Loleta Rails

Posted by Stephen Phillips (San Francisco, United States) on 25 July 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

These rail cars sit idle along the lower Eel River - near the sleepy little community of Loleta. It had been stormy that morning and the colors here - to the best of my memory (and camera skills) - are accurate.

[ a photograph taken about 10 minutes earlier and a mile to the west - follows tomorrow... ]

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Comments (10)

Michael Skorulski from Cigel, Hong Kong

The beauty of the natural upper image provides a stark contrast to the heavy ugliness of the railway cars. It really is a kind of triumph of nature over man's ability to make the earth unpleasant.

25 Jul 2008 6:08am

@Michael Skorulski: ...what a powerful observation.

dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, United States

such beautiful blues!! i love the leftward motion of the tree branch adds the perfect hint of a diagonal. the sky is dynamic, yet soft and the added bonus of the bushes in front and the old train cars just behind add wonderful line and texture! marvelous!!!

25 Jul 2008 6:08am

@dj.tigersprout: These rails - so far as I can tell - are dead. Unusable. These rail cars look to have sat here for many, many years. So, they appear here almost as planter boxes for the trees behind them. A reverse bonsai garden on the deck of life.

Thomas Griffioen from Bocas del Toro, Panama

Great photo, love the branches against the sky!

25 Jul 2008 10:01am

Alun Lambert from cheshire, United Kingdom

very nice

25 Jul 2008 2:41pm

kerfendal from Paris, France

incredible the contrast between the top where everything is blue even the trees and the other part in grey and brown and the contrast between the vegetation and the stern iron wagons

25 Jul 2008 4:00pm