Attentif...
...à la gare de Chamonix - Mont Blanc
Chamonix, 1994
Ilford XP2
Often, when shooting at a railroad station or an airport, I'll see my childhood self
"stand-in" and re-live those exciting anticipatory moments of travel...
love of trains (or airplanes)...taking in every detail, sound, or wafting aroma
of creosote, diesel, coal smoke, or warm electric traction motors...
Come to think of it, not much has changed, for which I am very, very happy.
In this case, the olfactory cues at the SNCF station at Chamonix-Mont Blanc would have
been de créosote et un soupçon de moteurs électriques...and fresh alpine breezes.
I loved the young lad's alert posture in this recently re-discovered moment from autumn 1994.
(Could've been me at Baltimore's Penn Station anticipating the arrival of the New York bound
Afternoon Congressional behind a magnificent Pennsylvania Railroad pin-striped Tuscan Red GG1!)
©2016 Steve Ember
OM-IJ 03/10/2017 21:19
Great! Like an old french movie. JensT. Schiffers 11/04/2016 19:50
great view..good in b&w...tino† Remesco 29/03/2016 18:34
Une scène bien construite.Naej 26/03/2016 11:21
Un très beau N&B !Bravo !
Amts
Jean
SYLDERO 26/03/2016 10:08
J'AIME!