Campo Excursion and Photography Workshop

[TObject]

Come out for a day to enjoy the Border California in the historic Campo Vallley.

Bring your camera; our main destination is the Motor Transport Museum (MTM), one of the few facilities nationwide dedicated to preserving the history and vehicles that originated the motor transport industry. Over 150 trucks on display include a 1922 Seagrave fire truck, 1928 Federal Knight housecar, 1942 Kurtis Jeep, 1942 GMC deuce-and-a half, and a very unusual 1949 MacDonald low-profile drayage truck.

I am going to spend a lot of time in the MTM with my tripod and camera. Everybody is welcome to stick around, or, you can branch off and visit other attractions nearby:

Gaskill Brothers' Stone Store Museum
Hinds Gallery (area military history)
Pacific Southwest Railway Museum

After that we will rejoin and go to a restaurant for dinner.

When: ether Saturday, October 28th or Sunday, October 29th (if you have preference as to Saturday or Sunday, please speak up)

Where: Campo, California, a town on Hwy 94 and Buckman Springs Rd, near Mexican Border.

Motor Transport Museum
31949 Highway 94
Campo CA 91906

[Britain]

I may join up.

Heres some interesting early facts on Campo also.

http://www.sdrm.org/history/campo.html

[Joe Dillard]

I vote we go this Saturday AM.

Mind if I hitch a ride with ya'?

[Britain]

Ahhhhh may back out . Theres a 250 pre run race going around Superstition Saturday. Have a friend Brice running in it. Havent shot a race before.........Clean or Dirty........

[TObject]

Saturday AM it is.

Joe, I'll pick you up at your house. Everybody else who wants to join, meet us at the museum.

[Joe Dillard]

Name the time & I'll be ready with a hot pot of coffee & a slice of fresh Julian apple pie before we hit the road.

If Steve coming?

I'll be sure to bring my camara too.

[TObject]

Joe,

Let's set for 9:30 AM, or thereabouts. Steve won't be going with us this time; he got some other business to attend.

[Joe Dillard]

Sounds good.

[TObject]

Well, this was a great day. We spent over two hours in the Motor Transportation Museum. Then we explored other things in Campo and in surrounding areas.

Here is one of the pictures, and I am going to publish an album in a couple of days.

[Joe Dillard]

I had a great time Sergey, and I'm really glad you didn't get arrested in Tecate by the Border Patrol.

Here's one of my favorite vehicals:



Or how about this Mac truck with wooden wheels, solid rubber tires and chain driven to boot.

[TObject]

Me too; thank you for talking to the officer and vouching for me.

Here is the scoop: one Saturday a slob from San Diego, who works Monday through Friday in a small biotech company, decides to go to the historic border area of California, happily snapping pictures of everything he sees. Furthermore, he decides to take some pictures of the international border crossing at Tecate.

Meanwhile, even though it is just 40 or so miles from San Diego beaches, Tecate is a different world: this is where the war on terror is being fought, this is where bounties are placed on human heads, this is where everybody is suspicious of everybody else, and this is where our slob from San Diego, with his expensive camera, sticks out like a sore thumb and presumed to be up to very evil things.

[TObject]

Please follow this link to see an album with my pictures from our trip to the Motor Transport Museum in Campo, CA:

http://www.pronografics.com/pictures...A_Oct_28_2006/

Enjoy

[Britain]

Thats funny about the BD I got the same reception while working in the Crimea

Sergio,
Did you use the same lens throughout your shooting? Pix are pretty sharp.

[TObject]

Thanks. Yes all those pictures were taken with the 12-24mm f/4 Nikon lens. I stopped it down to f/11, and used a tripod most of the time.

Wide open this lens is moderately ok, but stopped down it is excellent as far as sharpness goes. Chromatic aberration does rear its ugly head; in some pictures the cyan and magenta colors are really drifting apart, especially at dark sharp edges on white background. The picture with the old high-lift jack is a good example of that.

Overall, I like the lens. It?s not perfect, but pretty good for what it is.

Crimea? Are you talking about the Black Sea Crimea? I love Evpatoria in the Calamitsky Bay. I spent a lot of time there as a kid.

[Britain]

Spent a lot of time in Simferopol. Partied around the Crimea when not working. Only town I could pronounce was Yalta cool place.

[Robert J. Yates]

Originally posted by TObject
..... and this is where our slob from San Diego, with his expensive camera, sticks out like a sore thumb and presumed to be up to very evil things.

Bwahahahahahaaaaaaa........welcome to George Bushes' Amerika