Virginia City, 5 December 2009, part 1 of 3

Saturday, 5 December 2009 in Virginia City, Nevada. We took a twilight ride on the V&T Railroad (using their diesel engine on this day), then watched the Parade of Lights through the center of town.

It was about 25 degrees or lower, and my camera-holding hand began to hurt from the cold, so later on I'm wearing a glove on the camera hand and pulling my left hand out of my pocket to change zoom, adjust exposure settings and start & stop the recordings.

The camera's specs say not to use it below 32 degrees. But they also say not to use it below 38 percent humidity. So basically, the camera should never be used in the state of Nevada...!

The train's passenger car that we rode in is a Pullman built in 1914.

For most of the parade, I had the exposure set so that you could see more of the people and vehicles than you could with the naked eye. This washed out the colors and made the lights into blobs, though. Later on, starting with the Jeep group, you'll see me start to set the exposure back to natural lighting. At one point, you'll even notice as I changed it from open exposure to normal while recording.

After the parade, we went to dinner. On the way back to our car, I shot a little bit of the church that had just been renovated. I'm not religious, but it's a nice old building, so I wanted to get a shot of it.

This video is in three parts. I hope Windows Movie Maker's result isn't totally screwed up after hours of moving audio around to keep it in sync (it's out of sync when viewed in Movie Maker, so I had to capture the audio separately and place it as a narration audio track).

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• virginia city
• nevada
• parade
• v&t
• railroad