About the Image(s)

Our local camera club planned a fall foliage trip to the Arcade and Attica Railroad on 10/11/25. It was not a great day for fall foliage with not much color and a cold rain for most of the afternoon. At the end of the first half of the trip, The engine passes beside the rail cars to re-attach at the other end of the cars. For the return trip, the front of the engine faces the cars. As he was preparing to move forward to re-connect, the engineer released a cloud of steam (a somewhat typical operation before moving). Sony a6700, Sony 18-135 f/3.5-5.6 at 202mm equivalent. ISO 1250, f/8 1/400, Not a lot of processing, cropped in, added mid-range contrast, some vibrance and high-pass sharpening in selected areas.