Posts tagged with train station
6 November 2008 - Do not trespass on the railway
Do not trespass on the railway, Penalty £1000, or if there’s a train coming you’re going to get squashed! Thanks Matty for the Pound sign help!
Shot at Paddington Station, London this afternoon.
10 August 2008 - Kimball
Kimball, a station on the L in Chicago. This was a station I used every day when I lived in Chicago a few years ago. I had to ride the brown line one more time when I visited the city in 2005.
I had hoped to work on some shots of today’s trip to Kinsale and Garrettstown but time was against me. Wandered one of the backstreets of the town and got some shots of the wonderful buildings there.
22 August 2006 - Cobh Train Station
Cobh Train Station, taken just before closing many months ago. It’s a long exposure shot of the interior of a fine building on the quay-side.
“The Queenstown Story”, a museum in the background of this shot is worth a visit and tells the story of the port of Cobh as the last place 3 million Irish people saw before they sailed for the United States. Some of those sailed on the ill-fated Titanic.
The Queenstown Story on virtualtourist.com has more reviews, and pictures of the museum if you’re interested.
Techincal details:
- Duplicate Layer
- Brighten new layer with Curves tool.
- Blur with Gaussian Blur and a radius of 15 pixels.
- Black/White conversion with channel mixer.
- Change layer mode to Grain merge, 82.5% opacity.
- Resize and unsharp mask the lower layer.
I like this: Shandon Tower.
18 April 2006 - Abandoned Train Station
In Killeagh, East Cork, there’s an abandoned train station from I don’t know how long ago. According to Wikidepia it’s unlikely that the station will be restored because there isn’t enough demand. The Cork-Midleton line will however open by 2008.
While researching this post I found out that the town of Killeagh was an important place in the Fenian Rising of 1867!