'Four Modes of Transportation'

In this intentionally very different and rule-bending photo, 'Four

Modes of Transportation' can you really identify all four modes of

transportation, or do you get stalled at just two or maybe three

modes? Let me know your difficulty if any. Your ratings, critiques,

and observations are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly,

very critically, or wish to make a remark, please submit a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge to

help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

Maybe there are just three modes in this particular photo, but in another photo that I can easily have taken there would be four. 

There might be four modes of transportation in this photo, but I'm not taking off 'points' if you say 'three' and correctly identify the three that I'm thinking of.

john

John (Crosley)

Hi John,

At a first glance, car, train and plane. The fourth one would be pedestrian or bicycle, but I can't see. I guess.

Do you were in the car and you have photographed the right outside rear-view mirror ?

Best regards.

Benoit 

Benoit, I've re-examined this photo and determined those are 'grain cars' rather than 'truck trailers being carried piggy-back on flatbed railroad cars'.

If that had been the case, this would have been airplane, train, truck, and car (and you were right, this is taken through the right auto rear view mirror *Objects are nearer than they appear* *and more curved*).

As it is, this is train, airplane (contrails from jets in sky), and automobile -- no bicycles or pedestrians.

In other words, Benoit, you are right.

Good eye.

john

John (Crosley)

I'd say three, but I frankly think the amount of means of transport is not the most interesting of this picture.

The seeming oval/circular composition works out quite well; there is something 'invasive' in how the train enters the field of view in the right - in a way threatening, bold. The cross (which I assume to be of a railway crossing?) is a nice counterpoint to the movements. It would be a satisfying photo even with just two, though the skytrails do give yet an additional sense of movement and dynamics.

So, now curiosity wins, what would the 4th be? I get the idea you were in the car yourself, but maybe I'm wrong?

I like your analysis.  The reasons you state are the primary reason this photo is being exhibited, not the little quiz I cooked up to stir up interest.

By the way, at first when I posted, I thought this was a piggy-back train with truck trailers on it, but a quick review reveals they are grain cars, so there are only THREE modes of transportation, not four, which if you had read the colloquy above you would have learned.

Again, I like your analysis very much; it's able and coincides with my own.  This is a strange photo, very out of 'my ordinary style,' and I notice raters are staying away, but not viewers.  Interesting.

I think this photo, with others like it, is the sort of thing you'd find in a gallery.

Best wishes, and thanks.

john

John (Crosley)