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Daily Shoot assignment number 255:
The world is always in motion. Make a photo that conveys a bit of your own motion to your viewer.
1. The first stop on my commute is the facilities. No, I don't go in the catbox. Though in 2001, Mary and I spent two weeks in an AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) cabin, which had no electricity and no running water. We filled a 5-gallon, plastic-toilet-seat-topped bucket with clumping kitty litter and had our own private, scoopable bathroom. It saved us a fair walk to the outhouse, which we especially appreciated in the middle of the night. PS: We had a fabulous time "roughing it" -- and our "peoplebox" was sheer luxury.
I do clean the catbox in the morning, sometimes even before I go for my coffee.
2. We don't mess around; we brew industrial amounts of java at a time. That 45-cup coffee pot looks shiny and new because it is. Our 35-cup, which is at least a quarter-century old, finally bit the dust.
The pint plastic containers to the left of the pot collect bits of compost that we transfer to our compost bin in the back yard. The bottle of red stuff to the right is Texas Pete hot sauce, which I use quite liberally, though not in my coffee. The silver stuff behind the silver pot is mylar covering the kitchen window, which reflected heat away from us during the summer.
3. Undress for success! My work clothes nowadays are either thermals (if I'm staying in) or street clothes (if I'm going out). My foot is usually not this swollen, but I took this shot after I'd been up for 17 hours straight (flex time!). As you can see, my office supplies also wear clothes.
4. The hub of my home office. My desk currently suffers from piles. It's not always this bad, but after two conventions and a flurry of emails and contract review I need to set aside some clean-up time. Generally I clean when the clutter reaches critical mass, meaning I have no place to put my coffee cup.
My commutes are basically really low budget disaster movies.
Noone was harmed, just the bar right by my bus stop had been gutted by fire and the police shut the whole block down (Upper parliament St., Market St. and Angel Row+Chapel Bar). It took 2 hours to move the 20 miles from my house to the office as a result.
If they knocked down the Victoria Centre and rebuilt the original station in the rock underneath it, Nottingham could basically have an amazing transport network. Instead, everything will always bottleneck through Castle Marina or spool out through Canning Circus.
The girl on the bike rode very tentatively this evening in the bike lane on Evelyn Avenue from Mountain View to Sunnyvale. Obviously new to this, but big props to her for trying it out!
LONDON - MARCH 8: People, blurred by long exposure, commuting in a symmetrical tunnel in the London underground. London, UK, March 8, 2013.
Kudos to him for not slowing in front of us after he caught and passed Stephen and I.
Selected vignettes from my morning commute on the Guadalupe River Trail, San Jose, California July 19, 2018.
Stormy Weather- Ella Fitzgerald
I thought I saw clouds ahead. At least the brief summer storm livens up the journey, as does this Thunderbirds style building. It is Lancaster South, known to all but it's owners as Forton Services. It was built in the year I was born and as a child it always filled me with wonder and delight, a futuristic dream in the middle of rural Lancashire. I'm not the only one who loves this building, it was added to the official protected list a couple of years ago. Originally a restaurant, it closed when it failed fire safety regulations 25 years ago. There isn't a proper fire escape route except jumping or driving off in your flying car. Bit of a design faux pas that, but back in 1965 flying cars were expected to be only a year or two away.
Phone, cards, transit passes, cash, to-do notebook, first aid kit, wind layer, lightweight backup layer.
Photo by Steve Wellens of Steve Wellens!
Sprinter -eastbound- from Vista Transit Center to Nordahl Station
My daily commute to work at Palomar Medical Center
I use a monthly pass
I have been commuting by sprinter for 7 years. I take my bicycle to ride up the hill from Nordahl to the hospital. There used to be a shuttle, then NCTD was good about timing the buses so that I didn’t need to make up the distance with my bike, but they discontinued the frequency.
How do I begin my day? Each morning my darling Alice (@aliwongsf), our gal Kaili 🐶 and I walk several blocks to the 29 Sunset #sfmuni bus stop. It is always a good walk as the three of us talk a little about the day before us. When I arrive at the stop, I have several options—as most #sanfranciscans know all lines lead inbound and endup somewhere around #sffidi. Today, I took the J Church #metro. Once I got on the metro, I dove right into a book. Currently I am half way through #anythingconsidered by #petermayle. While this is a piece of fiction, parts of it could easily have been my biography. Now I am at my desk and having black #coffee, fresh #oranges, and yesterday’s leftover grilled #chicken, and just noting to my colleagues a couple of passages I found interesting during today’s commute. This is how I like to begin my day—in a thoughful, pondering mode. Now onto writing about wines that my palate really got into recently. Happy Thursday! #reading #commuting (Photo by Wilfred Wong, October 19, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
Many motorists don't know that bicycles are supposed to use left turn lanes like any other vehicle, and, unfortunately, some cyclists don't know this, either.
Seattle has begun addressing this at some intersections by explicitly adding bicycle markings in turn lanes. As soon as the Left Turn Only marking appears, so does a bicycle marking, centered in the lane, reminding both cyclists and motorists that safely sharing the road means the cyclist should use and control the turn lane, and ride in the center of the lane, not hug the edge of the lane encouraging motorists to squeeze past during the turn.
Note that the bicycle symbol used is not a sharrow, or "shared lane marking" -- it lacks the chevrons that indicate cyclists should ride with traffic rather than against it. I suspect there's no need for that reminder in a turn-only lane.
Swann Freestyle HD video camera on a Minoura Handlebar Camera Mount