The Railway

The South Devon Railway. Time travelling back to 1955. Nikon D60, 18-55mm lens. 1/100th sec at f5.6; 100 ISO.

East Somerset Railway, Cranmore. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

East Somerset Railway, Cranmore. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

East Somerset Railway, Cranmore. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens at 210mm. On a D2Xs the field of view using this focal length is over 300mm full frame equivalent. It has the effect of appearing to pack up the perspective. The people crossing the line in the far distance are a good deal further away than it appears.

East Somerset Railway, Cranmore. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 lens, factory AI'd.

Canon EOS 30D + Canon EF 35-135mm f/4 - 5.6 lens.

A cold afternoon in February with the light fading and occasional flurries of snow. Waiting to meet the 16.23 with a Nikon D50 and a Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 AF G lens.

Westbury (Wilts) Railway Station. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

Colas Rail Class 70. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

The preceding nine photographs in this series aren't all as horribly blurred as this one. In fact, one of them is quite sharp. This is the result of using too slow a shutter speed. It's not entirely motion blur because there wasn't an earth tremor at that moment. I ought to have used a camera capable of higher ISO, or a fast lens, or both. But I didn't have those options so I used a Nikon D50 with a Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 AF G lens whilst waiting to meet the 16.23 at Westbury station. Claude Monet noticed that slow shutter speed blurred moving figures and was inspired deliberately to smudge his painting to achieve this blurry effect. Bravo M. Monet! And Bravo The Limbo Connection!

Sydney Gardens, Bath. The rush hour. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD lens.

Westbury railway station on the Wednesday prior to the Glastonbury festival. The train at this platform will make its next stop at Castle Cary. Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens.

Brunel built bridges for ramblers and farmers and horse riders as well as road users. It's exhausting cataloguing all of them. Nikon D700 + Nikkor-O.C Auto f/2 35mm lens. 200 ISO; f/16; 1/80th.

East Somerset Railway. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron Di II SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR LD Aspherical lens.