November light in New England; fleeting shafts of low sun, heavily textured skies; images with brown, burnt and amber hues mixed with shades of slate and blue.

It was always tough with film because of the subtlety of light, but how about using digital media?

The other morning I went out to some familiar locations and made some photos. I’ve imported these into Lightroom and made some minor adjustments to contrast, color temperature and saturation.

This is an exercise in lighting and texture. The photos are more about the places and the quality of light than about the specific railroad elements.

I can return tomorrow to these same places, but I’ll get different images because the quality of November light is so subtle and always changing, like drops of mud spilt into a pond.

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