Waiting for the Train

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Comment by Resident Curator on April 11, 2016 at 8:49pm

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While I’ve admired your nature photography and specifically your animal portraits some time ago, I’m just not getting back to a longer viewing of Waiting for the Train. Relatively understated compared to your more dramatic and romantic landscapes, the soft focus sheds interesting illumination on reflections and artificial light.  The blue glow around the architectural structure is nicely echoed by the arc of the orange semi-circle which breaks up the composition.  At first viewing I thought the whole work had an overall hazy look, but on closer examination I can see there are selective areas highlighted to create hierarchy of form.  For instance, the train itself is in shaper focus, so that one can make out lettering on the side, and the chevron patterns up front.  These small repetitions reoccur in the windows directly behind in on the station, and then again in the larger structure.  The windows and compositional movement of the train nicely calls to mind the relationship between interior and exterior spaces in flux. The misty quality of the rain does soften what could otherwise be a strongly graphic image, but this trade off allows for a slowing down of time and appreciation of the human interaction with the space.