Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

This was taken yesterday of the rail bed that during the civil war fed Richmond, va the capitol of the Confederacy and which Grant went to Petersburg to stop and starve the city late in the Civil War. The same exact road bed and railroad with a different name today 10 miles due south still is a path for goods by rail into downtown Richmond, one of many historic paths here. Taken with my little samsung nx2000 20 mp travel camera and its 20-50mm kit lens. I am selling, have sold, most of my non used cameras resting in my camera cabinet on ebay and this one I decided to keep as it is better than I thought it was when I put it aside after trying it. Not a bad little camera for quick use though more based on cell phone tech than top end camera tech...still, it shoots a good image now and then!

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photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Fine image Lance.

Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

thank you!

MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

Lots of history there Lance... I live in NE Alabama a few miles from GA/TN and love exploring old Civil war sites and historical places... If only the railbeds could talk. nice capture.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Lovely image, I'd just tidy it up a bit - straighten the sleepers and remove the overhead cabling would make a big difference to my eye.

Bushpilot Loc: Minnesota

It's neat that you posted this, I just finished the chapter in the book "Grant" that discussed this point in the American Civil War.

Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

I never do that. I guess I am enough of a purist that I don't want to get into full time graphic design with photos which is what that is when you begin doing too much to them to make them other than as they actually are. I can also make it much more vivid which enhances how it looks as well but I generally refrain from doing that. I do get into graphic design with some of my photos by turning them into modern art but it is pretty clear that they are out of the realm of natural photos and into the realm of graphic design when I do them.

I know it is possible and thanks for your suggestion knowing some prefer those kinds of modifications. It's a matter of style and principle and I'd just as soon not get into airbrushing things away....

Old fashioned idea, I know, but then, there it is.

Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

Here is an example of an effects setting which makes it more vivid...true, it is more striking and emphatic but it is not the way it looked the day I took the image either. It is possible to do so much digitally in post I've just chosen to keep it down to a very dull roar normally.

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Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Nice image Lance.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

A nice shot with history lesson!!