trains – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

The Girls at the Boy Scouts of America Booth- Eyeing Mobile Ropes Course

Michael and Maura eye Goldie and Tiger

We didn’t play any games but these goldfish were foisted on us by a girl who won them. Sadly, both are deceased already(the first within 24 hours) despite the investment in an aquarium with filter and lights and pretty gravel and conditioning the water etc etc.

The Railroad Display

Petting a calf. The calf was a prize in a drawing. No, we did NOT enter the drawing.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

All seven kids on the inflatable chair at the State Farm Booth. And obviously had them pose for this shot.

July 29, 2013 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, PhotographyTags: Boy Scouts of America, childhood, farm animals, goldfish, kids, livestock, Mobile Ropes Course, Ohio State Fair, photography, postaday, railroad, trains 8 Comments

Shot through a chain-link fence.

I was in the passenger seat and I had my camera out. The 70-200 lens.

We were headed to the wedding reception from McKeesport to Greentree. (Lots of double ee)

Crossing the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge. A truss bridge.

And there was a tugboat pushing filled barges on the Monongahela. (Monongahela means “Falling Banks”)

Pushed the shutter and shot shot shot as fast as I could, no chance to change settings. Lucked out with the cables on the edge and the gull in flight. The chain link fence gives the photo a soft haze and fuzz to the sharpness.

I’d asked my friend to drive a little more slowly but everything whizzes by when you are moving and it was unrealistic to go slow on the bridge. Couldn’t have done it if I were driving as there was no place to pull over. It was a squeeze.

and might as well show you the failed shots, the ones with the bridge cables, the blocking the view, the actual fence.

Photography can be exasperating. You would like to get it right.

There was no time for a turnaround, rerun, do-over.

It was the one shot that worked. Lucky day. Oh yes, at least three below that didn’t.

May 1, 2012May 1, 2012 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Pittsburgh RiversTags: architecture, available light, barges, coal, McKeesport Bridge, Mckeesport Duquesne Bridge, Monongahela River, photography, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday, river, trains, transportation, truss bridge, tugboat 8 Comments

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The Girls Eye the Mobile Ropes Course at the BSA Booth, Ohio State Fair

Tugboat Pushes Barges on the Mon

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