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Danny Johnson wrote:
A good photograph, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, regardless of
where and how you take it. I wish I could drive for an hour or two to
locations like Abo Canyon, Cajon, Tehachapi, etc., but I can't. I have to
settle for the local stuff and stretch my imagination to the breaking point.
Sometimes you have to play with the hand you're dealt.
Best Regards,
Danny Johnson
-> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects
-> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs
Empathy from the (relatively speaking for me, a Kansas City native)
scenic wasteland of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. Some okay urban
shots here, but mostly a background of suburban war zone (I'll publish
my architectural manifesto on the value of a properly designed
environment, including the benefits of strict zoning laws and community
design reviews at some other time). For literally thousands of square
miles, the scenes trackside are of generally unpleasing clutter which
generally do not contribute positively to a photograph about the
railroad machine in the American landscape. Except, that all that
clutter is the American landscape (God help us). So, I too play the
hand I'm dealt. One of the things I've found is great to look for here
(thank you Mike Repp) are things on sticks. It seems particular
especially to these southern states like Texas and Arkansas - you rarely
find it in Kansas. But I find myself trying to work these elements
(example - boat on a stick. Pickup truck on a stick. U-Haul on a
stick. Giant fiberglass chicken on a stick. Basically, I'm talking
about a variation on the billboard advertising theme) into the shots as
they convey a great deal about the new landscape in North Texas which
has surrounded the previously-existing railroads. The flip side is the
opportunity to seek out the last vestiges of the landscape that was.
New Year's Day was spent mostly dodging clouds, but also exploring the
Kansas City Southern from Farmersville to Metro Jucntion (near Denton,
Texas). One of my only shots of the day (for which the sun came out
momentarily) was of KCS train 221 running east across the border between
Lewisville and Plano. The line crossed a creek on a wood and steel
trestle in front of the Lewisville Reservoir Dam - and through one of
the last open fields in the area (it was all country a few years ago).
Once I finally found an access point off of the busy, under construction
4-lane highway, drove across fields of six-foot high prairie grass and
then hiked further in, setting up the shot with bare winter tree in
foreground, waving windy prairie grass in middleground, and train on
high trestle in background, with three minutes to spare. The shot for
me was made by the presence of the dam in the rearmost background - the
foreshadow of the fate awaiting the scene. Already, a new service
station is occupying the southeast corner of the site.
Whether the hand you are dealt is mountain pass or gurgling stream,
nearly-virgin prairie or pig-on-a-stick - the composition will tell a
story.
Geez, it's getting late. This is all starting to sound pretty hokey..
Good night all.
Patrick Lenahan
Dallas, Texas
-> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects
-> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs
