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This shot was taken on the same journey as this one but I didn't put it up at the time as I thought it was probably a little too similar. As for why I'm posting something that was taken over a month ago: I did hope to get out today, but we've been having our central-heating boiler replaced over the last couple of days and, what with one thing and another, I've not really managed to get out of the house. Hopefully the weather will be ok tomorrow and I'll be able to get some decent shots (which would be good, as I have very few even half-decent shots in reserve ;-) ).

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comment by Farid at 10:07 PM (GMT) on 25 February, 2005

your description's ending needs a fix, i think, unless ;-) is a legitimate replacement for a period and a parenthesis. ;-) what a picky crowd you've got reading every word on your website. ;-) i love chromasia.

comment by Paulo Ribeiro at 10:29 PM (GMT) on 25 February, 2005

I really, really like this picture. The colours and the sensation of movement are so great. And it looks like a double exposure.

comment by Jorge Lesmes at 11:40 PM (GMT) on 25 February, 2005

You were also in a train or waiting at the station?

Great shot as always...

comment by djn1 at 11:42 PM (GMT) on 25 February, 2005

Jorge: I was on the train.

comment by Beth at 11:44 PM (GMT) on 25 February, 2005

First class? :) Very smooth, cool shot!

comment by quasi at 11:49 PM (GMT) on 25 February, 2005

I'm really liking the bright blue band across the top. Sorry I don't have anything more constructive to say, but...great shot! :)

comment by Carlo Ferroni at 12:52 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

Was this shot on 'protect the testicles' day? What's with those hands!!!

comment by pixelwacko at 12:56 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

I love the ambiguity! At first glance, you really can't tell if it was shot inside our outside the train.

comment by Ted Morrow at 01:35 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

The motion in this shot is of course great, but I think the colours are even more interesting. The blue is intriguing - I can't quite work out where it comes from.

comment by fernando at 01:44 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

i do prefer the other , but the colors are great on this one

comment by Bethany at 03:21 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

Dave-
I have been a long-time lurker at your photoblog, and I've really come to admire your work. I am a student, not any type of real photographer, so I don't really have any idea what I'm talking about, but I absolutely love the bright color that seems to be your trademark-- so saturated and ethereal, as well as the crisp clarity of it. Anyway, I'd just thought I'd finally leave a comment.

- Bethany

comment by Joan at 05:52 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

Breathtakingly fantastic, as was the train one before. And many many other photos before and after.

I remember the old days, when one had to go to a bookstore or library to find uplifting and inspiring photo books to look at. We are so damned lucky to have the internet, with the glimpses it gives of the beauty in the world - and of the beautiful people in it.

I read a quote last night that I think fits my sentiments at the moment. "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo Picasso

comment by Robb at 06:03 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

It strikes me that your fondness for the reflected image makes of your photos a sort of meta-discourse on the relationship between the nature of seeing and the way that the camera mediates the actual image that our eye sees; how crushingly honest and inescapably deceptive the lens can be, when the images seem so clear; how like life the blur, the motion, the multiple. I apologize. I've yet to flesh this out.

comment by Fellow Eskimo at 06:30 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

It does look like a double exposure! Intresting colours, and maybe im not seeing it..but how exactly did you get that shot?

comment by peter at 06:50 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

Vivid colours and a great sense of movement. Good shot!

comment by Valoth at 07:20 AM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

Did you click this picture against the glass window ? Looks so fast..:)

comment by djn1 at 03:12 PM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

Ted: I can't quite work out the blue either. What I can remember is that this a reflection in the train window (where I'm a passenger rather than outside the train), but other than that I can't offer much more by way of explanation.

comment by Peace at 03:54 PM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

your pictures are always awesome!

comment by peter cohen at 08:37 PM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

Are you making any photographs of the boiler replacing?

comment by djn1 at 08:53 PM (GMT) on 26 February, 2005

Thanks everyone.

Peter: no, I didn't take any, but I did spend all morning fixing a leak :-/

comment by joe at 05:52 AM (GMT) on 28 February, 2005

ah, a train shot... will tomorrow's picture be of a beach? or maybe... a train?

comment by djn1 at 10:04 AM (GMT) on 28 February, 2005

joe: "tomorrow's" shot was already up when you posted this, as was the next one, and both are clearly neither a train nor a beach. Tell you what, how about I have an agoraphobic train-hater's day once a month, would that help? ;-)