7 Comments

1. Rock | August 27, 2005 7:46 AM

   I really like the motion blur. Your subject stands out beautifully. Your pulling the trigger just as he was crossing the yellow line is perfect. --- I really enjoyed looking through your photographs and they gave me lots of smiles. Thanks, R

2. jim | August 27, 2005 3:27 PM

   That's wonderful. The daily rat run, summed up so well. It does almost look like they're racing doesn't it? Racing to work, to make a name for themselves, to make someone else rich, to climb the career ladder, to pay the bills!

   To think that once upon a time humanity wasn't chained to the machinations of capitalism, to the rat race, to the daily grind. To think that I go to work at 7am and get home at 6pm, and see so little of my three beautiful kids, because I am out at work, to pay the bills, but am at the same time missing being with them, so I too can proudly take my place alongside men like those in your beautiful photo, and for what I ask you?!

   Thanks Travis - your site is a marvel.

3. the farmers wife | August 27, 2005 5:54 PM

   A while back I wondered out loud whether you felt tapped out in your efforts to keep the "train" going for a year. The answer was yes - - and it was at this point that you entered a burst of creativity. As if simply acknowledging the fact could remove the creative block. This photo eptitomizes that burst. You somehow find the energy and the instinct to find something different in that daily grind. It's the same old, same old every day, but it's not - - a new cast of characters, never the same mix, all kinds of new images just waiting to happen.

   This must have been taken somewhere near a financial district or center of corporate business, because these riders are a totally different group than we normally see in your shots.

   Excellent, simply excellent.

4. Hannes | August 28, 2005 9:14 AM

   wow, wow, wow, wonderful.
   One of your best pictures in the last time. This is a really great capture of the hasty atmoshpere of those buisnessmen!

5. bc | August 29, 2005 12:26 AM

   I completely agree with the farmers wife on this. To re-iterate what he said, I also feel that you are becoming plenty more creative with your shots. The shots you took on August the 26, 27, & 28th have been incredible and I wanted to compliment you on all of them for a job well done. Keep up this creativity, and I'll keep commenting more and more! lol! but no really, keep up the good work, travis. Whether you take the worst pictures or the best and most creative one could take, I'll still visit your site and comment, regardless.

   Here's to your site, for the past, the present success you have received, and to a even more successful future!

6. Travis | August 29, 2005 12:33 AM

   some days I feel like it's a lot of work making these images, then I remember, if it's not fun why do it. So that's where some of these recent images have come from. I need to get back to experimenting more. Jim, I'm right there with you man. I race home to see my girls before they go to sleep. Usually I get 30 minutes, maybe. I imagine this project would look a lot different if I could casually ride home and stand around and take any photos I want.

7. Victoria Brush | September 4, 2005 9:00 AM

   Somehow I missed this one earlier. What a nice surpirse! I love how only the man's face is in focus and how the blurriness catches that feel of rush and stress we all know so well.