Daily Archives: April 19, 2012

 

 

I just returned from a few days in Lynchburg, Virginia at Liberty University!  Jim Begley and I spoke to several of Tim Isaacson’s photography classed and did a program for the the community on Tuesday night, we had a blast. I apologize for missing a post, I was pretty sick when I got home last night, and I really needed to crash and rest.  I feel better today, but still am fighting a spring bug of some kind.   On the way back from Lynchburg, Jim and I stopped in Roanoke to visit the O. Winston Link Museum.  Winston Link was a commercial photographer from New York who took a great interest in the steam engines commonly running on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the mid 1950’s to the mid 1960’s.  He saw and era coming to and end and he committed to make over 1,000 trips down to the region to record the great steam engines all over the line.  Viewing his images was an amazing experience, especially knowing he shot them with an 8X10 view camera and lit all his subjects with massive numbers of flash bulbs in large reflectors!  His work is utterly amazing!  The shot above copied from a  post card, is of a typical old country store scene along the rail line.  If you  love trains and black and white, you must get to Roanoke and visit his museum.  My father-in-law, Virgil Scott,  worked on this very railroad and the images have special meaning to me.

 

The entire trip was great, wish I could have felt better!  I am safely home and trying ot heal up, I awoke this morning to beautiful fog in my back yard tgrees, feels wonderful to be home!  God is good!

 

the pilgrim

 

 

Winston Link and his camera gear!!! Wow what a guy!