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It's hard to get past the sheer mechanical beauty of a steam train. And look at the photo below. It shows how there is a box with a hole at the top in the roof of the roundhouse to carry the steam up and outside.
The Pinnacles, Broken Hill Clear blue sky is very dull! But there is something of interest in the image. These odd shaped mountains appear on the skyline just outside the city. I had planned otherwise for my closing sky today. On a hill outside town there are wonderful sandstone sculptures which I saw the last time I was here. I planned to photograph them against the setting sun but we left our run too late, so you don’t get to see them until our return journey.
Quite delicious, Joan. Trains were such a massive feature in our built environment.
ReplyDeleteThe first image gave me an instant feel of people: of the man shovelling, of the man driving, of the engineer ... like my use of a detail shot to imply the whole ... this shovel shot implies people ... love it.
I guess we've lost that sense of mechanical ingenuity with the digital age.
ReplyDeleteGreat machinery!
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