Western Railroad Discussion > Photobombed by a Flock of Seagulls

A flock of seagulls flew into my carefully composed photo of BNSF's Provo-Stockton trackage rights train departing Salt Lake City this afternoon.

After the train had passed, they mingled about along Orange Street with an 'I didn't do it' look about them.

What do you think . . . does the first photo benefit from the wayward winged wildlife?

James Belmont
Salt Lake City, UT

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Great photos. Thank goodness you only got photo-bombed and not poo-bombed :-D

Have fun, be safe, hats off to all our veterans

Bruce "Doc" Jones
Sierra Madre CA

I Think the FAA might want to conduct a sobriety check on those pilots. The formation is not tight and I wonder whether or not SLC Twr has given them authorization to occupy the airspace they are in. But nice shots. Is that a ground camouflage I see there on the ground which was deposited in order to cover the flight from any images from satellites? Call out the Big Guns. Thanks for sharing. Ben

They filled the empty space in your frame and made it a lot more interesting shot.

Best regards,

Rob L.

I'm surprised they stuck around - I would have expected them to run, run so far a-wa-a-ay. ;^)

I like the picture with the gulls, though if you hadn't given the backstory, I would probably have been squinting at it looking for Photoshop artifacts.

So... Are they GE fans, or just daisy-pickers? ;^)

Incredible stuff!!!

Lance

I kinda like #1.

Tom Y

Navy formation...!

ns2557 Wrote:
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> I Think the FAA might want to conduct a sobriety
> check on those pilots. The formation is not tight
> and I wonder whether or not SLC Twr has given them
> authorization to occupy the airspace they are in.
> But nice shots. Is that a ground camouflage I
> see there on the ground which was deposited in
> order to cover the flight from any images from
> satellites? Call out the Big Guns. Thanks for
> sharing. Ben

Since half my friends are LDS and I'm going to hell anyway, Mormon Pigeons.

rehunn Wrote:
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> Since half my friends are LDS and I'm going to
> hell anyway, Mormon Pigeons.

No, Mormons go to heck.

James Belmont
Salt Lake City, UT

And I ran, I ran so far away.
TAH

TAH wins this week's prize - GOTD!

Grin Of The Day!!

Nice 80s music reference. You read my mind.

HRGXguy,
I ran all night and day, I couldn't get away.

Air to ground missiles? Regardless of that, I like #1!!

90mac Wrote:
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> And I ran, I ran so far away.
> TAH

Oh how I loved that band. Who could forget their robotic dance moves and the hair, my god the hair!

James Belmont
Salt Lake City, UT

Damn daisy picker seagulls. Made for a very unique railfan photo, James.

icancmp193 Wrote:
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> I kinda like #1.
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Me too, in that it is to my eye unusual, since I associate gulls with warm & sunny instead of snow.

B-1 R D's

The 70s and the 80s? I've looked into it.

There's a gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls.

That's about it.

Very nice James its different and different is good

Those are Snow Gulls. San Francisco winters aren't cold enough for them!