Our current bus-only lanes don’t perform at an optimal level (and don’t inspire public confidence as a rapid public transit tool) since they are sometimes clogged with people illegally parking or driving in them. The Wilshire Boulevard Bus-Only Lanes are often blocked by cars using them to illegally park, Uber [continue reading]
photo by Spider_Dude, via Camera+ Cool shot taken with the iPhone’s Camera+ app on a northbound Line 96 bus on the northbound Pasadena Freeway. 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 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 method606, via Flickr A water taxi on the Chicago River, taken with an iPhone. If you want to try for a similar toy effect, many apps now have “tilt-shift” or “miniaturize” functions. The two I like best are on Camera+ and Instagram. To submit a photo for the [continue reading]
photo by Urban Muser, via Flickr Nice iPhone photo of the Q train on the New York subway. The photographer lists the Top Camera and Camera+ apps as those used to process the image. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email [continue reading]
My partner in crime here at The Source, Fred Camino, took this awesome photo of the (Metro owned!) Union Station waiting room the other day — with an iPhone. I wanted to post it to show, once again, what a great little camera many of you are carrying around in [continue reading]
Photo by Mark Willis, via Flickr Very nice capture by Mark of a bus and a bar in Somerville, Mass. The photo was taken with an iPhone and processed using the clarity and HDR functions on the Camera+ app, as well as Photoshop. Here’s Mark’s photo and design blog if [continue reading]
photo by Tamara Manning, via Flickr Nice shot of bus and sky — the grain looks great. Click on the photo to see it larger. The photo was taken with an iPhone 3Gs and edited with the Camera+ app’s HDR filter. Where was it taken? Take a guess — answer [continue reading]
photos by Michel Saive, via his Flickr photostream Michel took both of these photos in Poland and then processed them with the tilt-shift method that makes the subjects look like toys or miniatures. The above bus stop is in Krakow; the photo at right was taken in Krynica. In addition [continue reading]
We’ve been running our “art of transit” posts for almost a year. The idea is to feature photography that tells the story of transportation here and elsewhere. There are, after all, some beautiful transit systems across the planet that we can look to for inspiration as Metro continues work on [continue reading]
