I'm somewhat surprised that there have been no responses to Ken Harrison's comments about the Eastrail shows.
Because I was not there, I can not agree or disagree with his opinions of any of the presentations..except one; Greg McDonnell's. I am in total agreement with Ken's assessment. I have seen that show and it is outstanding. There are no other superlatives to express that presentation. Ken is correct in that Greg has an "eye" for art or the unique shot. Greg and I have done some shooting together. I have to admit that Greg sees a shot potential that would have never occurred to me. Thanks to the fact that Greg was there, I picked up ideas that would have never been in my mind. One aspect of these slide shows where I am in total agreement with Ken is the music volume. Why it is twice or three times what is needed has always been beyond me. Believe it or not, I use earplugs at Winterail. I can still hear everything quite nicely. The earplugs are the same that railroads provide for locomotive crews. I will not be critical of music choices; whatever someone wants to use is their choice..........but it doesn't have to be of a level that it drowns out a 747 at the departure end of a runway! One wonders if so many of the viewers of these shows have been listening to "music" on these ghetto-blasters so long that now they are so hard of hearing that they need the sound turned up to such outrageous levels. Go figure. But Ken, you really nailed it on this topic. As my initial, and only, disclaimer stated, I was not at Eastrail. But, I really liked Ken's assessment of the whole affair. I think he told it as he saw it, and he did it well. I hope he will do the same for this month's Winterail. Ken and I both know which one of the shows will be dynamite; the Surf presentation by John Roskoski. We both saw it back in 1990 when it brought down the house. As a "re-run", there is no reason that it will not do the same this time. However Ken, please provide us with your critique of Winterail. I, for one, will not find you guilty of bias if you put Surf high on your list :-). John C. Lucas Looking across the Rio Grande (River) at Glorieta Pass -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved
