Railway Tracks (2005)
Entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, near Krakow, Poland.
Railway Tracks (2005) belongs to the following groups:
European Everyday Life (add the place!), Railway Art and Photography, Travel and Adventure and War Available for sale asGreeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints, Framed Prints and Posters
Joan Smart
WOW !! GREAT SHOT.. IS THAT FOG IN THE BACK GROUND OR SNOW FALLING? WHAT EVER
IT IS IT REALLY ADDS TO THE SHOT !!
Jan Piller
I like this. I spent all my summers in a railroad town – good times- so this has a really nice mood for me.
Jan Piller
Ooops! You’re right – I didn’t! I’m new on this site and keep forgetting about those descriptions to the right. I just read the title “RAilway Tracks”. Seems kind of strange you captured people standing on the platforms. This must have been a difficult place to be.
Simon Mears
no worries Jan, it made me laugh to be honest, welcome to the bubble
SylviaHardy
It is really funny, but when I saw this without the description, I thought of concentration camp straight away! You have captured the mood by this wintery scene, well done. And what a horrible time it was during that time for all those victims!
Darren Burdell
Even more powerful when you read where this is.
Michelle Boyer
Wonderful image
Shannon Mowling
Superb, the perspective leads the eye back nicely to the cool misty silhouettes on the horizon
Carrie Glenn
Great shot, I love the snow, the cold steel and the way the lines of the track draw your eyes further down the railway…Wonderful!
Alexander Gitlits
Fantastic photo. Love the perspective and composition!
Kim Roper
Very powerful image! Great leading lines and composition!
Overtones of despair!
Simon Mears
thanks for the comment Kim, thanks Alexander, Carrie, Shannon, Michelle, Darren, Sylvia and Joan – cheers for your input and interest
Scott Ruhs
Great perspective shot. i like the way it gently drifts into the fog/snow.
kevin fitzmaur...
GREAT SHOT, SO EMOTIVE OF THE SUBJECT. TELLS THE STORY. ” A PICTURE IS WORTH…......
GerryMac
perfect perspective!!
Katewah
Foreboding and really quite haunting. I love the way you’ve captured the traditional lamping system in the foreground. A wonderful shot – very emotive. I like the way the tracks lead off into the shadows of the forest.
Simon Mears
thanks for all the comments – really appreciated.
nick board
Great shot even without knowing the location, all the more so, when you realise where it is.
Simon Mears
thanks Nick, Katewah, Gerry, Kevin, and Scott.. much appreciated
maxi
Simon, this is a very haunting shot,,, even more so as i have close Polish friends. Well done you captured the atmosphere perfectly.
AnneDaniel
Cool shot! Love the lines created by the tracks and the candle add sparkle.
Simon Mears
thanks you to maxi and Anne
cags
Another very powerful image captured so well. Love the perspective which gives a perception of the vastness and coldness of the place.
Stevie Mancini
Superb image well made Simon.
Stevie
Simon Mears
cheers stevie..
Damien Taylor
Photographically excellent. Perspective, depth of field, great lead in lines and crisp focus. But to me the single most important aspect of this image is the composition, as soon as I saw the diminishing railway tracks I knew what this picture was about. God only knows how anybody survived these hell-holes especially during the harsh winters during WWII which this wintery scene illustrates so well. Well done Simon, a powerful and thought provoking image proving that a photograph can be some much more than a work of art. Right, I’m off for a horlicks now to calm down!
Simon Mears replied
sorry for such a late reply.. very tardy of me! thanks for the comments
roybarry
Bloody Hell, this is such a chilling piece of work.
Simon Mears replied
cheers Roy!
Nuh Sarche
wonderful picture!!!
we would like to see it in our European Everyday Life GROUP
Simon Mears replied
am doing it right now.. cheers my friend
Dawid Michalczyk
Reminds me of communism, great picture!
Béla Török
Excellent composition!
Simon Mears replied
thanks again.. it’s appreciated!
Kofoed
Wow, congrats on the feature, Simon.
Such a wonderful photo, brilliantly composed. The light, the mist and the cold snow really sets the mood for this ominous place.
Beautiful work.
Simon Mears replied
Thanks very much Kofoed, it’s good to know that some of my pics can affect folks, i see you are in Denmark, i have friends in Copenhagen but love Aarhus most – that was where i think i really got into photography, after viewing a Wim Wenders exhibition at that fantastic place, ARoS. the art centre there. Happy new year to you!
DIANEPEAREN
MANY YEARS AGO I HAD A JEWISH FRIEND WHO WAS A SURVIVOR OF AUSCHWITZ. HE HAD NUMBERS TATOOED ON HIS WRIST. WHEN HE SAW ME LOOKING AT THEM HE EXPLAINED WHY THEY WERE THERE…AND FOLLOWED IT BY SAYING….....IF YOU ARE MY FRIEND….YOU WILL NEVER SPEAK ABOUT IT AGAIN. I HONOURED HIS WISHES AND WE REMAINED FRIENDS TILL THE DAY HE DIED.
Simon Mears replied
I suppose the survivors of such a deeply horrific event as the holocaust, some want revenge, i remember reading the Simon Wiesenthal book, others want to forget and suppress their memories of the past into the past. For many the day of liberation was the day of rebirth, the start of a new life upon this earth. Thank you for sharing such a personal memory, i find it very touching and very moving. It think it would have been very hard for me never to have spoken of what i would have known to be the most traumatic event that could ever happen in any life..
To remain close friends with the knowledge of such a thing in his background is a sign of true friendship and i am sure he gained great strength through that friendship.
What is important though is that, whilst your friend must be granted the dignity of forgetting and moving on, those of us who were not there, another generation, should not be allowed to forget so easily, and i hope this photo goes just a little way in doing that. Thank you Diane.
Keryn Alexander
Haunting image, well captured….