Chris Walters: 3rd Place
Judge's Comment:
The images submitted here all have one strong unifying feature. They have a strong, yet easy curve carrying us into the center of the image and around the frame. Aesthetically, the snow covered mountain with the train leading into the background has activity in all parts of the frame. The mountain rises above with majesty and the unconquerable-ness of nature while the train slowly moves around it. The hard vertical of the power poles break the frame into small pieces and keep the eye jumping in increments. The shadow image takes such a busy but simple background and makes a pleasing and almost unidentifiable shadow the focal point. With the lines of the bridge, the lower half of the frame is again broken up. The tunnel image forms a great parenthesis with the left curve of the shining track and the slight right curve of the tunnel wall. It’s a play with negative space that ricochets off the bright specular highlight of the locomotive ahead.
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