Thank you to NorthWest for the link.
Jean Marc Frybourg photos are fantastic, probably the best images that can be taken to Ferrocarril Central, BUT he was accompanied by railroad personnel, train crews were instructed, some special trains were made or some rare locos were put in service. It's the same as taking photos in a studio with models that put themselves as you want. Not the kind of photo I like to take. When I go to a photographic hunting there is the exciting sensation of the unespected, the thousands of things that can vary your plans (in good or bad), the research of the right place to shot, the waiting for a train that not arrives...something like sports photography. This can produce great happiness or great disappointment but in my PERSONAL idea is the essence of railroad photography intended as a leisure for fans.
All this without taking out nothing to the excellent photographic know-how of Mr Frybourg.
For a better comprehension of my point of view watch this photo that I've taken yesterday in the afternoon:
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This is not a great shot, it was taken against the light, the loco is too much angled and there are various other defects but for me is a nice one because, hunting in a dead Sunday afternoon, I had the luck of viewing the end of a tanker in a road crossing so I shooted my minivan to pursuit it. At the entrance of the patio central I realized that it was 539, a loco of which I had not a decent image so I left my car on the road, passed guard rail and photographed before it enter. Now I have a not perfect image but better than the previous ones and I enjoyed far more than if an engineer took it outside the shed to photograph.
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