Here’s another one from my railroad photography trip this past February. This time we’re at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad for a Lerro Productions photo charter, the last one with Locomotive 734 to go all the way to Frostburg due to a recent landslide on the line. Hopefully scenes like this will be possible again soon.
This week’s photo is one from the archives – Catastrophe Canyon from the Studios Backlot Tour at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. With the news that the demolition of this attraction, one of my favorites since the early days of Disney’s MGM Studios, is complete, I thought now would be a good time to post my favorite image from the attraction.
I’m sure many photographers wish they would have gotten images of things that they thought would be around forever but were gone before they could get back to them. I have many things on that list, but fortunately, this was one I was able to get before it was gone.
I had hoped to share a photo from this week’s railroad photo charters, but as usual I’m a little behind on processing. I promise I’ll have one ready next week. In the meantime, this week’s photo was one of those happy accidents. As I was walking back from the Upper Falls Viewpoint in Yellowstone, this little pine tree was just standing there in perfect light. It stopped several of us in our tracks.
Here’s a favorite of mine from a winter photo charter a few years back at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. The weekend started with cloudy weather which turned to heavy snow later in the day. Sunday morning brought clear skies and some amazing light, especially for this shot of 734 in the Narrows early in the morning. With 3 days of photo charters on two railroads next week, I’m hoping for similar conditions and hopefully some good images.
Here’s one from a a recent trip to Colonial Williamsburg. I really liked how the light brought out the texture of the paint and the rust on the iron.
With a blizzard bearing down on the east coast I thought I would share one of my all time favorite snow photos. I drove to Williamsburg the morning after a snowstorm to get this shot of the Wythe House framed by the trellis in the Wythe House gardens. Williamsburg doesn’t get snow very often, but when it does snow, it’s worth a trip to see it.
Winter has finally arrived after an unusually warm start. Let’s take a look back at a cold snap from last year at Great Falls along the Potomac River. It had been very cold for about a week so I thought I’d try shooting sunrise at the falls hoping for some ice buildup on the rocks. I ended up going twice since the first sunrise didn’t amount to much due to clouds forming minutes before sunrise.
Here’s one from the archives. Several years ago, I had the privilege of attending a Digital Landscape Workshop Series (DLWS) trip to Yellowstone, led by Moose Peterson, Joe McNally, Laurie Excell and Kevin Dobler. The trip was the perfect mix of shooting time in the field and classroom time, allowing everyone to leave with amazing images and new skills. Unfortunately DLWS disbanded a couple of years ago.
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With the first post of the new year, I would like to thank everyone for stopping by and following along. As I’m writing this, I find that I’m way behind on editing images from trips to the Cass Scenic Railroad and Great Smoky Mountains National Park from this past fall. I hope to get those wrapped up and trip reports published in the near future.
The coming year looks exciting photographically with two railroad photo charters and an airshow already on the calendar and possibly a National Park trip somewhere in there as well.
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Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas!
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