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Just to add a little colour, hehe. I have here a cross-processed train. It was originally taken in black and white, and then cross-processed in photoshop. To watch my tutorial on cross-processing, click this link http://amananderson.com/?p=211. It was a fascinating train. But I was stumped, lol. What do you do with a underexposed, blurry image? Cross-process it! You know Im really glad how it turned out. God is good. So try it out! If your shooting film you might have to cross-process it manually following the E4 Process in C22 I guess. That’s how they did it in the olden days. Or if you shoot film, you can get it developed by a film developer (most pharmacies). Then ask for a digital CD with your images. Then your ready to go!

Since my job is by the train track, in downtown, poverty, with brick streets I feel like im in the depression era. Not for the way things were then, but for the historical feeling everyday. The freight train trucks by at least 2 times a day with noise as loud as a tornado. And with all this around I have become to appreciate old buildings, and trains. This train wood struck me. It appears that it’s falling apart and has not been replaced for a while. But I love the creativity behind it.

As the rocks hold this little thing in place they seem to be peeping through the wood in the middle now, for the age of the wood has determined it’s weakness, but yet that over weight train still trucks by. Safety concern? Not sure, but it really looks cool!

I know that this is a common thing especially in America, but um… this really struck me. I walk by it every day actually at work. It is a very old building, and it’s actually all painted the same colour. The cables, box, window class, meter, and that just seemed odd to me. And I usually taking pictures of odd things that look old or vintage. I shot in 800 ISO. I don’t know, but it seems to me that the Fujifilm S2 Pro renders film so well! I used to shoot film, the old Nikon N8008 AF, and the grain in the Fuji just seems on point! It was shot with my Nikkor 50mm prime.

You hardly ever see windows like that anymore and it just seems to have history written all over it. It has a few modern adjustments like the cables and the actual meter is digital, but other than that it still maintains it’s historical look.

I love lake pictures with clouds. I think I’ve been looking at too many Ansel Adams pictures. But it sure does show that black and white can be simply colorful. I’ve come to appreciate black and white images for there simplicity and there undistracted appeal. This was taken off of Lee Road I believe in Orlando, Florida. A lot of neighborhoods have lakes, and where I was there where boat docks owned by the people who live in the neighborhood. So I didn’t want to get to close to there dock, it also said Private Property on the picture above :).

I love the old look that this image portrays, almost seems like the place where the elderly would get together to talk and fish. The chair is broken and the It looks very run down, but it has so much character. There also seems to be a little table on the left edge of the dock, standing alone. The paint is chipping off, and it seems as if the door hinges are there but no door. It’s calm and serene, yet old. I love old pictures.