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Railfan Pictures of the Week - 08/19/2012
| SEPTA Lansdale Station Lansdale PA May 25 2012 |
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A rather uneventful train on a rather common day. SEPTA 551 was about to depart Lansdale and head into town with Silverliner V 708 leading. Except for the bike race ad on the side, it was a case of the "new" usual suspects. As it prepared to leave, I switched to HD video to capture the moment. Here is how I saw it, and the camera saw it the same as well. |
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| But a funny thing happened on the computer. It would seem that somewhere between the CPU, the external USB hard drive, the video card and/or the monitor, the machine saw it a little differently. The term for the effect is compression artifacting, in fact errors in the decoding of the video image ... |
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| but to my eye at least, the results made me think of what a 19th Century impressionist's take on this 21st Century scene might have looked like. Some of the frames varied only slightly. |
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| But others, whoa! For some reason, this shot of 708 was especially appealing. So this could be art, huh? Coming up with a definition of art is usually as easy as nailing Jell-O to a wall, therefore using that as a guideline, I guess this could qualify as art. |
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| The results were unpredictable and varied, ranging from a mostly accurate photographic image ... |
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| to a wildly obscure and almost abstract point of view. |
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All pictures May 25 2012 Copyright © 2012 John P. Almeida Photographs for personal use only. All rights reserved by original owner of image. Reproduction or redistribution in any form without express written permission is prohibited. |
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