A journey by train is somehow much more relaxing than other modes of transport. I love to just sit and gaze out of the window on many of my journeys, and this trip from York to Rotherham was a trip like that. The weather was very dull and grey, so little chance of a landscape shot. Here, a few miles south west of York, just after passing the village of Copmanthorpe, the route is a busy four track section, so this shot of the other three lines was taken between passing passenger and coal trains.
This is a very different kind of shot to my normal style, which aims to record realistically what I see. This is an attempt to be more abstract and to capture the impression of travel, movement and speed on a railway journey. I would love to hear your thoughts, positive and negative, on this shot - please critique me.
Than you Bob - we are very fortunate in York to be at the centre of a good network of railway routes, with particularly fast services south towards London and north towards Scotland. It is a very pleasant way to travel! A few of our cities now have tram services, but they are still quite limited.
Thank you Pyrrhula - I do enjoy train travel! This shot is a bit deceptive - it looks like we are travelling quickly, but it was such a dull day that the shutter speed was slow, so it looks like we are going fast even though we were slowing down for a station stop.
Thank you Hazel - it was a pleasant trip on a route I don't use very often, since there are only two trains a day to the station I was heading for. I usually catch a fast train to Doncaster and change there into a local service.
Ian
Than you Bob - we are very fortunate in York to be at the centre of a good network of railway routes, with particularly fast services south towards London and north towards Scotland. It is a very pleasant way to travel! A few of our cities now have tram services, but they are still quite limited.
Ian
Thank you Therese - it can be quite hypnotic watching the neighbouring tracks with their trains speeding by.
Ian
Thank you Gill - it is quite different to my usual style, but I was pleased with the result.
Thank you Pyrrhula - I do enjoy train travel! This shot is a bit deceptive - it looks like we are travelling quickly, but it was such a dull day that the shutter speed was slow, so it looks like we are going fast even though we were slowing down for a station stop.
Ian
Thank you Padlock - I'm afraid I get quite involved in watching the world go past the train!
Ian
Thank you Hazel - it was a pleasant trip on a route I don't use very often, since there are only two trains a day to the station I was heading for. I usually catch a fast train to Doncaster and change there into a local service.
Ian
Thank you Lee, I was pleased with the result.
Ian
Thank you Brian - I did like the result.
Ian
Thank you Colin - using a train is the lazy way to do camera movement!
Ian
Thank you Bruni, glad you like it.
Thank you Ross, glad you like it. It is a rather different kind of shot to those I usually take, and I did learn quite a lot from this experiment.
Ian
Thank you Ruth, but I didn't do the panning, it was simply the movement of the train as I pointed the camera through the window.
Ian