Well it's not often one gets a second bite at the apple. Back when I originally took the California Zephyr I was not fully aware of the color balance issues that both my new Cannon IS30 and my friend's Cannon DSLR presented. Our 2011 trip was largely cloudy where the problems are not as evident and I had only purchased my new camera about 6 months ( Read more... )

Wow, its only March and I am already posting photos of the M-W-T. It seems that my year long effort to reign in my photo backlog is finally starting to pay off :-) Anyway unlike the previous two M-WT's which were marred by first snow then rain, this one was a non-qualified success with around 18 participants showing up despite the rather cloudy ( Read more... )

See, I'm making progress. Last year I was able to use the Mid-Winter Trip IX report as a promotion for Mid-Winter Trip X. This time around I haven't even gotten around to announcing the date, which just happens to be December 27th this year so mark your calenders. Anyway last year the originally planned MWT was postponed a day on account of ( Read more... )

Well I just got back from 3 days at iskreth's house in Georgia and I just wanted to give her a big Thank-out for hosting me. It was a GREAT time and I hope she will have me over again.

I traveled to Georgia via Amtrak's Crescent which runs from New York to New Orleans via the old Southern RR main line south from Washington DC. I took the trip down in ( Read more... )