This shot is from a couple of winters ago. Most of the Hebron Any Power Team and Phil were standing on the bridge in South Fork, PA freezing our collective hind ends off. At one point we decided it was time to move on. Trouble was that the trains kept on showing up. We couldn't leave.
Looking to the west, like the shot above, required looking through one of those wonderful small chain link fences and shooting into the sun. I needed the telephoto to shoot through the small openings. Meanwhile, over on the other side of the bridge, looking to the east was near perfect sunlight with a curve and four tracks to look over. Everyone was having a field day. I recall that we may have planned to move because of the sun and the fence. I did eventually move back to the sunny side.
We all have war stories and this one is like most. I was the only one foolish enough to be on that side of the bridge very long, so I was the only one who missed the meet this autorack train had with Amtrak. Paul's video showed it very well. Later on when I reviewed my images on the computer, I thought I had a real loser batch of shots from the fence side.
Enter the wonders of free software. I believe it was Picasa this time but it could have been Gimp. All I did was kick up the contrast and crop a bit. Several going away shots of another train were gems too, for going away shots. This one just caught my eye. Who knows why? Something about the harshness and convergence. Art is in the eye of the beholder. No one else has to like it.
BC
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