Railroad picture of the day
I ended up leaving work at 6pm today (my corporate masters, in their goal to convince me that recovery was indeed the right idea, decided that tomorrow would be a good day to replace the cooler in the machine room, just in time to run into a monday deadline for a feature enhancement and a patch, both of which need the machines in the machine room to be functional. *snort*) and I didn’t make it across the river and to my customary “I wonder if anything will be coming down the line today” bus stop until around 6:20, which was just in time for the 6:15 Cascades to come hustling through.
Today I was carrying around my 50mm f1.2 prime coupled to an equally ancient Takumar 2x teleconverter, which gives me a really fast but odd telephoto lens; the focus functions as usual, but there’s a sort of otherworldly shimmer around the edges of things which is nice, but more of a painting-effect than a photographic effect. Plus the 100mm focal length and the 1.5x crop on the camera meant I had to hustle to get myself far enough away from the tracks so that I could actually take a picture with enough non-eng! in it to be recognisable as a railroad picture.