..endeavour to persevere

By Nick_T

Choo-Choo !

I was alerted to "a Steamer" on the Cumbrian Coast line by one of my new buddies in the train enthusiast camp. 
Blip sorted then....  just the small matter of location, timetable, weather, wind direction, position of sun at the specific time of day, shape and gradient of the track at the chosen location and angle from the location to the track.. 
Piece of cake then..
I wanted to get a shot of the train in the landscape but struggled a bit with the composition getting everything in (I'd gone with a 70-350mm), the curves, the coastline, the smoke, the train! I really liked the track curves but also wanted the coast headland in, trying to achieve it all with a moving target. - Note to self get a 50mm Prime and simplify things sometimes.
I think I got what I set out to achieve but I get a nagging feeling I should have focused on the train as the subject, but then I suppose I could have been in a station rather that scrabbling about on the coast path...

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