photo by Trey Ratcliff, via Flickr creative commons A stunning HDR photo of Grand Central Station on a rainy night in New York in 2009. The photo is a blending of several images taken with different exposures — aka the “high dynamic range” method. The images were captures with a [continue reading]
photo by Elliot Scott, via Flickr creative commons Nice shot of the New York subway taken with the revved-up iPhone 4s camera. Elliot used the Camera+ app. I’m still waiting impatiently for Source readers to submit photos of our Metro system taken with the new iPhone. To submit a photo [continue reading]
photo by David B. Gleason, via Flickr’s creative commons The photo is from 2007, but it’s a good one, showing an ultra-wide bike lane on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, where current Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed building 25 miles of protected bike lanes each year. Those are lanes in which [continue reading]
photo by Bertramz, via Wikimedia Commons The photo was taken in 2009 in Sudan from on top of a train. And that doesn’t look very safe. At all. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it [continue reading]
The Stockholm Transport Museum recently updated their Flickr collection of photos. Among the new photos is the above gem taken in 1964 of a streetcar and bus in Stockholm. Great light, great colors and it looks very, very cold. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it [continue reading]
photo by Evan Leeson, via Flickr creative commons A little something different today — this birds-eye view of the runways at Vancouver’s airport. How did the photographer get this shot? He was riding in a commuter helicopter that on this day was routed over the airport. The photo was taken [continue reading]
photo by Michael Villarmia, via Flickr creative commons Nice night-time shot of platform 7 at Los Angeles Union Station. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many of the [continue reading]
photo by accidentalist, via Flickr A striking photo of Stockholm’s Central Station taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II this past summer. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit [continue reading]
photo by jtjonesphotos, via Flickr creative commons Photos of subway station platforms are plastered all over Flickr and many other websites. Some manage still to be interesting — such as this one from the Paris Metro, taken with a Nikon D90. It was exposed with a one second shutter speed, [continue reading]
photo by Angel Hernandez, via Tumblr The Patsaouras Transit Plaza and Metro HQ at the break of dawn on a recent day. The photo was taken with a Nikon D3000 with a shutter speed of 1/8 of a second, aperture of f/3.5 and ISO of 800. To submit a photo [continue reading]
