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Photographer’s Note

In the heart of the maize producing Freestate is a small railway siding called Windfield. Here six towering grain silos are filled with the season's maize crop. Once in a week or two a train arrives bringing a few empty wagons to be filled with the stored maize. The loaded wagons are then collected to take the grain to the big mills in Natal.
This siding has a small platform that has long since crumbled and yielded to grass and weeds. It was used to board the train by the occasional traveler in the heyday of the railways.

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szabcsi (179) 2007-05-08 8:18

Hi Irmgard - strange and unusal point of view, which is not bad at all. However, to me it seems that the train functions like a background but there is nothing interesting in the foreground - I can't decide what the main subject is on your shot.
Anyway I like the mood radiating from this picture. (And I like trains, too... :) )

ErikSven (270) 2007-05-08 9:13

Hello Irmgard,
Strong railway mood, with stunning low POV that makes you almost feel the impressive weight of this wagon. Good BW-treatment, though I think it could also have worked well with vivid colours.
TFS & kind regards,
Erik

wimmels2010 (122) 2007-06-02 8:05

hi Irmgard, this is an interesting perspective, though it feels to me that the train is too much in the center with the track leading right to the middle of the image. The in situ light conditions are also tricky as the sky is very bright and in the foreground you have both bright and light conditions. I'm not an expert as you know, but I guess I'd try and change the perspective slightly and also try to make more of the trainwheels, but that's just and idea or opinion. Nice atmosphere.
kind regards
wim