The message The water tower grabs attention here; it has a lot of contrast with the sky and a unique shape. The train is a nice touch that adds context and ambience to the water tower, but even though the rails lead the eye to it, the train is too close to the edge to compete with the water tower.
Creative choices The perspective here is great. The setting is nice, although the power poles are a bit distracting, as is the bright spot on the object below the water tower. Lighting isn't bad, but nothing special either; the sky is a bit bright.
Technical aspects Focus and exposure are fine. The sharpness and blur on different parts is unnatural and a bit disconcerting; for example, the water tower and train are in focus although grass between them isn't.
Focus is really bizarre in this - have you softened it? Like the leading lines effect, though the solidity of the water tower pulls the eye quite strongly too - in fact might form an intersting balance t the primary compositional elements of the rails and the engine. Burnt out sky, and those poles and posts seem cluttered rather than evocative. 4
I thought of doing a shot like this one, but didn't find the time to get up on the tracks and wait. Also didn't want to make the engineers nervious as of late there has been a rash of train vs people accidents around here. Nice shot...
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