junk in it.

That is a BAD picture. What was it of- the cemetary or the train?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater

Go to www.genealogysource.com/PDR_0009.jpg to see a really bad picture of a UP train going past a cemetary. I don't think this one was trying to convey a certain image or anything. It's just a bad picture. They could have at least waited for the train to get a little bit farther past that tree. But this wasn't a picture taken by a railfan anyway, I don't think.

Sometimes though, a bad picture is better than no picture. There are some pictures I have that are anything but photographic masterpieces because that was the only picture I could get. There have been times when there's been a fence in front of a railyard and I've had to get pictures through it. Some of the pictures ended up with lines from the fence in them that I couldn't see because the camera was so close to them. Another case was when I saw a CN frieght with two E9's on it. The only picture I could get was from an overpass with part of the truck mirror visible in the picture, but it was the closest picture I could get of them before the train was gone. In both of these cases, however, a bad picture was better than no picture. Under normal circumstances I would be sure to try and make the picture look good and try to avoid having any other junk in it.

That is a BAD picture. What was it of- the cemetary or the train?