The conductor wanted to smoke a cigarette during the train stop at Offenburg. But he had to remain near the door of the train and the "Smoker's area" was unfortunately two steps away. ;-) I tried to get the image as well as I could with the guy just a bit visible behind the corner for making his importance as a human being visible too ;-)
We live in such a "human world" that hysteria turned into paranoia for inhaling some vanishing microgramms of smoke from the cigarette of some person, forgetting about the fact that a multiple of this quantity of "life threatening poison" is simply in the air of each and every railway station just because of the rolling wheels, chemicals, colors, etc, etc. But of course if the paranoid panic makers don't mention that it can't be there.;-)
So, now it's the smokers, tomorrow the drinkers, the day after tomorrow who knows who. I am really delighted to live in such a clean Disneyland! And I am greatful to the regulators and hysterical panic makers for making such regulations that secure and enlengthenmy life for some days. What a present, really! ;-)
On the image now, the lighting was hard, but did the capture have any success regarding lighting balance? Any comments would be very welcome.
Thanks a lot for the great, in depth going comment, Joggie! Yes, that's it: "they regulate the common man to almost non-existence". I can't imagine any better sentence to describe that.
Of course the lobbies that we vote for (indirectly ;-)) are allowed to export the cigarettes or whatever to "other lands", since their health is not affected ;-) Alone this clearly displays that bigotry and their false faces, when they tell me that they care for health. No, what they care for is only profits and the typical demonstration of wanting to "do good".
Politics is no more for representing us, Joggie. It's for securing the power of those who already have it. And creating panic is ideal to turn the attention of the common man to unimportant things, instead of letting us apply pressure to the powers that be. The fearing one is paralyzed - that's good for them.
Hi, forgot to say that the image is fine - you did well to frame the scene with the train door - leading to the stark reality and almost absence of real life! Joggie
Hi Nick, me again! What really struck me with this image is the "almost absence' of the person. Reading your remarks brought me to the thought that politicians get so carried away by the application of power that they regulate the common man to almost non-existence(that's us who keep voting them into power!). Instead of taking a strong stance against this "killing cigarettes", they keep on allowing its use, collecting the taxes for their salary, and whitewash their and the population's consience with useless regulations! Regards. Joggie
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