Today our guest is Blair Kooistra, born in Chicago but spent most of his childhood in Denver and Salt Lake City. Blair worked as a photojournalist for the Standard-Examiner in Ogden from the mid-1980s until about 1991. Blair had a great eye, and I still have one of his photos hanging on the wall in my home office. But what Blair’s most well-known for are his photos of railroading in the United States, Great Britain and Australia. Blair is the 2015 recipient of the Fred A. and Jane R. Stindt Photography Award from the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society. The president of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art said of Blair’s work, “Overall Kooistra’s work is among the most significant railroad photography of the post-steam era.” Have a look at Blair's rail photography, aircraft photography and photojournalism here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/120320833@N02/sets/. Blair recalls stories of working as a photojournalist in the Beehive State, and we hope you get a kick out of the conversation as much as we did.
