Sunlight on the White River and Northern

Here's a mix of good and bad. The heavy sectional track looks awful, and the glaring omission of guardrails only makes it worse. But a scratchbuilt handcar sitting in the weeds at the lower left is surprisingly effective, even under such magnification, and the Jack Work forest never looked better.

Image specs: Graduating to a 35-mm Cannon SLR, I was at last able to capture some decent images. I used the same trick of placing aluminum foil over the lens and poking it with a pin. But this time I carried the layout into the front yard and let Mr. Sun provide the candlepower. There was also no need to retouch the background, since the grass and trees in the yard blended in nicely with the model scene. I processed the Tri-X black and white film and made the prints myself in a darkroom at college. Other than careful cropping and touching up dust specs, there was nothing done to these images.

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