thelocomotives: Off the tracks

Off the tracks

I was out at night to photograph a ugly Santa Claus that someone had put ontop a trailer. This was last Christmas, and I had seen it a few days earlier. I showed up with my Diana camera, but now something was different...Snow! A few days earlier everything was just grey, and the Santa looked so misplaced, but now it looked like a Christmas-card with all the white snow...I felt so dissapointed...This was just too nice for me. Then I remembered that I had heard about this train that had crashed into something just twenty minutes from where I live...All I had with me was the Diana, a Yashica Lynx 14e and loads of film...It was late and I really wanted to go inside and watch TV, and fall asleep in my fav chair, but I thought about the fact that if I wait too long and plan to do everything tomorrow....Then....Nothing. So I went, and talked myself through police and security, and went straight to the train and photographed all I wanted. It was a thrill!
I knew noone was hurt, so I didn`t feel like I had to be very careful.
I got home late at night, and started to develop film at once...And felt so happy!

Yashica Lynx 14e
Agfa Apx 400

posted by alfred # 18:59

Comments:

The light glare coming from the street light (or is that from the truck?) adds a lot of depth to this photo. It's nicely composed.

# posted by

Schazade : 7:40 PM

Thanks! I like to think that it acts like a frame for the subject...

# posted by

alfred : 7:55 PM

This photo has a very lonely feeling for me.

# posted by

KMJ : 10:02 PM

Tell me how you talked your way into that area. I want to learn that.

I know what you are saying about staying in the house. The last few night I have felt like going out with the camera, but haven't yet.

# posted by

Mike : 11:43 PM

You did a very good job with the low nocturnal light. I am always wary of taking night shots if I don't have a tripod, but you really did it well.

Massimo

http://www.ornitorinko.org/blogs/max

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:13 PM

Thanks to all of you! The Yashica has a fast 1.4 lens, and by using 400 asa film, or even faster, it is possible to photograph on 1/30 sec. in quite dim light...Then you don`t need a tripod, and can move close without being noticed :)
Mike:
This time I talked my way in, just by knowing the streets in that neighbourhood. I told the cops I needed to go to an address only two streets from here,( I knew this was a one-way street), and he let me in. I saw that he watched me, so I drove where I had told him I would go, and slowed down next to some firefighters. I rolled down the window, and waved to them, and said "Hello - Freezing cold tonight!" They waved back, and the cop got back to his car.
Easy.

# posted by

alfred : 8:39 PM