You can be sure they will be the greatest waste of time you have ever turned blue for. Edit: Ok, got one up there.
Optical Illusion - Watch the Windows [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3oSo5vRg0g"]YouTube - Trains Through the Trees At Dusk From My Study[/ame]
Slanting windows, fascinating. A beautiful example of your cam-corder's relatively slow vertical scan rate....either that, or the Acela was going very, very fast.....NOT!
The "cam corder" is my Kodak "C513". The other illusion - you might have to watch it twice - is that the top of the train is moving right to left and the windows appear to be moving left to right. The train was probably moving about 30mph.
Chain Link Fences - Arggggg! I was able to get the camera lens through the chain link for other pictures but not what I wanted.
C'mon Steve, you're The Man. Most folks use a Daylight Filter or a Polarizing Filter, but you go first class....you use a Chain Link Filter. :thumbs_up: :tb-cool:
LOL - I missed that post. That's me, out of the box. Wait? box? What box? You mean there is a box? sheesh! Here are a couple of shots taken on the way to work. Yes, I _should_ have been on the train but it was such a nice day. 640 x 489
Never posted this to this thread. On the Needham branch in West Roxbury about a block from my cashier's station at CVS.
Don't know about a great shot, but I couldn't run fast enough to get that front pole out of the shot before the locos when screamin' by. -Mike
These are links to short youtube vids of Acela trains going past my window. Coming and going from my window: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxedw8ecBBM"]YouTube - Acella Vid From My Window Outbound to Washington via Providence[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAUsYqZNPXk"]YouTube - Acella Vid From My Window (1).mov[/ame] Location is just outside of Boston.
Shot from a moving car at 70 MPH. You never know when a digital camera will take a shot so it is hard to get a good composition when everything is moving. This was just outside Bowie, Texas on old Denver & Fort Worth line. December 3, 2008.
Through the trees (intentionally): [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHp4XRN7cn4"]YouTube - CSX Q540 Manifest Train at Emerson, GA[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8ha90SM_c"]YouTube - CSX W018 Rail Train at Auburn, GA[/ame] Jamie
The Other Side of the Tracks - From Me The two windows almost dead center are my study from whence this is posted: By contrast (a pic from page 4), the view from my door way:
