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23-MAY-2010

Rotting railroad, Nevada City, Montana, 2010

One of my traveling companions climbed into a decaying railroad car near the ghost town of Nevada City to make studies through a broken window. I photographed her hands as they worked behind the shattered glass.

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Date/Time23-May-2010 13:16:20
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Focal Length67 mm
Exposure Time1/500 sec
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Phil Douglis26-Jun-2010 20:00
Thanks for the metaphorical insight, Tim. I see a flow here as well. It could also represent the flow of energy that the photographer brings to her task.
Tim May26-Jun-2010 17:17
I concur that this is a wonderful image - the element that I find is that the broken glass shape seems to me a metaphor for the flow of the world into our lenses.
Phil Douglis17-Jun-2010 18:02
Thanks, Carol -- you know how much I love to make images of ruins and wrecks. To make a picture of someone else doing just that, and still be able to express my own feelings about what I see, is a joy.
Carol E Sandgren17-Jun-2010 01:50
Certainly I can understand getting so excited about this image. Yes, the hands certainly do make this image captivating...so expressive as they form around the camera and make the image. The broken glass shape frames the photographer too, kind of like a protective broken glass rainbow arc, quite incongruous in itself. Then the rotting frame of the window outside of that.... just goes to show that it takes a photographer to get excited about something in such shambles, and most likely dangerous to climb around in, and see it's beauty and expression. And you have captured this eloquently.
Phil Douglis17-Jun-2010 00:25
Thanks, Rose -- the reflections made it work, along with the photographer's eloquent hands.
sunlightpix16-Jun-2010 23:20
This is the image you were sharing in the Boise airport. It's a spectacular portrait!
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