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Day 201: 2010 Great Falls Photowalk pt 2

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The sky over Great Falls…

(1/250, f5.6, 135mm, ISO 200)

The Skate Park!

(1/180, f4.5, 28mm, ISO 200)

Photowalkers.

(1/350, f4.5, 28mm, ISO 200)

These flowers are how they grow miniature marshmallows!

(1/250, f8, 117mm, ISO 200)

OK, I had to put me in here somewhere…

(1/250, f8, 28mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop)

Debbie and the Daily Wife in deep photographic concentration.

(1/20, f19, 28mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop)

Chase and the Geese.

(1/90, f8, 47mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop)

The Geese.

(1/125, f8, 135mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop)

A good photographer will drop it all for the shot.

(1/250, f8, 80mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop)

The photographer from above.

(1/30, f8, 41mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop)

Our Fearless Leader, Chase, and Tyson (in the white hat!), the new photographer and magazine maker in town:

http://tysonhabein.blogspot.com/

http://electriccitycreative.blogspot.com/

(1/250, f8, 38mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop)

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 209: 2010 Great Falls Photowalk pt 1

Sunday, July 25, 2010

The 2010 Great Falls Photowalk was yesterday, and 11 people showed up. A few more were registered but couldn’t make it. I think a good time was had by all!

We met in the parking lot in front of the band shell in Gibson park. There is a flower garden just to the left of the band shell, and these are from there. If it is a normal horizontal rectangle it is probably wallpaper sized! They were all shot with Daily Daughter Cait’s Canon 40D, too.

(1/100, f8, 60mm, ISO 200)

(1/200, f8, 80mm, ISO 200)

(1/160, f8, 44mm, ISO 200)

(1/30, f8, 65mm, ISO 200)

(1/90, f8, 127mm, ISO 200)

(1/90. f8, 65mm, ISO 200)

(1/60, f8, 47mm, ISO 200)

(1/90. f8, 135mm, ISO 200)

(1/30, f22, 85mm, ISO 200)

(1/180, f6.7, 70mm, ISO 200)

(1/90, f6.7, 53mm, ISO 200)

These last three are variations of the same photo.

(1/90, f6.7, 117mm, ISO 200)

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 208

Friday, July 23, 2010

Another UP locomotive: this one is so big it has two engines!

(Click to enlarge to read it, BACK to return!)

The space between the engines, as mentioned above.

Again, if you see this view and it is moving…

~Curtis, homeward bound to /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 207: On the other side of the Union Station…

Thursday, July 22, 2010

The opposite end of the Union Station has a very nice collection of locomotives and rolling stock (railroad cars).

First is the X-26, a jet engined locomotive made in 1960. The jet turbine (used to create electricity instead of a diesel engine) powered locomotive was able to pull 735 loaded cars…a train seven miles long!

Not only powerful, but huge, too! What the sign below doesn’t tell you is that you had to be very careful where you stopped these things. If you stopped with the jet turbine exhaust blowing up under a highway bridge, the heat from the exhaust would melt the pavement! That must have been hard to explain the first time it happened…

(Click to enlarge to read it, BACK to return!)