Andy, a railroader since way back, taught me a word a few years back. The term: foamers. It is a derogatory term used by railroaders to describe railfans. The term comes the belief that railfans gets so excited when they see a train, they begin to foam at the mouth.… Read More »Big Boy: Foamers
Last time we looked at Big Boy pictures, it was just starting to fire up and leave Boone. I was camped on top of the Iowa 17 bridge that goes over the railroad tracks and Old 30. Here is the next collection of images: The last few images were taken… Read More »Big Boy: Leaving Boone
I followed the Big Boy for a bit as it left Boone. It didn’t leave Boone on time, so sitting and waiting for it took a lot longer than I expected. I at first took some pictures looking south as they prepared it to leave, then I camped on top… Read More »Big Boy: Boone Morning
I haven’t shared any picture I took for THE BOONE ART CENTER PROJECT since October. During the winter months it is a little harder to track down these images. With the dawn of spring, hopefully it won’t be so many months before I can share a Gallery Eleven. If you… Read More »Boone Art Center Gallery Ten
This is the final collection of images from my trip to New Orleans. There really shouldn’t have been that many. I got up early and went for a brief walk cause there was this Little Debbie mural I saw that I wanted to photograph. I can’t remember exactly when our… Read More »New Orleans Day 7: Southwest Failure
Time to share the rest of the pictures of the Big Boy as it stopped in Boone for the night. I like many of these images of the maintenance crew working on the Big Boy and of people just coming to look at it. Something that really struck me while… Read More »Big Boy: Boone Stop
So the Big Boy didn’t stay in Carroll as long as it was supposed to. Then on top of it, getting out of the parking lot near the Carroll depot was a disaster. I bet the Big Boy was halfway to Jefferson before I even got out of the parking… Read More »Big Boy: On to Boone
Just a reminder… don’t forget to get your bracket filled out for Year 20 of THE ROUNDBALL ORACLES. Go here to join in the fun: ROUNDBALL ORACLES – YEAR 20 I see about 10 of you have already filled out your brackets. Good. Good to see. The rest of you… Read More »Big Boy: West of Carroll
Today is Carla’s birthday. I need to wish her a happy birthday! I hope your birthday is filled with all the crafting you could ever want! Today is also Monica’s birthday. I need to also wish her a happy birthday. I hope your birthday is filled with lots of art!… Read More »New Orleans Day 5: Night Walk Denouement
I’ve more or less finished another page for the website. This new page is dedicated to THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. It breaks down the origins of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE and does a year by year history of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. You can go there to see some basic… Read More »New Orleans Day 5: Night Walk
When we left off last Friday I was still wandering Audubon Park. This collection starts still in Audubon Park and finishes up back near the hotel. This is the final collection of images from Day 3. I didn’t actually take any pictures of New Orleans with the real camera on… Read More »New Orleans Day 3: Back to the Hotel
After walking around the French Quarter I eventually ended up on one of the green trolleys and out to the Garden District. The green trolleys in New Orleans are known as the St. Charles Streetcar Line. It is the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the world. It has been… Read More »New Orleans Day 3: Garden District Trolley
This is the final collection of images from my second day in New Orleans for work back in May. At this rate I won’t get through all of these before my next work trip to Austin in a few weeks. When we left off last time, I was just about… Read More »New Orleans Day 2: Trolleys
Here we are. Time to share all the pictures I considered for the 2025 Calendar but did not make the cut for one reason or another. Could be that I decided it wasn’t good enough. Or because a similar picture was chosen over it to be placed in the calendar.… Read More »I Wanna Have Control
Today’s is Lowell’s birthday so I need to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Lowell! If you don’t know, he isn’t the super tall guy and he isn’t Kim. I simply hope your birthday is without any health emergencies! +++++++ Today is also Sabas’ birthday! So I need to… Read More »New Orleans Day 2: River Walk
Time to reveal the February image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: FEBRUARY TECHICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 FOCAL LENGTH: 68mm APERTURE: f/4.5 EXPOSURE: 1/200 ISO: 100 The February image was taken in New Orleans. It was taken on my second day in New Orleans and… Read More »New Orleans Day 2: French Quarter Walkabout
All of the 2025 Photography 139 Calendars have been distributed or mailed except for one. It is fair game now to start sharing the calendar images. This is the front cover image: FRONT COVER – 2025 Technical Details: CAMERA: SONY 7M4LENS: SIGMA 14-24 f/2.8 DG DN ARTFOCAL LENGTH: 20mmAPERTURE: f/8SHUTTER… Read More »Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand, Six Hundred Minutes
I need to start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year! HAPPY NEW YEAR! That image didn’t turn out quite like I wanted, but I’m pretty up front about sharing my failures a long with my success! As few as they may be. Thanks to Willy for assisting with making… Read More »Rail Explorers Denouement
This is the final collection of images from Day 1 in New Orleans for my work trip. Last time we left off when I got to Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1. One of the shocking things to me was that if it wasn’t a bar or restaurant, everything in New… Read More »New Orleans Day 1: End of Images
I want to start by wishing everyone a happy Christmas Eve! Happy Christmas Eve! I know that Santa doesn’t have anything to do with the lyrics to “Silent Night”. But tonight is my FAVORITE worship service every year. Candlelight Service! Just one of the reasons I love it, is it… Read More »Son of God, Love’s Pure Light
Back in June I got a call out to go to lunch with Becca to meet her new boyfriend and hit up the Rail Explorers. It was exciting on multiple fronts! Doing the Rail Explorers was on my list of things I wanted to do this year. Sadly, one of… Read More »Rail Explorers I