This is a photo of a 1952 drawing showing mass transit concepts for San Francisco. As you probably know, elevated rail lines never did come to the city — probably a good thing. The photo is by Eric Fischer. As we’ve frequently mentioned, we’re looking to feature transportation- and transit-related [continue reading]
Angel Hernandez borrowed a friend’s Nikon D70 recently to check out the digital camera and took this shot of the glass ceiling of the Nick Patsaouras Transit Plaza at Union Station while on the escalator and headed toward his train. Good eye, Angel! The shutter speed was 1/160th of a [continue reading]
This dandy photograph is not of transit — but certainly shows the alternative to it, i.e. sitting in traffic. In this case, the traffic is trying to enter the Holland Tunnel, which goes beneath the Hudson River and connects Manhattan to New Jersey. The photo is by wesbs, who explained [continue reading]
This fish eye high dynamic range (HDR) photograph taken by Michael Chen effectively captures the perspective of a passenger in an old Los Angeles streetcar. The HDR brings out all the details of the “Yellow Car”, part of the Los Angeles Railway (LARy) streetcar system that ran from 1901 to [continue reading]
This photo has a little of everything: color, contrast and, of course, a cute boy looking away from the camera. It’s one of many striking photos by Takadanobaba Kurazawa on his Flickr photostream. As I’ve been writing on a nearly everyday basis, we’re trying to spruce up The Source with [continue reading]
The colors and framing of this photo by Bill Sutton caught my eye. The caption on Flickr: The only way for Haitian locals to get to Labadee is by boat. The mountains surrounding this private beach on Haiti are nearly impenetrable. This shot taken from the deck of the FREEDOM [continue reading]
I’m a sucker for black-and-white — the preferred language of my high school photography teacher, Mr. Gregory. So it was hard to resist this photo I found on Flickr, taken in the extremely bike-friendly city of Copenhagen. It’s nicely composed and there’s something striking about the woman in the sunglasses. [continue reading]
This photo that was recently added to the Metro Flickr group and I think it perfectly captures the Hollywood vibe. It also makes me wonder why more celebrities – who typically love to get behind a good cause once they’ve made it – don’t throw some support to L.A.’s transit [continue reading]
Mark Englert was in L.A. visiting from Florida and was trying to set up a nice twilight shot of Disney Hall. That’s when, to his surprise, a Metro bus came swishing by, resulting in this sweet shot — and making him glad he was using a tripod. Mark took the [continue reading]
I stumbled over this photo titled “Elevador” by Nádia Monteiro on Flickr a few weeks ago and immediately put it on my favorites list. I like everything about it: the subject, composition, the low-angle perspective, the pedestrians in the background and the glimpse of the man — presumably driving the [continue reading]
