The Art of the Locomotive

It's an exciting view." - Birmingham Magazine"It's classic locomotives in simply stunning & breathtakingly rich photography, lush with details" - Jerry Puffer, KSEN-AM. Everything about the machines pictured here - the bolts and the conduits, the sheet metal and the glass - is examined and then digitally edited to enhance contrast and color, tonality and luminance. "a unique bookthe pieces being photographed are suchat only by the author's enhancement of his photos can we truly see the beauty" - The Villager: The Official Newsletter of the Plasticville Collectors Association"The photographed details are impressive and point to Boyd's passion for his subject. What we have then

Carl Schinasi said Artistic Industrial Sculpture. Ken Boyd is an artist. When you buy The Art of the Locomotive, you buy a book like no other train or railroad book you’ve ever seen. Boyd recognizes and captures in these photos the locomotive as a form of artistic industrial sculpture. If his photos make us realize this, they also provide us with Boyd’s own unique vision of these magnificent machines as incomparable works of art, the likes of which we’ve never seen. The photographs in this book are more than just “beautiful”; they are arrestin. "Beautiful, high resolution photographs in a quality book" according to Old Dude. Although I am not an expert on train locomotives, I do appreciate the power and beauty of these enormous machines revealed by the photographic details in Ken Boyd's book. Having seen that many of these behemoths are located in cramped indoor and outdoor museums surrounded closely by many other items that distract from and prevent the observer from seeing the whole, Mr. Boyd's photographic magic and expertise have provided pictures and portraits that museum visitors cannot hope to see or capture with their cameras. The quali. You feel like you are there! I have always loved the old locomotives and thought this book would be a good collection of those type photos. But, I was not prepared to see such beautiful artwork! Amazing photography! Looking through this collection gives you the feel that you are there and seeing them up close and personal. Thanks to the author for his careful attention to detail. I would probably give one as a gift!

. Ken Boyd has been a fine-art and experimental photographer for more than 35 years. His areas of expertise include fine-art printing, digital imaging and processing, lighting and infrared techniques, and large-format equipment. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama

Each plate is accompanied by a detailed caption describing the locomotive's history and technology. The Art of the Locomotive features 150 large-format plates depicting locomotives ranging from the diminutive steam engines of the middle nineteenth century to the steam and diesel behemoths that followed. In addition, Boyd offers an appendix describing his photographic process, shedding light, as it were, on the method behind his fantastic imagery. For all of the steam and diesel locomotives you can't see in person, or the ones you want to remember in all of their larger-than-life glory, this is the book to buy.From the steam age to the modern diesel era, locomotives are marvels of engineering and industrial design, brimming with power, movement, and man's ingenuity even when sitting still. Every aspect of his photographs, from bolts and conduits to sheet metal and windows is painstakingly evaluated and then digitally edited until it g