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Still Life - 1 IMG
Posted by CopCarSS on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:33 PM

In the immortal words of Monty Python, "And now for something completely different..."

 Prime Mover - Burnham Shops, Denver, CO by Christopher J. May, on Flickr

Here's a shot I took on Sunday down by the Burnham Shops. This is a study of a cold, lifeless GE prime mover revealed by some open doors on a locomotive down there.

There's something eerie about being next to a silent locomotive. In the case of the GE, not hearing that low bass chug with random rev ups and that familiar "whoop!" of the air compressor kicking on. 

 

Nothing. Just stillness.

-Chris
West Chicago, IL
Christopher May Fine Art Photography

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Posted by samfp1943 on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:48 PM

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  Surreal: {having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic}  The composition sort of draws one in.  Bow

 

 

 

 


 

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Posted by CopCarSS on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:14 AM

Thanks, Sam!

-Chris
West Chicago, IL
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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, December 19, 2014 5:08 PM

Still Life or "GE in the Assumed Position - Laid Up Bad Order (LUBO)"?

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west

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