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- Disappointment
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- Well, despite my great disappointment with this picture, Margie took a look at it, said she liked it and thought I should post it. If I could have hired a kid to drive his four wheeler three or four miles up the track and if there’s cell service up there and he could have called to alert me when the train reached him, then I could have launched Sancho in time to reposition him to where I wanted to shoot the picture from - basically the same place as I shot the one in the previous post with the boat but a little higher up so I could get the full Denali massive as I did here. But I didn’t hire a kid. I was told the train whistle blows at Chase, about five miles up the tracks. This would have given me plenty of time, but I did I did not hear the Chase whistle. Or, if DJI could come up with a battery that could keep Sancho hanging safely in place for an hour and a half - about how far behind schedule the train was, I could have got it. When I launched Sancho, the Denali Star was already coming into view at the corner in the background. I had no time to fly Sancho anywhere but straight up high enough to see the mountains and then shoot.
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- But it was the last Denali Star passenger train of the summer season, I don’t know when sun, clouds, time, temperature and gas money might give me an opportunity to shoot the Aurora winter train on this bridge, so here is the Denali Star, yesterday evening.
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Photograph courtesy of Bill Hess
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