June 18, 1998

I love trains. I love the sound, the smell, the roar as they rumble past, the power and especially I love photographing trains. That's one of the things I do for fun. There are websites where many of my trains pics live:

http://www.primenet.com/~jimc/bnsflist/bnsflist.html

and

http://storm.simpson.edu/~tinder/VTWIMuseum/BSVHartley/BSVHartley.html

In addition to trains I like all kinds of big honkin' machines, like bull dozers and trucks and fire engines.

Yesterday I had to do a shot at the dump, or as one of the guys said, "To be polictically correct we call it a landfill." I call it a dump. As I pulled up I looked for an ideal way to shoot this site which was pretty boring. There was a bull dozer driving around pushing stuff in a hole. EUREKA! I see something.

I asked the guy in charge if I could ride on the bull dozer - on the outside - to take my photos. Sure he said, but if you fall off you will be dead and we'll just cover you up - and your little car too. Cheapest funeral in history. They'll never find you. So I did. Ride on the outside that is. Took my pics over the shovel figured it was an unusual angle that most people don't get to see PLUS I got to ride on the bull dozer - a first!

Traveling Companion says this is the perfect self-portrait for me. Baseball cap, big sunglasses and camera in front of my face so no one can see me. Looking at my other self portraits I think he is right

 

 

Some days a fun job.

June 18, 1998

Lara Hartley