A Bygone Era

I've been experimenting with some different formats, and thought I would see if this works for anyone. This is a scene from the old railroad trestle crossing the White River in Beaver, Arkansas. My wife's great Grandmother used to ride the train to town on her way to work in the kitchen at the Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs.

Hi Bill, I like what you've done here, especially the B/W treatment. I like the mood of this shot a lot. The combination of the fog and disappearing trestles work well together.

The only observation I would make is that if you were able to gain some height and get some additional separation between the foreground flora and the trestles it would take this to another level. Very nice effort and good job with your experimentation!

This is a really interesting subject, Bill. I love the gloominess of the fog and the receding trestles, and I really would like to have seen it in full swing back in the old days. In the image, the right-most trestle is pretty dominant, and removing the flora as Wayne suggests would make it even more so. Another way to increase its strength, in my opinion, would be to crop in from the left until the edge just touches the receding trestles. Nice job!

Thanks Wayne and Tim. I too really liked the mood on this frosty morning. I really didn't have any way to get above the trestles, since I was shooting from a gravel bar, and thought that the vegetation helped emphasize the long span of time since the train passed by here - back in the good ol' days...