Besides working with great people and unleashing my imaginative side, photography has given me the opportunity to do things I would not ordinarily get to do—like blow a train whistle, for example, and stand in the engine as it clickety-clacked down a few hundred metres of track.  Dolores really wanted her engagement shoot to include a train, (as her fiancé Rick is a train engineer), so an engine was shined up just for the occasion.  He wasn't nearly as excited about it as Dolores and I, but the photographs had an edgy moodiness of a wet spring day that was unique and special.  No amount of rain could dampen our enthusiasm!