Dave Honan's Photography

10/22/07

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05/13/07

• March 02 (Scenic Subdivision)
• March 25 (Stampede & Yakima Valley Subs)
• April 15 (Wenatchee area)
• April 20 (Spokane to Radium Hot Springs, BC)
• April 21 (Golden to Revelstoke, BC)
• April 22 (Golden, BC to Lake Louise, AB)
• April 23 (Golden, BC to Ritzville, WA)

There are a few holes in there from trips I have not yet written up, so not all of the Next and Previous links will work.

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05/06/07

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01/09/07

• April 23 (Carkeek Park)
• April 29 (Carkeek Park)
• April 30 (Scenic Subdivision)
• May 18 (GorgeRail Day 0)
• May 19 (GorgeRail Day 1)
• May 20 (GorgeRail Day 2)
• May 21 (GorgeRail Day 3)

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01/01/07

I've posted a few more photoessays:

• March 12
• March 19
• April 22

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12/30/06

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12/27/06

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12/26/06

First off, an announcement: My Railroads of North America 2007 Calendar is now available for sale at Lulu.com. I intend to publish a calendar each year to highlight some of the best of my seasonal photography from the previous year, along with a few selected photos from the archives. If you elect to purchase this year's inaugural work, please don't hesitate to email me with any comments or suggestions that could help me improve future editions.

A recent discussion on the ObsCar list started me thinking about this website, particularly why I haven't been maintaining it. My thoughts boiled down to the basic fact that trying to organize all my photos by line segment and milepost was just too burdensome. Yes, the format provided a ready reference source and allowed visitors to see the terrain through which a line passed, but there was little continuity and an update required posting a photo to two separate pages (its permanent page and the "newest" page). I decided it was time for a change.

For the last three and a half years, I've been maintaining a blog that has provided an easy method for posting recent photos, and I realized shifting that format to this site would allow me to make frequent updates without having to attempt to maintain prior postings. So, here's how things will work henceforth: The old "railroad photography" menu category has been renamed "way east," named after a passage from one of my favorite books, Terry Pindell's Making Tracks. Basically, I have no plans to update any of those pages, and I'm not sure what will become of my photos from 2004 & 2005; perhaps someday I'll get around to adding them in as blog-type pages. Current photos will be posted under the new "out west" menu, arranged by date.

So, to get things started, I've posted three entries from last winter:

• January 04, exploring around Wyoming's Powder River Basin
  
• January 06, traveling through eastern Oregon
  
• February 11, my first explorations in the Seattle area

I also moved my Day in North America 2004 photoessay and Thanksgiving 2004 visit to the Housatonic from the two-year-old "temporary" site to their permanent home here, and separated the coal industry and draglines pages into their own directory.

With the new framework now in place, I hope to be able to update the site more frequently. Thank you for your patience over the last two years as I neglected this space; hopefully you'll derive as much enjoyment from my forthcoming tales as I did while experiencing them.

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11/18/06

12/19/05

So, here's the story: I took a ton of photos during the summer and fall (I had one 6- or 7-week stretch where I traveled every weekend), fell way behind on everything, and haven't even tried to post anything here. Apologies.

And now I'm making a career change six months after graduating, so don't look for a real update anytime soon. I'm moving from Indianapolis to Seattle immediately after New Year's, and it'll take a while to get settled in a city I've never before visited. Please do check back occasionally, I promise I'll eventually get this thing going again!

05/29/05

So, what's new? Well, yesterday, I graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, earning a BS in Civil Engineering, and at the end of June I will enter "the real world" with a transportation engineering firm in Indianapolis. I received a Canon 20D as a graduation gift, and one of my first tasks will be to save up for a short zoom to accompany the 70-200mm f/4L that I was given with the body. I'm excited to enter "the digital world," and look forward to providing some Grumpy-esque daily updates once I get this slide backlog posted.

An important note: If the email address you've been using for the last five years suddenly starts bouncing, please use the new and improved and permanent email address, conveniently located in the handy-dandy menu which, in case you haven't noticed by now, can be found at the top-left corner of every page on the site.

Speaking of that menu: You might notice some new links in there, or perhaps some dead links. I've been making occasional updates to the site on my hard drive, but never got to a point where I could post the updates, and it's possible I've changed things in the menu to reflect what I have locally that will likely not reflect what actually exists here at davehonan.com. The only big change I can think of are the Coal Industry and Draglines pages; the menu links to these two pages will not work, so please use the two links that I just oh-so-arduously just copied/pasted into this document.

A public service announcement: One of the big reasons I've been so busy over the past six months was my senior design capstone project. I'm proud to be able to host the website that presents the Covered Bridge Gateway Trail to the public. If you have any interest in rails-to-trails projects, please visit the site, read through the documents presented, and contact the Hoosier Rails-to-Trails Council to find out how you can support the CBGT.

So, that's the news. I'll be back in Upstate NY for most of June, and in between my last-ditch efforts to photograph all my favorite haunts and visit all the places I should have experienced but have not yet ventured to, I hope to get some updates posted. Stay tuned...

11/04/04