Overcast pic looks good too.

It still natural light and some days are that way when you are railfanning. Still looks like the 1:1 to me!

Really nice work by all involved.

Fantastic!

Great modeling and photography! Very inspiring!

Ken and Kevin, thanks for the

Ken and Kevin, thanks for the kind words!

Stunning

Stunning, absolutely stunning, I'm aghast and with pic's of my favourite railway.

Roy

Wow, the heft of that scale

Wow, the heft of that scale really lets the subtle details shine through.  Is that O or G?

Sunlight

Great photos. Modeler/Photographer Ken Patterson has also done well with photographing his models in sunlight. His photos are used in many major manufacturing company's ads.

Rob Teed

Thanks for the comment, it's

Thanks for the comment, it's H0 Scale.

Rob, I've seen many pictures

Rob, I've seen many pictures from Ken and his work is outstanding. I also love the way how he scratch build those stunning Cars and Loads.

Outstanding foto modules!

Jürg,

great modules and fantastic photography! Very, very good and fine modeling details!

Thank you Bernhard

Your website is excellent and you work is top notch too!

Greetings from Switzerland!

shooting in the shade

Nice pictures, and modeling too. I often shoot outside to get the best colors, inside shots just don't capture the right colors of the models. However, I shoot in the shade if the sun is too strong. Or on a lightly overcast sky. I found the full sun sometimes is too strong. Do you ever shoot in the shade?

@adm.Nelson

Thanks for the comments. No, I always shoot my pictures in the sun not in the shade. I use the shadow of the Trees or Signals to have a more realistic look.

Look at the Hood of the CN and BNSF Switcher, you can find the shadow of the Signal.

Beautiful shots, Jurg   Can't

Beautiful shots, Jurg   Can't match the cast shadows that sunlight gives you. 

I used to enjoy taking the diorama outdoors for photos. It made everything look more real. The rails got dangerously hot in our Queensland sun!

Hello Mike

The Rails get also hot here in Switzerland

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Jürg your photography is excellent.  And so is your model and diorama of course.

Speaking of diorama made a quick one  for outside photography last year, it was ok. I`ll do some work on it to improve it later this year. Will see if that works better.

Hello MLW

Your Diorama looks good so far. Try to have more space in front of the Track so you can get different angles while taking pictures. If you move your camera down to earth level of the Diorama, then you don't need a Backgroundpicture and you will get natural sky and clouds. Don't forget to show us your results!

It's HO scale ...

... could have fooled me!  My initial take was to assume it was O-scale!  Todays' modeling is such hi fidelity: N-scale looks like HO of just a couple of years ago, and HO has all the details of O scale from a few years back.  These are the types of models that would fool me if you told me it was a prototype ... (and no, I'm not going to back with a fine toothed comb to root out any perceived discrepancy that would give it away ... why spoil a great thing?)  Wonderful job.  Thanks for sharing.  

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Hi Jurg

Yes indeed.

The picture I included was to show my attempt at building a diorama.

For photo I usually go ground level so to speak.