{"id":3192,"date":"2026-04-15T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:22:23","slug":"of-cameras-and-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/of-cameras-and-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Cameras and Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Haiku<\/strong>
Old rails hum again
Hands and lenses meet halfway
Time turns, gently held<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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150 words<\/strong>
At Crowle Peatland Railway today, the past did not feel distant\u2014it felt present, alive, and quietly moving beneath our feet. The narrow-gauge tracks, once laid for industry, now carry something different: memory, care, and human connection. I brought 24 photographers with me, and together we entered a space where two worlds met. Amongst them were members of the Royal Photographic Society, who I volunteer for, alongside guests from Scunthorpe Camera Club and Scunthorpe Steel\u2019s Appfrod Camera Club\u2014both of which I am a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The volunteers worked with the trains, preserving a history that stretches back through centuries of peatland labour. We, in turn, worked with our cameras, responding to the rhythm of the place and the people within it. What emerged was more than documentation\u2014a shared act of seeing. This is the Immortal Landscape in motion, continually re-made through the lives we live today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images made with the Fuji x100VI and Freewheel wide angle adaptor <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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