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I have maybe 40 pictures from Catoosa Oklahoma to post, most of which involve Nature’s Acres and the better known Blue Whale. Because of the volume and my need to post information with each picture, the will probably get posted in dribs and drabs. I know there is some way to use Stash to get them all prepared and posted but I've had some bad luck with stash and I won't risk it this time.
Taking a Train Out West
This year, my wife and I took a three week trip out west. We took the train for most of the way and it was fun. I enjoyed being able to look out the windows at the scenery without having to worry about the road ahead of me. One thing that did bother me a little was that there were so many times when I would have liked to have stopped and gotten a closer look at something and perhaps take some pictures. We took thousands of pictures and I have over 600 posted on Flickr. I won't post that many on here, but I wanted to mention some of the problems of taking photos from a moving train. Focusing is impossible. If nothing else, the foreground will always be blurry. While shooting through windows, you have to deal with reflections, glare, tinting, dirt. Most importantly, you only get one chance because the train just keeps on moving down the line.
Update on the Bellflower Photos
I have some pictures of the Schowengerdt Memorial Christian Church in my gallery. I didn't have much information about the church, but recently I received a note from the great-great-granddaughter of the city's founder, John W. Schowengerdt. The note reads as follows: My father, Richard Schowengerdt, just passed away in Dec. of 2021 so now the property with the old church on it belongs to me but I am going to sign it over to an old family friend who lives in Bellflower (I am 67 years-old and I live in So. California). My great-great-Grandfather donated several plots around town for the construction of churches, for any and all denominations the people desired; I have no idea what the original denomination of this particular old church was but whatever you discovered is probably correct. Sincerely, Maria Schowengerdt www.mtschowengerdt.com
The Unfortunate Name of DA
A friend of mine just asked me why I don't just post all my photography on Facebook.
1: Facebook automatically reduces the quality of any posted photograph by something around 90%.
2: Anyone can get on DA or go to my DA gallery and do a word search to find pictures of topics they are interested in. My photographs aren't just for people I know.
3: Speaking of which, there is the boredom factor. Only a minority of my friends are interested in Route 66, turtles, abandoned farm houses. My stream of photographs would quickly become tedious and they would soon tune me out.
I'm sure there are other reasons than those (feel free to remind me o
Updates
I've learned some interesting things about some of the places I have previously posted pictures of. First off, there was someplace I was calling Haypress Mansion I was unable to find any information on the web about this and so it's origins were a mystery. This past week I took my wife's car over to a dent removal shop in Illinois. We were going to have to kill about 5 hours so I did a quick internet search and added the word "haunted" to my internet search. Lo and behold one of the top results was something for Sweetin Mansion. I want to look into this a bit more and then update the photo descriptions, but briefly, it was built in
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