75. Train - November 16-22, 2014
Deron-
TRAINing Revo.
You know him, you love him... Revo (as in Rev-oh) is back!
Rev is a voracious eater. Having been shot in the face, jaw left hanging like a trapdoor and left for dead, Revo wandered for three weeks without food and water until a Good Samaritan found him and called the Riverside Humane Society. After surgery and rehab, I ended up with him. He was, and is, a handful. Untrained, undisciplined and, seemingly, always afraid he may not have a next meal, one of the first things he will do is check your hands for food (no, mother, he didn't bite you.). He loves food. He loves to watch me eat food. He hopes I drop my food.
For this photo, I attempted the impossible... TRAIN my dog to do the ol', 'Biscuit On The Nose' trick. After just a few minutes, Rev got it! He sat for just as long as he could hold out, until his stomach overwhelmed his will power. "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
Don't worry, Rev. You won't go hungry.
TRAINing Revo.
You know him, you love him... Revo (as in Rev-oh) is back!
Rev is a voracious eater. Having been shot in the face, jaw left hanging like a trapdoor and left for dead, Revo wandered for three weeks without food and water until a Good Samaritan found him and called the Riverside Humane Society. After surgery and rehab, I ended up with him. He was, and is, a handful. Untrained, undisciplined and, seemingly, always afraid he may not have a next meal, one of the first things he will do is check your hands for food (no, mother, he didn't bite you.). He loves food. He loves to watch me eat food. He hopes I drop my food.
For this photo, I attempted the impossible... TRAIN my dog to do the ol', 'Biscuit On The Nose' trick. After just a few minutes, Rev got it! He sat for just as long as he could hold out, until his stomach overwhelmed his will power. "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
Don't worry, Rev. You won't go hungry.
Paul-
I love trains--especially locomotives. Not the HO scale stuff you get for the holidays, or the kind Gomez likes to blow up on the Addams Family. I mean the big bruisers—and the older the better. This photograph captures a section of the old No. 710 that served fifty years for both the Chicago Burlington & Quincy and Burlington & Missouri River Railroads. It was built in 1901. It is considered a small locomotive (!) and has the designation “K-4 class.” No. 710 was a coal burner; its tender could carry 9 tons of coal, and 5,000 gallons of water. Cars of its class were originally fitted with 72-inch driving wheels but these were eventually swapped out for 64-inch wheels when the locomotives started pulling steel passenger cars instead of wooden freight cars. The locomotive is on permanent display in the Hay Market area of downtown Lincoln.
Our story so far…
The plaintive shriek of the locomotive’s whistle and the staccato clacking of the cars it pulled with a labored-but-steady paced, were the only sounds breaking the nighttime silence 19 miles west of Wymore. No. 710 was already a dinosaur…and a small one at that. Diesel was replacing coal, and expanding markets were forcing a technical evolution where only the lucrative and the efficient survived. No. 710 sensed this transition in the way all great machines do, and pushed on anyway with a pride-of-purpose cloaked in a dark perfume of coal smoke. In a few years, it and its sisters would be consigned to the scrap yard. Perhaps a few fortunate kin would go on display: static sculptures serving as testimony to machinists’ craft and brakemen’s bravado. As No. 710 pushed on towards Hebron, it had only a automaton’s memory of a two-railed past, and no thought at all of a future in which a man would one day render it (at permanent repose) with an Olympus E-500 fitted with a 14-45mm lens (set at 23mm), dialed into ISO 500, and a shutter speed of 1/50 sec. at f4.1.
I love trains--especially locomotives. Not the HO scale stuff you get for the holidays, or the kind Gomez likes to blow up on the Addams Family. I mean the big bruisers—and the older the better. This photograph captures a section of the old No. 710 that served fifty years for both the Chicago Burlington & Quincy and Burlington & Missouri River Railroads. It was built in 1901. It is considered a small locomotive (!) and has the designation “K-4 class.” No. 710 was a coal burner; its tender could carry 9 tons of coal, and 5,000 gallons of water. Cars of its class were originally fitted with 72-inch driving wheels but these were eventually swapped out for 64-inch wheels when the locomotives started pulling steel passenger cars instead of wooden freight cars. The locomotive is on permanent display in the Hay Market area of downtown Lincoln.
Our story so far…
The plaintive shriek of the locomotive’s whistle and the staccato clacking of the cars it pulled with a labored-but-steady paced, were the only sounds breaking the nighttime silence 19 miles west of Wymore. No. 710 was already a dinosaur…and a small one at that. Diesel was replacing coal, and expanding markets were forcing a technical evolution where only the lucrative and the efficient survived. No. 710 sensed this transition in the way all great machines do, and pushed on anyway with a pride-of-purpose cloaked in a dark perfume of coal smoke. In a few years, it and its sisters would be consigned to the scrap yard. Perhaps a few fortunate kin would go on display: static sculptures serving as testimony to machinists’ craft and brakemen’s bravado. As No. 710 pushed on towards Hebron, it had only a automaton’s memory of a two-railed past, and no thought at all of a future in which a man would one day render it (at permanent repose) with an Olympus E-500 fitted with a 14-45mm lens (set at 23mm), dialed into ISO 500, and a shutter speed of 1/50 sec. at f4.1.
Jerry-
After struggling with boring photos of toy trains at the mall to real trains that were highly protected from crazies, I went with the verb form of train and submitted a photo of doctors being "trained" in the use of a very fancy mri machine. The ceiling has some lit up scenes that supposedly comfort the afflicted while they get flung into the tube, that was cool. Those of you who have been in an mri know its a pretty weird experience.
After struggling with boring photos of toy trains at the mall to real trains that were highly protected from crazies, I went with the verb form of train and submitted a photo of doctors being "trained" in the use of a very fancy mri machine. The ceiling has some lit up scenes that supposedly comfort the afflicted while they get flung into the tube, that was cool. Those of you who have been in an mri know its a pretty weird experience.
Kevin-
I headed over to St. Paul, Minnesota this week where there are trains and tracks everywhere. But this particular track runs through downtown Minneapolis, in O-scale form, at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum.
This was a good excuse to try using a bunch of different lenses from a bunch of different angles. From the 275 images I shot I decided that one of the images I captured with a Lensbaby was the one I liked most. I used a grey card to create a custom white balance setting and cranked the ISO up to 6400.
Nikon D4s, handheld, ISO 6400, Original Lensbaby lens (which is about 55mm), a fairly wide open aperture disc (they don’t mark them), 1/640th of a second.
I headed over to St. Paul, Minnesota this week where there are trains and tracks everywhere. But this particular track runs through downtown Minneapolis, in O-scale form, at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum.
This was a good excuse to try using a bunch of different lenses from a bunch of different angles. From the 275 images I shot I decided that one of the images I captured with a Lensbaby was the one I liked most. I used a grey card to create a custom white balance setting and cranked the ISO up to 6400.
Nikon D4s, handheld, ISO 6400, Original Lensbaby lens (which is about 55mm), a fairly wide open aperture disc (they don’t mark them), 1/640th of a second.
Byron-
What I love most about WPOTM is that is gives me a chance to experiment and display the results. This week brought together two familiar players. M&Ms and inspiration from Joe McNally. The M&M train was happy to pose (as you can see) and Joe McNally talked about the fact that you don't always need to use expensive equipment to do things like control light. I wanted to use a snoot over one of my lights for this shot. A snoot is simply a tube that light travels down and hits the subject. They aren't very much money to purchase but I got mine for even less. I taped a toilet paper tube to the front of one of my SB-700s. It makes it into a spotlight. In this photo it almost looks like the train is sitting near a street light.
ISO 100, 40mm, f/8, 1/100 sec.
What I love most about WPOTM is that is gives me a chance to experiment and display the results. This week brought together two familiar players. M&Ms and inspiration from Joe McNally. The M&M train was happy to pose (as you can see) and Joe McNally talked about the fact that you don't always need to use expensive equipment to do things like control light. I wanted to use a snoot over one of my lights for this shot. A snoot is simply a tube that light travels down and hits the subject. They aren't very much money to purchase but I got mine for even less. I taped a toilet paper tube to the front of one of my SB-700s. It makes it into a spotlight. In this photo it almost looks like the train is sitting near a street light.
ISO 100, 40mm, f/8, 1/100 sec.