Drew Jacksich Wrote:
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> I posted the photo on the link below here on
> Altamont a while back and, at the same time
> submiited it to the experts at Railpictures.net
> who rejected it because of "poor cropping". I had
> not cropped out the long row of American cars
> (with one exception)in the left side of the
> photo.
>
> I filled out one of their "appeal forms" and
> pointed out that I left the photo as I shot it
> because of those cars. They later posted it. One
> of these days, certain individuals in this hobby
> are going to realize that railroads of any kind do
> not exist in a vacuum. The surroundings that day
> were as important as the Brilliner itself.
>
> Drew
>
> [www.altamontpress.com]
> ,50164,50185#msg-50185


This is the exact reason you have been subject to my praise in the past. When I look at my work from the late 1970s, I see lots of frames filled by trains, and little or no sense of time or place. It's great that you were caputring this back then.