And this one isn’t a steam loco … but how many color pictures of diesel locomotives from the forties do you think exist? And at night too … I’m seeing shades of O. Winston Link here (well, except that it is color and a diesel …).
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The Library of Congress has uploaded 3,000 public domain images from the 1940s to Flickr … and may eventually upload more of its collection. The photo above is one of the many that are already available; I found it while searching for “locomotive.”
There are also a number of images taken in Chattanooga as well. I had hoped to find some that had locomotives from the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis or Norfolk and Western railroads … but no such luck yet.
Many of the locomotive-related photos are eerily beautiful, like the ones below (the images are linked to their corresponding Flickr pages if you’re interested). And … they’re in color, which is especially cool for photographs from this era.
I really can’t get over the beauty of those last few.
Oh, and if you’d like a quick shortcut to the ‘home page’ of the photos, look no further: Flickr Photos from The Library of Congress.
Hat Tip: Reason Magazine
Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted any photos …
So, I finally signed up for an account of Facebook. As a result, I found it necessary to create a self-portrait to use as my profile picture. After a good bit of monkeying around with the camera on my BlackBerry Pearl, and then some post-processing in Photoshop, I ended up with this …
I like it.
Now it’s time for bed.
On the way back from Texas, we stayed in Baton Rouge an extra night so I could visit the old State House (capital) building. I’ve developed something of a fascination with Huey Long over the last few years, and there are some artifacts there related to him, as well as a animated Huey robot that carries on conversations with an old radio. Not sure what ol’ Huey would think about that …
Around sunset the night we arrived, I headed downtown to take some photos. Here are two of my favorites, along with a photo of the riverfront exterior of the building the next day.
I wholeheartedly recommend you visit the old State House if you’re in the area. It’s a truly remarkable building.
While I was there, I picked up a bio of Huey. I’m about halfway done with it now … it’s a fascinating read. The book in question is Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams.
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[Note: This was written on the evening of Thursday, June 14, 2007, while I was still in Raymondville. However, I'm going to have to wait to post this a few days, since I've not got access to an internet connection here.]
I have a confession to make. This won’t really come as a surprise to [some] of those who know me well, but I absolutely love visiting Rachel’s grandparents in the Rio Grande Valley. They live just outside of Raymondville, and I start to get excited inside a few months before we actually make the trek out here. Yes, I know … the Valley lacks one of the geological features that are generally a requirement for the “places Jeremy likes” label … namely mountains (specifically of the Appalachian variety), but heck … if I were going somewhere not in the mountains, this would be at the top of my list.
We’ve been here since Monday evening, and the closest I’ve come to rushing around is trying to get to a few locations to snap photos when the light was right. The following two photos are my two favorites from this particular trip.
The first is of some prickly pear cactii by the fence separating the little town of Port Mansfield from the King Ranch. I sort of stumbled on this shot … I was poking around looking for something to photograph while my father-in-law and brother-in-law were fishing, and more or less aimed the camera blindly at this large cactus, and took a long exposure shot, and ended up with this …
At least for us amateurs, getting a great shot like that while shooting blindly is rewarding. After all, most of the time (at least for me) I just get lucky while shooting things and come up with a really great shot. This next shot is the kind that (so far) has only happened to me a few times …
This one is a photo of the gin at Lyford, TX. I’d been by it a few times in the last few days, and thought to myself that it would make a really awesome shot at night with the sun having just set behind it … especially with the motion blur of a grain truck passing by.
Well, I got exactly what I was looking for, and boy am I happy with it.
Side note … I was out across the road about 35 minutes waiting for the light conditions to be just right for this shot. My poking around bothered the guys at the gin enough that they sent a fellow out in a truck to see what I was up to. I’ve sent them an 8×10 print of this photo … hopefully they’ll like it.
Good grief, it’s been almost a month since I posted. I need to get caught up with work and make posting here a priority again.
I finally have gotten around to posting all my decent photos from 1776, albeit the unedited versions. I’ve started editing them, but there are nearly 400, and it’s going to take a while. Eventually I’ll get done with them …
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