The hunt for Long Neck

Posted on June 28, 2007
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Felt very lucky to get this - another shot of pretty graffitum Long Neck - from the train day before yesterday. The ‘baby bullet’ I ride is usually going around 60 MPH (I think), the train windows are’nt particularly clean mid week, and I’m shooting into the sun when headed south to San Jose. This particular morning the train slowed a bit to take a fork - not normal at this spot - and that helped. I’m also making a mental map of the spots where Long Neck appears along the tracks in the hopes of being able to get ready for a shot.

Nevertheless, the Lumix DMC FZ50 and its Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 7.4 - 88.8 mm (35 - 420 in 35mm format), set to 4-photo ‘burst’ mode at about 90mm (35 format) managed to get one frame as we sped by (a ‘hail Mary’ situation if ever there was one). A little image processing cleaned it up, and voila, Mr. (or is it Ms.?) Long Neck graces the blog again…

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  1. cg on June 29th, 2007 5:51 pm

    pic edited to remove very unfortunate word I missed when posting…

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