I'm here...
I have a mantra I dust off once in a while when I'm on the margins of a photography trip. It goes, "I'm here, the train is here, and I have a camera". Sounds a little basic but it's for times when I've exhausted what I deemed to be the peak scenery, peak lighting, peak subject matter, and am struggling with the motivation to keep shooting.
That was pretty much the case here. I'd struck out on the Iowa Northern all day, I didn't intercept the LMN17 until sunset, and I was several hours from home. Yet still, LMN17 was quite quick with their work at Manly, getting back on the move before it was fully dark. I turned to the above mantra and kept shooting. It served me well. I knew from shooting the blue hour at home that the a6700 could deliver a nice result if the elements came together. So it was that I set up along this open field just south of Kensett and shot a series of pan shots as the handsome Geeps sped north. It may be the best shot I took all day. November 11, 2024.
I'm here...
I have a mantra I dust off once in a while when I'm on the margins of a photography trip. It goes, "I'm here, the train is here, and I have a camera". Sounds a little basic but it's for times when I've exhausted what I deemed to be the peak scenery, peak lighting, peak subject matter, and am struggling with the motivation to keep shooting.
That was pretty much the case here. I'd struck out on the Iowa Northern all day, I didn't intercept the LMN17 until sunset, and I was several hours from home. Yet still, LMN17 was quite quick with their work at Manly, getting back on the move before it was fully dark. I turned to the above mantra and kept shooting. It served me well. I knew from shooting the blue hour at home that the a6700 could deliver a nice result if the elements came together. So it was that I set up along this open field just south of Kensett and shot a series of pan shots as the handsome Geeps sped north. It may be the best shot I took all day. November 11, 2024.