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Book that accompanies this NMRA Clinic
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On Saturday, January 22, 2022, my wife Kate and I had a most enjoyable morning at Jerry Stanley's Hobby Barn in Hume, Virginia. The drive through beautiful Fauquier County alone made for an enjoyable event. For the past year, Stanley has been hosting successful clinics for the Potomac Division of the Mid East Region of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA). Saturday's event was just the latest of a long string of clinics Jerry has hosted there with all proceeds going to the division. Visit the Potomac Division's web site to learn about future clinics planned.
While there we caught up with many old friends such as Ken Wilson - and met new friends such as Ken's son. J. Norman Reid and Jeffrey J. Fleisher delivered a most enjoyable presentation in Hume, Virginia. To demonstrate their pointers the pair of authors even brought a diorama with them. The duo gave a great PowerPoint presentation and demonstrated the use of software package Helicon. Helicon allows one to blend multiple photographs of a modeled scene so as to have a scene that is crisp from front to back. Attendees were also able to examine a slew of equipment the presenters had brought with them. Jerry's wife served great Cuban Sandwiches - I ate mine later in the day at home.
Pictured above, Shooting Iron Horses, Photographing Your Model Railroad is the 78-page softcover book that accompanied (given to each attendee) this $ 55 clinic. Besides lunch, great pastries and coffee were served in the morning and throughout the event.
One attendee was so enthused about the topic, that he had travelled all the way from Virginia Beach and was retiring to a hotel room after the event. He and other attendees had brought their photography equipment with them so to be able to get pointers from the clinicians.
For those who missed this clinic, Shooting Iron Horses, Photographing Your Model Railroad. Copyright 2020 ISBN 978-1-71697-291-1 published by Cobbler Mountain Press, is available on Amazon for $ 29.95.
About the Clinicians
Retired from more than thirty years of public service at the federal and state levels, J. Norman Reid is the author of several books. He now devotes himself to model railroading, writing, photography, and woodworking.
Jeffrey J. Fleisher is retired from over 30 years public service in the intelligence community. Fleisher holds advanced degrees in Photographic Science and Computer Science. This clinician is also a professional woodworker.
The Hobby Barn is a purpose-built building on the grounds of Jerry's property in which he plans to build his HO scale model railroad.
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