Those dreaded red letters in my view finder!
So, there we were, poised and waiting . . . .
Mike Gardner and I had photographed CSX’s loaded autorack train Q264-21 (as featured with ‘DPU’ the other day on Tracking the Light) and were waiting for the crew to take the empty autorack Q263-23 west.
For more than an hour we waited at milepost 67 in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
As recommended, I made several test shots with my Fujifilm XT1 as the lighting conditions changed.
Then finally Mike announced ‘HEADLIGHT!’
I exposed a test burst of photos CSX Q263-3 in the distance and then . . .
OH NO!
[insert expletive here]
With a 32GB card, I can store hundreds of images. So many that I forget to even check how many I have left. And so at this critical moment, I’m left pixel-less.
Well, thankfully I had my Lumix LX7 around my neck and so managed a close-up photograph anyway. But there’s a lesson for you in this story. And for me too!
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Anyone else think the last photo on the memory card with the engine adjacent to that strange red building and the beginning of the train on the curve is a better and more dynamic photo than the LX7 photo? BTW is the red building a former factory converted to living quarters? Nice location.
I’ve often found that the pictures “that got away”, whether because you ran out of film or for some other reason, are the ones you remember far better that the pictures you actually made – and of course if you had made them, they would be vastly superior to those that were successful recorded.
Michael Walsh
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“Uh-oh – I’ve run out of digital film!”