by EricB
I've asked myself this question many times... At first when I was younger I wanted to get good enough to get paid and published but now I seem to have lost interest in that. I used to think the only way to be a good railroad photographer was to go out and get as much variety on film as possible like Don Ball JR and Jim Boyd, but later I embraced the O Winston Link approach; Pick a subject and record it well. I have a desk full of RR pictures from all over the country and none of them mean as much as the ones I've taken in my own back yard... Today I'm happy to just go out to the local tourist railroad and make pictures. I can concentrate all my efforts on getting great pictures instead of trying to go to a remote location and attempt to find original locations that the locals haven't thought of already...