Down at the Vale of Melbridge Light Railway, Fred Dibnah chews the fat with the driver of Number 6, Peveril.
Taking some photos of the garden railway, I snapped this one which, while useless for publication, has a nice bit of atmosphere. Imagine yourself on a sunny summers day (remember those ?) at a steam railway. You are sitting on the platform as the train sits there sizzling and producing that oh so wonderful aroma of hot steam oil and coal.
I love it. "while useless for publication" says a lot. Pity that atmospheric & artistic is not to the taste of current editors who seem to prefer clinical, documentary - even 'forensic'.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather have this on my wall though.
You do get some atmospheric shots in magazines but usually with smoke and steam rather than lens flare. I did take some other photos along these lines though, but you'll have a to wait a few weeks to see them in print.
ReplyDeleteA great charicature of Fred!
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Lovely, cartoony figures for teh garden.