| Posted by Paul Ohannesian, Vancouver, B.C. on August 27, 2006 | |
Quite aside from its value as a railway photo, this image is almost poetic in the way it expresses the nature of steel itself. First there are the steel coils, the material in its first-manufactured stage. There is the steel flatcar riding on steel rails. In the middle-distance on the right is a utilitarian industrial structure of steel. The great stainless-steel arch is the most "high-art" object in the picture. There is one more reference, at least, to the metal: the highrises in the background, none of which would exist without their steel structures and/or steel concrete reinforcement, as well as the steel that makes their elevator systems possible. This photo rises above most other rail photos by having such wide-ranging references to its main subject. Bravo!
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