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Frankenstein Trestle, White Mountains (2023) Photograph by Francois de Melogue
63.5 x 43.18cm (unframed) / 62.23 x 41.91cm (actual image size)
£295.54
Artwork description
Frankenstein Trestle, White Mountains
Francois de Melogue
2023 | Archival pigment print on archival satin photo paper | 25x17
The Frankenstein Trestle spans the gorge at Crawford Notch in a single deliberate arc of dark iron, its riveted beams carrying the eye from one forested wall to the other. Below, the valley floor is packed with birch and maple at the height of their season, orange and gold pressing up against the rails from every direction. The light is sharp and lateral, the kind that arrives only in October, throwing long shadows across the rusted superstructure and picking out the individual colors of each tree as though they were catalogued. The air at this elevation carries cold on it, even at midday, with the dry mineral smell of granite and the faint sweetness of fallen leaves warming in the sun.
The train moves through this without hurry. Its passenger cars, cream and green against the blaze of the hillside, diminish as they cross the center span, and for a moment the machine looks like a toy set down carefully in the middle of something enormous and indifferent. You can almost hear the low iron resonance of wheels on steel, the clank and rattle absorbed quickly by the trees. Crawford Notch does not hold sound for long. The mountains rise steeply on both sides, already going gray in the upper reaches where the foliage has given out, and the sky above the ridge is a hard, clean blue.
Quality is about longevity. I use a high-resolution Canon R5 Mark II to capture every detail of the Crawford Notch, New Hampshire landscape. Each piece is printed in-studio using professional-grade Canon Pro-1100 and Epson P9000 systems with archival pigment inks on natural cotton paper to create a print that will last for generations.
Print only, with a 1/4 inch wide white bordering for convenient matting and (or) framing
Unmatted (unmounted) / unframed.
Materials used:
Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 using museum-grade archival pigment inks on archival satin photo paper.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 63.5 x 43.18cm (unframed) / 62.23 x 41.91cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
Tags:
#landscape#train#photography#fine art#wall art#new england#autumn#railroad#fall foliage#americana#white mountains#new hampshire#trestle#scenic railway#crawford notch
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Artwork description
Frankenstein Trestle, White Mountains
Francois de Melogue
2023 | Archival pigment print on archival satin photo paper | 25x17
The Frankenstein Trestle spans the gorge at Crawford Notch in a single deliberate arc of dark iron, its riveted beams carrying the eye from one forested wall to the other. Below, the valley floor is packed with birch and maple at the height of their season, orange and gold pressing up against the rails from every direction. The light is sharp and lateral, the kind that arrives only in October, throwing long shadows across the rusted superstructure and picking out the individual colors of each tree as though they were catalogued. The air at this elevation carries cold on it, even at midday, with the dry mineral smell of granite and the faint sweetness of fallen leaves warming in the sun.
The train moves through this without hurry. Its passenger cars, cream and green against the blaze of the hillside, diminish as they cross the center span, and for a moment the machine looks like a toy set down carefully in the middle of something enormous and indifferent. You can almost hear the low iron resonance of wheels on steel, the clank and rattle absorbed quickly by the trees. Crawford Notch does not hold sound for long. The mountains rise steeply on both sides, already going gray in the upper reaches where the foliage has given out, and the sky above the ridge is a hard, clean blue.
Quality is about longevity. I use a high-resolution Canon R5 Mark II to capture every detail of the Crawford Notch, New Hampshire landscape. Each piece is printed in-studio using professional-grade Canon Pro-1100 and Epson P9000 systems with archival pigment inks on natural cotton paper to create a print that will last for generations.
Print only, with a 1/4 inch wide white bordering for convenient matting and (or) framing
Unmatted (unmounted) / unframed.
Materials used:
Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 using museum-grade archival pigment inks on archival satin photo paper.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 63.5 x 43.18cm (unframed) / 62.23 x 41.91cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
Tags:
#landscape#train#photography#fine art#wall art#new england#autumn#railroad#fall foliage#americana#white mountains#new hampshire#trestle#scenic railway#crawford notch