This was made with a DSLR and a swinging lens to provide selective focus on the milepost at left. This moved the plane of focus to be non-parallel with the sensor, yielding only a sliver in focus.

Image was was captured at “Park Junction” in Philadelphia, where the former Reading Railroad once met the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. What caught my eye was the old school graffiti moniker on the base of the milepost, in a style traditionally used by yard workers and hobos to tag freight cars.

@mattblaze@federate.social This photo is so reminiscent to early silver-plate photography, probably because of the exceedingy shallow depth of field, and the unusual and uneven aberrations around the corners of the image, which recalls the huge plates and the rather imperfect (by today’s standards) lenses they used way back when. I could almost swear the image has a sepia tint to it!