Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by O. Winston Link

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer O. Winston Link.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Ogle Winston Link, known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk & Western in the United States in the late 1950s. A commercial photographer, Link helped establish rail photography as a hobby. He also pioneered night photography, producing several well known examples including Hotshot Eastbound, a photograph of a steam train passing a drive-in movie theater, and Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole showing a train crossing a bridge above children bathing.

American - Photographer | December 16, 1914 - January 30, 2001

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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

O. Winston Link

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

O. Winston Link

I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.

O. Winston Link

All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

O. Winston Link

You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.

O. Winston Link

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

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The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

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The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

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