2021 was such a tough years as I was trying to get back to work and was dealing with all kind of protocols etc. at work because of Covid. It had been two years since I was diagnosed with viral meningitis and encephalitis and I was dealing with a lot of side effects one of them being anxiety.
It was late June and the canola was starting to show it's colour. After a day of work I was in such a bad place and getting out with my camera was a way I would deal with it. So after I had supper I grabbed my camera gear and just drove. On this particular outing I ended up in Carey MB because of the canola fields and started looking for a field that showed the most colour. As I was out capturing some images I heard a distant train and I decided that is what I wanted to include in my shot. I jumped into my car and headed to the next road, took a right and headed about half a mile south down this dirt road. I did not have a lot of time to set up this shot so I grabbed my D90 with my 70-300mm lens on it and set up for a longer shot using my tripod. The sun was getting low in the sky and was showing some nice colour and I really liked that, but it was forcing me to shoot a little slower, so I upped my ISO. As the train showed up into my viewfinder I shot off some three shots or so. After the train had passed I decided to head back home.
Over the past few years I keep on coming back to this shot wanting to improve my edit. Because it was a long shot on a high ISO it was a very noisy image at least in the sky. Last summer I bought Topaz an AI (artificial intelligence) photo editing program and put it to work on this image. This is the result and I like it.
