Train of thought

Our train of thought is focused on our next workshop scheduled for May 22, at the Danbury Railway Museum in Danbury, CT. We spent some time there last week scouting it out and getting some promo shots like this one.

It will be interesting to see the juxtaposition of old railroad cars and equipment from the past with the latest in today's digital camera technology. These trains rode the rails in the days of box and brownie cameras, instamatics and Polaroids. Our parents quietly added up the cost of each print as we took one picture after another and burned our fingers changing flashbulbs.

Now, as we prepare to visit the past, we think nothing of shooting a hundred or more images in less than an hour on our digital cameras. It doesn't mean they cost less, it's just that the technology just makes it easier and we really can see our pictures instantly.

You see, I still have the inexpensive, low-tech box and brownie cameras. It's the film and processing that's expensive, if you can find it. But the expensive "high tech" camera I bought five years ago is like an old pullman car sitting on a sidetrack somewhere waiting for a museum to clean it up so people can look at it and wonder how anyone could have used it.