Well, I can honsetly say...no need for a 42 x superzoom with power pixels!...I can also say I have lost a few pixels over the past year too...but this is a corker..The lead line pulls the eye to the far point...so sharp, that point would pierce yer eye too!

Howd the hell you manage to keep everybody off that platform while you snapped it?...

If you focus on the foreground, your eyes move through the shot about as fast as a runaway train! That little camera does a great job, Tick. Super shot!

Bit of a daredevil standing in the middle of the track! Got perspective down back then. Some of those early cameras had great lenses. I loved my 4mp Kodak too.

I like the tracks! Enjoyed the list of cameras too!

LOL at the comment above - the list of cameras !!! LOL
I do love the railway tracks !!!!!!
Thanks, dear agent and my asistant is giving you a biiig wet wet kisssss. LOL
SAM

Last year around this time I missed the bus. Painful it was then and painful it still remains. I can imagine the same feeling missing the train. Fine shot Tick. Now get off the tracks please!

It's a good job it didn't turn up..You would have been part of the cowcatcher...Good perspective .. R.

The perspective that this offers is excellent, I fell like I could just step into the image and walk those tracks.
=^..^=Tigs

Nice shot, great perspective, very good composition. I am impressed, Tick.

It is a great shot taken with such a camera Tick. The DOF is very good here and also I like how the rails lead the eye to the horizon.

In this case, Ron, centering the photo allows the diminishing perspective to rule the day, pulling our eyes into the distance. There are rules to photography (that a number of folks here at Caedes like to wave like a flag when they interpret your images for you) but I've always thought of them only as guidelines. Often going against the "rules" produces a much more interesting photo (remember the end credits for "Rain Man?"). The only thing I would have suggested for this one was to move the camera about a foot to the left. Then the track would have been exactly in the center. I'd also like to see this view taken again late in the day, just after the sun has dropped below the horizon so the shadows are equal on both sides. An approaching storm, coloring the sky gold or green that then fills the shadows under those rain covers would really be interesting. Quite often pre-dawn and post-sunset light is the best light to shoot by.

-Nik

I think it has a great perspective Ticker! Looks good to me...lol...You worry too much. As for the megapixels, you're not the only one!...lol

Enjoyed Harpo waiting for the train. lol.
Tom

Tick - I really like the diminishing perspective of this image that originates at the corners and has a symmetry to it. A good one from the bin, for sure. Now - some words of advice: Waiting for the train by standing between the rails can be hazardous to your health! ;-) Thad

Thanks for pointing out all your mistakes. Saves room for the praise I guess. A very good perspective in the photo. Nice lighting and colours in the scene. Maybe if you stick around you can catch the Last Train to Clarksville leaving track number 2.

Ottumwa, IA? Isn't that where this guy is supposed to hail from?

Nice perspective presentation, Cap'n...Faved...

Nice pic, with great perspective, Ron !
John

Like this has some real depht good one.

Rob

Rules are made to be broken Tick and I think that the tracks being centered is just the way it was supposed to happen. A great capture my friend.

Wow, spectacular capture with such depth and love the way tracks leads your eyes up to that gorgeous sky

I think it is just as well the train didnt arrive seeing as how your standing on the tracks there honey bunch.

The lines are eye-catching ... excellent depth too. Fantastic capture, Tick.