Embryo G1 Garden line
Phill Dyson said:
I love them all, but this one is my absolute favourite, it could be a North British assisting a Warship over the North Devon banks circa 1969/70
I think I agree with you. Reviewing my pictures from yesterday I wish that I had taken a few more of the double headings that we did. We were like two kids let out in a sweetshop with our cameras, rushing about and snapping everything - there is something quite captivating about a captured image and the way in which it constrains the view of the thing being photographed. Ultimately though it has to be the movement of trains along the track that is the greatest prize......
It was the first time that Fred had taken his coach outdoors and he was really inspired with the effect of the natural light on it. Lots of food for thought and lots of motivation from my point of view. Another friend dropped by in the afternoon, a lapsed builder of Fred's diesels and owner of three very nicely altered and detailed milk tanks - all not quite finished. He lives just down the road so hopefully he will dig out his unfinished projects and get them ready to roll, now that there is a track available.
Fred and I felt that the ability to get the lens where you can't get your head added a whole extra dimension to the potential enjoyment to be had, and in the larger scales the opportunity for naturalistic views is really good.
Here is another shot of the same train showing the "helicopter view" that the small scales tend to offer. Dusty was standing guard outside the fence - we got invaded by a chicken of all things later in the afternoon
- no pictures unfortunately!!
Thank you very much to all for the encouraging comments, I am still on a high from yesterday's activities ;D
I'd better get breakfast and the boys off to school!