Park Junction, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.All the pixels, but none of the trains, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/44#photography

A single railroad track, receding into the distance, in a lonely urban area behind some houses. Almost everything is in soft focus. A railroad milepost, marked "O QA" is in sharp focus at left. There's a hobo-style graffiti tag on the milepost.

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[–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

This was made with a DSLR and a swinging lens to provide selective focus on the milepost at left. This moved the plane of focus to be non-parallel with the sensor, yielding only a sliver in focus.Image was was captured at "Park Junction" in Philadelphia, where the former Reading Railroad once met the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. What caught my eye was the old school graffiti moniker on the base of the milepost, in a style traditionally used by yard workers and hobos to tag freight cars.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    NB: Hobo moniker tags are a rathole you can spend a lot of time going down. I recommend the somewhat obscure documentary "Who Is Bozo Texino", which I recently noticed is currently up on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=gSqMAADNKA8

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