Engineer Leaning from Cab in Foggy Dumbo

Bright midmorning light reflects off the East River, illuminating a railroad engineer leaning from the cab of a locomotive positioned in a Dumbo public square. The engineer wears a heavy early summer uniform, his face framed by the steel structure. Thick fog fills the lower third of the image with a perfectly straight, knife-sharp upper edge, abruptly cutting off the view of the ground. Above this unnatural boundary, heavy overcast skies loom gray and dense. Foreground bokeh blurs the bottom corners, softening the transition to the fog line. The engineer's hands grip the railing, his expression focused against the surreal atmospheric division.