My friend Kim is a wide eyed photographer. She can zero in on any giving subject, but her real love is standing back a bit and seeing the thing in context or as part of the overall scene. The late Gary Benson called them "trainscapes."
By putting the train on one side, the tree in the middle, and the old man watching it all on the left, she managed to turn a gritty patch of railyard (Penn-Mary in Baltimore), into more than just a picture of a locomotive. Notice how she's made the overpasses part of the composition. Too often we see overpasses, utility poles, and the such as obstacles, when what they really are, or should be, is part of the picture.
By putting the train on one side, the tree in the middle, and the old man watching it all on the left, she managed to turn a gritty patch of railyard (Penn-Mary in Baltimore), into more than just a picture of a locomotive. Notice how she's made the overpasses part of the composition. Too often we see overpasses, utility poles, and the such as obstacles, when what they really are, or should be, is part of the picture.
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