mickoo
Western Thunderer
Snow photography is......bloody hard LOL, especially falling snow where modern camera autofocus is so good it tries to focus on the flakes rather than the subject matter. It's less of an issue if the subject is stationary as you can focus and refocus until it settles on the subject matter and then take your shot, moving subjects are harder as you can't lock your focus. To add some spice I tried hand held at dusk 
I love the snow, especially trains in snow and this evenings jaunt reminded me of trips to Danmark when the first snows came, that silence and hush you get is unmeasurable.
The snow started off pellet like, more like soft hail, the hard shell allowed the snow to settle and dropped the surface temperature enough to let the following soft flakes settle for just long enough to photograph, with an air temperature of 5°c I knew that it would not last long on roads or hard surfaces, they're just too warm.
Anyway, the photos.
First up, 66 758 takes a battering from the leading edge of the storm, the wind picked up, as it often does on the leading edge of a front giving a pleasing driven effect.
And just to the left, 08 585 idles away awaiting the next shunt.
A quick whizz down the road to the central terminal found 66 416 in Freightliners new 'swoosh' livery waiting the road to shunt round from the north terminal link line to the central terminal. By now the harder pellet stuff had eased off and the wind was dropping.
Moments later the big wet fluffy stuff came down
66 416 has drawn forward up past the king points and the driver has swapped ends and is now setting back onto the central terminal.
Easing back over the point work and this is about the point where the snow fall was thickest.
And finally over the foot crossing at the entrance to the terminal. By now the snow is easing and five minutes later had almost stopped and the thaw had already started to begin by the time I left work 20 mins later.
I love the snow, especially trains in snow and this evenings jaunt reminded me of trips to Danmark when the first snows came, that silence and hush you get is unmeasurable.
The snow started off pellet like, more like soft hail, the hard shell allowed the snow to settle and dropped the surface temperature enough to let the following soft flakes settle for just long enough to photograph, with an air temperature of 5°c I knew that it would not last long on roads or hard surfaces, they're just too warm.
Anyway, the photos.
First up, 66 758 takes a battering from the leading edge of the storm, the wind picked up, as it often does on the leading edge of a front giving a pleasing driven effect.
And just to the left, 08 585 idles away awaiting the next shunt.
A quick whizz down the road to the central terminal found 66 416 in Freightliners new 'swoosh' livery waiting the road to shunt round from the north terminal link line to the central terminal. By now the harder pellet stuff had eased off and the wind was dropping.
Moments later the big wet fluffy stuff came down
66 416 has drawn forward up past the king points and the driver has swapped ends and is now setting back onto the central terminal.
Easing back over the point work and this is about the point where the snow fall was thickest.
And finally over the foot crossing at the entrance to the terminal. By now the snow is easing and five minutes later had almost stopped and the thaw had already started to begin by the time I left work 20 mins later.
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