While travelling by train I use my camera to stop the fast moving frames to create an image, a memory, to capture a small piece of something that would otherwise literally be gone before I could blink my eyes.
Train travel has been a big discovery for my when I started travelling from Moscow to Beijing 2 years ago on the Trans-Mongolian Railway. To sit still, on a bench, with the world literally passing by your window is something I enjoy very much.
I take a book, I put on my headphones, and then I notice myself not reading even once sentence, and not listening to any music, since looking outside and listening to the calm rhythm of the train is entertainment enough.
I do however take these 'dirty train window' pictures. They are often a discovery in itself. How often it happens I take a picture, look back at them a month later, to discover a detail in the picture I never saw while sitting on the train! Like these lines through the fields, or, as I will show you in a later photo series, people crossing tracks, working the rails, and even statues in otherwise empty fields...
This picture was taken on a train ride from London to Inverness past summer. It was one of the longer train rides I've ever done, the longest being in Russia, the shortest in my tiny country The Netherlands. The most beautiful? I don't know yet. Maybe I'll discover which one is my favourite while looking sharing my pictures of these travels with you all.
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