April 22, 2017, I made this photo of MOB’s Golden Pass Panoramic streamlined train rolling through lush fields near Gruben, Switzerland.
A photo from this sequence appeared in my Railway Guide to Europe, published in 2018 by Kalmbach Books (now Firecrown Media).
To make this image, I used a FujiFilm XT1 with 18-135mm lens set to 70mm. By working with a small aperture (f13) and low angle, I’ve captured a perspective that make the scene appear like a model railway. (The scrubbed clean ballast helps too!)
Sinuous single track winding through lush Alpine meadows with snow capped peaks in the distance under a blazing blue sky.
Hard to go wrong here photographically. Pity about the choice of visually challenging of colors on the trains, but nothing is ever completely perfect, is it?
Exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1.Exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1.
Exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1 using the external adjustable rear display panel to compose the image while holding the camera close to the ground.
MOB station at Gruben.
This is but a small sample of the digital photos on a visit to Switzerland with Denis McCabe two weeks ago.
