New Mexico - 2006

This is one of the first photographs I took when I bought my Nikon D50 in the spring of 2006.  My friend Bryan and I were driving from Albuquerque to the Zuni Mountains to do some camping, and made a pit stop in Grants, New Mexico on the way.  I walked behind the convenience store and took this shot of the train (and the back of a 7-11 or whatever).  A perfect example of the “lines of force” rule of composition, although I didn’t know it at the time.  This was originally a JPEG image (since converted to TIFF) – and as I’ve played with it several times in the last three+ years the resolution of the original has deteriorated, but I still like it!  I didn’t know that JPEG was lossy compression at the time!