September 13, 2007

Sacramento Rail Museum


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photo by Donald Kinney
(upper) During two world wars, American women confidently stepped up and ably filled the vacancies left by men away at war...
(lower) I never ordered any food, but I did ride the train between Monterey and San Francisco several times when I was a kid...



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2 comments:

photowannabe said...

Don, these pictures turned out super. I tried to take Rosie the Riveter and failed miserably. The indoor light is a bear.

AphotoAday said...

Hi Photowannabe Sue,

Yeah, these days -- I guess it's to save energy -- they seem to illuminate museums with as little light as they can get away with... For Rosie, I had to clamp down as securely as possible on a brick wall and hope for the best -- I'll have to check what the exposure was, but at f5.6 it may have been a full second or two...

 
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