Bir-Hakeim bridge
This year, I got a summer job on a big company in Paris. The weather was really great and I was able to do plenty of pictures after my hours. I worked on a subject that I appreciate a lot : the “Métropolitain”, the subway of Paris. But I didn’t want to portray the rolling stock or a famous station. In fact, I stood on the shore of the Seine river, near the Bir-Hakeim bridge.
The 2010-2011 Season
September 2010 see a new start for the Images & Trains Project. The website was off line for a few weeks this summer and we took this time to redesign the website and to brainstorm about the role of the Project. The website is going to become a multimedia source about Railroad Photography and Creativity. This means we will have less interest for “documentary only” pictures and will promote photographers visions and styles.
Another novelty: the website is going to publish work from people that don’t necessary have a railroad related background or a railfan hobby. We really want to increase our audience to promote this branch of Photography.
Here are some details about this coming season:
- new photographers are joining the I&T Collective;
- we will post some work from people that are not involved with the Project;
- November 2010 will be the first of our special month and will try to answer to this question “is it possible to have a creative look on freight cars?”;
- there will have an increasing number of PDF publications like the magazine that is going to have a shorter form;
- and galleries will continue to show stunning pictures.
The coming season sounds exciting. We hope that you will appreciate this change and that you will find elements to enhance your vision and style.
The Members of the Images & Trains Project
A new interface
After a few days of silence in August 2010, the Images & Trains Project website is now back online. You probably already noticed the new interface. The website is now easier to navigate, easier to read. The changes are coming from your comments we received since the beginning of the year.
Most of the thing you can discover on the website is similar to the one that was online before the update. Updates (new posts, new sections … and more) will start in September. Also you will soon discover the 2010-2011 Season program. Here are some new functions of this updated interface:
- Pages about galleries are quite different than what it was in the past. Now, you can easily spot the last updates. This way, it allows us to do updates more often. You will just have to check the more recent picture page to know about it. Please note that if you subscribed to the Newsletter, we will tell you about the updates.
- The section about the PDF Magazine is now named Publications. This will be the place to download the magazine but also many PDF publications.
- The About section has a new Archives page that lists all the posts you can read on this website. Another page allows anyone to subscribe to the newsletter easily: you just have to type your email address and it’s done!
- The link to the forum disappears. It is now uniquely accessible to the I&T members.
A few words about the picture in the first page of the website
We chose this picture purposely. It was taken from the window of a French passenger train. It symbolizes the Images & Trains Project philosophy: to promote visions on the world of today Railroads done through Photography with some creative and even provocative approach.
Thanks for your support and your fidelity to this Project,
Renaud CHODKOWSKI
Images & Trains Project founder and webmaster
