On Saturday, I took a trip to the Hunter Valley. To those of you unfamiliar with NSW, it's an area rich with coal, full of mines, power stations and major flows of coal trains. My main purpose was to record Liddell and Bayswater Power Stations while they are still in full operation. Decommissioning is due to start this year and, in the longer-term, the days of coal-fired power generation in Australia are numbered (though not, in the view of many, soon enough). While I welcome the coming demise of such things, their passing will nonetheless represent the end of an era. I want to record some of this, in a powerful setting, while it's still possible. When I have had time to process the images, I'll post some of the best of them here (likely to be later this week, or into next week). In the meantime, there's this...
While I was shooting a star trail image over the power stations, I set the other camera up pointing in the other direction to record the passing of coal trains in the dark. Next to a country road, a few cars passed too. It was a moonlit night, so that adds to the scene.
Pentax 645Z with 25mm DA lens