Below are some of my favorites from 765 invading the Tug Fork Valley on Saturday, August 4. My favorite is below as she exits Kentucky on the wye at Ought One. What a site she was but the sound of that hooter whistle was even better!
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So was that you sitting in the Cutsu at Ott One ?
Anyway great pictures 
They are nice shots, but you punched up the color too much in Photoshop. They look "artificial" and don't look natural.
I like the effect! Rich, you probably would have criticized Michelangelo ....
When Michelangelo was finishing the David, along came Piero Soderini, the town mayor or boss, to have a look. Michelangelo had put a canvas around the scaffolding so no one could watch him work. He didn’t like gawkers and he didn’t like intruders, not even patron intruders. So when he saw that canvas flap open and the mayor come in, though he had to smile, he must have cursed to himself. Piero Soderini put on the show of the art connoisseur, walking around under the huge figure. “It’s coming along wonderfully,” said Piero Soderini. “But do you know what? The nose is too thick.”
Criticism like that must have made the irascible Master’s blood boil. He knew that from where Soderini was standing it was impossible to judge whether the nose or anything else was right. “Well, we’ll fix that right now,” he said; and quickly grabbing a hammer and chisel, climbed up the scaffold like a monkey. Clink, clink—Soderini heard the hammer against the chisel and saw marble dust fall. Clink some more. “How’s that?” Michelangelo called down from the scaffold. Of course he hadn’t touched the figure at all but only pretended to be altering the nose.
“Oh, that’s much better!” exclaimed the mayor. “Now you’ve really put life into it.”
Vasari says Michelangelo “climbed down, feeling sorry for those critics who talk nonsense in the hope of appearing well-informed.”
Enjoyed all the pictures. Thank you
Great pics.
Nice steam photos! I love the Tug Fork area around Ought One! Been there many times having driven the bumpy service road from near Vulcan, all the way to Mohawk. Lots of really cool spots to catch trains. And the locals alway seem amused by the fact that a "northern" boy from Illinois finds his way down there to photograph "their" trains.....
Originally Posted by JB_GPS:
Vasari says Michelangelo “climbed down, feeling sorry for those critics who talk nonsense in the hope of appearing well-informed.”
Sorry you think my criticism is "nonsense." And I guess I'm ill-informed, too. But then again, I work on images in Photoshop literally every day, so what do I know?
