“In the right place at the right time” is an old saying that applies to many things in life – which for me, also includes railway photography.
Posts Tagged ‘photography’
Hey – I recognise those houses!
March 4th, 2016
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I was checking up on the Age website the other day, and had a sense of deja vu when I saw a stock photo of suburban houses on a hillside. So where did I recognise it from?
Photographing every railway station in Melbourne
October 30th, 2015
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Melbourne has around two hundred railway stations across the city, but for someone such as myself, taking a photo at each one should be easy enough to achieve. However I sat down the other week, and came to the realisation that after 10 years and over 35,000 photographs catalogued online, it is something I am yet to accomplish. So how many stations have I photographed so far?
Another copyright infringement story
March 6th, 2015
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The other week I was trawling the internet as I usually do when I stumbled upon a very familiar looking photo on Wikipedia. So what is the story behind it?
Newspapers using the “wrong” train photos
June 17th, 2014
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If you are interested in trains like I am, then you probably spend a lot of time online discussing the latest rail related news stories with fellow railfans. Over the years I have discovered an extremely common thread of discussion – the “wrong photo” complaint.
