Steam train

Here is my picture that I took at Kingscote station, this is a lucky opportunity as it is rare to catch a locomotive without a train behind it.

Unfortunately there was little I could do to get the train spotters out of the shot without losing the background that I wanted, I felt that removing them in photoshop would be damaging to the rest of the image so I left them in.

Taken on a sunny day, the engine glistens in the light and the tracks create a good leading line.

The picture is perhaps not perfectly framed, the subject is in the middle of the shot, but I feel that the rule of thirds is adequate for what I wanted, the greenery in the background, the track and the building take the cross sections, leading in to look at the elegant locomotive and the added intrigue of having the driver climbing across the front.