While travelling by train I use my camera to stop the fast moving frames to create an image, a memory, to capture a small piece of something that would otherwise literally be gone before I could blink my eyes.
Train travel has been a big discovery for my when I started travelling from Moscow to Beijing 2 years ago on the Trans-Mongolian Railway. To sit still, on a bench, with the world literally passing by your window is something I enjoy very much.
I take a book, I put on my headphones, and then I notice myself not reading even once sentence, and not listening to any music, since looking outside and listening to the calm rhythm of the train is entertainment enough.
I do however take these 'dirty train window' pictures. They are often a discovery in itself. How often it happens I take a picture, look back at them a month later, to discover a detail in the picture I never saw while sitting on the train! Like these lines through the fields, or, as I will show you in a later photo series, people crossing tracks, working the rails, and even statues in otherwise empty fields...
This picture was taken on a train ride from London to Inverness past summer. It was one of the longer train rides I've ever done, the longest being in Russia, the shortest in my tiny country The Netherlands. The most beautiful? I don't know yet. Maybe I'll discover which one is my favourite while looking sharing my pictures of these travels with you all.
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As always, beautiful work. You have an excellent eye. :)
Thank you :D
I love the story, I love the picture, I am SO jealous about your train trips, The Netherlands are not tiny -I live in Denmark :P ahahaha !!!
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Ohhh THANKS for your kind words, upvote and welcome @meanmommy33 :D Train travelling is amazing indeed! Glad you like the stories and pictures :-)
And HAHA, Denmark is comparable to The Netherlands I guess? Except if we count Greenland in! :D
As we say up there for fun... ALWAYS count Greenland hahahaha !!!! This way, Denmark is the 8th biggest (surface) country in the world muahaha ;)))
LOL! I'd do the same if I lived in Denmark :')
Great shot! You can't beat the old dirty window filter for adding an authentic grunge effect.
That's absolutely true!
I did a similar thing when traveling (by car - in the passenger seat, of course - LOL) on a family vacation that took us through 5 states. Love the idea of a "dirty train window" series, and this is a beautiful capture. I look forward to seeing more.
Yes, I definitely do this while in the passenger seat of the car too @traciyork! It's really cool to play with harsh light and road perspectives, you can look ahead while in the train you look sideways... Different pictures all in all. Glad you've enjoyed mine and I'll share more the coming weeks! :-)
Coolness! I'll keep my eyes open for them. 😃
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It's a lifelong dream of mine to ride the Trans-Siberian Railway...The UK has put me off train travel a bit since the infrastructure here is horrific but this reminds me why I'm drawn to it :)
It's really SO worth it! And it's quite 'easy' to do, so you can even save up for it a bit longer and do it while being older / less fit. You can book your own room on the train and I'm not the best sleeper, but I've slept quite decently at night on these trains!
I wasn't bothered by train travel in the UK, but as you travel you're almost never in a hurry :-) Train to Inverness had a 55 minute delay though, so if that happens too often I can imagine you're not a big fan ;-)
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the picture is nice
Wow amazing photograph with phone
Really like your style of writing .
Really great photo, there is always so nice views on train trips. Awesome colours!
Train trips are awesome!
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wonderful picture 👍👍👍
wow so awesome. you can't see the end of it. amazing. beautiful.
Wow.. to capture that with a smartphone. Nice work! What were you using?
Hey @jigstrike, I'm using an iPhone 6 for these pictures! :-)
This really is lovely shot.
Nice shot!
Looks like that yellow field from mr beans holiday🤔
Wow this is a great picture, especially for a snapshot out of the train!
I love the composition of colors in this photo. I'm glad you made use of your long train ride :)
Thank you! :-)
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