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Old 03/12/07, 09:39 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Trains are not my 'thang', but this has been hanging around my file for a while and I've not posted it.

I'm sure someone who does like trains will be pleased to see it, so you're welcome.

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Old 03/12/07, 09:46 PM   #2 (permalink)
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You think this is a "train" shot?

I'd love to see a big print of this beauty.
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Old 03/12/07, 09:50 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Phew! Excellent.
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Old 03/13/07, 12:57 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Rolo -

Superb! Had John Houston seen it he would have based a Western film on the image. The very wide crop serves the train well.
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Old 03/13/07, 08:42 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Fantastically captured and treated Rolo.

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Old 03/13/07, 10:52 AM   #6 (permalink)
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This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
Bringing the cheque and the Postal Order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner and the girl next door...........

WH Auden.

People would pay cash money for that picture.
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Old 03/13/07, 04:47 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I'm with Andy on this one. Would love to see it enlarged & hanging on a wall.

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Old 03/13/07, 04:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Pretty neat shot, I agree closer would have been better. It looks original though.
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Old 03/13/07, 10:36 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I wasn't asking for it to be closer

If it were closer, it would be just a train - here it's a marvellous addition to a beautiful landscape.

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Agreed. Not much of a train shot..., but one hell of a landscape. Love that light on the hill and the locomotive smoke just takes it to another level. Nice catch!
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Old 03/14/07, 04:59 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Isn't that just a beauty!
Lovely image Rolo, was that a came saw got image or did you have to sit there for a wile till everything came together.

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pete - you've mis out the photography reference :-

Letters of thanks, letters from banks,
Letters of joy from the girl and the boy,
Receipted bills and invitations
To inspect new stock or visit relations,
And applications for situations
And timid lovers' declarations
And gossip, gossip from all the nations,
News circumstantial, news financial,
Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,
Letters with faces scrawled in the margin
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Old 03/14/07, 09:00 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Lovely image Rolo, was that a came saw got image or did you have to sit there for a wile till everything came together.

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Ha ! Sat there with a coffee in the car chatting to a mate wondering what the strange guys we'd seen were up to on this freezing day in the middle of nowhere.

However, we'd stopped at a location where the hills looked good for a landscape or two. Then we heard a whistle and a schug, schug ......... out, grab camera, elbows on the stone wall for a tripod and half a dozen frames later it was gone.

So yeah, sat there for a while.

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Great shot.......money shot......
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Old 03/15/07, 08:09 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Rolo,

It was easy waiting, not out in the cold huddles under a tree trying to stay warm.


That doesn't make the shot any less impressive

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Rolo,
a definite money shot.
The summation of all the parts make for an outstanding photo.
I'd love to see the sequence of shots from which this came.

what lens was this shot with?
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Old 03/15/07, 06:32 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Well to quote Stuart from another post "I did not have great expectations when I saw this title" but I should have known from seeing your other work that it would be magnificent. This is a stunning capture!
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Rollo, I am a little late visiting this one. (Been preoccupied sorting out my catalogue workflow). I do agree with all of the plaudits above. Landscape with train is one anybody could live with on their wall. Find a poster publisher and you could earn some holiday money!

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