As the rain lashes down outside, and the seemingly regular-as-clockwork Weekend Storm lashes down, I (Ben) thought we ought to have something on the blog this morning with blue sky and greenery on the trees. So, it's back to last year again and a bit more railway photography on the KWVR.
This was towards the end of the weekday timetable in the Autumn, and I was trying out the afternoon lighting on a spot I tend to only use in the mornings. I'd been getting a bit frustrated with the poor lighting at this otherwise good angle when I'd visited it about 9/10am, so went out for the lunchtime and mid-afternoon trains on a day I was in Keighley doing errands.
I also strolled up to Damems to one of my more usual locations, but was put off a bit by both the fact I use this angle a lot, and also by some grumpy teenagers who were knocking around.
I ended up trying another spot nearby, which would have been alright but for that anoying dead tree poking in on the left-hand side...
Bit better with portrait cropping.
Back down the valley for the 2.10pm departure, shot was with the sun head-on, which I worked out was about as good as I was going to get because a large tree behind me would obstruct the sun for the last train of the day. So experience shows this location is better actually on moody days in the rain, with flatter lighting.
OK this doesn't have a lot to do with the rest of the post, barring the inclusion of the very nice 41241, except as a taster for a future blog; the magazine featuring one of my pics is the current issue of Todays Railway, and the article is about Bridge 11 on the railway. I've photographed trains extensively on this bridge, to the point I was invited by the railway to accompany the Civil Engineers team working on this location, of which more in a post next week...
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