OldPoleBurner Wrote:
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> I too initially preferred the grain train shot. I
> particularly like "going away train shots", that
> easily focus the viewer on fact that the train is
> actually going somewhere, to a perhaps exotic and
> unknown (to the viewer) place. I also very much
> liked the composition. It is also nice to include
> at least some of the train, besides the engine.
> That the subject of this great photograph is well
> placed in natural balance and context, within its
> native habitat, makes it an excellent artistic
> work.
>
> But then I took a 2nd look at the landscape shot,
> and noticed something I hadn't before; the
> expansive drama of rushing waters and rushing
> trains, side by side. An expansive feeling is
> given, because both seem to originate in the same
> place, but then the picture expands out
> dramatically as they both rush on - the water with
> its dramatic violence, and the train with its
> subliminal precision.
>
> Both compositions are excellent. That both can be
> "interpreted" as saying something about life, or
> human feeling, or common experience, qualifies
> them both as fine art.
>
>
> They most certainly are several orders of
> magnitude, better than any "3/4 roster shot" I've
> ever seen. But then, I find no real use for a
> roster shot of anything anyway, other than as a
> technical illustration, or perhaps as a document
> to be filed away with the insurance papers.
>
> Anyhow, keep 'em coming - You did great!
>
> OPB


OPB:

Kinder words I've rarely read. Thanks so much!