A friend of mine, Andy (www.thegreatshakes.com), challenged me to take one photo per day and see where that got me. Well I did my best with that today. This was the first image I shot. I confess that I was not able to fully follow the rules on the way home. I think the thinking was I would spend more time just watching and waiting for the perfect moment. Well, since I took my allowed frame before I was even on the train I new I was going to have a hard time. So I'm not sure where it got me but it was fun to think about it. I'll probably revisit this again. When I stop to look there are a thousand and one amazing things happening on the train every day. And I've always had a hard time choosing..
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31 January, 2005 • Express Train
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This is so intriguing... I love how the woman looks 'trapped' inside that structure... interesting shot!
yeah, it is a very cool shot. I'm glad it worked out for you. thanks for the plug
talk to you soon
HI ! :-D
I have just had a little crazy idea : "the 36 strainers project" (see my blog). My goal is also, by the way, to make discover others blogs to my usual visitors.
It's great fun ! Please take part !
PS : excuse my poor english.
A bientôt ?
photography is a leap of faith, never knowing, always looking, forever hopefull and attentative. Too choose only one moment seems rather masocistic and contary to the whole process of photography as exploration...that's why it doesn't quite qualify completly as sport though it shares many of the same attributes.INDULGE YOURSELF!
Well, she's not really "trapped" in that structure. In order to improve revenue the MTA has introduced go-go dancers at some stations, and she is one.
In all seriousness, she's passing through a full-body turnstile. They're in place at entrances where there's not a 24 hr attendant.
It would be great to get the faces of summer newbies going through one of these.
I agree that shooting one frame per day seems a denial of much that is possible in photography, esp in the light of your personal style. The thrill of this series for the viewer is in seeing the subway system anew, through your eyes, rather than the same-old/same-old head-down commuting style we all seem to adopt once we hit the stairs. For the viewer, the one-shot interest is in that you choose to show us only one image per day, then your journey unfolds before us in isolated moments on a daily basis. I actually feel a little nervous that in obeying the constructs of an abstract idea, you might not take a photo and then I would miss that moment forever...