RailPictures.Net Photo: Unknown Canadian Pacific Railway GE ES44AC at Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada by Nick DAmato (Diamond D)

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Location/Date of Photo

� Canadian Pacific Railway (more..)
� GE ES44AC (more..)

� Morant's Curve (more..)
� Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada (more..)
� February 12, 2015

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Photographer

� Unknown (more..)
� Unknown (more..)

� Nick DAmato (Diamond D) (more..)
� Contact Photographer � Photographer Profile

Remarks & Notes

Is there anything left to do at these iconic locations that hasn't been done before? Well, until you've been there yourself and shot it your way, yes! I love night photography. I have so much more control over what I want to emphasize. Morant's Curve isn't the darkest spot - in fact there's a lot of light pollution from Lake Louise and the Trans-Canada Highway not far away that lights up the clouds. But along the Bow River, down among the trees, it's still pretty darn dark - until a train comes. For a few seconds every couple of hours, the riverside is flooded in light as a the headlights sweep left across the dark pines, then down the river, then swing back to the right, reflecting off the snow and revealing the track and surrounding wilderness ahead to the engineer.

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