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An Analysis Of William Street Bridge

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deliberately focus on developing our skills, then the results will come if we put in the time. It is really at its core, just producing a volume of work in order for us to get the failures out of the way on to extricating the gems.
We will try to make a photograph and it will not be a masterpiece – and often the harder we try the more it seems we are likely to fail. But those failures are the best teachers we can have. A success will only confirm we could do what we thought we are capable of.
On the subject of story telling let’s take a trip back to my local railroad hangout of Paris Ontario and tell a story about not only trains, but one of the many recreational activities available to anyone willing to partake.
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I needed to be right at the waters edge and for this I was thankful for having brought my boots. Wet feet can ruin a day of photography fun.
This shot is not possible at first light at this time of the year, as the sun would rise to the north of the tracks, and I had been elsewhere that morning to create another image I had envisioned. It would work in the fall, and I have also done it at night as a 30 second exposure of a passing VIA Rail passenger train, that is seen elsewhere in this book.
Yet I do not recall seeing this look on any railroad photography sites. Which made me wonder why everyone so often shoots within the same boxes? Is it fearing ridicule or is it a desire for acceptance that is the motivating factor? Or is it that the gatekeepers and railfans alike only accept one style of image as appropriate?
I got down as low as my tripod would allow, placing the canoe and kayaks on the lower left within the frame. I also incorporated some of the rocks above and below the waters surface to give more foreground interest and colour to what was somewhat hazy mid-day light, but this was also a test session for future photos. It was merely practice for possibly something more artistic at another time of the year.
On the far-right hand side of the frame, I determined I wanted to show the path that is the portage around the dam and also the launching point for

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