WOKE UP THIS MORNING TO THIS ON THE LAYOUT..PICTURES!

Great picture's Alan!!!

Thank you my Friend!!

Alan

Light....Camera....Action!   Great shots.  ( I can appreciate what you experience ...my best pictures usually result from when I happen to catch sunlight shining through the garage windows or doorway.)

- Mike

Thanks Mike....I love the natural light....it is the best!

Thanks as always Spence...you are a faithful poster and always inspiring!

Alan

Alan Outstanding

Just like I watched at Mount Storm Power Station 20 years ago!!  Very good scene!!

Nice.

  This has me wondering if anyone else tries to limit the exposure of the sun on their layout? I don't have Low E glass in the basement so I've covered the windows up to keep the items on the layout from fading. I didn't realize that certain flourecent lights also have UV, never knew that.

Hi Alan,

Just amazing shots especially with the natural light shining on the scene's

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alex

Thanks guys for the great comments....I really appreciate you!!

Alan

Railroaded....not that I want to get into a detailed discussion about your question but I don't worry too much about the fading.  I am not going to live long enough to notice the difference...LOL!!  Seriously though...I have special blinds that cover the windows along with the low UV glass.  I have not noticed any fading with those precautions.

I use 6500K fluorescent lighting with no problems with fading at this point...but...the lights are not on most of the time since I have natural light to work with AND I have tall ceilings so the lights are over 6 feet above the highest levels of the layout....this reduces the effect of the UV light.

Alan

Very cool, natural light does so much for photographing a layout.  It just seems to make everything POP!

Great pictures as always, Alan.  I agree that natural light is hard to beat for realism.

Art

Alan, you have done a great service to the hobby by showing people what can be done and done right.

Thanks Guys!!

Marty...you are so very kind sir!!  I am looking forward to seeing you and Dotty at our dinner Tuesday evening...

Alan

Hello Alan • Great Model Railroading & Photography • Congratulations 

Love it!

Peter

Outstanding pictures Alan. Looking forward to seeing you next week.

Great pictures Alan.

Alan Graziano

Very nice. I guess it can be confirmed that you "walk the walk and talk the talk"! As for ad sales being up, another old saying also applies "ask the man who owns one". Hope to say hello at York.

Great views Alan. Not so sunny here this morning.

Thanks so much guys!  I too an looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at York.  Please introduce yourself to me if you see me walking around the halls...I really would consider it an honor to meet you!!

Alan

Alan, you slave driver, you . . . so early in the morning and you had those poor little guys in the coal pit working so hard just so you could take their picture!

And I still get a kick out of those great looking power transformers with the insulators . . . and how you made them!

Great pictures for sure!

Alex

More wonderful shots and effects. thank you.

Thanks again Guys!

Alex:  my wife says the same thing...I do expect a lot from my workers on the layout...LOL!!

Alan

Fantastic views. Kinda unique.

After seeing this I was immediately reminded of the scene in Pee Wee's Big Adventure where he says good morning to his bike.  It's at about 45 seconds in the video.  Thanks for sharing the pictures, I wouldn't mind seeing that layout every morning.

Good morning indeed.

Now if you could only arrange to move the sun around to wherever you needed it, whenever you needed it.......

WOW!!! Great photo's, Thanks.

Forty Rod.....got that covered....it is called one honking photo flood light!!

Alan

In photography circles, it's sometimes referred to as "seeing the light".  

Nice job... Thx for sharing.

David

At Mount Storm Power Station those guys started work earlier than I did at 6 am.  When I rolled into the lot, there was always a backup of 20 or so coal trucks waiting to dump, and a string of hopper cars waiting for the rotating coal unloader.

When they laid us in Engineering and instrumentation off, the VP told us a power company has two main expenditures, fuel and salaries.  Since we can't get rid of the coal pile, we will have to get rid of you.  The honest truth!!  20 years later I laugh about it.  I'm not worth a lump of coal!  

David.....Thanks...your comment means a lot since you are a photographer!!

Mark...great story although at the time you guys lost your jobs, I'll bet it wasn't humorous...

Alan

Alan,

After year of it hanging over our heads, it was kind of a relief.  However, once we got talking about his comments some guys got mad, a lot who got mad were ones who didn't lose their jobs.

I thought when I was going to open this thread, and it being around Halloween time you woke to one of these critters on your layout!

Excellent use of light and great photography, especially when there are natural elements involved (like coal). Thanks for sharing!

He is a cutie, a big old Wolf spider... I know what your thinking, don't go there.