Please don’t expect an art gallery, I’m no David Bailey or Peter Gray, more happy snapper. For every good picture there are at least 50 duff ones. As many of the older images from the 1970/80’s are scanned in from original slides, the quality is rather poor, but many of the pictures are now history so worth including on the site.
Many but not all the photographs on these pages reflect my main photographic interests in railways, preferably branch lines and rural railways, the more rustic the better. There are also a few foreign pictures of obscure railways, who, for instance can show you 650mm gauge railway on the Antarctic mainland or colour steam pictures from Romania during the communist regime?
I do like steam railways but not so much the polished preservation icons beloved of most enthusiasts – I would rather see them in an original working environment. Hence my trips to East Germany and Romania in the early 1980’s while still undeveloped by capitalism.
I am a big fan and life member of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway and cannot advocate too strongly a need to support of this most beautiful railway on Exmoor. I can say that there will be many picture of that line as it is restored. Proceeds from the sale of any images on the site will go to the L & B Trust.
My current devices of choice are a Canon 5D Mkll; 40D; Canon SX10 and G11. I have had an old Canon 60D (which is now defunct) and an EOS 300, I also have a work owned Canon 20D. Some of the earlier photographs have been taken with a Canon F1, Kodak Retina lll, Canon Ftb QL; Pentax 100 and a Rolliflex medium format twin lens.
My software is a combination of the FREE Picasa 3 from Google; iPhoto and Aperture; I also use a early version of Photo suite and adobe CS3. Please enjoy your tour round the site and comments good or bad are welcome.
All the pictures are copyright of the rail archive, if you wish to use any please ask, me at info(at)railarchive.org.uk. I’m happy to help where I can.
Some of the images appear on Flickr, Facebook and a part time blog at tarkaman.blogspot.com
Many but not all the photographs on these pages reflect my main photographic interests in railways, preferably branch lines and rural railways, the more rustic the better. There are also a few foreign pictures of obscure railways, who, for instance can show you 650mm gauge railway on the Antarctic mainland or colour steam pictures from Romania during the communist regime? 