Trackside with Trains.com, Vol. 100

[crewshuttle]

For me, both photos were pretty blah. I like the colored containers in Mike'shot, but the rest of the image was rather blah. For Eric, he had the reflection going for him and the mountains. The bridge helped with the photo composition, but the units were blah (but you get what you get for power these days) as were the containers. The scenery is what saved the shot. Nice use of thirds vertically and horizontaly. That also where you beat Mike's shot.

[dknelson]

 Perhaps I was expecting too much, but I was hoping for something a bit more elaborate for #100.

Any examples? We're all ears.

Bergie

Idea #1.  Perhaps there should be a competition where each photographer is allowed to enter a "suite" of photographs, say 3 pics to make it practical, and then we vote on the photographer rather than on each picture.  Almost each week it seems the comments say that the "wrong" picture was chosen for the competition.  Whether the three photos have to be in some way related or not I have no opinion, but forcing them to be unrelated could make for interesting contests.  Right now I think sometimes people are not voting on the picture itself but on the railroad, or on the locale, or other factors. 

Idea #2.  Being a proud resident of Wisconsin I hate to say this but maybe a "no Wisconsin shots allowed" [or nothing east of Madison or south of Appleton?] contest should be tried for a week or two.  Sort of like the slide show I attended years ago that had one rule and one rule only: no slides allowed taken at "the deerstand" (the Rochelle Railroad park).   After a while even the nicest CN shot by Mike Yuhas or the prettiest WSOR photo by Kathi Kube has a distinct air of "where have I seen this shot before?" 

Dave Nelson 

 

[LVJJJ]

wow, lots of water, big sky's of Montana get my vote, oh, yeah, train's nice too

[Bergie]

 Perhaps I was expecting too much, but I was hoping for something a bit more elaborate for #100.

Any examples? We're all ears.

Bergie

Idea #1.  Perhaps there should be a competition where each photographer is allowed to enter a "suite" of photographs, say 3 pics to make it practical, and then we vote on the photographer rather than on each picture.  Almost each week it seems the comments say that the "wrong" picture was chosen for the competition.  Whether the three photos have to be in some way related or not I have no opinion, but forcing them to be unrelated could make for interesting contests.  Right now I think sometimes people are not voting on the picture itself but on the railroad, or on the locale, or other factors. 

Idea #2.  Being a proud resident of Wisconsin I hate to say this but maybe a "no Wisconsin shots allowed" [or nothing east of Madison or south of Appleton?] contest should be tried for a week or two.  Sort of like the slide show I attended years ago that had one rule and one rule only: no slides allowed taken at "the deerstand" (the Rochelle Railroad park).   After a while even the nicest CN shot by Mike Yuhas or the prettiest WSOR photo by Kathi Kube has a distinct air of "where have I seen this shot before?" 

Dave Nelson 

 

Thanks, Dave. We're always looking for ideas to keep this column spicy for our readers.

Next time: Photo from Opheim, IL. 

Bergie

[dknelson]

Thanks, Dave. We're always looking for ideas to keep this column spicy for our readers.

Next time: Photo from Opheim, IL. 

Bergie

And what makes you think I don't know where Opheim is, Mr B? 

Dave

[zardoz]

When Zardoz first made the comment I had the same general idea.  I like the list.  Maybe #101?

Well, Larry, it seems as though you and I are the only ones that liked the ideas.  Oh well.

[Rocket Man]

To expand on the other ideas brought forth by my esteemed fellow Trackside readers, how about letting us choose the top 12... or more depending if we want a twelve month or 16 month...

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[Dampfmeisteren]

 Perhaps I was expecting too much, but I was hoping for something a bit more elaborate for #100.

Any examples? We're all ears.

Bergie

 Perhaps something like this:

Zimbabwe 2008-06-27 Class 15A 414 on the Victoria Falls bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

or this:

 

Zimbabwe 2008-06-28 Class 16A 613 near Thomson Junction.

I went with Bergies shot, which I found beautiful. I liked the wonderful mountain scenery.

Perhaps the image would have been a bit better if there was a little more space on top of the mountain and if you'd turned a little more to the right, so that the first engine was placed according to the rules of third.

Best regards,

Christian