Photographing models at engineering exhibitions is a frustrating business. Each model is labelled by the organisers and the owner - these get in the way. The backdrops are broadly the same for all models and take no account of the model's colour. Lighting levels are usually low in exhibition halls. Each model is very close to its neighbour making for overlap in shots. Often alarm wires are threaded though models to discourage theft. But, occasionally, as with the beam engine shown above, you come across a model where most of these restrictions don't apply, the lighting is (accidentally) very effective, and fortune smiles on the photographer.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10
