Last night, as advertised, I presented my program to the Irish Railway Record Society in Dublin.
I had a large and receptive audience. There were more bodies than seats.
The program was in two parts, divided by a tea break (as per tradition). After a few slides from America, I focused on the main event: Ireland as I saw it 10 years ago.
I apologize: there were no photos of the DART or 29000-series CAF-built railcars, and I probably offered a disproportionate number of views of the last two operational class 121 diesels.
For those curious about my camera equipment: at the time I was in a transition between Nikon and Canon systems, while I was also making good use of a Contax G2 rangefinder. Color slides were exposed with lens ranging from a 16mm Zeiss Hologon to a 400mm Tokina telephoto.
In 2006, I was more than 2 years away from exposing my first digital photo. I was like the Norfolk & Western in 1953, and still firmly committed to the old technology. Most of the slides were exposed using Fujichrome Sensia2 (ISO 100), although I also used some Fujichrome Velvia 100, Provia 100F, and Provia 400F, as well as the occasional roll of Ektachrome.
Thanks to everyone who attended!
In year’s gone by, I’d often presented slides in Massachusetts. The Amherst Railway Society hosted me on various occasions beginning in 1985. The late Bob Buck of Tucker’s Hobbies would often organize ‘slide nights’ and I presented dozens of slide shows over the years. In recent years’s I’ve given presentations to libraries in Monson, Palmer and Warren, Massachusetts. While I’m always happy to try to accommodate groups with slide shows, I’m rarely in a position to organize the event myself.
I was happy to hear that so many had attended your presentation. I’d have loved to be one who had been there but the trip was a little too far from New England . I do not know if you have done any presentations in the past locally in the Mass area, but I feel as though it would be a sell out if personal time and schdule permit.
I often see very uneven rails if taken with tele-objective. In the pic with goods train in distance I see that track makes a lump where the crossing is. Otherwise the rails are in very good alignment.