"The White Rose", steam special, 09.07.11.

[Swiss Toni]

4492 "Dominion of New Zealand" aka "Bittern" getting into it's stride just south of York, in some decent light for a change!

Lens used was a Canon 100mm macro.

 

[Percyprod]

Excellent shot, as you say the lighting was good, never is when I try a get good shots of steamers!!

 

[jezgb]

That's a beautiful shot!

Fancy cloning out the wires?

Nothing in the shot apart from the wires to suggest it isn't 1938... [Edit] Thinking about it, someone is now going to say the rolling stock isn't correct I suspect! I don't know enough about it to say one way or the other - it certainly looks period to me... [/Edit]

 

[CaptainPenguin]

Nice angle and lighting and Bittern looks good

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

That's a beautiful shot!

Fancy cloning out the wires?

Nothing in the shot apart from the wires to suggest it isn't 1938... [Edit] Thinking about it, someone is now going to say the rolling stock isn't correct I suspect! I don't know enough about it to say one way or the other - it certainly looks period to me... [/Edit]

The rolling stock is 1950s onward. Shame about the wires, otherwise it's a cracker.

 

[Catdaddy]

Agreed... great shot, other than the power lines!

They restored The Bittern down in Hampshire, on the Watercress line... I saw it when they were working on it - so glad to see they have it up and running!

 

[Thrush]

Nice shot.

I hope you dont mind me asking but why present a picture like this then ruin it by the Huge watermark?

 

[Buttkicker]

some lovely light which makes a change when chasing trains (and planes) must say though I think this image would be worth the effort of removing the wires and girders
the content aware tool in photoshop is great for stuff like this
5 minutes would remove the lot
my 2p
Chris

 

[Swiss Toni]

Thanks for all your comments they're much appreciated.

Just to clear up a couple of points,
1. I hate overhead wires as much as the next person but I've learned to live with them and now try to minimise their impact as much as possible by planning the shot.

For example using bushes to hide the posts or a low pov so that the train hides the far side posts/wires (this works particularly well if there's plenty of trailing exhaust).

I also position the shot so that the two nearest posts act as a frame for the loco.

The overhead wires are a part of the modern railway I'm afraid and life's too short to spend ages removing them just to get a pseudo authentic shot.
I feel the same about black & white conversions as well.

2. I recently found some of my shots being used without my permission and with my name removed, so the watermark is here to stay.
However I do try to make it as unobtrusive as possible.

 

[Catdaddy]

Not wanting to hijack the thread, but I thought I'd post these here - The Bittern during its restoration... It's polished up quite well!

 

[King of Groove]

Excellent shot of Bittern. Leave the wires in! The picture should reflect what you saw at the location.