Kris has a long tradition of creating a table-top Christmas village for the holidays. This season we set up her annual village in our dining room.

I was in charge of locating the tracks for the HO-scale train and tree-placement among other things.

After it was all done, Kris asked me to take a few photos.

As with many of my projects, one thing led to another, and several hours later I’d produced an album of images.

All images were exposed on a solid tripod, with time exposures up to 30 seconds. In addition to lighting from the buildings, trees and other scale sources, I used a hand-held LED flashlight to provide supplemental lighting and contrast contol effects.

To enhance the magical effect of the season, I made some heavy handed post processing adjustments with some of the photos.

Tracking the Light explores railway image making.