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I just returned from a few days in Lynchburg, Virginia at Liberty University! \u00a0Jim 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. \u00a0I feel better today, but still am fighting a spring bug of some kind. \u00a0 On the way back from Lynchburg, Jim and I stopped in Roanoke to visit the O. Winston Link Museum. \u00a0Winston 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. \u00a0He 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. \u00a0Viewing 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! \u00a0His work is utterly amazing! \u00a0The shot above copied from a \u00a0post card, is of a typical old country store scene along the rail line. \u00a0If you \u00a0love trains and black and white, you must get to Roanoke and visit his museum. \u00a0My father-in-law, Virgil Scott, \u00a0worked on this very railroad and the images have special meaning to me.<\/p>\n
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The entire trip was great, wish I could have felt better! \u00a0I 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! \u00a0God is good!<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Winston Link and his camera gear!!! Wow what a guy!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n