Shot at STEAM, The Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
The image consists of three RAW Frames converted and processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 and Tone Mapped using Photomatix Pro 4.1.4 software. The Tone Mapped image has been converted to B&W using Nik's Silver EFEX Pro software using a process called Antique Solarisation.
Navvy is a shorter form of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (USA) and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Britain when numerous canals were being built, which were also sometimes known as "navigations", or "eternal navigations", intended to last forever