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Choo-Choo

Well, just because…

Choo-Choo

I’ve been shooting this location for the past couple months.  Today was the first time I saw the engines parked so..why not, right?

Catching The Train

I’ve wanted to shoot aerial images of a train.  I just think it would be cool, but I just haven’t been in the right place at the right time so far.  Today I heard the train, but I was at home when I did.  I figured I’d try to catch it.  And I did.  The image isn’t that impressive, but in capturing this image, I was at the limits of both distances (altitude and distance from transmitter).  I have to fly it higher if I want to go further from me to maintain a solid signal between transmitter and receiver.  It’s more than a little unnerving when you’ve lost sight of the craft and you’re just about to lose visuals and geo-location in the monitor.  It doesn’t look very far on a map, but it’s a good 500-600 meters away from me.

Catching The Train

It’s pretty cool that the geo-location of the image includes the altitude – 389.2 feet by the way.

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Parks & Recreation

It’s cool when life comes full circle.  I worked at Frederick County Parks and Recreation when I moved to Winchester about 14 years ago, but moved on to a new career.  Now I get to bring that new career back to FCPRD as I create some new media content for them.  It’s gonna be a fun summer.

Clearbrook Park is just north of Winchester, VA and, along with some awesome walking trails, boasts a vintage caboose.

Clearbrook Park is just north of Winchester, VA and, along with some awesome walking trails, boasts a vintage caboose. | Order a print of this image.

Tracks

Every photographer has a huge pile of images that have either gone horribly wrong.  Or maybe said photographer thought, at the shoot, that the image was worth shooting, but got back to their desk and realized how horribly wrong they were.  I took this image back when I first started dabbling in HDR processing and haven’t gone back to that set of images…until now.  I’m posting the three images that made up the final just so I can remember how bad I thought the original images were.

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And here’s the final image after some typical post-processing – I could do without all the noise, though.

These are the train tracks that cross Millwood Ave, in Winchester. I took this image in 2012 and am just now processing it.

These are the train tracks that cross Millwood Ave, in Winchester. I took this image in 2012 and am just now processing it.

Path

I heard myself vocalize it today.  I’m a photographer.  I had a friend suggest that I collect unemployment while I search for a job.  And I heard myself say that I’m not sure I want to look right now.  I’m a photographer.  At least for now.  Life is certainly going to throw curveballs at you from time to time and this one has been a whopper, but I think I’ve created a path that I’m going to follow and see where this crazy adventure takes me.  As long as I’ve got access to my cameras and a nice day for a bike ride, I’ll be good for now.

Thanks Carla.

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