Alaska Railroad
This shot has been in the making for over a month. I have been scouting locations, checking train schedules, keeping an eye on the weather forecast, and a little luck. I was finally able to get the shot that I wanted. The snow-peaked mountains in the background. The Alaska wildflowers in the foreground. The Coastal Classic passenger train coming down the tracks. Now I just need to go back to redo the train over the bridge shot. Then I will finally be satisfied! This was shot along the Seward Highway just outside of Girdwood, Alaska
For all non Alaskans. This is what 11:42 looks like here. The sun light is still shining of of the locomotive. The street lights have just turned on. This phoro looks simple at first glance. This is a 5 picture panorama of the Alaskan passenger train. What makes this picture difficult are all the straight lines. When a panorama is stitched together the image is sometimes greatly distorted. Train tracks, buildings, and horizons are noticeably affected. In photoshop I have the ability to fix this distortion, but I have to manually fix every distorted line seperately. That is what made this picture a bit difficult. I had to fix the train tracks and all of the vertical and horizontal lines. Whew. some work, but it was actually sort of fun.
I was trying to replace the picture that I deleted by accident a few weeks ago. After finally figuring out what time the train would be at this spot. Figuring out what time the tide would be low enough so that I could see the old support beams of the bridge. I forgot to turn off my 2 sec timer. So this is the only picture I got of the locomotive. I was hoping to get the front of the train right at the beginning of the last concrete block. MAybe next time.