Wait for it...

 

This is a case of premature shutter release.

 

Photo location: Highlands, IL

 

photo by psa188

Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face-Homewood Edition

Photo location: Homewood, IL

photo by psa188

Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face-Sweet Home Chicago Edition

Photo location: Highlands, IL

Photo by psa188

Sparks (metaphorically) fly

check out this little "nugget."

Photo location: Sparks, NV

photo by psa188

cutting off your nose to spite your face part duex

 

You'd think I wouldn 't do it twice in one day.

 

Photo location: Alviso

 

Photo by psa188

It's National Empty Chair Day

A Golden Opportunity...

...for the autofocus to fail.

Photo location: LA Metro Gold Line Chinatown station.

photo by psa188

Keeping Track

It's easy to lose track of things

Photo location: Oakland, CA

Photo by psa188

Bill - you are looking the wrong way!

It usually helps to point the camera towards the train.

Photo location: Los Angeles, CA

Photo by Ben Wang

Happy Birthday Amtrak!

Amtrak's 40th anniversary train visits the Bay Area.

Photo location: Oakland, CA

Photo by psa188

Get Back?

 

 The back of a shovelnose locomotive isn't pretty.

Photo location: Bennett, British Columbia, Great White North.

Photo by psa188

UP does it with "Es"

This is the only train I've seen that works properly "off the rails."

Photo location: Roseville, CA

photo by psa188

Use Tango Victor

Or, as we called it in the old days, "shutter priority."

photo location: Elizabeth, NJ

Photo by psa188.

Trains in the Rain

Try to keep the lens dry.

Photo location: Kashwitna, Alaska

Photo by psa188

I can see for Niles and Niles

Video Location, Niles, California

Video by psa188

Mexican Standoff?

Photo location: Christie, CA

Photo by psa188

Hazing Ritual?

From this distance, it's difficult to tell.

Photo location: Fullerton Station, SoCal.

Photo by Darryl Bustamante