Week Forty-seven - "Old Orchard Last Run"

In early December, I joined a handful of fellow photographers from Stony Brook for a couple of days in Maine. One of our intended stops was the Trolley Museum - which would be my seventeenth shoot of 2013!

Once a year the yard is opened up after hours for some creative lighting up of the selected trolleys. For some reason this year turned out to be over-subscribed as some thirty photographers with tripods lined up along the tracks (past years, it was closer to six or eight). The organizers had some scrambling to do to make sure everyone got their chances to capture the mood and the scene.

"Old Orchard Last Run"

For the above shot, we lined up on one of the inactive tracks while the organizer and his assistants walked around with spotlights. We were instructed to open up our shutters for about thirty seconds. during this time period, various parts of the trolley were hit with a beam of light.

I took this image into PhotoShop and eventually to NIK's Silver Efex Pro 2 to do some selective coloring. I left the majority of the scene as a monochromatic and brought back the color only on the trolley.

FYI - that was a real person as the conductor!

Weekly Photo Suggestion:

Fresh out of them - so . . .

Just enjoy shooting!

 A Pearl of Wisdom. . .

Glyme's Formula for Success

The secret of success is sincerity. 

Once you can fake that, you've got it made!

Steven Wright's Witticisms

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.