The Last Train

There's no doubt that Sue's 365 project requirements are also getting me out of the house with the camera. On Sunday, here them was b&w along with stairs/architecture. B&W is her theme for the week and stairs/architecture were the additional prompts for the day.

It was another tough day with miserable, cold winds, but out we went.

I thought of this building with a mural and stairs. It didn't work so well for Sue, but with some finagling in both camera and edit, I somewhat like this result.

When I posted this on FB, a local enthusiast told me that it wasn't actually the last train but it was
one that had gone through town. He wasn't sure if there ever was a photo of the very last one.

I've been driving by this mural for years, thinking it deserves a photo, but it is a drive-by location, and I never have thought to return – until yesterday when Sue needed a photo.

Due to the snow we couldn't get a good angle, and I needed two shots to capture the whole building. When I combined them in post, the more normal perspective didn't turn out very well, so for fun I decided to use the warped perspective that you see above.

Carleton Place was a small railway hub as north-south and east-west lines intersected with the town. The east-west line was actually one that ran the breadth of the country – at least sometimes – but it was long gone by the time that we arrived here in 2005. The north-south line expired a few years later and was converted into a long, recreational trail.

Since it is Sue's b&w week, I also decided to convert my image. 

This ↓ turned out to be Sue's photo choice for the day, which had a subset theme of awesome. This one doesn't have stairs but it does have rather awesome architecture. It's our town hall, which has made an appearance in many of my photos over the years. I like it with the tree branches, which is not something that I would be likely to think of doing.