Theme: By Train, Plane, Boat or Car - images taken from moving vehicles

[Stevenson Gawen]

I thought this would be an interesting theme. I have more than a few of these, some recent examples of which I'll post here.
Do you have some too? If not take some. Don't break any traffic rules though... at least not on my advice!

The only rule is that images must be taken on a journey, on a vehicle. Doesn't have to be in motion... stopped at a traffic light is fine!

Sydney CBD - shot through the (open) car window. Sony Nex5r, 30mm f2.8 Sigma



First Class carriage corridor on NSW Trainlink XPT train. "Vintage" Fujifilm S5600 bridge camera.


View out of window of same train. "Vintage" Fujifilm S5600 bridge camera.


Sydney Harbour bridge. Shot through windscreen!

 

[Ibraar Hussain]

View from the Guards window, Sargodha to Mandi Bahaudin
Yashica 60mm Makro f2.8
Panasonic Lumix GX7
2015

 

[Ibraar Hussain]

I thought this would be an interesting theme. I have more than a few of these, some recent examples of which I'll post here.
Do you have some too? If not take some. Don't break any traffic rules though... at least not on my advice!

The only rule is that images must be taken on a journey, on a vehicle. Doesn't have to be in motion... stopped at a traffic light is fine!

Sydney CBD - shot through the (open) car window. Sony Nex5r, 30mm f2.8 SigmaView attachment 18508



First Class carriage corridor on NSW Trainlink XPT train. "Vintage" Fujifilm S5600 bridge camera.
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View out of window of same train. "Vintage" Fujifilm S5600 bridge camera.
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Sydney Harbour bridge. Shot through windscreen!
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Number 3 I especially like

 

[Peter Roberts]

Great suggestion, Stevenson.
Here's a random selection of some that I knew where to find.

Mind the closing doors
Minolta SRT101b / Rokkor 35mm f2.8 / FP4+ / Rodinal


Old skool bus, old skool driving
Minolta XD7 / Vivitar 28-85mm f3.5-4.5 / FP4+ / Rodinal



Fares please
Fujifilm X100s



From the wheel of my Austin A30, queuing for a show
Phone


And one from the archive.


Western Isles ferry, Scotland 1977
Minolta SRT303b / Rokkor 50mm f1.7 / Agfa CT21 (Probably)

 

[Gianluca Drago]

@Stevenson Gawen, I really like your photos, the ones in trains in particular, that are "creamy," textural and evocative of the idea of train travel.
I also like the idea of sharing these photos taken from the inside out as you travel. Unfortunately, I realized that among my photos there are no such photos or they frame people that I don't want to publish for privacy issues.

Perhaps the only one I can publish is a low quality photo from about 20 years ago. Here my son, then a child, had arranged his toy friends in a row along the window, facing outward so they also could enjoy the running view. The elephant, the Donald Duck, his favorite little lion (called Giacomino) and Pinocchio.

I was looking at my son, he was looking at them, and they looked out. A cascade of gazes, all focused on the journey going on beyond that window.

It was my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix SQ.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

OK, I'll play: taken from a ship in Glacier Bay of the Margerie Glacier.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Great suggestion, Stevenson.
Here's a random selection of some that I knew where to find.

View attachment 18511Mind the closing doors
Minolta SRT101b / Rokkor 35mm f2.8 / FP4+ / Rodinal


View attachment 18512 Old skool bus, old skool driving
Minolta XD7 / Vivitar 28-85mm f3.5-4.5 / FP4+ / Rodinal


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Fares please
Fujifilm X100s


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From the wheel of my Austin A30, queuing for a show
Phone


And one from the archive.

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Western Isles ferry, Scotland 1977
Minolta SRT303b / Rokkor 50mm f1.7 / Agfa CT21 (Probably)

"Fares please" is a magnificent detail in the story.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Number 3 I especially like

Thanks Ibraar!

@Peter Roberts that's a fine selection! Particularly captivated by the last one.

ones in trains in particular, that are "creamy," textural and evocative of the idea of train travel.
I also like the idea of sharing these photos taken from the inside out as you travel. Unfortunately, I realized that among my photos there are no such photos or they frame people that I don't want to publish for privacy issues.

Thanks Gianluca! Totally understand about the people photos too - I have some photos just like that which I've rather fond of but won't post online out of respect for the subjects.
I very much like the photo you did post though - very evocative.

Margerie Glacier

Ooh, nice! I was kind of wondering how many photos from boats/ships would turn up. That makes two!

 

[Gary Gruber]

shot from a train in the Amish country of Pennsylvania

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

shot from a train in the Amish country of Pennsylvania

That's great! A lovely example of the possibilities of the theme.

 

[Martin Scharnke]

Thanks for the challenge. On one day in September last year I travelled by Uber, Train, Bus, Plane and private car. No photos taken in the first or last, and selfies with mask in the second and third. So I threw away the idea of all on one day. Instead:
From a boat (Kaikoura mountains from Interislander ferry Wellington-Picton)
From a car (Wellington Carillon snapped by cellphone whilst passenger in a moving car)
From a plane (Mud Island, Moreton Bay, near Brisbane)
I fly fairly often, so I capture aerial shots when I can - I have some nice ones from my January visit to NZ still to process, and may add these subsequently.

 

[Martin Scharnke]

I have some nice ones from my January visit to NZ still to process, and may add these subsequently.

OK - here is D'Urville Island (8th largest landmass in NZ) from an altitude of 4483m (Flightlevel 147)

 

[Peter Roberts]

@Stevenson Gawen, I really like your photos, the ones in trains in particular, that are "creamy," textural and evocative of the idea of train travel.
I also like the idea of sharing these photos taken from the inside out as you travel. Unfortunately, I realized that among my photos there are no such photos or they frame people that I don't want to publish for privacy issues.

Perhaps the only one I can publish is a low quality photo from about 20 years ago. Here my son, then a child, had arranged his toy friends in a row along the window, facing outward so they also could enjoy the running view. The elephant, the Donald Duck, his favorite little lion (called Giacomino) and Pinocchio.

I was looking at my son, he was looking at them, and they looked out. A cascade of gazes, all focused on the journey going on beyond that window.

It was my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix SQ.


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I very much like the personal memory that goes with this one.

 

[Peter Roberts]

"Fares please" is a magnificent detail in the story.

I do like to slip in detail shots

 

[Len Philpot]

This is a topic of which I have virtually nothing, especially nothing of artistic intent nor value. But here are three images I found in my archive (i.e., buried on my NAS) from years ago. With the exception of the last one, I really don't recall what I was thinking when I shot them. I don't know why I shot them, but I did...

On the Bolivar Island Ferry in Galveston Bay, Texas, June 2006. This was with an old 5mp Kodak SX-4530 P&S camera. I tried to give the (too blue) jpg a bit more of a film feel.



This was as we drove through a typical small rural Texas town (in this case, Woodville) heading out on vacation in May 2008. My wife was driving and I was playing with my still relatively new Canon XT-Rebel (350D) DSLR. Just small town America.



And this one was while we rode the miniature railroad around the top of Rich Mountain near Mena, Arkansas in July 2008. My daughter enjoyed the ride but wasn't too fond of the train's whistle! Also shot with my 350D.

 

[Len Philpot]

Fares please

I know, I'm strange, but...

In a world of plastic cheapness there's something very satisfying to me about that metal device -- From the smooth metal, to the leather strap, the protective shield and the clips that hold it all in place... It looks like quality. That may be a deceiving appearance, but I like it.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

nothing of artistic intent nor value. But here are three images I found in my archive (i.e., buried on my NAS) from years ago. With the exception of the last one, I really don't recall what I was thinking when I shot them. I don't know why I shot them, but I did...

Well, I'm glad you did! Love the first one, indeed rather film-like in the colours. Has a strong sense of action and movement to me too. The second one reminds me very much of some of the 'town' images I've posted over the last weeks - very nice to see one of your towns too.

For me, these 'in movement' images are often more about the feeling they evoke rather than technical excellence. Maybe I'm just lazy - but it works for me.

The last... ah... reminds me of when I was about 13 and got a ride on a real traction engine (is that a UK/Aussie term? I mean one of those big steam powered tractors from before internal combustion was invented).

Not sure if it whistled, but I wasn't too happy about the grinding and shuddering of it's gears - I think I looked a bit like your daughter does in that shot!

 

[Peter Roberts]

I know, I'm strange, but...

In a world of plastic cheapness there's something very satisfying to me about that metal device -- From the smooth metal, to the leather strap, the protective shield and the clips that hold it all in place... It looks like quality. That may be a deceiving appearance, but I like it.

It is indeed a quality device. Switching on my saddo mode it's a Gibson ticket machine designed in-house by London Transport. They were in use from the early fifties until the early nineties. They were made for hard, constant use and were phased out when buses became driver only operated. It's nice to see them in use, and indeed hear them whirring as the handle is turned, as this one was on a classic bus running day.

 

[Len Philpot]

The second one reminds me very much of some of the 'town' images I've posted over the last weeks - very nice to see one of your towns too.

To be clear, this isn't my hometown, it's about 100 miles west more or less. But it's very similar.

 

[Len Philpot]

It's nice to see them in use, and indeed hear them whirring as the handle is turned, as this one was on a classic bus running day.

Yes, it looks like something that, if personally owned, would be strangely satisfying just to operate, while listening to the mechanical sounds. I like devices that work smoothly and reliably. Maybe IT wasn't the best choice for the last 24 years of my career!! LOL