Off the tracks

Previous / Next



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

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.
 
Thanks! I like to think that it acts like a frame for the subject...
 
This photo has a very lonely feeling for me.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]





<< Home

Archives

August 2004   September 2004   October 2004   November 2004   December 2004   January 2005   February 2005   March 2005   April 2005   May 2005   June 2005   July 2005   August 2005   September 2005   October 2005   November 2005   December 2005   January 2006   February 2006   March 2006   July 2006   August 2006   September 2006   October 2006   November 2006   December 2006   January 2007   February 2007   March 2007   May 2007   June 2007   July 2007   August 2007   September 2007   October 2007   November 2007   December 2007   January 2008   February 2008   March 2008   April 2008   May 2008   June 2008   August 2008   September 2008   October 2008   January 2009   February 2009   March 2009   May 2009   June 2009   July 2009   August 2009   September 2009   October 2009   November 2009   December 2009   February 2010   May 2010   June 2010   September 2010   October 2010   February 2011  

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

Subscribe to Posts [Atom]

thelocomotives
thelocomotives
By Alfred Dumben
Make a photo book with Blurb
Book Preview

Photoblogs.org - The Photoblogging Resource
View My Profile

coolphotoblogs.com my profile COOLPHOTOBLOGS - LISTED vote in the 2008 Photoblog Awards Bloggurat Blogglisten