Hi Rick Great image - wonderful architecture.
I'd love to see a photo of that hall back in its heyday. (How can a station that catered for 100,000 passengers daily end up being abandoned? Ending up as a shopping mall seems a sad end but better than demolition, I suppose.) Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:28:47 -0800 (PST), "Rick Womer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I left Denver last month and traveled to St. Louis, where I had a day of > shooting while my wife toiled. > > This is the Grand Hall of Union Station. The station is a huge and > glorious structure, built in the 1890s and once the largest and busiest > railroad station in the U.S. In the 1930s and 1940s it served 400 trains > and 100,000 passengers daily. Abandoned in the 1970s, it was restored in > the 1980s as hotels, convention center, and shopping mall. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317483&size=lg > > K10D, DA 10-17 fisheye, ISO 800, f/3.5 @ 1/20, handheld, RAW via LR2. > > Rick > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
