Old machinery
Neil Gosling

Old machinery

April 2025

Entry 23894517
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Such a lovely image - so full of character. The blanket adds so much to the feel of this and makes the poor tractor seem a little sad. The amount of snow is just right on the wheels as I think a lot of the character would have been lost if it had been sitting under 6" of snow. Well done keeping the trees soft and subtle in the background - they add interest and depth to the picture without distracting. It might have been nice to just darken that exhaust pipe ever so slightly so it stands out a bit more but thats just my personal opinion. A really cute image. well done

Great composition with some lovely rich copper tones. You have made use of some good leading lines and f3 with 105mm gives a very nice shallow depth of field. All in all this is a very well executed and beautiful technical photo with great attention to detail. Well done

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I love the simplicity of this image. The converging lines, the soft lighting and the gentle black and white tones. It is lovely detail of an old engine that really stood out compared to the other detail engine shots in this competition. I think I would have liked the image to be either completely symmetrical or more obviously off centre - with the horizontal line being nearly centred I would personal have put the vertical line in the centre. Lovely image - well spotted

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**This contest is open to photographers ranked 1001+ in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** All machinery gets old. Some of it just keeps working, a testament to its design and build. The rest doesn’t, often getting discarded in junkshops, yards and fields where the observant photographer stumbles across it. There’s a heck of a lot of character to this aged technology, with its rusty wheels and battered casings, and it reaches back into earlier times when the workings of things were maybe more on display, and a little easier to grasp.