Re: NNG: Timeless Photography--What's your Opinion?
| May 23, 2017 08:03AM |
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When pursing a "timeless" photo, my objective is to capture a scene without any identifiers of the year/decade. It's surprisingly easily to do on railroads like the C&T.
I have an appreciation for the here-and-now because someday it will also be history and I do my best to document things as they are. But, there's something special about capturing a scene that is the same today as it was decades ago... decades before I could have been there to experience it.
An example: this was taken in 2009 in Chama, looking west towards Durango from inside caboose 0579. This could easily be 1950. No real way to tell.
Jason Rose
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I have an appreciation for the here-and-now because someday it will also be history and I do my best to document things as they are. But, there's something special about capturing a scene that is the same today as it was decades ago... decades before I could have been there to experience it.
An example: this was taken in 2009 in Chama, looking west towards Durango from inside caboose 0579. This could easily be 1950. No real way to tell.
Jason Rose
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El DiscĂpulo de los Viejos Gruñones
RioGrandeExplorations.net
Spring, Texas - MP 209.7 - UP Palestine Sub
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" - Wendell Phillips
"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." - Sgt Stryker USMC
"Life is too short to deal with other people's drama. - Sgt Jason Rose USMC
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/2017 08:09AM by Jason Rose.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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