Trainviews is a little project I did during my train trip on the Connecting Europe Express in September 2021. This train brought all the way from Lisbon to Bratislava while visiting a different city every day in just 9 days time. I wrote a separate article with lots of images on this trip on my website.
The project 'trainviews' come onto my mind a few days into the trip. As I was spending many hours in the train every day and I was often sitting in coach that was half empty, I thought it was an interesting idea to basically just set up my tripod in the train pointing out of the window and trying to catch interesting scenery along the way. As we were crossing many different landscapes these 9 days in the train I wanted to create a series showing the different sceneries.
The goal of this series is to show the beauty along the rail way in Europe. Train travel is fast, comfortable and sustainable and the great thing is that you can do work along the way while enjoying the 'trainviews'.
This project was done while on the train with the Connecting Europe Express to promote the 2021 EU Year of Rail.
A beautiful sunrise with mist in the countryside
A typical Italian landscapes with the Cyprus trees and a little church. Timing for this shot was spot on!
A little vineyard right next to the traintrack.
Using a slower shutter speed created a motion blur effect.
Rain in the alps in Austria. Fun fact: During my 9 days in the train this was the only time we saw some rain.
The North of Italy and Austria was the most beautiful part of rail I crossed during my trip with often spectacular mountain views from the window.
'Teletubby' hills with puffy clouds makes for such pleasing scenery.
Different kind of hills with typical Italian trees.
Sometimes we would arrive late evening. This was a long exposure shot of us arriving in a station.
A little group of Italian houses.
