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Published: 2005-08-30 03:15:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 1570; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 414
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I love travelling, and when I travel, I love going to the train station. Train stations are full of mystique to me. So many people, travelling to may different ultimate destinations, yet sorted so neatly into categories defined by which trains they're catching.This is the train station (rautatieasema) in Helsinki, one of the first places I saw in the city when I went to visit ©suzi9mm . It's a very ordinary place to people who live in Helsinki, but as soon as I saw it I knew I had to come back with a camera to capture it how I saw it... as almost a place of worship to those for whom travel is a spiritual experience.
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Nice pic. I'd looked at many photos of the railroad station before I travelled to Finland and already loved it. When I got there, I really tried not to just stand in awe with my mouth open like a country bumpkin. I wasn't very successful. 
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good backlight, i like the centred background. maybe i'd try to lighten un a little some areas so that the silhouettes are more visible
i have the same passion for stations, i'll soon upload a long series on them...
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The contrats between the blue and the yellow is very nice. It's a beautiful place. Maybe I wouldn't have cut the lamp above. But the contrast of shadows and lights is interessant too.
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my thoughts exactly, and what a lovely picture to fit it!
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What a beautiful combination of colors, it looks almost regal! You captured its spirit with mastery!
I'm very fond of train stations myself, but, unfortunately, since trains aren't very used as traveling transportation where I live, I don't have the chance to visit many. That only happens when I travel abroad, which isn't very often.
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A great photo I must say. I walk in that hall almost daily and as I checked the thumbnail and I didn't even recognize it until I read the name of the photo. Well done!
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hmm. travel as a spiritual experience. ... the circular ceiling and those bright lights do kind of bring to mind a cathedral. i like how there's no one directly under the light. it's like there isn't anyone who sees being there and traveling as spiritual. it's just common to most people, so they don't "see the light" and as such miss out on the beauty it brings. bad word choice perhaps, but
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mmmm....rautatieasema...
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this is really nice lighting control...
really beautiful technically and artisticaly
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The image has almost a cathedral feel to it. Nice capture...
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yeah, wherever i go, i go to the train station
why? well i see so much variety
so many different people, so many different languages
a top of all, so many different personalities some old men and women calm and happy
young rushed people that are angry
i just love seeing it
wow great perspective Kevin, great
and awesome lighting
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i share the same feelings, how i miss to travel in train... great lightning
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a train station!!!!!! if u say so ....damn this place is good enough to fit in a palace somewhere
well sai... i mean captured
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But great places to sit and people-watch.
Gorgeous light and cool smooth floor. Looks very clean (compared to our main one in Adelaide)
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the finns are fairly obsessive with cleanliness
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Wow, I've seen the rautatieasema so many times, but never quite like this. Beautiful
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I totally agree with You
Train stations realy full of mystics, especially the old ones, and I mean realy old ones.
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I really get what you're saying here. I love to go to airports and just watch all the different people. Places like that are so full of emotion and excitement.
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yeah! when i saw the name of this pic in my devwatch list i knew right away where the photo was taken. but once i saw the photo, i was suprised. happily.
i pass by this place like everyday and never ever has taking a photo there crossed my mind. i don't know whether this shows my closed mindness or the fact that you see things in a different light when travelling to new places. but i do know that this shows how granted we (or just me?) take things that we have in our everyday lives.
i have to start embracing my surroundings more.
great photo. really made me think!
cheers,
isko
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thank you! when i'm travelling it's my goal to photograph things in a way that even local people would find interesting. thanks for being my ideal audience!
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oh it looks realy good on my screen!! it looked so dark on that little one of yours
i love the tourquoise and golds
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it's not just traveling that is special to me, it is the traveling by train... I suppose that it is so special for me cuz i always went to my grandma by train when i was very little... trains just bring back pleasant memories 
I really love the way the floor comes out!
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ye traveling is great.. and i like your idea of different destinations but everyone being catagorized.. well done.. i love the colours.. really work well together.. against the siluheted people
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great symmetry! though i would have preferred to have seen more of the ceiling.
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i clearly need to get out more and go to more train stations. every picture i've seen of one just looks like they are gorgeous buildings with absorbing architectur
(the one in guelph is rather.. lacking on the inside. nice on the outside though
really nicely done shot (for all that i know about such things 
and, by the by, the comment you left on my userpage made me smile
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this is beautiful
and i agree about train stations..
incredible places to photograph people. : )
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a turquoise blue
a golden sun yellow
very much a sunset
indoors
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Quite a nice shot
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the rule for hand-holding 35mm shots is that you must keep the denominator of the shutter speed fraction (in this case 15) higher than the focal length of the lens (in this case 12mm). the 10D has a 1.6x multiplier on the focal length, making the effective focal length 19mm, so really i should have been shooting at faster than 1/20. but if you're careful, you can bend the rules. i just braced myself against the wall and braced my elbows against my chest, and stopped breathing while i shot.
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Just had this conversation with `justthorne the other day about how the actual focal length of the lens doesn't change, it's just the crop which is tighter as the sensor is smaller. So in theory, that rule still does very much apply here. Although you still went over a bit.
Anyways, loved this the first time I saw it and still do.
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hehe it's true that it's just a closer crop of the imaging circle... but with the crop, you are looking at a zoomed in portion, which would magnify everything, including the effects of shaking. they might not be as noticable on a wider view.
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very nice vision you have
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No probs
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i love the colors in this! and everything else about it.. great shot!
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You were totally right about the whole "place of worship" thing. This has the feeling of a stained-glass lit church, with the people walking toward the front to genuflect. I love how the foreground is all in bluegreens, while the background is ablaze with gold. Gorgeous.
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thank you for seeing the "place of worship" in this
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The way you photographed it, it's hard not to!!
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