Trainspotting winners announced

Overall winner
‘Long ride home’ photography by Tim Martin
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The photographers caption reads:

Train travel in China is absolutely beautiful, and seeing the reflection of this young man in the window while he gazed out upon the distant mountains portrayed the beauty of what he was seeing.

Congratulations to all our Trainspotting winners for the wonderful photographs. This year was a particularly hard year to judge and there were so many great photographs entered into the competition. Thanks to all the photographers who entered the Trainspotting 2012 photography competition, it has been a pleasure looking through all these images.

Winner of the Diesel electric or electric trains or trams category
‘Early morning stack train, Nipton, California’ photography by Louis Capwell
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The photographers caption reads:

My mind immediately went to monochrome when I got to the tracks on this morning – the gradient of the mountains and desert, and long morning shadows really struck me. Backlighting the train, while highlighting the glass insulators to the left of the tracks, helped balance the image between the sharpness of shadow and glint of early morning sun.

Winner of the Railway infrastructure, including architecture and design category
‘The fog drifters’ photography by Monika Goretzki
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The photographers caption reads:

While waiting for the train in Pisa on a chilly winter afternoon, a heavy fog drifted down the platform dimming the lamp light. With the fading sun lingered in the background, the atmosphere was surreal and transported me into another dimension. I wanted to remember this moment forever.

Winner of the Mobile phone category
Untitled photography by Jgor Cavallina
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The photographers caption reads:

Early morning in Central Station, Sydney. Everyone is rushing to their destinations and don’t pay much attention to what and who is around. Everyone is just a dark silhouette on a blurry background.

Winner of the People in railway and tram environments category
‘In the carriage window’ photography by Evgeny Frank
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
The photographers caption reads:

My inspiration comes from traveling; I always see something endless in the faces of people who are going somewhere. I took many pictures at the train stations, but then i found a frame for them – carriage windows. I have a series of pictures in those frames, some with reflections, some without.

Winner of the Steam trains category
‘Zig zag’ photography by Niki Bañados
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The photographers caption reads:

The movement and the noise! Steam, trees, sunlight, people, and the tracks winding away: all flitting in and out of my senses. This double exposure was made to capture it.

A train photograph is often improved when taken from an elevated position above track level, but such cantage points are scarce in a desert landscape. At first the herd split up and went their separate ways, but realising the hopelessness of their situation, marched like zombies towards the same small hill.

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The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.