Post Favourite Photographs Of You Layout/s

[Lancastrian]

I should imagine that most of us have favourite photographs of our layout/s and possibly like me many.

I will start by sharing two of them:

This one is from the very early days of my 'OO' layout.


This one is a cottage on the side of a canal on my 'N' layout.


Remember they are your favourites, no matter how basic or complex they might be.

[Mountain]

They are lovely!
I do not know how many pictures of my past layout exist, if I find them, I will try and use the tablet to photograph them. I did have a retired semi-professional photographer come up to take some as he was a family friend, but though he used to work for newspapers, his focus was in photographing me with the layout behind me rather than the layout itself, as newspapers were usually about focusing about writing articles about the people rather than their creations themselves. He was a really nice elderly man so I did not have the heart to tell him and let him take the photographs, which did turn out nice.

[glencairn]

Puddles after the rain.

Glencairn

[Flashbang]

The S & T Depot

Engine shed and P Way yard

[Phred]

Heljan class 58

One of my favourite locos, which my grandson managed to reach on the layout and kindly dismantled for me. I love the little chap but on that day I had second thoughts...

[Dublo]

Both Little Weldon and Weldon Stations.

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[Mountain]

The way the light catches on the track, that photo looking under the station roof is spectacular!

Actually all the photos are nice... The water and coal effect reminds me of my youth, crossing the rails around Burry Port to get to the harbour. All those harbour railways are gone now. It is hard to say gone, but they are. Gone. I want to go back in time... But I don't. Some fond memories I want to keep, but others such as school.... Still feel on edge thinking about it!
But... Yes, memories!

Photograps are memories captured in time.

[glencairn]

Wintertime at Leeds Sovereign Street Station

Glencairn

[fourtytwo]

Some entries from Riccarton my last N gauge layout circa 2014

[Dad-1]

I feel the freedom of the open road



From Castell Mawr

Geoff T.

[Mountain]

I like this one.

[Wolseley]

Here are the two favourites of mine, neither of which, I'm afraid, are particularly great photographs. The first was one I took after I installed the lighting - just the layout's lights illuminating the scene, hence the slightly indistinct and slightly grainy appearance:

The other one I took about four and a half years ago, while there was still a lot of scenic work to be done. It isn't a digital photo rendered in black and white - it was taken with a 35mm film camera loaded with black and white film, Ilford FP400 if I recall correctly. As I said, not a great photo, so why is it one of my favourites? It's just that, rather appropriately for a three rail layout that uses vintage rolling stock, it has a period feel to it, and seems rather like what you would find in a model railway magazine of the 1950s.

For those who are interested, the camera was a Leica IIIa, the lens was an uncoated f3.5 5cm Elmar, and a Leica close up attachment was fitted between the lens and the camera body. The haziness (or call it bokeh, if you prefer) in the photograph to me adds a certain character and period charm and was mainly due to the low filtered light in the room (no flash was used) and the lack of coating on the lens (it dates back to 1934, before lens coatings were in general use on 35mm camera lenses).

[Dad-1]

Too many of my favourite photographs have very little railway
in them - This one from my Farmhouse Diorama.



Geoff T.

[SRman]

[Lancastrian]

Night time in a camping coach.




Loco on the river side.