This is a shot I recently took in North Carolina of the N&W 611, which was running an excursion from Spencer, NC to Asheville, NC. When I first took this photo in the field, I thought it wouldn’t be any good, but after looking at it back at home and studying it for a bit, I realized that it had some potential. This was taken around 9:00 in the morning at a road crossing which was heavily wooded, giving the area a tunnel like effect. I shot the photo at 1/500 of a second at F16, with an ISO of 400. I was worried when I initially took the picture that it would be too dark because I was not able to change the F-stop fast enough (the crossing was much more brightly lit in the other direction). Just goes to show that you should always give your pictures a good second look before passing final judgement on them.
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