Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a historic rail fan, Ric, I still have a bit of an interest in trains, and like looking at your rail shots. Your featured shot is my pick too. However, as I may have mentioned before, I'm surprised at the poor state of the permanent way. OK, I appreciate a lot of your shots are on sidings, and they thus have low speed and less stress, but they do look very wonky, and seem to have little investment. This is a big contrast with mainland Europe where high speed rail is a feature. In an oddity of timing, I've been watching the Masters golf down the road from you in Augusta, and double screening, so, out of curiosity, I looked up the membership list of the club, and in addition to the likes of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and that sort of affluent individual, I saw the former president/CEO of Norfolk Southern David Goode is a member. So rail transport must be very lucrative still, as you certainly need a large "wedge" to swing your wedge there. Maybe trickle down economics will straighten out the rail lines for your photos at some stage in the future :-) Douglas On 09/04/2017 13:41, RicCarter wrote: > My lifelong love of trains has gotten more time during retirement. > > Here are a few of the trains that attracted my attention during the 12th > week of 2017. > > <http://2017.cartersxrd.net/2017/Shoebox17/Pages/TrainsWk12.html> > http://tinyurl.com/mcqu3zx > > Ric Carter > www.CartersXRd.net > http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter > > Black and white photography is a form of interpreting reality whereas, > because nature has colour, colour is what should normally be used. The > process of black and white photography can yield very fine results but > truth is still in colour. ? Jacques Henri Lartigue > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information