Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While I know nothing about steam trains, I always enjoy looking at good snaps like these and I've sent your link on to a Leica photographer in Australia who does similar work. You must have a lot of patience. Thanks for sharing. William At 02:21 PM 08/08/2004 +0200, you wrote: >Hello everyone, >Back from a 3 week vacation in the UK with a whole bunch of new steam >locomotive images. >I wanted to get the "Flying Scotsman" on film but it went and broke down >(again), the steam special was pulled by a "Black Five" >which I had shot the week before, and the weather wasn't too spectacular >on that day either, so only 1 shot of the arrival in Scarborough. >All the others were shot at Grosmont, the terminus, sheds,coaling >facilities, and workshops of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and at >Goathland, the only station on the line where two trains can pass each >other. Goathland is well known to TV viewers in the UK for the series >Heartbeat (Aidensfield) and is known the world over as "Hogsmeade" >station in the Harry Potter films. The line and rolling stock has also >been used in many other period or wartime film scenes. > >The last few shots may warm the hearts of fans of British sportscars - >a whole bevy of Allards and a strange "Bentford". I know absolutely >zero about this car, looks like a hybrid of about half a dozen others. >http://www.leica-gallery.net/dm-sharp/image-71396.html Start here >or to view the whole lot at one go >http://www.leica-gallery.net/dm-sharp/folder-6791.html >or only the cars, start here >http://www.leica-gallery.net/dm-sharp/image-71395.html >comments, criticism etc as always very welcome. >Regards to all >Douglas >PS I did all of these on my notebook so the quality may not be up to >scratch, my CRT monitor is knackered and today is Sunday, so I'll >probably Photoshop a few of them next week and re-post them when I get a >new one..