....I really like them all. Had to go back and forth to really choose one for my vote. Wasn't easy.
You can't get anymore "roadside" than Ken's loaded rock train is. Lots of activity in the photo. With the three engines of this size, you understand your load is heavy and they are working hard.....Backed up by the blasting distorting exhaust.
Quentin
Many interesting shots this round, and several that I thought were very good. I went with Drews shot of street running in Bellvue Iowa. As mentioned, it is a little dark, but to me, that makes it more interesting. It is sort of dark and forboding as the train comes sneaking down the street, almost like it knows it does not belong there.
Don
Andy CummingsI can see why Ken is winning here. To get the tracks down the middle of a busy freeway — with an S-curve to boot — is quite a trick. Nice work, Mr. F!
I can see why Ken is winning here. To get the tracks down the middle of a busy freeway — with an S-curve to boot — is quite a trick. Nice work, Mr. F!
Yep, and it just proves that in-cab shots are not a shoe-in. :-)
Nice selection this round...
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Had to vote for Drew's photo. That is something we would never see here in Australia of a train running down the centre of a country road with houses on either side. We have places where trains run parallel to a road but not down the centre like that. Awsome!
Tom's shot will win. Something about railfans and "in cab" shots....
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I really liked the shot by ED of the 3985 in his rearview mirror! You know it had to be just loafing along. Tried once to get one of those kinds of shots of 844 but it was too fast for a slow shooter.
Really liked Elrond's shot at Jackrabbit,AZ. Also!
I was going to say that there'd be no place for me to stop and get a good look at the trains there, but obviously Ken found one! So I'll give him my vote for the neat shot, too.
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Had to vote for Ken as well. Nice shot...and I've seen that place too. I didn't think to get a picture of the interesting layout - and there was no train either.
Dan
I had a tough time decided between Tom, Drew, and Ken. The other shots were nice, but for me, those three were the ones to decide between.
Tom's shot was the most unique of the bunch, but having access to a cab ride gives him an unfair advantage (at least as far as unique perspective). But it's a real cool image. I like the 'portrait' format, and having the different level roads on either side was an interesting touch. It was a very close second for my vote.
Drew's shot was also very interesting. It certainly satisfied the theme requirements. But from a technical viewpoint, it was too dark, although I do understand how difficult it would be to get proper lighting in the 'tunnel of trees'. Also, the extreme wide-angle lens gave the image a distorted appearance that I didn't like in that particular setting.
Ken's shot didn't do much for me, until I enlarged it; that's when I saw all that was going on in the image: from the cars on each side of the train, the congestion of all the lightpoles, and especially seeing so much of the train as it winds down the hill. If I had been in the same location, I might not have bothered with taking a photo due to all the 'clutter'. However, Ken managed to not only overcome the clutter, he used it well to his advantage. Nicely done.
Voted for Ken.
Gotta give reader Ed his due....unique perspective from all the others. Yeah, everybody sorta got the idea. But most important is to keep encouraging the reader-photogs. This is a difficult topic to portray in a still...there are many videos and movies showing trains running alongside roads, some even pacing. What is probably missing most from this selection is the pan shot, running or moving with the train keeping it in focus while blurring the background; that might have gotten my attention.
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The latest round of Trackside with Trains features images from nine photographers, including one Trains magazine reader. This round's theme: Roadside Running
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