[Leica] New Magazine Cover (danger - contains locomotives)

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

Now that's a literary genre. Are there steampunk sub-genres I hope? I want
it more specialized.

Great photo.  Kevin Smith meets Fritz Lang.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at 
asc.upenn.edu>wrote:

> I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the literary genre of
> "steampunk" - sometimes called "modern Victorian" - an offshoot of science
> fiction whose premise is (vaguely) that Charles Babbage was successful in
> getting his steam powered difference engine working and the computer
> revolution began in the 1800's - albeit mechanically powered. I'm tickled
> pink that the 10th issue of Semaphore magazine is using one of my steampunk
> images on this month's cover. You can download the whole thingie here:
>
> http://www.semaphoremagazine.com/Semaphore%20March%202010.pdf
>
> It's a photo I'm quite happy with. One light behind a medium shoot-thru
> umbrella to camera left and one with a cardboard snoot behind the models
> aimed up at the locomotive.
>
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