For my next subject I decided to focus on trains. They move at a constant speed, and fairly slowly in the station. Because they are quite long they are easy to caputure across a panorama, compared to buses and cars which move too quickly and are hard to capture without other traffic and people interfering with them. We assosiate trains with speed, so they make sense to me in a conceptual way too.
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Each image is different, but effectively shows both the train entirely and one pixels width of the background, giving a simulation of motion. The image does not actually show space, it shows time, the time from just before the train entered the frame, until just after the train left the frame. This is hard to concieve mentally, but the train was NEVER in the frame as it is seen here. In a similar way to Bergson explained though, we do not percieve time as duration here, but space – it is the only way we can visualise the element of time in the image.


