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Johnb liked 35B's post in the thread Fakeography.
I think that's a great image, and I completely follow why you've done what you've done. But in my view there is nothing different in principle from letting AI do its stuff - both a outright manipulations of the source image. The important...
Aug 23, 2026 at 10:21 PM -
Johnb replied to the thread 35025 Brocklebank Line.
My connection with MNLPS took a long time, I spent a lot of time in 66/7 travelling on and photographing what was the last steam main line and often had the financial misfortune to encounter someone from MNLPS shaking a collecting tin . I don't...
Aug 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM -
Johnb attached a file to the thread Fakeography.
Agree with every word of that Scot. Even in film days an image was only an approximation of what the eye saw, a transparency on Agfa film looked different to the same scene using Kodak. Having said that looking at some of the pictures taken in...
Aug 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Johnb liked jsm8b's post in the thread Fakeography.
Even before Photoshop !. I have a book by Les Nixon in which he describes adding exhaust to a shot of 4498 which had none using a second negative of a completely different loco. The darkroom process was never just one of always giving the same...
Aug 23, 2026 at 10:40 AM -
Johnb liked Chris86's post in the thread 35025 Brocklebank Line.
I feel like this is great news, and I hope that the feeling from inside the organisations involved is similar! I do hope that 35025 does return to the mainline, I have memories of seeing her at Loughborough when I was younger and thinking that...
Aug 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM -
Johnb liked John Petley's post in the thread 35025 Brocklebank Line.
I hope your post and communications with MNLPS members will reassure people such as such as @Steamage (See his post #309). He has raised some perfectly valid points - to which I could add the issue of support crews if both 35025 and 35028 were...
Aug 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM -
Johnb liked S.A.C. Martin's post in the thread 35025 Brocklebank Line.
Please do be patient with us as we work out the details. I have noted my inbox and responded as best I can but have and will continue to refer people to the press statement above and to refer to our communications officer. Please do not reach...
Aug 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM -
Johnb liked LMS2968's post in the thread Fakeography.
Yes, but some people, myself included, try to correct this and present the world as it really was. People have been stealing from each other since time began but that doesn't make it right, We learn from the past. We can't do that if the past is...
Aug 22, 2026 at 12:01 PM
