Sunset at the Kharkov Train Station
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I ran across this photo on Flickr. I really love the photo and the colors, and it brought back some vivid memories.
I lived in Kharkov, Ukraine from 1994 to 1995. When I moved to Kharkov, I arrived at this train station. That night one of my suitcases was stolen from the platform here when I wasn't looking. (I was more upset about losing my photographs than anything else.)
When I traveled to visit other cities (Donetsk, Lviv, Kiev, Moscow and St. Petersburg), I traveled from this train station.
One night we sent a fellow missionary home from this station. As we waited for the train to depart, all the missionaries sang "Thank you for being a friend..." from Golden Girls. A few minutes later, a local church member fainted on the platform, was taken to the hospital, then died.
When my parents came to visit for a week, we arrived and departed from this station. When I left Ukraine, all my friends bid me farewell at this station. I remember waving to them... there were maybe 20 of them... from the train as we slowly pulled away from the platform.
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The photographer/artist is named Trey Ratcliff, and he has some really amazing work up on Flickr.
From his bio:
I specialize in a new trend called High Dynamic Range photography. HDR enables the photographer to create a color and light palette that goes beyond the normal aperture and shutter speed of the basic shot... [This shows] what we remember in our mind’s eye: an idealized super-realistic memory of the scene.
Do check-out his work if you have a few moments.