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]
Here’s something you don’t see everyday. It’s from the recent wedding of Juan Matute and Sirinya Tritipeskul. They met while graduate students at UCLA where they were also part of the leadership of Bruins for Transit during the Measure R campaign in 2008. They’re transit geeks in the best sense of [continue reading]
Photo by Javi_Verified, via Instagram Good iPhone photo of the Green Line. 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 photos we’ve featured can be seen in [continue reading]
photo by msblueskyhk, via Flickr Wow. Another nice iPhone photo taken with the Hipstamatic app using the John S lens, AO film and no flash. I wish I saw more photos like these from Metro riders. Maybe no one here has iPhones. Oh, where was this photo shot? Take a [continue reading]
photo by Laura Meredith, via submission Laura has been traveling around the UK and emailed this photo of Paddington Station in London. Nice pic, station looks ancient. 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. [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]
The 12th annual “Dia de Los Muertos” will be held at Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles’s oldest memorial park, on October 22, 2011, from noon until midnight. The event promises “various sacred ceremonial tributes” as well as performances by Astrid Hadad and Ruben Albarran. The event charges $10 per person. Tickets [continue reading]
It’s Friday and a good time to abandon all thoughts of low-cal, low-fat, low-interest food. Why not start by stopping off for a snack on the way home from work with, possibly, something to chase it down? Are sweet potato fries still fashionable enough to eat? Do we care? Who [continue reading]
photo by Carter Rubin/Metro I think it takes a lot of guts to ride a bike in this town or drive a bus — you really have to be on top of your game all of the time. Carter took this photo on the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard [continue reading]
photo by mlanda7419, via Flickr That’s the 210 freeway in Pasadena and the Lake Avenue Gold Line station. The photo — with very cool mix of black and white and color — was taken with a Nikon D300 with a 10 second shutter speed, an aperture of f/13 and ISO [continue reading]
