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While I didn't vote for either image in the SOTM contest, I very much liked two sunset/late light shots. The photo with the mountain backdrop in shadow was excellent, and could only be improved, in my opinion, by being a shade tighter on the train...a smidgen more telephoto. The colors in the sunset double-stack train shot are incredible...but I wanted to see more sky and less of the ground. Mark Bailey's image of NKP 765 is also a good one (heck, they're all pretty good)...which I previously commented on. I should have guessed it was a flatbed scan though. Another shot I really like is Rick Newton's Amtrak & church steeple at Kirkwood, MO. Something about the in your face Amtrak locomotive and using the church steeple as a prop really appealed to me. Another "in your face" shot is Dave Cohen's CSX Q-204 leaving Carbon Siding. However, I can't help thinking that this shot would be more satisfactory if he'd been using a faster film (if that would not be too heretical a suggestion)...which would allowed him to have enough depth of field to keep the signal in focus. The signal prop is too important a part of this picture to be written off as an unimportant background element. Don Bowen's Williams Loop shot looks a bit soft to me, but I'm wondering if that was caused by haze. My vote went to Charles Dischinger's Pumpkins in Marias Pass, though it might have benefitted from the units being half a car length further around the curve when he fired the shutter. Just some personal opinions. ...John Reay, Bowmanville, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/John_Reay/cdnmlw.htm Assistant sysop, CompuServe TrainNet forum ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
