Freight Train Winding Desert Butte Peru in in Peru

Freight Train Winding Desert Butte Peru

by Andy Swain

Hard coastal glare illuminates a rust-colored freight train snaking around the base of a jagged sandstone butte in the Peruvian desert. Late afternoon sun casts long, sharp shadows across the dry, cracked earth, showing the scale of the landscape against the industrial steel cars. A visible heat haze shimmers above the tracks, distorting the horizon where the train curves out of sight. The rocks display layers of ochre and deep red, weathered by intense summer sun. Dust settles on the rails, and the vast emptiness of the arid terrain stretches endlessly to the left and right. One wheel assembly rests on the gravel bed, at the base of the massive train in the rugged ground.

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Peru desert freight train butte heat haze late afternoon coastal glare arid
Camera Kiev 5 rangefinder*AI-imagined, not shot. For real Kiev 5 rangefinder photos, grab one online.
Focal Length 97mm
Aperture f/4.5
Shutter Speed 1/250
ISO 800
Film Kodak Tri-X 400 contrast
Location in Peru
Date 1995-12-03
Credit VEETER
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