At Track Level

I took two rolls at the tracks last week. One was a slide roll with the Rolleiflex, and the other was black and white with the SWC. Here's a shot we've all seen before:


I do like the errant piece of wood in the foreground. I'd like to think it adds something to the picture, well, adds something beyond more wood. I'm also trying to figure out what the deal is with the lens flare in the upper right hand corner. At least I think that's lens flare, though that seems impossible since the sun was behind me and to the left ("back and to the left. back and to the left."), as can be seen in the spike shadows along the right hand rail. Maybe I was privy to some kind of physics anomaly? Somebody get Stephen Hawking on the line.