{"id":8958,"date":"2014-11-25T02:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8958"},"modified":"2014-11-25T08:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:22:52","slug":"functional-decay-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/functional-decay-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Functional Decay: Poland."},"content":{"rendered":"

PKP Station Chojn\u00f3w.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On the morning of April 29, 2002, I was changing trains with John Gruber and M. Ross Valentine at Chojn\u00f3w, Poland. We were on our way from \u017baga\u0144 (Zagan) to Dresden, Germany. (see earlier post: PKP Class SU45 at Sunrise, Chojn\u00f3w, Poland, April 29, 2002.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The old station at Chojnow was once a fine facility but had seen better days. The tracks, although highly polished, were tired looking and overgrown with grass, the station building was in need of fresh paint, while the platforms were crumbing and everything was covered in layers of graffiti and grime.<\/p>\n

In other words, it made for a fascinating place to make some photos with the rising sun while waiting for a minor cross-border express train. A long electric freight had just entered the passing siding to clear the mainline.<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise<\/a>
Sunrise at Chojn\u00f3w, Poland on April 29, 2002; exposed on Fujichrome with a Nikon N90S fitted with a Nikkor f2.0 135mm DC \u2018defocus\u2019 telephoto. Using narrow depth of field, my intention with this image is draw attention to the freight train on the siding in the distance, thus making for a graphic photograph with multiple points of interest. I wonder how well this works on a small computer screen; my intended audience was using a slide projector in a darkened room with the image enlarged to more than four feet across. Sometimes these images make the media transition, other times, they don’t.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the mid-2000s, PKP reminded me a lot of Penn-Central in the1970s.<\/p>\n

In my travels around Poland, I\u2019d photographed many stations and lines in various states of functional decay; a tenuous state. When a railway reaches such a condition, it will either vanish altogether, or find itself ripe for investment. In either case, it will be forever changed.<\/p>\n

Sunrise at Chojn\u00f3w, Poland on April 29, 2002; exposed on Fujichrome with a Nikon N90S fitted with a Nikkor f2.0 135mm DC \u2018defocus\u2019 telephoto.<\/p>\n

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