Waiting for the Train to New York
Waiting for the Train to New York, originally uploaded by briburt.
Update: Just learned that this shot is featured as Photo of the Day for 8 December 2009 on Bostonist.com.
I don’t know what’s gotten into me lately, but I find myself increasingly drawn to black and white photography, especially b/w processing that evokes a sort of timeless, mid-20th century feel. Even though this shot is of a fairly modern train station right outside Boston that serves Amtrak’s high-speed Northeast corridor trains (including the Acela), I thought that this shot had a sort of nostalgic feel to it, as though it could’ve been taken in 1946 just as easily as in 2009.
Anyway, I also did my best to accentuate all of the different kinds of lines — slanting, vertical, horizontal — in the shot by using the black and white processing. The color version just didn’t bring this out. I added a slight vignette to the lower left of the frame to try and encourage the viewer’s eye to slide right down the tracks to the vanishing point.
Overall, I’m quite happy with how this turned out, which is more than I can say for most of my photos.
