Kristof De Veirman – A free photographer

Meet Kristof de Veirman, a Belgian photographer and founder of the Underground Train Movement. He talks about his vision on Railroad Photography. Also discover a day of railfaning with him on the railway line that link Toul to Dijon (East of France).(...)
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The Images & Trains Project motto is after all, “Creative Railroad Photography”. Many people I meet wonder just what this means. Why would some pictures be better than others? Isn’t that an “over the top” vision of the I & T people’s work, when compared to other photographer’s work? What about the classic ¾ angled pose with the sun behind the photographer, (also known as wedgies)? Are they so bad? I will atempt to answer these questions within this essay. I will also give you all some clues to creating great railroad photography.

English Translation Editing : Gerry FERNS.

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I did a trip in Australia in 2007. I was beginning my photographic work, in search for creativity. On one suburbs around Sydney, I found an old tank car in the middle of an oil refinery. It has been there for years I suppose. I did a “portrait” of this freight car. This led me to publish a PDF photo-essay : the lonely freight car.

Some single pictures from this essay don’t really have a link with the Railroad world. You have to consider all of them in a global way. They all show details that will help you to have an idea of this abandoned tank car.

Digital pictures have an interesting side: you can process than any time you want. My personal vision has changed since 2007. I am now more interested with black and white photography. So I opened Lightroom and worked on the pictures. You can find the result of this new approach on the gallery below.

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SPECIAL ISSUE – URBAN SCENES

Urban Landscapes

The first of three galleries is about Urban Landscapes. Discover the relationship between railroads and cities through the eyes of various photographers around the world.

Asian Snapshots

Renaud introduces you to Bangkok (Thailand) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) mass transit systems with three summaries and three photo-essays.

Stations Snapshots

The second gallery is a view inside stations worlds. Architectures or atmospheres are subjects of a large variety of pictures.

Eric Binamé’s Japanese Postcards

Eric shares with you one of its roadbook. You’re going to discover Japan from North to South. An exotic experience!

Underground Scenes

The last gallery explores cities and their underground side. Be ready to do an unusual journey deep in this unknown world that is a strong photographic source of creativity.

Do you want to learn more?

About Japan

History

Japanese railroads history bagan in 1872. Around 20 kilomters (12 miles) of tracks linked Tokyo with a close suburb. Private companies created a dense network : nn 1906, around 6,000 kilomters (3,730 miles) are all around the country.

A milestone is reached on October 1st, 1964. Shinkansen – a 210 kph (130 mph) passenger train – did its first revenue train during the Tokyo Olympics. Shinkansen network is the backbone of the 21st century railway network in Japan. Some people forecast a future made with sustentation trains but the huge costs may tranform this prediction to a fantasy.

Photographers in this issue

Eric BINAMÉ, Grégoire BROSSARD, Renaud CHODKOWSKI, Grégory DELATTRE, François ILIOVICI, Etienne JACQUOT, Martin OSCARSSON.

[Download the volume number 02] Download this issue : 34.38 Mo :

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Around the world : Swedish shortlines

François has lived in Sweden for years. In this article, he shows a colorfull view of the seasons through five chapters.

Contemporary railroading : Ac4400CW – AC traction by GE

GE’s AC4400Cs are the stars of this first pictorial. Discover some locomtives working all around North-America.

What if… ? “We talked about photography”

This chapter talks about Photography of Railways. In this issue, the author shares his opinion about common ideas.

New Horizons : High in the sky

Discover planespotting through Yves Cojan’s interview and pictures.

Do you want to learn more?

GE’s AC4400CW

If you’re not used with North-American geography, here is a map to help you with pictures locations :

Also, a 2005 roster that gives the AC4400CW users :

and some details about railroad companies which are illustrated (2005 datas from AAR) :

Canadian Pacifique Rwy : the second big company in Canada. CPR network is 22530 km (14000 mi) long and runs from Montreal to Vancouver and a part of United-States. 1669 locomotives are owned.
http://www8.cpr.ca/cms/English/default.htm?1

Cartier Mining : is a shortline that links Mt Wright Mine to Port Cartier (Quebec) with a 420 km network. 22 locomotives are owned for iron ore transport.
http://www.qcmines.com/default.aspx
Update : Cartier Mining is now owned by Arcelor Mittal. Locomotives should have new colours is 2010.

CSX Transportation : is a northeastern company that has a 28220 km (17535 mi) network. 3601 locomotives are owned.
http://www.csx.com/

Union Pacific : is the oldest of Class I railroads. Its network is 43370 km (26949 mi) long and runs all over United-States (but Atlantic Coast). More than 8100 locomotives are owned !
http://www.up.com/

General Electric Transportation website
http://www.getransportation.com/na/en/locomotives.html

About Planespotting…

Two links which show nice pictures and help to discover planespotting :

Airliners.net : “THE” worldwide website about pictures of planes.
Spottingzone : a french forum with high quality pictures.

“What if” article : the captions

For editorial purpose, there was no captions on François’s article. A PDF file is available for dowloading if you want to discover them.

Download the PDF file (0.4 Mo)

Photographers in this issue

Renaud CHODKOWSKI, Yves COJAN, Patrick DELARUE, François ILIOVICI, Scott LOTHES, Martin OSCARSSON, Benoit POULIN.

[Download the volume 01] Download this issue : 21.01 Mo

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