I took a more literal meaning of the word "destination" as the finality of a travel or trip. Here I took a photo of Toronto's most distinguishable landmark, the CN Tower and a train coming in from the southwest region of Ontario. The blur on the train was intentional to convey the mood of movement and anticipation or anxiety of going to a big city. I wanted a train to be present in the composition and so I patiently waited for one to arrive. It being a Sunday night, the wait was more than an hour. There would have been more trains going in and out of the tunnel if it was a weekday. While waiting, two other photographers came up the bridge at the foot of Bathurst St. where I took this shot from... and had a nice small chat with them.
The photo personally relates to my move to Toronto almost 16 years ago to rejoin my parents and other siblings.
Shot in raw mode.
Post processing: levels, curves, color adjustments, perspective correction, crop, resize, usm, border.
I cloned a few unwanted stuff stuff on the tracks and along the side. I did selective levels adjustment since in the original the bottom part was a lot darker than the upper half because the sun was fast going down.
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This is a really awesome photo. Not having seen it I can't be sure, but I think I may have liked the train to be motionless, but regardless, I do really love this photo. 8.
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