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Ah, the Pittsburgh shot--at night!
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Spectacular image, John. You've given me one more reason to visit Pittsburgh.
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That's great. I love how the headlight instinctively draws one's focus to the train.
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We've had a lot of these "Where's Waldo?" shots in the last few months. While so many have been beautiful east coast cityscapes, the train is typically too lost in the sea of countless sub-subjects that it could very well be a few busses as far as one can tell from the image. In my opinion the train in this shot isn't even foot note worthy in the big picture. That leads me to question the relevance of these images on a website dedicated solely to rail pictures.
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I 2nd Ross's comments. Why exactly is this RP.net worthy? Noisy too.
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Gentlemen, whether or not you want to find Waldo is entirely up to you. 2,500+ people did, and 10 ended up favoriting the photo. I would rather upload something different and expressive like this than another wedge photo, where 300 people will look at it and no one will favorite it. What constitutes a good train photo is an ever-changing definition. I hope it shifts away from wedge photos and more towards images that show the role railroads play within the greater social and environmental contexts. If you don't like it, don't click it. No one is forcing you.
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I have to agree with Ross F. and Mike B. on this one. This isn't a railroad picture. It is indeed a very nice cityscape from a beautiful vantage point, well executed, and all that. But none of those are the "motive" of this railroad photo art catalog of a web site. I would suspect a good 2000 of the folks who have viewed this picture opened the thumbnail hoping/expecting to see more than a headlight. That's certainly the reason I looked at it, and this comment is my reaction. The argument that 10 people have "favorited" it doesn't really apply. I doubt anyone would argue that it's not a very nice photo. But it is not a very good railroad photo. And there are certainly other avenues to post city scenes.
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Joel Hinklehouse nailed that last comment. I didn't have to click on it, but I was curious when I saw the thumb nail. Wondered how the train was put into the image. I was expecting more than a bright light. Its a nice cityscape, but not a train picture. This shot is the definition of a good cityscape at night, but not in the "ever-changing" definition of a good train picture.
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I've held back from commenting on this shot. I don't like to leave negative comments, but... This is (obviously my opinion) not a railroad photo. A blob of light that has to be explained, is the headlights of a train, doesn't make it a railroad photo. Last time I checked that's what the focus of this site was. What's the next step, a glow from headlights from behind a hill in a city night shot? I showed this to two or three people without explaining it, none realized it was supposed to be about a train. And, as pointed out earlier, it sure has a lot of noise.
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True, it's more city than train, but different is not always a bad thing. At least he didn't post the same exact style of pictures that we keep seeing over and over and over. Thanks for the post showing how a train looks in the bigger picture.
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