Submitter's name:	Ken Norton
Title:	Capital Building and Switchyard
Gear used:	OM-2S, 50/3.5 macro (silvernose), lens hood, Winder 1
Diaphragm:	F11
Shutter speed:	Auto, +1.0 exposure compensation
Film used:	Fujichrome Velvia 100F
Technical information:	Camera was held over my head to clear a safety fence on the bridge. Film was scanned on a Nikon Coolscan II using Vuescan. File was then opened in THE GIMP, rotated .75 degrees, resized, converted to monochrome using the "old photo" plugin, levels adjusted, sharpened, resized, slight bit of noise added and saved.
Subject information:	Iowa State Capital Building and Railroad Switchyard. Des Moines, Iowa. This photograph was taken about 20 minutes before sunset from a bridge about 1/2 mile south of the fair grounds. The color version looked fine, but the power in the monochrome image demanded the conversion.
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

Oooooooh, lovely. I'm not much of a sucker for sepia like tones, but in this case it works really well, almost like a 1930s postcard. Excellent leading lines towards the building, which is nicely placed using the rule of thirds as well. In short: a most excellent picture! BTW: that's a nicely packed trainstation as well.

Comment left by: Chris Barker (ftog@threeshoes.co.uk)

I like this. It reminds me of the photos of the building of the Chrysler building.

Comment left by: Saso (no e-mail specified)

Love it. Another classic (in more than one meaning of the word) shot from the author.

Comment left by: The Photographer (no e-mail specified)

My mistake. The lens used was a silvernosed 50/3.5 macro.

Comment left by: Fernando Gonzalez Gentile (no e-mail specified)

Great composition, and knowledgeable use of exposure compensation. And using an standard focal lenght. Some people think it's useless, what a mistake. Never seen a trainstation like this one.

Comment left by: José Adolfo Segura (jafsc@sympatico.ca)

I love trains and this shot give me specials 'souvenirs'. I tink is a very nice composition too. JAS

Comment left by: Steve Goss (no e-mail specified)

My first thought was Romania, Hungary, or other eastern European location. Then What? Iowa!?!! On closer inspection I should have noticed the oversize boxcars, and cylindrical covered hoppers. The great silver nose does it again.

Comment left by: Andrew Wendelborn (no e-mail specified)

Wonderful photograph. Inspirational.

Comment left by: The Photographer (no e-mail specified)

Iowa. What did you think? Corn? :) There's a couple things more "urban" around here than the grain elevators. Thanks for the kind comments, everyone. I took pictures of the scene with lenses from 24mm to 200mm. Each has a very unique character to them. The scene kept changing too, since the railyard was working. The capital building is very unique in design. It suprised me to see that the dome in Entry 25 is nearly identical. They recently completed an exterior renovation of the building and redid all of the goldleaf on the domes. The glint of the sun reflecting off the dome is visible for many miles.

Comment left by: :Doro (no e-mail specified)

Excellent classic shot, and I absolutely love the sepia for this one! Kind of old and surreal at the same time! :D

Comment left by: the riot of colour (no e-mail specified)

Sepia tone "makes" this - looks as if it is straight out of the 1930s,(Oh, Olafo said the same!) with a range of tones to be expected from someone who knows their mono emulsion inside out.

Comment left by: David Carter (http://zuikoholic.com/)

I love it. It might make me take black & white photography.

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