I just noticed that Saturday, May 9, the day I'm traveling to Denver on Amtrak's California Zephyr, is National Train Day.
I'm not sure exactly how I'll document my trip this time. On previous trips, I managed to shoot some nice images with Lomo LC-A+ and Yashica Samurai X3.0 analog 35mm cameras, but I'm now wondering whether I ought to concentrate on making fewer photos, but with greater compositional thought and technical quality.
Of course, I shouldn't discount the iPhone. One of my favorite views from the California Zephyr, "Late Night, Somewhere in Nebraska," was taken by an iPhone photographer.
I'm thinking especially of a shot (shown below) I grabbed with my iPhone while the California Zephyr stopped in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. A lone coin laundry was open, and it cast a pale light into the deserted street. If I'd had a manual-control film camera with me, I could have done a lot better with that shot, I think.
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