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Governor Phil Murphy today, alongside Department of Transportation Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, NJ TRANSIT President & CEO Kevin Corbett, Amtrak President Stephen Gardner, Federal Railroad Administrator Ron Batory, and Parsons Corporation’s Terry Fetters, announced that NJ TRANSIT’s Positive Train Control (PTC) system has been certified by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) as meeting the December 31, 2020 deadline for implementation.c on Friday, December 18, 2020 (Edwin J. Torres/ NJ Governor’s Office).
I am sometimes temped to use the emergency brake, just to get some great morning photos! (Dang train goes to fast...)
Keith Cotton and Ted Horobiowski with Deric Gruen of Bellevue College (Commute Smart ETC Leadership).
A pause on the commute at this Cherry Tree that is about done dropping its flowers. This was also my first commute with the Baggins Adam saddlebag I recently acquired. I write a bit about all of this in this blog post.
I can sit and bemoan a loss of creativity, and fail to take my camera with me everywhere I go, or I can make the effort to start taking photos again. And so, this morning, I have, taking my trusty little Canon M100 and pancake lens, which makes me wonder whether or not the big camera will ever realistically come out again, save for if I get back into more strobist style shots.
This morning, therefore is a homage to the commute, and possibly a bit of additional exploration around New Street Station and, unusually, a short video. Yesterday was Cat’s dad’s birthday and, in the evening, we were looking through her nan’s old photo albums which her aunt had lent to us. Naturally some photos predated 35mm film, but the vast majority were clearly from more point and shoot style film cameras.
Yes, the fashion and style, from a modern perspective, appears to be incredibly dated and unfashionable, but people seem to be having more genuine fun in the past; less of the duck face pouting and posed photos. We also wondered whether the fact that you would, literally, point and shoot, had more to do with the honest nature of the photos.
Despite their names, modern point and shoots are nothing of the sort, waiting for the lens to extricate itself from its contortionist home within the body, the on-board computer to fire up and lock focus, before inevitably the person moves and you need to reshoot. Under the bed I have a plethora of photos from college, all taken on disposable camera, that whilst lacking in technical quality have a degree of more meaning for it.
My new, smaller, camera is a bit more honest to these older times, especially when it has a prime lens on it. Having previously put the time in to develop a black and white photo style that works for me, maybe it’s time to get back into a more spontaneous type of photography and use automatic mode and just straight to jpeg. If, or course, I can bear the lack of control…
Commuting lives photo project. Commuting to work each day can be a challenging experience and daily I meet hundreds of people, pledged at the same times and same trains.
It's interesting to distinguish how each of us spends these moments differently during the travel: there's who sleeps recovering energy, who reads a book, who is looking forward to the arrival, who divulges his or her feelings in front of a friend but above all, and here it is clear the cultural change occurred in recent years, there's who prefers alienating from it all using their smartphone.
The photograpy raises the curiosity that each of us possesses to a higher level, making the photographer able to analyse the subject even before shooting.
I have spent many of these trips between Monza and Milan to better understand these elements of humanity among the passengers: facial and body expressions, interactions between people, style and good or bad habits.
Commuting lives photo project. Commuting to work each day can be a challenging experience and daily I meet hundreds of people, pledged at the same times and same trains.
It's interesting to distinguish how each of us spends these moments differently during the travel: there's who sleeps recovering energy, who reads a book, who is looking forward to the arrival, who divulges his or her feelings in front of a friend but above all, and here it is clear the cultural change occurred in recent years, there's who prefers alienating from it all using their smartphone.
The photograpy raises the curiosity that each of us possesses to a higher level, making the photographer able to analyse the subject even before shooting.
I have spent many of these trips between Monza and Milan to better understand these elements of humanity among the passengers: facial and body expressions, interactions between people, style and good or bad habits.
This set follows my regular commute home from work, from Manchester to Morecambe. I've made this journey 3 or 4 times a week for a little over 11 years, something like 2.000 times. And that is a very scary thought.
The first major intersection I come to is at Besses o' th' Barn, which I like for it's vernacular spelling, it's empty promise of a barn (with or without the Besses), it's famous brass band and the Crumpsall sign you can see. I'm told it's the only road sign to Crumpsall in Manchester, which makes it extra special as I was born there, in Manchester's secret jewel. That makes me a Mancunian, for better or worse.
But today I'm heading for Prestwich and the M60 ring road. It's a long way home so I'll play some music for the trip which, like the photos, will come courtesy of my smartphone (well, via youtube for you). The first song is from a local band. Mark E. Smith, of The Fall, lives in Prestwich. He claims to be a Mancunian but wiki says he was born in Broughton, in the city of Salford. It's only spiiting distance from Crumpsall, in the city of Manchester, but there's a world of difference. Honestly!
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I feel like this most days coming into the city.
Especially when the day is sunny and the weather is hot.
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I'm very lucky, I work .4 miles from my home. My commute is very minor, in fact, I can walk my commute in a matter of minutes. This is a view of the rush hour traffic that I only hit once I get on my street. :)
This is my "Commute" entry to the 2009 Photo Challenge hosted by photochallenge.org<