I didn’t have anything prepared for today and I ran across this one, stuck at the back of my workflow and, of course, I had to do it, because it’s got curved lines, which is almost as good as shapes. LOL Being a gritty old track, it called for a gritty old finish. So I […]
Category Archives: Railroads
I know that railroad tracks are cliche. I know it. But, there’s a reason they are cliche – it’s because they are inherently cool. Everyone does them, because everyone likes them. And for someone with my love of shapes and lines and abstracts, they are hard for me to avoid. It’s not so much the […]
Well, I did warn you yesterday that I wasn’t quite finished with the black and whites. LOL I really liked the picture The Hubs took of me last week in this post, but I wanted just the train station, without the model. *wink* So, I got my grainy, urban, train station shot. (I would love for […]
This weekend, The Hubs and I went down to Union Station for The Strange Folk Festival. It’s one of my favorite festivals of the year. This year, however, the festival moved from a park in a small town in Illinois to St. Louis’ Union Station! Which gave us the excuse to not only shop our favorite […]
On the day that The Hubs and I were out taking shots downtown, not far from where I shot the Gargoyles and my favorite little Anheuser-Busch building, is an area that has been industrial for a long time. My grandpa worked for Rold Gold Foods and I wandered back to that area to see what […]
I don’t care how old I get, I don’t care how many photography blogs denounce “railroad tracks” as trite and overdone, I still like them. I will probably always take pictures of them. They are “vintage,” no matter how modern they are. There’s just something about the mystique that never quite goes away… Amirite?!?! (I […]
Playing with my geometric patterns, black & whites, and railroad tracks again. The trifecta of trite? Eh, I like it OK, so pfft, right? “Like” the Shona Skye Creative page, “Share” the posts. Thx! (I would love for you to come back to visit, so please SUBSCRIBE using one of the buttons I have up […]